Glendening Proposes 15.5 Billion Maryland Budget Plan
Maryland Governor Parris Glendening unveils a 15.5 billion dollar budget built on a growing economy. It adds tobacco tax hikes and welfare savings to fund state police expansion, prisons and higher education while delaying most state worker pay raises. The plan also expands the reserve fund to around 631 million dollars to cushion future tax cuts and offset spending growth.
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Annapolis
Parris Glendening
General Assembly
Glendening
Maryland
Fred Puddester
Departments of Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Department of Public Safety and Corrections
Kim Keller
American Federation of State
Puddester
Baltimore
Disemboweled girl wins $30.9 million settlement
Valerie Lakey, now nine, survived a 1993 accident where her intestines were sucked out by a kiddie pool drain. Sta-Rite Industries settled after a state jury had awarded $25 million in compensatory damages, ending the punitive-damages phase.
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Raleigh
N.C
Valerie Lakey
North Carolina
Sta-Rite Industries
Delavan
Wis
Valerie
John Edwards
Cabinet clash over Hebron withdrawal accord shocks Netanyahu
In Jerusalem an angry Cabinet session followed Netanyahu's signing of a troop pullback pact with Yasser Arafat. Science Minister Begin led a vociferous challenge as the vote tilted due to Likud dissent. The deal aims to accelerate withdrawals from Hebron and surrounding West Bank areas, with signals of over 50 percent West Bank retention possible.
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Arafat
Begin
Israel Army Radio
Netanyahu
Israel
Hebron
Israel Radio
Likud
David Bar-Ilan
West Bank
Gaza
Tel Aviv
U.N. Warns of Suspicious Parcels After Letter Bombs
U.N. staffers warned Tuesday to watch for suspect parcels after four letter bombs sent to the U.N. bureau of a Saudi owned newspaper were defused by New York police. About 89,000 items were screened overnight with X ray machines. the bombs, in greeting-card sized envelopes, were detonation devices triggered when opened. The envelopes bore no return address and had computer-generated addresses. postmarks read December 21 from Alexandria, Egypt.
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United Nations
U.N
UN. Security
New York City
Fred Eckhard
Eckhard
FBI
James Kallstrom
Alexandria
Egypt
Belgrade opposition wins recognition of election victory
Foes of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic won official recognition Tuesday of an election victory in Belgrade, their biggest demand during weeks of protests and international pressure. Opponents urged restraint as they awaited an actual handover of Belgrade’s municipal government, with similar questions in Nis.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Slobodan Milosevic
Milosevic
Socialist Party
Nis
Belgrade Commission
Stall warning precedes Comair Flight 3272 crash in Michigan
Investigators say a stall warning sounded 17 seconds before the Embraer 120 turboprop crashed in a snowstorm near Detroit, killing all 29 aboard. The analysis of cockpit data found the plane nose-dived and rolled with no crew remarks about engine issues. The right engine had been recently replaced and controls to shut it off were found in the on position among wreckage.
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Raisinville Township
Mich
Comair
Detroit
Meghan Glynn
Rebels agree to proposal for commission to mediate standoff
Peruvian rebels holding 74 hostages said in a radio transmission they accept government plans for a peace commission to mediate the crisis. The rebels want the panel to include Guatemala and a European nation later named, and to discuss release of hundreds of jailed rebels.
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Lima
Peru
Ayacucho
Juan Luis Cipriani
Red Cross
Commission
Guatemala
Tupac Amaru
Alberto Fujimori
Palermo
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