Forrest Gump dominates Oscars with six wins
Tom Hanks earns back to back Best Actor honors marking a rare feat. Jessica Lange wins Best Actress for Blue Sky while Dianne Wiest Martin Landau and supporting wins add to Forrest Gump's triumphs. Robert Zemeckis secures Best Director for Gump as Blue Sky faces a delayed release.
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OS Angeles
Tom Hanks
Jessica Lange
Dianne Wiest
Martin Landau
Bela Lugosi
Ed Wood
Robert Zemeckis
Ball field supporters win favor with Cedar Rapids school board
Neighbors and supporters urged the Cedar Rapids school board to keep Hayes Field, citing 400 signatures and community benefits. The board, while undecided, indicated a preference to retain the field and discussed a sale only previously. Community members highlighted safety and local pride as reasons to keep the field.
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Becky Stover
Hayes Field
Cedar Rapids
Amy Joseph
Joseph
Hayes
Ogee Sports Training
Jeff Adrian
Ron Olson
Vinton Street's death drives trial over Street crash liability
Kimberly Vinton testified she felt guilt after Chris Street's 1993 death in an Iowa City car wreck and attempted suicide on the accident's first anniversary. She described waking in the wreck, fearing for Street, and ongoing emotional struggles while seeking damages from a snowplow driver and Johnson County.
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Vinton
Street
Iowa City
Highway 1
Johnson County
Chris
University of North Carolina
Charles Pence
Eee
Secret lab found at Japanese sect facility amid nerve gas probe
Police uncovered a hidden chemical lab behind a Hindu statue at the Aum Shinrikyo compound near Mount Fuji. Investigators described a network of ministries including defense and science, and found 40 chemicals including sarin precursors and botulinum bacteria as part of the probe into the Tokyo subway nerve gas attack that killed ten and sickened thousands.
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Tokyo
Aum Shinji Kyo Sect
Supreme Truth
Mount Fuji
Japan
Ministry of Defense
Ministry of Health
Ministry of Science
Mainichi
Chrysler to replace rear lift gate latches on minivans
Chrysler Corp will replace the rear lift gate latches on all 1984 to 1994 minivans. Details on page 5D. Airport contract awarded to Kleiman Construction for 6.47 million dollars. Details on page 1B.
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Chrysler
Chrysler Corp
Airport Commission
Kleiman Construction of
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Eyes New Westdale Shopping Center
A St Louis developer appears to settle on land near Westdale Mall for a new southwest Cedar Rapids shopping center. Details on page 5D. Joe Neuhaus likely served as acting police chief in Iowa as long as any one. Details on page 1B.
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Ministry of Dna
Mainichi
St. Louis
Westdale Mall
Cedar Rapids
Joe Neuhaus
Iowa
News page index and section markers
A fragmented newspaper index listing sections such as Advice Births Deaths Lottery Money Movies Stocks and puzzles. It shows page and column references like 5C 12 City Bris 38 Classified 8D Comics 4C Crisscross 11D Crossword 9D Crypto 10D Deaths 2B and notes on page ranges and section labels.
Virtual colonoscopy offers painless colon cancer screening
Dr. David Vining of Wake Forest presents virtual colonoscopy, a spiral CT based 3-D internal view of the colon using X rays and air. The method aims to replace the uncomfortable tube exam, showing polyps and cancer in trials with 20 patients, correctly identifying all four cancers.
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New Orleans
David Vining
Wake Forest University
American Cancer Society
Vining
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