Deal reached on European money
EU leaders at Amsterdam reached a compromise blending German budget discipline with French demands for growth and job creation. The accord strengthens the euro framework, offers grants and loans for employment schemes, and preserves plans for a 1999 euro launch while signaling room for eastern expansion and new member intake including Poland Hungary and the Czech Republic.
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Netherlands
Europe
Romano Prodi
Gerrit Zalm
Germany
France
United States
Japan
Poland
Hungary
Czech Republic
Treasury to issue new state themed quarter designs
A proposed plan before Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin would have the U.S. Mint produce 50 new reverse designs, one per state, while Washington remains. Beginning in 1999, five designs per year for ten years would replace the eagle, keeping size and weight vending machine compatible. Collectors push for the change.
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California
Bear
Louisiana
Treasury
Robert Rubin
U.S. Mint
George
Farmland drive wipes 7.4 million Jiangsu graves for acres
Chinese workers removed 7.4 million graves in Jiangsu province near Shanghai to create 195000 acres of farmland as part of a cremation push. Workers' Daily says the removals occurred between mid February and mid April amid China’s farmland pressure and low per person plots.
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Beijing
Jiangsu
Shanghai
China
Naomi Campbell Back At Work After Antibiotic Reaction
Naomi Campbell returned to work in Paris and denied overdose reports, saying she is very well and fit. She has a photo shoot booked through the 19th, staying with friends amid paparazzi at the Hotel Bristol.
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Paris
Naomi Campbell
Bristol
Campbell
Miranda Denoff
London
Cattlemen sue Oprah Winfrey over Meats Remarks
Amarillo cattle feeder Paul Engler and a dozen cattlemen sue Oprah Winfrey under a 1995 Texas agricultural protection law. They allege remarks during the Oprah Show disparaged beef and caused a drop in cattle prices after a studio audience reaction.
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Oprah Winfrey
Amarillo
Texas
United States
Winfrey
Paul Engler
Clinton signals no reparations for slaves while urging national race dialogue
President Clinton says he will consider a formal national apology to black Americans for slavery but rejects paying compensation. He cites generations removed and favors repairing discrimination through policy, not reparations. Lawmakers Tony Hall and John Conyers push reparations proposals, while Clinton advances a race initiative and ongoing debate.
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Clinton
Ohio
Congress
San Diego
Mr. Clinton
Tuskegee
Tony Hall
Mr. Hall
Court upholds Montana abortion limit on physician assistants
The Supreme Court by a 6-3 vote reversed a 9th Circuit ruling, allowing Montana to restrict abortions to physicians. The decision keeps in place a 1995 law affecting Susan Cahill, a Kalispell clinic worker, and rejects Utah's bid to curb late term abortions. Justices Stevens, Ginsburg and Breyer dissented.
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Supreme Court
Montana
Utah
Janet Benshoof
Center For Reproductive Law and Policy
Ms. Benshoof
Clarke Corsythe
Americans United For Life
Susan Cahill
Kalispell
Mont
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U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
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John Paul Stevens
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Stephen G. Breyer
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