Fire crews guard escape routes as camps battle 26 major blazes
Firefighters work along a key road between two windblown fires to keep a major escape route open for residents of threatened back country towns. The National Interagency Fire Center reported 26 large blazes burning across about 300,000 acres in six western states as Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt urged stricter fire prevention and building codes.
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Mccall
Idaho
National Interagency Fire Center
California
Montana
Oregon
Utah
Washington
Nevada
Bruce Babbitt
Babbitt
Reno
New
Simpson avoids cancer diagnosis after biopsy
O J Simpson's enlarged lymph nodes and night sweats are not cancer. A biopsy showed non cancerous swelling. doctors will pursue blood tests to find the cause. Tests ruled out AIDS or infectious causes. Simpson, 47, pleads innocent in the Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman murders. trial set for Sept. 19.
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Los Angeles
O.J. Simpson
Simpson
Robert Shapiro
Robert Huizenga
John Glaspy
Bowyer Oncology Center
University of California
Nicole Brown Simpson
Ronald Goldman
Law Enacted to Shield Social Security Agency
The Social Security Administration became independent at age 59 with a bill signed by President Clinton, separating the program from HHS and restricting benefits to abusers. The law aims to boost public confidence after upheaval, as the agency faces aging caseloads and past delays that harmed claimants.
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Washington
Social Security Administration
Clinton
Fdr
House
Senate
Department of Health and Human Services
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Social Security
Chained but cocky Carlos arraigned in Paris bombing
Carlos the Jackal, chained and defiant, faced a Paris terrorism court over a 1982 Champs Elysees bombing that killed one and wounded 63. The Venezuelan-born Tlich Ramirez Sanchez, linked to multiple groups, was expected to be retried for a 1975 double murder of counterintelligence agents and other alleged acts. Interior Minister Pasqua urged justice as Carlos claimed to have killed at least 15 people and to have 83 victims worldwide.
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Paris
Carlos the Jackal
France
Carlos
Tlich Ramirez Sanchez
Sudan
Palais de Justice
Jean-Louis Bruguiere
Bruguiere
Jacques Verges
Gestapo
Pasqua
Germany
Red Army
Spain
Middle East
OPEC
Air France
Entebbe
Uganda
London
Charles de Gaulle
Emigration try ends peacefully in Cuba
About 700 Cubans who occupied an oil tanker to flee to the United States left the Jussara voluntarily in Mariel. The ship’s Greek owner said 1,000 surged the vessel Sunday. a large May 1980 Mariel exodus precedent was noted. Cuban authorities reported crew investigations and custody of several Cubans while Castro visited the scene.
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Mexico City
United States
Mariel
Havana
Cuba
Florida
Fidel Castro
Prensa Latina
Interior Ministry
Castro
Marshall Islands propose nuclear waste dump amid protests
In Brisbane, President Amata Kabua of the Marshall Islands floated leasing a contaminated island for nuclear waste and warheads to fund rehabilitation of other radioactive atolls. Environmentalists denounced the plan as dangerous. Kiribati and Micronesia criticized it while regional leaders weigh feasibility and regulatory hurdles.
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Australia
Marshall Islands
U.S
Pacific Islands
Bunny McDiarmid
Greenpeace
Marshalls
Hawaii
Amata Kabua
Mr. Kabua
Kabua
Kiribati
Federated States of Micronesia
South Pacific
Forum
United States
NAACP leader wavers over Chavis defense amid probe
NAACP chairman William Gibson shows hesitation about backing Executive Director Benjamin Chavis as board members weigh expanding oversight. A Saturday meeting faces a $332,400 sex discrimination settlement Chavis reached with a former employee using funds without board notice, amid a $2.7 million deficit and calls for resignations. Gibson says he cannot wield power to shield Chavis, while others demand accountability and a clear constitutional guide for notifying the board of decisions.
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Mr. Gibson
Mrr. Gibson
NAACP
Gibson
Greenville
D.C
Mary E. Stansel
Stansel
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Chavis’ Defense
Benjamin Hooks
Allstate Waterproofing
Frederick County
Allstate
Frederick
Dougherty County
Eastern Shore
Thurmont
Milton J. Milne, MD
Robert Bruce Hodges
Capital Care
MDIPA
Health Plus
Frederick Memorial Hospital Plan
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Lincoln National-Preferred Plan
Mid-Atlantic
Thomas Johnson
Frederic
MHIC
John's Inc. Heldor Pools
Poolesville
Maryland
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