World Youth Day crowds fill Rome grounds for vigil
About 2 million pilgrims packed a sprawling outdoor campus near Rome for Pope John Paul II World Youth Day. Fire hoses and fans cooled scorching heat as hundreds were treated for heat illness. no serious injuries reported. Pilgrims, nuns, and others joined a sun drenched vigil before Sundays Mass.
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John Paul II
Vatican
Katy Rothman
Somers
N.Y
John Paul
Goodyear Blimp Deflates and Is Damaged in Philadelphia
Amateur video shows spectators rushing toward a deflated Goodyear blimp after it struck a pole during landing in Philadelphia. The cockpit with a pilot and six passengers skidded along the ground but no injuries were reported. The 3 year old airship was destroyed and Goodyear notes it had not deflated so much in two decades.
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Goodyear
Philadelphia
Jerry Jenkins
Clinton signs bill to establish AIDS trust fund
President Clinton signs a bill creating a global AIDS trust fund to fund prevention health care and education in hard hit countries including sub-Saharan Africa. The fund will be administered via the World Bank and aims to leverage additional donor contributions to expand impact.
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Bill
Lake Placid
N.Y
Nigeria
Tanzania
Jim Leach
Lowa
U.S
World Bank Board of Trustees
sub-Saharan Africa
History highlights from August 20 through the years
The notes mark events from 1833 birth of Benjamin Harrison in North Bend Ohio to 1995 train collision deaths in northern India. It also notes 1866 Johnson ending the Civil War, 1918 Western Front offensive, 1920 Detroit radio 8MK, Churchill’s RAF tribute, 1953 hydrogen bomb, 1964 antipoverty act, 1968 Prague invasion, 1977 Voyager II launch, and 1994 NAACP leadership change.
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Britain
8MK
Detroit
Winston Churchill
Royal Air Force
Soviet Union
Lyndon Johnson
Czechoslovakia
United States
Benjamin Chavis Jr
NAACP
India
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