Decorah visitors marvel at Sydney Opera House New Year
Decorah residents Martha Steele and Bob Felde called their Sydney Opera House visit incredible as they rang in the new year. They left the grounds after delays and found the area outside chaotic yet festive with fireworks, beer, and cheering Australians.
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Ydney
Australia
Sydney Opera House
Decorah
Martha Steele
Bob Felde
Steele
Opera House
Fireworks Signal Millennium Welcome in Okinawa
Cedar Rapids native Doug Rehak and others rang in the new millennium in Okinawa Japan with midnight cheers and fireworks over Naha. He teaches at Kadena Air Base and described a quiet start to 2000 as families toasted with champagne and prayers for peace and prosperity at Futenma Shrine.
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Japan
Cedar Rapids
Doug Rehak
Naha
Rehak
U.S. Department of Defense Dependants
Okinawa
Kadena Air Base
East China Sea
Futenma
Y2K work in Japan ends for Cedar Rapids native
Kent Wasson, 28, spent months in Japan helping a firm prep computers for Y2K. By 3 a.m. local time, no major problems were reported and utilities ran normally. He watched Tokyo Tower glow with 2000 on its side and Rainbow Bridge lit behind a bright skyline.
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Japan
Okyo
Cedar Rapids
Kent Wasson
Wasson
Tokyo Tower
Tokyo
Indian New Year Celebrations Seen As Unfazed By Millennial Hype
Cedar Rapids oncologist Chirantan Ghosh a Calcutta native says many Indians remain unfazed by New Year hoopla. He notes daily life hardships blunt celebrations and recalls India entering the new millennium smoothly despite Y2K concerns with about 100000 at a Calcutta fireworks display.
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Alcutta
India
Co India
Cedar Rapids
Calcutta
Chirantan Ghosh
Ghosh
Paris hosts millennium street party amid Y2K cheer
Paris celebrated the millennium with mass street revelry around the Eiffel Tower and Champs-Elysees as crowds toasted 2000. Security deployed 24 000 officers after a fraught year of storms and floods, while Strasbourg cars burned and oil spills marred the Atlantic coast.
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Eiffel Tower
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Jane Miller
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Ariz
Jacqueline Tully
San Francisco
Tully
Concorde
France
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Versailles
Seine
Atlantic
Rio
Maria-Elena Soares Gontero
Flaming Crimson
Soares Gontero
Brazil
Chateau de Chantilly
Francois Vatel
Louis XIV
Alain Senderens
Lucas Carton
Montrachet
Clinton hosts star studded Millennium celebration at White House
President Clinton welcomed the new millennium with 300 guests at the White House and a Lincoln Memorial celebration for 3 000 attendees. Notable performers included Bono Nicholson Keaton McFerrin and Usher as Will Smith introduced acts. Clinton toasted humanity’s future and opened a time capsule for 21st century opening.
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Washington Monument
America
Clinton
White House
Lincoln Memorial
Lincoln
Clintons
Will Smith
Jack Nicholson
Diane Keaton
Bobby McFerrin
Bono
Stomp
Slash
Usher
William McKinley
Robert de Niro
Muhammad Ali
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Chelsea
U.S. and Russian teams monitor for Y2K nuclear risk crisis
At Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado the United States and Russia operate a joint 4.5 million dollar watch center since January 1995 to monitor for false missile launches amid Y2K fears. The teams tracked 300 mile launches and aimed to avert a mistaken retaliatory strike within six to ten minutes. Both nations keep about 3,000 nuclear weapons on high alert.
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Los Angeles Times
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Colo
United States
Norway
Berlin Wall
Russia
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John Glenn
Mars
U.S
Boris Yeltsin
Chechnya
U.S. Air Force
Donald Knight
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