Fired scientist says Pentagon out to get him
Aldric Saucier a 55 year old Pentagon scientist says he was fired for whistleblowing on waste fraud and abuse in the Star Wars program. He says an Army colonel delivered dismissal Friday after a House panel meeting. He calls it retaliation and cites ongoing investigations by Congress and a civil service complaint planned by the Government Accountability Project.
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House Panel On
National Security
Thomas Devine
Governmental Accountability Project
Federal Civil Service
Devine
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Advanced Technologies
Storms lash California with floods and snowing Sierra
A third powerful storm hit California in a week, dropping heavy snow on northern Sierra and up to an inch of rain per hour in some areas. The deluge left rivers bulging, roads flooded, and at least eight dead with five missing.
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Drownings of Premature Babies Reported at Erfurt Hospital
Der Spiegel reports East German hospital officials drowned very premature infants under 2.2 pounds in Erfurt to inflate live birth statistics. The method ended in the early 1980s. a former midwife recalled witnessing the drownings in buckets of water.
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Germany
East Germany
der Spiegel
Erfurt
Women’s Hospital
U S experts to help verify czar bones identity
Secretary of State James Baker announced that American forensics specialists will assist Russia in confirming whether bones and skeletons found in Yekaterinburg belong to Czar Nicholas II and his family. The visit follows long disputed burial mysteries and prior Soviet-era secrecy.
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Russia
James Baker
Nicholas II
Baker
Department of Criminal Pathology
Alexandra
Nicholas
Soviet Union
Alexei
Anastasia
Communist Party
Leonid Brezhnev
U.N
Shellfire erupts in Somali capital during peace talks
Heavy shelling hit Mogadishu after factions pledged to end three months of fighting that has killed or wounded more than 30 000. At least 16 injured, UN mediator doubts peace hold, aid groups warn of halted relief for 2 million Somalis unless a truce resumes.
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Kenya
Somalia
U.N
United Nations
Mogadishu
East Africa
Red Cross
Mohamed Farrah Aidid
Aidid
Ali Mahdi Mohamed
United Somali Congress
New York
Four die as DC-8 cargo plane crashes near Toledo
A four-engine DC-8 cargo jet struck a tree and crashed into a cornfield two miles from Toledo Express Airport, killing all four aboard. Rain and fog limited visibility to about two miles as firefighters tended a blaze. the victims worked for Air Transport International in Little Rock. The plane had a prior emergency landing last November after a cargo door opened.
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Toledo Express
Jim McCue
Seattle
Burlington Air Express Inc
McCue
Toledo
Burlington Air
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