Israelis raid Balata camp near Nablus. raids and clashes surge
Israeli troops entered the Balata refugee camp on the edge of Nablus with tanks and armored vehicles, rounding up hundreds of Palestinian men and blowing up the home of an attacker. A gunman killed near a Jewish settlement and regional diplomacy efforts continued without a new peace plan.
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Deadly Mount Hood misstep triggers ice crevasse disaster
On Mount Hood Oregon a climber's misstep sent eight others into an icy crevasse near the 11 240 foot summit killing three. Cleve Joiner watched his 14 year old son vanish as a rescue helicopter then crashed injuring its six crew. The third body was recovered Friday. Authorities planned an on mountain probe within 48 hours.
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Goodwin resigns from Pulitzer board over plagiarism controversy
Doris Kearns Goodwin has quit the Pulitzer Prize board after plagiarism allegations tied to her 1987 book The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys. In a letter to chair John Carroll she cited controversy and a need to focus on her Lincoln manuscript. Goodwin won the 1995 Pulitzer for No Ordinary Time.
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Vietnam accuses former senator of war crimes in raid account
Vietnam demanded accountability for crimes by former Sen. Bob Kerrey amid a revised memoir account of the Thanh Phong raid on Feb. 25, 1969. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Phan Thuy Thanh cited villagers killed and called for acknowledgment of suffering. Kerrey, now president of The New School, defended both sides’ wartime actions.
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