Astronaut Bill Shepherd Eyes First Space Station Command
SPACE CENTER Houston AP profile of Bill Shepherd, the Navy captain on track to become the first commander of the international space station. The piece details delays in Russian life support module launch, political obstacles in the U S and Russia, and Shepherd’s long wait and family sacrifices as he trains for Expedition One.
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Shepherd
U.S
Cuba
McKinley
Navy
Garcia
Russia
Earth
United States
Space Station
Kazakstan
Norman Thagard
Mir
Thagard
Space
Pll
Johnson Space Center
Houston
Star City Cosmonaut
Moscow
Beth
Yuri Gidzenko
Sergei Krikalev
Daniel Goldin
Jim van Laak
Star City
U.S. Naval Academy
Gas prices rise nationwide as cleaner fuel costs push up
Gasoline prices across the United States climbed over four cents in two weeks driven by cleaner fuel production costs, higher crude oil prices, and demand. The Lundberg Survey put the national average at $1.7134 per gallon on Friday, up 4.11 cents since June 9, with a rise of 18.39 cents since May 5.
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Los Angeles
Trilby Lundberg
Lundberg
Nader crowned Green Party presidential candidate
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader was chosen as the Green Party nominee in Denver, outlining a platform for fair markets, clean environment, and broad health care. He pledged a vigorous campaign to push major parties toward his issues, with Winona LaDuke as running mate and broad party support from delegates.
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Denver
Ralph Nader
Green Party
Nader
Winona LaDuke
White Earth Reservation
Minnesota
Jim Hightower
Jello Biafra
Dead Kennedys
Stephen Gaskin
Tennessee
Accord
Ing
Gaskin
Biafra
Texas
George W. Bush
al Gore
Reform Party
Pat Buchanan
Greens
Commission On
Buchanan
Gore
Bush
California
Man to be tried again in 1966 murder case
Natchez Mississippi AP recalls Ben Chester White a farmhand who talked little and dated young women. White was abducted by Ku Klux Klansmen and killed in Homochitto National Forest in 1966. Ernest Avants, 69, is charged in federal court with murder after a 1967 state trial and remains free on bond awaiting an August trial.
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Natchez, Miss
Ben Chester White
White
Chest
Jackson
Homochitto National Forest
Ernest Henry Avants
Avants
Martin Luther King Jr
Martha Washington
Natchez
Philip Morris to buy Nabisco for 14.9 billion
Philip Morris Companies Inc, parent of Kraft Foods, will acquire Nabisco Holdings Corp for 14.9 billion dollars plus 4 billion in debt. The deal at 55 dollars a share expands food offerings and aims to create the most dynamic company in the food industry with Kraft Nabisco combined revenue around 34.9 billion.
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New York
Big Toba
Philip M Morris Companies Inc
Kraft Foods
Nabisco Holdings Corp
Philip Morris
Geoffrey C. Bible
Kraft
Nabisco
Artemprs
Rand
Nestle
Shewe
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