Perot Hones Platform With Wide Ranging Expert Panels
Ross Perot gathers environmentalists, economists, health care experts and homeless advocates in Dallas to shape a platform. He hires issue specialists from across the spectrum and runs polls and a large call-in system to feed a responsive, deliberative process. Analysts note the unusual readiness to start from a clean slate with no public office record.
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Ross Perot
Texas
Mr. Perot
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Ann Lewis
Democratic National Committee
Brookings Institution
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Gasoline prices rise average over two cents in two weeks
Gasoline prices climbed about 2 cents per gallon on average in the past two weeks as summer travel picks up. The Lundberg Report shows 2.1 grade prices near 1.29 dollars a gallon on Friday, with self-serve at 1.15 and full-serve premium at 1.54.
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Los Angeles
Trilby Lundberg
Lundberg
Fighting near Sarajevo as truce looms and UN seeks airport restart
On the eve of a promised truce Sarajevo fighters clash for high ground while a lull lets residents leave shelters to find food and bury dead. UN negotiators push to remove Serbian troops and arms from around the airport to restart humanitarian flights to Sarajevo amid the siege. In Belgrade, 10,000 people including intellectuals protest for peace.
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Bosnia-Herzegovina
United Nations
Belgrade
Tritt apologizes to Billy Ray Cyrus over Achy Breaky Heart remarks
Country singer Travis Tritt says he is sorry if his criticism of Billy Ray Cyrus and the song Achy Breaky Heart hurt him. He had previously said the hit song did not make a strong statement and criticized its video as overdone.
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Ray Cyrus
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Clinton
Rainbow Coalition
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Summit backs push as world leaders sign treaties
President Fernando Collor de Mello of Brazil led backers saying meat cannot be treated separately as 118 heads of government gathered for the summit. Bush Mitterand Major Kohl attended as treaties were signed pledging action on environment and development while US Japan Europe pledged emission caps at 1990 levels. Strong urged continued push to ensure changes materialize beyond the summit.
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Brazil
U.N
Bush
Francois Mitterand
France
John Major
Britain
Helmut Kohl
Germany
United States
U.S
Europe
Japan
Malaysia
Strong
Spain
Saudia Arabia
Kuwait
Clinton defends Sister Souljah remarks amid election heat
In a CBS interview Bill Clinton reaffirmed his criticism of Sister Souljah, saying her comments reveal deep alienation and division. He rejected pandering charges, urged unity, and blamed both major parties for national distrust while declining to attack Ross Perot.
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Bill Clinton
CBS
Sister Souljah
Los Angeles
Clinton
Jesse Jackson
Mr. Clinton
Ross Perot
Korean War memorial breaks ground in D C
President Bush leads ground breaking for a long awaited Korean War memorial near the Lincoln Memorial. The 2.2 acre site features 16 life sized soldiers, a reflecting pool, a grove and a granite wall honoring supporters, with about 5000 veterans in attendance on Flag Day.
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Washington
Bush
America
Lincoln Memorial
Congress
Fine Arts and Planning
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Release of last Western hostages expected soon
In Damascus and Beirut, German envoys said two hostages Heinrich Struebig and Thomas Kemptner may be freed within 48 hours, ending an eight year saga. Iran pressed mediators while a security source noted their transfer to a guarded Beirut location ahead of handover to an Iranian intermediary.
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Farouk al-Sharaa
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Thomas Kemptner
Iran
Haret Hreik
Ali Akbar Velayati
Bekaa
Van Duyn Becomes First US Female Poet Laureate
Washington AP Mona Van Duyn a St Louis poet renowned for major prizes was named by the Library of Congress as the nations first female poet laureate. She will focus on the traditional title poetry consultant and says she won't imitate the British laureate tradition preferring a practical role. At 71 she says she is pleased and flattered and that it is time a woman held the distinction after five men held the title since 1986.
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Mona van Duyn
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Library of Congress
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