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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 16, 2000
Page
3
A man in Hjelmeland Norway held 25 students and 10 adults for 11 hours in a wooden schoolhouse before surrendering after a televised interview with psychologists. Police gave no weapon details and no injuries were reported among the 35 hostages.
More than 100 U.N. peacekeepers freed by Sierra Leonean rebels were stranded in Liberia as negotiators sought release for hundreds more captured. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan voiced guarded optimism, while ECOWAS officials warned of serious airlift and access challenges amid ongoing hostage holds by rebels.
The NIEHS and National Toxicology Program say new studies show no clear link between saccharin and human cancer, dropping the artificial sweetener from the 9th National Toxicology Report on Carcinogens after years of reviews and rat studies that overestimated risk.
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