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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 02, 2000
Page
5
Pham Van Dong, key architect of Vietnam's wartime reunification, died at a Hanoi hospital aged 94 after months on life support. Officials announced his death on Monday amid May Day holiday observances and planned a state funeral for Friday.
The SSA IG reports 7.5 million stolen since 1997 by representative payees. About 3 million of 30 billion annual benefits handled by payees are misused. Senate Aging Committee to hear hearings on abuses and possible reissuance of lost funds. Most payees are family or friends. 750,000 beneficiaries use organizational payees like banks or non profits.
On May 2 various milestones are noted: Leonardo da Vinci dies in 1519 at Cloux. Hudson Bay Company chartered in 1670. Stonewall Jackson wounded at Chancellorsville and dies days later in 1863. Oklahoma Territory organized in 1890. Soviet fall of Berlin announced in 1945. McCarthy dies in 1957. Hoover dies in 1972. Mandela wins in 1994 with de Klerk’s concession. Clinton offers asylum to about 20,000 Cubans in 1995.
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