Election shadows at Mideast peace talks resume
Talks restart next week with potential progress after Israel’s June elections produced Rabin's Labor-led coalition. Baker will not attend, prompting concern from Arab and Palestinian negotiators who fear loss of a trusted mediator as new messengers arrive.
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Washington
Mideast
Tsiwel Wil
Yitzhak Rabin
James A. Baker III
William Quandt
Middle East
Brookings Institution
Cambodian ring uses fake photos of missing U.S. POWs
Senior Defense Department officials say a Cambodian-dled ring created and circulated at least six fraudulent photographs claiming living American POWs in Southeast Asia. The images circulated from a refugee camp Site 2 on the Thai-Cambodian border and were tied back to Phnom Penh with Soviet and Cambodian collaborators.
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Washington
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Southeast Asia
Thailand
United States
Site 2
Phnom Penh
Court ruling links magazine to murder
An Atlanta murder case upheld a 4.3 million damage award against Soldier of Fortune magazine. The appeals court found the magazine liable for aiding a contract killing through a sinister classified ad. The ruling questions commercial speech liability and First Amendment protections for print media.
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Atlanta
Soldier of Fortune
Meritim Ue Magee
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Sons of the Victum
Richard Braun
Alex McColl
Boulder
Colo
Pregnant Women Warned Off Hot Tubs
A study of 22,762 women in JAMA finds hot tubs and saunas in early pregnancy may triple the risk of brain or spinal defects in babies. Lead author Dr. Aubrey Milansky notes the first six weeks are most dangerous and calls for more research.
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Aubrey Milansky
Journal of the American Medical Association
Prisons may close for lack of money in California
In six California cities, minimum security prisons may shut down due to unpaid fees from the state Department of Corrections totaling about $600,000 monthly per city since July 1. The closures would force up to 2,400 inmates into overcrowded state facilities, as new city officials report dwindling cash to keep the 400-bed prisons operating.
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Infiniti
Sacramento
California
State Department of Corrections
Inmates Protest Lockdown Roils Cook County Jail
About 350 inmates angry at a lockdown smashed windows burned mattresses and clashed with guards at Cook County Jail Chicago. Forty four prisoners and 15 guards were reported injured none serious. The disruption followed a drug dealer escape and spread through the maximum security wing.
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Cook County
Sheriff's Department
Sally Daly
Michael Sheahan
QE2 speed blamed for grounding in Vineyard Sound
Marine expert Jerome Milgram of MIT said the Queen Elizabeth 2 was moving so fast through Vineyard Sound that its draft would have scraped bottom even without hitting uncharted rocks. He added he would have slowed the vessel substantially if aboard.
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Vineyard Sound
Jerome Milgram
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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