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Print edition for December 25, 1998

Some 350,000 expected to welcome 1999 on the Las Vegas Strip
Robert Macy
"We see this year as just a practice session for the crowd we expect to welcome in the year 2000," Nevada Highway Patrol spokesman Scott Flabi said Thursday. "Next year's bash will likely double the figure, to 600,000 or 700,000."
Home for Christmas
Jace Radke
Instead of waking up Christmas morning to vacant lots, a pawn shop and auto repair yards near Main Street and Owens Avenue, 13-year-old Joe Fleming Jr. woke up next to a golf course in a house complete with a Christmas tree and presents.
Where I Stand -- Mike O'Callaghan: One unforgettable Christmas Eve amid rioting in Bethlehem
ain was coming down in windswept sheets as we awaited a bus in Jerusalem to take us to Bethlehem on Christmas Eve. Sun cartoonist Mike Smith, my eldest son, Mike, and I kept looking at our watches as the 7:30 bus failed to appear.
Wall of honor provides special holiday meaning
"Kids were walking by the wall and wondering if (this person or that) was in Iraq," said Gigi Smith, a school volunteer who helped put up the wall. "It has made an impact on them. They are more aware. Teachers were saying the students were more concerned."

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