Refugees flee Rwanda as famine and disease strike camps
Amid assurances of safety from a new government, tens of thousands of Rwandans continue to flee toward Zaire seeking sanctuary in overcrowded camps where malaria cholera and dehydration claim lives. Estimates place 1.7 million having left in a week with up to 3.5 million in neighboring camps if borders cross, as a new president and rebel leaders promise justice.
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Goma
Samantha Bolton
Doctors Without Borders
Munigi
Der
Rwanda
Panos Moumizis
U.N. High Commissioner For
Moumizis
Bizimungu
Paul Kagame
Biologist Catalogs River Species for Neuse Bridge Review
Frank Schwartz a UNC Marine Sciences biologist compiles a comprehensive list of fish and amphibian life in the Neuse and Trent rivers as part of the environmental background assessment required before the Neuse River bridge construction from Sandy Point to James City proceeds. Ed Latham of the state DOT notes the work documents rarities often unknown or unobserved by many in the region.
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Frank Schwartz
Neuse River
Sandy Point
James City
Schwartz
UNC Marine Sciences
Morehead City
Neuse
Trent
Ed Latham
State Department of Transportation Division
Worms Found in Hershey Candies Trigger Store Search
A New Bern state food and drug protection officer will search McLellans variety store inch by inch today for evidence of insect infestation after three Applegate Architects employees reported tiny white worms on Hershey bars bought there over two weeks. An employee described a worm on a Kruckle bar and another on Kit Kat, while a third found a worm on a Mr. Goodbar. none carried expiration dates.
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Food and Drug Protection
McLellans Variety
New Bern
Applegate Architects
Pollock Street
Ferent Hershey
Middle Street
Applegate
McLellans
Jupiter hit by a triple comet impact perception grows
Jupiter endures a series of violent comet strikes as fragment Q2 is set to hit at 3:30 p.m. EDT with two follow ups expected Thursday. University of Maryland astronomer Lucy McFadden notes fragment H produced a gas bubble hundreds of times brighter than normal and comparable in energy to fragment G, which struck earlier.
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Jupiter
Lucy McFadden
University of Maryland
Chile
Farmers await payday as North Carolina tobacco markets open
North Carolina farmers brace for the market start next week with Tim Pace storing the first two tons of tobacco near Wendell in a hopeful mood. The crop appears good and weather cooperated but growers temper expectations as bids and prices from other markets report mid six dollar to high one hundred dollar ranges per hundred pounds.
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North Carolina
Tim Pace
Wendell
Florida
Georgia
Clinton signals flexibility on health reform gains allies
Swing voters say Clinton’s openness to 95 percent coverage or higher may boost bipartisan health reform passage this fall, though it could leave many uninsured. Liberal Democrats balk at dropping employer mandates, while some governors and lawmakers push for broader coverage and a single payer alternative.
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Clinton
John Chafee
R-R.i
National Governors’ Association
Boston
John Breaux
D-La
Chafee
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
GOP
Bob Dole
Gover
Congress
James McDermon
D-Wash
House
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