Floods kill and displace across Chiapas in six days of rain
Six days of heavy rains in Chiapas turned rivers into torrents tearing through southern Mexico. At least 25 drowned and many more missing as 25,000 people in over 60 towns were forced from their homes. President Zedillo sent 1,100 troops and medical teams to Chiapas to aid relief efforts.
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Chiapas
Roberto Albores Guillen
Pacific Coast
Ernesto Zedillo
Experimental equipment aids Swissair 111 search effort
American reinforcements arrive to help locate the wreckage of Swissair Flight 111 in Halifax led by a US Navy salvage ship and a scientific team with an experimental laser camera and advanced sonar. The USS Grapple, 30 divers aboard, joins Canadian divers seeking the cockpit voice recorder as bad weather delays continued.
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Halifax
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Swissair
Mike Considine
US. Navy
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TWA
Long Island
Reno expands investigation of Clinton campaign ads
Attorney General Janet Reno opened a 90 day probe into whether President Clinton benefited from Democratic National Committee funded ads during the 1996 campaign. The review examines White House coordination on issue ads to aid his reelection and bypass spending limits. White House denies wrongdoing.
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Clinton
Janet Reno
Democratic National Committee
United States
William Jefferson Clinton
Reno
Federal Court
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DNC
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Charles RC. Ruff
Health care gives elderly ho hum reaction
Doctors and insurers show tepid interest in new private health plans for seniors as Congress hoped. Only three applications have been filed for plans aimed at 38 million Medicare beneficiaries next year amid concerns over cost control and market oversupply.
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Congress
Medicare
Craig Schub
PacifiCare Health Systems
Medicare Hmo
Actor picky about jokes in new USA Weekend interview
Conan OBrien says comedians should target those who invite humor through actions. He notes Clinton is fair game but not Linda Tripp, cites Bob Crane lookalikes, and recalls Howdy Doody and Ralph Malph as role models. Ed Koch plays himself in a film, refuses script changes.
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Linda Tripp
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USA Weekend
Howdy Doody
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Koch
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Microsoft seeks dismissal in antitrust case
Microsoft Corp. asks a federal judge to throw out parts of the $14 billion antitrust lawsuit, calling much of the government’s evidence irrelevant background noise. The 49 page filing argues for a narrowly defined focus on Windows bundled Internet browser practices and prior rulings.
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