09 Oct 1997
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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1997
Page
1
Friday will be sunny with a low around 46. Saturday looks bright and mild with a high near 68 and a low 48. Sunday warms to 74 with sun and increasing clouds. Monday stays breezy and warm with a high about 76 and a low 54. Weather stars A2 enter 4 digit code.
Dario Fo, 71, the Italian dramatist and actor known for Mistero Buffo and Accidental Death of an Anarchist, today won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy cited his work blending humor and social critique, awarding a prize worth 1 million dollars. Fo credited his wife Franca Rame, with whom he founded a drama company, for their life’s work, while noting past visa disputes with the United States over his left wing activities.
A White House lapse left taxpayers owed for eight 1994 breakfast fund-raisers hosted by President Clinton to back health care ads. The Democratic National Committee later sent a check to the U.S. Treasury for over $1,000 after AP uncovered missing reimbursements. The incident occurred amid a Justice Department probe into potential improper use of government resources for fundraising.
President Clinton announced a broad agreement with major gun makers to equip about 80 percent of handguns with child safety locks by end of next year. Executives from Sturm Ruger and Smith & Wesson joined the White House event alongside officials and top police honorees, as deployment expands to support state and local officers and dependents of fallen federal officers.
Fidel Castro begins a lengthy address at the Communist party congress reasserting socialist faith and condemning capitalism as unsustainable for the world, arguing for deeper alignment with Marxist principles and state control.
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