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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1996
Page
1
After 16 days and 271 events the 100th Summer Games close in Atlanta with a stadium free-for-all of music and dance as athletes bid farewell. A vow to reconvene at the 2000 Sydney Games follows the venue’s final moments.
The article describes General Mills producing five Wheaties Olympic boxes for the Atlanta Games featuring the US women’s gymnastic team and others. It notes Juan Antonio Samaranch’s praise of the Atlanta organizers as most exceptional and mentions a moment of silence for bombing victims at the Olympic Stadium.
In Doraville Georgia a man leapt from bushes early Sunday and fatally shot an Indiana National Guardsman and wounded another as off duty guardsmen out of uniform left a restaurant and headed back to their camp at Sequoyah Junior High School. Police described the assailant as unknown and the motive unclear. Names of the victims were withheld pending relatives’ notification. The incident occurred around 3 50 a m according to Ken Davis a spokesman for the State Olympic Law enforcement.
Teens working at UA Northpark theater cope with messy audiences and foul odors after films. Kay Hunter McMurry University student handles tickets concessions and cleaning while coworkers share stories of vomit dirty diapers and torn containers.
The Tehran based opposition group Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq says an Iraqi presidential guard, Mohammed Ayyash al-Tikriti, planted a bomb at a Saddam Hussein palace and opened fire on security officers after the blast. They allege Tikriti is related to Lt. Gen. Maher Abdel Rashid, son-in-law to Saddam.
In Los Angeles and nationwide Republicans and Democrats aired so called educational ads on illegal immigration that critics call distortions. The spots use images of Hispanics and police but are funded as soft money political messages, fueling charges of racism and evasive campaigning by both parties.
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