Kosovo revival plans unfold at Cologne summit
World leaders, including Clinton and Blair, press Kosovo rebuild amid horror at mass killings as US Russia reach Helsinki accord on peacekeeping. Debt relief initiative aims to cancel up to 100 billion for 33 poorest nations, Mozambique to gain 30 million a year.
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Poland Senate Defies Pope on Prenatal Testing Amendments
The Solidarity led Senate in Warsaw voted 80 to 1 with four abstentions to block amendments restricting prenatal tests such as amniocentesis. The measure would ban testing except when family genetic issues exist or the fetus could be treated for faults, sending the bill back to the Sejm.
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Comma error costs Lockheed $70 million in sale
The Financial Times reports a misplaced decimal comma in Lockheed Martin's C 130J Hercules contract inflated by European decimal practice. The misprint set the price higher, but the unnamed customer insisted on the agreed amount, costing Lockheed $70 million.
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Micky” Blackwell
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U S warplanes strike Iraqi radar site near Mosul
US air forces bombed a radar facility east of Mosul after Iraqi forces fired on them in the northern no fly zone. Iraq reports one injury and built structures damaged while the attack was being assessed.
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Auction buys Mousetrap stage set for charity
London AP reports the stage set from Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap, the world’s longest running play, was sold at a charity auction for an undisclosed sum. The 47 year old set funds Denville Hall, a care home for elderly actors run by the Actors' Charitable Trust. It will be dismantled at St Martin’s Theatre after today’s shows. An anonymous bidder purchased the set.
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