Haiti patrols tighten grip after coup leader flees
Helicopters hovered over Port au Prince as 5 military patrols searched for suspected army auxiliaries. The departure of Francois, who led the crackdown on Aristide supporters, reduces one obstacle to democracy. U.S. figures say about 95 detainees and over 4000 seized weapons reflect ongoing stabilizing efforts with Haitian and American cooperation. Aristide backers hailed Francois’s exit and urged other leaders Cedras and Bramby to follow.
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Haiti
Francois
Dominican Republic
Rancois
Umon Rights Abuses Here, Elimiates
ean-Bertrand Aristide
U.S
David Mith
Reir
No link found between hair dye and cancer in women study
A 99 000 woman study found no evidence that long term use of permanent hair dye increases risk of hematopoietic cancers such as leukemia multiple myeloma Hodgkin’s disease or non Hodgkin’s lymphoma Harvard Medical School official Dr Charles H Hennekens said the evidence today is reassuring and the study followed nurses aged 30 to 55 for 14 years before disease onset.
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Washington
Charles H. Hennekens
Harvard Medical School
Hennekens
Plague in India expected to end by October
India's plague counts showed no deaths on Tuesday and officials, including Health Secretary M S Dayal, forecast the epidemic will end soon. WHO agreed with the prognosis though many patients with fever and chest symptoms continued presenting in New Delhi hospitals.
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New Delhi
India
World Health Organization
M.S. Dayal
WHO
Hartford schools privatized in first city takeover
Hartford becomes the first U S city to turn over its entire public school system to a private firm Education Alternatives Inc after a 6-3 vote to manage 32 schools for about 25 000 students The plan aims to raise test scores via the Tesseract Way emphasizing computer aided learning and parent involvement sparking strong protest from many parents and teachers The firm already runs nine Baltimore schools and one in Miami Beach Fla
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Hartford
Steven Fournier
Education Alternatives
Baltimore
Miami Beach
Fia
Abortion foe warns jury of God's anger at trial
Paul Hill, facing federal charges for interfering with an abortion clinic, used his opening to say those who support abortion will answer to God. He declared he would act as his own lawyer after a change of heart and questioned prosecution witnesses. Hill once advocated violence against abortion providers and now defends himself with standby lawyers.
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Pensacola
Fla
Ting
Paul Hill
Hill
John Bayard Britton
James H. Jarrett
Presbyterian Church
Mass death in Swiss sect discovered at farm and chalets
Swiss police report 48 bodies found in a religious sect incident across a Fribourg farm and three ski chalets in Valais. Victims included adults and children. some wore ceremonial robes, with bags over heads and hands clasped in prayer. Police describe suffocation in an underground chapel and a hidden door behind barn paneling.
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Cheiry
Switzerland
Fribourg
Geneva
Beat Carlen
Carlen
Les Granges
Valais
Andre Piller
Kuril Islands hit by strongest quake in 26 years
A 7.9 magnitude undersea quake near the Kuril Islands kills at least nine, wrecks buildings, and drives residents to high ground as aftershocks continue. Rescue teams fly in from Moscow and the Far East to evacuate the injured and restore services amid fear of deadly tsunamis.
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Russia
Kuril Islands
Yevgeny Kulkov
Sakhalin Island
Moscow
Siberia
Far East
Japan
Kurils
Oleg Meshkov
Regional Emergency Commission
Sakhalin
Shikotan
Kunashir
Iturup
Ministry For
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Golden
Colo
Tokyo
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