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HARARE, Zimbabwe (A…

Published April 30, 1998

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- To the cheers of onlookers, thousands of students took to the streets Wednesday to call for an end to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's 18 years in power. The protest was the...

Man claiming knowledge of a plot to kill Diana arrested

Published April 30, 1998

VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- A man who sought $15 million from Mohamed Al Fayed for documents alleging that his son Dodi and Princess Diana were murdered was arrested in a sting involving the FBI and the CIA. The...

Board retreat

by Heather Fors
Published April 30, 1998

Bob Bergland grew up in the isolated northern Minnesota town of Roseau. The Board of Regents member had never seen a black person or talked to a Jew before attending the University in 1946. Once he arrived...

Protesters, cheered by onlookers, call for Mugabe ouster

Published April 30, 1998

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- To the cheers of onlookers, thousands of students took to the streets Wednesday to call for an end to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's 18 years in power. The protest was the...

Professor switches schools, not fields

by Ken Eisinger
Published April 30, 1998

When departures created an opening for a professor in the psychology department this year, program recruiters did not need to search nationally for a qualified candidate. They simply looked across the...

Softball team drops back end of key double dip

by Michael Dougherty
Published April 30, 1998

On Tuesday, the 23rd-ranked Gophers softball team won game two of a doubleheader thanks to some questionable strategy from Iowa State's coach. On Wednesday, some questionable strategy of their own might...

Paula Jones tells judge she’s taking case to appeals court

Published April 30, 1998

Wednesday appealed a federal judge's decision rejecting her sexual harassment lawsuit, continuing her fight to bring President Clinton to trial on her accusation that he propositioned her. In papers filed...

39,500 Turkish soldiers chase Kurdish rebels in Turkey

Published April 30, 1998

Turkey BINGOL, Turkey (AP) -- Turkey's military has launched its largest operation against Kurdish guerrillas in the southeast, with 39,500 troops searching for 450 rebels, the Anatolia news agency reported...

Death toll from landslides in Tajikistan exceeds 100

Published April 30, 1998

iggered by torrential rains have killed more than 100 people in this Central Asian nation, and scores more remained trapped in debris, officials said Wednesday. Abdurashid Khashimov, a deputy head of Tajikistan's...

Academic culture encourages lawsuits

Published April 29, 1998

In its battle against a constant onslaught of litigation, the University is not alone. More than 230 cases against the University sit on the general counsel's docket at any given time and 70 percent of...