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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1997
Page
3
Townes Van Zandt famed songwriter of Pancho and Lefty dies at home in Smyrna Tennessee after hip surgery complications. He helped define the Texas troubadour movement alongside Nelson Clark and Walker.
Seven letter bombs mailed from Egypt were found at the Washington office of the Arabic paper Al Hayat, a post office addressed to the paper, and Fort Leavenworth prison. They were in holiday cards postmarked from Alexandria and warned as dangerous.
Palestinians resist U S pressure and say they will block a long delayed Hebron accord until Israel commits to a deadline for withdrawing troops from rural West Bank areas. Dennis Ross met Yasser Arafat to push for a summit with Benjamin Netanyahu but no solution emerged.
Six lawmakers file a lawsuit challenging the new line-item veto authority, arguing it unbalances power toward the executive. They contend it is unconstitutional and unwise, while White House aides defend the tool as a check on wasteful spending and targeted tax breaks. The suit names Senators Byrd Hatfield Moynihan Levin and Representatives Skaggs and Waxman.
A federal study finds young black children in Florida die from sickle cell disease at about twice the national rate. Deaths cited from certificates show Florida higher than Pennsylvania and Maryland, with possible links to immigrant access to daily antibiotic treatment.
In Muskegon an 85 year old woman Albert a Nicles fired on a naked intruder after he threatened rape and ransacked her home. She said she shot him repeatedly and he lay dead in the closet near her bedroom, after a 4 am confrontation.
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