Kurdish uprising seizes Sulaymaniyah as 300000 flee
Kurdish Democratic Party celebrates in Sulaymaniyah as Saddam Hussein’s Kurdish allies march with yellow flags. U.N. estimates up to 300000 of the city’s 400000 residents fled to mountains and Iran, amid calls for amnesty excluding serious crimes. Iran guards border. many fear another crackdown.
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Iran
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Turkey
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Geneva
Rupert Colville
U.N. Refugee Agency
U.S
KDP
Postal Service opens large Postmark America store at Mall of America
The U S Postal Service launches Postmark America, its first large scale retail outlet, at Minnesota's Mall of America to test postal themed apparel and gifts. merchandise blends postal history with American themes including stamps and Pony Express style items. The $250 000 investment aims to expand sales to small post office stores and create centralized pricing.
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Bloomington
Minnesota
Postal Service
Pony Express
Jim Mrnk
Washington, D.C
Postmark America
Mruk
Clinton promotes welfare reform with Missouri job program
President Clinton highlights a Kansas City Local Investment Commission plan that uses federal welfare and food stamp funds to provide employers wage subsidies of 500 dollars a month for each former welfare recipient hired. The program includes four years of health care and day care for new employees. He frames the policy as turning welfare into work while touring Missouri on a three day swing through several states.
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Clinton
Missouri
Kansas City
Local Investment Commission
White House
Mike McCurry
McCurry
Colorado
Arizona
California
Dole defends tax cut amid Medicare Social Security fears
In St Petersburg Florida Bob Dole countered Clinton ads charging his tax plan would slash Medicare and Social Security. He warned voters not to be scared and said education remains key to opportunity while pledging not to cut veterans or military retirees and promising GI Bill expansion. He planned rallies in Baker Louisiana and Tennessee.
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Fla
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Tennessee
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Atlanta
Newt Gingrich
House
Gingrich
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CBS
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Gary Langer
Washington
Italy
Food and Drug Administration
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Parmalat
FDA
Perot to name VP on TV during paid forum
Ross Perot plans a 30 minute infomercial on CBS at 8 pm EDT PDT and 7 pm local time to announce his running mate while appearing on Larry King Live to meet voters. He says the VP choice has the background and qualifications to serve and will seek national referendum backing on tax and budget plans.
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Ross Perot
CNN
Larry King
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Perot
CBS
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Texan
Cheerleader mom jailed in murder-for-hire plot
Wanda Webb Holloway, the “cheerleader mom” linked to a 1991 murder-for-hire plot to aid her daughter’s high school cheerleading chances, was sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading no contest to murder solicitation. The case involved a plan to have Verna Heath killed to affect Amber Holloway’s choir seating.
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Amber
Holloway
China blocks hundreds of Internet sites amid crackdown
The Chinese government cuts access to more than 100 World Wide Web sites in a crackdown aimed at obscenity and political danger. Targets include exiled dissident groups and Taiwan rivals, with U S media sites also blocked. American users report inability to read U S newspapers online, prompting Embassy inquiries. Authorities say blocks follow discoveries of Chinese employees using company computers to access the Internet.
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Taiwan
U.S
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