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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 2003
Page
4
The New York Times announces reforms after an 11 week internal investigation. It will appoint a public editor to examine coverage and reader complaints and publish a column. Two masthead level posts will oversee standards and hiring and career development.
Sam Phillips, the Memphis music innovator who discovered Elvis Presley and helped birth rock and roll, died at 80 at St Francis Hospital. He founded Sun Records in 1952 and produced Presley’s first hit That’s All Right Mama Blues Moon of Kentucky, shaping a new rhythm driven by youth.
A federal judge ruled the government may block 17 Gulf War POWs from collecting 653 million dollars in damages from frozen Iraqi assets. The funds would have funded reconstruction of Iraq per President Bush’s authority and Treasury accounts.
Foday Sankoh, rebel chief and indicted war crimes suspect in Sierra Leone, dies at 65 in U N custody at a Freetown hospital after a reported stroke. The war crimes court cites natural causes in a statement by chief prosecutor David Crane.
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