Kosovo peace talks collapse amid NATO air campaign
Talks to implement the Kosovo peace plan collapsed in Kumanovo as NATO pledges to intensify air strikes until Yugoslavia fully accepts the agreement. NATO leaders say the failure jeopardizes a plan to withdraw Yugoslav forces and deploy peacekeepers to protect more than 800,000 ethnic Albanian refugees.
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Kumanovo
Macedonia
Kosovo
NATO
Yugoslavia
Michael Jackson
Slobodan Milosevic
Jackson
Foreign Ministry
Nebojsa Vujovic
Belgrade
Vujovic
Dentists pull for uninsured in Lawrence faces dental crisis
Mary Sledge writes of her mother Connie Pacheco who suffers with severe dental decay and cannot afford care. Health Care Access provides emergency care for low income residents but lacks a reduced cost clinic for routine dental needs. Dentists say major work is unaffordable and continues to worsen. See Dentists, page 3A.
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Massa Lacey
Journal- War
Kirk Vincent
Angela Roberts
Vincent
Douglas County Dental Coalition
Lawrence
Mary Sledge
Connie Pacheco
Pacheco
Sledge
Health Care Access
Nikki Rhea
Douglas County
Blood supply shortfall looms for next year
Blood donations are falling while demand for transfusions rises, signaling a looming shortage of usable blood in 2000. The National Blood Data Resource Center estimates a drop to 11.69 million units, about 249000 units below expected need, threatening elective surgeries, cancer care, and treatment for serious diseases.
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United States
National Blood Data Resource Center
Bethesda
Arthur Caplan
University of Pennsylvania
Caplan
Veterans recall D-Day heroics at Normandy coast
About 1 000 American World War II veterans and 1 500 family members gathered along Normandy’s beaches for the 55th anniversary of the D-Day landings. Veterans recalled fierce fighting, the cost of war, and shared brief, poignant reunions near Omaha Beach and Pointe du Hoc as they retraced their steps from the 1944 invasion.
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Colleville-Sur-Mer
France
Omaha Beach
Normandy
Atlantic Wall
U.S
Belton Cooper
Third Armored Division
Len Lomell
New Jersey
Pointe du Hoc
Balkans
D-Day
KRT
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Taahs
John Hay
Omaha
Utah
Kenneth Russell
Louisville
Tenn
Sainte-Merc-Fglise
Russell
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