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Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

WAR threatened against Rwanda, rebels advance on Kabila’s old ROUTE

Published August 7, 1998

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) -- Rwandan soldiers and Tutsi rebels were advancing Thursday across this vast African nation in a scene eerily reminiscent of Congo President Laurent Kabila's own march to power last...

Solar car shines despite obstacles in Japan rally

by Kane LoukasStaff
Published August 7, 1998

The 17-member University solar car team weathered emotional extremes last weekend by starting the 1998 World Solarcar Rally with a near disaster and ending it with a stellar victory. The University team...

The big guns: Katzenmoyer, Dayne

by Aaron Kirscht
Published August 7, 1998

CHICAGO -- Thanks to the Big Ten's convoluted scheduling process, Wisconsin running back Ron Dayne and Ohio State linebacker Andy Katzenmoyer -- two of the nation's premier players at their respective...

Market drop

by Kane Loukas
Published August 7, 1998

For parents and students counting on their portfolio gains to cover college tuition bills, stock market declines in recent weeks might leave many of them in a jam. When the Dow Jones industrial average...

Emerging wealth

Published August 7, 1998

BEIJING (AP) -- With millions of Chinese being laid off from state factories and the economy teetering toward recession, most foreign retailers would be expected to look for ways to lure bargain seekers. Not...

Council denounces barring of inspectors from Iraq

Published August 7, 1998

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The Security Council declared Iraq's freeze of cooperation with UN weapons inspectors "totally unacceptable" and called for the urgent resumption of dialogue between inspectors and...

Don’t put feminism in the has been’ category yet

by By Erin
Published August 7, 1998

(U-WIRE) LINCOLN, Neb. -- Feminism is dead. At least, Time magazine thinks so. On June 29, Time magazine officially declared the end of the modern American feminist movement as we know it. Again. The...

HUD grants tribes funds, encourages home ownership

Published August 7, 1998

PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) --South Dakota Indian tribes are getting $30 million and the mandate to use it creatively to improve housing, a Clinton Cabinet official said Thursday as he toured some of the poorest...

Utahans lose to greed in fight for edited movies

Published August 7, 1998

(U-WIRE) PROVO, Utah -- The managers of Towne Cinemas in American Fork thought they were doing a good thing by showing a version of "Titanic" with the nude scene and sex scene edited out. The theater had...

Greedy Northwest burns labor unions

Published August 7, 1998

After two years of negotiations, the National Mediation Board has declared an impasse and cleared the way for Northwest pilots to strike on Aug. 29. Less recognized but equally important is the looming...

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