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History
1919: The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, the first jazz band to record its music, makes its debut in London, England; its song “Tiger Rag” becomes popular.
1927, an audience in New York saw an image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover in the first successful long-distance demonstration of television.
1940: Educator Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American pictured on a U.S. postage stamp.
1948: The World Health Organization (WHO), an agency of the United Nations dedicated to improving health worldwide, comes into existence.
1949: Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical play South Pacific, opens on Broadway; it wins a Pulitzer Prize the following year.
1966, the United States recovered a hydrogen bomb it had lost off the coast of Spain.
1969, the Supreme Court unanimously struck down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material. 1994, civil war erupted in Rwanda, a day after a mysterious plane crash claimed the lives of the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi. In the months that followed, hundreds of thousands of minority Tutsi and Hutu intellectuals were slaughtered.
Missing in Action
1965 BAKER ARTHUR D. SAN ANTONIO TX LAST SEEN ON DIVE THRU THIN CLOUDS
1965 LEWIS JAMES W. MARSHALL TX LAST SEEN ON DIVE THRU THIN CLOUDS
1965 ROARK WILLIAM MARSHALL BELLEVUE NE REMAINS NOT RETURNED AS REPORTED 03/77 BODY RECOVERED?? USG REPORTS REMAINS ID 3/77
1966 BARNETT ROBERT RUSSELL GLADEWATER TX
1966 WALKER THOMAS TAYLOR TOLEDO OR
1968 MC MURRAY FRED H. JR. CHARLESTON SC
1972 CARLSON ALBERT E. SAN LORENZO CA 02/12/73 RELEASED BY PRG ALIVE IN 98
1972 LULL HOWARD B. JR. DALLAS TX EVADED TO XT7297 WHERE KILLED
1972 POTTS LARRY F. SMYRNA DE "CAPTURED, DIED IN QUANG BIHN"
1972 SMITH MARK A. LIMA OH 02/12/73 RELEASED BY PRG ALIVE AND WELL 98
1972 SCHOTT RICHARD S. ST CROIX VI KILLED IN BUNKER AT XU731081
1972 WALKER BRUCE C. PUEBLO CO "EVADED 11 DAYS, NVA APPROACHING" 1972 WALLINGFORD KENNETH HOUSTON TX 02/12/73 RELEASED BY PRG ALIVE AND WELL 98
The Australian
New plan for global warming
Amanda Hodge
April 08, 2005
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12789413%255E601,00.html
AUSTRALIA hopes to play a key role in bringing non-Kyoto nations into a new-generation greenhouse reduction plan by helping to broker deals with some of the world's most fossil fuel-hungry nations.
The push to draw the US and the world's fastest-growing economies - including China and India - into a new greenhouse reduction scheme is understood to be a crucial element of an alternative to the Kyoto protocol being developed by some influential industry players and policymakers.
Australia has consistently resisted pressure to ratify the protocol, which came into force last January, because of the threat posed to the economy by large developing nations, which are not required to meet emissions reduction targets in the first phase.
Australian and New Zealand ministers and industry chiefs will meet in Sydney today to discuss ways of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and encourage developing nations to do the same outside the contentious Kyoto framework.
The forum is part of a series of broader discussions convened by the influential US-based Pew Centre on Global Climate Change, which will lead this September to a new manifesto for fighting global warming in a post-Kyoto world.
Federal Environment Minister Ian Campbell said the forum between New Zealand, a Kyoto signatory, and Australia, a non-signatory nation, demonstrated a wide acceptance that the world needed to plan for policies beyond the first stage of the protocol, which ends in 2012.
"This dialogue is one of the most optimistic forums we have got on the planet," Senator Campbell said.
"It's saying let's recognise the fact that Kyoto was a start. I think this is a really big policy challenge."
Australian Greenhouse Office chief Howard Bamsey, who is also a member of the global Pew Centre dialogue on post-Kyoto measures, said yesterday Australia was vulnerable to the effect of climate change from an economic and environmental perspective. "That's the reason the Government is vigorously engaged across the spectrum of action directed at finding an effective global response to climate change in the longer term," he said.
"The work going on in this dialogue is a good basis for evaluating the sorts of solutions which might meet Australia's interests."
The Pew Centre research talks of a move away from the binding greenhouse gas reduction targets for developed nations set through the UN-led Kyoto protocol towards voluntary emissions reduction actions for industry.
It also supports a more flexible approach that accommodates different commitments from different countries and a "no-loss" policy for developing countries that encourages them to embrace low-emissions technologies and set voluntary targets. Alcoa and Rio Tinto are among the companies participating in today's forum and the Pew Centre's broader research project, which brings together stakeholders from 15 countries.
Alcoa Australia general manager corporate affairs Meg McDonald said the aluminium industry had felt alienated by the Kyoto negotiations but was encouraged by the post-Kyoto discussions.
"One of the things that will be important is flexibility to develop a framework that incorporates actions to engage more countries and more players and therefore achieve more reductions than a simple target-based approach," she said.
"Countries like India and China will need that flexibility. They are keen to adopt greenhouse technologies and companies like ours going into that market are keen to help make that happen."
Pew Centre president Eileen Claussen agreed the next generation framework would need to be more inclusive and engage those who currently fall outside of the climate circle - including energy intensive industries, developing nations and the US.
A spokesman for Senator Campbell refused to be drawn on the department's plans.
Chechnya fighting leaves eight dead
From correspondents in Valdikavkaz
April 08, 2005
FIGHTING between pro-Moscow forces and separatists in war-torn Chechnya has left five people dead and 16 injured on the Russian side in the past 24 hours.
Three rebels were also killed in a clash with pro-Moscow Chechen policemen, leaving one of them dead and two others injured, in the Chechen capital Grozny, ane official in Chechnya's pro-Moscow administration said on condition of anonymity.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12790813%255E1702,00.html
The Maimi Herald
THE MASTERS
All eyes on Big Four
The Big Four -- Woods, Singh, Mickelson and Els -- have dominated the Masters since 2000, and now they're peaking just in time for golf's greatest showdown this season
BY JEFF SHAIN
jshain@herald.com
Before they came together this year as the Big Four, golf's prime quartet already had made the Masters their dominion.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11328737.htm
Ethnic tensions in Kirkuk dangerously high
By TOM LASSETER
Knight Ridder Newspapers
KIRKUK, Iraq - (KRT) - U.S. military officials are concerned that ethnic tensions could turn into widespread violence and, perhaps, civil war in Iraq's northern city of Kirkuk, setting a dangerous pattern for rest of the country.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11327240.htm
Italian police start turning back mourners
VICTOR L. SIMPSON
Associated Press
VATICAN CITY - After electronic highway signs and cell phone text messages failed to staunch the flow of pilgrims, police stepped in Wednesday to turn back mourners hoping to join the 24-hour line to view the body of Pope John Paul II, on a day that brought almost 1 million people to the Vatican.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11318718.htm
Teen injured in freak track & field accident in Lauderdale Lakes
BY JOSEPH GOODMAN AND HANNAH SAMPSON
hsampson@herald.com
Mona Hassan, already a veteran of track and field injuries at 17, lay on a stretcher in the emergency room Wednesday, fulfilling her mother's anxious prophecies.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11330106.htm
Three injured, one critically, in I-75 Weston crash
By KEVIN DEUTSCH
kdeutsch@herald.com
A child and two adults were injured, one of them critically, in a crash on Interstate 75 in Weston that shut down a portion of the highway on Saturday.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11329263.htm
Couple found dead in Plantation home; neighbors suspect murder-suicide
By Diana Moskovitz
dmoskovitz@herald.com
An elderly husband and wife were found dead early this morning in their Plantation home.
Both died from gunshot wounds, and several neighbors said they think the incident was a murder-suicide. Police said that was one possibility, but they are still investigating.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11326112.htm
Northwest Seventh Avenue closed while police investigate shooting
By ROBERT STEINBACK
rsteinback@herald.com
At least one man is dead following a confrontation Wednesday afternoon with Miami-Dade Police in a heavily traveled section of Northwest Seventh Avenue.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11327257.htm
Teen killed after bailing out of stolen truck, authorities say
BY IDY FERNANDEZ
imfernandez@herald.com
An unidentified teenager died early Wednesday morning after he bailed from a still- moving stolen truck in Northwest Miami, police said.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11325682.htm
Abortion clinics may face tough limits
Abortion clinics in Florida could face new state regulations that clinic operators say could force some to shut down.
BY MARY ELLEN KLAS
meklas@herald.com
TALLAHASSEE - Abortion clinics in Florida would have to buy new equipment, add trained staff and submit to new reporting and medical requirements under legislation moving steadily through the state Legislature.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11320541.htm
Sweeping election changes are on track
Lawmakers have been moving swiftly on a number of proposals to incorporate power over Florida election laws in the hands of state government.
BY GARY FINEOUT
gfineout@herald.com
TALLAHASSEE - Despite ongoing grumbling from some counties' election officials, Florida lawmakers are moving ahead with dramatic proposals to place more control over elections into the hands of state officials.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11329873.htm
SOUTH FLORIDA, U.S.A. BY NICHOLAS SPANGLER
FORCED OUT
WORKING-CLASS TENANTS' DAYS IN APARTMENTS NUMBERED: A CONDO IS COMING.
The letters appeared one morning in mid-March, slipped into mailboxes at Bayfront Manor, a modest but well-kept apartment complex on Biscayne Bay and 31st Street.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/11329853.htm
State casts teens adrift
OUR OPINION: RESTORE ASSISTANCE FOR ALL OLDER FOSTER KIDS
Florida teenagers forced to leave the state's foster-care system at age 18 face terribly long odds to make it to a healthy, productive adulthood, according to a panel appointed by Miami-Dade Juvenile Judge Cindy Lederman. One reason is the foster-care system, which has an uneven record of serving children the state must oversee for one reason or another. Compounding these teenagers' woes is that a state law requires that many of these foster teens be cast adrift abruptly at age 18.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/11332020.htm
The Globe and Mail
Stark warning to the world
The human race is living beyond its means. A report backed by 1 360 scientists from 95 countries — some of them world leaders in their fields — this week warned that the almost two-thirds of the natural machinery that supports life on Earth is being degraded by human pressure.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=200986&area=/insight/monitor/>
Ivorian leader 'could not have hoped for better'
Johannesburg, South Africa
Côte d'Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo has expressed satisfaction after the West African nation's warring sides agreed to end a ruinous civil conflict, as United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan urged all factions to honour their pledges.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=201023&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__africa/
Live and Work in the U.S.A.
Usafis Green Card Lottery Application Service
What is the U.S. Green Card Lottery?
Each year, the Diversity Lottery (DV) Program makes 50,000 immigrant visas available through a lottery. If you receive a visa through the Diversity Visa Lottery Program you and your family will be authorized to live and work permanently in the United States.
http://www.usafis.org/
Reports deepen doubt over Zim election
Harare, Zimbabwe
Two reports issued on Wednesday reinforced concern that Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF party won last week's parliamentary election through fraud.
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change gave evidence of what it said was "serious and unaccountable gaps" with more than 200 000 votes unaccounted for in the announcement of official results before and after counting ballots last week.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=201005&area=/zim_elections/zim_news/
Thousands apply for grant fraud amnesty
The number of fraudsters who have applied for amnesty regarding social grant embezzlement has swelled to 300 000, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Wednesday.
A spokesperson from the Department of Health said the numbers were growing as the department received more data from the various districts.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=201004&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/
'Rapid measures' to fight virus in Angola
Luanda, Angola
Angola's Parliament on Wednesday passed a resolution asking the government of President Eduardo dos Santos for rapid measures to combat the outbreak of the deadly Ebola-like Marburg virus, which has now killed 159 people.
The resolution was passed by the country's 220-seat National Assembly, the first parliamentary move in this poor Southern African country to fight the untreatable haemorrhagic fever, as the government said it transferred more funds to fight the outbreak.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=201001&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__africa/
Nasa to launch shuttle Discovery before July
Pascal Barollier Houston, Texas
Despite the inherent risks, Nasa said it will resume its space shuttle programme by launching the Discovery before July, more than two years after the Columbia disintegrated on re-entry.
Everybody at the United States space agency, including the astronauts, understands that there are no risk-free shuttle missions, but nonetheless firmly believe that the only way to improve its performance is to send it back up into orbit.
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=201026&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/
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