Clinton pushes human rights ties with Asia at APEC meeting
President Clinton urged China reform and urged North Korea to keep its nuclear promises while seeking stronger Asia regional ties. He pledged an open door to Republicans at home and noted sanctions on China remain in place. He spoke after meetings with Jiang Zemin Murayama and other leaders and planned joint sessions with Japan and South Korea to address North Korea.
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Clinton
China
North Korea
Pacific
United States
U.S
Indonesia
Asia
Jiang Zemin
Warren Christopher
CNN
Tiananmen Square
Jiang
Tomiichi Murayama
Paul
Kim Young-sam
Japan
South Korea
America
Newt Gingrich
Georgia
Bob ‘Dole
Kansas
Taxpayers Foot Travel Costs For City Trips In New Bern
New Bern aldermen debate city travel spending after Sun Journal questions reveal averages of 1174 for New Bern and 751 for Havelock at a Asheville workshop. Officials defend the trips as taxpayer funded learning while some cite golf, spouses, and hotels as city policy. Mayor Bayliss pays his own way to avoid debate.
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New Bern
Sun Journal
Asheville
Havelock
Williamsburg
Rick Pendleton
Don McDowell
Pendleton
McDowell
Tom Bayliss
Barbara Lee
N.C. League of Municipalities
Rocky start for new Vaccines for Children program in Greensboro
Donna Steed waits for the government free vaccine program to finish her children’s shots. Doctors give mixed reviews while officials defend the program as part of a $500 million Childhood Immunization Initiative aiming to immunize 90 percent of U S children by age two.
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Donna Steed
Greensboro, N.C
Steed
David Satcher
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
America
Perot to lead private Gulf War illness study
Ross Perot announces a private, university led health study of Gulf War illness among the 24th Navy Reserve Construction Battalion. The effort, set for Birmingham and Knoxville in December, involves University of Texas Southwestern Medical School specialists and aims to chart unexplained fatigue and related symptoms reported by roughly ten percent of Seabees after the 1991 war.
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Perot
Ross Perot
Birmingham
Knoxville
Tenn
University of Texas-Southwestern Medical School
Texas
Illand
24Th Navy Reserve Construction Battalion
Huntsville
Persian Gulf
Alaama
Tennessee
South Carolina
North Carolina
Georgia
Iraq
Navy
Fishing laws go unenforced on NC coast study says
A News & Observer review finds the most productive North Carolina coastal waters suffer lax enforcement of fishing laws. Budget limits and aging gear leave only 47 officers patrolling 2.4 million coastal acres, with expectations that ticketing is discouraged in the Northern District from the Virginia line to Ocracoke. Basnight denies involvement. others say political pressure shapes enforcement.
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North Carolina
The
News & Observer
Raleigh
Virginia Border
Ocracoke Island
Division of Marine Fisheries
State Senate
Marc Basnight
Dare County
Basnight
Marine Fisheries Division
Bill Hogarth
State Division of Marine Fisheries
Pamlico
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Steve Gibbons
Jeff Boccia
Santa
Downtown Business and Professional Association
Associated Press
Birmingham, Ala
Ann Landers
Ehoii
East Carolina
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