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Casserole blamed
for E. coll outbreak
i MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Ground
beet in an undercooked casserole
caused an E. coll outbreak that
sickened 18 schoolchildren, and
meat from the same batch may
'have been served in school lunch-
'es elsewhere in the state, health of-
businesses in airal Texas
eing up to 90 percent ofl
private lenders. General , J ,
„ u ficials said.
i suppo s usinesse ■ j he out k reak was at Minneapo-
natenals, like cotton, thai:(| s . Rjsen Chrjst Catho | ic Scho0 | (
ipped out of stateandbusi:. ;' where g cassero | e of ground beef
|X0tic plants and ammat d ■
sauce was
: served March 14, the state Health
'Department said Tuesday. The stu-
I'dents starting showing E. coli symp-
'toms — severe or bloody diarrhea
athv Reed, counsel forthelg
lent ot'Agriculture, said the:
eieased to the AP was pul
'X letter from tlie Texasattm
0 " ,ce ' , gind abdominal cramps — between
Ae were relying on a pier i^| arc |-| and March 20.
;eneral opinion that detentiiB jpg Health Department con-
credit repons are public i|fmed six students were infected by
Reed said. the E. coli 0157:H7 strain and is
that 1998 decision, art.^awaiting test results on 12 other
anics seeking to preventtk.[students.
epartment from releasingkil Two of those sickened had to be
n was denied. hospitalized. All of the children are
Ve believe that the public! tfecovering or have recovered,
interest in how and to wberHealth Department spokesman
Is agricultural loans.andttefiBuddy Ferguson said,
lis interest is served byretea Meat containing E. coli may have
iary financial information.' ibeen shipped to other Minnesota
signed by Assistant Anora ischools from several processing
•enHattaway. ’ Slants since December, said Carol
hearing for a temporaryirdBlake, a spokeswoman for the U.S.
pood and Safety Inspection Service.
I "It's possible that we may issue
I recall of the meat, but we’re not
■tthat stage yet,” she said.
Blake would not identify the pro-
moratoniessing plants.
matter is expected to be
xt week
rrence in Washington, D.CA
dty capital oftlie national)]
i, it’s here in Texas.”
lardon a death row inmate
-time 30-day stay ofexeem
t of the governor’s
FAA releases info
from Stewart crash
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tension
rew as air traffic controllers called
In civilian and military planes to try
ution, the governor doesnUpo contact golfer Payne Stewart’s
m on the death penalty."kMearjet, which was flying off course
that we have a system wt|ftnd not responding to messages
.-that only guilty peopleartrtibefore it crashed last October,
of a strong criminal justice m “We’re ... worried about this guy
t of it," Jones said. ‘ that’s unresponsive, climbing and
Bush has ignored pleastok-sprobably going to die,” one controller
; lead ol lllinois Gov.Gc .: ^radioed, hours into the chase,
torium there. Controllers’ attempts to contact
linois didn't pass any ip Athe doomed plane and efforts to get
luence to push foramov:-'other pilots to help are heard on
three hours of audio tape made
^public Wednesday by the Federal
Aviation Administration.
| While the investigation into the
cause of the crash is not yet com
plete, everyone on board the plane
may have been dead or uncon
scious by the time it crashed.
After taking off from Orlando, Fla.,
sn a flight to Dallas, the plane climbed
:o high altitude, then went off course
- probably flying on autopilot — and
inally crashed in South Dakota.
Nuns indicted
for failing to testify
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Bud
dhist nuns were indicted Wednes-
play for failing to appear as govern-
Iment witnesses at last month’s trial
in which Democratic party fund-rais-
;er Maria Hsia was convicted for ar
ranging more than $100,000 in il
legal donations during the 1996
jpresidential campaign.
Justice Department spokesman
iJohn Russell said the pair, Venera-
jbles Yi Chu and Man Ho, fled the
Icountry after being given immunity
[for their testimony and are believed
|to be in Taiwan. A federal grand
jjury here charged them with con
tempt of court for failing to appear,
jin January, a judge had refused their
Ibid to quash the subpoenas, origi
nally issued in May 1998. The in
dictments brought to 24 the number
of people charged by the depart-
jment’s campaign finance task force.
The two nuns were to testify
dbout one of the most well-known
jelements of the Hsia case — an
jApril 29, 1996, event at their tem
ple in Hacienda Heights, Calif.
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sophomore animal science major and newly elected junior yell leader, out of jail on Wednesday as a part
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