Air Force defends Agent Orange study amid coverage
The Air Force reiterates that its Ranch Hand Agent Orange health study is valid and conducted per protocol under oversight. It counters a San Diego Union-Tribune report alleging a coverup and notes results appear in peer reviewed journals. About 1,000 veterans are followed in the study.
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Jersey City teachers walk picket line amid school disruption
Jersey City Education Assn represents 2,500 teachers and 1,000 aides and staff as 32,000 students begin classes. Administrators and 200 substitutes staffed schools while police and officials handled unruly students and fights at Dickinson and Lincoln High Schools.
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Wyoming Student Matthew Shepard Beaten And Killed In Gay Bias Attack
Prosecutor describes Matthew Shepard, University of Wyoming student, beaten tied to a fence after being lured from a campus bar by Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson to burglarize his apartment. McKinney bound over for trial on first degree murder, aggravated robbery, kidnapping. Henderson waived preliminary hearing. both held without bond.
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States sign tobacco deal widens support before deadline
More than half of the 46 eligible states joined the tobacco settlement package as Friday's deadline neared. Michigan and eight other states announced plans to sign, bringing support to 27 states after talks among eight states and the four biggest U.S. tobacco companies. Kansas and Massachusetts were weighing their positions as other settlements totaled about 40 billion dollars.
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Judge orders inquiry into Kool cigarette ad amid Florida class action
Miami AP report says Circuit Judge Robert Kaye inquiries a full page Kool Natural Lights ad appearing in Florida papers. Plaintiffs lawyer Rosenblatt calls it blatantly improper as trial looms for about 500,000 sick Florida smokers seeking up to 200 billion dollars. Brown & Williamson counterclaims timing is coincidental while ads are part of a national campaign.
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States Seek Rotating Regional Primaries for 2004
Washington AP officials from Massachusetts and other states endorsed a rotating regional primary plan to choose each party’s presidential nominees by 2004. They backed forming a bipartisan national commission of state elections officials to fix primary problems and turnout.
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