Powell joins Macarena with Scottsdale youth at club
Retired Gen Colin Powell surprised about 400 Boys and Girls Club of Scottsdale attendees by joining a Macarena line dance after a speech. Powell, a board member of Boys and Girls Clubs of America, said if Gore can do it he can, highlighting his ongoing efforts to raise awareness for the clubs.
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Oprah Winfrey aids Piney Woods with social worker grant
Oprah Winfrey donated 43000 to Piney Woods Country Life School to hire a social worker. The school serves mostly low income black students with emotional needs and reports about 98 percent of graduates attend college. Winfrey grew up near Kosciusko Mississippi and learned of the school in 1992 on 60 Minutes.
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Aiken Standard Subscription Rates and Details
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Guatemala moves toward ending longest Central American war
Guatemala signs an accord with guerrilla leaders to shrink the military by a third next year and move toward a final cease-fire. Officials celebrate as the pact targets demobilization, agrarian reform, and indigenous rights amid a 36 year conflict that has killed over 140000 people.
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Arizona sheriff uses women in first chain gang
Phoenix AP report says Sheriff Joe Arpaio deployed the nation’s first female chain gang, 15 inmates in orange jumpsuits, shackled and sweeping streets in downtown Phoenix. Critics call it publicity. inmates say it offers limited outside contact and a brief relief from jail life.
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Bob Dole
Maricopa County
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Middle Ground
Manhunt for North Korean agents during coast intrusion grows
South Korea reports ongoing manhunt for North Korean agents from a submarine that ran aground off Kangnung on the east coast. Troops with helicopters and dogs clash with intruders across three sites, 18 dead, 7 at large, and plans to condemn the incursion at the United Nations.
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Abortion ban wins House vote as Senate fight looms
Opponents celebrate a 285 to 137 override vote to reverse President Clinton’s veto on a bill banning intact dilation and evacuation. Rep. Charles Canady says the Senate will face an uphill battle, while Bob Dole portrays the president as defending the indefensible. A nurse testifies about a late pregnancy case highlighting the procedure’s perceived consequences.
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IBM Extends Benefits to Gay Workers Partners
IBM becomes the nation s largest company to extend health benefits to the partners of its gay workers joining about 470 other large corporations governments and universities in offering the same benefits to same sex couples as to married couples.
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New York
America
Wether
Liz Winfield
Common Ground
Panel backs copolymer 1 as mild multiple sclerosis treatment
GAITHERSBURG MD panel of doctors and scientists recommends copolymer 1 to treat mild multiple sclerosis. If approved by the FDA it would be the second drug for mild to moderate MS, alongside two similar new drugs. Stephen Reingold of the National MS Society notes a major shift in managing the disease.
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U S troops surge toward Iraq border for live fire drills
American soldiers fan out across the Kuwaiti desert near the Iraqi border for live fire exercises as two planeloads arrive from Fort Hood Texas and more troops are set to join. The buildup under President Clinton grows to about 30,000 personnel in the Gulf amid ongoing tensions with Saddam Hussein.
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