Kuwait election unfolds with banners and wary optimism
Kuwait's first post occupation election draws 650,000 voters amid banners and tents as 278 candidates mount campaigns. Voters weigh parliament power against royal authority while women protest for suffrage and turnout nears 90 percent. Police guard polling stations as results expected within a day.
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Kuwait
Sheik Jaber al- Ahmed al-Sabah
Khalid Ibrahim
al-Sabah
Hamad al-Jouan
Abdul Aziz Hassan
Frederick County Recycling Program Surpasses Expectations
The county reports curbside recycling collected 581.7 tons in the first year, about 27 percent of total pilot-program collections. Drop-offs contributed 73 percent of recyclables, with 12 sites planned to add five more bins. Revenues declined as market prices fell. glass and aluminum remained revenue leaders for BFI, while newsprint yielded no income.
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Glade Manor
Spring Garden Estates
Walkersville
South Frederick
Brunswick
Ms. Norris
BFI
Frederick County
Food festival fills Arlington street with tastes and treats
A street fair along South Market Street in Arlington featured bread making demos by Trail House staff Jacquie Hull and Heidi Hallei, spicy stuffed jalapenos, knockwurst and sauerkraut, and Ally's restaurant booths. Frederick Kiwanis offered fresh apple cider with Bill Watson noting last year’s sales exceeded 800 cups as merchants offered sidewalk bargains and extended storefront events.
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Matt Norris
Arlington
Mr. Norris
Trail House
South Market Street
Jacquie Hull
Heidi Hallei
Ally’s
Alpenhof
Frederick Kiwanis
Bill Watson
Mount Saint Mary's Students Protest Abortion Ban Stand
Pro life students Miss Baby John Caulfield and David Majeski from Mount Saint Mary’s demonstrate to show conviction for life. They say younger people may feel pressure to hide beliefs and fear ridicule. The group argues college students possess deep commitment to causes.
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Miss Baby
Mount Saint Mary's
John Caulfield
David Majeski
Mr. Majeski
Mr. Caulfield
Abortions banned in Ramana linked to high deaths and orphans
A study in the American Journal of Public Health reports that Romania's ban on elective abortion and contraception led to more than 19 000 maternal deaths, 10 000 abortions illegal, and about 20 000 children placed in orphanages while the law was in effect.
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Washington
Ramana
American Journal of Public Health
Romania
Europe
Machinists strike at USAir grounds flights nationwide
Thousands of ground crew members from IAM Local 2444 walked out over wages and work rules, reducing USAir operations to about 60 percent of normal. Picket lines formed at Greensboro Winston Salem Roanoke and Washington LaGuardia with 14 of 56 LaGuardia departures canceled. Union says strike starts 7 a.m. local time and will continue. USAir contends Express and Shuttle flights remain unaffected.
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Washington
Usair
International Association of Machinists
Greensboro
N.C
Winston-Salem
Roanoke
Paul Brinker
Brinker
Washington National Airport
New York
la Guardia
Tures
Newark
Pittsburgh
Harry Wolf
John Bronson
Union
Susan Young
Usair Express
Usair Shuttle
Seth E. Schofield
Walkersville video shown on America’s Funniest Home Videos
Mike and Jennifer Kirschbaum said their August 1991 tape from Minnesota shows their 5-year-old son Thomas aiming a bow and arrow at a 20-foot cow statue outside a cheese shop. The family sent the video to NBC's show last March and watched it air Sunday night.
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Walkersville
America
Mike Kirschbaum
Jennifer
Minnesota
Thomas
Kirschbaum
ANC refuses to disband military wing amid talks rift
In Johannesburg the ANC rejects Inkatha demands to dissolve its Spear of the Nation as a condition for resuming talks on ending apartheid. The party calls the demand a red herring while planning marches into KwaZulu and Bophuthatswana homelands that risk renewed violence.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
ANC
Inkatha Freedom Party
African National Congress
Inkatha
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
Communist Party
Chris Hani
Anc-Led Groups Would Go Ahead With Marches On Buthelezi
KwaZulu
Bophuthatswana
Ciskei
Hani
Buthelezi
Spear
F.W. de Klerk
Nelson Mandela
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Frederick Cablevision, Inc
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Udente Sune
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