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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1997
Page
6
Iraq will increase monthly rations of rice and lentils for its people under the U.N. approved oil-for-food program. The announcement comes from Baghdad and outlines expanded aid for Iraqis.
Government sets August rice rations to 5 percent and lentils to just over 2 pounds in Iraq, easing staple needs. Minamata Bay in Kumamoto is declared mercury free after 40 years of contamination. Hong Kong court upholds legislature limits. London cartoonist Jak dies at 70. PM Blair lauds him. Thai hotel worker jailed 1 1/2 years for theft using nose grease learned from MacGyver.
The Palestinian Legislative Council panel accuses 18 ministries of wide ranging corruption and requests dissolving the cabinet for technocrat reform. It cites misuse of foreign aid, illegal exemptions, and personal billing schemes, naming ministers Nabil Shaath Yasser Abed Rabbo Ali Qawasmeh Jamal Tarifi.
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