UAW DaimlerChrysler Reach Tentative National Contract
The United Auto Workers and DaimlerChrysler AG reached a tentative deal for 75,000 workers in a marathon bargaining round. Details were not released as ratification voting has not been scheduled. Major issues anticipated include wages job security health care costs overtime and outsourcing.
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Auburn Hills
Mich
United Auto Workers
DaimlerChrysler AG
UAW
Frank Joyce
Chrysler Corp
Ger
Daimler-Benz AG
Nion
Pratt
DaimlerChrysler
General Motors Corp
Ford Motor Co
Bus and train collisions claim 31 lives in western China
A long distance bus plunged into a canyon in Kaijiang county Sichuan killing 25 and wounding 24. In Yibin Sichuan a train struck a school bus at an unguarded crossing killing six and injuring 27. Only the driver survived from the bus with 34 students aboard.
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Bening
China
Yibin
Sichuan
Yangcheng
Kaijiang
Beijing
Liao
Explosion Ravages Volgodonsk Apartment Building
An overnight truck bomb devastated a four story Volgodonsk building in southern Russia, killing at least 17 people and injuring 115 as authorities call it the fourth major blast in two weeks linked to militant attacks near the Caucasus. Traces of explosives were found, the FSB said.
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Moscow
Russia
Volgodonsk
Caucasus
Boris Yeltsi
Federal Security Service
South African officer opens fire killing eight at Tempe base
An unidentified lieutenant at Tempe infantry base fired on colleagues, killing eight and wounding six before he was fatally shot. Police described victims as white and the shooter as black, but officials avoided assigning racial motive. Weapons and timing noted. tensions in the South African defense forces cited.
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Bloemfontein
South Africa
Leutenant
Johlene van der Merwe
den Alberts
van der Merwe
Tempe
Emeret Serfontem
South African National Defense Force
African National Congress
Gates to give 1B for minority scholars
Gates and Melinda Gates Foundation plan at least 1 billion dollars in scholarships over 20 years for minority college students. The Gates Millennium Scholarships target education engineering math and science and aim to aid about 1 000 high school students annually. Eligible entrants need a 3.4 GPA teacher nomination an essay and a community service pledge.
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Seattle
Microsoft Corp
Bill Gates
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
United Nations
CNN
Ted Turner
The
News Tribune
Tacoma
New York Times
Clinton blocks Puerto Rican clemency papers by executive privilege
President Clinton refused to hand over clemency documents to a House panel, invoking executive privilege. White House spokesman said about 10,000 pages would be released, but materials directly tied to the president's constitutional authority would not. The issue centers on clemency granted to FALN members amid political uproar and claims it affected Senator Clinton’s ambitions.
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Clinton
Washington
House
Senate
FALN
Armed Forces of National Liberation
Jim Kennedy
White House
Kennedy
Dan Burton
R-Ind
House Government Reform Committee
Cheryl Mills
Military women gain new roles but face barriers
Washington AP notes more women hold jobs once closed to men yet barriers persist. Since 1993 94 legislative changes opened combat related fields, with Marine Corps officers becoming pilots and naval flight officers rising to 62 last year. Army enlisted women in field artillery grew from 32 in 1992 to 122 in 1998 amid a shrinking male cohort.
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Washington
General Accounting Office
Coass
Marine Corps
Indonesian troops help clean up East Timor as peacekeepers near
Indonesian soldiers in East Timor handed out rice and swept streets in Dili, aiding refugees while Australian led peacekeepers prepare to arrive. Some 2,500 of 7,000 expected to follow, as aid drops face delays and tension over aid and independence.
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Dili
Indonesia
East Timor
East
Kiki Syahnakri
Kiki
U.N. Security Council
New York
Wiranto
Joao da Silva
Moore
Darwin
Australia
U.N
West Timor
United Nations
Starr would have let another investigator handle Lewinsky affair
Los Angeles AP reports special counsel Kenneth Starr said he would select another independent counsel for the Clinton Lewinsky matter if given the chance. He praised Clinton as gifted yet criticized his truthfulness and cited the failed 21 year old independent counsel statute.
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Los Angeles
Kenneth Starr
Delver
Clinton
Monica Lewinsky
Starr
Whitewater
Lewitsky
Justice Department
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