Evacuations begin as Italy and U S move foreigners from Mogadishu
Italy and the United States launch large scale evacuations from Mogadishu amid deadly fighting. Italian jets evacuate 70 foreigners while American helicopters rescue refugees from the U S Embassy compound. Rebels of the United Somali Congress claim heavy casualties and pledge a temporary truce to aid evacuation efforts.
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Iican
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Rome
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Siad Barre
United States
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United Somali Congress
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Mombasa
U.S. State Department
Brava
Thierry Durand
Doctors Without Borders
Bush taps Yeutter for GOP national chair
President Bush settled on Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yeutter as Republican national chairman and planned to announce it, though logistics delayed official word. Yeutter, in office since 1989, would lead party efforts while continuing farm policy duties. Former Sen. Rudy Boschwitz and aides were floated as potential successors at Agriculture.
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Utter
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White House
Associated Press
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Midwest
Richard M. Nixon
Agriculture Department
Boschwitz Ousted in Minnesota Senate Race
Former Agriculture Committee member and Senate Republican Boschwitz lost his seat in the November election as Minnesota voters chose Democrat Paul Wellstone, becoming the sole Republican defeated in the ballot.
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Agriculture Committee
Senate
Minnesota
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Retired Vice Adm Burkley Dies at 88 in California
Los Angeles AP report notes Vice Admiral George G Burkley died of pneumonia at a nursing home at age 88. He served as personal physician to Presidents Eisenhower Kennedy and Johnson and accompanied Eisenhower on a Far East trip in 1959. He was aboard the Dallas motorcade in 1963 when Kennedy was shot. He later served Johnson and retired in January 1969 ending the Johnson era.
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Eisenhower
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Johnson
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Dallas
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Calif
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Christian
Brando
Steven Barshop
Robert Shapiro
Bush presses Iraq on withdrawal and holds meeting hopes
President Bush urged Saddam Hussein to withdraw and warned of global consequences if Iraq resists. He praised Iraq’s acceptance of a meeting but said no link to Palestinian issues. Officials said no new initiative. Perez de Cuellar pressed diplomacy as the Gulf crisis looms with a $30 billion annual gulf buildup cost.
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America
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Aziz
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Gaza
Syria
Lebanon
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Senate
United States
George Mitchell
D-Maine
Baker-Aziz
Congressional General Accounting Office
California Thaw Could Rank Third Costliest Disaster
Insurance firms estimate the California winter freeze may be the third most costly natural disaster after the 1906 and 1989 earthquakes. Beginning before Christmas, the state endured freezing or near freezing temperatures with scattered snow in the Bay Area and icicles in the Central Valley.
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Golden State
California
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Central Valley
Rejected artists win NEA grants in new funding round
The National Endowment for the Arts awarded 47 million dollars in grants to 1,200 artists and organizations including two avant garde theater groups in New York for works by Karen Finley and Holly Hughes. Endowment chairman Frohnmayer personally reviewed the new requests amid past controversy over obscenity linked funds. Feds might cut heating aid for poor in 1992 funding plan targets Northeastern states with a 925 million baseline and 100 million contingency.
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National Endowment For the Arts
New York
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Holly Hughes
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John E. Frohn
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Bush Administration
Congress
Administration
Silvio Conte
R-Mass
Conte
Department of Health and Human Services
White House
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