Las Vegas Sun
Story archive for February 1996
Thursday, Feb. 29
- Who IBF champ fights next still undecided
- Commentary: Little-known facts about well-knowns
- Commentary: Big West didn't plan on this mess
- Picket's suit charges Frontier with beating
- Daniel Schorr: Pakistan and the bomb
- Why a man who knows racism fights affirmative action
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- Corrections
- China military thumps chest at more agile, potent Taiwan
- Steve Yetiv: An ironic catalyst for peace
- Chaparral girls get optimistic message about the work world
- Benin: A model of openness in turbulent Africa
- Economic forecasters' finger-crossing time
- Binion siblings bicker about control
- Vegas briefs
- Worth noting on television this week
- Bob Shemeligian: Celebrating children not a bad idea
- Doomsayers missed mark on speeds
- Nevada Indian passes away at age 112
- School bands in jazz show
- South cleans house
- Rebels find reason to keep believing
- At first asia-europe summit, talk of trade may quell cry for rights
- TV industry problem: rating 400,000 shows
- Upstate girls go 4-for-4
- Guinn to run for governor
- Bullish market on Strip
- Northern Ireland aims to show IRA benefits of a truce
- Tahoe shooting suspect faces drug charge
- Hagen leaving the Rebels
- A ring on her finger wherever she goes
- 20th Century's abstract art: An expression of the inner self
- 20 years of hard work eases impact of financial fiasco
- O'Leary plans to keep alive Yucca Mountain waste site
- Ed secretary plugs reading as Congress eyes cuts
- An uncle's advice on customer relations
- RTC riders need better placement of bus shelters
- Williams, chronicler of World II tales, dies at 76
- Henry Cisneros: Safer, saner, stronger communities
- Nevada briefs from Tahoe, Reno, Sparks, Ely and Elko
- DAR's state conference in Las Vegas
- Youth classes available
- O'Callaghan 8th-grader wins county spelling bee
- Prosecutors' bias? Some say it's as plain as black and white
- Fear of unknown intimidating during tournament
- New Head of Council On Compulsive Gambling Says Information First Priority
- Oh those pesky plastic peanuts
- Boss at Nellis eyes promotion
- Henderson man's death suspicious
- High on Dogipot
- Judge treds slowly with redevelopment case
- Students reap awards
- Fired DMV employee loses appeal
- Details on supermarket banking
- Coast Resorts Inc. earnings
- Today's Vegas business news
- Don't give HIV-infected personnel special treatment
- Elderhostel program has plenty of food for thought for education-hungry students
- Philly flower show celebrates spring in its new 'digs'
- Williams life achievements
- Satellite to put on a show
- Nellis sued over birth of baby with disabilities
- Sun City tax revolt will go to state level
- V-chip requirement another example of federal meddling
- LV Cubans remain united against Castro
- Tickets on sale for exhibitions
- Guinn Community Center offers classes
- Fired cops want Dersch suit delayed
- Carolina vote tests role of religion in Southern politics
- Many classes tailored for mature students
- Nevada sales up as nation stays flat
- AIDS display an important teaching tool for children
- Shoppers flock to new Henderson mall
- Cost of living to take a jump for UNLV students
- Hotel guard won't be charged in shooting
- U.S. Bank offices headed for stores
Wednesday, Feb. 28
Tuesday, Feb. 27
- Northern Nevada's girls can't be beat
- Boom in political attack ads a myth
- School chief issues plea to business
- Where I Stand: Soaring crime rate frightening
- Rust-belt Republican fights to keep his seat
- Bald eagles soar again over the might Mississippi
- Columnist: Don't be a bonehead, go buy the book
- Curiosity helps cross some cultural divides
- Castro takes new aim at 'threats' to Cuba
- David Newsom: America's new cynicism disturbing
- CD reviews: An occasional update of music releases
- Southern Nevada boys rule roost
- Columnist: Amid questions about HIV virus, trustees were right to reject trip
- Befriend more than berate China, new envoy says
- Cold, snow catch LV off-guard
- The Caribbean provides a paradise for data inputting
- Inmates protest being sent to jail cells in other states
- A family warily welcomes television-show ratings
- Once again, the lens zooms in on '50s star Jean Seberg
- Got an interest? There's probably a stamp to go with it
- Peace rooted in El Salvador, people now seek own land
- Exiles may rekindle efforts to overthrow Castro
- Ken Ward: Low numbers skew zones and schedules
- Court filing blames Nevada corporation for Calif. company's debt
- Departures could break Assembly tie
- UMass Minutemen may be New England's next dynasty
- No quiet actor's life for Kenneth Branagh
- Seek $16 Million Increase in Police Funding
- Scandals push Spaniards to end long Socialist rule
- Columnist: School Board should reconsider decision on AIDS exhibit
- Nevada briefs: Police look for vandals; Lyon commissioners to hold finance workshops
- Three teens convicted in Wherehouse swarm robbery
- Santa Fe Gaming Corp. earnings
- Ad shops growing with LV
- Louisiana stonewalls Harrah's
- Simplify and restructure tax code, don't cut taxes
- School Board made right move about AIDS exhibit
- Columnist: Exemption has Congress taking sides
- UNLV vs. UNR game details
- Sagebrush study wasted tax dollars
- AG opens legislative conflict door
- SUN should get story straight on parent rights, AIDS display
- Illuminating a high-tech world of smoke and mirrors
- Thunder's Lakovic back; Loewen out?
- Hughes, environmental group rap power project
- Columnist: Jazz writer Patterson honored on birthday
- Rebels keep season alive
- Suggest National Study be Limited to Las Vegas, Atlantic City
- Decatur-Oakey lanes restricted
- Mine closure dooms wetlands
- Man Missing for Three Days in Sierra Walks to Safety
- Galleria mall opens Wednesday
- History full of flakes
- SWAT Officer Returns to Work Following Interstate Standoff
- The quake that shook strong character into sight
- School bond committee to meet Thursday
- Jeff German: Audit of bungled books may never happen
- Tiny Baltic state keeps changing a touchy debate
- Community events around Las Vegas
- Fast facts on Las Vegas snow
- LV extortion scheme ends with 2 arrests
- Ex-UNLV golfer's lawsuit denied
- Show reveals Bronte sisters beyond their literary feats
- Miller to appear on 'Today Show'
- Disney's stars to visit Henderson mall
- Budget increase would add 100 officers
- Strapped Lyon officials deny county is going broke
- The lawyer runaround costly for victim of auto accident
- Business briefs: Vegas company draws QVC attention
- High court rejects Davis bid
- Caught in the stamp actThey're mostly happy stampers, but collectors find hobby can be a sticky subject these days
- LV visitors shatter records
- Bringing down a gang
- Brothers plead guilty in case of kidnapped Henderson teen
- Police say teen plotted slaying
- SUN cartoon maligned a great leader, President Buchanan
- Religion bolsters moral upbringing
- Valuable stamps
- Extortion scheme ends in 2 arrests
- Man charged with murder captured in Las Vegas
- Details on the Galleria opening
Monday, Feb. 26
Saturday, Feb. 24
Friday, Feb. 23
Thursday, Feb. 22
Wednesday, Feb. 21
Tuesday, Feb. 20
- Coffin campaign kickoff breathes life into Democratic Party
- Dim Sum: A celebration in itself
- TV violence study bolsters calls for reform
- O'Callaghan school tagged with Blue Ribbon honor
- Keep a tight rein on credit data to avoid scams
- Danger part of job for store clerks
- Low-level waste could be shipped across Utah to Nevada Test Site
- From slave to Samba school star
- Credit companies push debt while reigning in delinquencies
- Yeltsin throws crown in ring for reelection
- Little gifts give romance to life
- Columnist: WAC to hold a volleyball Garden party
- Phone hot line wants to put illegal immigration on hold
- As strikes lose potency, unions try different tactics
- No alien Top 40 hits yet, but scientists keep listening
- The truth that tried to get out
- Trying to bridge the racial divide in America
- Planning a holiday at British parks
- Aircraft builders jostle for future business
- More European women bring home the bacon
- Hello, IRS? I'll let you do my taxes this year
- Las Vegas gears up for rapid response
- Oh, to be on the campaign trail
- Japan and South Korea tussle over islets to gain economic advantage
- Oil-spill cleanups are often long on effort, short on results
- Who will respond to Burundi?
- Energetic 'City Hall' falls short of being 'Godfather' clone
- A politicians and his patrons
- The hard drive to keep computer porn from kids
- Hitting the high, sweet notes of gospel music
- After 136 years, native Canadians get land back
- Populist on the rise around the world
- Senior pageant successful but happily uneventful
- Serbia's leader stays on top with his feints and parries
- Why granite state is -- again -- an uphill climb for Dole
- Canadians seek 'spirituality,' but not always in a church
- Cuba's visa seekers try an animist faith
- Flat tax shifts to the slow track
- Coffin to fight Ensign for 1st Congressional District
- Chief author of telecomm bill explains why, how it was done
- Your money: Probate vs. trusts for an estate
- Buchanan, Alexander chase Dole into New Hampshire
- Politics of the whole
- Aliens given own road
- IRA bombing marks internal power shift to the radicals
- A violent history behind boycotted election
- Campaign rhetoric vs. fiscal reality
- Israel's Likud says Peres has secret plan to split Jerusalem
- It's always summer in Britain's resort bubbles
- Convenience stores are safe, police say
- Once labeled traitors, White Russians renew their homeland ties
- Florida cane farmers sour on Everglades restoration
- Need an I-bean? Call the metal supermarket
- Despite China's PR efforts, Hong Kong fears Red Army
- The security of old staples after moving
- Newcomers to Japan face discrimination
- Trade warriors fortify Asian Defense Alliance
- Survey reveals water in rock formations
- Child welfare systems as 'neglected' as the kids it serves
- Clinton busy spit-shining military image
- Bangladesh poll brings more of a violent deadlock
- U.S. Supreme Court turns down appeal from death row inmate Priscilla Ford
- New Hampshire's view of candidates, from the ice rink
- New Hampshire primary shows GOP's deep divide
- Israeli-Palestinian patrols forge new links
- Silent plowman turns snow removal into art
- Let's decide who owns what in the Persian Gulf
- Sawyer's thoughts on friends, foes
- Girls tip off second season
- The slippery dress fiasco: Caution, shrinks when wet
- Conflict on the streets of New York
- Whistle-blower victory claimed
- Humanitarianism will provide better refuge
- In New Hampshire candidates hone messages and jab foes
- Del Papa seeks tougher penalties for sex assault
- Gene Kelly: Soaked shoes and umbrella forever
- Where I Stand: Prices high for scarce rooms
- The school voucher trap
- American Center in Paris closes its doors
- Sentencing guidelines on trial in Rodney King case
- Former governor Grant Sawyer, 77, dies
- It may look like Oregon, but it's probably California
- LSD makes a comeback -- with kids
- Charter schools get A's from many reformers
- British ultralight pilots have fond memories of LV
- Workers remember slain friend
- Six-month sentence, $164,400 restitution order in offbeat fraud case
- Violent image becomes radical chic
- Rebels show signs of life
- Bob Coffin challenges 'PAC man'
- As Boomers drive stocks up, is the sky the limit?
- Koehne rides Wilson wind to Rebel win over Cougars
- Former dam, NTS worker joins his wife in death
- Model arts program for youth 'watches' out for itself
- School Board did not consider all kids in AIDS exhibit vote
- Artist Jim Dine finds the personal in the popular
- Why Haitians are fleeing their homeland
- Home couldn't be much sweeter to Thunder
- Europe bristles at hormone-fed beef
- Market caught up on basics, drops
- In Bosnia, NATO finds peace at the end of a gun
- Former prostitute says she's running for Congress
- Rural briefs: Hanson new forest manager; Volunteers search for money to build gym
- Fast facts on solar companies
- IRS failure to check Earned Income Credit wastes money
- Treaties and troop placement: What is the plan?
- Democracy in Russia
- How television news looks from the anchor desk
- Japan to spend $6.5 billion in bank rescue
- Fast facts on the life of Larry Clutters
- UNLV vs. UC Irvine game details
- Whatever happened to Geraldine Ferraro
- Police: Guard acted properly in killing suspect
- Council meeting details
- Washoe County's oldest voter dies in Reno
- High-tech daughter hooks mom on video games
- Disgusted by drug-fed graft, Colombians seek new image
- Idea that small is beautiful wins support again
- Justice trend: Violent teens get their day in adult court
- Canada's new coin a 'toonie'? By Fred Langan THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
- What love boils down to
- Bright future painted for solar proposal
- Woman killed, son hurt in hit-and-runs
- Morocco bans public smoking
- Several malls in LV's future
- Credit card companies crack down on delinquencies
- Prostitute with HIV arrested
- John Major's rule brought to brink over arms to Iraq
Monday, Feb. 19
- Why polls are so 'scientific' and so confusing
- Seoul awaits deluge from North
- Yeskie's arm has Rebels concerned
- 'Silent' Gingrich slowly returns to the spotlight
- A clinton motto for '96: It's gender, stupid
- Where I Stand: Pat rattles corporate cages
- Teens face the prospect of a summer without jobs
- A maverick governor's pragmatic streak
- Communities put local residents online for free
- More friction over merits of antilock brake systems
- China's CD pirates thrive despite crackdown pledge
- Couple killed in hotel lot
- Tips for your home page
- Kevorkian trial renews debate over euthanasia
- Don't tell Mary her tunnel of light has scientific explanation
- U.S. casts eye on Bogota's drug fight
- UNLV vs. UC Irvine: Anteaters coach building security
- The election dynamic
- From winter planning comes summer bounty
- UNLV battles fatigue, UCI
- IRA blast tests loyalty of Gerry Adams as ally
- 'Jumanji' author shares the gift of wonder
- Sports on the air: KENO drops Padres to air more sports talk
- Senate Republican report card
- Iowa caucus will sift chaff from wheat
- Get ready for Ensign-Coffin
- Newsprint price hike slated; publisher balk
- Police seek motive in slayings of two men
- Lady Rebels' loss is 10th straight
- Fillies challenge colts for racing superiority
- Sunrise-area residents circling wagons again
- Coffin's hat in the ring
- Where I Stand: Southern Nevada's real VIPs
- No end in sight for LV's rapid growth
- Beyond Dayton: Reconstructing Bosnian society
- Bangladesh election brings more fears than cheers
- New Moscow homes 'The Beav' could love
- A touch of humanity amid rigors of the campaign trail
- A lesson for students: Orwell's essay on language, politics
- Britain, Ireland sort the debris of a torn peace
- New cafes, crowded trams show Sarajevo on the mend
- To sanction or not: China trade policy vexes Clinton
- Snow hits Sierra; lowlands get rain
- Neighbor held in theft
- Resource crunch persists despite slower population growth
- Cleveland team can leave, but not with its name
- Shopping in LV, San Francisco: No comparison
- O'Callaghan school tagged with Blue Ribbon honor
- 'Pirates' to visit UNLV
- Location of NLV prison draws fire
- Information-age Web 'netizens' in the making
- Clerk's fate remains unclear following fatal shooting
- TV show focuses on waste
- The big screen wins at sunny film festival
- Bosnia arm-twists the west to get money and justice
- Before you buy seeds or plants
- Price of outdoor life goes up
- IRA's bomb shakes Northern Ireland Catholics
- From company field tests to your backyard
- Fast facts: Candidate Bob Coffin
- Global bonds gain luster from higher interest rates
- Demand boosts prices for uranium, nickel
- Nothing new under the Sunset
- Strip high-roller battle brewing
- High school hoops: Sunset is Durango's redemption
- Fast facts: Galleria Mall at Sunset
- Rebels don't let injuries put damper on their roll
- Las Vegas to serve as official sponsor of bull riders series
- Pair arrested in robbery string
- Build it and they will come
- In age of snowboards, sleds get high-tech
- Commission debates personnel control
- Fast facts: Carlo Poliak
- Israel election may hasten Mideast peace
- Michael moonwalks in Rio, as Brazil's poor samba
- County may put a wrap around adult material
- Is North Korea finally opening up? Hardly
- Political pictures make strong showing in theaters
- Siegfried & Roy: masters of animation
- The death of a 'crafty little blonde'
- Clinton steers course above the GOP fray
- TV show raises hopes of closure in boy's death
- LV woman dies in accident
- Fast facts: County Commission meeting
- Las Vegan takes third try at office
- Fast facts: Timeline since the IRA cease-fire
- Killing called soured drug deal
- Fast facts: New fishing, hunting, park fees
- Fast Facts: Galleria at Sunset
- Henderson will be defined by mall
- After delays, Galleria becomes dream come true
Sunday, Feb. 18
