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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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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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