Riordan tobacco plan faces fire over police scandal funds
Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan faces criticism for a plan to divert up to 300 million dollars from the national tobacco settlement to cover lawsuits tied to a police corruption scandal. Critics warn the funds should save lives, while officials note contracts and ADA mandates already earmark the money for street improvements. Riordan argues 100 million in bond money could substitute for 300 million in tobacco funds over 25 years.
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Richard Riordan
National Tobacco Settlement
Richard F Carlin
Santa Monica
American Medical Association
House of Delegates
Carlin
Riordan
Computer glitch grounds flights across nation
America West canceled 86 flights nationwide due to a computer system failure that prepares flight plans for pilots and crews. Spokeswoman Patty Nowack said the issue is fixed and posed no safety threat. 50 flights were scrubbed Thursday and 36 more today, with many Phoenix departures affected. Suzanne Luber of Sky Harbor noted hundreds of passengers camped out at the airport.
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America West Airlines
Patty Nowack
Nowack
Suzanne Luber
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
Eleven dead in Aceh clash
Eleven people died in clashes between separatist rebels and Indonesian security forces in Aceh. In west Aceh soldiers raided the Free Aceh Movement headquarters and killed six rebels. two bodies were found in the area. In north Aceh a police officer and two civilians were killed, with two others injured in four clashes. The year’s death toll in Aceh reached at least 179.
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Free Aceh Movement
Syarifuddin Tippe
North Aceh
Endang Emiqail Bagus
Sumatra
Russians say Chechnya operation near end despite 7000 holdouts
Col. Gen. Valery Manilov said 7000 militants still held out in Chechnya as Russian forces tightened control of strategic areas. He asserted the five month war would be completed soon while reporting clashes near Elistanzhi and Serzhen-Yurt and near Dagestan border with heavy air support conducting about 100 combat missions in the last day.
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Russia
Chechnya
Valery Manilov
Manilov
Interfax
Elistanzhi
Vedeno
Serzhen-Yurt
Urus-Martan
Dagestan
Harrison seeks privacy in Maui easement dispute
George Harrison asks Hawaii Supreme Court to reconsider Feb 1 ruling allowing two neighboring property owners to use an easement on his oceanfront Maui estate. The decision upholds a 1993 lower court ruling. Harrison had warned he would sell the property if the court sided against him.
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Wailuku
Hawaii
George Harrison
Hawaii Supreme Court
Maui
Hana
Keanne
Iran election test as reformers push for change
In Tehran reformists challenge conservatives in parliamentary voting seen as pivotal to Mohammad Khatami’s drive for freedom and rule of law. Long lines at mosques and schools mark polling with youth support urged to rise, while hard-liners defend the 1979 revolution’s ideals.
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Iran
Mohammad Khatami
Khatami
Ali Khamenei
Khomeini
Dar al-Salaam
Khalif Husseinian
Husseinian
Amir Taqdiri
State moves to bolster magistrate system in SC
A plan approved by the legislature would raise magistrate salaries and education requirements while boosting workloads, heading to Gov. Hodges for signature. The measure aims to improve public access to justice and affordability in small civil cases.
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Columbia
South Carolina
Jim Hodges
Bill Cotty
INS official charged with spying for Cuba in Miami
Mariano Faget an INS supervisor with access to classified files was arrested in Kendall Miami on spying charges. Authorities say he had unauthorized contacts with Cuban intelligence and could influence immigrant residency decisions. The case ties to U.S Cuban tensions over Elian Gonzalez and the custody battle in Florida.
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Mariano Faget
Kendall
Faget
Federal Immigration and Naturalization Service
FBI
Havana
Fah. Hay
Federal
INS
U.S
Elian Gonzalez
Florida
United States
Elian
Cuba
White House
Mike Hammer
NAACP misreads momentum on South Carolina flag plan
NAACP leaders believed a January proposal by Senate President Pro Tem John Drummond to place the Confederate flag in a glass case in the Statehouse rotunda offered a path to end sanctions. By February a governor plan proposed moving the flag to the grounds beside Wade Hampton monument emerged, with discussions excluding the NAACP.
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Jim Hodges
Statehouse Dome
Lonnie Randolph
Randolph
Darrell Jackson
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Drummond
Jackson
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National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
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