Serbs press Srebrenica as NATO air power looms
Bosnian Serbs push toward Srebrenica while NATO threatens air strikes. Dutch peacekeepers face hostage strains as fighting rages in the enclave. UN notes intensified shelling, tank actions, and a tense stand at the town's southern edge with no direct assault on the Dutch lines.
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Ebel
Srebrenica
NATO
U.N
Bosnia
United Nations
Gary Coward
Sarajevo
Coward
Nino Catic
Yasushi Akashi
Yugoslavia
Bernard Janvier
Ratko Mladic
Teenager Still Missing Three Weeks After Bayboro Disappearance
Ranae Barlow pleads for her niece Shawanda Letisha Johnson who vanished from a Bayboro mobile home three weeks ago. Pamlico County deputies have released photos and broadcast a message on the missing teen’s favorite radio station, but no sign of Johnson and limited sleep for the aunt who has taken leave from Britthaven nursing home.
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Ranne Barrow
Letisha Johnson
Shawanda Letisha Johnson
Ranae Barlow
Bayboro
Pamlico County
Barlow
Johnson
Britthaven Nursing Home
Barlows
Military pays for transpark project
The N C Global TransPark Authority will receive 4.8 million dollars from the Defense Department to extend an existing 7,500 foot runway at Kinston Regional Jetport by 900 feet to 8,400 feet and strengthen it for touch and go training for Seymour Johnson Air Force Base crews. The project aims to improve military use while not yet replacing plans for an 11,500 foot runway, with environmental studies and construction timing targeted for 1996 1997 and a completion a little over one year later.
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N.C
Jim Sughrue
Global Transpark Authority
Sughrue
Transpark
Nancy Stallings
Global Transpark Foundation
Stallings
Lawmakers ignore consumer protection proposals this session
A legislative research commission had five consumer issue recommendations last year, but none advanced this session. Speaker Harold Brubaker notes lack of priority among sponsors. Proposals include requiring home sellers to disclose faults, limiting check cashing fees, and defining manufactured home owners rights to sell. Insurance liability for rental cars in accidents also sought clarification.
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General Assembly
Legislative Research Commission
House
Harold Brubaker
Randolph
Battle over abolishing health care planning panels in NC
From Raleigh the split Legislature debates scrapping the NC Health Planning Commission and the NC Medical Database Commission. House members push to abolish both while Senate members resist. The planning panel aims to expand access for about 1 million uninsured residents and the database panel publishes hospital charge data.
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House
Senate
N.C. Health Planning Commission
N.C. Medical Database Commission
Planning Commission
Database Commission
Richard Morgan
R-Moore
Water rights boil as NC fights over Lake Gaston plan
North Carolina faces water conflicts amid growth with Virginia over Lake Gaston water withdrawal and lawsuits concerning Jordan Lake, Randleman dam, and interbasin transfers. Officials warn demands intensify as resources gain value and disputes rise.
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North Carolina
Virginia
Lake Gaston
John Morris
Morris
Winston-Salem Journal
Jim Hunt
Virginia Beach
North Carolina- Virginia
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Randolph
Guilford
Wake County
Jordan Lake
Chatham County
Milton Heath
Institute of Government At
Chapel Hill
Heath
State Environmental Management Commission
Cary
Apex
Cape Fear
Neuse
Mick Noland
Fayetteville
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Sun Journal
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Raleigh
Bobbi Waters
Ann Landers
New Bern American Legion
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