Right wing terror linked to Oklahoma City bombing report
The Southern Poverty Law Center said the FBI investigated about 100 domestic terrorism cases before the bombing and more than 900 after, citing a wave of extremist activity fueled by racist sects and online forums as the year 2000 nears. In space news, shuttle Columbia will carry midlife scholars on two weeks of medical tests to study aging effects on blood pressure regulation, with researchers hoping to model 30 to 40 years of aging.
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HUD charges against landlord over multi-state kickback scheme
HUD filed civil fraud charges against Bruce Rozet and associates alleging they pocketed 7.5 million in kickbacks and insurance proceeds from apartment projects in 25 states between 1990 and 1997. The agency seeks 7.5 million in restitution plus up to 20 million in damages and penalties and unspecified insurance amounts. Rozet denies the allegations during a phone interview.
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Andrew Cuomo
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Medical pioneer wins richest prize for invention
New York reports MIT professor Robert S. Langer, 49, won the Lemelson-MIT prize, the world's richest prize for inventors, awarding $500,000 for innovations including artificial skin and brain tumor drug delivery. Langer holds 320 U.S. patents and develops polymer-cell constructs now used as synthetic cartilage and burn victim artificial skin.
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Robert S. Langer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lemelson-Mit
U.S
Langer
Paisley mobilizes against Northern Ireland peace accord
Hard lin er Ian Paisley stepped forward to campaign against the Good Friday pact ahead of a May 22 referendum. Blair condemned the campaign as Paisley seeks to derail cross community power sharing and a 108 seat assembly set for June 25. The Orange Order delayed a stance, citing questions on prisoner releases and police reform.
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Paisley
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Tony Blair
Bertie Ahern
Irish Republic
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Blair
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Grand Lodge
Joel Patton
Ireland
Botha Faces Truth Commission Trial In George Court
Ex-president P W Botha, 82, appears before a black magistrate in George as prosecutors accuse the last hard line apartheid leader of resisting cooperation with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He remains defiant, vowing not to testify in person.
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Big Crocodile
Victor Lugaju
South Africa
Nelson Mandela
Botha
P.W. Botha
George
Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Desmond Tutu
Wrong baby mixup grips Memphis mother in confusion
LaDonna Harris, a 23 year old new mother, refuses to take the hospital’s other baby home after being sent home with the wrong newborn. Regional Medical Center says it matched the babies, and DNA tests will confirm. The incident prompted emotional strain and demanded further verification by officials and her lawyer.
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Regional Medical Center
LaDonna Harris
Whbq-Tv
Ms. Harris
Bruce Steinhauer
Regional Medical
Andy Clarke
North Koreans resort to cannibalism amid famine report
A Doctors Without Borders assessment based on interviews near the Chinese border describes dire hunger in North Korea with claims of cannibalism. World Food Programme head cast doubt, noting no evidence seen during a four day North Korea visit. Separately, Dennis Ross is to travel to the Middle East to press Israel and the Palestinians toward renewed talks.
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Doctors Without Borders
North Korea
Catherine Bertini
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China
Njawe jailed over Biya heart trouble report in Messenger
Yaounde AP report notes opposition publisher Pius Njawe jailed and fined for mistakenly reporting President Biya had heart trouble. Njawe asserts the December Messenger article was accurate about Biya’s heart issues during a Cameroon soccer match.
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Cameroon
Associated Press
Pius Njawe
Paul Biya
Njawe
Messenger
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