Allies split with United States over Earth Summit treaty
Japan and 12 EC nations will sign the biodiversity pact to protect threatened species while the EC moves to ease U S isolation by backing President Bush on a forest preservation fund. Canada will sign, Britain may, Gore warns isolation threatens U S leadership at Rio summit. Formal sessions paused until Monday.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Japan
United States
Bush
Laurens Jan Brinkhorst
Sadaaki Numata
Canada
Russell Mittermeier
Conservation International
Washington
Brinkhorst
Britain
England
Sen
al Gore
Tennessee
Rio
Today's Chuckle Forefathers and the malls
A lighthearted quip notes how earlier generations opened the wilderness allowing the rise of shopping malls. The joke blends frontier imagery with modern retail growth, implying progress from exploration to commerce.
Two Cedar Rapids sixth graders urge rain forest rescue
McKinley Middle School students Jenny Roemerman and Sarah Nicholson plan a youth effort to Save the rain forests. The article appears in Monday's Gazette under Youth Plus.
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Jenny Roemerman
Sarah Nicholson
Cedar Rapids McKinley Middle School
Perot Upstages Rivals in Polls Across Nation
National surveys show Ross Perot leading Bush and Clinton in Time CNN results while Newsweek places Bush and Perot nearly tied. Polls reveal unsettled voter sentiment with mixed signals on Perot as familiarity and perceptions shift.
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Perot
New York
Ross Perot
Bush
Bill Clinton
Clinton
CNN
Newsweek
Eddie Mahe
Arkansas
Time
Dallas
Gallup
Yankelovich Clancy Shulman
Low crime solving rates disputed in Iowa cities
Iowa crime data show Cedar Rapids ranking high in solving crimes among large cities since 1984 while Marion trails near the bottom since the late 1970s. Hiawatha ranks among the best small towns since 1983. Officials caution against comparing dissimilar cities as statistics vary by department. Authorities note clearance rates of 16.4 percent for Cedar Rapids and 11.2 percent for Marion since 1976, with 1990 officer counts of 155 and 29 respectively.
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Aze
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Marion
Hiawatha
Bud Byrne
the Gazette
Mark Diamond
Diamond
Byrne
Uniform Crime Reporting System
Crime Clearance Rates by Iowa Cities in 1987 Rankings
The report compares crime clearance rates and totals for Cedar Rapids Marion and Des Moines in 1986 87 with 1981 82 context notes. Cedar Rapids shows rising totals and clearance percentages while Des Moines is excluded from 1987 figures and note explains data limitations.
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Des Moines
PETA Dunk Tank Stunt Foiled at World Pork Expo
PETA set up a dunking booth near the World Pork Expo in Des Moines to dunk the Iowa pork queen and raise funds for vegetarian campaigns. Rain delayed the event and no farmers volunteered to dunk. media outnumbered spectators as protesters shouted.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Steven Simmons
The
People For the Ethical Treatment of
PETA
Iowa State Fairgrounds
Robin Walker
Washington D.C
Walker
Mary Connally
Urbandale
People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals
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E. Iowa
Farmers’ Markets
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Perenne
Young Crusaders
Kim Burrows
Melissa Ballard
St. Joe’s
St. Joseph's Catholic Church
Kim
Melissa
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Diawatha
Gazette
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Donna
Max Daniels
Wheaton
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Midwest
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Abraham Lincoln
Pork Expo
Anti-Meat Group
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