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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1995
Page
3
PORT-AU-PRINCE Haiti U N soldiers used tear gas to break up a rock throwing fight among more than 1,000 public high school students demanding higher teacher pay. Several injured as unrest began with recruitment efforts to join the protest.
Knight Ridder reports that Republicans frame Medicare savings as slowing growth while critics call it a cut. Medicare spending rises about 10 percent yearly. a $250 billion cut over seven years would still leave growth at about 7 percent annually, according to GOP officials and analysts discussing impact on beneficiaries.
Rep Bill Thomas urged raising Medicare eligibility to 67 in the next century to align with Social Security. He called it crazy to allow Medicare two years before full Social Security benefits and pressed for means testing of Part B premiums. Critics warn any growth reduction feels like a cut to beneficiaries.
Washington AP Pat Buchanan the GOP presidential hopeful criticized President Clinton and Congress for weak border policy. He endorsed bills to deny automatic citizenship to children of illegal immigrants and urged making English the official language. He proposes doubling Border Patrol, a double security fence on the U.S.-Mexico border, and a five-year immigration moratorium.
In Royal Oak Michigan 78 year old Rev John Evans an Iowa native with pulmonary fibrosis died at his side with Jack Kevorkian present. Evans and his family chose to end suffering and control the manner of death. Kevorkian's lawyer Geoffrey Fieger said the death followed a pattern of his prior assisted deaths and would not elaborate.
Linda Barloon and Kathy Caliberti, wives of two U.S. defense contractor employees in Kuwait, say they will depart Iraq for Jordan this week after no response to pleas to meet Saddam Hussein about their husbands. They visited Abu Ghraib prison and had daily access since April 29.
Storms raked the South and Midwest with powerful thunderstorms killing two in southwest Missouri and prompting evacuations in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Remnants flooded parts of Louisiana with at least 20 deaths in Texas over the weekend and 50,000 Louisiana homes without power. A 45-year-old man died in Fordland, Missouri, under his wrecked mobile home. a power line worker died near Neosho when a bucket struck a pole. The system dropped at least two inches of rain with winds up to 70 mph across the central states.
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