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The Minnesota Daily

Serving the UMN community since 1900

The Minnesota Daily

Water recedes from Pakistan flash floods that left 1,500 missing

Published March 6, 1998

TURBAT, Pakistan (AP) -- Water receded and unseasonably heavy rains eased Thursday in southwestern Pakistan, where rescue workers dug through mud and debris looking for survivors of flash floods that...

Glaxo cuts AZT price for pregnant women in poor countries

Published March 6, 1998

LONDON (AP) -- The maker of the AIDS drug AZT said Thursday it will slash the price for pregnant women in poor countries, an unprecedented move to make AIDS drugs more widely available in the Third World. In...

St. Paul mother accused of child abuse has own horrific past

Published March 6, 1998

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- A woman accused of beating and mutilating her 3-year-old daughter in St. Louis endured her own violent past. Clintresa Phillips, 21, saw her mother stabbed to death and has been...

U students asked to give feedback on Aramark

by Sarah Hallonquist
Published March 5, 1998

Cold potatoes, watery soda, high prices or whatever their beef, students have one more day to give University food services a spoonful of feedback. Today marks the third day food service officials will...

Debate surrounds postsecondary funding

by Stacy Jo
Published March 5, 1998

While most University students will be paying back their college loans for years after graduation, hundreds of students are attending classes for free. Nearly 850 juniors and seniors from area high schools...

Nicaraguan opposition demands Ortega resign over sex accusations

Published March 5, 1998

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) -- A lawmaker demanded Wednesday that Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega resign from Congress over accusations by his stepdaughter that he sexually molested her. "If he doesn't resign,...

Speaker addresses urban sprawl

by Emily Babcock
Published March 5, 1998

Controlling urban sprawl is possible and a must, a landscape planner and consultant told 30 students Wednesday at Coffman Union. Frank Martin, who also co-chairs a two-person suburban documentation project...

Net: As part of our…

Published March 5, 1998

Net: As part of our never-ending service to the University community, we at Network try to tell the small trials, tribulations and joys of the University community along with our cutting-edge discussions...

Supreme Court makes revives notion of same-sex harrassment

Published March 5, 1998

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sexual harassment at work can be illegal even when the offender and victim are the same sex, the Supreme Court said Wednesday in a decision that could touch virtually every American...

U baseball team crushes Iowa State

Published March 5, 1998

Buoyed by a pair of home runs by junior Robb Quinlan, the Gophers baseball team defeated Iowa State 12-6 on Wednesday night at the Metrodome. Minnesota improved to 9-2 on the season with the win, the team's...

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