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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Newt uses blunt language, not diplomacy

Published May 29, 1998

PITTSBURGH, Penn. (U-WIRE) -- Well done, Newt Gingrich. Congratulations! You deserve a medal for the outstanding display of diplomacy you've shown on your trip to the Middle East. Seemingly determined...

Jaywalking tickets and fines possible, but not probable

Published May 29, 1998

Juanita Hernandez and her friend didn't stop to assist a bicyclist injured in an accident. Instead, she and her friend continued walking across the intersection at Washington Avenue and Union Street,...

Ineffective tactics invalidate protest

Published May 29, 1998

LOS ANGELES (U-WIRE) -- "For your own safety, we need you to evacuate the building!" came the hurried warnings of two students, who, rushing to and fro within my 1 p.m. Comm 150 class, had nary an obvious...

Kids tour campus to prepare for their futures

by Kane Loukas
Published May 29, 1998

Sixth-grader Baon Kong peered up at Amundson Hall and grinned. "I would probably like to go here one day," the little girl said. "The buildings are really big." Baon was one of about 140 fifth and sixth...

Students get word in with regents

by Jeremy Taff
Published May 29, 1998

For once the Board of Regents sat back and quietly listened while students and faculty took the floor. Students had free reign Thursday at the annual budget forum in the theater of Coffman Union. They...

CLA art

by Ken Eisinger
Published May 29, 1998

Students visiting Johnston Hall for adviser appointments Thursday ended up with a different dilemma -- casting votes for works of art. A student art fair organized by the College of Liberal Arts Student...

USDA must raise

Published May 29, 1998

For the past decade, organic farmers pressed the U.S. Department of Agriculture into setting national standards to define organic products and practices. Sales in the organic food industry are expected...

Pharmacy gains VFW endowment

by Kelly Hildebrandt
Published May 29, 1998

Along with a bundle of prescription pads, a newly appointed professor in the School of Pharmacy will bring a $3.8 million endowment -- the largest in the school's history -- to the University Sept. 1. Joseph...

Ex-NASA safety official warns of possible Mir trouble

Published May 29, 1998

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- NASA's chief of astronaut safety warned space agency officials last year that Mir was "a disaster waiting to happen" and urged an end to long U.S. stays aboard the Russian...

Rwandan rebels attack hundreds of people fleeing their influence

Published May 29, 1998

GISENYI, Rwanda (AP) -- Machete-wielding Hutu rebels attacked hundreds of civilians in northwestern Rwanda to punish them for seeking protection from the Tutsi-led army, U.N. officials and survivors said...

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