Derailment evacuees return after propane blaze
More than 1 500 residents were allowed to return home after a 59 car Canadian Pacific train derailed near Burlington North Dakota. One propane car exploded and a father and son were hospitalized. Firefighters sprayed 800 gallons per minute to contain flames near a toluene tank car while investigators probed the cause.
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Congress presses CIA on spy case and Russia aid review
Senate leaders push for a full review of CIA employee finances and a broad check of aid to Russia after the Ames spy case. Sen. DeConcini and Sen. Lugar call for income declarations and credit checks. McConnell urges auditing proposed Russia aid. Gates cites Hill resistance to credit reports. Kozyrev seeks $1 billion U.S. counterweight. Cheney criticizes Clinton Russia handling.
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Richard Lugar
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Meet the Press
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Ames
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Andrei Kozyrev
U.S. Congress
Moscow
Kozyrev
Mitch McConnell
R-Ky
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McConnell
Senate Appropriations
Defense
Dick Cheney
Clinton
First U.S. jet pilot dies Laurence G C Craigie 92
Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Laurence G C “Bill” Craigie, America's first military jet pilot and WWII and Korean War air veteran, died in Los Angeles at 92. He flew the Bell XP-59A Airacomet on Oct 2, 1942, after two earlier test flights by Bob Stanley. Craigie led Allied air forces on Corsica in 1944, served as Far East air forces vice commander during Korea, and oversaw NATO air forces in southern Europe in the 1950s.
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Bill” Craigie
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IRA bomb case suspects face court
Six men face trial in Tucson on charges of shipping 2900 IRA bomb detonators to New York and plotting to buy weapons including a Stinger missile and .50 caliber rifles. Prosecution says detonators reached Northern Ireland for use in 1991 and 1992. Detention and jury selection begin Tuesday as the judge limits political context.
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Joan Beck Wins 1994 Distinguished Writing Award
Joan Beck of the Chicago Tribune, with a column in The Chronicle Telegram, was named by the American Society of Newspaper Editors as a 1994 Distinguished Writing Award recipient in the commentary-column writing category. Other winners include Michael Gartner, Anne Hull, and Ken Wells. each prize totals $2,500.
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Washington Post
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Daily Tribune
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Iowa
Anne Hull
St. Petersburg
Fla
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Wall Street Journal
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