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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1998
Page
10
In 1998 Welcome Wagon ends house calls nationwide. Welcome Wagon baskets will be mailed to new arrivals as working mothers and dual income families keep people from home. Declining visits from 1.5-2 million in the 1960s to 580,000 last year reflect a changing America.
Geneva Overholser argues America vacillates between prurience and prudishness, urging open dialogue with children about language and sexuality. She cites Clinton Lewinsky, media warnings, and calls for education as steps toward a healthier cultural balance, not endless decay.
In Belgrade Richard Holbrooke sells a staged three year autonomy plan for Kosovo as Milosevic agrees to pull back troops and allow aid and observers. The plan hinges on NATO strikes staying credible, with elections for a Kosovan parliament and a UN supervised police force but lacks real enforcement and may only delay conflict.
The entry notes October 19 1998 as day 292 of 1998 and day 27 of fall. It lists events including Truman signing acts ending the war with Germany in 1951 and Watergate disclosures in 1973. It merges a jumbled roster of names and dates with unclear biographical notes.
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