Global protests span abortion, fast food praise, and Bucharest unrest
Across New York and Beijing and Bucharest, demonstrations unfold. Cardinal O'Connor marches with 2,500 anti abortion activists in Manhattan while 800 abortion rights supporters protest nearby. In Beijing, China’s Communist Party lauds McDonald’s Pizza Hut and Kentucky Fried Chicken for easing service sector growth. In Bucharest, 2,500 demonstrators demand President Iliescu's resignation amid anti Communist sentiment and memories of 1989 unrest.
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New York
John J. O'Connor
Manhattan
O'Connor
Eitarlier
St. Agnes Church
Beijing
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Pizza Hut
Kentucky Fried Chicken
China
Communist Party
People’s Daily
U.S
Tas
People's Daily
Deng Xiaoping
Tignamen Square
Bucharest
Romania
University
Ion Iliescu
Tliescu
Bucharest University Students League
National Salvation Front
Nicolae Ceausescu
Serbs May Allow Relief Flights Into Sarajevo
Sarajevo awoke to a lull as Serb forces reportedly agreed to reopen the airport for emergency relief flights while battering the city with heavy shelling. Fourteen killed and 125 wounded in 24 hours. residents bought food at soaring prices amid renewed shelling. Muslims and Serbs traded attacks and repelled each other near the airport as defenders tightened control of a key hill.
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Sarajevo
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Zagreb
Belgrade
Diaper snag saves toddler in nine-story fall
In Southfield Michigan a 2-year-old fell 80 feet from a ninth floor window, landing on a bush that snagged his diaper and left him naked but alive. Joshua Beatty suffered only a forehead scratch and remained in PICU for observation as officials praised the bush restraint and described the incident.
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Southfield
Mich
Joshua Beatty
Colette Summell
William Beaumont Hospital
Royal Oak
Lonnie Thompson
Charter House Apartments
Detroit
Castro and Bush Share Framed Summit Moment at Earth Summit
The Earth Summit group photo frames Fidel Castro near the left of the second row as George Bush stands nearby with Argentina's Carlos Menem and Brazil's Fernando Collor. Castro greets leaders including Carlos Salinas de Gortari and Jacques Cousteau while Bush faces away, then both leaders are captured together in a rare, intimate moment.
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Castro
Fidel Castro
Cuba
George Bush
Argentina
Carlos Menem
Fernando Collor de Mello
United States
Jacques Cousteau
Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Bush
Menem
Aft
World Landers
Rio de January
Kemp in LA announces aid program
Los Angeles Housing Secretary Jack Kemp on Saturday unveiled a $137 million federal effort to boost minority jobs, home ownership, and business loans in Los Angeles public housing. He spoke at Nickerson Gardens in Watts after riots followed the Rodney King verdict, noting seven $2 million grants to foster public housing ownership and $4 million to modernize projects.
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Los Angeles
Jack Kemp
Kemp
Nickerson Gardens
Watts
Rodney King
Lionel Perkins
Earth Summit Seen as Beginning Not End of Effort
Rio de Janeiro observers say the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development marked more than ecological deals. It intertwined economics and environment and was described as only a start, with outcomes judged years later by whether nations change behavior rather than return to business as usual.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
United Nations Conference On Environment and Development
Rio
Benedick
Weather zones summary for Douglas and surrounding areas
Regional forecast covers Douglas County zones 1 2 3 7 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 17 18. Today partly cloudy with scattered storms possible. Highs 85 to 95, lows mid 60s to mid 70s. Tonight thunderstorms possible in several zones with 30 to 40 percent chances. Monday highs expected in the 80s to 90s across zones.
Local forecast shows mild mix of sun and storms
Today partly cloudy with a high near 6 and southeast winds 10 to 20 mph. Tonight mostly cloudy with a low around 64 and a 30 percent chance of thunderstorms. Monday mostly sunny with a 50 percent chance of thunderstorm and a high around BB. Official readings show Saturday high BB and no precipitation. Clinton Lake report notes 66 degree lake temperature and travel elevation near normal.
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Bismarck
5.C
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Argo
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Tucson
Great Falls
Tulka
Hartford
Wash
D.C
Helena
Wichita
Honolulu
Houston
Gan
Indiaapolis
Jackan
Miss
Presidio
Tex
Truckes
Calil
Travel outlook across states with mixed skies and temps
MISSOURE clear to partly cloudy through Monday with highs in the 80s and lows in the upper 50s to mid 60s. NEBRASKA shows chances of thunderstorms in west and central areas. highs upper 70s to low 80s, lows from west to east. OKLAHOMA partly cloudy warm and humid with scattered storms. highs mid 80s to low 90s, lows upper 50s to 60s. COLORADO clear to partly cloudy mountains with scattered thunderstorms. Road conditions note Kansas Turnpike Authority contact in gas Turnpike.
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Bos Wast
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Panhandle
Colorado
Claer
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