Castro's prior custody fight echoes Elian saga in Cuba
Fidel Castro waged a custody battle over his firstborn Fidelito in 1950s Cuba and Mexico. Biographers note Mirta Diaz Balart won custody, Castro urged return to Cuba, and the case influenced later tensions as Elian Gonzalez centers a similar family dispute across nations.
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Fidel Castro
Elian Gonzalez
Elian
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Castro
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Florida
Miami
Mirta Diaz- Balart
Cuba
Santiago
Mirta Diaz
United States
Fidelito
Tad Szulc
Fidel
Rafael Diaz-Balart
Fulgencio Batista
Mexico
Batista
Mirta Diaz-Balart
Robert E. Quirk
Fide
Mexico City
Chapultepec Park
Quirk
Soviet Union
Diaz-Balart
Spain
U.S
Lincoln Diaz-Balart
R-Fla
CNN
Juan Miguel Gonzalez
Fidelito Castro
Fuel gunk grounds thousands of Australian planes
Australian aviation faces a nationwide grounding as contaminated Avgus 100 130 fuel, altered at Mobil’s Altona refinery, thickens with copper and brass parts. The crisis cripples small-aircraft operators, flight schools, and bush services, with losses running millions weekly while investigations and cleanup begin.
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Australia
Exxon Mobil Corp
Mick Toller
Civil Aviation Safety Authority
Toller
Victoria
Royal Flying Doctor Service
Air Force
East Timor
Mobil
Altona
Melbourne
Bill Hamilton
Aircraft Owners’ and Pilots’ Association
Federal Transport and Safety Bureau
Hamilton
John Anderson
Bankstown
Wagga Wagga
Wee Waa
Rockhampton
Lightning Ridge
Outback
UN chief taps former head for new Iraq arms body
Secretary-General Kofi Annan nominated Rolf Ekeus to lead UNMOVIC, overriding objections from Russia and China. Iraq criticized the move as reusing an old hand, while France signaled possible resistance. The selection follows a month long search with over 25 candidates and aims to head the new monitoring commission replacing UNSCOM.
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Iraq
U.N
Rolf Ekens
Kofi Annan
Baghdad
Tariq Aziz
Ekens
UN Special Commission
Sweden
United States
Richard Butler
Australia
Aziz
Kuwait
Ekeus
Russia
China
Annan
U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission
Unmovic
France
United Nations Special Commission For Disarmament of
Brazil
Celso Amorim
Finland
Israel
Cyprus
Pasi Patokallio
Fred Eckhard
Unscom
Jordanian king in disguise leaves palace for fourth time
King Abdullah II, 37, again goes incognito to learn life in Jordan, this time posing as a comum citizen and visiting a Zarqa government hospital. Officials say the monarch aims to see hospital services firsthand and to recall his father King Hussein's populist outreach.
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Amman
Jordan
Abdullah II
Abdullah
Zarqa
Hussein
Prince Hassan
Turkish police clash with militants in Istanbul raid
Police shot and killed a suspected Islamic militant and detained two others after a five hour barricade in an Istanbul neighborhood. The raid was linked to an investigation of seven businessmen kidnappings attributed to an Islamic Kurdish group. one officer was injured in the initial exchange of fire.
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Turkey
Hasan Ozdemir
Ozdemir
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