Lawmakers push tax free college savings expansion
Rep. Bill Archer urged President Clinton to back a bill expanding tax free savings accounts for education. The House approved the measure to raise annual contributions to 2000 dollars per child, from 500, with tax free growth and withdrawals.
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Waldo residents return as wildfires subside
WALDO Fla AP Drivers kept headlights on in daytime through smoky haze from wildfires that burned thousands of acres over four days. After a rainstorm weakened the blazes, residents returned home to a near ghost town as fire chief Ed Bailey described some structures spared while treetops and a roadway were lost. Local business reopenings, including Cajun Mullet Man, signaled life returning to Waldo as 1,000 residents faced displacement earlier in the week.
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Jurors Visited Oklahoma City Bomb Site Stirring Emotions
Alternate McVeigh juror Marlene Wichael wept standing on the Elm Tree site as 16 jurors met survivors and victims’ relatives. Gov Keating and AG Edmondson praised the visit as a civic balm while some called it an emotional catharsis.
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Pope urges European reconciliation with Jews in Vienna
Pope John Paul II told Austrian officials that Europe must reconcile with Jews for the unspeakable suffering endured, stressing that reconciliation is a Christian duty. He urged Europe to overcome injustices and economic disparity while welcoming immigrants and integrating former communist nations into the EU. The pope spoke after an open air Mass near St Poelten, amid church divisions in Austria.
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Yellowstone's rebirth after the 1988 fires ten years on
Ten years after 1988 Yellowstone fires burned a tenth of the park. Ecologists say the landscape rebounded with lodgepole pine and diverse vegetation. Biologist John Varley calls it a recharge and rebirth shaping Yellowstone for centuries ahead.
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Woodward to give BBC interview on baby death case
Louise Woodward plans to answer many questions in a BBC interview after her Massachusetts conviction was affirmed and reduced to manslaughter. Her mother said she is eager to speak and not paid for the appearance, with interviewer Martin Bashir known for Diana interview.
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Iraq Accepts Parts for Oil Industry Under UN Resolution
Iraq reversed its opposition to UN Security Council Resolution 1175 allowing it to spend up to 300 million dollars from the oil for food program to buy spare parts. Baghdad warned the measure does not make the program indefinite or lift sanctions.
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Union Leaders March for Jobs in Rome Protest
In Rome on Saturday union leaders led tens of thousands to St John Lateran Square to demand more job creation from Premier Romano Prodi and warned of possible strikes if concrete steps are not taken. Organizers pegged the crowd around 300,000, with police estimating up to 100,000, highlighting unemployment concerns especially in southern cities where joblessness nears double the national 12.2 percent rate. Pietro Larizza signaled a strike as a possible next move if gains on reducing unemployment are not achieved.
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