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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1998
Page
3
Leah Rabin, widow of slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, received the Buber-Rosenzweig medal at Germany's Week of Brotherhood opening. She praised German Israeli ties while saying, We don't want to forget or forgive, yet a new chapter is opening with hope for the future.
A mountain avalanche in northern Afghanistan crushed the village of Darbandi about 50 miles north of Kabul on Saturday night, killing 70 people and leaving dozens missing. Engineers reported survivors found, with search efforts continuing Sunday as Afghanistan endures recent disasters.
A cow on a Ridge Valley Hutterite Colony ranch near Valleyview Alberta gave birth to four healthy calves without fertility drugs. The two bull and two heifer calves weighed about 59 pounds each, a rare event Dr. Reuben Mapletoft calls possibly one in several hundred thousand births.
Thomas Miller, the State Department Special Coordinator for Cyprus, arrives to press for a new round of negotiations between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. He aims to meet Cypriot President Glafcos Clerides and Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash as the island remains divided by a U.N. patrol zone since 1974 following a Turkish invasion.
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright urged leaders in Bonn Paris and London that the Kosovo crisis may spread through the Balkans. She discussed UN peacekeeping in Macedonia and a Western force in Albania, with intended urgent measures to calm Kosovo and possible cuts to Serbia aid.
Debra Evans awaited her fourth child when three assailants invaded her Wheaton apartment on November 16 1995. They killed Evans daughter Samantha 10 and her son Joshua 37, slashed Evans, abducted baby Elijah and her other son, then killed the boy who survived briefly. Jacqueline Williams faces first degree murder and aggravated kidnapping charges. Co defendants Fedell Caffey and Laverne Ward will be tried separately. Joshua identified the suspects before his death.
Lexicographers weigh adding the term geek as a definition for a computer aficionado. In Silicon Valley and beyond, the usage has grown in print and on the Web, with publishers and linguistic groups noting its staying power despite some resistance among tech communities.
Matthew Beck, 35, left for work seemingly ordinary, then gunned down lottery president and three supervisors at Connecticut Lottery Corp. headquarters. His father Donald described him as not downcast, despite prior depression battles and near-fatal overdoses.
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