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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1997
Page
4
A White House briefing reports heroin and methamphetamine are rapidly supplanting crack cocaine as the drug of choice among hard-core addicts. The survey cites input from law enforcement, treatment providers and other drug abuse experts.
The House approved an amendment to the 1998 defense authorization bill cutting off funds for U.S. peacekeeping troops in Bosnia after June 1998. The 278 to 148 vote showed intensified congressional resistance to extending American military presence there with most Republicans and a majority of Democrats backing the measure.
Melissa Drexler, 18, faces murder charges after autopsy shows the newborn boy died by strangling or suffocation in a plastic bag. Prosecutor John Kaye says the child was alive at birth during her June prom night in Freehold.
A travel note reading HELP KIDNAPPED fell from Rita Rupp’s purse, triggering a 24 hour interstate search for Floyd and Rita Rupp of Tulsa. The note listed calls to the highway patrol and disclosed a Ford van description. the couple later turned up safe in Maine after the scare.
Congressional backers pulled back on a tentative agreement with the TV industry to give parents stronger tools for shielding children from violence sex and crude language. The deal stalled over assurances no further congressional action on ratings.
Washington based World Wildlife Fund reports early warming indicators in U S national parks. The study cites receding glaciers in Alaska and Montana Glacier National Park, permafrost melt at Denali and Canada’s Wood Buffalo, rising coastal waters affecting Everglades and Blackwater refuges, and spruce trees showing unusual growth in Rocky Mountain National Park.
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