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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Repo man takes what he can get

Published May 18, 1998

WINONA, Minn. (AP) -- "We're like thieves in the night, only we're not thieves and it's daytime," Tim Shugart says as he hops into his tow truck. It's a sunny Tuesday morning and Shugart, based in Winona,...

India resuming tests, improvements on nuclear missile systems

Published May 18, 1998

NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- Now that India says it has the ability to produce a nuclear bomb, it is perfecting missiles to carry one, the government's top nuclear scientist said Sunday. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam...

Doctor questions

by Nathan Whalen
Published May 18, 1998

Undergraduate students and health care professionals had their concepts of brain death and organ donation challenged Saturday at the Brain Death and Organ Transplant Seminar at Moos Tower. Dr. Paul Byrne,...

Newsroom ethics test preconceptions

Published May 18, 1998

In a few short weeks, University administrators will add another big name to the list of speakers that have appeared on campus. The impending arrival of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was recently...

Rodgers corners the market on sprint wins

by Jim Schortemeyer
Published May 18, 1998

One might think that Fred Rodgers' nerves would be so shot from trying to outthink opposing quarterbacks that he wouldn't be any good for the Minnesota track team. Yet there was Rodgers on Saturday at...

Fresno too much for persistent U softball

by Michael Dougherty
Published May 18, 1998

FRESNO, Calif. -- After tying the single-season team record with 48 wins with its dramatic 3-2 win over California on Saturday night, the Gophers softball team came into Sunday's championship game with...

Dinner brings Iraqi poverty to U.S. tables

by Brian Close
Published May 18, 1998

Visitors to St. Stephen's Catholic Church in Minneapolis were treated to a meager dinner Sunday to better experience current food shortages in Iraq. The Iraq Peace Action Coalition served a dinner of...

Annan starts and ends graduates’ careers

by Coralie Carlson
Published May 18, 1998

U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan berated the United States for its outstanding debt to the United Nations during the Macalaster College commencement Sunday. The 1961 Macalaster graduate informed about...

Clashes in Hebron leave six Palestinians wounded

Published May 18, 1998

HEBRON, West Bank (AP) -- Palestinian youths threw stones and bottles Sunday at Israeli troops who responded with rubber bullets, wounding six Palestinians in a fourth day of West Bank clashes. The latest...

Non-nuclear solution is key for Pakistan

Published May 18, 1998

Although India's prime minister said the country will halt nuclear weapons testing, its neighboring country could react with similar aggression. Pakistani officials said they will counteract in a way that...

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