Berezowskyj Face Deportation Over Nazi Guard Claims
Walter Berezowskyj a 73 year old retiree in Guilford Connecticut is accused by the U S Justice Department of serving as a willing Nazi guard at camps in Poland and Austria where Jews were murdered or forced to labor. He denies the allegation saying he never served with the Nazis and suspects mistaken identity. The department seeks his deportation in federal court after their complaint was filed.
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U.S. Justice Department
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Austria
Justice Department
Berezowskyj
Serezowsky
Germany
Ukraine
Lawyer defends Jackson in Cosby extortion case
Prosecutors argued Tuesday in closing statements that Jackson sought to win a man’s love by manipulation, while defense claimed her actions were lawful ego. The case centers on Jackson and two co-defendants demanding 40 million dollars from Bill Cosby as a jury prepared to begin deliberations.
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Jackson
Cosby
Vo Oilell
aVery Pedean
Coe
Smoke harms airline crews in secondhand smoke suit
A chemist testified that flight attendants exposed to smoky cabin air on flights when smoking was allowed inhaled carcinogens equal to a half pack of cigarettes per smoking flight. Katharine Hammond of UC Berkeley told jurors that the exposure was substantial as 60,000 attendants sue the tobacco industry for 5 billion dollars over lung cancer and related illnesses.
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Miami
Katharine Hammond
University of California At Berkeley
Army chaplain school earns permanent post at Fort Jackson
The Army Center and Chaplain School opens a dedicated facility at Fort Jackson in Columbia, marking an eight decade shift from ad hoc training sites. The $8 million, 58 000 square foot campus houses a 20,000-volume library and Internet access, replacing former hand me down spaces across five states.
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United States
Army
Army Center
Fort Jackson
Longer hospital stays help newborns
A study of 310000 Washington births from 1991 to 1994 found that healthy newborns discharged after 30 hours were 28 percent less likely to need rehospitalization within a week than those discharged after 17 to 30 hours. A Wisconsin study showed no increased risk for discharges within 48 hours. Researchers caution birth numbers may be too small to detect differences.
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Washington State
Simlar
Wisconsin
Journal of the American Medical Association
Ramsey hires bodyguard to fend off media
Denver father of slain beauty princess Jon Benet Ramsey says he has hired a former cop to shield his family from intrusive media. In a VAR Business interview from Keystone Colorado he criticizes coverage of the Christmas night murder and the press as opportunistic sharks.
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Jon- Benet Ramsey
John Ramsey
Keystone
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Ramsey
Patsy
Boulder
Sd Press
O'Conner recalls son's death by his own action in court
In a hushed Los Angeles courtroom actor Carroll O'Connor described learning that his son Hugh O'Connor, 32, a cocaine addict, shot himself after a phone call ending with the words So long, inn. He said the tragedy drives him to warn against drugs and defends himself in a slander suit brought by songwriter Harry Perzigian who seeks 10 million dollars. Closing arguments loom as jury deliberations near.
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Los Angeles
Carroll O'Connor
Hugh O'Connor
Inn
Harry Perzigian
O'Connor
German envoy proposed $3,000 to sway 1940 Republican Convention
A 1940 German diplomat urged Berlin to fund U S politicians to influence the Republican Convention in Philadelphia to push an antiwar platform. He proposed $3,000 to aid a congressman and a $60,000 to $80,000 ad campaign, aiming to keep America out of war amid wartime hysteria.
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Foreign Ministry
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Thomson
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Roosevelt
Harold Knutson
R-Minn
Samuel Pettingill
Dind
John O'Connor
D-N
Wendell Willkie
Germany
Mexico City
Pennsylvania
Democratic Party
Foreign money in New York state sparks call for refunds
Democratic state Chairwoman Judith Hope urged Gov George Pataki and New York Republicans to return $360000 received late in the 1994 campaign from the Republican National Committee. She tied the funds to a 1994 Ambrose Young loan to the National Policy Forum used to repay a loan from the INC. The RNC backed close races in New York and beyond, Hope said, raising concerns about foreign influence in state elections.
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George Pataki
New York
Republican National Committee
Hong Kong
Ambrose Young
National Policy Forum
The
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RNC
Hope
Campaign finance hearings shape GOP money trail dispute
Democrats tally foreign funds linked to Republicans in 1994 elections. Hong Kong businessman wired 2.9 million to a U.S. subsidiary and used 100,000 for a Republican Party donation before sending the remainder back to Hong Kong. Witnesses questioned National Policy Forum donations, a GOP fund started by Haley Barbour in 1993. Senate committee to decide on immunity for witnesses amid coinvestigation.
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Associated Press
Hong Kong
U.S
Republican Party
National Policy Forum
Haley Barbour
Republican National Committee
Fred Thompson
R-Tenn
Comptien
Justice Department
Thompson
Scientists Grow Animal Organs For Possible Human Spare Parts
Harvard researchers say they have grown replacement organs from animals’ own cells in lab molds, including heart, kidneys, and bladder, and transplanted them into sheep, rats, and rabbits. They plan human tests within a year, aiming to correct birth defects and grow fetal organs in the womb.
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Boston
Lial CuLuape
Harvard
Anthony Atala
Dario Fauza
Grow replacement organs in womb for newborns
Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital researchers in Boston developed a prenatal technique to harvest fetal tissue in mid pregnancy, grow replacement organs, and implant them after birth. Trials on lambs show promise with human tests planned in coming months.
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Harvard Medical School
Children’s Hospital
Boston
Breakthrough lab grows tissue to build organs in weeks
Researchers describe fetal tissue sampling from around 344 months into pregnancy and use a protein rich solution to grow cells in dishes. They assemble organs on biodegradable scaffolds, demonstrated by a sheep bladder created in six weeks and implanted functioning in a newborn.
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Atala
Fauza
Prison disturbance fuels budget clash over new prison cells
Albany debates Gov. Pataki plan after Mohawk Correctional Facility melee injures 10 guards. Republican lawmakers call it a wakeup call for expanded bed space, while Assembly Democrats seek investigation and argue the plan jeopardizes current reforms.
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George Pataki
Assembly Democrats
Pataki
New York State
Michael Nozzolio
Seneca County
Albany
Nozzolio
Sheldon Silver
Sojourner Discovers Three Types Of Martian Rocks
Pasadena reports the Mars Pathfinder rover Sojourner has analyzed three Martian rocks named Barnacle Bill Yogi and Scoo beneath a dust filled sky. Scientists say Barnacle Bill likely came from a deep crater while Yogi shows evidence of water flow and Scoo resembles caliche.
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Calif
Mars Pathfinder
Yack Vibeta
Red
Gliches
NASA
Matthew Golombek
Pathfinder
Sojourner
Peter Smith
University of Arizona
Smith
Arizona Desert
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