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Newspaper
Register Herald
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1998
Page
8
In Burlington Iowa a 5 year old girl was shot in the head by another child playing with a pistol found beneath a porch. Dacia Nicole Watson, 5, remained in critical condition as investigators sought the gun’s owner.
A female U S soldier was hit by a bullet that grazed her neck after the shot hit her vest while guarding outside a barracks at a German military air field. No arrests, collaboration between German and American authorities ongoing in Erlensee near Frankfurt.
Three Americans, Robert F. Furchgott Louis J. Ignarro and Ferid Murad, win the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering nitric oxide signals blood vessel dilation. The work links to Viagra and potential heart disease, cancer, and septic shock treatments. They will split 978000 dollars.
Matthew Shepard, 21, died after a beating and lashing to a split-rail fence near Laramie. Two suspects face first degree murder charges with possible death penalty. girlfriends charged as accessories. The case fuels calls for federal hate crimes legislation covering sexual orientation.
President Clinton announced Milosevic would meet UN Kosovo demands under heavy NATO pressure. NATO warned of air strikes if Milosevic fails to comply while 2000 inspectors monitor troop withdrawal, refugee return, and UN conditions. Holbrooke pressed for Brussels talks as monitoring expands.
Two more people died from injuries after supporters of the Lesotho Congress for Democracy beat rallygoers on Sunday. Officials said a shot fired by an unidentified person sparked the violence, with one victim dying at the scene and two later dying of severe head injuries. The crowd alleged the victims were opposition party workers attempting to plant a bomb.
A land mine exploded near a gun battle in Kashmir killing five Indian soldiers and wounding five others. The blast occurred about 140 miles northeast of Jammu, leaving three militants and two soldiers dead in the firefight near Pasarkot.
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