Jury selection opens in mom's murder trial
Susan Smith, 23, goes on trial for the drownings of her two sons Michael, 3, and Alex, 14 months, as jurors are questioned about impartiality and related experience. The case draws national attention after her initial claim of a car hijacking and later confession. The trial begins in a northwest city courthouse with about 70 potential jurors.
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Andy Surles
State Court Administration
Ms. Smith
Michael
Alex
John D. Long Lake
Doorless American Eagle flight causes minor injury at O Hare
An American Eagle commuter plane lost its main cabin door shortly after takeoff from O Hare Airport. The plane landed safely with 60 passengers and four crew members. a flight attendant near the door was injured but pulled to safety by passengers.
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American Eagle
O'Hare
South Bend
Ind
Mitch Baranowski
Fort Worth
Tex
Baranowski
Serb forces threaten U.N. troops near Srebrenica
Amid ongoing shelling of governmentheld Srebrenica, the United Nations warned it may authorize NATO airstrikes if Serb attacks persist. UN officials cited repeated, sustained hits as a trigger and called for the release of Dutch peacekeepers held since the weekend.
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Sarajevo
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Srebrenica
United Nations
NATO
U N
U.N
Gary Coward
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Athens
Bosnia
Bratunac
Coward
Portadown Tensions Rise Over Orange March Restrictions
Thousands of Protestant demonstrators crowd the hilltop church area as police bar the Orange Order march down Garvaghy Road amid Catholic sit‑downs. A gasoline bomb strikes a Catholic home, and parading districts in Londonderry see roadblocks and arson as sectarian tensions flare in Portadown.
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Portadown
Northern Ireland
Orange Order
Garvaghy Road
Orangemen
Drumcree
Belfast
Londonderry
Clinton to announce Vietnam relations shift this week
President Clinton plans a noontime Rose Garden ceremony on Tuesday to begin normalizing ties with Vietnam. White House aides say an official announcement will be made and MIA POW groups have been informed. officials cite progress toward accounting for POWs and MIAs as motivation.
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Nasaville
Tenn
Clinton
Vietnam
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
White House
Rose Garden
Mary Ellen Glynn
Congress
Glynn
Hanoi
Mike McCurry
McCurry
Race gap widens in infant mortality across races
Washington report shows the infant mortality rate fell to a record 7.9 per 1000 in 1994, yet black infants remain about 2.4 times more likely to die before age one than whites. Singh projects the disparity to persist into 2010, with whites benefiting most from improved neonatal care.
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Washington
Gopal Singh
National Center For Health Statistics
U.S
Singh
American Journal of Public Health
William Oh
Pediatrics
Brown University
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