Kevorkian and associate arrested after delivering body to hospital
Dr. Jack Kevorkian and Dr. Georges Reding were arrested in Royal Oak after dropping off the body of a 26 year old California man at William Beaumont Hospital at 10 23 p m. Two officers on unrelated business questioned them and noted pushing and shoving before the arrests.
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Royal Oak
Mich
Jack Kevorkian
Georges Reding
California
William Beaumont Hospital
Collette Summell
Kevorkian
Record number of wiretaps ordered in 1997
Federal and state judges approved 1,186 wiretap requests in 1997, a 3 percent rise from 1996 and the highest annual total since Congress began compiling such data in 1968. The orders allowed investigators to secretly listen to more than 2 million private conversations.
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Washington
Congress
U.S
GTE Moves to Block WorldCom Merger
GTE Corp files a federal lawsuit to halt the 37 billion WorldCom MCI merger, arguing it would lessen competition and raise prices in Internet and long distance services. MCI counters that GTE fears competition. The suit cites antitrust concerns raised with regulators.
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Washington
GTE Corp
WorldCom
MCI
GTE
Justice Department
Eddie Rabbitt, country hitmaker, dies at 56
Nashville AP reports Eddie Rabbitt, singer songwriter who got his start with Elvis Presley in 1970, died of lung cancer at 56. The Nashville native had 26 No. 1 country hits including I Love a Rainy Night and Drivin My Life Away with a private burial after a Friday service.
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Nashville, Tenn
Eddie Rabbitt
Elvis Presley
Rabbitt
Mourners seize coffin in Pakistan bishop protest
Thousands of Christians in Faisalabad joined a protest against blasphemy laws after Bishop John Joseph killed himself over religious discrimination. Police fired tear gas and bullets wounding three as mourners moved a coffin 25 miles to the Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Paul.
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Faisalabad
Pakistan
John Joseph
Khushpur
Saint Peter and Saint Paul
Joseph
Salman Rushdie
Mian Asif
Raja Zafarul Haq
Protests swell across Indonesia as Suharto faces limits
Jakarta and other cities see intensified demonstrations from students to doctors and bus drivers amid anger over decades of rule and price hikes. Golkar proposes two term limits after Suharto’s 2003 term. Police use tear gas and arrests rise as unrest expands with clashes in Medan Padang and Surabaya.
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Indonesia
Suharto
Cairo
Egypt
Solo
Medan
Padang
Surabaya
Yogyakarta
Samarinda
Ujungpandang
Golkar Party
Golkar
House
Harmoko
Teaching and Technology Institute
Netanyahu to skip Mideast peace summit in Washington
Netanyahu will not attend the Washington peace summit after a 90 minute meeting with Dennis Ross failed to yield an agreement on a West Bank troop pullback. Clinton had urged a 13 percent pullback in return for talks on a permanent settlement.
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Clinton
Mideast
Dennis Ross
Netanyahu
Ross
Washington
David Bar-Ilan
Associated Press
U.S. State Department
James Foley
United States
Foley
Taliban and Northern Alliance clash near Kabul front
On the Kabul front line near Shakardara the Taliban fought an artillery duel with the northern alliance. Civilians were wounded as fighting spread north into Takhar province amid collapsed UN and OIC peace talks. UN hopes for renewed talks within a month.
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Afghanistan
Taliban
Northern Alliance
Ahmed Shah Massood
Shakardara
Takhar
United Nations
Organization of the Islamic Conference
U.N
Pakistan
Space officials to lower Mir orbit next month
Russian space officials will gradually lower the Mir space station orbit starting next month as the first stage of a year and a half plan to retire the aging craft. The maneuver will occur after NASA astronaut Andrew Thomas is returned home, with end of 1999 as a rough discard target.
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Moscow
Mir Space Station
Viktor Blagov
NASA
Andrew Thomas
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