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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1998
Page
3
The House passed a sweeping bankruptcy bill by 306 to 118 to curb easy discharge of debts. It imposes a needs test, pushes higher earners toward Chapter 13, and aims to curb abuses while facing Senate uncertainty and opposition from critics who say it favors banks.
In Haysville Kansas the death toll from a DeBruce Grain complex blast rose to five as crews found a fourth and fifth body among cascading grain. Rescue efforts continued for a missing worker amid dangerous conditions and earlier two rescuers were trapped but unharmed.
Lend lease aid from US and USSR in 1942 supported Soviet WWII efforts. Buddhist monk Quang Duc self immolated in 1963 protesting South Vietnam’s Diem regime. In 1978 Joseph Freeman Jr. became the first black priest ordained in the LDS Church. Karen Ann Quinlan died in 1985 at age 31, a pivotal right to die case.
Alan Ace Greenberg of Bear Stearns donates 1 million dollars to the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City to fund Viagra purchases for men unable to pay. Greenberg says the gift aims to improve quality of life and cites insurance refusals to cover the drug.
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