Pope honors Copernicus in Poland during visit
Pope John Paul II traveled to Torun birthplace of Copernicus and to Lichen to consecrate Poland’s largest church. He praised the astronomer’s heliocentric discovery while warning that science and religion still seek common ground, calling for world peace and stressing moral responsibility amid rapid scientific progress.
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Urszula Gros
Lichen
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Pope John Paul II
Stanislaw Bienka
Bienka
Wincenty Frelichowski
Dachau
Frelichowski
Barak vows to push peace talks and curb settlements
Prime Minister-elect Ehud Barak told Channel Two that he would slow settlement expansion and push negotiations with the Palestinians if they show seriousness. He announced a cabinet committee to review projects approved by Netanyahu and suggested some may be canceled.
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NATO bombs intensify as Serbs resist Kosovo pullout
NATO jets struck Yugoslavia with intensified bombing while Milosevic promised to honor the peace accord. US B52s hit Kosovo near the Albanian border as Belgrade forces dug in along the frontier. NATO warned of renewed air operations as Serb troops resisted and refugees remained in limbo.
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Martti Ahtisaari
NATO attacks intensify as Kosovo peace talks fail
NATO strikes on Serb forces in Kosovo over the past 24 hours hit four tanks, 20 artillery pieces and 17 armored personnel carriers. Yugoslav troops near the Albanian border faced new air and ground pressure as talks on a Kosovo peace plan collapsed. The plan demands full Yugoslav withdrawal and the deployment of international peacekeepers to protect about 855,000 ethnic Albanian refugees upon repatriation.
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Suspected Serb war criminal detained in Bosnia
NATO led peacekeepers arrested Bosnian Serb Dragan Kulundzija in Prijedor on charges including violations of the Geneva Convention and crimes against humanity. He faces transfer to The Hague and potential life imprisonment if convicted for alleged abuses at Keraterm prison in 1992. The tribunal has indicted many Bosnian Serbs Croats and Muslims in war crimes cases.
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