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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1997
Page
6
Column by Dave Rasdal in The Gazette provides local commentary on community issues. Insightful observations highlight regional concerns and reflect the newspaper’s classic opinion voice.
Joel and Jodi Weber describe a fraud where a woman posed as an adopting mother seeking to wire money for airline tickets to bring two babies to Des Moines. The pair believed the tale, wired 391 dollars, and waited at the airport, only to learn the reservations were never theirs.
Flood-hit students learn prom will go on with Soul Asylum performing in a hangar at Grand Forks Air Force Base on June 28. The band, famed for Grave Dancers Union, returns after the flood devastated Grand Forks and East Grand Forks.
A Cedar Rapids couple faced a repeated adoption scam attempt by a woman who posed as different names in April. The fraud involved pay phones in St. Louis and Granite City and included a forged weight claim about the baby. Authorities say interstate wire fraud is possible, but prosecutors are reluctant to pursue small sums.
Transportation manager Margaret Hamed notes 45 to 50 percent of 1,300 eligible high school students ride the bus. Tesar of Jefferson says principals discussed a district wide parking policy. Kennedy charges 5 to 25 dollars and bars freshmen, juniors and seniors can park at Kennedy, while Washington fines 10 dollars per offense.
In Kinshasa, opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi rejects the new government and calls for resistance as protesters fill the streets. Government troops fire into the air to break up crowds amid growing rifts in the political order after Laurent Kabila forms his cabinet.
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