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Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

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...

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...

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...

Cafe displays traveling

by Stacy Jo
Published August 5, 1998

A visual celebration of women and international culture surrounded the CafÇ of the Americas on Monday. The cafe displayed a collection of canvas scrolls for a project entitled Global WARM, sponsored...

British Columbia Indian tribe signs historic treaty

Published August 5, 1998

NEW AIYANSH, British Columbia (AP) -- To the rhythm of drums and ancient songs, chiefs of the Nisga'a Indians neared the end of a century-old quest Tuesday by signing a treaty giving them land rights and...

BIKE LETTER ##3,245…

Published August 5, 1998

BIKE LETTER ##3,245 From Aeyola: Net who is hailed and revered, Net: Nice intro. I was really pissed of by the events my day has brought, and I wished to vent. I don't have any pets, and my one friend...

Tobacco industry paid thousands to scientists to criticize EPA report

Published August 5, 1998

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- A letter-writing campaign organized by the tobacco industry exaggerated the extent of scientific controversy over the effects of secondhand smoke, anti-smoking activists and some...

Man barred from campus found dead under bridge

by Sarah McKenzie
Published August 5, 1998

A 54-year-old man with a history of committing crime on campus was found dead underneath a bridge near 28th Street and Emerson Avenue South in Uptown on Friday morning. Homicide investigators said Michael...

Yangtze River embankments collapse, causing heavy loss of life

Published August 5, 1998

BEIJING (AP) -- Floodwaters burst through a sodden levee protecting towns along China's flood-swollen Yangtze River, state media reported Tuesday, and a human rights group said more than 1,000 people were...

GradSOC

by Jeremy Taff
Published August 5, 1998

In a move that has divided the campus community in the past, the Graduate Student Organizing Congress kicked off a drive Monday to unionize the 3,700 graduate assistants by the end of the next academic...

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