Vietnam veterans museum changes exhibits after complaints
Barbara Hauke leads the Vietnam Era Education Center in Holmdel New Jersey. Veterans complain the center emphasizes anti war views and portrays soldiers inaccurately. Organizers remove drug use references and swap anti war footage for more soldier focused material.
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Newark
N.J
Barbara Hauke
Hauke
Vietnam
U.S
Abbie Hoffman
Jane Fonda
Bob Maras
Holmdel
El Nino toll hits seals and sea lions along California
Starving seals and sea lions are washing ashore from San Francisco to San Diego as warmer El Nino waters drive away fish and squid. Thousands have died since summer while rescuers pick up emaciated pups and researchers call it a natural cycle, not a conservation crisis.
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Los Angeles
California
San Francisco
San Diego
Seal Samaritans
Bob DeLong
National Marine Fisheries Service
Seattle
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Nobel Peace Prize honors land mine ban campaign
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines won the Nobel Peace Prize shared by Jody Williams and Tun Channareth. The prize totals $1 million and recognizes six years of global campaigning that led to a landmark treaty banning land mines signed by 122 countries. Williams led the effort building a coalition of more than 1,000 organizations worldwide.
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Oslo
Norway
Tun Channareth
Jody Williams
Williams
ICBL
Fairfield man linked to revenge attack on former lover
Police probe whether attack on Alan Hall, a 1983 voluntary manslaughter defendant, was an act of vengeance by a seductive woman named Brenda. Hall said he met her at a Fairfield service station and was then cut, with authorities weighing aggravated mayhem charges while examining if Brenda exists.
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Fairfield
Calif
Alan Hall
Hall
Brenda
John Hall
Denise Denofrio
San Francisco
Bill Gresham
Gresham
John Mraz
Denofrio
Mraz
Suisun City
Lorena Bobbitt
Virginia
Bobbitt
Special ed spending rises in 1990s share of budgets grows
A private Economic Policy Institute study shows per pupil spending slowed through the 1990s while the share of budgets for special education rose to 19 percent in 1996 from 17.8 in 1991. Bilingual programs also increased to 2.5 percent and meal programs to 4.8 percent. Regular education share fell to 56.8 percent.
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Washington
U.S
Lawrence Mishel
Nonpartisan Economic Policy Institute
Education Department
EPI
Institute
Yeltsin cancels radio address amid illness
President Boris Yeltsin, age 66, is at a government sanatorium near Moscow with an acute viral respiratory infection. Doctors advise rest for 10 to 12 days and to skip his weekly radio address while officials downplay the seriousness of the condition. The Kremlin confirmed the decision, noting the infection could turn into flu, and Yeltsin was also due to meet Valentin Yamashev today.
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Moscow
Boris Yeltsin
Kremlin
Yeltsin
Valentin Yamashev
Sergei Yastrzhembsky
Moskovsky Komsomolets
Kommersant
Renat Akchurin
China
Sweden
Global warming talks yield historic diplomatic accord
The United States and 150 nations reach a landmark pact to cap greenhouse gas emissions. Clinton calls it a huge first step while Republicans doubt Senate ratification, warning of higher energy costs and offshoring.
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Kyoto
Japan
United States
Congress
U.S. Senate
New York
Clinton
Europe
U.S
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