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USA: 121ST EASTER EGG ROLL
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Moms wearing pink bunny ears, toddlers bundled against a chilly breeze and dads toting movie cameras streamed to the White House on Easter Monday.
It was the 121st annual Easter egg roll.
President Clinton and the First...
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USA: CLINTON/LEWINSKY ALLEGED WHITE HOUSE SEX SCANDAL UPDATE
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The grand jury investigating U-S President Bill Clinton's alleged affair and cover-up has turned its attention to the president's security staff.
Hoping to pierce Clinton's security circle, prosecutors on Thursday brought a...
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USA: RENO DECIDES NOT TO INVESTIGATE GORE
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U-S Vice-President Al Gore is being spared an independent counsel investigation of his campaign fundraising.
U-S Attorney General Janet Reno has declined to order a special prosecutor.
In a 19-page court filing, Reno said...
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USA: WASHINGTON: GEORGE TENET IS NEW CIA DIRECTOR
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The US Senate has confirmed George Tenet as CIA director.
The vote on Thursday night ends months of uncertainty about the leadership of the American spy service.
A long Justice Department investigation into Tenet's personal...
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USA: ELIAN GONZALEZ'S GRANDMOTHERS ATTEND MASS
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The fight over Cuban boy Elian Gonzalez goes on.
The boy's grandmothers took their prayers for their grandson's return to Cuba to a higher power than the U-S government when they attended mass at a New York City...
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USA: JONESBORO: STUDENTS RETURN TO SCHOOL AFTER MASS SHOOTING
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Students and teachers returned to the Westside Middle School in Arkansas just two days after a deadly shooting spree killed one teacher and four students.
Two boys from the school, aged thirteen and eleven, have been charged...
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USA: JANET RENO BRIEFS CONGRESS ON FUND RAISING INVESTIGATION
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Attorney-General Janet Reno has received mixed reviews after briefing congressional leaders on the investigation into Democratic party fund raising.
On Wednesday she met with congress members who've been pushing Reno to ask...
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NICARAGUA: CARLA SANABRIA MAY BE REUNITED WITH HER FAMILY IN USA
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Carla Sanabria, a Nicaraguan citizen who was deported from the U-S last month, leaving her American husband and son behind, could be reunited with them as soon as August.
Sanabria, currently living in Managua, was one of the...
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Former US Attorney General challenges Jeb Bush for governorship
1. Various of Janet Reno walking at picnic party
2. Close up sign saying Labor Day Picnic
3. Reno signing piece of paper
4. Close up T-shirt saying 2002 Jeb Nuff Said, with name crossed out
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Janet Reno, Former U.S....
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USA: CUBAN BOY CUSTODY BATTLE: GRANDMOTHERS (2)
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Both grandmothers of the 6-year-old boy at the centre of a tug-of-war between the United States and Cuba, are campaigning in the U-S for the return of their grandson.
Elian Gonzalez's grandmothers are scheduled to meet with...
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USA: NEW YORK: BOMBING SUSPECT PROTESTS HIS INNOCENCE
New York, 3 August 1995
1. Suspect arrives by plane
2. Suspect taken to FBI HQ
3. Still photos suspect
4. Set-up shots press conference
5. SOUNDBITE: Mary Jo White
6. Trade Centre bombing (file)
7. SOUNDBITE: David Gordan, Defense...
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USA: AUTHORITIES CONTINUE EFFORTS TO CATCH GIANNI VERSACE'S KILLER
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Authorities in the US are casting a wide net across the nation in an effort to catch Andrew Cunanan, suspected of killing fashion guru Gianni Versace.
The elusive suspected serial killer remains free, somehow avoiding arrest...
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USA: CUBAN BOY ELIAN SEIZURE: MIAMI REACTION
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The Miami relatives of Elian Gonzalez have accused the U-S government of using excessive and unreasonable force in a raid on their Little Havana home.
U-S federal agents seized the six-year-old Cuban shipwreck survivor Elian...
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USA: COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT ELECT PASTRANA MEETS BILL CLINTON
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Seeking to mend ties with the United States, Colombia's president-elect Andres Pastrana met with President Clinton in Washington DC.
Also present at the meeting, held in the Oval Office, were Secretary of State Madeleine...
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France - Signing Of New Extradition Treaty
France and the United States signed a new extradition treaty on Tuesday (23/4) that makes it possible to request extradition for anyone accused of a crime that is punishable in both countries by a year or more in prison. The new...
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USA: CUBAN BOY CUSTODY BATTLE LATEST
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The United States Attorney General has appealed to Americans not to politicise the case of the six-year-old Cuban shipwreck survivor, Elian Gonzalez.
Janet Reno said it was important for the tug-of-war over the boy to be...
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EL SALVADOR PROTESTS STAGED OVER DISAPPEARANCE OF PRIEST
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Clergy members in El Salvador have staged a protest outside the U-S embassy to demand information on the disappearance of an American-born Jesuit priest.
James Carney disappeared in Honduras in 1983 when he entered the...
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USA: CLINTON/LEWINSKY ALLEGED WHITE HOUSE SEX SCANDAL UPDATE (2)
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The grand jury investigating U-S President Clinton's alleged affair and cover-up has turned its attention to the President's security staff.
Hoping to pierce President Clinton's security circle, prosecutors on Thursday...
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USA: US & CENTRAL AMERICAN OFFICIALS HOLD SECURITY & CRIME TALKS
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Senior ministers from Central America met with top U-S officials on Thursday for multi-lateral talks on security and crime.
The talks, inaugurated by U-S Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, are to last two days and...
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USA: WASHINGTON: INVESTIGATION INTO ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS
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U-S Attorney General Janet Reno firmly defended her decision not to seek an independent counsel's investigation of the Clinton Re-election campaign financing - telling Republican critics Wednesday that she won't yield to...
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USA: CUBAN BOY CUSTODY BATTLE: RENO
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The U-S Attorney-General has ruled that Elian Gonzalez should be turned over to his father.
She said the boy's Miami relatives have been asked to meet psychologists and psychiatrists on Monday to determine how the transfer...
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USA: WASHINGTON: WHITEWATER HEARINGS LATEST
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The Senate Whitewater Committee has refused to consider calling First Lady Hillary Clinton.
The hearings proceedings were distracted by remarks made by the House Speaker, Newt Gingrich, that White House attorney Foster's...
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USA: WASHINGTON: PRESIDENT CLINTON DEFENDS HIS TRIP TO CHINA (2)
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U-S President Bill Clinton has defended his trip to China, stressing the importance of ties between the two superpowers.
Clinton says he hopes controversy over journalists being refused visas does not hurt his chances of...
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USA: SENATE COMMITTEE CRITICIZES CLEMENCY FOR SEPARATISTS
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A Senate committee criticized the U-S Justice Department for their role in
the clemency granted by President Bill Clinton to 16 Puerto Rican
separatists last month. In a report, Attorney General Janet Reno said the
FALN still...