City OKs handicapped access plan in Frederick
City approves a plan to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act at an estimated cost over 24 million dollars. Projects include renovations to 1,225 street intersections and many buildings to improve wheelchair access. The measure passed unanimously amid criticism over remaining inaccessible sites.
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Frederick
Board of Aldermen
Congress
Jon Kroassid
Krenstit
Fred Springer
Disabled Citizens of
Dinosaur fossil custody battle over T rex skeleton
In Rapid City two scientists urge returning the Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton to its private origin. They cite heat, chemicals, and pyrite disease as damaging. FBI seized the 65 million year old fossil from the Black Hills Institute on Cheyenne River Sioux trust land.
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Rapid City
Donald Walberg
Socorro
Paleontological Society
Wolberg
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
The
New Mexico
FBI
Black Hills Institute of Geological Research Inc
Hill City
Kevin Schieffer
Cheyenne River Sioux Indian Reservation
South Dakota
Gore picks Gore as running mate in 1992 ticket
Democrats applaud the choice of Al Gore for vice president highlighting his conservative appeal to Southern voters and support for capital punishment. Tennessee fundraiser Landow notes funds may flow, while Sixth District candidate Hattery sees momentum for middle class concerns and environment. Bartlet questions impact, expects Bush victory.
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Reeder
Democratic Party
Nathan Landow
Gore
Clinton
Thomas Hattery
Fred Hoover
Hoover
Hattery
Dan Quayle
Roscoe Bartlett
al Gore
Bill Choton
Bartlett
Bush
Gore as Clinton picks running mate amid Quayle contrasts
Clinton eyes Gore to sharpen contrast with Quayle and bolster environmental and economic credentials. Gore portrays Bush era limits on regulation as failing leadership while Bush and Perot offer mixed reactions amid varied political commentary from Democrats and Republicans alike.
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Mr Gore
Mr Quayle
Bush Administration
Council On Competitiveness
Dan Quayle
Power surge sparks alarm over grounding and safety
Mr. Grimes a former lineman with three states and overseas says the recent power surge never grounded and traveled through transformers into homes. He warns light bulbs disintegrated and wiring damage could cause fires or electrical faults while urging Potomac Edison to hold a public meeting after gathering information next month.
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Jim Grimes
Grimes
Aellen
Potomac Edison
Priests Form 1964 Flying Fathers Association
Hemann recalls a large response as priests began flying together and, aided by an AOPA newsletter, founded the Flying Fathers in 1964 as a support group and family reunion. His brothers Mel and Everett are pilots, along with priests serving in Dubuque, Iowa.
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Hemann
AOPA
Father Hemann
Mel
Everett
Dubuque
Iowa
One killed and another hurt in bungee accident
At the Auburn Corn Festival in Auburn Michigan a bungee jumping platform collapsed during a 180 foot plunge. Joel Gentry 28 of St Joseph Missouri died. Bob Arsenault 47 of Bay City Michigan was listed in critical condition with arterial injuries and a broken pelvis.
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Auburn
Mich
Detroit
Joel Gentry
St Joseph
Bob Arsenault
Bay City
Bush seeks to shield agenda as he wraps overseas trip
President Bush, in his final overseas swing before the November vote, met Finnish President Koivisto and Baltic leaders, backed a CSCE peacekeeping mission, and urged UN leadership on aid to Sarajevo. He heads to Kennebunkport for a week away as Democrats convene. He defended foreign decisiveness while faulting Congress on economic incentives and said attacks on him are overblown. He ordered aides to stay out of sleaze coverage.
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Baker
Bush
Mauno Koivisto
Baltic States
Europe
Council On Security and Cooperation
Kennebunkport
Maine
New York
Yugoslavia
United Nations
Sarajevo
Republic
PBS
Congress
Sarajevo relief flights press on amid fresh fighting over hilltop
U n brokered access allows 104 aid flights to Sarajevo delivering 1 176 tons of food to about 150 000 people daily while mortars and artillery echo from Bosnian fronts. A Canadian peacekeeper was wounded when a mine exploded near a barbed wire fence. Violent clashes and attacks spread across northern Bosnia as Serbs push toward Croatian lines and towns near Gorazde, Mostar, and Trebinje.
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Bosman
U.N
Sarajevo
Peter Kessler
UN Refugee Commission
DC Reid
Trinity Bay
Newfoundland
Eckhard
Bosnia
Ljubljana
Krajina
Croatia
Serbia
Gorazde
Mount Velez
Mostar
Dubrovnik
Trebinje
Herzegovina
Yeltsin vows to end nuclear danger at CSCE talks
At the CSCE in Helsinki Boris Yeltsin pledged Russia will do all it can to remove nuclear risks from its reactors, recalling the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. He cited ongoing ethnic conflicts in Nagorno Karabakh Azerbaijan Moldova South Ossetia Russia and said Moscow has tried mediation with limited success. He also floated a figure of 40 billion dollars to move Russia out of the nuclear danger zone.
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Helsinki
Finland
Boris Yeltsin
Conference On Security and Cooperation In Europe
CSCE
Europe
Yeltsin
Soviet Union
Nagorno-Karabakh
Azerbaijan
Moldova
South Ossetia
Russia
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Leitch
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Nazemian
Petrich
Greenberg
Romig
Veep
Jesse Jackson
Rich Bond
Mr. Bush
Mr Perot
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