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Defenders of Wildlife Launches Campaign to Save Arctic Refuge U.S. Newswire 25 Jan 12:21 Defenders of Wildlife Launches Campaign to Save Arctic Refuge To: National Desk Contact: Brad DeVries of Defenders of Wildlife, 202-682-9400, x237 WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Responding to President Bush's statements that he will ask Congress to approve oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Defenders of Wildlife today launched an Internet petition drive urging millions of Americans to speak out and oppose "Big Oil's exploitation of America's greatest remaining unspoiled wildlife habitat," said Defenders of Wildlife President Rodger Schlickeisen. Former U.S. Fish and ...

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Miami is emerging as a hub for the smuggling of illegal immigrants from around the world as migrant-trafficking gangs join forces with other international criminals including arms and drug traffickers to increase their power and profits, federal officials say. Locally, migrant smugglers have cooperated with passport forgers and thieves to smuggle people through Miami International Airport and are believed to be collaborating with some adult industry executives to bring in foreign prostitutes, nude dancers and porn movie actors. At the same time, migrant traffickers are diversifying -- smuggling people one day and drugs the next, officials say. These new alliances, ...

DENVER - Arrests of illegal aliens increased by more than 500 percent last year in a three-state area - Colorado, Utah and Wyoming - after more federal agents were put in the field. Five Quick Response Teams were added in rural Colorado by the Immigration and Naturalization Service in October 1999. The move swelled the number of alien workers arrested in the INS's Denver district that includes all three states. In 1999, the INS arrested 920 aliens in the three states. Last year, the number of arrests jumped to 5,276, including 4,167 by the response teams. "It's impressive, especially when ...

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Clinton Wednesday honored three members of the pioneering Lewis and Clark expedition and protected some of the Montana landscape they traversed almost 200 years ago. Presiding over his last ceremony in the White House East Room, where Meriwether Lewis lived as private secretary to Thomas Jefferson and planned the exploration of the American west, Clinton paid tribute to "pathfinders of our past," designating the Upper Missouri River Breaks area in central Montana and Pompeys Pillar, east of Billings, as national monuments. The areas were explored by Lewis and William Clark as they led their expedition into ...

WASHINGTON - President Clinton predicts President-elect Bush will be able to seal an early agreement on North Korea's missile program and eventually reach a deal with Russia on further nuclear arms reductions. But he warns that Bush should handle carefully his plans for a robust national missile defense system, saying it could provoke a new round of missile proliferation around the world. Clinton told Reuters in an interview aboard Air Force One late Thursday that Bush would likely complete a deal under which Pyongyang would stop producing and selling ballistic missiles in exchange for foreign assistance in launching satellites. Clinton ...

TOOELE, Utah - A twin-engine plane returning from a weekend skydiving trip to Nevada spiraled into the Great Salt Lake, killing all nine people aboard. Searchers found seven bodies washed up on shore Monday and the two other victims floating in the lake. Duck hunters along shore found parachutes, clothing, the pilot's log book and other debris. ``It smells like fuel out here. It's kind of an eerie feeling,'' said Tim Bryan, 31, one of the hunters. The 35-year-old Beech 65 plane was headed for Tooele County Airport, about five miles south of the lake. It crashed about a mile ...

United Nations Headquarters New York, NY - USA July 9-20, 2001 Trafficking of guns, grenades and other small arms directly contributes to the death and suffering of hundreds of thousands of people around the globe each year. Understanding this, in 1999 the UN General Assembly voted to hold a "Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects." This conference-to be held in New York in July 2001-will be the first gathering of the world's governments to address this critical humanitarian, development and human rights issue. Civil society of all types has a dramatic ...

PORTLAND, Ore. - Researchers have created the world's first genetically modified primate, a baby rhesus monkey whose name - ANDi - stands for ''inserted DNA'' spelled backward. Born in October, the male monkey carries a tiny extra bit of DNA in a gene introduced as a marker that can be seen under a microscope because it glows green, researchers at Oregon Health Sciences University said. ANDi's creation was described in the Friday issue of the journal Science. Researchers hope they now can introduce other genes in rhesus monkeys that could trigger a host of human diseases such as Alzheimer's, diabetes, ...

HONG KONG (AP) - One of Hong Kong's top officials, who has been at odds with the Chinese territory's political leader, is quitting her post in a move that would mark a major government shakeup, according to news reports Friday. China recently warned Chief Secretary for Administration Anson Chan to increase her support for Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, who was chosen to run Hong Kong after it reverted to Chinese sovereignty in July 1997. Tung and Chan scheduled a news conference for Friday afternoon but did not specify what they would be discussing. Spokeswomen for Tung and Chan both declined ...

BELTSVILLE, Maryland (CNN) - When George W. Bush is sworn in as the nation's president next Saturday, the U.S. Secret Service will take strong measures to protect him, as more than 700,000 people crowd the streets of Washington. An estimated 50,000 protesters are expected to be among them. On Wednesday, the Secret Service staged a simulated attack on a presidential-style motorcade in a training exercise that capped months of intense preparation. An "assailant" launched a mock shoulder-fired missile at the president's limousine from a second-story window in an exercise designed to be realistic. The fake missile whizzed past the limo ...

(CBS) Three people were killed Wednesday and at least two others were wounded in separate shooting incidents at a county building and restaurant in Nevada County, sheriff's officials said. Investigators think the same gunman was involved in both incidents but needed more information to confirm it, Sheriff Keith Royal said. There were several potential suspects but no one in custody, he said. In the first shooting, a man walked in and began shooting up the county health, education and welfare services building in Nevada City, about 50 miles north of Sacramento. "Upon arrival, we had determined that we had several ...

JERUSALEM -- Despite efforts by President Clinton to wring a partial agreement or a statement of principles out of the Israelis and Palestinians before he leaves office, the chief Palestinian negotiator said today that Palestinians want a full peace treaty — or nothing. The declaration by negotiator Yasser Abed Rabbo further dimmed prospects for a diplomatic achievement for Clinton, who finishes his term Jan. 20, and for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, trailing far behind a hard-line rival as a Feb. 6 election looms. Meanwhile, hostilities persisted in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. A 70-year-old man was shot and ...

New York, Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. President Bill Clinton detailed his latest plan for peace in the Middle East, saying Israel and the Palestinians must create two separate states and divide sovereignty in Jerusalem to secure a lasting accord. The remarks came as hundreds of thousands of Jewish demonstrators prepare to march on Jerusalem's Old City today to protest proposals to split control of the city. The Clinton plan, part of his final push for an agreement before he leaves office on Jan. 20, would give a Palestinian state sovereignty over the Gaza Strip and most of the West ...

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- With his White House tenure winding down, U.S. President Bill Clinton is pondering the next step in the contentious Mideast peace process. Meanwhile, Palestinians and Israelis alike have expressed doubt that the parties could reach an agreement to end 52 years of conflict before Clinton leaves office in two weeks. An Israeli official told CNN, "We don't believe a deal is doable in the next two weeks," but said that on Saturday -- before heading back to Israel -- Sher had told U.S. mediators that, as far as the Israeli government is concerned, "January 20 is an ...

SEATTLE (AP) _ More than 19,000 engineers and technical workers in the Puget Sound area will be celebrating later this month when they take home a $1,000 bonus from the Boeing Co. Delivery of Boeing"s 491st commercial jetliner to be built since Jan. 1, 2000 _ expected early this week _ will trigger payments to workers represented by the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace. The incentives were part of a contract settling the union"s 40-day strike last spring. Boeing wanted to make up for production lost during the strike, and workers were looking to recoup lost wages. SPEEA ...

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In part...MR. HALLMARK: Good morning. Waymon Hallmark, and it's good to see you again from our meeting in Beaumont a couple of years ago. Anyway, I want to talk to you a little bit about the Highway 73 project that is now underway. It's moving along on schedule. What it's going to mean to Port Arthur and our community there to have a safe four-lane highway coming in and out of south county -- we have probably the largest two-berth port in the nation in amount of tonnage that we do there. So we have passed a bond issue to ...

A very long article with many...I'll call them incidents, listed. Use URL. In part...**Edinboro, Pennsylvania - April 24, 1998. An eighth grade student shot and killed a teacher and wounded two peers at a school dance. Approximately 240 individuals including students, teachers and parent volunteers were present. **Longmont, Colorado - May 1, 1998. Employees at a Boston Market were robbed at gun point. Employees were physically forced into basement. **Springfield, Oregon - May 21, 1998. A high school student brought guns to school and began shooting at his classmates in the cafeteria. Two students were killed, many injured, and over ...