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during the stanford visit , gorbachev will meet with university president donald kennedy ; former secretary of state george p. shultz , now a professor of international economics at stanford 's graduate school of business , and with students and other faculty members at the school of business .


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gorbachevs meet with stanford president donald kennedy and former secretary of state george p. shultz at the university quadrangle .


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gorbachevs meet stanford university president donald kennedy and wife jeanne and george p. shultz , former u.s. secretary of state , and wife , helena , on campus .


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joining lane on the board are stanford university president donald kennedy ; three university of california chancellors , richard atkinson of san diego , theodore huller of davis and rosemary schraer of riverside ; hewlett-packard chairman david packard , and william ballhaus , formerly chief executive officer of beckman instruments .


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commission members include former rep. clair w. burgener , a member of the uc board of regents ; former deputy secretary of state warren christopher , chairman of the los angeles law firm of o'melveny & myers ; robert r. dockson , chairman of california federal savings & loan assn . ; walter b. gerken , chairman of the executive committee of pacific mutual life insurance co. ; former caltech president marvin l. goldberger , director of the institute for advanced study at princeton university ; stafford r. grady , retired chairman of lloyds bank of california ; neil e. harlan , retired chairman of the mckesson corp. ; philip m. hawley , chairman of carter hawley hale stores inc. ; aileen c. hernandez , former member of the u.s. equal employment opportunity commission ; ivan j. houston , chairman of golden state mutual life insurance co. ; los angeles attorney michael kantor ; stanford university president donald kennedy ; sunset magazine publisher melvin b. lane ; former assembly speaker robert t. monagan ; luis nogales , former chairman of the mexican american legal defense and educational fund , los angeles ; ucla law school dean susan westerberg prager ; retired california supreme court justice frank k. richardson ; william r. robertson , executive secretary-treasurer of the los angeles county federation of labor ; cal state los angeles president james m. rosser ; california chamber of commerce president peter f. scott ; jean r. wente , chairman of wente bros. winery , and former state bar president samuel l. williams .


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final approval by president donald kennedy is expected later this year .


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kennedy said monday that he hoped raisian 's appointment , effective immediately , will improve `` the relationship between hoover and the rest of stanford university . ''


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campbell fought with kennedy over the terms and timing of his retirement and argued with liberal critics .


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the students , who were arrested after invading university president donald kennedy 's office in may , also were ordered by a santa clara county judge to perform 40 hours of community service each .


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horton said that hoover house , the residence of university president donald kennedy , is owned by the school and used regularly for campus activities .


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stanford university officials proposed to ban alcohol consumption at all stanford athletic events .


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stanford has been the only school in the pacific-10 athletic conference to allow spectators to bring alcohol inside a stadium .


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three years ago , stanford banned hard liquor at games and limited each person over 21 to carrying in one six -pack of beer .


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william chace , president of wesleyan university in middletown , conn. , sent students a letter about racial relations on campus and the film `` mississippi burning '' about the 1964 murders of civil rights activists .


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the posters , which bore telephone numbers for reporting incidents , were a way for the university to acknowledge that some people thought racism was a problem on campus , said patricia peterson , assistant vice president for campus life .


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`` right now -lrb- administrators -rrb- are doing surface changes , '' said yvette dudley , president of the naacp chapter at penn state .


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john raisian , acting director of the politically influential hoover institution think tank at stanford university since last september , has been given the job permanently , officials announced monday .


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several sources at stanford said the first choice to succeed campbell was michael boskin , the stanford economics professor who is chairman of president bush 's council of economic advisers .


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although campbell praised raisian 's appointment , john f. manley , a stanford political science professor and critic of hoover , said : `` a new director does n't change the old problem .


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soviet president mikhail s. gorbachev will not make a previously announced visit to the hoover institution during his trip to stanford university next week .


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soviet officials decided that gorbachev 's schedule during his june 3 and 4 visit to the bay area `` was just too tight , '' bob freelen , stanford vice president for public affairs , said monday .


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on the high-society block where soviet president mikhail s. gorbachev and his wife , raisa , will sleep tonight , the neighbors and their help know all about the demands of security .


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at stanford university , where gorbachev will speak monday , students are taking the metal detectors and other precautions in stride , so anxious are they to get a glimpse of the soviet leader and his wife .


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in addition to gorbachev , the secret service must protect former president ronald reagan , for instance , who will have breakfast with the soviet leader at the consul general 's home , and south korean president roh tae woo , who is scheduled to meet gorbachev on monday .


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`` nobody identifies themselves as kgb , '' said robert freelen , stanford 's vice president for public affairs .


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the secret service and kgb will be assisted by agencies ranging from the fbi to the california highway patrol as well as by police in san francisco , palo alto and stanford , and security officers at the fairmont hotel in san francisco .


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after breakfast with the reagans , the gorbachevs will head to stanford , 35 miles south .


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at stanford , officials issued tickets friday to several thousand students and staff members to see gorbachev arrive in the quadrangle monday morning .


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the 1,700 people who will attend gorbachev 's speech at stanford 's memorial auditorium will have to pass through metal detectors .


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chp officers will ensure that the 30 - car motorcade travels bay area freeways swiftly between san francisco , stanford and san francisco airport .


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here is monday 's itinerary for the visit by soviet president mikhail s. gorbachev and his wife , raisa , to san francisco and stanford university .


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9 a.m. -- former president ronald reagan and his wife , nancy , arrive at soviet consul general 's home , 2820 broadway , to have breakfast with the gorbachevs .


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10 : 15 a.m. -- gorbachevs leave for stanford university .


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11 : 15 a.m. -- gorbachevs tour stanford art museum and receive gifts of art to soviet people .


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noon -- gorbachevs visit stanford business school and meet with students and faculty at littlefield center .


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12 : 30 p.m. -- soviet president delivers address to students and faculty at memorial auditorium .


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1 : 05 p.m. -- gorbachevs leave stanford to return to consul general 's home .


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2 : 30 p.m. -- president gorbachev arrives at san francisco chamber of commerce luncheon at fairmont hotel .


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deukmejian and agnos make presentations honoring the soviet president .


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minnesotans offered other encouraging words on the placards they held along the motorcade route : `` go glasnost , '' `` president gorbachev , keep hope alive '' and `` we 're with you , gorby . ''


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portable highway signs that normally flash messages like `` traffic delay '' and `` construction next 10 miles `` were reprogrammed to display `` welcome president gorbachev `` in english and russian .


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former vice president walter f. mondale approached the u.s. ambassador , matlock , and quietly asked him what to make of the recent election of boris n. yeltsin as president of the russian republic .


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9 : 15 a.m. -- mikhail and raisa gorbachev have breakfast with former president ronald reagan at home of soviet consul general in san francisco .


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10 : 15 a.m. -- gorbachevs depart for stanford university in palo alto .


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11 : 15 a.m. -- gorbachevs tour stanford art museum .


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noon -- gorbachev visits stanford school of business .


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1 : 05 p.m. -- gorbachevs leave stanford to return to san francisco and consul general 's residence .


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4 p.m. -- gorbachevs return to consul general 's home for meeting with south korean president roh tae woo .


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it appointed a commission to bargain with competing hospitals , and stanford university hospital was among those awarded contracts .


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at stanford hospital the number of medi-cal patients has been increasing 12 % annually since 1988 , out of proportion to the number of fully paying patients .


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more than one-quarter of the indigent patients admitted to stanford come from outside santa clara county and neighboring san mateo county .


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forty-eight students who took over the president 's office at stanford university to advocate more minority faculty members and administrators pleaded no contest to trespassing charges and were sentenced to six months ' probation .


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stanford university has charged taxpayers $ 2,500 to refurbish a grand piano , $ 3,000 for a cedar -lined closet and $ 2,000 a month for flower arrangements at the official residence of the university 's president , according to congressional investigators .


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the figures were discovered after federal auditors questioned millions of dollars that stanford had billed the government for government-backed research in recent years .


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the office of naval research , which monitors payments to stanford for all government research , said thursday that a five -person team will be sent to palo alto to investigate allegations concerning the billing practices .


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last week , faced with questions from the congressional investigators , stanford disclosed that the university had repaid $ 184,286 that it had erroneously charged the government for depreciation on a 72-foot yacht , complete with jacuzzi , as well as on other equipment .


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congressional investigators now are sifting through thousands of vouchers at the university in preparation for a hearing early next year on the manner in which stanford has billed the government for overhead costs associated with government research .


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`` we have recently discovered a number of charges that have been absorbed by the government that neither i nor the taxpayers financing these costs would consider reasonable or proper , '' rep. john d. dingell -lrb- d - mich. -rrb- said in a letter asking federal auditors to step up their examination of research overhead costs at stanford .


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he indicated that similar questions may exist at other universities , and investigators said that stanford is only the first of several schools that will come under scrutiny .


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larry horton , stanford 's associate vice president for public affairs , said that the university has followed proper guidelines in billing the government and provided auditors with what it believes are justifications for the figures challenged in audits .


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the investigation was triggered by unrest among the stanford faculty over the high overhead rate that the university charges the government for research and complaints from a government auditor .


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stanford charges the government 74 cents for every dollar the government spends on research at the school to cover those indirect costs , one of the highest rates in the nation .


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that means that the government must pay stanford $ 1.74 million for a $ 1-million research project .


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in fiscal 1989 , stanford was paid $ 241 million for government research , including overhead .


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investigators for dingell and the general accounting office , an investigative arm of congress , said they suspect that stanford and other universities shift as much of their operating burden as possible to the government .


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for 1991 , stanford is seeking a rate of 78 % .


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a decrease in the rate would cost stanford millions of dollars .


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frank riddle , stanford 's comptroller , said auditors have received additional documentation and he expects the full rate request to be approved .


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for instance , the auditors have questioned $ 2.3 million in such costs that stanford says should be paid by the government because it represented space and material used for research .


Question: how fast is sound

the speed of sound is about 761 mph at sea level , and officials say the ut- arlington wind tunnel will generate brief bursts of air up to 18 times that fast , far faster than most conventional test facilities and far greater than the top speeds of conventional aircraft .


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frank lu , an assistant professor of aerospace engineering at uta , said scientists will use the wind tunnel to conduct basic research to see how air flows around aircraft that travel at hypersonic speeds , five times the speed of sound or more .


Question: what causes gray hair

it may be that in some cases the melanocyte shut-down causes a change in the shape of the hair follicle , or in the chemistry of the keratin protein. ;


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a researchers are n't sure what makes some people 's hair change texture when it goes gray .


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the texture of your hair is determined in part by the shape of your hair follicles , the little tubes in your skin from which the hair grows .


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large follicles produce coarse hair , while small follicles grow finer hair .


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some people have curved follicles , which give them curly or wavy hair . ; hair texture is also affected by chemical properties of the keratin protein that makes up the hair shaft . ;


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your hair gets its color from pigment -producing cells called melanocytes .


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as you grow older , the melanocytes in some follicles will stop making pigment , and the hairs that grow from those follicles will be white .


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the more white hairs you have , the grayer your hair looks. ; hair sometimes changes texture as it goes gray , but there has been little research into why this is so , according to kurt stenn , a dermatologist who studies hair at yale university school of medicine .


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these changes could occur in all or just some of your hair follicles , stenn said , so it is hard to say how dramatically different your silvering hair will be .


Question: what is the longest suspension bridge in the u.s .

in 1964 , the verrazano narrows _ at that time , the world 's longest suspension bridge _ opened to traffic , linking the new york city boroughs of brooklyn and staten island .


Question: what is the longest suspension bridge in the u.s .

in 1964 , the verrazano narrows - at that time , the world 's longest suspension bridge - opened to traffic , linking the new york city boroughs of brooklyn and staten island .


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rising to what one called a `` once-in-a-lifetime chance , '' engineers from around the world unveiled designs monday for a new williamsburg bridge from brooklyn to manhattan _ even though the old bridge may not have to be replaced .


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one of the 25 designs submitted calls for a bridge with two 48 -story towers topped by v-shaped structures , one holding a restaurant and one a museum .


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since announcing the competition for a new bridge last year , local officials have discovered that the bridge may not be as close to collapse as was feared .


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although a 1985 study showed that the bridge would have to be replaced by 1995 , later inspections have indicated that it might last longer .


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preliminary estimates indicate that the bridge could be renovated for about $ 250 million .


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estimates for a new bridge range from $ 200 million to $ 600 million .


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still , bridge engineers attending monday 's unveiling said they could not resist the opportunity to design a major new bridge for one of the world 's largest cities .


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with 4,260 feet between supports , it is one of the world 's longest suspension bridge .


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most of the designs for the williamsburg call for a 1 , 600-foot cable-stayed bridge that would be the longest of its type in the world .


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a cable-stayed bridge has cables stretching from its towers to the roadway , while a suspension bridge has a roadway hung from cables stretching from one side to the other .


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said herbert m. mandel , a bridge designer who is chairman of the sixth annual international bridge conference .


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nearly 1,000 of the world 's bridge engineers are meeting for three days to catch up on the latest in bridge design , construction techniques and materials .


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engineers at the conference readily admitted they often dream of designing one bridge that will inspire travelers and stand the test of time .


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`` we 're always looking for that next bridge and hope to make something special .


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even a small bridge is a monument , '' said mandel , a pittsburgh -area engineer who designed the newport suspension bridge across rhode island 's narragansett bay .


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as for standing the test of time , mandell said most designers expect an average bridge to last 50 years _ much more with proper maintenance .


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`` as a general principle , a bridge can not last forever , '' mandell said , `` but we do n't know how long they 'll last. ''


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cable -stayed bridges are shorter variations of suspension bridges with cables emanating like an inverted fan from single , center towers .


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america 's most spectacular cable-stayed bridge is the 2-year-old sunshine skyway across the shipping channel of tampa bay .


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`` surely , cable-stayed bridges are here to stay , '' said blair birdsall , a renowned senior bridge engineer from allendale , n.j .


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`` but the suspension bridge will always reign over very long spans. ''


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birdsall predicted suspension bridges with 10 , 000-foot main spans .


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the humber bridge at hull , england , is the world 's longest with a main span of 4,626 feet .


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engineers at the meeting talked excitedly about the latest in big- bridge building , the massive honshu-shikoku bridge project , which is to link the japanese islands of honshu and shikoku with three separate causeways of multiple bridges .


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the first causeway , the kojima-sakaide route , opened 14 months ago with three suspension bridges _ the longest is the world 's fifth -longest _ two cable-stayed bridges , a truss bridge , a land tunnel and viaducts over more than 8 miles .


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yamane , in turn , remembered john a. roebling , the 19th-century american engineer who designed the brooklyn bridge , which opened in 1883 and was the first modern suspension bridge .


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`` our work is in many ways based on established work of mr. roebling and his brooklyn bridge , '' yamane said .


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`` it 's amazing that a bridge built more than 100 years ago is still standing with all that traffic. ''


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today 's highlight in history : two hundred years ago , on nov. 21 , 1789 , north carolina became the 12th state to ratify the u.s. constitution .


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in 1922 , rebecca l. felton of georgia was sworn in as the first woman in the u.s. senate .


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in 1969 , the senate voted 55-45 against the nomination of clement f. haynsworth to the u.s. supreme court , the first time a candidate for the nation 's highest court had been rejected since 1930 .


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ten years ago : a mob attacked the u.s. embassy in islamabad , pakistan , setting the building afire and killing two americans , because of rumors the united states and israel were involved in the takeover of the grand mosque in mecca .


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one year ago : canada 's progressive conservative party , led by prime minister brian mulroney , won the country 's general election in which the u.s. - canadian trade agreement dominated the issues .


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on this date : in 1789 , north carolina became the 12th state to ratify the u.s. constitution .


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in 1922 , rebecca l. felton of georgia was sworn in as the first woman to serve as a member of the u.s. senate .


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in 1979 , a mob attacked the u.s. embassy in islamabad , pakistan , setting the building afire and killing two americans , following rumors the u.s. and israel were involved in the takeover of the grand mosque in mecca .


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former u.s. navy intelligence analyst jonathan jay pollard was arrested , accused of spying for israel .


Question: what is the criterion for being legally blind

a legally blind person is one whose peripheral vision is reduced to 20 percent or who can see only the top `` e '' on the optical examination chart. ;


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the most recent figures available , from the american printing house for the blind , show that in 1989 , only 12 percent of visually handicapped students read braille , down from nearly 50 percent in 1965 . ;


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adapted in the early 19th century by a blind frenchman , louis braille , from a code invented by another frenchman , charles barbier , braille is a system of six raised dots in 63 combinations representing letters and words that can be read by touching. ;


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but the groups dominated by the blind argue that braille should be mandatory for any visually handicapped person who is able to learn it. ;


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seventy percent of the visually impaired who are of employment age are either unemployed or underemployed , according to susan spungin , associate executive director of the american foundation for the blind . ;


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by contrast , the more militant national federation of the blind is dominated by those who are visually handicapped . ; still another group , the american council of the blind , is similar in philosophy to spungin 's group and is run both by handicapped and non- handicapped people . ;


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`` there are a lot of blind people who ca n't take advantage of better employment opportunity simply because they ca n't use written words with facility , '' said marc maurer , president of the federation . ;


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but dr. richard welsh of the greater pittsburgh guild for the blind disagreed .


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`` braille is a good medium for some students , but it 's not the answer for every student , '' said welsh , a former superintendent of a school for the blind in maryland , who opposed a braille bill two years ago . ;


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the federation , whose headquarters are in baltimore , is demanding that braille be taught to every legally blind person and is pushing hard for passage of braille bills in state legislatures .


Question: who is the tallest man in the world

gabriel estavao monjane , the world 's tallest man , has died after a fall at his home in maputo , mozambique , news reports said tuesday .


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gabriel estavao monjane , the world 's tallest man , died after a fall at his home in maputo , mozambique at age 45 .


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gabriel estavo monjane , 45 , believed the tallest man in the world at 8 feet , 3/4 inch .


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the tallest man ever was one robert wadlow of alton , ill. , who died in 1940 .


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that differs from the 1990 guinness book of world records , which had placed nashnush in second place at 8 feet , three-eighths of an inch. ; guinness listed gabriel estavao monjane of mozambique , at 8 feet , three-fourths of an inch , as the tallest man .


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he sang for puerto ricans serving in the u.s. army during world war ii and entertained during the korean and vietnam wars .


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he 'd be the second -biggest center in town , after the world trade .


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upon his death , the guinness book of records confirmed him as the world 's tallest man .


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recently , i have spoken to several nba general managers , all of whom agreed that , yes , they could probably use a good 8-11 man .


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Question: what are the twin cities

casualty counts still were unofficial sunday night in the twin cities of islamabad and rawalpindi , where the metropolitan area has a combined population of 4.5 million .


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state-run pakistan television said 170 teams of explosives experts , working around the clock , have so far cleared 20,000 missiles , grenades and other weapons that lay around the twin cities of islamabad and rawalpindi .


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the twin cities of minneapolis and st. paul , minn. , have been selected to host the 1991 international summer special olympic games _ an event organizers say will be that year 's largest sports event .


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minnesota 's twin cities of minneapolis and st. paul came in first and miami was last in the 30 -city survey done by two urban studies specialists , joan starker and carl abbott , for the magazine 's september issue .


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in the twin cities of rawalpindi and islamabad , processions were taken out and rallies organized by people of all shades of political opinion , business , traders , students and labor organizations to express solidarity with the people of kashmir .


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trade and labor organizations also staged demonstrations in the twin cities of rawalpindi and islamabad to express solidarity with their kashmiri brethren .


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3.2 guidestar project this is a large-scale experiment covering a 250-mile highway stretching between the twin cities of minneapolis and saint paul in minnesota .


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today , for example , edwards geldard and ernst & young host a seminar on business in europe - appropriate in a city where two of the main roads are named after nantes and stuttgart , cardiff 's twin cities .


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the twin cities of minneapolis and st paul in the state of minnesota adopted similar , though less restrictive , measures .


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the company said the twin cities of minneapolis and st. paul were perfect for tuesday 's observance because the metropolitan area has one of the highest per capita rates of tomato soup consumption in the nation .


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mitsubishi motors corp. , in a joint venture with chrysler , soon will begin making cars in the twin cities of bloomington , ill. , and normal , ill. , which are 4 % black .


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yes , the minneapolis phone book is larger than st. paul 's and it 's true that the fun in minneapolis goes on long after the lights are out in st. paul , but we are a healthy business and government center and an important part of the twin cities metropolitan area .


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the metropolitan area with the highest ratio of high school graduates among its age 25 and older population -- more than 90 % -- is seattle , followed by the twin cities of minneapolis and st. paul , minn. ; sacramento , calif. ; salt lake city ; and portland , ore .


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`` there was a need for an oriental store in the twin cities and we were having a hard time finding jobs so we opened the store , '' says laurita walaskay , one of the owners .


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busloads of workers from refineries in tula and other cities arrived all afternoon carrying workers demanding freedom for `` la quina , '' the diminutive by which hernandez galicia is known .


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in ciudad madero , traffic returned to normal after a blockade was lifted this morning by thousands of oil workers and sympathetic students who had cut highways leading into the twin cities of tampico and ciudad madero .


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northern cities topped a list of best metropolitan areas for raising children , while those in the sun belt generally fared poorly , a study conducted for savvy magazine indicated .


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reports say life remained paralyzed in towns and cities of the valley .


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what worries many us industries is that more and more cities and states are adopting complex legislation which calls for industry , rather than local governments , to carry much of the recycling burden .


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st. paul 's winter carnival gears up during the statistically coldest weeks of the year for the twin cities -- in mid- to late january .


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the frosty breath of those around us was the only reminder of a temperature registering 10 below zero . ; twin cities residents take an almost perverse pride in the chilling winters they endure .


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while in minnesota recently , during an extended cold snap , i was surprised to see people outside jogging and , even in one instance , cycling on the snow-covered paths along the mississippi river . ; outdoor activity is a staple of the twin cities ' winter experience .


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for those not inclined to ski at all , the twin cities have countless skating rinks , many of them indoors .


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another winter passion in the twin cities is ice fishing , done in huts on the local lakes. ;


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while ice fishing and other outdoor activities take advantage of the minnesota winters , twin cities residents also enjoy winter indoors .


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both cities have miles of second -floor skyways connecting downtown buildings .


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the twin cities also boast two fine art galleries : the walker art center , -lrb- 612 -rrb- 375-7600 , and the minneapolis institute of arts , -lrb- 612 -rrb- 870-3131 . ; -lrb- check -rrb- information -- minnesota office of tourism : -lrb- 800 -rrb- 657-3700 .


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prof. cole estimates that , on the average , blacks constitute 15 % of the population in cities with big three plants that are either new or renovated , while in cities with older plants blacks make up 20 % of the population .


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mars in september makes its closest approach to earth in a generation _ just over 36 million miles , and at its nearest on sept. 21 the red planet will rival jupiter as the brightest object in the sky after the moon and venus .


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orange flames lit the night sky of soviet central asia tuesday as the soviet union launched the second of a pair of space probes on an 111 million-mile odyssey to explore the mysteries of mars and help prepare for a manned flight to the red planet .


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moroz said the soviets hope that american scientists and astronauts will take part in the mars mission , but even without u.s. participation , the soviets are determined to explore the red planet .


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mars will move to within about 36 million miles of earth this month _ the closest its been in 17 years _ and dozens of `` mars watches '' are planned to view the red planet named for the roman god of war .


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amateur astronomers in the northern hemisphere are getting their best look at mars in over a century as the red planet makes its closest approach to earth in years .


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_mars observer will be launched in 1992 , reaching the red planet in 1993 and studying it until 1996 .


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_mars observer will be launched in 1992 to orbit the red planet for a multiyear examination .


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a nasa team has fleshed out president bush 's visions of american outposts on the moon and mars with a script that would have four humans arriving on the red planet in 2011 , and returning for a 600-day stay in 2018 .


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nasa called the sept. 13 test `` a significant milestone '' in developing a planet-roving , computer-guided vehicle that would explore mars to find suitable landing sites for a manned mission to the red planet .


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near the end of `` red planet , '' at a town meeting on mars , the colorful , wise doc declares , `` any man old enough to fight is a man and must be treated as such -- and any girl old enough to cook and tend babies is an adult , too . ''


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too many platelets , a relatively rare condition known is thrombocytosis , can lead to unwanted blood clots that cause heart attacks and strokes .


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the planet will come closest to earth on sept. 22 , but the best time to see it is the next few nights , said norman warns , an astronomy professor at south suburban college in south holland , a chicago suburb .


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he said viewing conditions this time are better because the planet is much higher in the sky .


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she warned that people should be more careful and not make any rash decisions because of the unusual influence this month of the planet said by astrologers to have high energy .


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the voyagers also discovered a ring around jupiter , the largest planet in the solar system and a valuable astronomical laboratory because of the diversity of its system of at least 16 moons .


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they learned the great red spot , observed for centuries through earth -based telescopes , is a tremendous atmospheric storm similar to earth 's hurricanes .


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jupiter spins at a dizzying pace _ once every 9 hours , 55 minutes , 30 seconds _ but it takes the massive planet almost 12 earth years to complete a journey around the sun .


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before pioneer 11 and the voyagers passed by saturn , astronomers knew the planet only as a fuzzy yellow sphere surrounded by six rings .


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the startling images relayed back quickly identified several thousand rings made up of small ice particles orbiting the planet at various speeds .


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venus , our sister planet and closest neighbor , more nearly resembles earth in size , physical composition and density than any of the other planets .


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`` in many ways , this is the end of an era , the last time we will see a planet for a first time , the end of the reconnaissance phase of planetary explorations , '' he said .


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there are no plans to explore pluto , the only planet still not visited by a spacecraft but fisk listed several missions that will orbit planets rather than fly past them : _magellan , launched from a space shuttle last may , arrives at venus next august and will study that planet for several years .


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_galileo will be launched from the shuttle atlantis on oct. 12 , arriving in orbit around jupiter in 1996 and studying the planet until the end of the century .


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among the events scheduled in the 1990s : _magellan , launched from a space shuttle last may , is to orbit venus next august and will study that planet for several years .


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the report said its planning for human exploration of the solar system has concentrated on use of high performance engines and a technique called aerobraking where the atmosphere of planet is used to decelerate a spacecraft and change its trajectory .


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can it repeat a far more complex and spectacular feat to the red planet in less than 29 years ?


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the red planet is hundreds of times farther away than the moon .


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it was named after robby the robot in `` forbidden planet , '' a 1956 science fiction film .


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the only unmanned rovers to explore another planet were two soviet lunakod vehicles that explored the moon in the early 1970s , bedard said .


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vap itself should see one of its initial versions take its first steps at toulouse in two or three years on uneven ground modeling the martian terrain , prior to the departure of the final robot for the red planet in about a decade at best .


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al-qahira , ares , harmakhis , mangala , nirgala , aquakuh , huo hsing are a few of the haunting names by which the red planet has been known .


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crisply paced , neatly plotted and peopled with agreeable characters , `` red planet `` -lrb- also `` tunnel in the sky , '' `` starman jones , '' `` farmer in the sky `` and `` time for the stars '' -rrb- still can entertain readers , while such `` adult '' works as `` glory road '' and `` farnham 's freehold `` have been consigned to the shelves reserved for pretentious bores .


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but geological forms on the red planet suggest it once had atmospheric pressure great enough for water to run over its surface .


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but they have been reassessing what they know about the red planet and now think that perhaps the probe simply was n't looking in the right place .


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the soviet union and the united states are discussing manned missions to the red planet .


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a more remote possibility for life is venus , the second planet from the sun .


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as the planet warmed up , that water eventually rose into the upper atmosphere , where it was broken apart by sunlight , leaving behind the heavier deuterium as much of the lighter hydrogen escaped into space .


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venus could have had oceans during this period , and life could have gotten started , only to die out as the planet heated up , astrophysicist james kasting of ames said .


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scientists hope to learn much more about venus ' past from the magellan probe , which is scheduled to reach the `` veiled planet `` aug. 10 , 1990 .


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housewives mix the garlic with red peppers and other spices to make `` kimchi , '' a spicy , pickled chinese - cabbage dish consumed at practically every meal .


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they express this to some extent in negativesthey do n't want to be known as a second japan , or as a police state .


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the room itself is rather plain , but gleaming wooden furniture from korea , silken pillows in splashy colors and waitresses garbed in the hanbok , the traditional korean dress , lift it from the ordinary .


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south korean president roh tae -woo left honolulu thursday afternoon for seoul as he wound up his historic trip to the united states .


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about 100 men , women and children from hawaii 's korean community were on hand at hickam air force base for roh 's departure .


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because i 've developed a fixation on one dish , and that makes it difficult to move on through the absorbing menu of this korean restaurant .


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it is different in flavor from korean barbecued beef -- more spicy , redder in color and less strong on soy sauce .


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employed as a restorative for women who have given birth , this soup may follow the infants through life because it is also served on birthdays , a korean told me .


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yeejoh is owned by bo ae kim , a leading korean film actress , and her husband , jong ho kim .


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once i asked a korean friend to order lunch and gave up the barbecued pork to try a parade of sumptuous dishes .


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mardi gras is a state holiday , and the federal government 's celebration of washington 's and lincoln 's birthdays gave state workers monday off as well .


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he arrived from his home in san diego on friday and was to leave monday , which recently has been revived in new orleans as lundi gras _ fat monday or the day before mardi gras , fat tuesday .


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mardi gras , or fat tuesday , was the crescendo of two weeks of nightly pre- lenten carnival parades in the city that care forgot .


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carnival season begins each jan. 6 and builds to a raucous climax on mardi gras , french for fat tuesday , the day before the start of the christian lenten season .


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biggest party : mardi gras _ the day before lent _ attended by 1 million .


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carnival begins on twelfth night , jan. 6 , with various balls and parties , and ends fat tuesday , or mardi gras , the day before ash wednesday .


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about two weeks before mardi gras , a series of parades in the metropolitan area begin marking countdown before shrove tuesday .


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mardi gras , or fat tuesday , falls this year on feb. 7 .


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the shooting occured the day before mardi gras , the culmination of pre-lenten festivities .


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a month of parades and balls comes to an end at midnight on mardi gras , or fat tuesday , when carnival season ends and lent brings six weeks of repentance to this predominantly catholic city .


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costumed revelers danced from bar to bar at the break of dawn today and parade clubs set out in an early kickoff of mardi gras , the bawdy , boozy blowout of pre-lent parades , street parties and carousing .


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mardi gras , french for fat tuesday , is the last day of the carnival season , which ends with the start of ash wednesday at midnight .


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in new orleans , king cake is served daily right up until mardi gras -lrb- fat tuesday -rrb- , which falls this year on feb. 7 .


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in french , mardi gras means fat tuesday .


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the traditions of mardi gras as it 's now celebrated in new orleans began in the 1880s and have come to encompass a month of parades and parties culminating on fat tuesday , which this year is feb. 27 .


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they wanted to be in position to catch beads and other junk tossed by maskers on the hundreds of floats in successive parades on mardi gras -- french for fat tuesday , the day before lent begins. ; parades included the procession of rex , king of carnival and head of a secretive `` krewe '' of high society , old-money businessmen .


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the carnival , consisting of numerous parades , parties and promenades over a 12-day period that ends on mardi gras , or shrove tuesday , the last day before the christian fasting period of lent , has been a fixture of new orleans society since the 19th century . ;


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from carnival 's first fling 11 days ago until its conclusion today on mardi gras -lrb- or fat tuesday -rrb- , new orleans is a city on parade .


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thousands of people grabbed for cheap beads and aluminum doubloons tossed from parade floats saturday , the opening day of an unusual four-day mardi gras weekend , and thousands more queued up to board a giant aircraft carrier .


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thousands of mardi gras revelers thronged the french quarter today for america 's biggest block party , where madness is a way of life and the only sin is to be a party pooper .


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the day officially concludes at midnight tonight with the meetings of the courts of rex and comus , signaling that mardi gras has given way to ash wednesday and 40 days of lenten sacrifice .


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last year , police were criticized for clearing the streets after mardi gras with a little too much vigor .


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in mamou , 160 miles west in the heart of cajun country , mardi gras is celebrated , but in a different way .


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as many as 20,000 visitors were expected to turn out in the town of 3,200 for courir du mardi gras , or the running of the mardi gras , in which masked horsemen canter from house to house soliciting the makings of a giant gumbo .


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the cajun country towns of eunice , lawtell and ville platte also celebrate courir du mardi gras , but mamou 's celebration is the biggest .


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a record-breaking mess and fewer arrests were two measures of success for what may have been new orleans ' biggest mardi gras .


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while some people use the intensity of their hangovers to gauge how much fun they had , cecil macfarland uses the weight of the garbage his sanitation crews pick up during the 12-day parade season to judge mardi gras ' success .


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another apparent fatality occurred when an officer with the mississippi river bridge police assigned to help control mardi gras crowds on a ferry slipped into the river as he helped pull aboard a woman who had fallen off the vessel .


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christmas trees still sparkle in local homes , but folks already are stocking up on carnival beads and city work crews are building parade stands for one of the earliest mardi gras celebrations in years .


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this year , with an early easter , things got a head start because mardi gras falls on feb. 7 .


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the earliest mardi gras dates found in the louisiana almanac , on a list from 1969 till 2000 , is feb. 7 _ this year and in 1978 .


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so you can say mardi gras falls this early only twice in the three decade period .


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i think just about everyone had it on the shelves by new year 's , '' said dom carlone of accent annex enterprises inc. , which specializes in mardi gras items such as the colorful beads that are thrown by float riders .


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`` this year we 're advertising nationally and we expect to sell better than $ 2 million of our mardi gras packages. ''


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`` this is turning out to be one of the best mardi gras in history , '' said beverly gianna of the greater new orleans tourist commission .


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mardi gras is expected to pour more than $ 2 million into the hard-pressed local economy .


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endymion is one of the splashiest _ and longest _ of the more than 50 parades during the days leading up to mardi gras .


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a mardi gras tourist who told robbers he had no money was fatally shot monday about two blocks from a parade route , police said .


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robichaux was in charge of running four dormitories at the university ; co-workers said he also made the campus mardi gras parade into a major event .


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but police said shootings during attempted robberies are highly unusual at mardi gras .


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rex , the masked king of carnival who leads one of mardi gras ' biggest and richest parades , kicked off celebrations monday night , sailing into the city on the mississippi aboard the eagle , a coast guard tall ship .


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revelers in well-worn costumes jammed shoulder to shoulder in the french quarter as the raucous , hard-drinking pre- lent party known as mardi gras blasted on into the night tuesday .


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`` honey , even if you do n't have it you flaunt it on mardi gras .


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david donze of new orleans , who dressed as st. michael the archangel , complete with handmade feather wings and golden sandals , said costuming for mardi gras made everyone a star .


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it is mardi gras time in mobile -- a season of genial madness in this otherwise sedate and conservative port city .


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new orleans may lay claim to the best-known mardi gras in the united states .


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`` it 's not as crowded as new orleans , there 's way far less crime and it 's more family oriented , '' said wayne dean sr. , an amateur mardi gras historian and chief booster of mobile 's festival .


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dean also argues that mardi gras in this city of 210,000 is more authentic , too .


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mobile 's festivities are attracting larger and larger crowds each year as word spreads about its distinctive `` home-grown '' mardi gras style .


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mobile 's mardi gras dates back in a line broken only by wars to 1703 , one year after the city 's founding by french explorers at ft .


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`` a letter sent back to france by one of the soldiers stationed at the tiny fort tells of the observance of mardi gras by the settlement , '' dean said .


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the distinctive style of today 's mardi gras -- with parades , floats and masked balls sponsored by `` mystic societies `` -- is not french , however .


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the following year , they formed the `` cowbellions de rakin `` -- the first mystic society in the nation and the progenitor of the exclusive present-day clubs in both mobile and new orleans that stage mardi gras parades and balls .


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`` if new orleans styles itself as the home of the mardi gras , it 's because it can lay claim to forming the first of these societies devoted exclusively to mardi gras celebrations in the 1850s , '' said caldwell delaney , mobile 's official historian and director of the city museum .


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today , mardi gras in new orleans draws more than 1 million visitors annually and pumps an estimated $ 114 million into new orleans ' economy .


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mardi gras officials estimate more than 2 million of these are thrown each year .


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`` i caught enough moon pies last year to last me and my kid for 2 1/2 months , '' says a transplanted montanan who came to mobile 14 years ago and claims not to have missed a single mardi gras parade since then .


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perhaps the most unusual event in mobile 's calendar of mardi gras activities is the `` joe cain procession , '' which traditionally takes place on the sunday before mardi gras tuesday .


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the parade is named after the confederate veteran and town clerk who is credited with reviving mardi gras here after the celebration died out during the civil war .


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on mardi gras tuesday of 1866 , cain dressed up as the chickasaw indian chief slacabamorinico and drove through the union -occupied streets of mobile in a fancily decorated charcoal wagon , accompanied by half a dozen fellow confederate veterans .


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`` the chickasaws had never surrendered nor had they ever been defeated , '' notes edward ladd , president of the mobile carnival assn. , which coordinates the town 's mardi gras festivities .


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the procession also ends up with a wide-open party that is a refreshing departure from the white-tie-and-tails , by-invitation-only balls put on by the more exclusive mardi gras societies .


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haydel and his brother gary run haydel 's bakery , one of a number of city bakeries ready to ship the cakes -- iced in the three gaudy mardi gras colors -- anywhere in the nation .


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haydel ships not only the cake but literature on mardi gras and carnival trinkets such as plastic beads and aluminum coins called doubloons .


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`` it 's like a little bit of mardi gras to get a king cake , '' says haydel .


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somehow , the motto of mardi gras seems to say it all : laissez les bons temps rouler !


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in fact , the origins of mardi gras are hazy , but it probably began in the middle ages and may have been a way of giving religious significance to ancient festivals celebrating the rites of spring .


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the french brought the seeds of mardi gras with them when they colonized louisiana in 1699 , but it took a while for the idea to catch on .


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mardi gras celebrations this year include :


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concert-goers are asked to come in costume to this mardi gras -themed event , sponsored by the hermosa beach community center foundation .


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san luis obispo -- `` it 's magic `` is the theme of the annual mardi gras celebration in san luis obispo today in the downtown area .


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he launched mardi gras there about 12 years ago because he missed the celebrations of his native new orleans .


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`` it 's like a neighborhood mardi gras parade in new orleans . ''


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for those truly into the spirit of the event , there 's the mardi gras ball , which will be held at san luis veterans memorial , monterey and grand streets , after the parade .


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you may well have also heard of the ucla mardi gras , planned for may 18 , 19 and 20 , or the premiere of the long beach mardi gras due oct. 13 and 14 .


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actually , the ucla festival has little to do with mardi gras other than the name .


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then how did it get the name mardi gras ?


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karla johnson , public relations and promotion director for the event , says it began as a masquerade ball in 1941 when a mardi gras theme was chosen .


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ucla mardi gras is held at the ucla athletic field at the corner of sunset and westwood boulevards .


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the long beach event will try to recreate the atmosphere of mardi gras , but it was scheduled in october for two reasons .


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first , holding it in late february would place it too close to the long beach grand prix , according to linda s. wall , president of mardi gras international , the firm presenting the festival .


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also , she says , it was n't desirable to be in direct competition with the annual mardi gras in new orleans , because her firm hopes to build the long beach event to one of national stature .


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the long beach mardi gras will include a golf tournament , a cruise ; mardi gras shorefest with entertainment , cajun food and international music ; the `` wanna-be parade `` -lrb- participants are encouraged to be whoever or whatever they `` wan na be '' -rrb- and the mardi gras u.s. western regional kinetic sculpture race , where people -powered vehicles that are also works of art traverse terrain obstacles such as mud and sand .


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officials estimated that mardi gras would pump about $ 480 million into the local economy this year . ;


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the raunchier side of the celebration unfolded in the french quarter , where cross-dressers roamed the streets with abandon and women bared breasts in return for mardi gras trinkets. ;


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blaine kern , the float builder known as `` mr. mardi gras , '' looks to the sky for an answer -- and frowns .


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they gasp at the egoism that prompted mr. kern to obtain a copyright on the sobriquet `` mr. mardi gras . ''


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mr. kern caused a furor this summer when he agreed to parade in south africa as a means of persuading 50 zulu warriors to return the visit during mardi gras .


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`` the publicity we 'd have gotten with 50 zulu warriors parading in new orleans would have been a hell of a shot in the arm for mardi gras .


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these krewes were so highfalutin that when the duke and duchess of windsor visited town on mardi gras 1950 , the old world royalty made a formal bow to the new orleans royalty .


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in recent years , with the growth of interest in mardi gras outside new orleans , mr. kern 's papier-mache fancies have also begun to enliven less storied carnivals from galveston , texas , to grand rapids , mich .


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`` if certainty of results and the elimination of risks had been required in advance , -lrb- canada 's first prime minister -rrb- sir john a. macdonald would never have proceeded with the great endeavors which bound canada together , '' mulroney said .


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prime minister brian mulroney flew to st. john 's , newfoundland , to announce that the federal government will contribute $ 830 million in grants and up to $ 1.3 billion in loan guarantees for the giant project .


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`` hibernia is by far and away the largest capital investment in the history of atlantic canada . ''


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he said the project could break the cycle of federal dependency in canada 's poorest province .


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but the conservative prime minister , who is getting ready to call a general election to seek a second term , acknowledged that hibernia is a gamble .


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the consortium developing the field is led by mobil oil canada ltd. of calgary and includes gulf canada , petro-canada , chevron canada resources ltd. and columbia gas system of delaware .


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the province has an unemployment rate of 17 percent , the highest in canada , and its economy is over-dependent on dwindling fish stocks around its coast .


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hibernia is estimated to contain at least 525 million barrels of oil and should produce an average 110,000 barrels a day during peak production , about 7 percent of canada 's projected demand by the end of the century .


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large-scale development in the western provinces made canada self-sufficient in oil and natural gas but land-based reserves are running low , causing companies to look at offshore reserves in the atlantic and arctic as well as the tar sands of alberta .


Question: who invented the road traffic cone ?

david morgan , the company 's managing director and inventor of the plastic cone even collects them .


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morgan produced the first pvc cone in 1967 while he was working at ici and experimenting with liquid polythene .


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morgan was runner-up in a recent british television vote for the most boring man in britain -lrb- the winner collected brown paper bags -rrb- .


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morgan spotted one suspended over a naked bulb outside a brothel in amsterdam .


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but morgan sells cones to police forces and traffic authorities as far away as saudi arabia and china , as well as large and engineering companies across the uk .


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'we get orders from all over the world , ' says morgan .


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morgan 's company makes everything from the diminutive 13-inch traffic cone to the giant highwayman .


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personalised wedding cones decorated with lace and frills are available to order and morgan sells about 50 special black funeral cones a week .


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in the interests of safety an ordinary motorway contra -flow requires about 10,000 road cones .


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'for me road cones hold an extraordinary fascination , and i can spot a different design at 100 yards , ' he says .


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britain , with the best road safety record in the world , has persuaded other countries to invest in cones and 20 per cent of their sales are overseas , mostly to mainland europe .


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he has even diversified into road signs , barrier systems , flashing lamps and paint for marking out white and yellow lines .


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in britain , the 365 -page traffic sign regulation and general directions booklet gives precise dimensions and colours of cones , and the layout needed for certain types of traffic control .


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'well it 's not something i admit to socially , but it 's quite satisfying knowing my product sees people through road works safely . '


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what if there is a decline in road building ?


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the navy will lose 15 of 258 admirals by 1995 .


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extending the pain of planned defense cutbacks to the military 's most senior ranks , defense secretary dick cheney moved thursday to trim the nation 's corps of generals and admirals by 7 % over the next four years .


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the combined reductions in the senior ranks are likely to most heavily affect the washington area , where generals , admirals and joint staff officers are concentrated .


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he said that the current head count of 1,073 generals and admirals already is far below the 1,435 recommended by a private commission last year .


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williams said that the pentagon would try to reduce the numbers by not replacing admirals and generals as they retire .


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the navy , whose traditional role makes it an important force in third world conflicts , will lose only 6 % of its flag-rank officers .


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the request was made in a two -page statement distributed to relief agencies in addis ababa , the capital , by the relief and rehabilitation commission , the government agency responsible for drought and famine relief in ethiopia .


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in addis ababa , the capital of ethiopia , the government said u.n. aid workers can resume drought relief operations in the war-torn north but more than 50 other western workers remain barred from the region , an official there said tuesday .


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abu-saleh , the foreign minister , is currently in ethiopia 's capital , addis ababa , for a meeting of the ministerial council of the organization of african unity , or oau .


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a helicopter gunship roared overhead , but otherwise security was light for the more than 30 heads of government and state gathered at the 50 -member body 's headquarters in addis ababa , ethiopia 's capital .


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in ethiopia 's capital , addis ababa , government spokesman teklu tabor refused to comment .


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israel has denied visas to 150 jews stranded in ethiopia , claiming they are not jewish by orthodox law , a legislator said monday . mattityahu peled , a retired general in the israeli army and a member of the left-wing progressive movement for peace , said the ethiopians have relatives in israel and have waited several months in addis ababa , ethiopia 's capital , for visas to the jewish state .


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ethiopia 's government in the capital , addis ababa , rarely comments on rebel claims and , there was no way to independently confirm friday 's report .


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al-mirghani planned to leave early saturday for addis ababa , capital of neighboring ethiopia , for talks with john garang , leader of the sudan people 's liberation army , which has been fighting government troops in southern sudan since 1983 .


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haile selassie , who had made ethiopia the united states ' strongest ally in africa , was last seen alive climbing into the back seat of a car outside his main palace in the capital addis ababa .


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an african military attache based in addis ababa said the army garrison in harar , in eastern ethiopia , also was supporting the coup attempt and that negotiations were under way in the capital between loyalist and dissident military leaders .


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the armed forces ' official newspaper reported today that el-bashir told the ethiopian ambassador that he wanted to send a delegation to addis ababa , ethiopia 's capital , to meet with garang 's representatives .


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gebre- giorgis , a former ethiopian air force pilot , `` knows ethiopia like the back of his hand , '' houdek said leland , 44 , a texas democrat who heads the house select committee on hunger , has taken a great interest in africa 's refugee problem and was flying to the fugnido refugee camp near the border with sudan , 480 miles southwest of the capital of addis ababa .


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friday -lrb- 6 p.m. edt thursday -rrb- from about 100 miles north-northwest of addis ababa , capital of ethiopia .


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the refugees , mostly women and children , are camped in a remote area six miles from the border and about 250 miles northeast of ethiopia 's capital , addis ababa .


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the tigreans , in a 3-month-old offensive , have pushed to within 100 miles of ethiopia 's capital , addis ababa , and are seen as a growing threat to mengistu 's government .


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ethiopian rebels today claimed they captured a third town in central ethiopia as they pushed southward toward the capital , addis ababa .


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jihur is` 70 miles northeast of addis ababa and 25 miles west of one of the two highways that connect the capital with the port of assab , home of ethiopia 's sole oil refineryn the front is`a combined force of the tigre people 's liberation front and the ethiopia people 's democratic movement , a much smaller group .


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ethiopian rebels said tuesday they seized a third town in central ethiopia in their drive southward toward addis ababa , the capital .


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jihur is 70 miles northeast of the capital and 25 miles west of one of two highways that connect addis ababa with the port of assab , home of ethiopia 's sole oil refinery .


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diplomats and other sources in ethiopia 's capital , addis ababa , could not confirm the rebel claims .


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since august , the rebels have made their greatest gains , pushing southward and westward into neighboring provinces and moving ever closer to ethiopia 's capital , addis ababa .


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`` we could be looking at a repeat of that , '' said a relief agency official in addis ababa , ethiopia 's capital .


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mekelle is 170 miles north of dessie and 320 miles north of ethiopia 's capital , addis ababa .


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officials and some diplomats in addis ababa , ethiopia 's capital , say the eritreans have received arms and money from several arab countries around the red sea that oppose the soviet-supplied government of president mengistu haile mariam .


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the organization of african unity addressed similar issues at its annual meeting last week in addis ababa , capital of ethiopia .


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the ambassador also asked that the mechanism for sorting them out in the capital , addis ababa , and in ethiopia 's northern districts be expanded , at a time when thousands of falash-mura are already knocking on the addis ababa embassy 's doors and rumors lead many others to flow into the capital from the north .


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rebels have reportedly advanced to within 55 miles of addis ababa , the capital , and control ethiopia 's northern third . ;


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there are about 60 non-governmental relief organizations working in ethiopia , but only a few operate in eritrea and tigray .


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prime minister sadek mahdi said tuesday that sudan was `` saturated '' with refugees and he would not accept the expected influx of hundreds of thousands of people fleeing from neighboring ethiopia .


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western relief officials expressed fear there could be heavy loss of life among ethiopia 's refugees .


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mahdi said he discussed the situation with ethiopia 's marxist government and with the u.n. office of high commissioner for refugees and other relief organizations .


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he said the talks were aimed at organizing aid shipments to the affected people in the tigre and eritrea regions in northern ethiopia , or at setting up camps inside ethiopia near the border with sudan .


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mahdi , discussing sudan 's own war in the south , said he hoped improving relations with ethiopia would gradually lead to an end of ethiopian aid to the rebel group the sudan people 's liberation army .


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most of the light aircraft belonging to international aid agencies left ethiopia today , three weeks after the government grounded the planes that brought supplies to the famine-threatened north .


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one was going to djibouti , ethiopia 's northeastern neighbor .


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the planes were used mainly to ferry relief workers around the rugged terrain of northern ethiopia .


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the order did not affect a food airlift to mekelle , the tigrean capital , where c-130 cargo planes continue to operate .


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ethiopian rebels claimed thursday that they destroyed some aircraft when they shelled the airport at asmara , ethiopia 's second - largest city and a provincial northern capital .


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eritrea and tigre , in the extreme north of ethiopia , are the hardest hit by the current drought .


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the government meanwhile said its forces overran 12 rebel positions in the upper nile province near the border with ethiopia , killing 300 rebels .


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he met on monday with president mengistu haile mariam of ethiopia , whom sudan repeatedly has charged with backing the sudanese rebellion .


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garang is known to have a base of operations inside neighboring ethiopia .


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since el-mahdi took office in 1986 , his government has held several rounds of preliminary peace talks with the rebels in britain and ethiopia .


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those attending the celebration in ethiopia included hosni mubarak , of egypt , who wore a dark suit ; jerry rawlings of ghana , in camouflage fatigues and dark glasses ; sadiq el-mahdi of sudan , in flowing white robes and turban ; and maj. gen. ibrahim babangida of nigeria , in khaki dress uniform emblazoned with red and gold braid .


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president mengistu haile mariam of ethiopia said the oau could count among its successes the rapprochement between ethiopia and somalia , who restored diplomatic ties in april after an 11-year break following the ogaden desert war .


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the oau was not directly involved in the ethiopia - somalia rapprochement and has had limited success in mediation .


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ethiopian guerrillas on thursday claimed they captured three garrison towns in northern ethiopia , including korem , the site of a major government food relief station in the drought-stricken region .


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the inaccessibility of ethiopia 's northern region makes independent verification of government or rebel claims difficult .


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fighting in tigre and ethiopia 's northernmost province , eritrea , has crippled relief operations aimed at feeding an estimated 3.2 million drought victims in those provinces .


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`` there will be no peace in ethiopia unless mengistu is destroyed , '' yemane said .


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israeli officials consistently refuse to discuss emigration from ethiopia , fearing publicity could harm the effort .


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peled said many of the jews left in ethiopia could be brought to israel if not for interior ministry officials , who belong to the ultra- orthodox party shas and have sole jurisdiction over visas .


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ethiopia is allied with israel 's arab enemies and thus reluctant to permit jews to come here .


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eritrean rebels said they sank three ships and damaged port installations in speedboat attacks along ethiopia 's red sea coast .


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the eritrean people 's liberation front said rebel naval units carried out the attack tuesday on the red sea port of massawa , 40 miles northeast of eritrea 's provincial capital asmara .


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eritrea , ethiopia 's northernmost province , is home to africa 's longest civil war , a 27-year-old secessionist struggle .


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the governments of sudan and ethiopia often have exchanged charges of harboring each other 's rebels , but relations have improved recently .


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in a statement , the libyan embassy in ethiopia 's capital also called on international public opinion to pressure the united states `` to stop its threats and aggressions. ''


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fourteen years after his father 's death , haile selassie 's exiled 73-year-old son announced at a news conference friday his ascension to the imperial throne of ethiopia , where a marxist -led government now rules .


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seated beside his white-robed empress and surrounded by family -in-exile , ahma selassie i of ethiopia , the conquering lion of the tribe of judah , indicated they believe the government will not last long and that he will return to reign as a constitutional monarch and bring democracy to the nation .


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he ruled ethiopia for a total of 44 years as head of one of the world 's last feudal states .


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loyal troops defeated rebellious soldiers and re-established control over the capital today , but thousands of soldiers in the north reportedly joined leaders of a coup attempt .


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`` in addis itself , it 's increasingly looking like a failed coup , but it appears to be a very different story in other parts of the country and especially in the north , '' said a western diplomat in the capital .


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asmara is the headquarters of ethiopia 's 2nd army , consisting of 150,000 soldiers .


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ethiopia has africa 's largest and most well-armed army .


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all offices , shops and schools in the capital were closed .


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throughout the day , it repeated a communique from ethiopia 's state council reporting the deaths of two coup leaders .


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there have been persistent reports of military unrest in ethiopia , especially among field commanders who reportedly feel the government has not supported them adequately in the northern civil war .


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a new round was to have begun tuesday , also in the ethiopian capital .


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ethiopia asked for help in the search for a plane carrying u.s. rep. mickey leland and 13 companions and america responded by sending a fleet of rescue aircraft wednesday , u.s. officials said .


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president bush called the disappearance a matter `` of great concern to us '' and said ethiopia is `` going to get all the cooperation we can give them '' in the search , now in its third day .


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houdek said the plane was a `` great bush aircraft '' capable of landing in close , rough terrain , and that the pilot , assefa gebre-giorgis , was `` the best damn bush pilot in ethiopia . ''


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state department spokeswoman margaret tutwiler said that marxist ethiopia `` agreed to an overflight of the area by a u - 2 photo-reconnaissance plane .


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fugnido , one of four refugee camps in southwestern ethiopia run by the u.n. high commissioner for refugees , houses more than 300,000 sudanese who have fled famine and civil war .


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the satellite was passing directly over ethiopia when it picked up the second signal , far away from the first signal picked up thursday but still boosting confidence that it came from the missing plane .


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koffler said the second signal `` does n't mean it 's from that particular plane , '' but noted there would be few such sources for distress signals in ethiopia .


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the first signal was picked up when the satellite passed over the edge of ethiopia 's border and search teams set out on foot for that remote mountain area .


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renewed fighting in northwestern somilia has forced about 8,000 people to flee to ethiopia in the past two weeks , according to a u.n. official .


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exiled dissidents recently have claimed barre 's government has lost control of all but the capital and is experiencing the most widespread fighting across the east african nation since barre seized power in 1969 .


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the government has refused to let journalists into somalia since may 1988 and mogadishu residents contacted by telephone say they know little about events outside the capital .


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ethiopia , a proud and historic country now under marxist rule , could be the prize as the soviet union gradually loosens its ties to client states and the united states tries to cope with famine and hunger in africa .


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the death in an air crash last week of rep. mickey leland , a texas democrat who was a strong friend to ethiopia and anyone suffering from hunger , touched off a cooperative search that is likely to lead to better relations _ provided two u.s. conditions are met .


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`` the soviets have said they are cutting ethiopia off .


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ethiopia needs to be adopted and supported by somebody. ''


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on thursday , former president carter announced thursday that he will serve as a neutral observer when ethiopian officials and leaders of a rebel group hold preliminary peace talks next month at carter 's policy center in atlanta , ga. carter said the talks between the government of ethiopia and the eritrean people 's liberation front will last for several days and will lay the groundwork for further negotiations toward ending the ethiopian civil war .


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laws restrict official business with ethiopia , and the 1961 foreign assistance act bars u.s. aid to many comunist countries , with exceptions .


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other laws prohibit u.s. support for international loans to countries that systematically violate human rights and bar aid to countries that have not paid their debts _ both of which apply to ethiopia .


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ethiopia is eligible for humanitarian assistance , and during a 1988 famine the united states provided about $ 120 million _ the largest outlay to any african country that year .


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ethiopia is the oldest independent country in africa and one of the oldest in the world .


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the next year ethiopia scrapped its weapons pact with the united states , and soviet arms and cuban troops helped ethiopia expel somali forces from the ogaden region in 1977 and 1978 .


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the united states did not break off relations with ethiopia , which date back to 1903 .


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`` our major interest is the welfare of the people , '' said a senior u.s. official of humanitarian assistance to ethiopia or any other marxist country .


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`` if ethiopia gets severed you basically have arab control of the whole border of the red sea .


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`` a friendly and coherent ethiopia would have an effect on its neighbors , too , '' said a senior u.s. official .


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the government of ethiopia has agreed to establish a corridor for emergency food aid into its embattled and drought-stricken north , kenya 's president said tuesday .


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president daniel arap moi said he had asked ethiopia 's two main rebel groups to do the same and `` to stop fighting when this food aid is being delivered .


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the united nations says the drought in ethiopia 's northern provinces of eritrea , tigre , gonder and wollo threatens as many as 4 million people with starvation , and it has urged international donors to provide 600,000 tons of emergency relief food .


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ethiopia 's government disputes the u.n. figure and claims the real number of people threatened with famine is 1.8 million .


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an ethiopian government spokesman attending preliminary peace talks that opened tuesday in rome between ethiopia 's government and the rebel tigre people 's liberation army confirmed that a corridor would be opened and said a date for the start of relief shipments along the route would be decided this week .


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moi 's announcement came on the opening day of a second round of preliminary peace talks in rome between ethiopia 's government and the rebel tigre people 's liberation front aimed at ending their 14-year-old civil war .


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ethiopia 's other major rebel group , the eritrean people 's liberation front , which has been fighting a secessionist battle in northern eritrea province since 1961 , ended its second round of preliminary peace talks with the government nov. 29 .


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since the rebels intensified the fighting in mid-december , they have claimed seizing the garrison town of debre tabor in northwestern gonder province and mehal meda and rabel in shoa , the province that includes the capital .


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in earlier combat , after fighting stepped up in mid-december , the rebels said they took the garrison town of debre tabor in northwestern gonder province and mehal meda and rabel in shoa , the province that includes the capital .


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the front is a combined force of the tigre people 's liberation front and the smaller ethiopia people 's democratic movement .


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fighting has flared in western ethiopia where an obscure rebel group claims to have killed , captured or wounded more than 1,200 government troops and seized a town along the sudanese border .


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the oromo liberation front , a loosely grouped insurgency that draws its strength from the oromo tribespeople across western , central and southern ethiopia , claims to have taken the town of asosa in fighting tuesday .


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diplomats say their battles have more resembled tribal warfare than organized dissidence and have tended to flare in patches and pockets in western and central ethiopia .


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however , the recent battle comes at a time when the government is concentrating its attention and troops on fighting with tigrean rebels who since august have made significant advances from their northern province toward the capital .


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war and nature 's caprice are conspiring to create food shortages that again threaten millions of people with starvation in ethiopia and sudan .


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drought and the depredations wrought by two long civil wars have imperiled as many as 4 million people in northern ethiopia , according to relief officials there .


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holding back the relief effort in ethiopia is the government 's resistance to delivering food to people behind rebel lines in the rebellious province of eritrea and most particularly in the province of tigre , leaving an untold number of people beyond the reach of aid agencies .


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diplomats and relief workers fear that if a way is not found to feed these people , ethiopia could suffer a repeat of the great famine of 1984-85 when as many as 1 million people died .


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ethiopia has conscripted hundreds of thousands of men to fight the tigrean rebels , who pose the greatest military threat to mengistu 's government .


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once again , as so often in the past , drought and war have forced tens of thousands of innocent men , women and children from their homes in ethiopia and sudan in a desperate search for food .


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the united nations says more than 4 million people are at risk of starvation in northern ethiopia alone .


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those figures far exceed the nearly 1 million who perished in ethiopia 's famine of 1984-85 .


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many aid officials see that as an essential first step in ensuring the free passage of food to the needy in northern ethiopia and ending the recurrent problem of famine .


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on wednesday , ethiopia renewed preliminary talks with one of the rebel groups in rome and said it would meet with the other insurgent group in nairobi next month .


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meanwhile , a truck convoy carrying 110 tons of food was allowed to pass safely through the contested area between a government-held provincial capital and a rebel -controlled town in northern ethiopia at midweek .


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the united nations began appealing last year for 1.1 million tons of food , most of which it hoped to ship to ethiopia 's red sea port of massawa for further distribution inland .


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the fighting has effectively closed the port and the only road inland to the provincial capital of asmara , which is still held by the government .


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u.n. and other aid officials say more than 30,000 people already have made the long , dangerous trek from their homes in northern ethiopia into neighboring sudan or to government-held areas in ethiopia 's eritrea province .


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to the west of ethiopia , in sudan , a similar situation exists .


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another convoy left for the war zone in northern ethiopia with emergency supplies for thousands of people threatened with famine , a relief worker said wednesday .


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eighteen trucks carrying eight tons each left dessie , the capital of wollo province , in the morning for mekelle , capital of neighboring tigre province , said ahmed baghet , the deputy director of the catholic relief services in ethiopia .


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massawa is ethiopia 's only deep sea port and the united nations had hoped to ship through the harbor 1.1 million tons of emergency food to those threatened with famine .


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the rebels from eritrea , a former italian colony on the red sea , have fought the government since ethiopia incorporated it as a province in 1962 .


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a 29-year-old eritrean battle for independence from ethiopia has become the longest war in africa and one of the world 's most obscure , fought in a region where travel is difficult and dangerous .


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afabet is one of a dozen or so major towns in eritrea , ethiopia 's northernmost province , where rebels have fought for independence since 1961 .


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nothing in orota except the crowded hospitals suggests the huge battles being waged around asmara , the eritrean capital , a 16-hour drive south over rutted trails even experienced drivers can lose in the dark .


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on a roughly north-south line running nearly 100 miles betweem asmara and the sea , the rebels are fighting more than a third of ethiopia 's armed forces , mostly conscripted and poorly trained young men .