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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1999
Page
6
Mourners gathered in Minsk to mourn 53 deaths from a Sunday stampede at an outdoor concert. Authorities report 50 teenagers and 3 police officers among the dead with about 150 injured and 78 hospitalized.
Beijing dismisses the Cox report as slander and racial prejudice as China defends its own development of defense tech. Zhao Qizheng says China relied on its own efforts and never engaged in technological theft to build its nuclear arsenal. He criticizes timing after the Belgrade embassy bombing and notes a web demonstration of allegedly stolen weapons.
Kurdish rebel Abdullah Ocalan urged ceasefire and surrender with peace for Turkey as he appeared in a bulletproof cage at Imrali for a treason trial. He warned that hundreds of thousands would die if he were executed and asked for forgiveness to families of Turkish soldiers killed in the conflict.
On this day anniversaries include 1868 death of James Buchanan near Lancaster Pennsylvania, 1943 German shootdown of a Lisbon London flight killing all aboard including Leslie Howard, 1968 Helen Keller dies in Westport Connecticut, 1980 CNN debut, 1997 Betty Shabazz fatally burned in Yonkers apartment fire, 1998 Kosovo refugees stream into Albania.
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