U.N. team tours three sensitive Iraqi sites
American inspector Scott Ritter led a 10 hour U.N. tour of three sites labeled sensitive by Iraqi authorities. The inspection aims to verify destruction of long range missiles and weapons of mass destruction while Iraqi authorities cooperate. The UN considers a Russian appointment to a key commission post.
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New York
Kofi Annan
Russia
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Scott Ritter
Alan Dacey
Dacey
China mulls halving bureaucracy to spur growth reforms
Beijing plans cut of 8 million civil servants by half, abolishing 11 ministries and turning electric power petroleum and chemicals into state firms. The overhaul aims to curb waste and corruption, promote high tech agencies, and boost efficiency under Zhu Rongji reforms.
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Luo Gan
Zhu Rongji
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Li Peng
Ontario to pay Dionne sisters 2.8 million
The Ontario government will give 2.8 million to the surviving Dionne quintuples as compensation for exploitation during their childhood. The sisters, now 63 and living in poverty in Montreal, accepted the offer after rejecting a prior proposal of monthly pensions totaling 4,200. Born in 1934, the quintuplets were wards of the province and claimed gains from their Quintland display were misappropriated.
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Quintland
Ukraine pulls out of nuclear turbine deal with Iran
Ukraine announced it would abandon a $45 million turbine supply for Russia’s Bushehr nuclear plant after U.S. pressure. Russia said it would expand the plant from two to four reactors while Ukraine joined a missile technology control accord during talks with Madeline Albright and President Kuchma.
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Leonid Kuchma
U.S
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Bushehr
Persian Gulf
Israel
Diana’s Death Crash Survivor Rees-Jones Sees Judge Again
Trevor Rees-Jones, Diana and Dodi Fayed crash survivor, met with Judge Herve Stephan in Paris for the fourth time as he recalls more details of the August 31 accident. His lawyer Christian Curtis said the bodyguard remains sure of his memories and plans to tell the judge more, despite amnesia and facial injuries.
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