World leaders back IMF reform and new emergency fund
At a Halifax summit the seven richest nations endorsed an international bailout fund to aid crisis economies and modernize the IMF. They also urged UN agency consolidation and global financial regulator cooperation while addressing Bosnia and Chechnya. Yeltsin arrived to join talks amid Russia’s Chechnya stance.
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Nova Scotia
International Monetary Fund
Mexico
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Germany
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Italy
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U.S
Congress
White House
Mike McCurry
Economic Summit
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Moscow
Russia
Chechnya
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Bosnia
U.N
Persian Gulf
Asia
Senate delays wage rule clash on federal road funds
Senate postponed debate on prevailing wage rules for federally funded road projects clearing a gridlock that threatened to hold up 6.5 billion dollars annually for the National Highway System. Democrats opposed dropping the Davis Bacon provision arguing it keeps fair wages while Republicans warned it would raise costs. A separate labor bill will address the issue later.
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Senate
John Warner
R-Va
Edward Kennedy
D-Mass
Kennedy
Paul Wellstone
D-Minn
Warner
Sign of life heard among Greek apartment debris
In Egion Greece rescuers probing the collapsed five story building aftershocks hampered the hunt for survivors from the quake that killed 23 and left more than 60 injured. Swiss and French teams sonar devices heard a life signal described as not very strong while rescuers worked fiercely to pull out survivors. Seven live canaries found in cages amid the rubble. A picture of Jesus Christ swayed on a wall in a top floor room.
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Greece
Alain Ricci
Hell
Didier Guinard
Egton
Jesus Christ
Navy Dropping Dunning Discharge After tribunal ruling
Navy Lt. Cmdr. Zoe Dunning will remain in the Naval Service as an open lesbian after a tribunal voted to retain her and purge discharge efforts. The decision follows a 1993 rally disclosure and comes amid ongoing legal challenges to the dont ask dont tell policy.
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San Francisco
Navy
Zoe Dunning
Dunning
U.S
Naval Service
Clinton
Fat cat Kitty Cat leaves Oregon with riches to city
In Tangent Oregon 19 year old cat Kitty Cat who inherited $250000 from the estate of John Bass in 1983 has died. The will awards the city ownership of Bass 1916 five bedroom farmhouse to be kept as a historic site. City officials expressed surprise and will adjust plans for the property now that the feline beneficiary is gone.
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Tangent
Ore
Oregon
Kitty Cat
City
Dale Clark
John Bass
Bass
City Recorder
Georgia Edwards
FBI opens international academy graduates 34 officers from three countries
Thirty four police officers from the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland became the first graduates of the FBI International Law Enforcement Academy in Budapest Hungary. Senator Orrin Hatch praised the program as a step forward in fighting organized crime and strengthening U.S. Hungarian relations. The eight week course began April 24 amid rising cross border crime in eastern Europe.
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Hungary
Czech Republic
Poland
FBI
International Law Enforcement Academy
Orrin Hatch
Utah
West
Hatch
United States
Europe
Jackson apologizes for slang in song controversy
Michael Jackson issued a letter to Rabbi Marvin Hier apologizing for anti-Semitic slang used in a song. He said the intention was to denounce racism and stereotyping and will include a statement with his q1Story album. He apologized to anyone who might have been hurt.
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Los Angeles
Michael Jackson
Jackson
Marvin Hier
Simon Wiesenthal Center For Holocaust Studies
Bosnian Croat Militia Backs Government Army At Sarajevo
In Sarajevo the Bosnian Croat militia joined with the Muslim-led army to pressure lifting the siege. Firefights flared around the city, civilian casualties rose, and both sides hit noncombatants as peacekeepers moved to protect UN sites.
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Bosnia-Herzegovina
Tihomir Begic
HVO
Tomislavgrad
Bosnia
United Nations
U.N
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