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History…
1868 Nicholas II, emperor of Russia
1872 Bertrand Russell, philosopher and mathematician
1897, Frank Capra, American motion-picture director and producer, noted for his idealistic comedies.
Frank Capra was born in Palermo, Italy. His family immigrated to the United States when Capra was six, settling in Los Angeles, California. His first important job in Hollywood was as a writer for the Mack Sennett studios. He subsequently worked as a scriptwriter and director for comedian Harry Langdon, directing Langdon's three best films, notably Strong Man (1926).
1920, Pope John Paul II was born Karol Wojtyla in Wadowice, Poland.
1946, Reggie Jackson, baseball player
1096 Crusaders massacre Jews of Worm
1291 Sultan of Egypt & his son take last Christian stronghold of Acre
1302 Trades people assault on French garrison (Brugse Metten)
1619 Hugo the Great sentenced to life in prison
1642 Montréal Canada founded
1652 Rhode Island enacts 1st law declaring slavery illegal
1804 Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed emperor of France by the Senate and Tribunate
1852 Massachusetts rules all school-age children must attend school
1860 Abraham Lincoln, a former Illinois state legislator, receives the Republican presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention in Chicago.
1896, the Supreme Court endorsed "separate but equal" racial segregation with its Plessy v. Ferguson decision, a ruling that was overturned 58 years later by Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
1897 Irish Music Festival 1st held (Dublin)
1897 New York Giant William Joyce sets record of 4 triples in 1 game
1899 World Goodwill Day-26 nations meet in 1st Hague Peace Conference
1910 Passage of Earth through tail of Halley's Comet causes near panic; it appears every 76 years.
1917 US passes Selective Service act
1918 TNT explosion in chemical factory in Oakdale PA kills 200
1920 46th Preakness: Clarence Kummer aboard Man o' War wins in 1:51.6
1933, the Tennessee Valley Authority was created.
1953, Jacqueline Cochran became the first woman to break the sound barrier as she piloted a North American F-86 Canadair over Rogers Dry Lake, Calif.
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980 Mount Saint Helens volcano in Washington state erupts, causing an outbreak of fires, mudslides, and floods; 57 people die in the largest eruption in U.S. history.
Today in 1980, Mount Saint Helens erupted and spewed gas and ash as far as 12 miles into the air, killing 57 and damaging life for miles. Volcano World presents maps, images, and news about Mount Saint Helens.
1980, in the South Korean city of Kwangju, townspeople and students began a nine-day uprising that was finally put down by troops.
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1965 HRDLICKA DAVID L. LITTLETON CO 07/66 PUBLISHED PHOTO
1965 TAVARES JOHN R. LAST SEEN IN BAR AT DA NANG
1966 GUILLET ANDRE R. WATERBURY CT
1966 HARLEY LEE D. DANVILLE VA
1966 MOORE WILLIAM J. MONMOUTH IL
1966 WALL JERRY M. NACOGDOCHES TX
1967 CAMERON KENNETH R. BERKLEY CA 03/74 DRV RETURNED REMAINS DIC 10/04/70
1967 DELONG JOE L. MC MINNVILLE TN
1967 NAUGHTON ROBERT J. CEDAR RAPIDS IA 03/04/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1968 GIST TOMMY EMERSON DURANT OK
1968 JAMES CHARLIE N. GLENDALE CA 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1968 MONROE VINCENT D. OAKLYN NJ 08/23/78 REMAINS RETURNED MONTGOM HANOI
1968 PADILLA DAVID E. BORGER TX
1968 UYEYAMA TERRY J. LEONIA NJ 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE IN 98
1969 CUDLIKE CHARLES J. DETROIT MI
1971 ENTRICAN DANNY D. BROOKHAVEN MS
1972 BEDNAREK JOHNATHAN B. GREENLAWN NY PROB DEAD REMAINS RETURNED 05/89
1972 RATZEL WESLEY D. SCRANTON PA NO SHOW PW CAMP SYSTEM REMAINS RETURNED 05/89
Bangor Daily News
Oops. So much for Homeland Security !! Does this happen all the time and the only time we hear about it on the televised news is on a slow news day or when it involves France?
Plane with 'no-fly' passenger diverted to Bangor
Wednesday, May 18, 2005 - Bangor Daily News
BANGOR - For the second time in less than a week, an international flight to Boston was diverted to Bangor International Airport after U.S. officials discovered a passenger's name matched one on a federal no-fly list.
http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=113676
Navy active sonar harming ocean life
Thursday, May 12, 2005 - Bangor Daily News
Although whales continue washing ashore injured, dead or dying, following naval exercises, the Bush administration is opposing international efforts to regulate use of the high-intensity active sonars which are causing this death and destruction. In recent months, four international bodies have raised the issue of these sonars and their impacts on whales, dolphins and other marine life.
A report released last July by the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission stated, “The weight of accumulated evidence now associates mid-frequency, military sonar with atypical beaked whale mass strandings. This evidence is very convincing and appears overwhelming.”
http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=113474&z=35
Abuse of Power - Save Phil A. Buster - Starring in "One Party Rule-bot!"
http://www.savephil.com/main.cfm
How to Pressure a Senator
Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - Bangor Daily News
The votes of Maine's Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins can be decisive in the current flurry of issues on which the Bush administration is desperately seeking victory: the John Bolton nomination for United Nations ambassador, controversial judicial nominations, an administration attack on the filibuster rule and partial privatization of Social Security.
We may not know for a long time what sort of behind-the-scenes horse trading may be taking place this time, but a look at history can be instructive. Forty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson, an expert on what buttons to push to whip reluctant members of Congress into line, needed a few more votes to break a long Southern filibuster and win enactment of the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964. Cloture in those days required a two-thirds vote. His target was Carl Hayden, an Arizona Democrat. Mr. Johnson saw that a Hayden switch could bring along several other Southerners and win the battle.
http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=113641&z=34
Not-so-secret history of filibusters
Monday, May 16, 2005 - Bangor Daily News
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Everyone recalls “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” but too few remember the real-life Mrs. Smith. So, as the Senate nears a vote on a proposal to unilaterally change Senate rules for confirming federal judges, I am reminded of the words spoken 55 years ago by Sen. Margaret Chase Smith of Maine in her famous “Declaration of Conscience” against the tactics of Sen. Joe McCarthy, a member of her own party.
http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=113593&z=35
State seeks $50M in Medicaid paybacks
Wednesday, May 18, 2005 - Bangor Daily News
SBy Meg Haskell, Of the NEWS Staff
Medicaid providers will begin reimbursing the state this week for as much as $50 million in excess payments they've received since January, when a new computerized payment system failed to perform as anticipated and spawned an intractable bookkeeping mess in Augusta.
State officials maintain that unless they recapture their misallocated money in short order, there may not be enough cash on hand in the program to pay for services through the end of the current fiscal year on June 30.
http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=113695
Senate OKs bill to allow same-sex health clubs
Wednesday, May 18, 2005 - Bangor Daily News
By Mal Leary, CAPITOL NEWS SERVICE
AUGUSTA - Same-sex gyms and health clubs, outlawed as discriminatory in the 1970s, would once again be allowed in Maine under a measure that got initial support in the state Senate on Tuesday.
The Legislature's Judiciary Committee had recommended 10-3 against the legislation, but the Senate gave initial approval to the bill on a vote of 18-16.
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Maine soldiers deployed abroad in small groups
Wednesday, May 18, 2005 - Bangor Daily News
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They have been leaving Maine in small groups, usually unnoticed.
Some are called to support the global war on terror, and some are volunteers, but all are heroes in the eyes of those they leave behind to wait and worry.
http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=113696
State predicts $465M loss from closings
Wednesday, May 18, 2005 - Bangor Daily News
By Glenn Adams , THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUGUSTA - Economic losses from the proposed closing and realignment of Maine military facilities could add up to nearly $500 million, Gov. John Baldacci said Tuesday as he vowed to make a strenuous case in the months ahead to keep the facilities open.
http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=113694
The Jerusalem Post
Settlers given a week to join Nitzanim relocation plan
A day after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon visited Nitzanim and urged contractors to speed up operations to prepare for the absorption of evacuees of this summer's withdrawal plan, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni on Wednesday gave settlers a week to sign up for the Nitzanim relocation plan.
Livni said the government couldn't wait until the last minute since, so far, 426 families from Gush Katif, representing roughly one third of the population there, have singed up for the program. A minimum of another 24 families need to sign up, she said.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1116383131723
New Herzl museum brings father of Zionism back to life
"We're trying to bring Herzl out of the past and into the future," says Dr. David Breakstone summarizing the new Herzl Museum which opens this week at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl. Breakstone, head of the Department for Zionist Activities at the World Zionist Organization, adds that Herzl was not only concerned with a providing a refuge for Jews, "he was also extremely concerned with creating a model society."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1116296305737
Life vs nightlife
Time was, not too long ago, when Israelis were by and large known for shying away from the bottle – by choice. They weren't teetotalers or preachy prohibitionists, but they certainly weren't big drinkers.
However, at the risk of sounding prudish, we must admit that times are changing and not necessarily for the better.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&amp;amp;cid=1116296306303&p=1006953079865
The Boston Globe
Afghans in contact with kidnappers of aid worker
By Sayed Salahuddin May 18, 2005
KABUL (Reuters) - An Italian aid worker kidnapped from her car in the Afghan capital Kabul is well and Afghan authorities are in contact with her kidnappers, officials said on Wednesday.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/05/18/italian_aid_worker_kidnapped_in_afghanistan_well/
Man wanted across the country is being held in Manchester
May 18, 2005
MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Police are holding a Norton, Mass., man who police say is a dangerous sexual predator wanted across the country on more than 200 charges.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2005/05/18/man_wanted_across_the_country_is_being_held_in_manchester/
Combat support ban weighed for women
Pentagon opposes GOP proposal
By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff May 18, 2005
WASHINGTON -- The Republican-controlled House Armed Services Committee plans to introduce today a proposal to bar women from mixed-gender military support units operating in Iraq, expressing concern that female soldiers are engaging in direct combat despite US laws keeping them from serving on the front lines.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/05/18/combat_support_ban_weighed_for_women/
Relatives barred from Uzbek hospital
By Burt Herman, Associated Press Writer May 18, 2005
ANDIJAN, Uzbekistan -- Pressing their faces against the barred gates of the regional emergency hospital, Uzbeks on Wednesday cried out the names of relatives injured in the worst outbreak of violence since this country gained independence in 1991. But they weren't allowed inside the heavily guarded facility.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/05/18/relatives_barred_from_uzbek_hospital/
Anvar (only name available) digs graves in a cemetery on the outskirts of Andijan, Uzbekistan on Tuesday, May 17, 2005. Nigara Khidoyatova, head of the Free Peasants Party, said Tuesday her party had compiled a list of 745 people allegedly killed by government troops in Uzbekistan, the highest estimate so far, and that many were shot in the back of the head. But authorities contradicted the claim, saying the toll was far lower. She said the toll was expected to rise, with bodies still being buried in mass graves. Last week's unrest in the Central Asian nation was the worst since the former Soviet republic won independence in 1991. The crackdown occurred after protesters stormed a prison in the eastern city of Andijan on Friday, freed inmates and then seized local government offices. (AP Photo / Misha Japaridze)
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/05/18/relatives_barred_from_uzbek_hospital/
Afghan drug force seizes huge haul of heroin
By Reuters May 18, 2005
KABUL -- Afghan police seized more than 240 kg (530 lb) of heroin and destroyed several drug-making laboratories in a series of raids, the government said on Wednesday.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/05/18/afghan_drug_force_seizes_huge_haul_of_heroin/
Taliban militants kill five Afghans
By Noor Khan, Associated Press Writer May 18, 2005
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Suspected Taliban militants on Wednesday ambushed and shot to death five Afghans working on a U.S.-funded project to help end opium farming in the south of the country, officials said.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/05/18/taliban_militants_kill_five_afghans_1116434084/
Afghan widows line up to receive food rations at a CARE International food distribution center in Kabul where Clementina Cantoni worked Wednesday May 18, 2005. Cantoni, who managed CARE International programs in Afghanistan which helped some 9,500 widows, was abducted in Kabul on Monday evening, the first kidnapping of a foreigner in Afghanistan since three U.N. election workers were seized last October and held for nearly a month. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/05/18/taliban_militants_kill_five_afghans_1116434084/
Slain Florida girl suffered years of abuse
May 18, 2005
TAMPA, Fla. -- A 13-year-old girl who was killed and dumped in a pond last month suffered years of abuse that included reports of beatings and witnessing violent fights between her parents, records show.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/05/18/slain_florida_girl_suffered_years_of_abuse/
The Jordan Times
Vote for women expected to stimulate reforms
KUWAIT CITY (AFP) — The Kuwaiti parliament's surprise decision to grant women the vote is likely to speed up political and economic reforms in the oil-rich Gulf Arab state, analysts and MPs said Tuesday.
Kuwaiti women, disenfranchised for more than four decades, however, will still have to wait two years to exercise their right to cast their ballots and run for public office following Monday's vote by parliament. Next month's municipal polls will remain an all-male affair.
http://www.jordantimes.com/wed/news/news7.htm
Abbas arrives in China, says Hamas welcome in future government
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Hamas is welcome in a future Palestinian government, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday in China.
“If they would like to participate in political life, and if they win enough seats in the legislative elections, they're welcome to participate, even in the future government,” Abbas told reporters in Beijing.
http://www.jordantimes.com/wed/news/news4.htm
Shiite, Sunni clerics killed in Baghdad
BAGHDAD (AP) — US troops backed by attack helicopters clashed with militants in a Mosul neighbourhood Tuesday, the military said. In Baghdad, gunmen killed a Shiite Muslim cleric, and two missing Sunni clerics were found shot dead, police said.
The killings of the clerics threatened to increase sectarian tensions in Iraq a day after the government vowed to crack down on anyone targeting Shiites and Sunnis. The defence minister said Iraqi troops no longer would be allowed to enter houses of worship or universities.
http://www.jordantimes.com/wed/news/news2.htm
Iran, Iraq seek new start
BAGHDAD (AFP) — Iraq hailed Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi's landmark visit Tuesday as a new start in their tumultuous relations, while Tehran offered its full support to the new Iraqi government.
Kharrazi also vowed not to drag Iraq into its bitter row with Washington.
"I have no doubt this visit will open up significant new horizons for cooperation between the two countries," Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said at a joint news conference.
http://www.jordantimes.com/wed/news/news1.htm
Conference to showcase latest e-business technology
AMMAN (JT) — The Princess Sumaya University for Technology is to hold its first international conference on e-business and e-learning this month.
The conference, to be held from May 23-24, will showcase the latest applicable technology while investigating possibilities for its use in the Kingdom's business and education sectors.
http://www.jordantimes.com/wed/homenews/homenews3.htm
22 stone heads of ancient gods unearthed in Petra
By Rana Dino
AMMAN — Archaeologists discovered the ruins of an ancient Nabataean monument during an excavation at the Petra Archaeological Park last week.
Patricia Bikai, who headed the excavation team that made the discovery, said they initially thought the building was either a shrine or a royal residence.
http://www.jordantimes.com/wed/homenews/homenews4.htm
Playing Don Quijote politics while setting Iraq ablaze
By Ramzy Baroud
Cast aside the nonsensical rhetoric about President George W. Bush's ostensibly successful efforts to bolster democratic tendencies “sweeping” the Middle East, and you'll discover that the facts are not so rosy, with Iraq remaining the most horrific reminder.
Bush seems to reside over an entirely different world reality when he adamantly presents himself as a visionary world leader whose uppermost concerns are freedom and democracy all over the world, with due emphasis on the Middle East.
http://www.jordantimes.com/wed/opinion/opinion3.htm
Chicago Sun Times
Till investigation could end without charges
May 18, 2005
BY DEBRA PICKETT Staff Reporter
The FBI investigation into the 1955 killing of Emmett Till is nearly done, but additional criminal charges might not be filed in the death of the black teenager from Chicago, killed while visiting family in Mississippi.
"We believe we're about 80 percent complete," said Robert J. Garrity, the special agent in charge of the bureau's Jackson, Miss. office.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-till18.html
Teachers suspicious about firings
May 18, 2005
BY MAUDLYNE IHEJIRIKA Staff Reporter
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Donald Trump had nothing on Chicago Public Schools principals last week.
"You're fired," they told 1,096 nontenured teachers who have found themselves suddenly jobless under a new policy allowing principals to dump nontenured teachers -- without hearings.
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Lefkow to Senate: Condemn 'harsh rhetoric'
May 18, 2005
WASHINGTON-- U.S. District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow -- whose husband and mother were murdered in her Chicago home -- asked the Senate on Wednesday to condemn harsh remarks about the judiciary by commentators such as evangelist Pat Robertson and members of Congress, saying their words could spark more violence.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/lefkow18.html
Here's how Hyde can cement legacy
As local business, community and humanitarian leaders on behalf of the U.S. International Affairs Budget, we took special notice when U.S. Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) announced plans to retire. Throughout his 30 years in the Congress, Hyde has played a vital role in shaping U.S. foreign policy, most recently as chairman of the House International Relations Committee. While he recently was quoted as saying he does not believe he departs Congress with a legacy, he now has an extraordinary opportunity to make a truly lasting difference in the life of every American and untold numbers around the world: This legacy can be secured by speaking out now on behalf of the U.S. International Affairs Budget.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/letters/cst-edt-vox18a.html
Media's credibility goes down the toilet
May 18, 2005
Anti-American passion is a heap of dry tinder in the Islamic world, and any spark can set it off. Thus it is not surprising that wild outrage would follow a Newsweek article claiming that American interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had flushed pages from the Quran down the toilet in an attempt to rattle prisoners. Sometimes these outbursts are based on the merest rumors, so purported fact in an international news magazine acts like a blowtorch.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/commentary/cst-edt-edits18.html
Michael Moore Today
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
(Michael Moore and George Lucas at last year's Cannes Film Festival)
Final Star Wars Bears Message for America
Final Star Wars bears message for America
Lucas wins festival trophy - and hopes his epic will awaken US to democracy in peril
By Charlotte Higgins / Guardian
The republic is crumbling under attack from alien forces. Democracy is threatened as the leader plays on the people's paranoia. Amid the confusion it is suddenly unclear whether the state is in more danger from insurgents, or from the leader himself.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2666
Congratulations to George Lucas!
...and thanks to Skywalker Sound for the incredible work they did on 'Fahrenheit 9/11'
Protesters Subjected To 'Pretext Interviews'
FBI Memo Shows No Specific Threats
By Dan Eggen / Washington Post
New FBI documents to be released today show that anti-terrorism agents who questioned antiwar protesters last summer in Denver were conducting "pretext interviews" that did not lead to any information about criminal activity.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2677
A Tale of Two Stories
Commentary - By Jim Lobe / IPS
WASHINGTON, May 17 - Here's a question for international news hounds. Who is the ''son of a bitch'' referred to in this comment by a U.S. Defence Department spokesman?
''People are dead because of what this son of a bitch said. How could he be credible now?''
Is he an unnamed Defence Department source who told Newsweek magazine that he had read a government document detailing an incident where U.S. military personnel at the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, allegedly flushed a Koran down a toilet?
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2674
Galloway rises to Senate challenge
By Matthew Davis / BBC
George Galloway had vowed to give US senators "both barrels" and after sitting - coiled - through an hour-and-half of testimony against him, he unloaded all his ammunition.
Far from displaying the forelock-tugging deference to which senators are accustomed, Mr Galloway went on the attack.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2676
US 'backed illegal Iraqi oil deals'
Report claims blind eye was turned to sanctions busting by American firms
By Julian Borger and Jamie Wilson / Guardian
The United States administration turned a blind eye to extensive sanctions-busting in the prewar sale of Iraqi oil, according to a new Senate investigation.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=2668
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