CAPPS II risk system to screen all air travelers begins tests
The U S government plans a nationwide CAPPS II program to check background data and assign threat levels to all ticket buyers. Delta will test at three airports next month with a possible full rollout by year end. Critics warn of privacy invasions and data errors while officials promise fast identity checks and privacy protections.
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Washington
Congress
Delta Air Lines
Transportation
Norman Mineta
Transportation Security Administration
Transportation Department
Chet Lunner
Federal Register
Jay Stanley
ACLU
Northwest Airlines
Steve Luckey
TSA
Fire fatality at Hartford nursing home blamed on patient sheet fire
Investigators in Hartford believe a nursing home blaze that killed 10 people may have been started when a 23 year old patient set her sheets on fire. Police say she is cooperating and no charges yet filed. Fire officials are testing evidence as the state crime lab analyzes ashes. Fourteen hospitalized, 148 residents at Greenwood Health Center, many elderly or disabled, with transfers and family visits continuing.
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Hartford, Conn
Hartford Courant
Bruce Marquis
Greenwood Health Center
Marquis
Greenwood Health Center Nursing Home
Hartford
Conn
Chirac under pressure from Atlanticist line in Iraq row
Paris sources report pressure within Chirac's Union for the Parliamentary Majority as Atlanticist lawmakers warn a U.S. veto risk could fracture relations with Washington and undermine the United Nations. Chirac maintains support for extended U.N. inspections and cautious disarmament, resisting a new Iraq resolution.
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Paris
Jacques Chirac
France
Iraq
United States
United Nations
U.N
Chirac
Washington
Conservative
Union For the Parliamentary Majority
UMP
U.N Security Council
U.S
NATO
European Union
Toll revised as 96 dead in Rhode Island club fire
The Station nightclub blaze in West Warwick killed 96 after a one-person toll reduction. About 60 were hospitalized, with 36 in critical condition. Investigators probe pyrotechnics blamed on the incident involving Great White. The Derderian brothers deny club owners approved the display.
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Providence
R.I
Don Carcieri
West Warwick
Great White
Jeffrey
Michael Derderian
Thomas Briody
Daniel Biechele
Briody
Jeffrey Pine
Jeffrey Derderian
Biechele
Dan
Pine
Rebels warn rescue attempt could kill Americans in captivity
FARC spokesman Raul Reyes said forcing a rescue would risk the three Americans held since February 13 after a U S government plane went down in southern Colombia. California Microwave Systems workers are among the captives. a fourth American and a Colombian soldier were killed nearby.
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Bogota
Colombia
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
FARC
U.S
Raul Reyes
Reyes
Noticias Uno
California Microwave Systems
Northrop Grumman
Jack Martin
Maryland
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American Civil Liberties Union
Eddie Perez
Hiram Otero
Joseph O’neil
Traq
Herve de Charette
Ria Time
Hiptiaer Griegald
HIVE
Uyahoga County
R.I. Club
Grafton
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