Congress aims for budget deal to avert shutdown before elections
Congress moves toward a budget compromise to defer major spending fights until after November. House Speaker Newt Gingrich signals a down payment on a balanced budget tied to borrowing authority, while President Clinton and White House officials caution and seek real savings. Republican plans target about 100 billion dollars in cuts over seven years and hope to pass a continuing resolution to keep the government open through March 1 as debt- ceiling issues loom.
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White House
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Congress
Bob Livingston
R-La
House Appropriations Committee
Chechens free 45 hostages in Dagestan raid
Chechen rebels released 45 Dagestan residents taken during a raid and transported them toward Dagestan across the Chechnya border. Up to 24 Russian police remain hostage with 30 power-plant workers still held in Grozny as talks center on exchanged gunmen bodies.
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Dagestan
Chechnya
Kizlyar
Itar-Tass
Grozny
Interfax
Pervomayskaya
Star-Tass
Boris Yeltsin
Wolves Released Into Yellowstone Pens In Restoration Plan
Wildlife officials began releasing 11 Canadian wolves into one acre pens at Yellowstone as the second stage of a restoration effort. Twenty wolves flew from Fort St. John to Bozeman with nine sent to Idaho. The penned wolves will stay about ten weeks to acclimate and lessen escape risk to Canada.
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Mont
Idaho
Canada
Amtrak urges TB testing after coughing passenger
Health officials urge hundreds of Amtrak riders to test for tuberculosis after a traveler on two Chicago to Miami trains was found coughing blood and mucus. The passenger, in fair condition at a Jacksonville hospital, was removed at Starke. Passengers described coughing and blood spatter. officials say risk to others is slight and tests are precautionary.
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Amtrak
Chicago
Jacksonville
Starke
Maureen Reardon
New York City
Reardon
Landis Crockett
Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services
Rise in foreign trained doctors fuels physician oversupply
A private Institute of Medicine report warns that an influx of international medical graduates IMGs has doubled U S physician numbers in 25 years. The study attributes the growth to more IMGs entering U S residencies and later practicing, potentially deterring Americans from pursuing medicine.
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United States
Institute of Medicine
U.S
Neal A. Vanselow
Tulane University School of Medicine
Gallagher style comic settles with fruit mallet victim
Comedian Ron Gallagher reached a 75000 settlement with Richard A. Carpini who was struck in the head by a mallet during a show in West Orange New Jersey in 1993. Carpini suffered loss of smell and taste and vision problems and was treated at a hospital. The settlement became final on Friday.
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Ron Gallagher
Gallagher
Richard A. Carpini
Walenine
West Orange
N.J
Carpini
Theodore J. Rommankow
American in Bosnia triggers NATO alert over extremist ties
NATO led mission warns guards about Kevin Holt a U S man in his 30s who expressed sympathies for extremist causes after he tried to enter a NATO compound in Bosnia. Security tightened amid reports of potential attacks by Muslim fighters linked to Iran and others in retaliation for a New York judge life sentence of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman.
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Bosnia-Herzegovina
U.S
Bosnia
NATO
Kevin Holt
Holt
Iran
New York Times
Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman
The
Times
New York
Army medic found guilty for refusing UN leadership
Spc. Michael New, 22, a U.S. Army medic from Conroe Texas, was convicted by a court martial at Leighton Barracks for dis obeying a lawful order by refusing to wear a United Nations beret or accept foreign command on a Yugoslav peacekeeping mission. He faced up to six months in jail, dishonorable discharge and loss of pay.
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Wuerzburg
Germany
United Nations
Yugoslavia
Spc
Michael New
U.N
Custody Battle Over Alzheimer's Patient Involves Kevorkian
In Petoskey Michigan probate court Chip Klooster won custody of his 69 year old father Gerald to shield him from his mother Ruth and siblings who sought to arrange an assisted death. Judge Fred Mulhauser ruled returning Gerald to California would be dangerous given the mother’s alleged plan and extended a December custody order. Gerald sat quiet through the hearing. his daughter Kristin Hamstra had sought to return him to California as conservator. Chip disclosed his discovery that his mother joined the Hemlock Society and spoke with Kevorkian last summer.
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Jack Kevorkian
Fred Mulhauser
Chip Kicoster
Gerald Klooster
Mulhauser
Castro Valley
Calif
Ruth
Chip Klooster
Kristin Hamstra
California
The
Hemlock Society
Kevorkian
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