Bush proposes tougher thrift fraud prosecutions and wiretap changes
President Bush told U S attorneys he will ask Congress to double the 50 million dollars spent this year on thrift industry fraud investigations and prosecutions and pursue other legal changes to make wins easier including court ordered wiretaps. Soviet planners moving warheads from the Baltic states to the Russian republic to curb rebel gains. A Navy helicopter with four aboard crashed off Norfolk Virginia five miles into the Atlantic. search and rescue was under way with swimmers in the water.
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Russian Republic
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Carrie Hartshorne
Atlantic Fleet
Iran quake toll tops 40000 in north region
Rescuers freed thousands from flattened buildings after a north Iran earthquake as officials reported at least 40000 deaths in the disaster near the Caspian Sea. Iran welcomed relief from international aid groups despite no diplomatic ties with the United States.
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Iran
United States
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American Red Cross
Richard Boucher
State Department
Washington
Caspian Sea
Islamic Republic
Gilan
Zanjan
South Africa probes plot to kill Mandela
Johannesburg officials disclose a right wing white supremacist plot to assassinate Nelson Mandela and others in Parliament and to unleash nationwide sabotage. An informant, Jan Johannes Smith, claims the plan targeted Mandela at Johannesburg airport on July 18 and involved Afrikaner Resistance Movement figures and officials, with possible hits on Joe Slovo and President de Klerk. Police detained 11 suspects, later released.
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Los Angeles Times
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South Africa
Nelson Mandela
Mandela
Jan Johannes Smith
National Intelligence Service
Smith
Communist Party
Joe Slovo
African National Congress
Frederik W. de Klerk
Radiation risk three times higher than earlier estimates
An international standards body concludes ionizing radiation now carries roughly three times the cancer and genetic injury risk once thought. The draft report, likely to be adopted in November, says the 1977 safety levels underestimated dangers by a factor of three.
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International Commission On Radiological Protection
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D.J. Bennison
Argentina
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Interior declares northern spotted owl threatened
The Interior Department designates the northern spotted owl as a threatened species, signaling tighter logging limits in the Pacific Northwest and risking thousands of timber jobs. Officials cite evidence the owl may face extinction while promising a recovery plan next week to balance protection with industry needs.
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Pacific Northwest
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Congress
Patrick Leahy
D-Vt
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