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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1998
Page
4
Seven people face charges after an early morning fire on the fourth floor of Hester Hall at Murray State University killed 19 year old Michael Minger of Niceville Florida and injured four others, with motive not disclosed.
Honduran floodwaters rise as Mitch weakens to tropical storm near the coast. Officials report at least 36 dead with hundreds of communities cut off, 15,000 houses destroyed, and more than 150,000 displaced. A Coast Guard search aids a missing yacht with 31 aboard near the Nicaraguan border.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Pretoria released a five volume 3,500 page history of 1948 to 1994. It assigns most abuses to the apartheid state and its allies while accusing Nelson Mandela's ANC of various misdeeds. It singles out former President P W Botha for overseeing abuses.
Anti-terrorist units stormed a hijacked Turkish Airlines plane at Ankara airport after a seven hour standoff. The hijacker was killed, 39 passengers and crew were released with no injuries reported. The hijacker aimed for Lausanne but the plane landed in Ankara after a fuel stop was refused.
In Cambridge Massachusetts 1997 a jury convicted Louise Woodward of second degree murder in 8 month old Matthew Kappen's death. Judge Hiller B Zobel later reduced the verdict to manslaughter and released Woodward.
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