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Receding floods leave behind disease and death

August 14, 2000 

  

GAUHATI (AP) - Flood waters began receding in northeastern India Saturday, leaving a trail of disease and death, officials said.

 

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Wont September 13, be that golden date?

August 14, 2000 

  

CAIRO (AP) - Egypt's president said Sunday that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat may put off plans to declare an independent Palestinian state on Sept. 13, the deadline for a final Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement.

 

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Kashmir: Flares up again and again

August 14, 2000 

  

JAMMU (AP) - In stepped up violence ahead of India's Independence Day, two landmines exploded under buses carrying paramilitary troops in Kashmir on Sunday, killing six soldiers and injuring at least 30 others, police said.

 

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North Korea ready to open ties with U.S.

August 14, 2000 

  

SEOUL (AP) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il said he is ready to open ties with the United States as soon as the latter removes his country from a list of nations that sponsor terrorism, South Korea's state Yonhap news agency said Sunday.

 

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Japan: A Grave Situation

August 14, 2000 

  

TOKYO (AP) - Every August, Japan's cemeteries and graveyards come alive during the Festival of the Dead, a time when ancestors who have passed into the other world are believed to return for a brief visit.

 

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News analysis: Clinton’s tough assignment ahead

August 14, 2000 

  

LOS ANGELES (AP) - For a president who loves to be the center of attention, Bill Clinton has a tough assignment at the Democratic convention.

 

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Though part of same world they are worlds apart

August 14, 2000 

  

JERUSALEM (AP) - They are both young and slight, with long brown hair tied back into practical ponytails. They dote on their baby daughters and wonder how they'll balance motherhood with career. They love vacations abroad, and wish Jerusalem had better movie theaters.

 

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Hard-line judge orders reformist book removed

August 14, 2000 

  

TEHRAN (AP) - A hard-line judge has banned the sale of a book that implicates former government officials in the 1998 murders of five dissidents, the author's wife and publisher said Saturday.

 

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Arafat and Peres visit Norway

August 13, 2000 

  

OSLO (AP) - After a day of anticipation and delays, Israel's elder statesman Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat canceled plans to meet Friday in Norway but sounded optimistic about the peace process.

 

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Clinton does Hollywood, is he stealing the show?

August 13, 2000 

  

LOS ANGELES (AP) - President Bill Clinton on Friday shrugged off talk that he's stealing the limelight from Al Gore with a weekend filled with Hollywood-style fund-raisers, parties and tributes just before the Democratic National Convention begins on Monday.

 

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Poet and editor Bei Ling arrested in China

August 13, 2000 

  

BEIJING (AP) - Beijing police seized 2,000 copies of an independent literary journal and detained its editor, poet Bei Ling, a rights group and a friend said Saturday.

 

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Forgotten prisoner returns after 5 decades

August 13, 2000 

  

BUDAPEST (AP) - After five decades in a Russian mental hospital, an elderly Hungarian has returned to his homeland, which he had not seen since he was shipped off to the Russian front in World War II.

 

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Hats off to Bill for half of life with Hillary

August 13, 2000 

  

BURBANK, California (AP) - Hillary Rodham Clinton stopped in at "The Tonight Show" on Friday and got a laugh with a little help from her daughter.

 

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Norway opens palace to public after 80 years

August 13, 2000 

  

OSLO (AP) - Norway's royal palace in downtown Oslo is open for public tours for the first time since 1920.

 

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Loretta Young dies of ovarian cancer at 87

August 13, 2000 

  

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Loretta Young, the elegant beauty whose acting career extended from silent movies to television and included an Academy Award for best actress in "The Farmer's Daughter," died Saturday of ovarian cancer, her longtime agent and friend Norman Brokaw said. She was 87.

 

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Ross Perot: No longer, boss ‘Prospero’!

August 13, 2000 

  

LONG BEACH, California (AP) - Reform Party presidential candidate Pat Buchanan introduced Ezola Foster, a black Los Angeles teacher and conservative political activist, as his running mate.

 

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Det. Henry Tibbett creator Patricia Moyes dies

August 13, 2000 

  

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) - Murder mystery writer Patricia Moyes, who published over 40 books in a writing career that spanned four decades, has died in the British Virgin Islands, police said. She was 77.

 

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Renegade militant organizes strike in Kashmir

August 12, 2000 

  

SRINAGAR (AP) - Supporters of a renegade militant on Friday attacked vehicles and forced people to stay indoors as they called a two-day general strike to protest Thursday's car bomb explosion by a pro-Pakistan guerrilla group that killed at least 11 people and wounded 19 others.

 

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Taiwan's allies and China clash over U.N. seat for Taiwan

August 12, 2000 

  

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Taiwan's allies on Thursday called for the economically powerful island to join the United Nations, but China insisted that Taiwan is one of its provinces and not eligible to be a U.N. member.

 

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Militia gang kills U.N. peacekeeper in East Timor

August 12, 2000 

  

DILI (AP) - A Nepalese U.N. peacekeeper died late Thursday from a gunshot wound inflicted by a suspected anti-independence militia group in East Timor, a U.N. spokesman said. Three other Nepalese peacekeepers and a civilian were injured.

 

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If Hillary Clinton elected in New York, doubts will be erased, U.S. president says

August 12, 2000 

  

NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. President Bill Clinton lavished praise on his wife for pursuing a Senate seat from New York and promised that if she is elected, doubtful New Yorkers "will never have another question" about her qualifications.

 

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Federal troops on alert in India's northeast ahead of Independence Day

August 12, 2000 

  

GAUHATI, India (AP) - Federal troops went on alert Friday fearing guerrilla attacks on trains, oil installations and bridges in remote northeast during India's Independence Day celebrations next week, officials said.

 

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Sri Lanka's Tamil rebels acquire surface-to-air missiles

August 12, 2000 

  

COLOMBO (AP) - The surface-to-air missiles fired by Tamil Tiger rebels on the air force MiG-27 fighter aircraft earlier this week could have been acquired from the Taliban in Afghanistan, military officers said Friday.

 

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Chavez meeting with Saddam breaks its isolation, annoys U.S.

August 12, 2000 

  

BAGHDAD (AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez left Iraq on Friday after a meeting with Saddam Hussein that raised U.S. concern other leaders will give the Iraqi president credibility that Washington insists he doesn't deserve.

 

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Prime Minister mom quits for President daughter

August 11, 2000 

  

COLOMBO (AP) - Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the world's first woman prime minister, retired Thursday at 84 to allow her embattled daughter, the president, to reorganize the Cabinet ahead of elections.

 

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Minister resigns after Megawati takes charge

August 11, 2000 

  

JAKARTA (AP) - Indonesia's pro-democracy government was thrown into further turmoil Thursday when the minister charged with rescuing the ailing economy quit.

 

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Schmoozing, backslapping, nostalgia about the Boss

August 11, 2000 

  

WASHINGTON (AP) - Days before Vice President Al Gore arrives at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, his boss will be in the city basking in the warm and wealthy embrace of Hollywood notables and loyal Democrats.

 

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Barak names Ben-Ami temporary Foreign Minister

August 11, 2000 

  

JERUSALEM (AP) - Prime Minister Ehud Barak will appoint negotiator Shlomo Ben-Ami as acting Foreign Minister, an official close to Barak said Thursday, who will be handed the dubious task of working out a final peace deal with the Palestinians.

 

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Mount Oyama erupts for 4th time in a month

August 11, 2000 

  

TOKYO (AP) - A volcano on an island off Tokyo erupted Thursday, belching black ash into the sky but causing no immediate injuries or damage, a local observatory said.

 

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Mid-air collision of 2 small planes

August 11, 2000 

  

BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP, New Jersey (AP) - Two small planes collided over a neighborhood in southeast New Jersey, killing at least 11 people and sending part of the wreckage plunging onto a house, setting it on fire.

 

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'Robomarine's and 'RoboGI's: not Robocops

August 11, 2000 

  

FORT BRAGG, North Carolina (AP) - It is designed to make the 21st century U.S. soldier a more effective instrument of war, a veritable cyborg able to communicate with more speed and efficiency.

 

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"British boys really suck"

August 11, 2000 

  

LONDON (AP) - The 15-year-old daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Britain proved anything but diplomatic in a searing indictment of local lads written for this month's Tatler magazine.

 

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Bomb explosion results in a massive tragedy

August 10, 2000 

  

MOSCOW (AP) - Two men were arrested Wednesday and were being questioned in connection with a bomb blast that ripped through one of Moscow's busiest areas, killing seven people and injuring scores of others, police said.

 

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Pinochet could be sued now!

August 10, 2000 

  

SANTIAGO (AP) - Calling the Supreme Court ruling that stripped Gen. Augusto Pinochet of his immunity unfair and politically motivated, relatives and lawyers of the former dictator vowed to fight in court "to demonstrate his innocence."

 

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Gore will make history like JFK

August 10, 2000 

  

NASHVILLE (AP) - Vice President Al Gore introduced and celebrated his Jewish running mate, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, likening their White House quest to Catholic groundbreaker John F. Kennedy's and declaring, "We will make history again."

 

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Could minorities get a fair trail in Kosovo?

August 10, 2000 

  

PRISTINA (AP) - A Serb father and his two sons acquitted in the killing an ethnic Albanian in a shootout involving American soldiers were released Wednesday, international officials said.

 

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Ibsen and August Strindberg translator dies

August 10, 2000 

  

LONDON (AP) - Michael Meyer, who prepared English translations of the plays of Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, has died at age 79.

 

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Cleopatra gets sick in 21st century

August 10, 2000 

  

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Elizabeth Taylor has been hospitalized for treatment of pneumonia since last week, according to a spokesman.

 

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Anwar not gay & happy: Convicted for being Gay

August 9, 2000 

  

KUALA LUMPUR (AP) - Anwar Ibrahim launched a meteoric career from jail. Now, it looks like his once-bright political future will finish there.

 

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Lieberman's liberal run as Gore's running mate

August 9, 2000 

  

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) - Vice President Al Gore is launching a historic bid for the U.S. presidency with Sen. Joseph Lieberman as his running mate, hoping to surge into the Democratic Party nominating convention with a burst of energy and the moral high ground.

 

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Indonesian legislature to give Wahid a 2nd chance

August 9, 2000 

  

JAKARTA (AP) - After months of harsh criticism, Indonesia's highest legislature appeared ready Tuesday to give President Abdurrahman Wahid a second chance to reform the troubled Southeast Asian country.

 

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Bangladesh, Bhutan and India face severe flood

August 9, 2000 

  

GAUHATI (AP) - Torrential rains triggered flash floods and mudslides in Bhutan, northeastern India and Bangladesh, leaving at least 140 people dead and millions homeless, officials said Tuesday.

 

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West Bengal's communist party's demand

August 9, 2000 

  

CALCUTTA (AP) - The Communist party that runs West Bengal state on Tuesday demanded the expulsion of the U.S. consul general and his Indian wife, saying they interfered in internal affairs by collecting information on 11 laborers killed last month.

 

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Saddam hits Gulf neighbors: they sold their souls

August 9, 2000 

  

BAGHDAD (AP) - President Saddam Hussein kept up Iraq's drumbeat of criticism of its Gulf neighbors Tuesday, saying they had "sold their souls" to the United States and Israel.

 

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Striking commercial actors march

August 9, 2000 

  

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Actors on strike against the advertising industry took their cause to the streets.

 

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After Assam & West Bengal, floods hit Bhutan

August 8, 2000 

  

GAUHATI, India (AP) - After rendering nearly 2.5 million people homeless in India's remote northeast, floods triggered by monsoon rains have hit the neighboring kingdom of Bhutan, killing at least 180 people, officials and news reports said Monday.

 

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Sri Lanka Parliament debates new constitution

August 8, 2000 

  

COLOMBO (AP) - The governing alliance lost one lawmaker and gained another as Parliament members switched sides Monday during the debate over a new constitution aimed at ending the Tamil separatist war.

 

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Gadbole of 'Passage to India' Guinness dies

August 8, 2000 

  

LONDON (AP) - Actor Sir Alec Guinness, whose roles in a 66-year career ranged from Hamlet to Obi-Wan Kenobi in "Star Wars," has died in a hospital, a spokeswoman said Monday. He was 86.

 

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Revolutionary Che Guevara didn't revolt for Vodka

August 8, 2000 

  

LONDON (AP) - The photographer who immortalized revolutionary Che Guevara on film in 1960 is suing an advertising agency for using the image to promote vodka, The Guardian newspaper reported Monday.

 

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For whom the wedding bell tolls?

August 8, 2000 

  

BAGHDAD (AP) - Nada Omran and Fathi Jabran chose to share one of the most important days in their lives with dozens of strangers. It was the only way the two government workers could afford to get married.

 

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Big seizure of tiger skins and nails in India

August 8, 2000 

  

NEW DELHI (AP) - Wildlife agencies reported big seizures of the skins of tigers, leopards and black bucks in India during the past year, India's environment minister said Monday.

 

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Is he serial no.9454 or is he Hiram Karambo?

August 8, 2000 

  

NAIROBI (AP) - Fingering his worn leather dog-tag, serial No. 9454, and two brass buttons from his private's uniform, Hiram Karumbo thinks back to his military service during World War II.

 

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The Mummy King: Live on Fox!

August 8, 2000 

  

CAIRO (AP) - The tiny lecture hall was crowded, hot and sticky. But few in the audience - even those who had to sit on the floor - seemed discomforted as they gazed at slides of mummified Egyptians and followed Zahi Hawass on his personal journey into antiquity.

 

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