WWF to tone down content after Coca Cola pulls ads
The WWF will reduce vulgar language and sexual content on its telecasts following Coca Cola ending a two year advertising deal. The pledge, announced late Monday, aims to reassure sponsors while continuing to attract a teenage audience amid ongoing advertiser scrutiny.
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Russia predicts quick end to Chechen militants
Russia expects its offensive in Chechnya to finish militants within one to three months, with Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev noting rapid progress toward Grozny but rebels mounting tougher resistance. Earlier Moscow forecasts had aimed for year-end elimination. Former CDU secretary Heiner Geissler said he argued with Kohl over secret accounts.
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U S relinquishes last Panama base at Fort Clayton
Panama City Panama The United States handed over its final base in Panama ending a long era of U S military presence near the canal President Mireya Moscoso accepted Fort Clayton and ruled out any continuation of U S forces or counternarcotics agencies on Panamanian soil Her remarks ended weeks of media speculation about a secret post transfer arrangement Negotiations in 1998 failed over converting a Panamanian Air Force base into an American run counter narcotics center
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Kohl admits to secret accounts in CDU funds
Helmut Kohl, former German chancellor, acknowledged using cash from secret bank accounts to aid local CDU branches. The admission follows disclosures that the party’s former treasurer secretly took 1 million marks from an arms dealer in 1991 and reports of multiple secret accounts potentially used for illegal contributions.
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Castro says Cuban exiles plotted to kill Chavez
Fidel Castro told Venezuelan journalists his intelligence services uncovered a plan by Miami based Cuban exiles to assassinate Hugo Chavez. He said Chavez was not informed, offered no motive, and pinned the December deadline on a commando group funded by a Cuban-American Foundation member. The foundation denies violence. spokesperson Ninoska Perez dismissed the claim as ridiculous.
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