Libya's Shops Thrive Despite Sanctions Boosting Private Sector
From Tripoli, Libya three years after U N sanctions the private sector grows despite IMF style restraints. Traders report booming commerce on Gergeresh street with imports from Italy Spain and Asia. Government workers face wage gaps while essentials stay subsidized.
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Gergeresh Street
Tripoli
Libya
U.N
Stefan Sterzik
Wintershall- Libya
Muammar Gaddafi
United States
Gaddafi
China
Taiwan
Hong Kong
Egypt
Korea
Italy
Spain
Brer Mohammed Ibrahim
GOP completes purge of Craven Regional Medical Center board
Harold Talton, the Craven Regional Medical Center board chair and last remaining Democrat ousted in a Republican purge, loses his seat after ten years of service. Talton noted scheduling shifted his removal earlier than anticipated, amid friction over the board’s political transformation by Craven County commissioners.
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Craven Regional Medical Center
Craven
County Board of Commissioners
Talton
Board of Commissioners
Chuck Tyson
Gary Bleau
Turrentine pleads guilty and gets probation for embezzlement
David Turrentine, now in Durham, pleaded guilty in Craven Superior Court to four counts of embezzling 21,400 from the Neuse Council of Governments Job Training Partnership Act program. He avoids prison, receives a three-year suspended sentence, 200 hours of community service, and three years of supervised probation.
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Turrentine
Durham
Craven Superior Court
Z. Smith Reynolds
Neuse Council of Governments
Bill Ward
Cog
Trucker admits third murder in interstate slayings case
A trucker from Asheboro confessed to a third homicide linked to a string of road murders across ten states. Sean Patrick Goble admitted suffocating Alice Rebecca Hanes of Columbus and Brenda Kay Hagg of Bloomington after being arrested in Winston Salem before his arraignment. Investigators seek further questioning on additional killings.
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Alice Rebecca Hanes
Columbus
Ohio
Brenda Kay Hagg
Bloomington
Ind
Goble
Interstate 40
Guilford County
BJ. Barnes
Asheboro
Winston- Salem
Circus Opens Two Day Stand Here With Arabian Pageant
In Havelock Gloria Bale leads her Arabian thoroughbreds in a choreographed pageant as Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers Circus opens a two day stand. The show moves to New Bern on Wednesday.
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Gloria Bale
Havelock
Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers
New Bern
Foster nomination fight persists for surgeon general post
Washington officials and Foster supporters refuse to abandon the bid for surgeon general as Capitol Hill battles mount. Senate leaders clash over bringing the nomination to a floor vote while White House pressure and two confirmation hearings await.
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Henry Foster
Capitol Hill
Barbara Boxer
D-Calif
Bob Dole
Senate
Foster
White House
Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee
Dole
R-Kan
Phil Gramm
Texas
Boxer
Jim Dole
Kansas
Nancy Kassebaum
Jim Jeffords
Vermont
Bill Frist
Tennessee
Nashville
Joycelyn Elders
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