Coast Guard fires on freighter near Gulf of Mexico chase
The Cuban-operated 250-foot freighter Hermann fled into Mexican waters after being sprayed with machine-gun fire and shells by the cutter Chincoteague during a 26 hour pursuit for a drug inspection. Coast Guard officials reported no casualties aboard the freighter.
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Gulf of Mexico
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Jack O'Dell
Washington
Declaration copy breaks auction record for Americana
A first printing of the Declaration of Independence sold at Sotheby's for 1.6 million dollars setting a new record for printed Americana. Ralph Newman a Chicago rare book dealer bought the copy, one of 23 known copies and two in private hands.
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New York
Sotheby's
Chicago
Ralph Newman
Laura Stewart
Operation Rescue to shut national group over debt
Pro life organization Operation Rescue will dissolve its national operations due to debt, while local affiliates will continue pro life work. Founder Randall Terry announced this at a Washington news conference after his release from a Georgia prison where he served nearly four months for criminal trespass and unlawful assembly.
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Washington
National
Operation Rescue Organization
Randall Terry
Terry
Georgia
Riots in Kosovo Leave Several Ethnic Albanians Dead
Three ethnic Albanians were reported killed in Kosovo riots on Wednesday as more than 100,000 Slavs rallied in anti Albanian protests across Yugoslavia. At least 16 people have died in eight days of ethnic rioting in the province near Albania where Albanians outnumber Slavs 9 to 1 in Kosovo’s 1.9 million population.
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Yugoslavia
Kosovo
Albania
Car bomb explodes in Kabul killing six and wounding 122
A car bomb in Kabul's central business district on Wednesday killed six people and injured 122, according to Afghanistan's official radio.
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Islamabad
Pakistan
Afghanistan
Kabul
Buckey set for new trial in McMartin case
Prosecutors will retry former McMartin Pre School teacher Raymond Buckey on 13 counts of molestation and conspiracy after a jury deadlock. Buckey spent nearly five years jailed before the first trial ended with acquittals on related counts.
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Los Angeles
McMartin
Raymond Buckey
U.S
Buckey
Peggy McMartin Buckey
De Klerk orders inquiry into police killings in apartheid era
South African President F W de Klerk reversed position and ordered a judicial probe into alleged authorized killings of anti apartheid activists. He also ordered a separate inquiry into the death of Clayton Sithole, a 20 year old black man linked to Nelson Mandela's family, as debate over reform swirls ahead of Mandela's potential release.
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South Africa
F.W. de Klerk
Clayton Sithole
Nelson Mandela
de Klerk
Mandela
Cape Times
Business Day
African National Congress
Lebanese factions clash as Aoun forces press Christian zone
In Beirut the army under Gen. Michel Aoun attacked the Lebanese Forces militia to seize control of the Christian enclave. Police report at least 35 dead and 85 wounded as tanks and artillery fire raged across East Beirut and nearby slums. claims emerged of captured naval and helicopter bases.
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Lebanon
Michel Aoun
Aoun
U.S
8Th
Byblos
Jounieh
Kaslik
Sarba
Samir Geagea
Geagea
Karantina
Bush Budget Cuts Funds for Boston Harbor
In 1988 campaign coverage, President Bush's first budget cuts 20 million dollars already authorized to clean Boston Harbor. Dukakis calls it political fraud while a federal official defends the cut, noting past EPA leadership tied to the project.
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George Bush
Boston Harbor
Michael Dukakis
Bush
Congress
Dukakis
Michael Deland
Environmental Protection Agency
New England
Deland
Council On Environmental Quality
Washington
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