Polio Eradication Drive Faces $40 Million Gap in Africa
Washington reports a World Health Organization warning that the global polio campaign could miss its 2000 goal if as much as 40 million dollars more is not found to finish Africa. Dr. Ebrahim Samba emphasizes the last polio bastion must be eliminated to protect the world.
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Washington
Africa
Gond
Ebrahim Samba
World Health Organization
Western Hemisphere
Europe
Western Pacific
United States
Carrey and Lawler clash on set for Kaufman biopic
Jim Carrey, playing Andy Kaufman in Man on the Moon, was hospitalized after an incident with wrestler Jerry Lawler during filming. Eric Gold said Carrey spit at Lawler, who allegedly attacked Carrey, injuring his neck. Lawler’s camp denied the assault. Carrey was treated and released. police were not called.
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Los Angeles
Jim Carrey
Andy Kaufman
Mr. Kaufman
Carrey
Jerry Lawler
Mr. Lawler
Eric Gold
Lawler
Comeian
Jim
Andy
Mr. Gold
Kroc Gives Salvation Army $80 Million in San Diego
McDonald's heiress Joan Kroc donated 80 million dollars plus 12 acres to the Salvation Army for a San Diego community center named for her and Ray Kroc. She recalled Ray ringing bells for donations and said both should be remembered for giving. In New York an appeals court overturned a lower court, ruling the military ban on gays does not violate due process.
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San Diego
McDonald’s
Joan Kroc
Salvation Army
Ray
New York
2Nd
U.S. District Court of Appeals
U.S. Supreme Court
Beatrice Dohrn
Defense Department
Tom Begines
Pentagon
Justice Department
Department
Chris Watney
California
Virginia
Missouri
Clinic accused of using poor kids for exams in Los Angeles
AP reports a medical clinic allegedly recruited children from housing projects in South Central Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Compton, paying boys five dollars and girls ten dollars for unnecessary medical exams including gynecological tests, with no arrests yet made as detectives review seized records.
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Los Angeles
Don Knabe
Paramount Medical Center
North Long Beach
Compton
Paramount
Mason Kenny
Meningitis germ shows drug resistance in new study
A germ causing meningitis is becoming resistant to the main drug used to treat it. Neisseria meningitidis commonly lives in the nose and throat and spreads by sneezing or contact. Researchers at Pasteur Institute report resistant type B strains found in 11 Vietnamese patients and one French patient between 1987 and 1996 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Vietnam
France
Pasteur Institute
Paris
New England Journal of Medicine
Missing pregnant woman in Fresno case deepens mystery
Margarita Flores eight months pregnant left with a charity worker promising gifts and diapers. A chain of events includes a dead fetus, a vanishing body, and a witness found hanged in a shack. Suspect Josefina Saldana is jailed for kidnapping but cooperation remains, as Flores’ husband Heliodora Cruz hopes for her return.
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Fresno
Calif
Margarita Flores
Flores
Ms. Flores
California
Heliodora Cruz
Mr. Cruz
Cornelia
Josefina Sonia Saldana
Chowchilla
Rodarte
Gingrich rejects time limit on impeachment inquiry
Washington AP Newt Gingrich rejected a Democratic call for a time limit on the impeachment inquiry and urged President Clinton aides to answer grand jury questions. GOP aides floated widening the probe beyond Lewinsky to fund raising and other alleged offenses, while Democrats warned against a broad fishing expedition. House leaders expect a formal inquiry vote before October adjournment and hearings to start after the November election.
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Washington
Newt Gingrich
House
Clinton
Mike McCurry
Gingrich
Pennsylvania Avenue
Judiciary Committee
Kenneth Starr
GOP
Mr. Clinton
Monica Lewinsky
Starr
Lewinsky
Richard Gephardt
Missouri
South African peace operation turns into war in Lesotho
In Maseru chaos grows as South African troops, facing a mutiny, receive shoot-to-kill orders to quell looters and arsonists. About 600 soldiers crossed the border, with 200 Botswanans arriving to reinforce, while 58 Lesotho rebels are reported killed and 8 SA soldiers dead.
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Maseru
Lesotho
Botswana
South Africa
Nelson Mandela
Pretoria
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