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History
1896, The first modern Olympic Games are held in Athens, Greece.
1909, American explorer Robert Peary, his assistant Matthew Henson, and four Inuit guides are the first recorded people to reach the North Pole.
1917, The U.S. declares war on Germany and enters World War I.
1945, during World War II, the Japanese warship Yamato"and nine other vessels sailed on a suicide mission to attack the U.S. fleet off Okinawa; the fleet was intercepted the next day.
1965, the United States launched the Early Bird communications satellite.
1971, Russian-born composer Igor Stravinsky died in New York City.
1985, William J. Schroeder became the first artificial-heart recipient to be discharged from the hospital as he moved into an apartment in Louisville, Ky.
2000, the father of Elian Gonzalez, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, arrived in the United States to press for the return of his 6-year-old son to Cuba.
1928, born James Dewey Watson, biochemist
1483, Raphael, painter
Missing in Action
1966 COOK DENNIS P. SANTA BARBARA CA
1966 GATES JAMES W. MER ROUGE LA ON GROUND RADIO CONTACT LOST
1966 LAFAYETTE JOHN W. WATERBURY VT ON GROUND RADIO CONTACT LOST
1967 HEGDAHL DOUGLAS B. CLARK SD 08/05/69 RELEASED ALIVE AND WELL 98
1968 KUSTIGAN MICHAEL T. WORCHESTER MA 40 MI OFF COAST // LISTED AS UA IN 1973 REFNO 2054
1968 PEPPER ANTHONY JOHN RICHMOND VA
1968 TRIMBLE JAMES M. EUREKA CA
1970 ARPIN CLAUDE FRANCE NOT ON OFFICIAL LISTS
1970 BRASSFIELD ANDREW T. SYLVANIA OH
1970 FLYNN SEAN L. DEAD BRITISH TV CREW FOUND REMAINS 05/91
1970 KLINGNER MICHAEL LEE MC COOK NE
1970 STONE DANA DEAD BRITISH TV CREW FOUND REMAINS 05/91
1970 TAKAGI YUJIRO JAPAN NOT ON OFFICIAL LISTS
1972 ALLEY JAMES H. PLANTATION FL "CRASH, FIRE, SAR NEG" REMAINS IDENTIFIED 25 SEPT 1997
1972 AVERY ALLEN J. AUBURN MA "CRASH, FIRE, SAR NEG" REMAINS RETURNED 10/01/97
1972 CALL JOHN H. III POTOMAC MD "CRASH, FIRE, SAR NEG" REMAINS RETURNED 10/01/97
1972 CHAPMAN PETER H. II CENTERBURG OH "CRASH, FIRE, SAR NEG" REMAINS RETURNED 10/01/97
1972 DUNLOP THOMAS E. NEPTUNE BEACH FL
1972 PEARSON WILLIAM R. WARNER NH "CRASH, FIRE, SAR NEG" REMAINS RETURNED 10/01/97
1972 PRATER ROY DEWITT TIFFIN OH "CRASH, FIRE, SAR NEG" REMAINS RETURNED 10/01/97
Journalism at Risk
Ted Koppel To Quit "Nightline"
By Staff
Apr 3, 2005, 18:51
Ted Koppel is leaving the ABC television network and his long running late-night news show "Nightline" this December, when his contract expires, the veteran newsman announced last week. Koppel did not indicate his future plans.
http://www.halifaxlive.com/artman/publish/040305_902311.shtml
Venezuela's Media Minister Andres Izarra replies to the Washington Post
The Venezuelan Minister of Communication & Information has replied to Washington Post columnist Jackson Diehl, who stated in an article published March 28 that in Venezuela, journalists are persecuted and the press is censored.
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=29153
Jailed journalists freed by surprise royal decree
Ali Lmrabet and others freed
Moroccan editor Ali Lmrabet walked free from jail on 7 January - just as fears were mounting that he might not survive the critical stage of his second protest hunger strike - as one of 33 individuals granted a royal reprieve, seven of them journalists. James Badcock reports.
Jailed editor Ali Lmrabet of the now-banned satirical weeklies Demain and its Arabic edition and Mohammed el-Hourd of the weekly Asharq were on day 39 of a protest hunger strike when news broke of their imminent release under a royal reprieve that freed 33 politically sensitive prisoners on 7 January.
http://www.indexonline.org/en/news/articles/2004/1/jailed-journalists-freed-by-surprise-royal-d.shtml
ZIMBABWE: British journalists face trial on accreditation charges
New York, April 4, 2005—Zimbabwean government prosecutors are pushing ahead with a criminal trial of two journalists from the London-based Sunday Telegraph on accreditation charges that could bring two years in prison, the journalists' lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa, said today.
http://www.cpj.org/news/2005/Zim04apr05na.html
UK journalists deny breaking Zimbabwe laws
06.04.05 11.20am
NORTON, Zimbabwe - Two British journalists detained in Zimbabwe have pleaded not guilty to charges of reporting without permission.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10119016
ABC News Anchor Jennings Has Lung Cancer
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 5, 2005; 12:00 PM
Peter Jennings, the last of the veteran network anchors still on the job, said today he has been diagnosed with lung cancer.
"Yes, it was quite a surprise," Jennings told his ABC News staff in an e-mail. "As you all know, this is a challenge. I begin chemotherapy next week. I will continue to do the broadcast. There will be good days and bad, which means that some days I may be cranky and some days really cranky!"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27732-2005Apr5.html
Bill would give journalists shield
Plan provides only a qualified privilege, but its supporters say media 'on thin ice'
By JEFFREY GILBERT
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle Austin Bureau
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AUSTIN - For years journalists have been hesitant to lobby for a shield law to protect their notes and tapes, but now is the time, many say, before it becomes too late.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/politics/3113687
Give us an example of why journalists need shield law
Today the Chronicle covers the proposed journalist shield law that we have previously posted on. The story confirms what we were told last week, that state Sen. Rodney Ellis' bill is ready to be voted out of committee:
Filed by Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, the bill is expected to be voted out of the jurisprudence committee on Monday and would then be eligible for debate by the full Senate.
It's an interesting story in this context: the editorial board wrote an editorial in favor of this legislation in February, and then, a few weeks later, the paper writes a "news" story on it. To cement that seemingly inverted story progression, today's "news" includes very little dissent:
"We run the very real risk of seeing our reporters and photographers and editors jailed for simply doing their jobs," said Donnis Baggett, publisher of the Bryan-College Station Eagle and legislative chairman of the Texas Daily Newspaper Association and the Texas Press Association. "We are on dangerously thin ice."
http://www.bloghouston.net/item/968/catid/3
World Online/ Controversy over reports that led to Iraq War/ Yoichi Nishimura: Journalists take stand over sources
04/05/2005
Last year, more than 20 American journalists were subpoenaed by courts to disclose the names of their sources for news reports.
The Washington Post's Walter Pincus, who, at 72, continues to lead the way in covering security issues, is one of them.
http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200504050125.html
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