OPEC targets $25 basket price says Naimi in Vienna
Saudi oil minister Ali Naimi said OPEC will do what is needed to protect a $25 per barrel reference for the OPEC basket. He noted a 708,000 bpd output hike agreed to in response to market fundamentals and urged consuming nations to lower high oil prices, downplaying concerns about demand or the price band mechanism.
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OPEC
Saudi Arabia
Ali Naimi
Naimi
Asia
Jakarta
GOP Drug Plan Heads to House Floor
The GOPs prescription drug insurance proposal for Medicare moves to the House floor after a party line committee vote. Rep Stark accuses Republicans of political motive ahead of elections while Rep Shaw defends the decision and comments on past votes.
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Washington
House
Pete Stark
Calif
Stark
Clay Shaw
Florida
Ways and
Shaw
Water on Mars Through the Ages
A concise timeline of Mars water lore from 1877 when Schiaparelli’s canals sparked belief in Martian waterways to 1965 when Mariner 4 found no canals, 1976 Viking photos of dried riverbeds, the 1998 Global Surveyor flood evidence, and Brown University reports of a former northern ocean with beaches.
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Giovanni Schiaparelli
NASA
Mariner 4
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Mars Global Surveyor
Utah
Brown University
Clinton Sees Huge Federal Surplus Ahead of Announcement
Clinton plans to unveil projections showing a looming decade surplus about 1 trillion dollars larger than February estimates. Democrats and insiders expect him to propose using the windfall for faster debt reduction Medicare enhancements and deeper tax cuts.
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Washington
Clinton
Celebrity Survivors poll picks Kathie Lee Gifford first off island
TV Guide commissioned poll asks audiences which celebrities would be first voted off CBSs Survivor Kathie Lee Gifford led with 44 percent while The Rock was seen as likely to win by 40 percent. In New York Jacqueline Kennedy glamour set to come to the Mets Costume Institute May 1 to Aug 12 2001. Robbie Knievels assault trial delayed to August 30 in Port Angeles Washington to ease juror memory of the case.
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Kathie
Lee Gifford
CBS
TV Guide
Gifford
Regis Philbin
Rosie O'Donnell
Friends
The
Tom Green
Kennedy
New York
Jacqueline Kennedy
White House
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum
Costume Institute
Texas executes Gary Graham amid death penalty debate
Gary Graham, labeled a street punk by prosecutors, faces execution amid a national review of capital punishment. Gov. George W. Bush weighs a possible reprieve or commutation as debates mount over innocence claims, eyewitness testimony, and Texas’s high execution rate.
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Texas
Gary Graham
Arizona
Houston
George W. Bush
Graham
Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles
Bush
National Association of Hispanic Journalists
Ann Richards
Parole Board
Henry Lee Lucas
Lucas
Ricky McGinn
Ilinois
George Ryan
al Gore
Karla Faye Tucker
Lawrence Marshall
Northwestern University School of Law
Heart transplant pioneer dies at age two in South Carolina
Terrance Richardson of Edisto Island who received a heart from a 13 year old donor on June 30, 1987, after a degenerative heart disease, died at home at age two. He lived 13 years post transplant and faced lifelong drug and biopsy monitoring with limited activity due to bone weakness from immunosuppressants.
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South Carolina
Terrance Richardson
Edisto Island
The
Charleston) Post and Courier
Richardson
Medical University of South Carolina
Richardson confronted over Los Alamos security lapses
Energy Secretary Bill Richardson faced sharp questions from both parties over a Los Alamos security breakdown. Senators Shelby and Byrd condemned his credibility and assurances as he defended rushed fixes and missed hearings amid rising gas prices and the looming nuclear nonproliferation concerns.
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Clinton
Richardson
Richard Shelby
R-Ala
Senate Intelligence Committee
Los Alamos
Shelby
Robert Byrd
West Virginia
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Byrd
New Mexico
United Nations
William Richardson
Senate Armed Services Committee
South Carolina charter school bill faces dispute over race clause
Lawmakers remain split over language noting past discrimination as they seek to ease the racial makeup requirement for charter schools from 10 to 20 percent. House rejects dual system wording while senators press for acknowledgment of segregation history to give racial components teeth.
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South Carolina
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Senate
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Avuse Education Committee
Ronald Townsend
R Anderson
Townsend
John Matthews
Dorangeburg
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