Rudy the three eyed pig draws Iowa watch and California move
Florida columnist Ron Wiggins lampoons Iowa hog-raising while Rudy the three-eyed two-snouted Yorkshire-Duroc cross is renamed Ditto and sold to a California ranch. The piece pokes fun at Hawkeyes and Iowa quirks, then shifts to golf ball pricing and 1980s PGA stats, ending with a note on atlatl innovations and Gus Schrader’s Monday column.
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SBC near sweeping $55 billion Ameritech buyout
New York AP reports SBC Communications plans a stock swap valued at over 55 billion dollars to acquire Ameritech Corp. The merger would create a nationwide local phone powerhouse, challenging AT and WorldCom after its MCI takeover, reducing the number of bells to four.
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Philippines election seen as test of democracy amid fraud fears
Voters faced kidnapping and ballot box theft as the Philippines held a national election with 17,000 posts. President Ramos urged clean polls at a high level meeting. Estrada led polls while warnings of local fraud persisted. counting would take two weeks across 174,374 stations.
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Soldier who exposed My Lai massacre dies at 52
Ron Ridenhour, a U.S. soldier turned investigative journalist who exposed the My Lai killings, died at 52 from an apparent heart attack while playing handball. He helped trigger a 1969 war crimes probe that led to Captain William Calley's conviction and a landmark reckoning over the 1968 village massacre.
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