Battle looms for control of Kabul
Kabul braces as opposition forces nearing the capital threaten the Taliban occupation. Civilians flee the rocket torn roads to Pakistan while Taliban defenders and advancing allied forces trade blasts. Residents describe fear as jets and anti aircraft fire echo, with strict Islamic rule tightening across Kabul.
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Kabul
Afghanistan
Pakistan
Mohammed Agha
Mr. Agha
Agha
Taliban
Beetle Bailey creator updates General Halftrack for modern times
Paree cartoon general gets a message from the Army sex scandal era. Mort Walker says Halftrack is retooled to reflect fair treatment of women at work and in the military while staying a symbol of military bureaucracy.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Amos Halftrack
Beetle Bailey
Mort Walker
Walker
Gen. Halftrack
Woman Arrested Four Years After Purchasing Baby for $20
Leah Codell Bracken was arrested in Sacramento on charges of purchasing a human being welfare fraud and perjury after allegedly buying a newborn girl from a prostitute for $20 and raising her. The child spent her fourth birthday in protective custody as investigators seek the birth mother who may have sold up to four other children.
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Sacramento
Calif
Leah Codell Bracken
Jim Cooper
Subpoenas Tie Teamsters to Democratic Groups in Case
A federal grand jury probing Ron Carey s re election as Teamsters president subpoenaed Teamsters records on Democratic organizations and DNC documents about the Teamsters. Investigators seek 1996 1997 files linking party and union fundraising. The DNC says no acknowledged subpoenas.
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Washington
Ron Carey
Teamsters
Democratic Party
Teamster
Democratic National Committee
Carey
DNC
Amy Weiss Tobe
Justice
Earl V. Brown Jr
David Neigus
Neigus
Associated Press
United Auto Workers End Strike Near GM Warren Plant
About 2,800 workers approved ending the strike at GM Powertrain Warren Transmission Plant in Madison Heights Michigan with 89 percent backing. Production resumed after the vote, while other GM plants in Flint Orion Township Lansing and Oshawa faced potential reopenings.
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Madison Heights
Mich
General Motor Corp
GM Powertrain
Warren
Saturn
Tennessee
Detroit
North America
United Auto Workers AW
al Benchich
Flint
Orion Township
Lansing
Oshawa
Ontario
Cunanan body sent to California as inquiry widens
Miami AP report says authorities prepared Andrew Cunanan's body for shipment to Bonita California while they investigate whether he had help in his flight. FBI probes include Torsten Reineck and a Las Vegas spa lead, but officials say no evidence links him to ongoing crimes and a small safe found near the body yielded only a collector's coin and paperwork.
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Miami
Andrew Cunanan
California
Bonita
Calif
Cunanan
Gianni Versace
Miami Beach
Paul Philip
FBI
Torsten Reineck
Reineck
Las Vegas
Apollo Health Club & Spa
Spa
Inmates seize Wrightsville barracks in Arkansas uprising
Fifteen inmates at the Wrightsville Unit work farm seized two 50 bed barracks for four hours after guards sought to search a prisoner for drugs. The instigators, to be moved to maximum security and face possible charges, were handcuffed with 96 inmates questioned.
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Wrightsville
Ark
Dina Tyler
Little Rock
Ms. Tyler
Tyler
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