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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1996
Page
3
Mario Savio, a 53 year old free speech icon from the 1960s Berkeley protests, died after heart problems and a collapse. He passed at Palm Drive Hospital in Sebastopol, 60 miles north of San Francisco, where he had been in a coma following hospitalization.
An international team reports traces of cooked carbon in Greenland rocks dating life on Earth to at least 3.85 billion years ago, suggesting life began within 700 million years of formation and fueling theories of life possibly seeded from elsewhere. The findings center on tar-like carbon in apatite from the Itsaq Gneiss Complex on Akilia Island, implying biotic processes beyond abiotic explanations.
In Macon Georgia three self styled militia members led by Robert Starr III Troy Spain and Jimmy McCranie were found guilty of conspiracy to stockpile pipe bombs for use at the Summer Olympics and against federal targets They also held an unregistered destructive device Prosecutors say Spain planned to finance their actions by robbing armories and drug dealers with a witness detailing talks of a special operations team to detonate loaded lunch boxes The defense said they only talked and were entrapped by informants
In Santa Monica plaintiffs struggle to link O J Simpson to bloody gloves as a video shows him trying to force them on during the criminal trial. Glove expert Richard Rubin explains latex unders gloves and possible shrinkage or short cuts by manufacturers. jurors hear the demonstration but sound is off.
Gov. Kirk Fordice, 62, was upgraded to serious condition from critical after his Jeep veered off a highway while driving alone behind his escort. He sustained bruises to heart, lung and liver, multiple fractures, a collapsed lung, and other injuries. Lt. Gov. Ronnie Musgrove became acting governor. The crash cause was under investigation.
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