Ventura wins Minnesota Reform Party endorsement for governor
Brooklyn Park native and former mayor Jesse Ventura, known as The Body in wrestling, wins unanimous endorsement at the Minnesota Reform Party convention. He says the youth will help secure victory for governor. If he gets 5 percent of November votes, the party keeps its ballot spot and eligibility for public funding.
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Minn
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Jesse Ventura
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Reform Party
Ross Perot
Minnesota
U.S. Senate
Dean Barkley
Odessa Council Eying Survey To Measure Resident Needs
Odessa city officials plan a summer survey focused on residents safety and service needs rather than department performance. The sample will cover the whole city and each district, with questions on burglaries cleanliness and street conditions. Budget notes show no tax rate change and a 4 percent rise in sales tax revenue to 11.3 million.
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Odessa
Darrell Wells
Wells
42Nd Street
James Zentner
Citizens Want Street Light Fixed Now
Citizens express frustration over any department failing to repair a broken street light. They insist it be fixed promptly, regardless of which agency is responsible. Darrell Wells, Risk Management Director.
Panel mulls careful plan after asteroid false alarm
Experts including MIT professor Richard Binzel gathered in Irvine to craft warning methods that avoid mass panic after a March report claimed asteroid 1997 XF11 could strike Earth in October 2028. NASA JPL researchers later showed the path would miss Earth by about 600000 miles, debunking the scare.
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Calif
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Hollywood
Richard P. Binzel
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paul W. Chodas
JPL
Operation Rescue Fails to Disrupt Disney Gay Day in Orlando
In Orlando, Operation Rescue drew only seven protesters at Disney's Magic Kingdom as security and media outnumbered them. No arrests occurred and the event felt largely normal. The group had hoped to “save” Orlando from homosexuality and abortion clinics, but its impact was far from its 1991 Wichita demonstrations.
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Fla
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Bill Warren
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Kan
Rhode Island
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N.Y
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Milwaukee
Lawmen pursue Colorado bound cop killers in Utah canyon country
Navajo trackers join hundreds of lawmen in Bluff Utah as two surviving suspects in the killing of a Colorado police officer are believed to have headed back toward Colorado. police say intelligence suggests the fugitives possibly doubled back amid an expanded search around Monument Valley and the Navajo reservation as residents worry over access and tourist traffic.
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Utah
Canyon
Colorado
San Juan
Mike Lacy
Lacy
Monument Valley
John Labounty
Which Woman Will Grace the New Dollar Coin
A nine member panel in Philadelphia to propose a design for a gold colored coin to be issued by mid-2000. The coin will carry a woman's image or allegorical symbol with the reverse featuring the American eagle. Rubin will choose the final design from the panel's concept.
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U.S
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Susan B. Anthony
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Treasury
Robert Rubin
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Rubin
Michael Castle
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