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Saturday, August 3, 1996
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Emergency Sitters Tend Sick Kids, Put Parents Back To Work
August 3, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A1 Bonnie Naylor had to get to work to close the end-of-the-month accounts at ConAgra Inc. Her husband had important meetings all day. It was the worst time for their 4-year-old …
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Fire Truck Hits Pickup; Firefighter Arrested Athol Volunteer Accused Of Drunken Driving, Leaving Scene Of An Accident
August 3, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A1 James Jeffrey
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Who Will Be The Champion Of Breakfast? General Mills Tight-Lipped As Athletes Jockey To Get On Wheaties Box
August 3, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A1 The time: a few hours after Michael Johnson’s second golden victory on the Olympic track. The Place: Planet Hollywood on Peachtree Street. The speaker: Johnson himself. The topic: Wheaties. The …
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Business Group Wants City To Tighten Its Money Belt
August 3, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A1 City workers with a decade of experience get nine weeks of vacation and sick leave - more than people in the private sector. This and other practices has Concerned Businesses …
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Cops Fight For Control Of West First Recent Shootings Indicate Gangs Are Warring Over Downtown Area
August 3, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A1 LIFE ON THE BLOCK This is the scene after dark on the 1100 block of West First, after most businesses and residents have bolted their doors. It’s at night when …
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Health, Wage Bills Approved Clinton Expected To Sign Measures On Health Insurance, Minimum Wage And Water Standards
August 3, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A1 Congress Friday gave final approval to bills expanding health insurance coverage, raising the minimum wage and tightening drinking water standards in a burst of lawmaking that could alter the lives …
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Typhoon Herb Slams China, Killing One, Stranding 250,000
August 3, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A2 Typhoon Herb pummeled the southeastern Chinese coast Friday, sweeping at least one person out to sea and stranding a quarter-million people. In Taiwan, the death toll from Herb - the …
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Lottery Numbers
August 3, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A2 Friday’s Washington Triple Choice: 486. Friday’s Washington Keno: 1-4-6-7-14-17-18-27-28-29-32- 41-42-54-55-57-61-69-71-79.
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Lamm Picks Zschau As Running Mate
August 3, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A3 Former California congressman Ed Zschau, a moderate Republican and high-tech entrepreneur, is Reform Party presidential candidate Richard Lamm’s choice for a running mate. Zschau, 56, served in Congress as a …
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Plane Lands Safely As Smoke Fills Cabin
August 3, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A3 An American Airlines pilot who made an emergency landing saw the engine oil pressure drop and heard a popping noise before smoke filled the cockpit and cabin, an airline spokesman …
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Clintons Attend Chelsea’s Recital
August 3, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A3 President and Mrs. Clinton took time out Friday afternoon to watch their daughter Chelsea participate in a ballet recital. They sat in the front row at the Washington School of …
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Cruise Ship Fire Called Suspicious
August 3, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A3 A cruise-ship fire that killed five crewmen is being called a suspicious blaze by investigators, though they said Friday that they had not determined if it was deliberately set. Investigators …
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Cigarette Additive Disclosure Fought
August 3, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A3 Just as Gov. William Weld was signing the nation’s first state law requiring cigarette makers to disclose the additives they use in each brand, four tobacco companies sued Friday to …
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Congressman Comes Out Of Closet Magazine Set To Call Arizona Republican Hypocrite For Vote Against Gay Marriage
August 3, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A3 Rep. Jim Kolbe
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Senate Confirms New Chief Of Navy
August 3, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A3 The Senate Friday confirmed the nomination of Adm. Jay Johnson to be the leader of the Navy, succeeding Adm. Jeremy M. “Mike” Boorda, whose suicide rocked the Navy community. The …
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Private Plane Crashes As Tourists Look On
August 3, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A3 A private plane flying over the Grand Canyon during a thunderstorm crashed and burned Friday, killing one person as dozens of tourists looked on. The plane, a Mooney 20, was …
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Searchers Discover Piece Of Cockpit From Flight 800
August 3, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A4 A section of the airliner is brought ashore on Friday. Photo by Associated Press
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Bomb Probe Moves To Georgia College Olympics Guard May Have Used School Computers To Get Data
August 3, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A4 Shifting the focus of their investigation of Richard Jewell, federal and state agents descended on a small Georgia college campus Friday to hunt for evidence linking him to the Olympic …
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Gov. Weld Urges Gop To Soften Abortion Plank He Claims Seeking Ban Will Hurt Party Without Helping Babies
August 3, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A4 Massachusetts Gov. William F. Weld has put his oft-stated views on abortion into writing, urging the Republican Party’s convention platform committee to adopt a plank with a more tolerant view …
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Starr Says Acquittals Won’t Derail His Investigation Into Whitewater One Juror Called Evidence Against Arkansas Pair ‘Flimsy’
August 3, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A5 Robert M. Hill holds the hand of his wife, Shirley, after the verdict Thursday. Photo by Associated Press
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Agent Details Drug Use In White House Says Aides Used Drugs As Recently As Inauguration Day
August 3, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A5 White House aides used drugs as recently as President Clinton’s Inauguration Day, an FBI agent told Congress in a deposition released Friday. And, in another deposition reflecting on the White …
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Bomb Kills French Bishop In Algeria
August 3, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A6 A bomb killed a French bishop as he returned home from a ceremony honoring seven French monks slain by Muslim militants three months ago, authorities said Friday. Thursday’s blast also …
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Palestinian Police Open Fire, Prison Protest Turns Bloody One Killed As Crowd Storms Jail To Protest Beating Of Inmates
August 3, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A6 Palestinians carry the body of a slain protester in Tulkarem Friday. Photo by Associated Press
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Women Are Seeking Fate Of Hostages
August 3, 1996 in Nation/World on Page A6 The wives of two Western hostages visited Kashmir on Friday to renew efforts to free their husbands and two others captured last year by Muslim separatists. Jane Schelly, a schoolteacher …
