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First anniversary of independence ballot

August 31, 2000 

  

DILI, East Timor (AP) - In a day of tears and dancing, prayers and forgiveness, war-weary East Timor marked the first anniversary of the independence ballot that ended 24 years of bloody occupation by Indonesia.

 

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Suu Kyi gets more world support

August 31, 2000 

  

YANGON (AP) - The government on Wednesday accused opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi of craving international attention as her six-day-old roadside standoff with authorities received more support around the world.

 

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Indian PM's doctor denies prostate cancer

August 31, 2000 

  

NEW DELHI (AP) - Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee is in fine health and is not suffering from prostate cancer, his personal doctor said Wednesday, reacting to media speculation days before the Indian leader's visit to the United States.

 

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John Paul prays for end of "absurd" civil war

August 31, 2000 

  

VATICAN CITY (AP) - Calling the 7-year civil war there "absurd," Pope John Paul II implored combatants in Burundi's civil war to commit genuinely to a lasting peace.

 

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Presidential impeachment vs. Lawyer's disbarment

August 31, 2000 

  

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, USA--- President Bill Clinton said he should not be disbarred over his testimony in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case, telling a state judge that losing his law license is too harsh a penalty.

 

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New meaning to the phrase 'Double-Agent'

August 31, 2000 

  

BERLIN (AP) - It's not easy for a secret agent to make a living in a post-Cold War world, so why not try recycling?

 

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Global warming threatens a third of world's habitats

August 31, 2000 

  

LONDON (AP) - Global warming could fundamentally transform a third of the world's plant and animal habitats by the end of this century, threatening many species with extinction, an international conservation organization warned Wednesday.

 

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Oscar-winning composer Jack Nitzsche dead at 63

August 31, 2000 

  

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jack Nitzsche, an Oscar-winning songwriter, record producer, arranger and studio musician who played keyboard on some of the Rolling Stones' hits and collaborated with many other major pop figures of the '60s, has died at 63.

 

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Clinton meets Mubarak in quest for Mideast peace

August 30, 2000 

  

CAIRO (AP) - Despite a "very active effort" by Mideast players to move the Israeli-Palestinian track forward, there were no signs of a breakthrough following a meeting Tuesday between U.S. President Bill Clinton and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

 

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UnSolidarity on Solidarity’s Birthday

August 30, 2000 

  

WARSAW (AP) - Solidarity celebrates the 20th anniversary this week of the trade union that broke the back of Polish communism. But these days, it is having a hard time living up to its fabled name.

 

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The ever-growing hole

August 30, 2000 

  

GENEVA (AP) - The hole in the ozone layer over the Antarctic appears to be bigger than last year as early measurements show significant ozone depletion, the United Nations weather agency said Tuesday.

 

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Birth of Millie, short for Millennium

August 30, 2000 

  

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (AP) - University of Tennessee researchers have announced the birth of a cloned dairy cow using a quicker and less complicated method than that used to clone Dolly the sheep.

 

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Osama Bin Laden preparing to leave Afghanistan

August 30, 2000 

  

HIZARAK, Afghanistan (AP) - Suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden sent 400 Arab fighters to the Russian breakaway republic of Chechnya with explosives and weapons to help the war against Russian forces, a military instructor in his organization says.

 

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Cork versus plastic

August 30, 2000 

  

AZARUJA, Portugal (AP) - The sun is just rising when the cork cutters set out across the pale, dusty earth, their axes and clay water jugs slung over their shoulders.

 

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Second-tallest tower of the world still ablaze

August 29, 2000 

  

MOSCOW (AP) - Firefighters struggled for a second day Monday to extinguish a fire that gutted Moscow's giant television tower, as officials said there was little chance that people trapped in an elevator could be saved.

 

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Philippine rebels release South African hostage

August 29, 2000 

  

JOLO, Philippines (AP) - Muslim rebels freed a South African man Monday, leaving six foreigners and 12 Filipinos still in guerrilla hands on a remote Philippine island.

 

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Clinton turns attention from economics to peace

August 29, 2000 

  

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - After trying to convince Nigerians that their impoverished nation can embrace the computer economy, U.S. President Bill Clinton turned his attention to something that has proved almost as elusive: peace in Burundi.

 

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Army chief says no peace without cease-fire

August 29, 2000 

  

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) - Hutu rebels killed six people and looted their homes in an attack that brought warnings and condemnation from Burundi's top officials, hours before a peace agreement was expected to be signed Monday.

 

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Besides Watergate: Nixon beat wife and took drugs

August 29, 2000 

  

WASHINGTON (AP) - A new biography asserts that the late U.S. President Richard Nixon over many years took a mood-altering drug without a prescription and that he beat his wife at times of personal crisis - a claim a Nixon intimate calls "inconceivable."

 

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Freed Philippine hostages depart for Libya

August 29, 2000 

  

CEBU, Philippines (AP) - Six Western hostages freed from months of captivity by Muslim rebels left the Philippines Monday aboard a Libyan plane for Tripoli, with balloons, flowers and a cake to celebrate their release.

 

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Dear Mr. Clinton,………………………

August 29, 2000 

  

JERUSALEM (AP) - A Palestinian seeking a referendum among fellow Arab Jerusalemites over whether their neighborhoods should come under Palestinian control delivered a letter to the U.S. consulate on Monday urging President Clinton to support his plan.

 

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Lizard fossil and Apollo 11 handle at auction

August 29, 2000 

  

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A 200 million-year-old fossil of a winged lizard sold for dlrs 167,000 in the same controversial auction that put a silver handle from the American spacecraft Apollo 11 in the hands of an unknown bidder for dlrs 34,500.

 

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Clinton wants democracy in oil-rich, poor Nigeria

August 28, 2000 

  

ABUJA (AP) - Calling Nigeria "a pivot point on which all Africa's future turns," U.S. President Bill Clinton appealed to the leaders of this oil-rich nation to set aside political acrimony so that their citizens can lift themselves from poverty and isolation.

 

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Lebanese vote in elections marred by vote buying

August 28, 2000 

  

BAABDAT, Lebanon (AP) - Thousands of troops deployed in central and northern Lebanon Sunday as citizens went to the polls to choose parliamentary representatives in a two-stage election marred by charges of vote-buying and meddling by power-broker Syria and its allies in the Beirut government.

 

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Mother of sailor denies being injected tranquilizers

August 28, 2000 

  

MURMANSK, Russia (AP) - A woman whose son was killed when a Russian nuclear submarine sank has denied that she was forcibly sedated when she criticized a top official over the government's bungled attempts to rescue the crew.

 

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King Jr.'s son tries to further father's `dream'

August 28, 2000 

  

WASHINGTON (AP) - Martin Luther King Jr.'s son stood Saturday on the spot where the civil rights leader stirred America's conscience stood 37 year ago and repeated his father's challenge to the conscience of America: "I dare you to fulfill the dream."

 

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Pakistani politicians meet Commonwealth official

August 28, 2000 

  

ISLAMABAD (AP) - Pakistan's deposed politicians met Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon on Sunday in support of a quick return to democracy and an end to army rule of their homeland.

 

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Princess Di's sons move on; fans still respects

August 28, 2000 

  

LONDON (AP) - Princess Diana's survivors have moved on. Three years after her death, Prince Charles has brought Camilla Parker Bowles out of the shadows, and Diana's sons are on the brink of adulthood. They all remember her in private.

 

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Jodie’s life at the expense of Mary’s: Judgment?

August 28, 2000 

  

LONDON (AP) - A judge has ruled that a two-week-old Siamese twin should be separated from her sister, even though she will die in the process - and despite the opposition of the babies' parents.

 

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Distinct expression of love and loyalty

August 28, 2000 

  

CAIRO (AP) - Eighteen cats stood vigil for a week over the body of their master and attacked policemen who came to remove his corpse, police said Saturday.

 

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Sarajevo Film Festival ends

August 28, 2000 

  

SARAJEVO (AP) - Jurors awarded prizes to Danish, Polish and Bosnian directors at the sixth Sarajevo Film Festival on the weekend, the Bosnian news agency Onasa reported Sunday.

 

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Their mortal remains fly back

August 27, 2000 

  

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) - Investigators clicked pictures Saturday of wreckage from Gulf Air Flight 072 protruding from shallow Gulf waters, seeking clues to the plane's nosedive into the sea as remains of 56 of the 143 victims were flown home to Egypt for burial.

 

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Olusegun Obasanjo greets Bill Clinton

August 27, 2000 

  

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - Whirling dancers in flowing, red and black African dress greeted U.S. President Bill Clinton as he began a three-day trip to Africa that the White House hopes will embrace democracy in Nigeria and encourage peace elsewhere.

 

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The steadfast pro-democrat Aung San Suu Kyi

August 27, 2000 

  

BANGKOK (AP) - Myanmar's military government on Saturday urged pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to return home and end a three-day roadside standoff with security forces who have blocked her car outside the capital, Yangon.

 

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Megawati unites with almost blind President!

August 27, 2000 

  

JAKARTA (AP) - In a sign of restored unity, Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri Saturday swore-in a new 26-member Cabinet, which President Abdurrahman Wahid hopes will lift his sagging political fortunes.

 

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Dissident editor and poet Bei Ling re-exiled

August 27, 2000 

  

BEIJING (AP) - Chinese police released the U.S.-based editor of a dissident literary magazine after 16 days in custody and sent him back to the United States Saturday, removing an irritant in shaky but improving China-U.S. ties.

 

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Bush pushes free trade and blasts Castro

August 27, 2000 

  

DALLAS (AP) - George W. Bush has pledged to breathe new life into stalled free-trade negotiations with Latin America if elected president, and to retain all current sanctions on Fidel Castro's Cuba.

 

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Amitabh Bachchan’s life threatened by mafia

August 27, 2000 

  

NEW DELHI (AP) - One of India's most prominent actors was provided government security after he received extortion threats from a powerful underworld organization, a newspaper reported Saturday.

 

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Residents flee Japanese islands amid fears

August 27, 2000 

  

TOKYO (AP) - Two hundred residents fled a small island south of Tokyo on Saturday amid fears that a "fairly big" eruption could occur from a re-awakened volcano, a local official said.

 

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The creaking intoxication of Pisces

August 27, 2000 

  

GOLDEN, Colorado (AP) - An employee of Coors Brewing Co. flipped the wrong switch and sent 77,500 gallons of beer into a creek, killing thousands of fish and prompting health warnings.

 

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Myanmar police stop pro-democracy leader Suu Kyi from travel

August 26, 2000 

  

YANGON (AP) - Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, attempting to travel outside Yangon for the first time in two years, was stopped by police on the capital's outskirts Thursday and had not returned home by Friday morning, sources close to her said.

 

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Divers scour sea floor to recover more of Gulf Air aircraft wreckage

August 26, 2000 

  

MANAMA (AP) - Dozens of U.S. and Bahraini divers scoured the sandy sea floor Friday in search for more bits of wing and fuselage from Gulf Air flight 072 as American and French aviation experts began to gather here to take part in an investigation into the cause of the crash.

 

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Greek wildfires claim two more lives; emergency declared

August 26, 2000 

  

ATHENS (AP) - Raging wildfires killed two more people Friday as officials declared a state of emergency in one region and civilian volunteers joined exhausted firefighting teams around the country.

 

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Divers scour sea floor to recover more of Gulf Air aircraft wreckage

August 26, 2000 

  

MANAMA (AP) - Somber words resonated through the Grand Mosque on Friday as Bahrain's Prime Minister stood side-by-side with 2,000 Muslims as funeral prayers were recited for the 143 victims of the Gulf Air crash.

 

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Rebel leader wants treason charges thrown out

August 26, 2000 

  

SUVA (AP) - Treason charges against coup leader George Speight should be dropped because of a deal with Fiji's military that promised him immunity from prosecution, his lawyers said Friday.

 

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Earthquake injures 406, leaves 169,000 homeless in China

August 26, 2000 

  

BEIJING (AP) - An aftershock from a deadly earthquake in southwest China has injured 406 people and left 169,000 homeless, an official newspaper said Friday.

 

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Chinese courts convict 151 Falun Gong members

August 26, 2000 

  

BEIJING (AP) - Chinese courts have convicted 151 leading members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement since it was banned last year, a Chinese religious official visiting the United States was quoted Friday as saying.

 

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Grand jury set up for Clinton-Lewinsky probe meets

August 26, 2000 

  

WASHINGTON (AP) - Independent Counsel Robert Ray came to the federal courthouse as a new grand jury investigating President Bill Clinton met for several hours.

 

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Kidnapped mountain climbers recount dramatic escape

August 26, 2000 

  

DAVIS, California (AP) - American climbers held hostage for six days by Islamic militants in Kyrgyzstan say they escaped by pushing a guard off a cliff before making a harrowing 18-mile (29-kilometer) trek to freedom.

 

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Opposition launches assault north of war-ruined capital

August 26, 2000 

  

KABUL (AP) - A blistering artillery duel raged north of the beleaguered capital Friday as opposition troops launched a two-pronged offensive against defending Taliban soldiers, opposition spokesmen said.

 

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Death toll rises to 50 in Sudan river boat accident

August 26, 2000 

  

KHARTOUM (AP) - Fifty people, many of them school children, are now known to have drowned when a boat taking them across the River Nile capsized in central Sudan, a senior provincial official said on Friday.

 

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Prime Minister says radiation normal around sunken submarine

August 26, 2000 

  

MOSCOW (AP) - The level of radiation in the area where a nuclear submarine exploded and sank this month is normal and there is no cause for alarm, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov said Friday, according to a report.

 

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Gulf-Air crash is a deja vu for Egyptians

August 25, 2000 

  

MANAMA (AP) - Sobbing family members, their eyes bloodshot from a night of waiting, collapsed in anguish Thursday as names of their loved ones were listed as victims of the Gulf Air crash that killed all 143 aboard.

 

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Wreathes of flowers on the waves

August 25, 2000 

  

MOSCOW (AP) - Grieving relatives of the 118 sailors who died in a nuclear submarine headed out into the cold gray Barents Sea on Thursday to lay flowers on the waves above the sunken warship, Russian television said.

 

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If peace talks fail; emphasize English, math

August 25, 2000 

  

JERUSALEM (AP) - In a clear warning to the Palestinians, Prime Minister Ehud Barak said Thursday he will not make peace at any price and that if negotiations fail, he will ask the hawkish opposition party Likud to join his opposition.

 

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Geriatric President’s “crony cabinet”

August 25, 2000 

  

JAKARTA (AP) - Speculation of a rift between President Abdurrahman Wahid and his popular deputy grew Thursday as the beleaguered leader was criticized for filling a new Cabinet with his own supporters.

 

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Russia opens day of mourning for submarine-dead

August 24, 2000 

  

MOSCOW (AP) - Russians lowered flags to half-staff Wednesday and lit candles in churches in memory of 118 sailors killed in a nuclear submarine as the vast nation marked an official day of mourning.

 

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Johnny "Mad Dog" Adair back in prison

August 24, 2000 

  

BELFAST (AP) - Determined to suppress rising violence among Northern Ireland's pro-British gangs, Britain on Tuesday ordered the most notorious terrorist within their warring ranks to be put back behind bars.

 

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Mori puts himself in Clinton's shoes

August 24, 2000 

  

NEW DELHI (AP) - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori is staying in the same suite at the Maurya Sheraton Hotel that housed President Bill Clinton in March, but it has been redecorated with bonsai trees and Japanese art, a news agency reported Wednesday.

 

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"Egypt plays key role in Jerusalem's compromise"

August 24, 2000 

  

JERUSALEM (AP) - Egypt is key to crafting a compromise on Jerusalem and is not expected to support hard-line resolutions on the future of the disputed city at next week's Islamic conference, the chief Israeli negotiator said Wednesday.

 

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No special investigation of Gore fund-raising

August 24, 2000 

  

WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S.Attorney General Janet Reno announced Wednesday she has decided not to seek appointment of a special counsel to investigate Vice President Al Gore's 1996 campaign fund-raising activities.

 

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Stroke damaged Suharto's brain

August 24, 2000 

  

JAKARTA (AP) - Indonesia pursued key reforms Wednesday when a judge ordered ex-dictator Suharto to face trial for corruption next week despite claims that strokes have damaged his brain.

 

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Sri Lankan air force bombs rebel bases

August 24, 2000 

  

COLOMBO (AP) - Sri Lankan MiG-27 fighter jets bombed rebel bases in the northern Jaffna Peninsula and inflicted heavy damage, a government spokesman said Wednesday.

 

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Cancer survivors' inspiration in Mount Fuji climb

August 24, 2000 

  

TOKYO (AP) - Strength. Encouragement. Hope. Hundreds of cancer survivors and their families sought inspiration this week at the heights of Japan's most famous landmark: the summit of Mount Fuji.

 

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Russian leaders blame West for submarine disaster

August 23, 2000 

  

MOSCOW (AP) - Trying to divert public anger over bungled efforts to save a nuclear submarine, the Russian military has been trying to pin the blame on the United States and its other old Cold War enemies.

 

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King Abdullah visits Palestinians and Israel

August 23, 2000 

  

TEL AVIV (AP) - Jordan's King Abdullah II held back-to-back talks with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders Tuesday in an effort to safeguard his country's interests in a future Mideast peace agreement.

 

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Japanese PM Mori visits India's IT hub

August 23, 2000 

  

BANGALORE (AP) - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori visited India's information technology hub Tuesday and proposed an ambitious initiative for greater collaborations between the two nations, a domestic news agency reported.

 

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Bush and Gore on the soldier's life

August 23, 2000 

  

WASHINGTON (AP) - Disagreeing over a missile defense shield and nuclear arms, presidential candidates George W. Bush and Al Gore are tangling over sky-high strategic questions in their military policies. But neither has forgotten about the soldier on the ground.

 

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Gigli, soprano who sang with tenor father, dies

August 23, 2000 

  

RECANATI, Italy (AP) - Rina Gigli, a soprano who sang professionally with her tenor father, Beniamino Gigli, died Tuesday of cancer in her hometown here in central Italy. She was 84.

 

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Revisiting the Jurassic age

August 23, 2000 

  

ROME (AP) - The discovery of as many as 60 dinosaurs footprints in the "spur" of the Italian peninsula has added new evidence to the theory that Italy was once part of a land mass attached to the African continent, geologists said Tuesday.

 

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Egyptian nonsmokers’ paradise

August 23, 2000 

  

CAIRO (AP)- Wanted: Nonsmokers only.

 

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Not Rescue operation any more: Its Salvage now

August 22, 2000 

  

MOSCOW (AP) - Rescue teams abandoned efforts Monday to find survivors in a sunken Russian submarine after determining that all of the 118 crew members had perished in the flooded vessel, officials said.

 

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As Clinton goes golfing, first lady campaigns

August 22, 2000 

  

LAKE PLACID, New York (AP) - President Bill Clinton closed a short family vacation with a brisk round of golf, while his wife, a Senate candidate, cleared out early to campaign.

 

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Apartheid made Tshwane Pretoria and Egoli J’burg

August 22, 2000 

  

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Apartheid is gone, but South African maps are still filled with tributes to white men once hailed as heroes by the country's minority rulers.

 

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Exit polls show pro-Fox candidate ahead

August 22, 2000 

  

TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico (AP) - A candidate allied to Mexico's president-elect defeated Mexico's long-governing Institutional Revolutionary Party Sunday, sending supporters into giddy celebrations in the streets.

 

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Gore, Bush tied in new poll of likely voters

August 22, 2000 

  

WASHINGTON (AP) - Al Gore and George W. Bush campaigned in the battleground states of the American Midwest while a new poll of likely voters suggested the U.S. presidential race is very close.

 

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