U S stages huge mock invasion near Caribbean regions
United States officials disclosed a large scale military exercise involving about 44 000 personnel held mainly off North Carolina and inland in Georgia and the Bahamas. They rejected reports tying the drill to a Haiti invasion while stressing the plan was long in place and unrelated to any Caribbean country.
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San Juan
Puerto Rico
Haiti
U.S Atlantic Command
Air Force
Jamie Roach
Associated Press
Boston Globe
Clinton
Congress
May Roach
Caribbean
Southwest Asia
Maj. Roach
Norfolk
United States
Atlantic Command
North Carolina
Savannah
Great Inagua
County OKs 1.1M in budget appeals
Frederick County commissioners opened a drive to cover 21 million dollars in operating and capital budget appeals with 1.1 million from undesignated funds. The fund, about 9.6 million earlier, was depleted after Monday's vote for a 3 percent raise for county workers, school staff, and Frederick Community College employees.
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Frederick County
Frederick Community College
Frederick County approves 295 acre Monrovia area planned community
The Frederick County Planning Commission voted 51 to approve a 295 acre project west of Ed McClain Road south of Monrovia. It will include nearly 600 homes with 80 percent single family, a school site, and 213 adjacent acres for a future county park. Opponents cited traffic and impact on public facilities, while a single resident opposed the plan as farmland.
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Frederick County Planning Commission
Ed McClain Road
Monrovia
Paul Greenberg
Planning Commission
Ed McClain
Mark Jeffers
Commission
Marty Rice
Beth McCormick
Humane deer contraception trial at NIST Gaithersburg
The Humane Society and NIST launch a field test vaccinating about 100 white tailed deer on the Gaithersburg campus to curb overpopulation. The immunocontraception vaccine, delivered by dart, aims for two shots per female with a future one shot multi year version possible by fall 1995. Funding shared between HSUS and NIST, with Maryland DNR cooperation.
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Gaithersburg
National Institute of Standards and Technology
The
Humane Society of the United States
NIST
Michael E. Newman
Ailen T. Rutberg
Wildife
Humane Society
Assateague Island National Seashore
Smithsonian Conservation Research Center
Front Royal
Fire Island National Seashore
New York
Rutberg
Rubherg
Newman
Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Abortion Clinic Blockade Bill Gets Senate Approval
Anti abortion groups warn of court challenges to the congressionally approved measure making it a federal crime to block access to abortion clinics or threaten workers or patients The Senate gave final approval as President Clinton is expected to sign promptly The bill targets blockades violence and threats at clinics amid more than 1000 violent incidents since 1977
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Washington
Senate
Clinton
House
Dick Armey
Pleasant but cool weather to Saturday then warm again
Pleasant but cool conditions prevail through Friday with a southerly flow bringing temperatures back to seasonal norms by Saturday. Western Maryland weather and map feature on Payette A-2.
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Maryland
Payette
Lehigh union workers resume picket line action
Lehigh Portland Cement Co. union workers return to an informational picket outside the plant in UNION BRIDGE and at the plant manager David Roush’s home near Westminster. About 150 of 200 plant employees are union members in a slow-bargaining dispute with the company after switching unions in 1991.
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Union Bridge
Lehigh Portland Cement Co
David Roush
Westminster
United Paperworkers International
John Keyser
Lehigh
Jeff Brozyna
Allentown, Pa
Hood students and faculty pledge to work together
Hood College students and faculty met to rededicate open communication, civility, and tolerance after tensions between the Black Student Union and the Student Government Association. About 75 people heard leaders pledge a joint effort for a real solution.
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Skip Lawrence Shannon Schmura
Student Government Association
Hood College
Heather Wright
Black Student Union
Natalie Jones
Shannon Schmura
BSU
SGA
Gauri Sud
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