Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Doctors Without Borders
A group of volunteer doctors from Doctors Without Borders accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo for courage and outspoken humanitarian work. MSF, founded in 1971, rejects neutrality for saving lives and condemning silence.
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Oslo
Norway
Doctors Without Borders
Medecins Sans Frontieres
MSE
International Committee of the Red Cross
International Council
James Orbinski
City Hall
MSF
Search for seven missing Marines after helicopter crash off San Diego
Rescue teams scoured the Pacific for seven Marines missing after a CH 46 Sea Knight crashed during a training flight about 15 miles southwest of San Diego. Eleven Marines were rescued as divers and crews from Navy and Coast Guard ships searched in 3600 feet of water using night vision gear.
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San Diego
Pacific Ocean
Coast Guard
Ted Woolridge
Woolridge
Eean
Patricia Restrepo
IRS sees $1.3 billion drop in enforcement actions
IRS enforcement actions including property seizures and liens fell by 1.3 billion over the past year as the agency faces fewer agents under a law expanding taxpayer rights. Commissioner Charles Rossetti warns declines threaten tax system integrity while noting overall collections slid only 2.5 percent from 198 to 1999.
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Washington
IRS
Charles Rossetti
Rossetti
Emergency landing of US transport in Kuwait kills three
A US Air Force C 130 with 96 aboard diverted to Kuwait International Airport after gear malfunction. Three soldiers died and 16 were slightly injured while the crew and Kuwaiti responders secured the scene and opened a board of officers to investigate the incident.
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Kuwait
Air Force
Kuwait International
Zuhair al-Zamel
al-Zamel
Kuwait News Agency
Gist Airlift
Little Rock Air Force Base
Washington
Monroe photograph sells for thousands at Swann Galleries
A Marilyn Monroe oversize print from the Seven Year Itch sold for 2990 at Manhattan Swann Galleries. An anonymous German buyer purchased the photo, noting it pales beside the 1962 Kennedy birthday dress sale. The sale also featured Coburn’s first edition New York, fetching 28750 at auction.
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New York
Marilyn Monroe
Manhattan
Swann Galleries
Kennedy
Alvin Langdon Coburn
South Carolina dog owner charged in fatal pit bull mauling
John Mickle, 45, was mauled while walking near Speagle’s home. The owner Frank Speagle was charged with involuntary manslaughter and failing to restrain dangerous animals. The dogs, running free in an unfenced yard, left Mickle dead near a road at 7 a.m. after a 3 a.m. attack.
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John Mickle
Dwayne Walker
Frank Paul Speagle
Mickle
Fairfield
Speagle
Herman Young
S.C
Columbia
South Carolina
Connecticut
New Jersey
Phil Leventis
Jim Hodges
Barnwell
Hodges
North Carlina
Chem-Nuclear Systems Inc
George Shinn
Inircuit Court
Shinn
Leslie Price
Tega Cay
Price
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