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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1999
Page
6
The OHS track team readies for the state meet as a Friday forecast calls for partly cloudy skies and highs in the lower 80s. South wind 5 to 15 mph. See page 2 for more weather details.
U S District Judge John Coughenour paused distribution of a 15 million Boeing racial discrimination settlement to allow a objecting group to present its case. A Sept 23 hearing will follow depositions, potentially including Boeing chair Phil Condit. The suit covered about 12 900 current and former black Boeing workers with Jesse Jackson involved in the deal.
Washington AP reports 41,480 people died on U.S. highways in 1998, down from 42,103 in 1997. Alcohol related deaths totaled 15,936, 38.4 percent of all highway deaths, the lowest since 1975. The fatality rate held at 1.6 per 100 million vehicle miles as miles driven rose 2 percent. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration compiled the figures from fatal accident reports in all states and DC. final adjustments pending for 1999.
Washington observers from arms control advocates to some Republicans say the Chinese theft story is overstated. They argue China has not fielded a weapon decades after the alleged theft and that some information is already declassified. Critics contend a modestly improved Chinese arsenal could deter first strikes and actually stabilize the balance.
News of the Weird notes a Santa Monica cafe offering Kopi Luwak at 130 per pound, beans passed through a Sumatran civet’s digestive tract. A 1999 Wall Street Journal report cites Vietnamese versions using civet cat or similar animals, with growing demand and the animal being hunted for meat as well.
The Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic and four aides were indicted for planning and carrying out war crimes in Kosovo. Arrest warrants were issued. Milosevic faces possible life imprisonment if convicted. Also named were Milan Milutinovic Nikola Sainovic Vlajko Stojiljkovic and Dragoljub Ojdanic.
Sacred Heart School students hosted a Doug's 1st Movie premiere at Plaza Movie Theatre. The Pizza Hut Book It program boosted reading with an average of 24 books per student this school year. Second grader Carissa Engelbert played Martina McBride, receiving an award and a limousine ride through cheering crowds.
Exxon and Mobil shareholders vote to approve an 82.2 billion merger. Regulators in the United States and Europe must still authorize the deal. Analysts expect potential divestitures of gas stations to address antitrust concerns. The merger could cost about 9,000 jobs.
By Katie Erikson Herald staff writer the Appanoose Area Preservation Society has housed artifacts in the former Appanoose high school Pomona inviting kindergarten through eighth graders to tours on a Tuesday open house from 3 to 6 pm featuring items such as an Ottawa bottle and a coal mine pick ax in Williamsburg. A one room schoolhouse replica drew seventh grader Jessica Sillin to reflect on past school life versus today.
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