Vieques clash returns as Navy resumes bomb drills
Protests halted only briefly as 15,000 sailors and Marines aboard the USS Enterprise and accompanying ships resumed 500-pound bomb and ship to shore bombardment on Vieques. Demonstrators breached fences, several confrontations occurred, and arrests rose to at least 47 as marines used rubber bullets and pepper spray.
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Vieques
Puerto Rico
U.S. Navy
Vieques Island
Robert Rabin
Navy
Camp Garcia
Nelson Lopez
Island
U.S
Pierre Vivoni
Rabin
Corey Barker
Jeff Gordon
U.S. Coast Guard
Norma Burgos
Myrta Sanes
David Sanes
Sanes
Lila Calderon
Fahey
Enterprise
Carlos Manuel Rodriguez Santiago
Rome
Tito's Space Tourism Sparks Debate Over ISS Access
Dennis Tito, a California millionaire, plans a six day stay aboard the International Space Station to show space travel is possible for civilians. Russia's decision to host the first paying space tourist ignites concerns among ISS partners about who may be admitted. Examples include payload specialists such as John Glenn and Christa McAuliffe.
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California
Dennis Tito
International Space Station
Russia
U.S
John Gienn
D-Ohio
Christa McAulife
Baikonur
Kazakstan
NASA
United States
Tito
Russians reject delay request for Tito spaceflight
Soviet officials refused a NASA request to delay Dennis Tito's launch from Baikonur. They planned a Saturday liftoff aboard a Soyuz with two cosmonauts for a six day stay at the ISS. NASA proposed extending the shuttle Endeavour's stay to avoid docking conflicts due to computer problems.
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NASA
Russia
Space Station
Hitler doctor warned of insanity before World War II
CIA released 10 000 pages on Nazi era figures showing Hitler’s doctor predicted he could become the craziest criminal the world had seen. The memo cites a 1937 swing toward insanity and highlights other files on Gestapo chief Mueller Barbiie Mengele and Waldheim.
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Adolf Hitler
CIA
Eli M. Rosenbaum
Justice Department
Office of Special Investigations
Hitler
Gestapo
Heinrich Mueller
Klaus Barbie
Josef Mengele
U.N
Kurt Waldheim
Austria
Waldheim
State Department
United Nations
Peruvian city Caral traced to Egypt era and first Americas center
Washington AP reports that Caral in Peru near Lima dates to about 2627 BC, forming the Americas first urban center with six pyramids, plazas, and irrigation canals. Researchers say the inland metropolis supported farmers, crafts, fishing, and a central administration, lasting centuries before decline.
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Egypt
Peru
Americas
Caral
Lima
Winifred Creamer
Northern Illinois University
Jonathan Haas
Chicago
Field Museum
Creamer
Supe
Haas
Hetmen
Ara
Pacific Ocean
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