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The Minnesota Daily

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The Minnesota Daily

Sergeant convicted of raping six trainees

Published April 30, 1997

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (AP) -- A drill instructor was convicted Tuesday of raping six women trainees in the most serious case yet to come out of the sex scandal that has rocked the Army. Staff Sgt....

Panel: Drug laws should be more equal

Published April 30, 1997

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A sentencing panel recommended keeping harsher federal penalties for selling crack cocaine but said the wide disparity in current sentencing laws should be reduced. "Although research...

Gophers get bats on track at Siebert

by Tim Klobuchar
Published April 30, 1997

Whether Tuesday night's offensive explosion against Division II St. Cloud State has any carry-over effect for the Gophers baseball team this weekend in an important Big Ten series at Iowa remains to be...

MSA candidates must clean up campus, literally

by Tracy Ellingson
Published April 30, 1997

Triumphant celebrations and gatherings of the defeated officially mark the end of election campaigns. But like any other party, the hosts have to clean up afterward -- and for this year's MSA campaign...

Sinatra will receive Congressional honor

Published April 30, 1997

WASHINGTON (AP) -- "Ol' Blue Eyes" is headed for gold. Frank Sinatra, the recipient of numerous awards for an entertainment career that spans six decades, will add the Congressional Gold Medal to the collection...

Zrust has nightmare during dream season

by Tim Klobuchar
Published April 29, 1997

Considering the Gophers' .344 team batting average in Big Ten games going into the weekend, the superb job Illinois pitching did (allowing just 12 runs and 25 hits) in its four-game sweep was surprising,...

Plains states soar in national income growth

Published April 29, 1997

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A good corn crop helped give six Plains states the best income growth in the nation last year. By contrast, income growth in Hawaii and Alaska failed to even keep up with inflation,...

Burial of Peruvian rebels raises suspicion

Published April 29, 1997

LIMA, Peru (AP) -- The mother of a leftist rebel killed in last week's hostage rescue demanded Monday that her daughter's body be exhumed, amid suspicions that commandos may have killed some rebels who...

Football players arrested

Published April 29, 1997

Minneapolis police arrested five football players from the Gophers 1997 squad early Sunday morning for a disruptive party. According to police reports, officers were dispatched to a party at 721 10th Ave....

Frightened Rwandan refugees emerge from jungle

Published April 29, 1997

BIARO, Zaire (AP) --Thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees emerged from hiding in the jungles of eastern Zaire on Monday, their hunger more powerful than their fear of the mobs that drove them from squalid...

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