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Nothing left, none left

August 21, 2000 

  

MOSCOW (AP) - Norwegian divers examined a Russian nuclear submarine Sunday, trying to find a way into the shattered vessel after an initial check showed that the escape hatch was badly damaged, officials said.

 

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"Air’s liquid fire was dropping like raining fire"

August 21, 2000 

  

ATHI RIVER (AP) - Nine runaway train cars, six carrying liquefied gas, derailed at a station south of Nairobi, igniting a fireball that killed 16 people, injured dozens and consumed nearby houses, witnesses and officials said Sunday.

 

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Barak says Palestinians not yet flexible enough

August 21, 2000 

  

JERUSALEM (AP) - Prime Minister Ehud Barak said Sunday that the Palestinians have not yet exhibited enough flexibility to conclude a final peace agreement. Egypt and Jordan, meanwhile, intensified efforts to help bring about a treaty.

 

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Gore getting a bounce from convention

August 21, 2000 

  

WASHINGTON (AP) - Al Gore left the Democratic National Convention with increasing evidence that he's getting a "bounce" in the polls.

 

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After 50 million years: Water!!!

August 21, 2000 

  

NEW YORK (AP) - For the first time in 50 million years, visitors to the North Pole can see something extraordinary: water.

 

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Sudden wealth syndrome’ of the Siliconaires

August 21, 2000 

  

Calgary, Canada (UNB) – It can ruin their lives, rip their families apart and lead them on a path of destructive behaviour.

 

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Gold and diamond magnate Harry Oppenheimer dies

August 21, 2000 

  

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Harry Oppenheimer, a South African mining magnate who led the world's largest diamond and gold mining companies for a quarter century, has died. He was 91.

 

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Googoosh googols Iranians in US

August 21, 2000 

  

LOS ANGELES (AP) - To tears and shouts of joy, Googoosh, Iran's most beloved entertainer, brings the songs and memories of her country before the Islamic revolution to the largest Iranian exile community in America.

 

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Cold, icy death in store!!

August 20, 2000 

  

OSLO, Norway (AP) - Norwegian divers and a British rescue team armed with a sophisticated mini-submarine moved closer to a sunken Russian submarine Saturday as prospects for finding any of the 118 sailors on board alive appeared increasingly bleak.

 

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Backdoor Peacemaking

August 20, 2000 

  

JERUSALEM (AP) - It was a sweltering day, even for Jerusalem, when 16 Israeli and Palestinian city planners and geographers met over coffee and cake in a well-to-do Arab neighborhood.

 

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"Happy Birthday President William J. Clinton"

August 20, 2000 

  

LAKE PLACID, New York (AP) - President Bill Clinton passed up a roadside sign offering "Free Ribs for Bill" on Friday, but couldn't resist another, held aloft by a group of children, that wished him a happy birthday.

 

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The creativity of Arias, Dole, Heath and Kaunda

August 20, 2000 

  

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - A Latin American Nobel laureate, a former U.S. presidential candidate, an African independence leader and a former British prime minister offered ideas about subjects ranging from poverty to war for more than 150 world leaders meeting at the United Nations next month.

 

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Madeleine Albright’s whirlwind Latin tour

August 20, 2000 

  

BUENOS AIRES (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright traversed Latin America this week, championing democracy and seeking support for a U.S. drug-fighting effort in Colombia that has prompted regional concern.

 

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Dishing up the past!!!

August 20, 2000 

  

CAMBRIDGE (AP) - Want to eat like an Elizabethan? Gorge with the Georgians? Savor the Victorians' varied victuals?

 

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Many submarine sailors’ survival hopeless

August 19, 2000 

  

MOSCOW (AP) - Rescue efforts Friday to find any survivors on a shattered submarine looked increasingly hopeless after Russian officials said the crew probably had no time to escape a "catastrophe that developed at lightning speed."

 

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Sri Lanka's Parliament dissolved

August 19, 2000 

  

COLOMBO (AP) - Sri Lanka's government dissolved the Parliament on Friday, six days before its term ended, and scheduled elections for October saying it wants to take quick steps to end the country's Tamil separatist war.

 

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Barak offers state to Palestinians in peace accord

August 19, 2000 

  

JERUSALEM (AP) - In Prime Minister Ehud Barak's clearest statement yet about Palestinian statehood, he offered the Palestinians an independent state if they formally end their conflict with Israel.

 

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Gore summons Americans on a 'journey to the best America'

August 19, 2000 

  

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Al Gore hurled himself into the finals of the campaign for the White House, summoning the Democratic National Convention and the United States to join him "on a new journey to the best America."

 

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Sources say new grand jury to probe Clinton in Lewinsky scandal

August 19, 2000 

  

WASHINGTON (AP) - Independent Counsel Robert Ray is signaling that the Monica Lewinsky scandal is far from over, assembling a new grand jury to investigate the U.S. president's conduct, legal sources say.

 

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Japanese premier to ask Pakistan, India for nuclear disarmament,peace

August 19, 2000 

  

ISLAMABAD (AP) - The thorny issues of nuclear disarmament and tension between Pakistan and India will be high Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiri Mori's agenda during his tour of South Asia, Japan's ambassador to Pakistan said.

 

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Indonesia's military win concessions from top assembly

August 19, 2000 

  

JAKARTA (AP) - Indonesia's disgraced military emerged Friday as the big winner of this year's meeting of the top legislative body, staving off demands to get out of politics and receiving a blanket amnesty for past human rights abuses.

 

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Leonardo da Vinci’s son?

August 18, 2000 

  

ROME (AP) - A Leonardo da Vinci scholar has raised the tantalizing possibility that the Renaissance master had an illegitimate son -- an idea in sharp contrast with the traditional perception of Leonardo as gay.

 

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Are they going to die?

August 18, 2000 

  

UNDATED (AP) - It's as dark as the inside of a blindfold. Your breathing slips into shallow panting as precious oxygen ebbs. It's so cold that the sweat and tears of your terrified shipmates turns to slick frost on bare metal.

 

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Life: Just like a sentimental movie

August 18, 2000 

  

JERUSALEM (AP) - "Have you any brothers?" the caller asked. "Four," Lazar Sheiman remembered answering. "They are dead."

 

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No time to lose!!

August 17, 2000 

  

MOSCOW (AP) - Rescuers in an underwater escape capsule inched through swirling sand and strong currents Wednesday, fighting to reach a crippled Russian nuclear submarine on the sea bottom with 116 sailors trapped inside.

 

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Sharif had legal right to divert aircraft

August 17, 2000 

  

KARACHI (AP) - For the first time since the army coup last October, the lawyers for deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif told an appeals court on Wednesday that Sharif had issued orders to divert the aircraft returning the army general to Pakistan.

 

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After Camp David, another summit imminent

August 17, 2000 

  

JERUSALEM (AP) - Three weeks after the breakdown of peace talks at Camp David, Israel and the Palestinians on Wednesday resumed high-level preparations for another possible Mideast summit.

 

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Now Brain-drain from even Russia

August 17, 2000 

  

MOSCOW (AP) - President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday lamented the meager salaries Russian scientists receive, blaming that for the "brain drain" from Russian laboratories and institutes.

 

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Russia-US joint exercise to rescue astronauts

August 17, 2000 

  

MOSCOW (AP) - Russian, U.S. and Canadian rescuers held exercises near St. Petersburg on Wednesday on rescuing astronauts returning to Earth as training for the international space station.

 

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The Beatles, minus Lennon: making a comeback?

August 17, 2000 

  

LONDON (AP) - Soon making another bid for the charts: The Beatles.

 

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Capsule to sunken sub failed to dock

August 16, 2000 

  

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian crews lowered a bell-shaped rescue capsule early Wednesday to a nuclear submarine lying on the Arctic Sea floor, but strong currents blocked initial attempts at docking. Oxygen for the vessel's 116 crewmen was expected to last just two more days, Russia's navy chief said.It was the first word that the escape apparatus had reached the vicinity of the sunken submarine — which U.S. officials said might have gone down following an explosion — since repeated efforts that began Tuesday were foiled by storms on the Barents Sea.

 

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Kennedys appear at Democratic Convention

August 16, 2000 

  

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Caroline Kennedy, standing figuratively where her father stood 40 years ago, summoned her generation Tuesday to show that John F. Kennedy's New Frontier ``was not a place in time but a timeless call.''

 

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Clinton passes baton to Gore : The relay goes on

August 16, 2000 

  

MONROE, Mich. (AP) — Al Gore stepped out of President Clinton's bear hug and claimed stage front Tuesday, a grateful understudy, ``partner and friend'' promising not to let Republicans undo what Clinton had built for the nation.``We're going forward, to even better times,'' the vice president declared to a cheering crowd after Clinton left the lectern that bore his presidential seal.

 

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Six kids killed in Colombia clash

August 16, 2000 

  

MEDELLIN, Colombia (AP) — Six schoolchildren hiking in the mountains were killed Tuesday when they were apparently caught in a firefight between government troops and leftist rebels, authorities said.

 

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49 hospitalized in Russian blast

August 16, 2000 

  

MOSCOW (AP) -- A week after a bomb ripped through a crowded underground passageway in central Moscow, 49 victims remain hospitalized and a search for the bombers has yielded no breakthroughs, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported Tuesday.The blast killed seven people outright and the death toll later rose to 12 as victims died from wounds, mostly severe burns. In all, 108 people were hospitalized after the explosion and nine remained in critical condition Tuesday, the agency said.

 

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UN envoy charges Bosnian officials

August 16, 2000 

  

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Netherlands' U.N. ambassador charged Monday that Bosnia's loss of $500 million in revenue to smugglers is so large that high-level government officials must be involved.

 

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Judaism affects first Jew as running mate

August 16, 2000 

  

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Vice presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman said Tuesday that his devotion to Orthodox Judaism would keep him off the campaign trail on several crucial days before the election.

 

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Bomb scare makes Indian plane land

August 16, 2000 

  

NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- An Air India flight from New York to Bombay was forced to make an unscheduled landing in New Delhi after a caller told Indian authorities there was a bomb on board, airline officials said.Airline officials declined to give further details, but the news agency Press Trust of India reported that police and airport security had the plane's passengers and crew leave the plane, were searching it for explosives with the help of sniffer dogs.

 

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U.S. jets bomb Iraqi installations

August 16, 2000 

  

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- U.S. jets bombed air defense sites in northern Iraq on Tuesday after Iraqi gunners opened fire on the aircraft, the U.S. military said.U.S. warplanes were fired on from sites northeast of Mosul, 250 miles north of the capital Baghdad, the U.S. European Command said.

 

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Many homeless year after Turk quake

August 16, 2000 

  

IZMIT, Turkey (AP) -- It has been a year since Ayse Karatas grabbed her 3-year-old granddaughter, wrenched open a window and jumped out of her apartment building to escape a shattering earthquake.

 

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After stopping Nicole and getting away with it

August 16, 2000 

  

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- O.J. Simpson sent his lawyers to court Tuesday seeking to halt production of the first television movie dealing with his murder trial.A judge, however, refused to issue a restraining order.The movie, "American Tragedy,'' is based on the best-selling book of the same title by Lawrence Schiller and James Willwerth. Simpson said it reveals inside secrets of his defense team and violates his attorney-client privilege. The lawsuit names Schiller and former Simpson lawyer Robert Kardashian as well as Project 95, the company producing the movie for CBS.

 

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Arafat at Beijing in search of new friends

August 15, 2000 

  

BEIJING (AP) - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat visited China on Monday to brief Chinese leaders on the failed Middle East peace summit and plans to declare an independent Palestinian state on Sept. 13.

 

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Parliament want Army rule

August 15, 2000 

  

JAKARTA (AP) - Despite calls for the military to get out of politics, Indonesia's highest legislature looked set Monday to allow the armed forces to keep their parliamentary seats, while delaying other constitutional amendments considered to be too contentious.

 

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“The Clinton finale”

August 15, 2000 

  

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Boasting of prosperity and trying to erase the vestiges of scandal, Democrats geared up to open their national convention Monday with a farewell address by President Bill Clinton. The rest of the week belongs to nominee-to-be Al Gore.

 

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Koreas prepare for 1st family reunions since 1985

August 15, 2000 

  

SEOUL (AP) - Frail husbands will meet their wives for the first time in more than 50 years. Sons and daughters will greet parents they have not seen in more than a generation. Separated in their childhood, now elderly brothers and sisters will embrace again.

 

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Russian nuclear submarine malfunctions in Arctic

August 15, 2000 

  

MOSCOW (AP) - A Russian nuclear submarine malfunctioned while on operations above the Arctic Circle, and was trapped Monday on the ocean bottom with more than 100 crew members aboard, a navy spokesman said.

 

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Election to replace slain vice president

August 15, 2000 

  

ASUNCION (AP) - Paraguay's vote for a successor to its slain vice president appeared extremely close, with early returns giving the opposition candidate a slim lead over the late politician's son.

 

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Deviation in North Korean strategy

August 15, 2000 

  

SEOUL (AP) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il said he was not serious when he told Russian President Vladimir Putin about a possible deal to stop his country's missile development, according to South Korean reports Monday.

 

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The GOPs and the Dems have no diversities

August 15, 2000 

  

JERUSALEM (AP) - Gov. George W. Bush is committed to moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem if elected president, but the transfer would not be immediate because many details have to be worked out, his foreign policy adviser said Monday.

 

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Burned to death for unconfirmed sheep stealing

August 15, 2000 

  

JAKARTA (AP) - A mob in western Sumatra burned to death three men they accused of stealing sheep, police said Monday.

 

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‘Bulletproof’ magic lost because they sinned

August 15, 2000 

  

MANILA (AP) - The 16 members of a Christian cult killed in a shootout with Philippine police died because they were "sinners," the group's leader was quoted as saying.

 

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