Hemophiliacs AIDS settlement bill clears House panel
A House committee approved a Porter Goss bill to exempt a 750 million settlement fund for hemophiliacs infected with HIV through contaminated blood between 1982 and 1987. About 7,200 would qualify for 100,000 payments. In New York, Koko the signing gorilla to chat online on AOL next week to raise gorilla awareness.
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Bank of New York launches hostile bid for Mellon Bank
Bank of New York made a hostile 22.6 billion takeover bid for Mellon Bank Corp., signaling a shift toward aggressive megamergers. Mellon, the Pittsburgh lender that helped finance Westinghouse and Bethlehem Steel, said it is not for sale after merger talks with BNYMellon broke down months earlier.
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Pentagon hackers threaten to sell GPS software to terrorists
A security expert says a cyber intrusion into a Pentagon network may be the most serious to date. Hackers calling themselves Masters of Downloading claim to have stolen software for a military satellite system and warned they would sell it to terrorists. The breach allegedly accessed GPS coordination used for missile targeting and precise troop positioning.
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Pentagon
John Vranesevich
Holocaust couple in Springfield New Jersey share witness tale
Norman Salsitz and Amalie Petranker Salsitz, Polish Jews who posed as Christians in wartime Poland, met in 1945 and married after both survived Nazi danger. Now in Springfield they collect pennies to fund stipends for rescuers of Jews, aiming for sixty thousand dollars by Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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Communists Stand Firm as Yeltsin Crisis Reaches Key Vote
In Moscow Zyuganov vows to block parliament dissolution and resist intimidation as the Duma prepares a third vote on Sergei Kiriyenko for prime minister. Opposition factions drift toward support while Yeltsin weighs disbanding parliament and calling new elections.
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Hong Kong Apology Over Hitler Image in World Cup Story
AP reports Apple Daily apologized after using a Hitler photo to illustrate a Germany World Cup piece. In Seoul prosecutors said an average 25 Koreans a day died by suicide last quarter, with economic woes blamed amid IMF bailout.
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Experts Bodies Taken From Mass Grave Site
U N officials report bodies removed from a mass grave site in Bosnia and Herzegovina where major wartime massacres occurred. They would not speculate on who moved the remains or how many were disturbed. Bosnian officials say exhumations in Serb held areas over the past two years showed bodies were removed to conceal wartime crimes.
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Vatican Catholic Population Reaches One Billion
Vatican statistics place the global Roman Catholic count at about 1 billion, with 995,128,000 Catholics outside China and North Korea as of 1996. Including those two nations, the total surpasses 1 billion, based on projections from pre communist era figures.
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