Croats and rebels agree to talks at Geneva despite bleak chances
UN reports rebel Serbs will send representatives to Geneva for talks aimed at averting a larger war as Croat forces press across western Bosnia toward Knin. The Croatian advance, backed by Bosnian government forces, has unsettled Serb positions and drawn air strikes near Strmica.
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Croatia
U.N
Bosnia
Knin
Bihac
Strmica
U.S. China discuss tensions amid Wu and Lee visits
Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen meet in Brunei to address deteriorating Sino U.S. relations. Christopher plans to raise Wu's arrest, while Qian stresses actions over words and notes Taiwan leader Lee Teng-hui's U.S. visit as a point of tension.
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Brunei
Harry Wu
Warren Christopher
Qian Qichen
U.s.-China
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Qian
China
United States
Taiwan
Lee Teng-hui
Clinton
Jiang Zemin
U.S
Prosecution paints grim scene of dying grip on ankle
Los Angeles prosecutors emphasized a bloodstain on a sock to portray Nicole Brown Simpson reaching for O J Simpson’s ankle in her final moments. Blood expert accounts varied, with defense theories suggesting police planted blood, while Green glove evidence and cross examination tactics dominated court proceedings.
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Los Angeles
Nicole Brown Simpson
O.J. Simpson
Simpson
Herbert MacDonell
Ms. Simpson
Marcia Clark
MacDonell
MacDowell
Clark
Peter Neufeld
Deaths in 1994 set record as births dip in decade
Washington and Dallas reports note 1994 produced 2,234,000 deaths, the highest year total, amid an aging population and a birth rate below 4 million for the first time in the decade. The Census Bureau cites an increasing elderly population as cause for rising deaths. In Dallas, Mickey Mantle says liver transplant patient now faces lung cancer, with doctors finding cancer spots in his lungs after his June 8 transplant.
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Census Bureau
United States
U.S
Carla Haub
Population Reference Bureau
Dallas
Mickey Mantle
ABC
Mantle
Baylor University Medical Center
Good Morning America
Australia protects Wollemi pine with trademark plan
In New South Wales the government trademarked the Jurassic era Wollemi pine to deter seed theft and cloning. The federal government will seek international protection while the state allows cloning for nurseries, with proceeds funding rare-plant conservation.
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Sydney
Australia
New South Wales
Pam Allan
Royal Botanic Gardens
National Parks and Wildlife Service
Man accused after belt buckle embeds in boy’s skull
A Brooklyn man, Wilner Michel, 34, is charged with first degree assault and endangering a child after beating his 16 month old son so severely a belt buckle became embedded in the skull. The child, Mitch Michel, underwent surgery and is in stable condition at Maimonides Medical Center. Bail was set at 3500 dollars. The mother faces no charges.
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Stuart Dim
Maimonides Medical Center
Wilner Michel
Kiwana Bland
Brooklyn
Florida bracing for Erin as warnings expand
Florida queued for Erin with seven coastal counties under hurricane warnings and West Coast watched. Residents boarded up homes and gathered supplies while Gov. Chiles declared a state of emergency, lifted tolls, and evacuation demand grew amid concerns of 10 inch rains and potential flooding. The storm’s center neared Eleuthera in the Bahamas and moved northwest at 13 mph toward Florida.
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Florida
Erin
Andrew
Eleuthera
Bahamas
Jennifer Bound
Miami Beach
Lawton Chiles
FBI probes Medal of Honor scam targeting six winners
The FBI and Maryland authorities investigate a scam in which six Medal of Honor recipients were duped into lending their medals for framing. Victims across Maryland were named from an alumni directory and received back fake medals. An arrest was anticipated as the probe unfolds.
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Naval Academy
Kristin Riggin
Anne Arundel
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Sun
Congress
Edward F. Murphy
Mesa, Ariz
Congressional Medal of Honor Historical Society
Murphy
State’s Attorney’s Office
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