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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Store your Snickers, stack your

Published May 7, 1998

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- It's a candy lover's worst nightmare -- a decade from now, the world may start running out of chocolate. It's not time yet to hoard the Hershey bars or stockpile M&Ms. But people...

Two slain in Israeli-Palestinian violence as Israel weighs pullback

Published May 7, 1998

JERUSALEM (AP) -- While Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dug in Wednesday against U.S. pressure for concessions to the Palestinians, violence claimed the lives of a Palestinian villager and a Jewish seminary...

Softball gets another shot at nemesis

by Michael Dougherty
Published May 7, 1998

She's baaack. Once again, the 23rd-ranked Gophers softball team must face Public Enemy No. 1, Michigan pitcher Sara Griffin. Minnesota (45-17, 14-9 in the Big Ten) travels to Ann Arbor, Mich., for the...

Violence erupts in Indonesia as fuel and transport prices go up

Published May 6, 1998

MEDAN, Indonesia (AP) -- Flipping over cars and hurling rocks at police, thousands of rioters furious about price hikes rampaged in northern Indonesia on Tuesday in the worst outbreak of violence since...

Albright set to speak at CLA graduation ceremony

by Chris Hamilton
Published May 6, 1998

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, the nation's top foreign policymaker, will deliver the keynote address at the College of Liberal Arts spring commencement, administrators announced Tuesday. Albright...

New pills won’t leave men fulfilled

Published May 6, 1998

Historians looking back on the 20th century may well see it as the Era of Wonder Drugs, when medicine supplied an endless array of chemical compounds that made life better. Pills solve everything, it seems....

Body found floating

Published May 6, 1998

An unidentified man was found Tuesday afternoon floating in the Mississippi River. A pedestrian spotted the body of a white male from the Washington Avenue footbridge and reported it to police. The man's...

Cinco de Mayo marked by memories

by Paul Concannon
Published May 6, 1998

On a historically important holiday for Mexican-Americans, one University department concentrated its efforts on the future of Chicano studies. To celebrate Cinco de Mayo, the Chicano Studies Department,...

Drum editor tells of apartheid struggle

by Andrew Donohue
Published May 6, 1998

Literally or figuratively, Sylvester Stein runs well. A key figure of South Africa's liberation movement in the 1950s, Stein often had to run from authorities as editor in chief of the anti-apartheid...

Police officer

Published May 6, 1998

A peaceful party turned into what Minneapolis police called a riot involving about 30 officers Sunday night near campus. When the smoke cleared, officers arrested or cited eight people. According to police...

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