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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1996
Page
1
Mother Teresa, 86, remained in critical condition after a heart attack and angioplasty. She sat reading a Bible in hospital as doctors warned kidneys and lungs were failing yet expressed cautious optimism for recovery and return to her charity work. Rumors of her death swirled Calcutta as staff treated her heart.
Dana Cooper a 19 year old Kentucky woman who among four juveniles faces murder charges in Florida waived extradition to Lake County Florida. The group linked to a blood-sucking vampire cult were arrested Thanksgiving night in a Baton Rouge motel and Cooper agreed to return to Florida to face charges alongside four juveniles including a 15 year old girl who is related to a Florida victim.
Michael Chapman pleaded innocent to terroristic threatening and abuse of a teacher after protesting his daughter Karla Chapman’s suspension for wearing black lipstick at Pikeville Middle School. He called the school board actions ludicrous as the case moves forward.
Shannon Lucid, the astronaut who spent 188 days in space this year, becomes the first woman awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. President Clinton hails her as a pioneer and notes the U S Russian space alliance, while Lucid emphasizes cooperation and shared childhood fears of each other.
In Belgrade amid a snowstorm, about 60,000 protesters gathered to challenge Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. Earlier 10,000 students marched with flowers, then people pelted government buildings and the Borba paper with snowballs, demanding Milosevic's resignation.
Meriden Connecticut residents react to the suspected kidnapping of 12 year old Wei Yang. Wei was taken from his home by two gunmen who bound his mother and sister and fled. Police describe two suspects as men in their 20s to 30s with blond and black hair. The case raises concerns of possible targeting of Chinese restaurant owners.
In Manning South Carolina a white couple Benjamin and Betty Mims received a two year prison term after tying a 9 year old black boy to a tree and firing a shotgun past his face. Prosecutors said they could face parole in six to eight months. The boy Dwight Miller then 10 testified that the attack happened on January 5 after an alleged theft accusation. The case drew calls for harsher punishment to ease racial tensions.
Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow are not engaged or planning marriage, according to Pitt’s publicist Cindy Guagenti who called a British magazine’s claims “completely fabricated.” The report alleged a November proposal in Argentina and a March wedding, but sources and Pitt, 32, and Paltrow, 25, publicly dispute the claim amid prior remarks about marriage.
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