House panel weighs contempt charges against Reno
A House committee met to consider contempt of Congress charges against Attorney General Janet Reno over a memo urging an independent counsel into fund raising abuses tied to the 1996 Clinton Gore campaign. Reno resisted a subpoena, arguing disclosure would hamper a federal investigation.
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Feds open Alaska North Slope for oil lease sale
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt announced a restricted sale plan for new leases on Alaska North Slope within the National Petroleum Reserve. The vast reserve, about the size of Indiana, has faced years of controversy over potential impacts to wetlands, lagoons, and migratory birds, caribou, and polar bears.
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Critics target 64 year old federal prison labor program
Business leaders attack a longstanding federal program that uses inmate labor, arguing it hurts private firms by forcing agencies to buy from prison manufacturers and allowing plants to dodge minimum wage rules. Samuel C. Brickle of Hyman Brickle & Son Inc. of Woonsocket, R. I., testified at a House subcommittee hearing.
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Congo in eastern cities battles widen as rebel mutineers resist
Artillery and small arms fire erupted in two eastern Congo cities amid President Laurent Kabila’s struggle with a fresh rebellion by former allies. Government accuses Rwanda’s Tutsi-led regime of orchestrating the fighting, which a mutiny leader denies on a captured station.
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Quake Toll Rises in Ecuador Resort Region Bahia de Caraquez
Ecuadorian authorities report two strong earthquakes near Bahia de Caraquez, 130 miles southwest of Quito, killing three people including a woman from a heart attack and a girl and a woman by collapsing walls. Military planes airlift food and clothing to hundreds of refugees as rubble clears.
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Lifeguard Rescues Toddler Clinging to Father's Body
In La Antilla Huelva a 3 year old girl Gloria Samaniego was found clinging to her 40 year old father’s corpse after he suffered a heart attack while swimming in the Atlantic. A lifeguard rescued the child about 100 yards offshore.
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President Havel Improves, Doctors Say He Is Stable
In Prague President Vaclav Havel read newspapers and wrote notes as doctors monitor lingering exposure and heart irregularities after a critical period when his heart rate spiked to 200 beats per minute. Blood poisoning from pneumonia caused two hours of life threatening condition, but condition is now considered stable.
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