Marines MEU Heads to Adriatic Amid Sardinia Training
The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit with HMM 263 aboard USS Kearsarge USS Pensacola and USS Nashville was ordered from Sardinia to the Adriatic as a precaution. Commanders Lt Col Gunther Lt Col Bartles and Lt Col Castaing lead the ground aviation and support elements during a six month Mediterranean deployment.
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MEU
Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron
HMM
Cherry Point
HMM-263
Jason Johnston
Camp Lejeune
Sardinia
Adriatic
Cmdr
Mark Johnson
Department of Defense Public Affairs Office
National Security
Anthony Lake
Nashville
Mediterranean
Haiti
Christopher J. Gunther
24Th Meu
Dennis T. Bartles
Claude C. Castaing
MSSG-24
UN and NATO plan tighter Bosnia peacekeeping shift
Nations in The Hague commit to stand firm against Serb assaults while reshaping UN forces to reduce vulnerability. Hostage release demanded for 370 peacekeepers and broader NATO air strike options discussed as Serbs seize 36 UN vehicles and restrict movements in eastern Bosnia.
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United Nations
Bosnia
U.N
Sarajevo
Alexander Ivanko
United States
Netherlands
Hague
Five Nations
NATO
Gorazde
Warren Christopher
Grigory Karasin
Moscow
SRNA
Security Council
Brussels
Memorial Day observances across North Carolina honor veterans
Across North Carolina Memorial Day ceremonies highlighted veteran sacrifice. At the USS North Carolina a memorial service recalled WWII heroics while Fort Bragg honored 127 Special Forces soldiers declared killed in action. Ceremonies in Raleigh and Jacksonville drew crowds as leaders urged resolve against drugs and poverty.
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Young
North Carolina
Wilmington Harbor
U.S. Department of Defense
Japan
George Emery
U.S. Atlantic Fleet
Fort Bragg
U.S. Army Special Forces Command
Damian Carr
Special Forces Command
Martha Raye
Raye
Vietnam
William Tangney
Mike Burns
Special Forces
Raleigh
Tarheel
Marine Corps League of Raleigh
All-Veterans Memorial
Capitol Grounds
Sanford Municipal Center
John McNeill
Fair Promise Ame Zion
Lee County Board of Commissioners
Hubert Garner
Okinawa
Winston Churchill
Garner
Veteran's Cemetery
Jacksonville
Second Marine Division
Wilmington
Pope calls Christians to face painful past before 2000
Pope John Paul II releases Ut Unum Sint urging Catholics to examine their history and work toward church unity with Protestants and Orthodox. He reaffirms commitment to ecumenism while warning against changing doctrine and emphasizes the papal role in unifying all churches as the millennium approaches.
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John Paul II
Vatican
Ecumenical Movement
Rome
Uni
John Paul
Czech Republic
Man shot at Madonna's Hollywood Hills home
Police said 37 year old Robert Roland Hoskins was shot three times in the arm and abdomen after reportedly scaling a fence into Madonna's back yard. He remained in fair condition at Cedars Sinai Medical Center as detectives planned to book him for attempted burglary.
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Hollywood Hills
Robert Roland Hoskins
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Madonna
Mike McDonagh
Hoskins
McDonagh
Los Angeles County-Usc Medical Center
Andrew Purdy
Arizona
River Bend resident cites 1740s roots in genealogy study
Sun Journal notes Brinson, a River Bend resident, pursues genealogy and history with family tracing back to the 1740s. The piece includes reactions to the Pennsylvania closing before the White House and mentions Madonna with a fence incident and a police officer, plus Todd Michael Lawrence who claimed to be Madonna's husband and allegedly stalked her for two weeks before a July arrest.
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Brinson
River Bend
Madonna
Todd Michael Lawrence
FBI tracked Chavez as subversive says LA Times
The Los Angeles Times reports FBI agents tailed Cesar Chavez for more than seven years in the 1960s and 70s, investigated claims he was a Communist, and built a 1434 page file under Johnson and Nixon. The file was obtained via FOIA. Chavez led the first successful farm workers union and campaigned for California's 1975 secret ballot elections for farm labor unions. Clinton praised Chavez as a Moses figure during the Medal of Freedom ceremony.
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FBI
Cesar Chavez
Los Angeles Times
Chavez
Johnson
Nixon
the Times
California
Farm Workers Union
Clinton
Arafat's Wife Expected To Have A Daughter
Doctors told Suha Arafat that she is carrying a girl due in early August. Suha, 31, recently returned to Gaza after time in Paris where the sex was determined, and family suggests names Zahwa for a girl or Ammar for a boy, while Abu Ammar remains a common reference for Yasser Arafat.
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Yasser Arafat
Suha
Suha Arafat
Gaza Strip
Paris
Yediot Ahronot
Raymonda Tawil
Arafat
Tawil
Arafats
Ammar
Palestine Liberation Organization
Abu Ammar
Margaret Chase Smith dies at 97 first woman senator
Margaret Chase Smith former House and Senate member from Maine died in Skowhegan at 97 from stroke complications. She mentored Republicans while speaking out against 1950s anti-communist witch hunts and was the first woman elected to the Senate without a vacancy. She briefly ran for president in 1964.
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Margaret Chase Smith
House
Senate
Skowhegan
Maine
Lady
Congress
Smith
William D. Hathaway
Senate Armed Services Committee
Children’s warnings mirror a drugged world says Grand Rapids teacher
In Grand Rapids Fifth graders urge Lauren to avoid drugs and guns. The piece contrasts hopeful guidance with a troubling generational awareness of violence and substance abuse, noting how children as young as ten or eleven now contemplate drugs. It questions parental legacies and media messaging shaping youth.
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Bozo the Clown
Mary Beltz
Lauren
Sth
Tiffany
Brad
Sarah
Joe
Rachel
Grand Rapids
Ameri
Bob Greene
Part time legislators and self interest concerns
Question prompts readers to vote on whether part time lawmakers protect their own interests. Call 638-3579 for yes and 638-6552 for no.
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