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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1996
Page
1
Practical guide highlights shrub roses as low maintenance choices for busy gardeners. Discusses suited varieties, care tips, and planting locations to boost curb appeal and durability through seasonal conditions. Includes notes on pruning, watering, and soil needs for year round blooms.
Three Eastern Iowa soldiers from Cedar Rapids joined 33 members of 2nd Platoon Bravo Battery near Zivinice Bosnia in a snowbound coal mine camp. Sgt Aaron Huisingh and privates Robert Neumann and Scott Skala patrol Bradleys with Stinger missiles, while caring for village children and facing ongoing threats from terrorists and snipers. The unit, four months into peacekeeping, demonstrates youthful responsibility amid war and high-cost gear.
In Bosnia Herzegovina the wreckage of war reshapes every town and memory. A drive through villages reveals largely empty homes while mountains rise, awe contrasted with loss. Conversations mix history, identity, and tension among Muslims Serbs and Croats as Americans compare past and present. University of Iowa voices weigh America and Bosnia.
The Gazette outlines a Bosnia project with daily broadcasts on KCRG TV 9 at 6 p.m. Monday to Wednesday and a radio program on KCRG Radio 1600 at 10 a.m. Monday. It highlights veterans, relief efforts, refugees arriving in Cedar Rapids, and Bosnian recovery stories through May.
Christian Coalition director Ralph Reed suggests in a new book that the Republican Party could rewrite its platform on abortion to remove a call for a constitutional amendment while maintaining the moral stance. Reed proposes language to use all legal means to protect the unborn along with the elderly and disabled. Angela Buchanan criticizes Reed for signaling surrender to abortion rights supporters while Sen. Bob Dole affirms commitment to anti abortion stance and names Henry Hyde to head the platform committee.
After three months of silly bribes Wahoo Nebraska won the heart of David Letterman and became the home office for his Top 10 list on the Late Show Grand Rapids Michigan had held the spot. Judy Warneke of the Chamber of Commerce said they loved the cow dung clock. The town of 4000 near Omaha sent T shirts an admiral ship in the Great Nebraska Navy and frozen enchiladas.
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