Dollar buys fail as U S allies try to prop up currency
U S and allies including Japan Germany and France spent about 2 billion dollars to support the dollar but markets shrugged off the effort and the dollar kept sliding against the yen and the mark. Analysts warned a turnaround requires higher Fed rates while Treasury Secretary Rubin urged the joint action.
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CIA Denies Linking to Guatemalan Killings
Acting CIA Director William Studeman told the Senate committee the agency is not complicit in the deaths of Michael Devine and Rigoberta Bamaca. He acknowledged lapses in information sharing and staff delays while defense and State officials urged fuller investigations of Guatemala ties and informants.
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Clinton offers no nukes pledge amid UN push
President Clinton pledged not to launch nuclear attacks on nonnuclear states and those that promise disarmament. Secretary of State Warren Christopher said similar assurances would be offered by Russia Britain and France, with China to follow in a UN resolution.
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Cult allegedly hid thousands of sarin bags in mountains
An informant told police the cult suspected of releasing sarin in Tokyo stored about 25,000 plastic bags containing diluted gas in the mountains. The bags, akin to intravenous ones, could kill millions, according to Weekly Bunshun. Police did not comment.
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Neapolitan gynecologist accused of sperm switch
Police shut the Naples office of Dr. Raffaele Magli after an indictment accusing him of secretly impregnating a patient with a donor’s sperm. The charges claim he used only two donors, producing hundreds or thousands of births, violating bioethics. Prosecutor Nicola Ciccarelli called the doctor a public peril.
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Denny's cook charged after allegedly spiking eggs
Michael Towne, 20, a Denny’s breakfast cook in Lebanon New Hampshire, faced assault charges for allegedly spiking two Vermont state troopers eggs with Tabasco sauce during a February 7 breakfast. Troopers Clouatre and Manning reported burning mouths and stomach upset. Towne says sauce was left from an earlier order. He was arrested three weeks later and could face up to two years in jail and a $4000 fine.
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Anti inflammation gene found in New York
In New York scientists report the discovery of a gene for an enzyme that inactivates platelet activating factor, potentially enabling new treatments for asthma, a lethal newborn bowel condition, a leading lung disease, and atherosclerosis by reducing inflammation. The enzyme blocks a key inflammation promoter and could aid in fighting infections and inflammatory disorders.
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Tom Hanks Ranks High On Premiere Power List May Issue
Hollywood figure Tom Hanks tops the list of powerful people in Premiere magazine's annual Power List, reaching No 6 this year after No 29 last year. Steven Spielberg leads for the second year, followed by Michael Gvitz Disney’s Michael Eisner and other top executives.
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FBI official reprimanded over Ruby Ridge siege
Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick censured acting FBI Deputy Director Larry Potts for management omissions during the 1992 Idaho siege that left three dead. The investigation found errors across the FBI Marshals Service and Idaho U S attorney's office, with Potts receiving the lightest discipline and no prosecutions pursued.
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Wildfire in Pine Barrens burns 21000 acres in N J
A wind driven blaze in the Pine Barrens may have been set and scorched about 20000 acres in two days. Firefighters halted its spread and aimed to control it by nightfall as plumes rose hundreds of feet and a 10 mile stretch of the Garden State Parkway faced closures and smoke drifting over the road. No homes were burned and no injuries reported.
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