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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1996
Page
3
Rep William Clinger a Pennsylvania Republican and chair of the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee says he will leave Congress after 18 years. He announced in Warren Pennsylvania that he may have stayed longer than planned and intends to move on as he completes pending business.
In Taichung Taiwan eight couples wed Sunday in the Encore Garden public bathrooms. Chiu Chiu Kuei and Lee Wang tsung met during the bathroom project in 1993 and encouraged seven others to join. The ceremony happened near the restrooms with couples posing together despite gendered signs.
Marc Chagall’s Jacob's Ladder vanished from the Gordon Gallery where it hung Friday morning. Gallery owner Shaya Yariv valued the 16 by 18 inch framed work at 140000 to 180000 dollars and speculated it may have been smuggled out under a raincoat.
Bangkok police charged 25 year old Yodchat Suapoo a drug addicted Buddhist monk with murder and robbery after confessing to killing British tourist Johanne Masheder whose body was found in a ravine near a Kanchanaburi temple. Authorities say three others are being questioned and the monk admitted stealing a camera and about 24 dollars to buy drugs.
King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho, 57, was killed when his car left the road and overturned near Maseru while returning from a cattle inspection. The king and his driver died. no other vehicles were involved. South African ambassador Gerhard Visser confirmed the crash and the death.
Astronauts Leroy Chiao and Daniel Barry conducted a six hour simulated exterior construction flight outside shuttle Endeavour. They mounted a 17.5 foot beam and unreeled cable to mimic an International Space Station cable tray amid initial misalignment with the shuttle arm, later correcting course and continuing tasks.
The Bosnian government rejected a Serb-led prisoner exchange until answers emerge on about 24,742 missing people. Officials say no exchange with the Serbs will occur until fate of the missing is clarified, amid planned releases in northern Bosnia and around Mostar.
Russian troops with artillery mortars helicopter gunships attack Pervomayskaya in Dagestan as rebels reportedly kill hostages. A rocket hit a local school where captives were held, while officials report one serviceman killed and several wounded.
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