Aid to Mexico under attack on Capitol Hill
The Clinton administration's $20 billion loan package for Mexico draws Senate criticism as Senator Alfonso D'Amato says Mexico's economy is collapsing while Treasury insists the plan remains on course. In Grozny, Russia, fierce fighting continues as peace talks begin.
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Washington
Clinton
Mexico
Capitol Hill
Alfonso D’ Amato
Rn.y
Senate Banking Committee
D’ Amato
Administration
Treasury
Robert Rubin
Oil strike unsettles Brazil and fuels Petrobras debates
After 22 days of a national oil workers strike, Brazilian President Cardoso deploys soldiers to refineries in Sao Paulo and Parana as Petrobras policy is pushed toward privatization. Public anger grows while Brazil depends on costly imports and alternative fuels.
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Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Sao Paulo
Parana
Cardoso
Petrobras
Folha de Sao Paulo
Kikwit Ebola body collectors face harassment and hardship
In Zaire, 108 Ebola deaths this year of 144 infections are concentrated in Kikwit where Red Cross volunteers collect corpses in an orange truck. They face rocks, scorn, and hunger while performing a brutal, lifesaving duty at mass graves with grim, repeated burials.
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Kikwit
Zaire
Red Cross
Mudiangu Maseka
World Health Organization
Kinshasa
Kikwit’s
Sende Kalume
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Grozny
Russia
Moscow
Chechnya
Tokyo
Hideo Nakamoto
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd
Tatsuya Toyama
Hiroshi
Israel
Syria
Jerusalem
Yitzhak Rabin
U.S
Golan Heights
Golan
Japan
Akihito
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Okinawa
Tomiichi Murayama
Gilberto Mendes
Rio
Dakota
Pat Dixon
Twin Rivers Mall
Kalume
New Bern
North Carolina
Han
Penoree
STIK
Greenville Evans St
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Goldsboro
Morehead City
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Industrial Park Drive
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