Authorities expand search for railroad serial killer
Gorham Illinois residents fear the killer as authorities widen the hunt for Rafael Resendez Ramirez linked to multiple killings across Texas Kentucky and Illinois The FBI lists him on the 10 Most Wanted and investigates possible additional Texas and Illinois slayings.
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Lailing
Ray Miller
Rafael Resendez-Ramirez
FBI
Illinois
Resendez-Ramirez
Texas
Kentucky
Ideas abound for Columbine memorial
In Lakewood Colorado artists students and officials propose a permanent Columbine High School massacre memorial with stained glass stepping stones a wish garden and a sobbing angel design by Denver artist Art Zohn among ideas. District and county leaders coordinate the project with three funds totaling 25000 set aside and about 28 offers of in kind services from contractors and landscapers.
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Lakewood
Colo
Columbine High School
Art Zohn
Denver
Columbine
Bob Easton
Parks District
School District
Jefferson County
Man who killed gay men to stop AIDS sentenced
Los Angeles, a man who lured five gay men to their homes with sex promises, stranged and robbed them. Juan Chavez, 35, was given five consecutive life terms without parole. He had faced a death sentence but pled guilty mid trial to avoid it.
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Los Angeles
Jacqueline Connor
Juan Chavez
Chavez
Exxon Valdez skipper begins Alaska cleanup sentence
Anchorage Alaska Joseph Hazelwood the Exxon Valdez captain who faced a 1989 spill conviction started his sentence by joining cleanup work in Alaska. He will serve five summers totaling 1000 hours of community labor through 2008 and spend a month in Alaska this year performing patrol and related tasks.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Joseph Hazelwood
Hazelwood
Exxon Valdez
Prince William Sound
Iwan
Kosovo Women Face Silence Over Rape Claims
In Kosovo many women refuse to report rape amid stigma and shame. A husband, Behan Thaqi, insists his wife was raped, while she remains silent. Refugees tell of brutal abuse by Serbian forces, including a claimed rape camp near Prizren, with officials cautioning evidence is not yet solid.
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Yugoslavia
Behan Thaqi
Thaqi
Kosovo Liberation Army
Thagi
Thagqi
Kosovo
International War Crimes Tribunal
Hague
Albania
Bosnia
Vase Racaj
Prizren
Racaj
Kline
Valentina Gjuraj
Djokovica
Massa
Cres
State Department
Washington
Karagec
Pec
Djakovica
Human Rights Watch
Dragacin
United Nations Population Fund
Shkrendije Hoda
Hoda
Pris
Kukes
Safet Elezi
Clinton thanks Macedonia as Kosovo peace begins
President Clinton thanked Macedonians for supporting NATO forces and sheltering Kosovo refugees in Skopje as Serb troops retreat. He announced 12 million dollars in food aid and 72 million in relief to Macedonia, and urged reconciliation over revenge amid KLA demobilization and NATO peacekeeping preparations.
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Mike Jackson
KLA
Skopje
Macedonia
Clinton
NATO
Kosovo
Yugoslavia
Balkans
United States
Milosevic
Kiro Gligorov
United States of America
Europe
Bosnia
Stenkovic
KFOR
Faik Rec
NATO escorts Serbs home to Pec after Kosovo border weapons seizure
Italian NATO troops guided a 50-car convoy of Serb refugees back to Pec in western Kosovo after confiscating assault rifles and grenades at the border. The move, urged by Serbian Orthodox leaders, follows tense returns amid Albanian fears and UNHCR estimates Pec’s prewar population has collapsed from about 100,000 to as few as 2,000.
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Yugoslavia
NATO
Kosovo
St. Peter’s
Ohn Campbell
High Commission For Refugees
Montenegro
Serbia
Petch
Pristina
UNHCR
Kosovo Liberation Army
KLA
Belgrade
U.N. Security Council
Oswald data may shed light on Kennedy plot findings
The newly handed KGB files on Lee Harvey Oswald could reveal whether he planned to shoot President Kennedy while in the Soviet Union. Historians call the gift a monumental breakthrough, with potential insight into Oswald’s mindset before the 1963 Dallas assassination.
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Washington
Lee Harvey Oswald
U.S
Oswald
Kennedy
Soviet Union
Boris Yeltsin
Clinton
Kermit Hall
Assassination Records Review Board
Review Board
Dallas
Hall
Ohio State University
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Belarus
Minsk
Marina
Russia
United States
Warren Commission
Jack Ruby
Moscow
Interfax
Yeltsin
David Leavy
National Security Council
Slovenia
First lady Hillary Clinton visits Bosnian mine cleanup efforts
In Ljubljana Hillary Rodham Clinton toured the National Institute for Rehabilitation and a mine display as Bosnia's mine problem looms, meeting Eva Cimpersek and a 10 month old cerebral palsy patient while aides discuss demining aid. She later spoke with Slovenian women leaders and declined a U S presidential bid joke.
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Ljubljana
Slovenia
Bosnia
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Jenne Cimpersek
National Institute For Rehabilitation
Cimpersek
International Trust Fund For Demining
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Clinton
Anna Marija Okolic
Anna
United States
Japan
Germany
Norway
Czech Republic
City Hall
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