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The Minnesota Daily

Albright calls for more cooperation in fighting drug traffickers

Published April 6, 1998

BLACK ROCK, Tobago (AP) -- Secretary of State Madeleine Albright called Sunday for more cooperation against drug traffickers and praised Trinidad and Tobago for leading the way. In 1996, Trinidad and Tobago...

St. Cloud State newspaper staff detained over meeting tape

Published April 6, 1998

ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) -- Staff members of St. Cloud State University's student newspaper were detained in their office while police demanded a tape recording from a public forum that could involve criminal...

Saudi security is high as hajj begins

Published April 6, 1998

MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- From across the world, more than 2 million Muslims swathed in white arrived in the holy city of Mecca on Sunday to perform the annual pilgrimage that for many fulfills a lifelong...

Week honors grad students’ work

by Ken Eisinger
Published April 6, 1998

Have you hugged your TA today? Sunday kicked off Graduate and Professional Student Appreciation Week, marking the fourth consecutive year Gov. Arne Carlson has made such a proclamation. The observance...

At 87, Mormon head won’t slow down

Published April 6, 1998

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The most well-traveled president in the history of the Mormon church said Sunday he's not about to stay home in a rocker, as attractive as that might be to a man of 87. Since becoming...

Cartoons generate animated letters

Published April 6, 1998

A Brooklyn Park police lieutenant wrote to the Daily last week complaining about the "inaccurate representation of the police and the D.A.R.E. program," in Pete Wagner's Tuesday cartoon. The cartoon depicted...

Last bodies recovered from Ukrainian mine blast

Published April 6, 1998

DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) -- Crossing paths with rescuers retrieving bodies, investigators descended into a coal shaft Sunday to determine what caused an accident that killed 63 miners, Ukraine's worst mine...

Theater honors King’s legacy with production

by Kelly Hildebrandt
Published April 6, 1998

On Apr. 5, 1968, Warren Bowles was a sophomore in college traveling in Italy. He picked up a newspaper and, from the little Italian he knew, made out the headline: "Dr. King assassinated, Civil War in...

Zielinski wins title, qualifies for Goodwill Games

by Jim Schortemeyer
Published April 6, 1998

An old sports maxim held true at this weekend's Phillips 66 National Swimming Championships: Age and wisdom will always defeat youth and talent. But while the veteran U.S. National team members held their...

Another sharp quake hits central Italy

Published April 6, 1998

ROME (AP) -- Fans fled a soccer stadium in a small Umbrian town and tourists hurried out of St. Francis Basilica in Assisi on Sunday when another sharp earthquake struck central Italy. There were no immediate...

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