U S staffer dies at Antarctica McMurdo Station
Charles Gallagher a 50 year old U S Navy retiree and head of recreational activities at McMurdo Station died of heart failure after a days long illness including pneumonia dehydration and fluid around the heart He was the 48th American staffer to die in Antarctica since 1955 with most deaths due to accidents A winter airlift was planned to bring him out for treatment from the nine hour flight from New Zealand.
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Nobel winner to head Swiss Nazi bank probe panel
The Swiss government named Elie Wiesel honorary chairman of a multi million dollar Holocaust victims fund, a finance panel with two Israelis and four Swiss members including president Rolf Bloch. Wiesel gets the title doy en international chairman but no extra powers amid ongoing tensions with Jewish groups over Switzerland's wartime role and restitution. The fund aims to aid needy survivors and descendants persecuted by the Nazis, especially those lacking other redress after decades under communist rule in eastern Europe.
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Australian named head of U N Iraq monitor group
Australia's ambassador to the United Nations Richard Butler will chair the U N Special Commission on Iraq starting July 1. The panel oversees Iraq's destruction of long range missiles and weapons of mass destruction. Security Council sanctions remain until verification of disarmament. Butler succeeds Rolf Ekern, who becomes Sweden's ambassador to the United States.
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Watch of Crippen murderer sells for top bid in London
The pocketwatch of Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen who killed his wife Cora Turner and buried her body in 1910 sold for 16000 dollars at a Suppen memorabilia auction. A retired banker paid ten times the estimate for the American made Waltham piece. Crippen fled aboard the Monroose with his secretary Ethel Le Neve who traveled in disguise as his son. The captain alerted authorities and Crippen was captured in Canada.
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Allied forces push toward Taliban capital in Kunar clash
Allied anti-Taliban forces said they repulsed a two-pronged Taliban offensive in Kunar province and planned to strike Asadabad, 114 miles northeast of Kabul, as Taliban controls most of Afghanistan including Kabul. The alliance spokesman described gains as closing in on enemy territory amid the capital’s religious rule.
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