Southern Baptists apologize for racism at convention
The Southern Baptist Convention moved to repudiate historic racism saying reforms will continue locally. President James B. Henry and Gary L. Frost led a 15.6 million member denomination in a resolution framing racism as a sin and pledging eradication of vestiges while acknowledging past failures to support civil rights.
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Tlanta
Southern Baptist Convention
James B. Henry
Henry
Gary L. Frost
Frost
Youngstown
Ohio
American Baptist Convention
Secretive 1950s bodies program revealed by declassified files
Declassified documents show the Atomic Energy Commission covertly collected up to 1500 cadavers in the 1950s across the United States and several foreign countries to study radiation fallout. No relatives were informed, with urban and impoverished areas most targeted. Willard Libby urged efficient body snatching at a 1955 secret meeting.
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Ashington
Atomic Energy Commission
United States
AEC
Division of Biology and Medicine
Advisory Committee On Human
Oddball Collateral Schemes and Unusual Deaths Flash in Weird News
An assortment of odd incidents, including William Edward Woods’s fraud claims in Tampa with bizarre collateral like a Moscow bond and a Croatian CD, a misfit bank robbery attempt in Edmonton, a Turkish mayor banning Sen Dole bananas, and suicides linked to a New York office building.
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Illiam Edward Woods
Tampa
Fla
Paine Webber
Woods
Moscow
Russia
Croatia
Mel Fisher
Edmonton
Alberta
Kevin Krishna Niranjan
Niranjan
Bank of
Nova Scotia
Burhanettin Ozfatura
Izmir
Turkey
Bob Dole
U.S
Sen
Broadway
Trinity Church
Alexander Hamilton
Schwarzkopf joins Starbright Foundation fundraising drive
Retired Gen H Norman Schwarzkopf becomes chairman of Steven Spielberg's Starbright Foundation effort to raise sixty million dollars for sick children. Spielberg praises his decision to delay retirement to aid the charity.
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Los Angeles
H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Steven Spielberg
Starbright Foundation
Spielberg
Schwarzkopf
D C seeks 146.7 million loan from U S Treasury
Washington officials seek a 146.7 million borrowing from the U S Treasury to cover a cash shortfall. City Administrator Michael Rogers and others meet with Treasury GAO and OMB to set guidelines, with a decision expected in about 10 days as the city plans further requests in fiscal 1995 amid a projected 722 million deficit.
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District of Columbia
U.S. Treasury
Michael Rogers
The
Treasury
Government Accounting Office
Office of Management and Budget
Rogers
Clinton
Marion Barry
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