Protest Anniversary Turns Ugly In Seattle
About 200 demonstrators marking the WTO protest anniversary clashed with police in Seattle as pepper spray and mass arrests followed three dispersal orders. One officer was injured by a thrown object, 140 people were detained, including an AP reporter. Police displayed weapons seized from protesters.
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Seattle
World Trade Organization
Tain
Associated Press
Larry Vogel
WTO
Norm Stamper
AIDS Day Protests Highlight Ignorance and Spreading Virus
London activists planted flowers and used a 50 ton crane to smash a wall in a Break The Silence campaign led by UNICEF, drawing attention to AIDS. Robbie Williams helped raise awareness while UN figures warned 36.1 million living with HIV and 5.3 million new infections in 2000, urging men to change behavior.
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London
Britain
Robbie Williams
Williams
Unicef
U.N
United Nations
Kofi Annan
New Delhi
Bombay
Fox sworn in as Mexico’s first opposition president
Vicente Fox took the oath before Congress marking the first peaceful power transfer from the ruling party in 71 years. He prayed at the Basilica of Guadalupe, greeted crowds, shared tamales with street children, and began assembling his cabinet with Interior Secretary Santiago Creel and others preparing to assume duties as the new day began.
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Mexico City
Vicente Fox
Mexico
Congress
Fox
Popocatepetl
Zapatista
Subcomandante
Marcos
Chiapas
Viva Vicente
Tepito
Santiago Creel
Ricardo Vega
Rafael Macedo
National Action Party
Quake rattles Mexico City before Fox inauguration
A moderate 5.0 to 5.5 magnitude earthquake struck Mexico City at 8:07 a.m. near the Pacific coast, shaking tall buildings with no initial damage reports. Popocatepetl volcan o erupted ash and gas in a dawn plume over the capital as authorities monitored tremors.
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Mexico City
Vicente Fox
Pacific Coast
U.S. Geological Survey
Golden
Colo
Mexico
National Seismological Service
Popocatepetl
National Center For the Prevention of Disasters
Untold women of Montgomery bus boycott honored this weekend
Civil rights leaders gather in Montgomery to celebrate the Montgomery bus boycott anniversary highlighting Rosa Parks Claudette Colvin and Mary Louise Smith. Leaders note women were essential foot-soldiers in the movement while Parks cautions against over credit.
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Rosa Parks
Montgomery
Ala
Claudette Colvin
Mary Louise Smith
Parks
Colvin
Smith
Alabama
Juanita Abernathy
Coretta Scott King
Abernathy
Ralph David Abernathy
Martin Luther King Jr
King
Oil spill threat eases at Mississippi wildlife refuge
A sudden wind shift steered a 500000 gallon spill away from a Mississippi River refuge near Port Sulphur, allowing containment with 30000 feet of booms. Clean up by vacuum barges should finish in two days, with at least two birds known dead and more likely to be found.
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New Orleans
Mississippi River
Westchester
Port Sulphur
Jimmy Jenkins
State Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
Howard Poitevint
Louisiana
Fish and Wildlife Service
Jenkins
Ermis Maritime Corp
Greece
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National Lawyers Guild
King County
Legrand Jones
Dolly Madison Bakery Outlet
Dolly Madison
Bread & Cake
W. Mary
Ast
Bo Chris
Ler
Bob Huber
Schulman Ave
Hastir
Sufpate Self Shop
Dunes
Footjoy Shoes & Ashworth
Buffalo Dunes
Garden City
Red Lion Hotel & Casino
Gold Country Inn & Casino
High Desert Inn
N. Mari
Ontown Garden City
Clear Shop
Linda Frick
Sugar & Spice
Santa
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