U S Syria agree on peace talks
United States and Syria reached terms for a Mideast peace conference after a meeting between James Baker and Hafez Assad. An UN observer would participate beyond a passive role and report to the UN secretary general, a move Israel opposes. Baker hopes Israel endorses the plan in talks in Jerusalem.
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Damascus
Syria
United States
James A. Baker III
Israel
Baker
Hafez Assad
U.N
United Nations
West Bank
Gaza
Bush
Yitzhak Shamir
Jerusalem
U.S
Farouk Sharaa
Assad
Mikhail Gorbachev
Soviet Union
Terry Anderson
School of scandal at University of Tennessee Space Institute
Tenured professor Walter Frost was forced to retire at 55 amid an academic scandal at UT Space Institute. Two students face degree rescissions over alleged plagiarism and claims the professor aided them to secure private NASA and Army research contracts, harming Frost’s distinguished windshear research career.
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Knoxville, Tenn
University of Tennessee Space Institute
NASA
Army
Walter Frost
Frost
Senate votes 21 percent pay raise for members
Washington AP reports critics call a late night Senate move a pre midnight raid on the treasury as members approve a 21 percent salary hike to 125 100 for House parity and 101 900 for senators. Some vow to refuse or donate funds. Senate leaders face honoraria changes and a potential boost in total pay and fees.
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Washington
Treasury
Senate
Bush
Congress
Ralph Nader
Nader
Alan Keys
Citizens Against Government Waste
Army told to leave, Slovenia could secede
Yugoslavia's federal presidency ordered the withdrawal of all federal troops from Slovenia, signaling a major policy shift and potentially greenlighting Slovenia's bid to secede. Borisav Jovic said pullout would start immediately and finish within three months, though no immediate army response followed. Battles had already claimed over 60 lives as Croatia and Slovenia pushed toward independence.
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Belgrade. Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia
Slovenia
Borisav Jovic
Serbia
Belgrade
Jovic
Croatia
Viet photo mystery deepens in missing servicemen case
Pentagon officials said Vietnam handed over ten sets of remains in April 1990, one identified as Air Force Col. John Leighton Robertson though nonhuman proof led Hanoi to be notified in July 1990. The grainy image links Robertson, Maj. Albro Lynn Lundy Jr., and Lt. Larry James Stevens to a Southeast Asia photo the families say shows them alive.
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Vietnam
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Pestagon
Pete Williams
Hanoi
Air Force
John Leighton Rtson
Williams
Col. Robertson
Albro Lynn Landy Jr
Navy
Larry James Stevens
Southeast Asia
Lt Stevens
Maj. Lundy
Warnings on Gates ignored in CIA nomination bid
Washington reports White House dismissed warnings that Walsh probes could derail Robert Gates nomination to head the CIA. Bush asked White House counsel Boyden Gray about the Walsh investigation before May 14, noting Gates testified before a grand jury in the Iran Contra matter. Bert Lance agrees to pay FDIC 2.64 million over four unpaid loans from UAB, plus interest and fees.
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White House
Lawrence Walsh
Robert Gates
CIA
Walsh
Costa Rica
Joseph Fernandez
Bush
Boyden Gray
Gates
Gray
U.S
Iran
Nicaragua
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Bert Lance
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
Tennessee Bank
Lance
Carter
FDIC
Calhoun
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Kris Co. Inc
United American Bank
Knoxville
Chattanooga
Tenn
Gordon County
UAB
Tennessee Commissioner of Banking
First Tennessee Bank of
Knoaville
Judge questions Temple Mount probe findings in riot ruling
Magistrate Ezra Kama rejected some probe conclusions and said policemen fired needlessly during the October 8 Temple Mount riots that left 17 Palestinians dead. He declined to press charges for lack of sufficient evidence, in Israel's most comprehensive account of the clash near the Western Wall and Al Aqsa Mosque.
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Jerusalem
Temple Mount
Ezra Kama
Harem Es- Sharif
Wailing Wall
Western Wall
al Aqsa
Four nabbed in Van Gogh theft at Amsterdam museum
Four suspects including a museum guard were arrested in the dramatic Van Gogh theft. Police say two fled when a second car failed to arrive due to a flat tire. The paintings valued in the hundreds of millions were abandoned in a car minutes after the April 14 robbery at the Vincent van Gogh National Museum.
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Netherlands
Vincent van Gogh
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