Cronkite seeks halt to Daewoo 90 story tower
In Seoul President Kim Dae-jung rejected Walter Cronkite's plea to stop Daewoo Corp from building a 90 story apartment tower in New York. The project would be the world’s tallest residential tower and is slated for completion in 2001 under a $180 million contract with Donald Trump. Kim’s office said the matter falls under U.S. law and not Korean government control.
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South Korea
Kim Dae-jung
Walter Cronkite
New York
CBS
Donald Trump
U.S
Kim
Inmate killed at private prison in New Mexico
Orlando Gabaldon, 51, was beaten to death with a laundry bag filled with rocks while watching television at Guadalupe County Correctional Facility. He was serving a life sentence for habitual armed robbery. Investigators questioned another inmate as the privately run 600-bed prison faced scrutiny of violence in the sector.
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Santa Rosa
N.M
Orlando Gabaldon
Guadalupe County
Wackenhut Corrections Corp
Iraq air strikes kill two in northern Iraq town
Allied warplanes from the United States and Britain attacked northern Iraq, killing two people in Ba’sheqa. The U.S. said planes fired on an Iraqi radar station after anti-aircraft fire, while Iraq reported 18 sorties over the area and noted damage to Iraqi forces.
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Baghdad
Iraq
U.S
U.S. European Command
Stuttgart
Germany
Ba’sheqa
Saddam Dam
United States
Britain
Saddam Hussein
Bush Uses Law to Cut His Taxes in Texas Retreat
Coy George W. Bush benefits from a 1977 provision that halves property taxes on Rainbo Club lake property in East Texas. He recently bought a central Texas ranch, but the lakeside retreat remains his weekend getaway. Critics say he exploits a loophole and should pay full taxes to set an example.
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Australia
Great Sandy
Robert Bogucki
Alaska
Sandfire Flat
Great Western Highway
Bogucki
U.S
Athens
Texas
George W. Bush
Bush
Piney Woods
Austin
Turkey quake death toll climbs amid disease fears and exodus
The 7.4 magnitude quake's aftermath sees 18 000 dead and 200 000 homeless with fears of typhoid fever cholera and dysentery in camps. An Israeli medical team reports a 92 year old Turkish soldier hospitalized with a severe infection from contaminated food and water. WHO warns no cholera risk but typhoid present. Foreign doctors face pressure as rescue teams depart and officials debate health ministry response.
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Bigeneer Oe Baator
Goce Eetorttel
S. OmcoThi
Aharon Finestone
Adapazari
Istanbul
World Health Organization
Michel Thieren
Mediterranean
Turkey
Osman Durmus
Schroeder makes Berlin center of German power again
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder moves into Berlin as Germany’s capital, reclaiming the city as the center of power ten years after reunification. Berlin will host Bundestag sessions in the Reichstag while Schroeder pledges continuity with NATO and the EU despite East German rebuilding costs. He thanks Gorbachev and Kohl for unification paving the way.
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Berlin
Germany
Gerhard Schroeder
Berlin Wall
Bonn
Schroeder
Eberhard Diepgen
Berlin Republic
Mr. Schroeder
Reichstag
Hurricane Bret remnants sweep Texas and Mexico causing evacuations
The remnants of Hurricane Bret drenched southern Texas and northern Mexico with near a foot of rain, prompting flash flood warnings from Laredo to Del Rio and east toward San Antonio. Four deaths from an early traffic accident were the only fatalities reported. Laredo avoided major flooding as officials prepared for possible river rises and more rain along the Rio Grande basin.
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Laredo
Texas
Bret
Mexico
Rio Grande
del Rio
San Antonio
Betty Flores
Corpus Christi
Brownsville
Kenedy County
Loyd Neal
National Weather Service
Rio Grande Watershed
Eagle Pass
Maverick
Rocky Escobedo
Charles
Maribel Perez
el Indio
Chris Niles
Norwegian Dream crashes into cargo ship near Margate
A Norwegian Cruise Line liner the Norwegian Dream collided with a Panama-registered cargo ship Ever Decent in the English Channel near Margate at 1:15 am. The Norwe gian Dream reached Dover with 1,726 passengers aboard. at least 20 passengers had minor injuries while the Ever Decent crew fought a fire.
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Margate
England
Dover
Cruise Line
Geir Aune
Arielle Adelman
New York City
Anne
Coast Guard
Joanne Steenenberg
English Channel
Fair Bank
Albanians refuse to lift Moscow peacekeeper blockade in Orahovac
Ethnic Albanian leaders in Orahovac reject removing tractors and vehicles blocking roads as Russian troops arrive to assume peacekeeping duties. They accuse Russians of crimes and say Moscow forces would destabilize the town, insisting NATO presence remains preferable. Protesters man barricades with banners in Albanian, English and German.
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Orahovac
Yugoslavia
Moscow
NATO
Agim Hasku
Free Report Promises Big Credit Card Savings
Local homeowners urged to act now to cut monthly debt by hundreds with a no cost report endorsed by CPAs and planners. Apex Home Loans promotes a seven day to ten day delivery, free mailed report after calling 1-888-429-1675.
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CPA
Eric Gates
Apex Home Loans, Inc
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