Romania Auction Sells Ceausescu Wine Collection
More than 1,000 bottles including wine, champagne and cognac from Nicolae Ceausescu were sold for about $15 each. Savion S.A. paid roughly $17,000 for 1,140 bottles to be sold at three hotels in Transylvania and Bucharest. The wines date from 1918 to the late era and include gifts from other Communist leaders.
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Nicolae Ceausescu
Ceausescu
Transylvania
Bucharest
Livia Sinescu
Savion S.A
Tirnave
Romania
Japan repairs Mars probe Nozomi after off course drift
Japanese engineers put the half ton Plant-B craft back on course to Mars after a glitch the day before. They fear fuel use may affect the mission while Nozomi, renamed Hope after its July 4 liftoff, heads to reach Mars late in 1999 as Japan becomes the third nation to attempt an interplanetary mission.
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Nozomi
Japan
United States
Russia
North Korea thanks donors for food aid amid hunger
Hunger plagued North Korea as the Flood Damage Rehabilitation Committee thanked the United Nations and other donors for continuing to provide food farming materials medicines and other aid. The country faces a collapsed farming system after decades of mismanagement and three years of bad weather.
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North Korea
United Nations
North Koreans
Chinese dissidents jailed in Beijing and Hangzhou trials
Chinese courts handed long terms to Xu Wenli and Wang Youcai, veteran dissidents linked to the Democracy Wall and the China Democracy Party. Xu received 13 years, the longest for a dissident in years, while Wang got 11 years. US officials urged immediate release, citing peaceful political expression.
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Beying
China
Communist Party
Xu Wenii
Beijing
Wang Youcai
Tiananmen Square
Hangzhou
China Democracy Party
He Xintong
Washington
State Department
James Foley
Foley
U.N
Liu Nianchun
United States
New York
Liu
AP Priore
Xu Wenti
Hong Kong
Radio contact with NEAR asteroid probe restored
NASA scientists regained radio signals from the NEAR spacecraft after 24 hours, locating the craft in deep space and planning to resume communication. The mission aims to orbit and study Eros, assess its chemistry and structure, and possibly land to collect data, with an expected February rendezvous.
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NASA
Deep Space Network
Helen Worth
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Laurel
Ms. Worth
Eros
Earth
NEAR
Robert W. Farquhar
Johns Hopkins University
Eras
Farquhar
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