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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1998
Page
3
A wave of attacks on women's clinics spreads from Florida and Louisiana to Texas as four Houston facilities are hit with noxious acid. Eleven people suffer nausea, three need hospital care, and one injures in a slip. FBI HazMat team responds after earlier New Orleans incidents.
Divers recovered a Ford Explorer and human remains near a Highway bridge aqueduct after amateur detective Douglas Crawford traced the 1997 disappearance of Gary DeVore, author of Running Scared and Sudden Death. Dental records will confirm identity. Crawford viewed as cautious, not a hero.
Congress moves toward sending President Clinton a bill to restructure the IRS with new taxpayer rights. The measure shifts proof burden to the IRS in many cases, creates a nine member board, expands taxpayer advocates, and caps penalties when the agency fails to notify. Cost projected at 12.9 billion over the next decade.
The Taliban government in Kabul announces a nationwide ban on televisions videocassette recorders videos and satellite dishes claiming they corrupt Afghan society. Deputy head Mohammed Qalamuddin cites video and TV as causes of moral decay amid strict Islamic rule.
Firefighters said they were gaining the upper hand on central Florida wildfires with welcome rain. A fire weather watch stretched from Orlando to Pensacola as west winds returned. Forecasters said thundershowers could help douse flames, with Volusia County easing emergency operations as rain totaled over two inches in Daytona Beach and Ormond Beach.
Former Soviet agent Stanislav Lunev says Russia’s military intelligence plans to target U S leaders and their families with assassination squads if war breaks out. He claims elite troops are training in the United States and that small nuclear devices could be placed in the Shenandoah Valley and Hudson Valley. CIA and FBI did not comment.
President Clinton told a roundtable on race that Americans must admit past mistreatment of American Indians and work to reduce their isolation. He recalled meeting Indian leaders on reservations after entering politics and said Indians have faced the worst of both worlds. The remarks followed pressure over his lack of Indian representation on his race advisory board.
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