Florida signs immigration deal with federal lead
Governor Lawton Chiles announced Florida will join with the federal government in a first of its kind immigration accord. INS will lead mass-influx responses and may request Florida assistance but will reimburse the state for costs. The plan follows years of Cuban and Haitian arrivals and past funding gaps, with earlier estimates of 50 million in costs and only 18 million received.
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Lawton Chiles
Doris Meissner
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
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INS
Ms. Meissner
Fire destroys ski buildings atop Vail Mountain
An early morning fire atop Vail Mountain destroyed three ski related buildings and damaged four more. Officials doubt natural causes and consider arson possible. Firefighters faced snow and rugged terrain but gained control by noon with over 100 personnel on scene.
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Vail Mountain
Ed Nesselroad
U.S. Forest Service
Kim Andree
Eagle County Sheriff's Office
Plea deal in Chicago racial beating case
Two white teens, Victor Jasas and Michael Kwidzinski, pleaded guilty to battery on Lenard Clark, 13, in a 1997 attack in Bridgeport after riding into a white neighborhood. They receive probation and community service. a third man, Frank Caruso Jr, was later convicted of aggravated battery and a hate crime, receiving eight years in prison.
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Victor Jasas
Michael Kwidzinski
Lenard Clark
Frank Caruso Jr
Lenard
Chicago
Bridgeport
Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to don’t ask don’t tell
The Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the military's don’t ask don’t tell policy in a unsigned ruling. Former Navy aviator Tracy Thorne, who disclosed his homosexuality on Nightline in 1992, argued the policy violated free speech and equal protection. The court’s action leaves the policy unchallenged by the high court.
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Federal Reserve
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BCCI
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Bombardier
Tracy Thorne
Thorne
ABC News
Nightline
Navy Achievement
Richmond
AIDS patient volunteers to stop drug cocktail trial
A Boston AIDS patient volunteers to discontinue the three drug cocktail after 18 months of health. Nineteen other patients will join Massachusetts General Hospital in a study led by Dr Bruce Walker to see if early treated patients can stop therapy without disease return. Dr Anthony Fauci notes the effort could reshape thinking on stopping treatment and managing side effects.
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Clifford Lane
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Massachusetts General Hospital
Bruce
Walker
Anthony Fauci
Atriovverter device may correct atrial fibrillation
Dutch cardiologist Hein Wellens reports in Circulation that a new pacemaker like Atriovverter device safely restores normal heart rhythm in atrial fibrillation patients who did not respond to drugs. In a 51-patient, nine-country study the device achieved a 96 percent rhythm restoration rate though four removals occurred for infection or ongoing irregularity.
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American Heart Association
Hein Wellens
Wellens
Maastricht
Atroverter
Guidant Corp
Indianapolis
Food and Dru Administration
Carol Lindahl
Women barred from 1 in 6 military jobs report
The GAO says barring women from direct combat roles leaves about 221,086 of the 1.4 million Defense Department positions closed to women, nearly 16 percent. Women comprise 14 percent of the armed forces with most barred slots in the Army and Marine Corps.
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Somalia
General Accounting Office
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GAO
Defense Department
U.S
Army
Marine Corps
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