Input: Despite Sharon's illness, it's business as usual for the family.

Sharon


Input: Though pushed back, filming commenced last fall on a second season of `` the Osbournes.''

last fall

second

the Osbournes


Input: Some days when I'm feeling bad, I say I can't do this anymore, and then you wake up and see the crew, and then, you know, you snap out of it.


Input: Reporter:


Input: The larger question loomed.


Input: How could comedy come out of chemotherapy treatments?


Input: Sharon is dealing with the diagnosis and illness but what's interesting is humor is the same.

Sharon


Input: Reporter:


Input: And the humor did remain the same.


Input: The show came back with a vengeance last fall chronicling Ozzy and Sharon dealing with cancer and the kids coping with new - found celebrity and one of the top rated shows.

last fall

Ozzy

Sharon


Input: Ratings for the second season slid.

second


Input: I'm not banking my whole life on bringing, you know, number one rated show.

one


Input: Having a nervous breakdown.


Input: The bubble will burst.


Input: Reporter:


Input: This year, more ups and downs.

This year


Input: Sharon announced in April that the cancer was in remission, but just weeks after that announcement, son Jack entered drug and alcohol rehabilitation in California.

Sharon

Jack

April

just weeks

California


Input: His family said that his party life style caught up with him.


Input: Now, with a third season set to start, will Ozzy's role as a family man change the image in the annuls of heavy metal mad man?

third

Ozzy


Input: I think Ozzy's the guy that hit a head of a bat, you know?

Ozzy


Input: Crazy, drug taking, hard drinking, hard living rock n roller.


Input: I think what the show does is also show that you might be those things, but also might be a pretty great dad, too.


Input: I wouldn't be here now if it wasn't for my wife.


Input: I always loved my wife but sometimes I don't like her and sometimes she doesn't like me but we love each other.


Input: I hate these people that go, we've been married for 56 years and never had a bad word.

56 years


Input: They must have been living in a different planet.


Input: Reporter:


Input: Ozzy Osbourne's life filled with incredible highs crashing into devastating lows.

Ozzy Osbourne's


Input: A manic life, grounded in family values.


Input: Ozzy's not going to like me saying this, but he's a very tender, gentle man.

Ozzy


Input: This is a guy whose world revolves not so much around music as around his wife.


Input: Rock `n roll!


Input: Part of the legacy of Ozzy Osbourne is a cautionary tale.

Ozzy Osbourne


Input: It's also, you know, tale that includes family love, you know, and a lot of good things.


Input: We have had it.


Input: Reporter:


Input: It's a tale that continues to unfold.


Input: No telling how long the Osbourne phenomenon may last but the family's loyal following will always be screaming for more.

Osbourne


Input: Stop screaming!


Input: Reporter:


Input: And so will Ozzy.

Ozzy


Input: Sharon!


Input: Despite problems --


Input: Welcome back.


Input: We're standing by for the White House press briefing.

White House


Input: Ari Fleischer expected to come into the West Wing briefing room to brief reporters on a wide variety of subjects.

Ari Fleischer

West Wing


Input: We're all getting, this news in from the speech that the Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge is expected to be delivering at the international press club around 1:00 Eastern at the top of the hour.

Homeland Security

Tom Ridge

1:00 Eastern

the top of the hour


Input: We're expecting that the Homeland Security Secretary will announce, that this Iraqi lawyer, who provided the information to U.S. military authority IES has been granted asylum here in the United States, together with his wife and daughter.

Homeland Security

IES

Iraqi

U.S.

the United States


Input: They're currently in the Washington, D.C. area.

Washington

D.C.


Input: An official tells our justice producer Terry Frieden.

Terry Frieden


Input: So that development important.


Input: Might get more information from Secretary Tom Ridge when he delivers that speech over at the press club in the next hour.

Tom Ridge

the next hour


Input: We'll be monitoring that as well.


Input: We also have an update on that disturbing development outside Baghdad, about 40 miles or so outside Baghdad in Fallujah where there was a shootout between U.S. troops and Iraqis who had been demonstrating there.

Baghdad

Baghdad

Fallujah

U.S.

about 40 miles

Iraqis


Input: Karl Penhaul is joining us live on the phone with more.

Karl Penhaul


Input: First of all, Karl, how many Iraqis were killed in that incident?

Karl

Iraqis


Input: Want to get to Florida, a massive manhunt underway where a rapist is targeting children.

Florida


Input: DNA testing has conclusively linked one man.

one


Input: The two most recent victims, age 11 and 13.

two

age 11


Input: They also believed one of those attacked in this string is age 79 as well.

one

age 79


Input: We talked with the lieutenant in Miami and there is big time concern in the Shenandoah neighborhood, southwestern portion of Miami.

Miami

Miami

Shenandoah


Input: Overseas in Iraq, a major operation underway.

Iraq


Input: Back to the scene in Orlando Florida.

Orlando

Florida


Input: We were here moments ago where the man in the green in the forefront of the screen there, the former POW David Williams was speaking to the crowd rather emotionally and now you see he is taking down the black and white POW flag.

David Williams


Input: I wish I could tell you which site this flag was hoisted in.


Input: We have the pictures coming in from Central Florida, News 13.

Florida

News 13


Input: This is that City Hall in Orlando, now I'm being told.

that City Hall

Orlando


Input: Quite an emotional scene this morning.

this morning


Input: David Williams, one of the POWs whose face we got to know in the coverage that we saw coming from Iraq.

David Williams

one

Iraq


Input: Other POWs from Iraq after they were captured and released, that dramatic release that Sunday morning when they were picked up by a squadron of Marines who had wandered in a town in Baghdad and were told where they were being kept.

Iraq

Baghdad

Sunday

morning

Marines


Input: Dramatic rescue and then a return home.


Input: Quite an emotional experience and one of us can only imagine what it must have been like to endure.

one


Input: As we said, quite an emotional moment in Orlando, Florida.

Orlando

Florida


Input: And you see Apache helicopter pilot and his wife Michelle who was talking with us on the telephone the Sunday morning when the video came in of the rescue of the POWs and, she identified her husband and life just got better and better for her after that.

Apache

Michelle

Sunday

morning


Input: Moving on now, in upstate New York Stock Exchange criminal charges have been filed in last month's fraternity hazing death at Platsberg State University of New York.

New York Stock Exchange

Platsberg State University

last month's

New York


Input: 11 members had been charged with negligent homicide for forcing 18 - year - old pledge Walter Dean Jenning to drink an excessive amount of water.

18 - year - old

Walter Dean Jenning


Input: The fraternity also faces more than 150 charges for other hazing activities, as well.

more than 150


Input: An unexpected surge in the unemployment lines.


Input: I'm Myron Kandel at the cnnfn newsdesk in New York.

Myron Kandel

cnnfn

New York


Input: New claims for jobless benefits are moving upward.


Input: First time claims jumped by 7,000 last week, surprising analysts, and the four - week average hit its highest level since January of last year.

First

last week

four - week

January of last year


Input: The report shows the nation's tight job market is loosening up a bit, but still unemployment is near a 30 - year low.

30 - year


Input: Two Americans have won this year's Nobel Prize for economics.

Two

Americans

year

Nobel Prize


Input: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is giving the award to James J. Heckman of the University of Chicago and University of California at Berkeley professor Daniel L. McFadden.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

the University of Chicago

University of California at Berkeley

James J. Heckman

Daniel L. McFadden


Input: The Academy says it's for their theories and methods widely used in analyzing work and living habits.

Academy


Input: They will share the prize award of $915,000.


Input: The economics prize is the fourth in a week of awards announced by the Nobel Academy.

fourth

a week

the Nobel Academy


Input: The summit is coinciding with more unrest in several areas of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

West Bank

Gaza Strip


Input: Hundreds of stone - throwing Palestinians stormed the Israeli - controlled section of Hebron, breaking a curfew imposed since the outbreak of the unrest last month.

Hundreds

Palestinians

Israeli

Hebron

last month


Input: Witnesses said Israeli soldiers fired live ammunition and rubber - coated metal bullets, wounding at least seven people.

Israeli

at least seven


Input: Thousands of Palestinian demonstrators marched in the area to protest against a renewal of contacts with Israel.

Thousands

Palestinian

Israel


Input: The hottest gift this Christmas could be Sony's new PlayStation 2, but good luck finding one.

this Christmas

Sony

PlayStation 2

one


Input: As Greg Lefevre reports, many stores have sold out of the game even before its release.

Greg Lefevre


Input: Coming to a retailer near you, PlayStation pandemonium.

PlayStation


Input: Sony's long - awaited release of its latest video game console is guaranteed to pump up the volume on video game sales, already a $7 billion business.

Sony

$7 billion


Input: Kids are spending $50 to $70, you know, a pop on these games.


Input: There's money here!


Input: The price?


Input: A lot by current standards.


Input: It's great.


Input: The fact that it can also be a DVD player.


Input: You see a very wide environment with a lot of detail in the background.


Input: The dazzling speed and bright graphics are dampened by a tight supply of units.


Input: Sony promised to debut with a million of the consoles, then cut that in half.

Sony

a million


Input: Opening day is Thursday at midnight.

Opening day

Thursday

midnight


Input: Many stores took orders and sold out in advance.


Input: All of our customers who participated in our presale list will get it.


Input: And the others?


Input: There's going to be people all over the place trying to beat you out because most gamers, you know, they're gamers! they're strategizing, figuring it out.


Input: Sony plans 100,000 more each week, a fraction of the current demand.

Sony

week


Input: With that magic combination of high demand and short supply, PlayStation 2 is assured to be this year's must have, can't get Christmas gift.

PlayStation 2

Christmas


Input: I know my sons are hyped up with this, but they are with every game release.


Input: This is the latest chapter in the industry's game of leapfrog.


Input: Last year, Sega's Dreamcast blew minds and the competition, and next year, Microsoft promises its X-box game console and Nintendo will release its next - generation machine, the GameCube.

Last year

next year

Sega

Microsoft

Nintendo

Dreamcast

X-box

GameCube


Input: Computer gaming is mainstream.


Input: Age groups span the generations, and it's absolutely no longer guys only.


Input: Greg Lefevre, CNN, San Francisco.

Greg Lefevre

CNN

San Francisco


Input: A Russian Navy spokesman says bad weather could complicate the work to recover bodies from the sunken nuclear submarine `` Kursk.''

Russian Navy

Kursk


Input: Russian and Norwegian divers successfully removed a rubber coating between the inner and outer hulls of sub yesterday.

Russian

Norwegian

yesterday


Input: Thick fog, rain and high winds are limiting visibility at the site.


Input: All 118 people on board the `` Kursk'' died when the submarine exploded and sank to the bottom of the Barents Sea.

Kursk

the Barents Sea


Input: Hello from Atlanta.

Atlanta


Input: Our top story this half hour, the man responsible for U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf says there was no specific threat of an imminent attack in the Yemeni port of Aden before a bomb ripped into the `` USS Cole'' there this month.

this half hour

U.S.

Aden

the Persian Gulf

Yemeni

the `` USS Cole''

this month


Input: Army General Tommy Franks, head of the U.S. Central Command, today testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee to answer questions about the attack.

Army

the U.S. Central Command

the Senate Armed Services Committee

Tommy Franks

today


Input: He told lawmakers it would not trigger a U.S. retreat from the Persian Gulf, even though troops remain at risk to terrorism.

U.S.

the Persian Gulf


Input: 17 sailors were killed and dozens were injured when the explosion blew a huge hole into the hull of the Navy destroyer as it was refueling in Aden.

dozens

Navy

Aden


Input: Franks said U.S. war ships have made almost 30 safe visits to Aden since January of last year.

Franks

U.S.

Aden

almost 30

January of last year


Input: He added the attack is already the subject of an intense investigation by many agencies.


Input: We're determined to get to the bottom of this.


Input: We'll put the events that led up to `` Cole'' under a microscope, and, in fact, we've begun that process.

Cole


Input: We will find the facts we need to find, and we'll use the lessons that we learn from `` Cole'' to provide the best possible force protection for our troops in one of the most dangerous regions of the world.

Cole


Input: A special heavy - lift ship is due to arrive in Yemen tomorrow.

Yemen

tomorrow


Input: It will carry the damaged `` USS Cole'' back to the United States.

USS Cole

the United States


Input: The October attack on the `` Cole'' killed 17 sailors.

October

Cole


Input: A toward U.S. Army general and U.S. Navy admiral have arrived in Aden.

U.S. Army

U.S. Navy

Aden


Input: They'll assist in the investigation of the bombing.


Input: They will also review military procedures and intelligence operations in Yemen.

Yemen


Input: The Dixie Chicks are the big winners at the Country Music Awards in Nashville.

The Dixie Chicks

the Country Music Awards

Nashville


Input: The group won four awards -- Entertainer of the Year, Best Vocal Group, Best Album for `` Fly,'' and Music Video of the Year for `` Goodbye, Earl.''

Entertainer of the Year

Best Vocal Group

Best Album

Fly

Music Video of the Year

Goodbye, Earl


Input: Faith Hill received the Female Vocalist award.

Faith Hill

Female Vocalist


Input: Husband Tim M Graw got the Male Vocalist honor.

Tim M Graw

Male Vocalist


Input: They are the first married couple to win both honors in the same year.

the same year


Input: `` I Hope You Dance,'' by Lee Ann Womack, was awarded Single of the Year and Song of the Year.

I Hope You Dance

Single of the Year

Song of the Year

Lee Ann Womack


Input: A runway mix - up apparently caused Tuesday's plane crash in Taiwan.

Tuesday

Taiwan


Input: Investigators say the Singapore Airlines jet should have been on runway Five - Left, but instead, it was on Five - Right, a parallel runway.

Singapore Airlines

Five - Left

Five - Right


Input: The plane hit construction equipment.


Input: That's part of it right there.


Input: Investigators say they don't know why it was on the wrong runway.


Input: It was raining at the time.


Input: They hope the plane's flight recorder will help solve the mystery.


Input: The pilot is being kept in Taiwan for questioning.

Taiwan


Input: 81 people were killed in the accident, which took place amid poor visibility and driving rain.


Input: The airport has no ground radar, so air traffic controllers could not have known the pilot took a wrong turn.


Input: Nine people were injured in Gaza when gunmen opened fire on an Israeli bus.

Nine

Gaza

Israeli


Input: The passengers were off - duty Israeli security workers.

Israeli


Input: Witnesses say the shots came from the Palestinian international airport.

Palestinian


Input: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak closed down the two - year - old airport in response to the incident.

Israeli

Ehud Barak

two - year - old


Input: Palestinians criticized the move.

Palestinians


Input: They regard the airport as a symbol of emerging statehood.


Input: It looks like an annual tradition is building.

annual


Input: 80,000 people with a shared love of music converge on a Tennessee pasture for three days of good vibes and who knows what else.

Tennessee

three days


Input: It's called Bonnaroo.

Bonnaroo


Input: Check it out.


Input: Bonnaroo is kind of this going example of what the whole jam band community is turned in.

Bonnaroo


Input: That's what I really like about the jam community, its acceptance of improvizational music, despite whatever region or genre.


Input: It's about the freedom of the music and the freedom of expression.


Input: Well, we sold all 80,000 tickets through our web site.


Input: We sold out in 16 days.

16 days


Input: I mean, the amazing thing is, we used no traditional advertising.


Input: We put all these bands together.


Input: It draws a huge audience, so the record companies and the music business has to take all of these forms of music more seriously.


Input: It's like strength in numbers.


Input: I hope this kind of thing can happen in America, instead of it just being these isolated festivals like Bonnaroo, it really can happen in 100 cities every summer, like the festivals do in Europe.

America

Bonnaroo

Europe


Input: My only complaint is the overlapping.


Input: You know, as a music lover that I am, there's five acts all playing at the same time on five different stages that I want to see.

five

five


Input: It really comes from the actual bands and the fact that there's this grassroots following that's been there, you know, for a long time, primarily started by the Grateful Dead, at least the future by the Grateful Dead.

the Grateful Dead

the Grateful Dead


Input: We will get by we will survive.


Input: We're carrying on a tradition that started a long time.


Input: In American music, improvization is what it's always been about.

American


Input: It's not just clapping and having a good time.


Input: It makes you feel a certain kind of love, and hopefully, that translates in the community.


Input: You go out.


Input: You hug someone.


Input: You do something good.


Input: You make a better world.


Input: For me, that's music.


Input: We love you.


Input: We --


Input: Another story out of Belgrade, violence at the highest form.

Belgrade


Input: The Serbian Prime Minister, Zoran Djindjic has died of his wounds after being shot, an assassination attempt.

Serbian

Zoran Djindjic


Input: Apparently, he was on his way to greet reporters at the time outside the main government office there in Belgrade.

Belgrade


Input: All this happening about 90 minutes ago based on the wire reports we're getting here.

about 90 minutes ago


Input: The word from Serbia, Zoran Djindjic, the Prime Minister, is dead.

Serbia

Zoran Djindjic


Input: Earlier reports said he was shot in the back, as well as the stomach.


Input: USAirways is flying its way out of bankruptcy.

USAirways


Input: The company which lost nearly $4 billion over the past two years has cut its annual costs by nearly $2 billion.

nearly $4 billion

nearly $2 billion

the past two years

annual


Input: Most of that was saved by cutting employee wages and benefits.


Input: The Dow is down, you see there, just about almost 140 points.

almost 140


Input: Nasdaq down 20 and the S&P is down, as well.


Input: So the markets are continuing their negative trend from last week.


Input: We'll keep our eye on that.


Input: Coming up right here, next hour on Live From, terror tactics on the battlefield.

Live From


Input: Is it a taste of more to come in Iraq?

Iraq


Input: We'll talk with a terror expert about that, and Iraqi deserters on the northern front, Ben Wedeman has their story why they're no longer fighting for Saddam Hussein and Don Shepperd is going to answer some of your questions as he looks at the battle hot spots.

Iraqi

Ben Wedeman

Saddam Hussein

Don Shepperd


Input: Now let's go back to Wolf Blitzer in Kuwait City for more special coverage of the war in Iraq.

Wolf Blitzer

Kuwait City

Iraq


Input: Central Command has determined that Baghdad Airport is unusable for normal air operations.

Central Command

Baghdad Airport


Input: The airport, for the most part, is now under U.S. control.

U.S.


Input: Military officials will not say whether damage to the runways is going to limit operation there, but they know there are underground bunkers there and some other areas that may be of use.


Input: Centcom also says 2500 Republican Guard troops have surrendered to U.S. Marines between Kut and Baghdad.

Centcom

Republican Guard

U.S. Marines

Kut

Baghdad


Input: Military officials say the Baghdad Republican Guard division is no longer an effective fighting force.

Baghdad Republican Guard


Input: A federal appeals court will decide how long dirty bomb suspect Jose Padilla can be retained and whether he can meet with attorneys.

Jose Padilla


Input: The U.S. attorney says Padilla is an enemy combattant and not entitled to counsel.

U.S.

Padilla


Input: He is accused of attempting to ignite a dirty bomb in this country.


Input: A Palestinian terrorist leader wanted for a deadly 1985 cruise ship hijacking is in U.S. custody in Iraq.

Palestinian

U.S.

Iraq


Input: U.S. sources tell CNN Mohammed `` Abu'' Abbas was captured about 50 miles west of Baghdad.

U.S.

Baghdad

CNN

Mohammed `` Abu'' Abbas

about 50 miles


Input: Palestinian sources say he had tried to flee into Syria, but was turned away at the border.

Palestinian

Syria


Input: In October of 1985, four hijackers under his command took over the Italian cruise ship `` Achille Lauro'' and killed a wheelchair - bound American tourist, Leo Klinghoffer.

October of 1985

four

Italian

American

`` Achille Lauro''

Leo Klinghoffer


Input: Abbas was convicted in absentia by an Italian court and sentenced to five life terms in prison.

Abbas

Italian

five


Input: All one of the many young faces that bear the heavy mark of war.

one


Input: The story of one boy who's lucky enough to be alive.

one


Input: I'm Mary Snow with this check of headlines.

Mary Snow


Input: American Airlines' fate is hanging on its flight attendant's union, its narrowly rejected union today.

American Airlines'

today


Input: If the workers don't approve the steep cutbacks American says it will file for bankruptcy.

American


Input: Yesterday American pilots mechanics approved their share $1.8 billion in labor concession.

Yesterday

American

$1.8 billion


Input: American warns it will seek more layoffs if it does file for Chapter 11.

American

Chapter 11


Input: Number of companies are planning to cut their payrolls.


Input: Motorola saying it will eliminate another 3,000 jobs, 3% of its work force.

Motorola


Input: Let's look at the latest numbers on the Dow.


Input: Wall Street stocks are mixed.

Wall Street


Input: The Dow industrials down 64 points.

64 points


Input: Nasdaq up about 13 points.

13 points


Input: That's the latest from Wall Street.

Wall Street


Input: CNN Live Today continues after this.

CNN Live Today


Input: And the Dixie Chicks open their U.S. tour tomorrow night in Greenville, South Carolina.

the Dixie Chicks

U.S.

Greenville

South Carolina

tomorrow night


Input: The popular band has been criticized within country music circles for comments by lead singer Natalie Maines.

Natalie Maines


Input: She said she was embarrassed to be from the same state as President Bush.

Bush


Input: She has since apologized for her remarks.


Input: Hmm, those Dixie Chicks.

those Dixie Chicks


Input: Speaking of chicks -- call it puppy love, call it maternal instinct, but, mostly it's just out of the ordinary.


Input: Andrea Ash from Kezi in Portland has this story of chicken that decided to take a new day job.

Andrea Ash

Kezi

Portland


Input: Reporter:


Input: People have long struggled with the question, Why did the chicken cross the road? - but all the Scott family wants to know is, Why did a chicken adopt their ten new puppies?

Scott

ten


Input: Every time we looked out our window it was like, What is she doing in there?


Input: It looks so out of place.


Input: It's just funny.


Input: Reporter:


Input: The puppies were born Easter Sunday.

Easter Sunday


Input: Soon after, one of the family's three chickens flew the coop and took up residence in the crate built especially for the puppies.

one

three


Input: They goes in there and nuzzles with the puppies, or lays her eggs and sits there with the mother.


Input: They're just all happy, a little family in there.


Input: Reporter:


Input: At first the sight shocked the Scott family.

Scott


Input: They tried to shoo the hen away but she kept coming back, even putting up baby gates to try to keep the chicken out.


Input: No match for her.


Input: She simply flew over.


Input: It also got past the puppies' protective father.


Input: I am going to sit with these punies.


Input: Reporter:


Input: The Scotts ran it past their vet and the vet assured them, as long as the hen left her crate to do business, she was no harm to the pup.

Scotts


Input: The family says the chicken keeps the place clean, so she's free to stay.


Input: A pretty good relationship with that chicken.


Input: She doesn't mind them crawling around underneath her.


Input: Reporter:


Input: When the mom comes in, the puppies know exactly where to go for milk -- sort of a little confusion.


Input: The pups don't exactly know the difference between fur and feathers yet.


Input: After all, they're only a week old.

a week old


Input: Eventually they all find the real mom.


Input: No one knows what will happen as the pups grow older and are able to open their eyes.


Input: Chances are, they'll always have a fondness from one hen.


Input: Those puppies are in for a heck of a surprise when they do open their eyes, aren't they?


Input: The puppies come home to roost!


Input: That's a good one.


Input: That was a great story.


Input: We'll try to follow that in our next half hour.


Input: We'll tell you what the FTC is doing to crack down on internet auction fraud.

FTC


Input: That and the top stories in just two minutes.

just two minutes


Input: I'm Mike Galanos.

Mike Galanos


Input: And I'm Rudi Bakhtiar.

Rudi Bakhtiar


Input: We leave you with sounds from Willie Nelson, the country legend is celebrating his 70th birthday.

Willie Nelson


Input: This is CNN `` Headline News Tonight.''

CNN


Input: Breaking news out of Long Beach, a situation with a standoff involving a 2 - year - old and a man with a gun, this one having a peaceful ending.

Long Beach

2 - year - old


Input: This is near the Long Beach Airport and involved a city bus.

the Long Beach Airport


Input: A man who had assault, he actually had assault with a deadly weapon, this is pictures.


Input: Look at that.


Input: Man spread - eagle with a two - year - old child.

two - year - old


Input: The officer is going to go in and swoop her away.


Input: As we understand it, the man had the child.


Input: It was inside of the city bus.


Input: Police surrounded this bus near the airport with guns drawn.


Input: The man came out and did the spread - eagle like that.


Input: Just as he did that, that's when you saw the child just walking just a few feet away from him but the officers were able to get the child away.

just a few feet


Input: They handcuffed the man and they took him into custody.


Input: That was after he had actually barricaded himself inside that bus with the child.


Input: So that one coming to a peaceful ending, what could have been a very gruesome situation involving that two - year - old child in Southern California.

two - year - old

California


Input: That one is over in Long Beach.

Long Beach


Input: Welcome and good evening, everyone.

evening


Input: Mike is off tonight.

Mike


Input: To our top story of the evening -- Martha Stewart is stepping down as head of her media empire.

evening

Martha Stewart


Input: She announced her decision to vacate her post as chief executive of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, following word of a federal indictment.

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia


Input: In a statement, she says she's stepping aside in the best interest of the company, but she will stay on the board of directors.


Input: Stewart pleaded not guilty to a nine - count indictment.

Stewart

nine


Input: The charges include conspiracy to obstruct justice and perjury connected to an insider trading scandal.


Input: The government also filed civil charges against her.


Input: She is charged with using insider information to bail out of a biotech stock the day before its price tanked, and then trying to cover it up.

the day before


Input: Her stockbroker was also charged.


Input: If convicted on all counts, Stewart faces up to 30 years in prison and $2 million in fines.

Stewart

up to 30 years

$2 million


Input: Canada is on the path to becoming the third country to allow gay marriage.

Canada

third


Input: The federal government will not appeal the court ruling that cleared the way for same - sex unions.


Input: Prime Minister Jean Chretien says the government will now draft legislation legalizing gay marriages.

Jean Chretien


Input: And the U.S. government, can withhold the names of people detained as part of the 9 / 11 investigation.

U.S.

9 / 11


Input: That's the decision from a federal appeals court reversing a lower court ruling.


Input: The Justice Department argued that releasing the names could hamper ongoing investigations.

The Justice Department


Input: As we've been reporting, only within the past hour or so, there's been a shooting incident in central Israel, not far from the West Bank.

the past hour or so

Israel

the West Bank


Input: A 7 - year - old Israeli girl has died.

7 - year - old

Israeli


Input: Two others, her father apparently and another sister, have been wounded in this incident.

Two


Input: We're going to continue to get more details on this late - breaking development and bring you those details when we have them.


Input: Convicted rapist and Max Factor heir Andrew Luster is back in California.

Max Factor

Andrew Luster

California


Input: Luster returned to Los Angeles yesterday from Mexico following his capture Tuesday by American bounty hunters.

Luster

Los Angeles

Mexico

yesterday

Tuesday

American


Input: Luster skipped bail during his trial in January for raping and drugging three women.

Luster

January

three


Input: He was sentenced in abstentia to 124 years in prison.

124 years


Input: An occasion that marked the formal establishment between our two countries.

two


Input: Since then this relationship has grown in importance to us both through good times and bad.


Input: Both of my generation and Britain have special pause to remember the unacceptable sacrifice the Russian people made to defeat fascism in the Second World War.

Britain

Russian

the Second World War


Input: Nothing, not even the fact that our countries became estranged in the war's aftermath, has ever dimmed our memory of the scale of your loss.


Input: That experience should continue to inspire us, as we seek to build a more peaceful and secure world.


Input: When I visited your country in 1994, I recall saying to President Yeltsin that he and I spent most of our lives believing such a visit would never happen, and that I hoped he was as delighted as I was to be proved wrong.

Yeltsin


Input: I'm just as delighted now, nine years later, to be able to welcome you here and to learn about the great changes which have occurred in your country since I was there.

nine years later


Input: Russia has established itself as our partner and our friend.

Russia


Input: We work together bilatarily and on the international stage, and we are developing new links all the time in fields of commerce, culture, counterterrorism, energy, education environment.


Input: I know you will be seeing evidence of some of this during your visit.


Input: Mr. President, it is, I believe, a sign of genuine friendship that we are able to have disagreements, but remain firm partners.


Input: It is no secret that the significant differences between our two countries earlier this year on how best to handle Iraq, but we are now able to look forward together firmly in agreement on the route we have decided in the United Nations, although, the tragic loss of British lives today reminds us all of the difficulties to be faced.

two

earlier this year

today

Iraq

the United Nations

British


Input: But as we look ahead, we know that our long - term partnership is of profound importance to both of us.


Input: This is clearly evident, if we look beyond the challenges of international politics.


Input: In the last few months alone, we have heard the announcements of major investments in Russia by British companies.

the last few months

Russia

British


Input: We have also heard a different sign of Sir Paul McCartney playing to enthusiastic crowds in Red Square, and we, in turn, have been enthralled by the celebrations of your own city in Petersburg.

Paul McCartney

Red Square

Petersburg


Input: At the same time, work continues to bring the young people of our countries closer together through language, teaching, school exchanges and university programs.


Input: We have a vibrant and exciting relationship from which we both derive mass benefit.


Input: Mr. President, your country is rich --


Input: The Indonesian billionaire James Riady has agreed to pay $8.5 million and plead guilty to illegally donating money for Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign.

Indonesian

James Riady

Bill Clinton's

$8.5 million


Input: He admits he was trying to influence American policy on China.

American

China


Input: Good evening, everyone.

evening


Input: We begin tonight with a couple of urgent questions for the government.

tonight

a couple


Input: There's a man on trial in New York for bombing the American embassy in Kenya two years ago.

New York

Kenya

American

two years ago


Input: The FBI says when they questioned him, he told them of another plot to bomb an American ship in Yemen, where the `` USS Cole'' was ultimately attacked.

FBI

American

Yemen

the `` USS Cole''


Input: Question one, did the FBI make it clear what the man had told them?

one

FBI


Input: Question two, did the Pentagon and the CIA get the message and do nothing about it?

two

Pentagon

CIA


Input: Here's your national correspondent, John M Wethy.

John M Wethy


Input: In the days after the bombing of the American embassy in Nairobi, Mohammed Al - owhali was arrested by Kenyan authorities and interrogated by the FBI.

American

Kenyan

Nairobi

Mohammed Al - owhali

FBI


Input: He told the FBI he participated in the attack under direction of terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden.

FBI

Osama Bin Laden


Input: ABC News has learned he also provided details of a plan to attack an American warship in Yemen.

ABC News

American

Yemen


Input: Al - owhali said it would be a rocket attack, conducted by a Bin Laden terrorist cell, and it would come in the next few months.

Al - owhali

Bin Laden


Input: The next morning, August 1998, the FBI sent out a classified message, under Director Louis Freeh's name, warning of a plot to attack a U.S. Navy ship in Yemen.

The next morning

August 1998

FBI

U.S. Navy

Louis Freeh

Yemen


Input: The FBI message went to three Pentagon agencies, and as a result, the visit of one American warship to Yemen was canceled.

FBI

Pentagon

three

American

Yemen


Input: The warning came as General Anthony Zinni was finalizing an agreement for refueling ships in the Yemeni port of Aden.

Anthony Zinni

Yemeni

Aden


Input: It apparently left no lasting impression.


Input: Zinni testifying after the attack on the `` USS Cole'' -- Aden never had a specific terrorist threat.

Zinni

the `` USS Cole''

Aden


Input: All the other ports that have been mentioned here that we should have considered as options have had specific threats.


Input: So what happened to the FBI warning?

FBI


Input: CIA officials say they never received it.

CIA


Input: FBI officials say they did copy the CIA.

FBI

CIA


Input: Pentagon officials say they got the warning, but had no idea the source was such a well - connected insider within Bin Laden's organization.

Pentagon

Bin Laden's


Input: This raises a fundamental question -- if the message had been more clearly communicated and understood, would American lives have been saved?

American


Input: John M Wethy, ABC News, the Pentagon, still looking for answers.

John M Wethy

ABC News

Pentagon


Input: Tomorrow's summit meeting will bring Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat to the resort city of Sharm El - eikh.

Tomorrow

Ehud Barak

Yasser Arafat

Sharm El - eikh


Input: Getting both to attend was not an easy task.


Input: The last thing President Clinton did today before heading to the Mideast is go to church -- appropriate, perhaps, given the enormity of the task he and his national security team face in the days ahead.

Clinton

today

the days ahead

Mideast


Input: We do have to try to reduce the violee and take a turn back for a period of calmness so that we can move back to a peace process, but even if the violence subsides, Israelis and Palestinians will still have to deal with an open wound -- a scar so long and so deep from these last two weeks, it may be years before there is a real effort at talking peace again.

Israelis

Palestinians

these last two weeks

years


Input: Both sides have almost stepped back six years in terms of their statements and attitudes, six years or more -- before the Oslo accords, when the Israelis promised land and the Palestinians promised security.

six years

six years or more

the Oslo accords

Israelis

Palestinians


Input: Today there is only finger pointing.

Today


Input: Arafat deliberately launched it in order to attract the attention of the world by paying with the blood of his own people.

Arafat


Input: I urge Mr. Barak to lift the siege of Palestinians, to speak to the Palestinians as its neighbors because they are his neighbors.

Barak

Palestinians

Palestinians


Input: The Palestinians clearly face the greatest pressure in this summit, since the Israelis are not the only ones blaming them for the outbreak of violence.

Palestinians

Israelis


Input: I think we all know that Arafat is in charge of the Palestinian Authority.

Arafat

the Palestinian Authority


Input: He has the responsibility for controlling the violence.


Input: But it may not be so easy for Arafat.

Arafat


Input: Today, thousands of Palestinians are calling for continued fighting.

Today

thousands

Palestinians


Input: Half of the Palestinian population is under the age of 14 and many have been influenced by military factions like Hamas and Hezbollah -- not by Arafat.

Half

Palestinian

the age of 14

Hamas

Hezbollah

Arafat


Input: When you talk about Arafat and the people around him, you have to understand how young this population really is -- how volatile, how close to exploding it really is.

Arafat


Input: Almost no one seems optimistic about the future of the Mideast.

Mideast


Input: That's the heartbreak of this region says one State Department official.

State Department


Input: Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to be pushed way back.


Input: Martha Raddatz, ABC News, the State Department.

Martha Raddatz

ABC News

the State Department


Input: Back to the Middle East tonight.

the Middle East

tonight


Input: the truce brokered by President Clinton between Israelis and Palestinians allegedly is in tatters.

Clinton

Israelis

Palestinians


Input: Palestinians now talking about a battle for independence.

Palestinians


Input: Israel says it may abandon the peace negotiations altogether.

Israel


Input: Nine Palestinians were killed today.

Nine

Palestinians

today


Input: More than 70 people have been wounded, mostly Palestinians, but also several Israeli soldiers.

More than 70

Palestinians

Israeli


Input: ABC's Bob Woodruff is in the Palestinian territories tonight.

ABC

Bob Woodruff

Palestinian

tonight


Input: Violence ripped through almost every major Palestinian town today.

Palestinian

today


Input: The worst was in Nablus.

Nablus


Input: Four Palestinians were shot and killed.

Four

Palestinians


Input: In Ramallah, thousands of Palestinians rushed the Israeli checkpoint, then faced down Israeli guns.

Ramallah

thousands

Palestinians

Israeli

Israeli


Input: From Hebron to Gaza, the wounded were carried off so fast it was difficult to count them.

Hebron

Gaza


Input: As is so often the case, much of the trouble started with funerals that escalated into fury.


Input: Most significant, demonstrators who had been throwing stones this week, today turned to gasoline bombs.

this week

today


Input: Israelis who had been firing rubber bullets stepped up their use of real ones.

Israelis


Input: This was supposed to be the day the truce went into effect, when both sides would call off the violence, but that clearly has not happened, and here in the streets, peace seems very unlikely.

the day


Input: Tonight on Israeli television, Prime Minister Barak said we can not go on as if nothing happened, and if the demonstrations don't stop, Barak's spokesman said Israel will continue to use live ammunition.

Tonight

Israeli

Barak

Barak

Israel


Input: They leave no other way for us but to respond with fire, we'll have to do this.


Input: Palestinian leaders said their people no longer want a cease - fire, they want their own country.

Palestinian


Input: We are under occupation and subjugation.


Input: The question should be what the Hosni Mubarak are they still doing there eight years after the peace process began.

eight years after


Input: It is one of the major questions that was supposed to be addressed after the stoning and shooting had stopped.

one


Input: It certainly has not stopped.


Input: Not yet.


Input: Bob Woodruff, ABC News, Ramallah.

Bob Woodruff

ABC News

Ramallah


Input: We are going to take `` a closer look'' at the great Wind Cave in South Dakota.

Wind Cave

South Dakota


Input: No easy matter.


Input: We know caving is a popular pasttime for some Americans, a horrifying thought for others, especially anyone prone to claustrophobia.

Americans


Input: We asked Judy Muller if she would like to do the story of a fascinating man.

Judy Muller


Input: She took a deep breath and said, okay.


Input: This wild landscape in South Dakota may evoke images of the frontier West, but the real frontier is far beneath.

South Dakota

West


Input: Elevation plus 11.


Input: The real pioneers are men like John Sheltons who explore underground caves.

John Sheltons


Input: The most fascinating is the maze known as Wind Cave.

Wind Cave


Input: When you find one where no one has been there, you are the first person, the adrenaline is phenomenal.

first


Input: He first came here as a tourist 30 years ago.

30 years ago


Input: He offered to map it for the Park Service.

the Park Service


Input: I thought would take a week or two.

week

two


Input: It's now 30 years down the road.

30 years


Input: I'm no closer to completing the agreement.


Input: The cave is seemingly endless.


Input: 3 miles of the cave have been surveyed, every inch logged by hand, then fed into a computer which plots every nook and cranny.

3 miles


Input: We're only representing about 5% of the known volume that could possibly be here.


Input: 95% of the cave is unmapped?


Input: Yes.


Input: The first recorded discovery of the cave was in 1881.

first


Input: A cowboy hunting in the area heard the sound of rushing wind.


Input: He followed it to this narrow opening.


Input: The wind was so strong, or so the story goes, that it blew his hat off his head.


Input: Since then, many visitors have been drawn into this world of crystals, fossils and calcite formations known as forecast work and popcorn and rarest of all, fox work.


Input: Each new discovery means heading down another tight, dark hall.


Input: Your stomach is against the floor and your back is against the wall.


Input: As we crawled along, we found an item left by earlier explorers.


Input: A 103 - year - old newspaper.

103 - year - old


Input: The ultimate payoff is when they find a new chamber.


Input: The knowledge that our lights are the first to light it up, our footprints were the first, our eyes were first to see it.

first

first

first


Input: He calls it addictive.


Input: You get withdrawal.


Input: I want to find more, something bigger or deeper.


Input: He no longer expects to see the end of the cave in his lifetime.

lifetime


Input: That, he says, is just fine with him.


Input: Judy Muller, ABC News, Wind Cave National Park.

Judy Muller

ABC News

Wind Cave National Park


Input: Some camera team as well.


Input: Some overseas news.


Input: Barak, who has been forced to call national elections, offered to recognize a Palestinian state.

Barak

Palestinian


Input: There's one very difficult condition.

one


Input: There could be no discussion for now about who will have what status in Jerusalem.

Jerusalem


Input: Palestinians don't like it.

Palestinians


Input: In Bethlehem, where Christians believe Jesus was born, Christmas plans have been scaled back because of the violence.

Bethlehem

Christians

Jesus

Christmas


Input: There is other news tonight overseas and at home.

tonight


Input: While all this is going on, Mr. Clinton is overseas.

Clinton


Input: President Clinton was in Northern Ireland when he heard the Supreme Court decision.

Clinton

Northern Ireland

Supreme Court


Input: He talked to Al Gore on the phone from Belfast.

Al Gore

Belfast


Input: This is Mr. Clinton's third visit to Northern Ireland, and the Irish Republic to do what he can to generate a lasting peace.

Clinton

third

Northern Ireland

the Irish Republic


Input: Thank you very much, Tony.

Tony


Input: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is expected to return to the White House late Tuesday for more talks with President Clinton.

Palestinian

Yasser Arafat

Clinton

the White House

late Tuesday


Input: Mr. Arafat made no comment after Tuesday's first round of White House talks moving quickly past journalists to a waiting limousine.

Arafat

Tuesday

White House


Input: A White House spokesman said the talks are aimed at establishing the parameters for resuming Israeli - Palestinian negotiations.

White House

Israeli


Input: Palestinians have demanded clarification of US proposals for achieving a final peace accord.

Palestinians

US


Input: The United States has issued a worldwide caution to Americans warning of possible terrorist threats.

The United States

Americans


Input: No threats are specified but the US embassy in Rome was closed Friday for what officials called security reasons.

US

Rome

Friday


Input: The embassy could reopen as early as Monday.

Monday


Input: The State Department periodically issues worldwide cautions.

The State Department


Input: One was issued last October following the deadly terrorist bombing of the USS Cole Navy destroyer in Yemen.

One

last October

USS Cole

Navy

Yemen


Input: I am David Coler, VOA News.

David Coler

VOA News


Input: Israel and the Palestinians have resumed high level peace talks.

Israel

Palestinians


Input: The two sides met into the early hours Friday at the crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel.

two

the early hours

Friday

the Gaza Strip

Israel


Input: Israeli officials say Israel is still hopeful that a framework peace agreement can be reached before the unofficial deadline, the end of President Clinton's term in office on January 20th.

Israeli

Israel

Clinton

January 20th


Input: The head of official Palestinian television has been assassinated.

Palestinian


Input: Hooded men gunned down Hisha Mickey at a hotel in Gaza City.

Hisha Mickey

Gaza City


Input: The Palestinian leadership accused the collaborators with Israel for killing Mr. Mickey.

Palestinian

Israel

Mickey


Input: Israel says its security forces were not involved.

Israel


Input: Mr. Mickey was in charge of Palestinian television and the Palestinian satellite channel.

Mickey

Palestinian

Palestinian


Input: Reports from China say North Korean President Kim Jong Il is planning to announce economic reforms for his country.

China

North Korean

Kim Jong Il


Input: Mr. Kim visited a center for high technology business in Shanghai on Friday.

Kim

Shanghai

Friday


Input: Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak has called on Israeli leaders to stop talking about war and to make peace with the Palestinians and Syria.

Egypt

Syria

Hosni Mubarak

Israeli

Palestinians


Input: In an interview with Israeli Television Monday Mr. Mubarak said Israel knows what is necessary for peace, the return of lands captured in the 1967 Middle East war.

Israeli

Monday

Mubarak

Israel

the 1967 Middle East war


Input: He also acknowledged the Palestinian refugees' right of return.

Palestinian


Input: In another interview Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said the Israelis and Palestinians had made real progress Red Sea resort of Taba, but Prime Minister Ehud Barak has suspended contacts with the Palestinians until after the February 6th election.

Palestinian

Israelis

Palestinians

Palestinians

Yasser Arafat

Ehud Barak

Red Sea

Taba

February 6th


Input: Correspondent Laurie Cassman has a report.

Laurie Cassman


Input: Prime Minister Barak's decision not to meet Yasser Arafat this week comes after the Palestinian leader's angry speech on Sunday at an economic forum in Switzerland.

Barak

Yasser Arafat

this week

Sunday

Palestinian

Switzerland


Input: Mr. Arafat accused Israel of waging a savage and barbaric war against his people.

Arafat

Israel


Input: One day earlier Israeli and Palestinian negotiators had announced that a week of marathon talks have brought them closer than ever to a final agreement.

One day earlier

a week

Israeli

Palestinian


Input: After the angry outburst Mr. Arafat reaffirmed his commitment to peace and his willingness to meet Mr. Barak.

Arafat

Barak


Input: The meeting was expected later this week in Stockholm, but Mr. Barak's security advisor told Israeli Radio Monday such a meeting now is out of the question.

later this week

Monday

Stockholm

Barak

Israeli


Input: He described the Arafat speech as inflammatory.

Arafat


Input: Mr. Barak can not risk the controversial meeting ahead of next week's election.

Barak

next week's


Input: He still trails far behind the hard line Likud Party leader Ariel Sharon in the opinion polls.

Likud Party

Ariel Sharon


Input: Laurie Cassman, VOA News, Jerusalem.

Laurie Cassman

VOA News

Jerusalem


Input: RUSSIAN officials say Cuba has no interest in completing construction of a Soviet era nuclear power plant on the island.

RUSSIAN

Soviet

Cuba


Input: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday, Moscow has no plans to press Havana to finish construction of the Juragua nuclear facility.

Russian

Vladimir Putin

Friday

Moscow

Havana

Juragua


Input: He made his comments on the last day of his official visit to the Communist ruled island.

the last day

Communist


Input: Construction halted on the Juragua plant in 1992, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, which provided funding and technology for the project.

Juragua

the Soviet Union


Input: Friday's announcement coincided with the permanent closing of the Chernobyl nuclear facility, which was the scene of the world's worst nuclear accident in 1986.

Friday

Chernobyl


Input: US Energy Secretary Bill Richardson has extended an emergency order to keep electricity flowing to California.

US

California

Energy

Bill Richardson


Input: The measure will require western suppliers to sell power to the state for at least another week.

at least another week


Input: As we hear from Michael Sullivan, the official also proposed an energy price cap for the West, but the suggestion had a mixed response from western governors.

Michael Sullivan

West


Input: The extension of the federal order will require power suppliers in the West to keep sending their surplus electricity to California.

West

California


Input: Electrical resources in the West Coast state are stretched to their limit with a looming threat of rolling blackouts.

West Coast


Input: California's utility companies are not able to generate all the power their customers need, so they have turned to outside suppliers and in the face of rising prices the state's two largest utility firms have sunk more than eight billion dollars in debt.

California

two

more than eight billion dollars


Input: Suppliers outside California had threatened to cut off the power, afraid that the cash - strapped utilities were not able to pay for it.

California


Input: The emergency order last week and the extension announced in Denver at a meeting of western governors will keep electricity flowing to California through the middle of next week.

last week

the middle of next week

Denver

California


Input: The crisis began three years ago when California imposed a price freeze on its private utility firms to protect consumers while the state deregulates its energy sector, but the lifting of market controls led to wild price fluctuations on the wholesale market.

three years ago

California


Input: This was made worse by several factors.


Input: No new generating stations have been built in the state in recent years and some existing generators are offline for repairs.

recent years


Input: At the same time California has been growing.

California


Input: Energy Secretary Bill Richardson says it is a case of demand outpacing supplies.

Energy

Bill Richardson


Input: I know in California alone in the last year electricity demand has increased 13%.

California

the last year


Input: California's wholesale electricity prices, which had been capped at 250 dollars per megawatt hour in a regulated market, have peaked under deregulation at 1400 dollars per megawatt hour.

California

250 dollars

1400 dollars


Input: With the current price freeze, utilities have been prevented from passing along the increase to consumers.


Input: Wednesday, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson suggested a new price cap for electricity throughout the western states.

Wednesday

Energy

Bill Richardson


Input: Oregon's Governor supports the idea.

Oregon


Input: Some other western leaders are not convinced that a price cap will solve the problem.


Input: Energy suppliers oppose a cap, saying instead they need incentives to build more generating stations.


Input: Last week federal regulators imposed a so - called soft cap on California, which requires power firms to justify prices above 150 dollars per megawatt hour.

Last week

California

150 dollars


Input: The measure does not however prevent them from charging above that level.


Input: One large utility company, Southern California Edison says it may have to file for bankruptcy unless government officials can offer some relief.

One

Southern California Edison


Input: The privately owned company is now three and a half billion dollars in debt.

three and a half billion dollars


Input: Consumer activists are skeptical.


Input: They know the utility recently declared a dividend for its stockholders, but Edison's Tom Higgins says the firm can not continue to pay high prices for electricity while keeping prices low for its customers.

Edison

Tom Higgins


Input: Our books are an open matter.


Input: It's not hard for anybody to see.


Input: They can talk to the banks themselves and see that you know, clearly we don't have the ability to do this.


Input: We don't print money in the basement.


Input: California's Governor this week warned that intermittent cutoffs of power around the state may begin as early as next week if nothing more is done to alleviate the crisis.

California

this week

next week


Input: Mike O'Sullivan, VOA News, Los Angeles.

Mike O'Sullivan

VOA News

Los Angeles


Input: And if you are in South Asia, perhaps you heard the Radio Canada International test transmissions to your part of the world back on the 8th, 9th, and 10th of November.

South Asia

Radio Canada International

10th of November


Input: They were via Radio Netherlands at Flavo, the Netherlands 15:00 - 16:00 UTC on 15360 and 17820, that according to Andy Senet, via Glenhouser.

Radio Netherlands

Flavo

Netherlands

15:00 - 16:00 UTC

Andy Senet

Glenhouser


Input: RCI tells me that it is not yet decided whether it will start a permanent service to South Asia.

RCI

South Asia


Input: Violence between Israelis and Palestinians continued in its third month, though at a slightly reduced level overall.

Israelis

Palestinians

third month


Input: Israeli and Palestinian negotiators met separately at the White House with President Bill Clinton in hopes of restarting direct negotiations between them for a final settlement.

Israeli

Palestinian

the White House

Bill Clinton


Input: Two more bombs have exploded near Haiti's capital killing a 7 - year - old girl and wounding two people in the latest pre-election violence.

Two

two

Haiti

7 - year - old


Input: On Wednesday, seven bombs exploded around Port - au - Prince.

Wednesday

seven

Port - au - Prince


Input: No group has claimed responsibility for today's blasts.

today


Input: The government and opposition are exchanging accusations over who is to blame for a wave of violence ahead of Sunday's presidential election.

Sunday


Input: I'm Dave Deforest, VOA News.

Dave Deforest

VOA News


Input: Colombian authorities say the country's largest Marxist rebel group has shot and killed a leading opposition congressman and five others in a roadside ambush in a rebel held area of southern Colombia.

Colombian

Marxist

five

Colombia


Input: Police say the gunmen attacked lawmaker Diego Turbai and his entourage Friday.

Diego Turbai

Friday


Input: In the Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Israeli soldiers fired on armed Palestinians trying to cut through a border fence.

the Gaza Strip

Wednesday

Israeli

Palestinians


Input: The Army says it may have killed two of them.

Army

two


Input: ISRAELI radio said four Palestinians were killed, but Palestinian security officials deny there were any casualties and they say no such incident took place.

ISRAELI

Palestinians

Palestinian

four


Input: Israeli soldiers have killed another Palestinian in the West Bank as clashes continue between the two sides.

Israeli

Palestinian

the West Bank

two


Input: Meanwhile, Israel has confiscated the VIP card of a senior Palestinian official.

Israel

Palestinian


Input: Colonel Taffiq Terrawi, a director of Palestinian intelligence, was briefly detained by Israeli soldiers at a West Bank road block, where they confiscated an Israeli permit that grants him free movement in and out of the area.

Taffiq Terrawi

Palestinian

Israeli

Israeli

West Bank


Input: International aid agencies have warned that proposed United Nations sanctions against Afghanistan's Taliban authorities could paralyze efforts to provide humanitarian assistance to the victims of drought and conflict.

United Nations

Taliban

Afghanistan


Input: The new sanctions proposed by the United States and Russia would impose an arms embargo on the Taliban.

the United States

Russia

Taliban


Input: Among other things, they would also freeze Taliban assets abroad and restrict foreign travel by Taliban officials.

Taliban

Taliban


Input: The UN Co-ordinator for Afghanistan said in Geneva, the proposed UN measure could block badly - needed aid shipments.

UN

UN

Afghanistan

Geneva


Input: I'm Connie Lawn, VOA News.

Connie Lawn

VOA News


Input: Meanwhile, four Palestinian policemen were killed Wednesday during a nine - hour battle with Israeli troops near a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.

four

Palestinian

Israeli

Wednesday

nine - hour

the Gaza Strip


Input: Meredith Bewl reports from Jerusalem.

Meredith Bewl

Jerusalem


Input: The Israeli military says Palestinian gunmen at the Khan Younus refugee camp in the southern part of the Gaza Strip opened fire on Israeli forces and the soldiers responded.

Israeli

Palestinian

Israeli

Khan Younus

the Gaza Strip


Input: Palestinians say Israeli rocket fire hit a police post and killed at least one Palestinian security officer.

Palestinians

Israeli

Palestinian

at least one


Input: At least three other Palestinian policemen were killed in the fierce clashes, which went on for hours.

At least three

Palestinian

hours


Input: In the West Bank town of Hebron, Israeli soldiers gunned down a Palestinian member of the militant Hamas group as he was standing outside his shop.

West Bank

Hebron

Israeli

Palestinian

Hamas


Input: Palestinians called the shooting an assassination.

Palestinians


Input: The Israeli Army said it was checking the reports.

The Israeli Army


Input: The shooting appeared to be the latest in a series of targeted attacks against anti-Israeli militants.

anti-Israeli


Input: Deputy Defense Minister Irfan Sneh said this week Israel now has a policy of tracking down Palestinians who attack Israelis.

Defense

Irfan Sneh

this week

Israel

Palestinians

Israelis


Input: Meredith Bewl, VOA News Jerusalem.

Meredith Bewl

VOA News

Jerusalem


Input: The US Navy destroyer damaged apparently by a terrorist bomb while refueling at the Red Sea port, Aden has begun its journey back to the States for repair.

US Navy

Red Sea

Aden

States


Input: As Dave Gavlak reports, the US Cole was towed out of the Aden Harbor to a waiting Norwegian transport ship, that will actually carry the damaged destroyer home.

Dave Gavlak

the US Cole

the Aden Harbor

Norwegian


Input: The American national anthem played as four tug boats pulled the USS Cole slowly out of Yemen's southern port of Aden.

American

four

the USS Cole

Yemen

Aden


Input: The Cole was badly damaged two weeks ago in an apparent suicide bombing that killed 17 US sailors.

Cole

two weeks ago

US


Input: Security was tight as the ship was towed out.


Input: American and Yemeni patrol boats mounted with machine guns escorted the Cole out to open waters while American helicopters flew overhead.

American

Yemeni

American

Cole


Input: Some Yemenis expressed relief to see the ship leave.

Yemenis


Input: Many locals said they feared the bombing of the ship would serve as an excuse for continued US military presence in the Gulf country.

US

Gulf


Input: Diplomats and analysts have commented that a joint investigation into the attack may in fact strengthen ties between the world super power and the poor, but strategic Arab state.

Arab


Input: US and Yemeni officials say they believe Islamic militants may have carried out the bombing.

US

Yemeni

Islamic


Input: So far two little known Islamic groups have claimed responsibility for the attack.

two

Islamic


Input: Yemeni authorities claimed they have detained over 70 people for questioning.

Yemeni

over 70


Input: These include some Afghan - Arab volunteers who came to Yemen after fighting against Soviet forces in Afghanistan in the 1980s.

Afghan - Arab

Soviet

Yemen

Afghanistan

the 1980s


Input: Dave Gavlak for VOA News, Cairo.

Dave Gavlak

VOA News

Cairo


Input: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said Wednesday, it is important to help spread democracy around the world.

UN

Kofi Annan

Wednesday


Input: VOA's Breck Ardery reports from the United Nations.

VOA

Breck Ardery

the United Nations


Input: In a new report, the Secretary General says democratization has now taken root as a universal norm and that the United Nations should strengthen its commitment to assisting nations that are moving toward democracy.

the United Nations


Input: Commenting on the report, UN Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs Danilo Turk told reporters the principle of national sovereignty does not preclude support for democracy.

UN

Danilo Turk


Input: We are usually not sufficiently clear, we meaning the Secretariat, in explaining that sovereignty and final analysis belongs to the people and sovereignty should be seen in a democratic context.

Secretariat


Input: Sovereignty is not simply a quality of statehood, but it has to do with the power of the people and democratic structures which make sovereignty an important human value.


Input: Mr. Churk also has said that a lack of democracy is the root cause of many contemporary armed conflicts.

Churk


Input: The Secretary General's report says democracy can develop anywhere and that it is a common misperception that democracy is a Western concept.

Western


Input: The report was issued in advance of a UN - sponsored conference on new and restored democracies that will be held in the African nation of Benin in early December.

UN

African

Benin

early December


Input: Breck Ardery, VOA News, at the United Nations.

Breck Ardery

VOA News

the United Nations


Input: Welcome to another hour of news and information here on the Voice of America.

another hour

the Voice of America


Input: I'm Victor Moralis along with David Chadwick on VOA News Now.

Victor Moralis

David Chadwick

VOA News Now


Input: India has signed a series of deals with Russia to acquire an aircraft carrier, fighter jets and tanks.

India

Russia


Input: The deals were signed as Russian President Vladimir Putin concluded his talks with Indian leaders in New Delhi.

Russian

Indian

Vladimir Putin

New Delhi


Input: The two countries also signed a strategic partnership agreement, obligating both countries to avoid joining political or military alliances against each other.

two


Input: They also agreed to form a joint working group for mutual concerns on terrorism.


Input: News Now's Susan Yakie spoke with our New Delhi correspondent Jim Teeple about the Russian leader's visit and his comments about the situation in the disputed Kashmir region.

News Now's

Susan Yakie

Jim Teeple

New Delhi

Kashmir

Russian


Input: He said exactly what the Indians wanted to hear, which is that the dispute over Kashmir between India and Pakistan should be solved bilaterally and that there should be no outside interference, as he put it in this question.

Indians

Kashmir

India

Pakistan


Input: Now this is something the Indians have been saying all along.


Input: Of course, Pakistan wants international attention focussed on Kashmir, and Mr. Putin also said that he supports India's tough approach to the external violence in Kashmir as he described it.

Pakistan

Kashmir

India

Kashmir

Putin


Input: This is another thing that the Indians were glad to hear him say, and he also said that both India and Russia suffer from the same sort of terrorism, as he put it, referring of course to the separatist militancies in Chechnya and Russia and in Jammu and Kashmir.

Indians

India

Russia

Chechnya

Russia

Jammu

Kashmir


Input: So on balance I don't think that the Indians heard anything from Mr. Putin that they did not want to hear.

Indians

Putin


Input: What sort of hold does Russia have on India and Pakistan?

Russia

India

Pakistan


Input: Russia has very little influence with Pakistan, but of course Russia supplies India with 70% of its military hardware and that was of course the second pillar here of Mr. Putin's visit, which was to finalize some very substantial arms deals.

Russia

Pakistan

Russia

India

Putin


Input: In fact, we're hearing that those deals have now been finalized, that Russia will sell India 300 tanks, T - 90 tanks, very advanced tanks, that Russia will also sell to India some Sukoi - 30 bombers, fighter - bombers.

Russia

India

Russia

India

T - 90

Sukoi - 30


Input: They are going to allow India to assemble about 140 of these bombers here in India, and they are also going to finalize a deal whereby India will acquire the Admiral Gorshkov.

India

India

India

about 140

Gorshkov


Input: That's an old Russian aircraft carrier that India has wanted to get for some time because India only has one other aircraft carrier, and this carrier in particular would allow the Indian Navy to extend its strategic strength much farther than it currently can now.

Russian

India

India

the Indian Navy


Input: So indeed Russia does have quite a bit of influence here.

Russia


Input: These ties have gone way back, nearly 40 years, and they were strengthened considerably by this visit.

nearly 40 years


Input: In fact both countries have now agreed to combat what they call terrorism with joint groups.


Input: They have also set up a joint working group on Afghanistan, which is of course a cause of concern for both countries.

Afghanistan


Input: Mr. Putin's visit is the first by a Russian leader in seven years.

Putin

first

Russian

seven years


Input: Why does the trip come now?


Input: Well, his trip has actually been delayed for a couple of years.

a couple of years


Input: Russian President was supposed to visit India as early as 97 - 1998, but of course Boris Yeltsin's health problems got in the way of that, and then of course, Mr. Yeltsin's abrupt resignation last year another visit and then the subsequent election campaign and inauguration of Vladimir Putin took some time, so it's been put off for a couple of years.

Russian

India

last year

Boris Yeltsin's

Yeltsin

Vladimir Putin


Input: But there have also been a lot of delays in other areas.


Input: These arms agreements that we were just speaking about have taken quite some time to finalize.


Input: How does this visit by Mr. Putin compare to President Clinton's visit earlier this year?

Putin

Clinton

earlier this year


Input: That's an interesting question because Vladimir Putin on Wednesday addressed the Indian Parliament just as Bill Clinton had done six months ago, and I think it's safe to say that Mr. Putin actually probably accomplished more than Mr. Clinton did in the hard concrete terms of arms sales and that sort of thing, but it was Mr. Clinton that stole the Indian lawmakers' hearts.

Vladimir Putin

Bill Clinton

Putin

Clinton

Clinton

Wednesday

six months ago

the Indian Parliament

Indian


Input: Of course you will recall when he spoke to the parliament there was an ecstatic welcome for him.


Input: The Indian lawmakers were sort of clambering over each other to shake his hand as he left the parliament building.

Indian


Input: There was none of that for Mr. Putin, but he did receive a very warm welcome, although most ordinary Indians who were actually rather captivated by Mr. Clinton's visit did not really pay much attention to Mr. Putin's visit.

Putin

Clinton

Putin

Indians


Input: In fact his visit has somewhat been ignored and in fact the main news story here in India has been sort of a local controversy over the roll - back of fuel prices rather than Mr. Putin's visit, but he did do what he had to do and he certainly strengthened ties in a strategic sense between Russia and India.

India

Russia

India

Putin


Input: That's VOA correspondent Jim Teeple.

VOA

Jim Teeple


Input: In a joint statement Wednesday, India and Russia called for further measures against Afghanistan's dominant Taliban faction.

Wednesday

India

Russia

Afghanistan

Taliban


Input: The statement accuses the Taliban of supporting international terrorism.

Taliban


Input: Russian and Norwegian divers searched the fourth compartment of the wrecked submarine Kursk, Sunday, but they found too much damage to proceed with the task of recovering bodies.

Russian

Norwegian

fourth

Kursk

Sunday


Input: A spokesman for Russia's Northern Fleet says the divers were only able to venture about one meter into the compartment because of poor visibility.

Russia

Northern Fleet

about one meter


Input: The United States and the European Union will start lifting economic sanctions against Yugoslavia today.

The United States

Yugoslavia

the European Union

today


Input: Among the sanctions imposed against the regime of former President Slobodan Milosevic during the fight over Kosovo are an oil embargo and a ban on commercial air traffic.

Slobodan Milosevic

Kosovo


Input: French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine said Sunday that relieving the pressure on Belgrade's devastated economy is the first step towards supporting the new President Vojislav Kostunica and reintegrating Yugoslavia into a democratic Europe.

French

Foreign

Hubert Vedrine

Vojislav Kostunica

Sunday

Belgrade

Yugoslavia

Europe

first


Input: President Clinton arrived in Brunei Tuesday, getting a red carpet welcome from officials of the tiny Islamic sultanate.

Clinton

Brunei

Tuesday

Islamic


Input: He is scheduled to deliver the keynote address today at the Pacific Rim Conference.

today

the Pacific Rim Conference


Input: The Pacific Rim leaders will discuss an array of economic issues Wednesday and Thursday, including high oil prices and the boom in electronic commerce.

Pacific Rim

Wednesday

Thursday


Input: Israeli helicopter gunships struck Palestinian targets in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Thursday.

Israeli

Palestinian

West Bank

Gaza Strip

Thursday


Input: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak said the attacks were in retaliation for the killing of Israeli soldiers.

Israeli

Israeli

Ehud Barak


Input: This morning, the entire world was the witness of a cold - blooded brutal lynch of two or three Israelis within a Palestinian police station in Ramallah in the Palestinian - controlled territories.

This morning

two

three

Israelis

Palestinian

Palestinian

Ramallah


Input: Late Thursday, Mr. Barak invited Likud opposition leader Ariel Sharon to join him in a government of national emergency.

Late Thursday

Barak

Ariel Sharon

Likud


Input: It was a visit by Mr. Sharon to a Jerusalem religious holy site that sparked the violence that began last month between Israelis and Palestinian protesters.

Sharon

Jerusalem

last month

Israelis

Palestinian


Input: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan who is leading mediation efforts in the Middle East urged Palestinians and Israelis, Thursday to show restraint.

UN

Kofi Annan

the Middle East

Palestinians

Israelis

Thursday


Input: Both Jordan's King Abdullah and Syria's President Bashar al - Assad charged Israel with insulting Arabs and Muslims by violating their rights at holy sites.

Jordan

Syria

Israel

Abdullah

Bashar al - Assad

Arabs

Muslims


Input: President Clinton has told a memorial service for the victims of the deadly bomb attack on the USS Cole that justice will prevail.

Clinton

the USS Cole


Input: Mr. Clinton promised the gathering at the Norfolk Naval station Wednesday that those who carried out the deadly attack that killed 17 sailors will be found.

Clinton

the Norfolk Naval station

Wednesday


Input: To those who attacked them, we say you will not find a safe harbor, we will find you and justice will prevail.


Input: Meanwhile, in Yemen President Ali Abdul Salay said important evidence had been uncovered in the investigation.

Yemen

Ali Abdul Salay


Input: President Salay was quoted as saying two people responsible for the blast were killed in a suicide mission and that the attack had been planned for a long time.

Salay

two


Input: His comments were not immediately confirmed by US officials who are leading the investigation with Yemen's help.

US

Yemen


Input: The Voice of America presents differing points of view on a wide variety of issues.

The Voice of America


Input: Next, an editorial expressing the policies of the United States government.

United States


Input: This month's visit of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to Washington is further evidence of the strengthening ties between the United States and Bangladesh.

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Bangladesh

Washington

the United States

Bangladesh

Sheikh Hasina


Input: It follows a visit last March by President Bill Clinton to Dhaka, the Bangladesh capital.

last March

Bill Clinton

Dhaka

Bangladesh


Input: That was the first time a US President had visited Bangladesh.

first

US

Bangladesh


Input: The US is Bangladesh's largest trading partner and foreign investor.

US

Bangladesh


Input: US investment in Bangladesh has increased over the past four years from 20 million dollars to around 800 million dollars.

US

Bangladesh

the past four years

20 million dollars

800 million dollars


Input: Prime Minister Hasina and President Clinton expressed the hope that this trend will continue.

Hasina

Clinton


Input: It will depend on the implementation of investor - friendly policies.


Input: Both the US government and American businesses, welcomed the willingness of Bangladesh to embrace innovative approaches towards sustainable economic growth.

US

Bangladesh

American


Input: Among other things, the US has worked with Bangladesh to establish the Tropical Forest Conservation Fund, the first of its kind in the world.

US

Bangladesh

the Tropical Forest Conservation Fund

first


Input: The Fund will make it possible for Bangladesh to redirect some debt repayment money to projects and at preserving unique eco-systems and protecting the environment.

Fund

Bangladesh


Input: The Bangladesh government also deserves credit for making significant progress toward eliminating child labor in the garment industry.

Bangladesh


Input: The US is committed to working with Bangladesh on this and other core labor standards including freedom of association and collective bargaining.

US

Bangladesh


Input: In addition to growing economic ties, the US and Bangladesh share a commitment to democracy at home and to meeting responsibilities abroad.

US

Bangladesh


Input: Bangladesh is one of the largest contributors to international peacekeeping operations.

Bangladesh

one


Input: Its personnel have served with US forces in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo.

US

Somalia

Haiti

Bosnia

Kosovo


Input: Bangladesh is also the first South Asian nation to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

Bangladesh

first

South Asian

the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty


Input: President Clinton and Prime Minister Hasina agreed that it is essential for the US and Bangladesh to coordinate positions on major issues, that come before the United Nations and other international bodies.

Clinton

Hasina

US

Bangladesh

the United Nations


Input: As President Clinton has said, the US and Bangladesh grow closer every day, through expanding trade, through the internet revolution and through a shared interest in building a world more peaceful, more tolerant, more prosperous and more free.

Clinton

US

Bangladesh

every day


Input: A note scribbled by an officer on the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk has revealed that at least 23 of its 118 crewmembers survived the explosions which sank the vessel.

Russian

Kursk

at least 23


Input: The note was found in the pocket of Lieutenant Dimitri Kolesnikov whose body was one of the first to be recovered the explosions that shattered the submarine.

Dimitri Kolesnikov

one

first


Input: Most of the Kursk's crew apparently died instantly in the explosions that tore open the Kursk's first six compartments or within minutes as water roared into the submarine.

Kursk

Kursk

first

six

minutes


Input: Lieutenant Kolesnikov's note indicates some crewmembers survived for several hours.

Kolesnikov

several hours


Input: Recapping the developments of this disturbing day in the Middle East and the Arabian Peninsula -- at least six American sailors are dead, 11 still missing and 35 injured after what intelligence experts say was a well - planned terrorist bombing that ripped a 20 x 40 - foot hole in the Navy destroyer `` USS Cole'' in the Yemeni port of Aden.

the Middle East

the Arabian Peninsula

American

Yemeni

20 x 40 - foot

Navy

`` USS Cole''

Aden


Input: The ship was there for refueling.


Input: President Clinton, vowing retaliation.

Clinton


Input: As we heard from David Gregory, one of Governor Bush's main themes in these last days of the campaign is getting rid of partisan gridlock in Washington, which was exactly what the President was talking about today -- an attempt to reopen debate on a $240 billion tax cut plan, saying the version House Republicans passed is unacceptable, because it is unfair, according to the President, to children and seniors.

David Gregory

Bush

one

these last days

today

Washington

$240 billion

House

Republicans


Input: Instead of meeting us on common ground, instead of working with the White House or congressional Democrats, the Republican leadership closed its doors to compromise -- literally closed the doors to compromise.

the White House

Democrats

Republican


Input: They crafted their own partisan tax package and passed it last night on a party - line vote.

last night


Input: Republican leaders for their part said reopening the tax debate is not now realistic and the tax cut bill is probably tombed.

Republican


Input: They are angry that the President is threatening to veto it saying it's wrong to have political budget battles right before the election.


Input: NBC's David Gregory is at his post as well in Austin, Texas.

NBC

David Gregory

Austin

Texas


Input: David any reaction from the Bush team on the Democrats' plan to contest the vote in Miami - Dade?

David

Bush

Democrats

Miami - Dade


Input: Well, John, there has been reaction from the Bush team.

John

Bush


Input: You know, this decision by the Gore campaign, a refusal to concede even if they do not prevail in the manual recounts under way certainly carries some political risk, but the Gore team tonight defends the decision, saying that fellow Democrats and the public would not only accept but demand what they call a fair and accurate recount in all the relevant counties.

Gore

Gore

Democrats


Input: The Bush team, responding quickly saying there would not be such support and that in that scenario Gore could only be seen as a sore loser.

Bush

Gore


Input: Despite the holiday, there is no letup in the fight for Florida.

Florida


Input: A holiday legal victory to be thankful for, George and Laura Bush, all smiles in Austin today before a pot luck Thanksgiving meal with their twin daughters and friends.

George

Laura Bush

Austin

today

Thanksgiving


Input: The Texas governor makes time for recreation with a morning jog and prepares for some fishing at his ranch this weekend.

Texas

this weekend


Input: The Vice President out of sight today at his residence, aides saying the entire family together for a meal and football on TV.


Input: While the Gore menu remains a family secret, the Bush clan all to happy to share some of his favorite fare -- jalapeno pecan cornbread stuffing and coconut cake.

Gore

Bush


Input: For vice presidential candidate Dick Cheney, turkey in the hospital with his wife and daughter this afternoon.

Dick Cheney


Input: After suffering a mild heart attack yesterday, his fourth, doctors say today he's recovering well.

yesterday

fourth


Input: Cheney gets a checkup call from Governor Bush and still expects to be released as early as tomorrow, and today, President Clinton cautiously speaks out about the Florida vote fight, saying everyone should, `` let the process play out.''

Cheney

Bush

Clinton

tomorrow

today

Florida


Input: I want everybody who tried to vote who legally voted to have their vote count, including service people.


Input: Everybody.


Input: Tonight for both George Bush and Al Gore and their war rooms all their advisers, this really comes down to a numbers game.

Tonight

George Bush

Al Gore


Input: Everybody keeping a sharp eye on these recount tallies and on Sunday's deadline at 5:00 p.m..

Sunday

5:00 p.m.


Input: John?

John


Input: NBC's David Gregory in Austin.

NBC

David Gregory

Austin


Input: David, thank you.

David


Input: Up next, from recounts to --


Input: And one of the longest running struggles for international justice reached a milestone today of sorts, when a Scottish court, meeting in the Netherlands, finally officially found someone guilty in the 1988 bombing that brought down Pan Am Flight 103.

one

today

Scottish

Netherlands

Pan Am Flight 103


Input: He's a Libyan intelligence agent and as NBC's Jim Maceda reports tonight from the court, many of the families of the victims think the verdict didn't go far enough.

Libyan

NBC

Jim Maceda

tonight


Input: Today was D - Day in the murder trial which in the end brought some relief.

Today

D - Day


Input: For grieving families, only a partial victory.


Input: After 12 years of waiting and a nine - month trial, family members of some of the victims of Pan Am Flight 103 come to this special Scottish courthouse in the Netherlands one last time to hear the verdict against two Libyan defendants charged with murder.

12 years

nine - month

Pan Am Flight 103

Scottish

Libyan

Netherlands

one

two


Input: A split decision for Lamen Khalifa Fhimah, aquittal, but Abdel Basset Ali Al - megrahi found guilty as charged.

Lamen Khalifa Fhimah

Abdel Basset Ali Al - megrahi


Input: The court ruled this senior Libyan intelligence agent planted the bomb that killed 270, mostly Americans, when the plane bound for New York exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland.

Libyan

Americans

New York

Lockerbie

Scotland


Input: Inside the courtroom today, the elation overwhelming.

today


Input: A good many of the relatives gasped.


Input: There was a big intake of breath.


Input: Jim Swire, whose daughter died in the 1988 crash, collapses.

Jim Swire


Input: He later recovered, blaming stress.


Input: But Al - megrahi's sentence, 20 years in jail, too light for Brian Flynn.

Al - megrahi's

Brian Flynn

20 years


Input: His brother was on Flight 103.

Flight 103


Input: It wasn't one murder it was 270 people he murdered.

one


Input: Frustration too that Moammar Khaddafi was immune from prosecution, one of the ground rules here.

Moammar Khaddafi

one


Input: You get the operatives.


Input: You don't always get the higherups.


Input: Reaction in Libya, where many followed the trial, mixed.

Libya


Input: Some anger in the streets, but government officials downplaying the conviction, calling for an end to international sanctions.


Input: Not yet, says President George W. Bush, at the White House today, demanding that Khaddafi meet certain conditions first, to accept responsibility for this act, and to compensate the families.

George W. Bush

Khaddafi

the White House

today


Input: But even that would fall short for those who have lost loved ones.


Input: Tonight, some of those families made it clear their battle is not over to get to the truth and however difficult, punish the real authors of this crime.

Tonight


Input: Tom?

Tom


Input: Thanks very much, NBC's Jim Maceda tonight for the trial of the Lockerbie 103 Pan Am crash.

NBC

Jim Maceda

tonight

Lockerbie

103 Pan Am


Input: We have a major development to report tonight involving the crash of that Singapore Airlines 747 in Taiwan this week.

Singapore Airlines

Taiwan


Input: Taiwanese officials thousand now say.

Taiwanese

thousand


Input: They confirm the pilot made a wrong turn, simply down the wrong runway.


Input: Correspondent Ned Colt has our report.

Ned Colt


Input: Tonight it appears at least 82 are dead from what may have been a wrong turn.

at least 82


Input: Sources close to the investigation tell NBC News that Singapore Airlines flight 6 tried to take off on a runway closed for repairs.

NBC News

Singapore Airlines


Input: She crash site today, the trail of evidence on the closed runway.

today


Input: Chunks of wreckage, fuselage, stretching in a straight line for hundreds of yards.

hundreds of yards


Input: Twisted overturned construction equipment.


Input: This is what the 747 slammed into Tuesday night in a blinding rain storm.

Tuesday

night


Input: Today investigators say the pilot had confirmed with the control tower moments before taking off he had turned onto the correct runway but pilots behind him say he turned onto the wrong runway.

Today


Input: They say the plane took off, clicking the construction equipment, slamming into the ground and then breaking up.


Input: As the plane was taking off this passenger noticed she didn't see any runway lights.


Input: I used to see the lights going by and I looked out and said it's pitch black out here.


Input: Reporter Lee, flying in from California, unsure if his wife was alive, today, identifying his remains, and tonight survivor John Diaz begins the long trip home to California.

Lee

John Diaz

California

California


Input: I just want to get home, never been so ready to get back to the United States.

the United States


Input: His flight number a reminder Singapore Airlines 006, the same flight he survived Tuesday night.

Singapore Airlines

Tuesday

night


Input: Gregg Jarrett, they did get a unanimous court for this decision.

Gregg Jarrett


Input: Absolutely, Brian.

Brian


Input: It was very stern, very direct and it left no question, I think, in the minds of anybody that this court unanimously believes that certification should include the manual recount, and that is a clear victory for Vice President Al Gore.

Al Gore


Input: The language here, really leaves no doubt.


Input: The right of the people to cast their vote, the court said, is paramount.


Input: The amended certifications must be accepted by November 26.

November 26


Input: The reason they are picking that particular day is it allows, Brian, enough time for the aggrieved party, the losing party to file within 10 days a contest of the certification and that still allows enough time for the contest to be litigated through the courts primarily the circuit court and back to the Supreme Court if necessary and still meet the December 12 deadline for the Electoral College vote here.

Brian

10 days

December 12

the Supreme Court

Electoral College


Input: Now, Greg, the only question that means anything at this hour.

Greg


Input: We know their view is the hand counts should now be included.


Input: Will it put Al Gore over the top in the race to match and exceed the votes of George W. Bush?

Al Gore

George W. Bush


Input: It very well could, although, I must say that the Gore campaign has been somewhat disappointed by the number of votes they have not received thus far in the counties that are undertaking the manual recounts, Brian, but a lot of hand counts still must be tallied.

Gore

Brian


Input: We are also including the undervotes of 10,000 in Palm Beach and junt votes of 10,000 in Miami - Dade as well.

Palm Beach

Miami - Dade


Input: Keep in mind, those were not registered by the computers because they either had a hanging chad or dimpled chad.


Input: Those must be gone over by hand by each respective canvassing board.


Input: So there are a lot of votes remaining there.


Input: This is a Gore campaign to the White House.

Gore

the White House


Input: Greg, just a logistic question, How long is it going take you to get the opinion run to you from the building behind you?

Greg


Input: I would say we should have it here in the next five minutes.

the next five minutes


Input: It depends how quickly the line moves.


Input: We have two producers, I believe, near the front of the line.

two


Input: It how quickly they get handed.


Input: It reversed the two orders of the earlier trial court, Circuit Court Judge Terry Lewis.

two

Circuit Court

Terry Lewis


Input: The bottom line, this court rules unanimously the right of the people to have the votes counted is paramount, thus, the amended certifications to include the hand counts must be accepted by November 26.

November 26


Input: In fact, it seemed to have some language here.


Input: In fact, Brian I do have it handed to me now.

Brian


Input: Let me take a the.


Input: Brian, if for some reason the Secretary of State wouldn't accept by the 26th, the certification, it could be certified elsewhere.

Brian

State

the 26th


Input: Gregg Jarrett.


Input: I should point out, he is a former lawyer himself and so can help put this into English.

English


Input: Greg, go ahead, if you come to a passage we should hear.

Greg


Input: I'm flipping through the summary of enacts because that is not important.


Input: The summary of facts.


Input: You flag us when you come to the first portion we should hear aloud.

first


Input: Guo Kai's Economic Notes: Beijing's Gas Price vs. US Gas Price

Guo Kai's Economic Notes

Beijing

US


Input: Guo Kai's Economic Notes

Guo Kai's Economic Notes


Input: In the US the current average price of regular unleaded gas is about 2.3 US dollars per gallon -LRB- 3.78 liters -RRB-.

US

2.3 US dollars

-LRB- 3.78 liters -RRB-


Input: According to the official exchange rate of one US dollar for 7.9 RMB, this price is equivalent to 4.80 yuan / liter.

one US dollar

7.9 RMB

4.80 yuan


Input: Note, this gas price includes all taxes.


Input: The current gas price in Beijing is 5.09 yuan / liter, 2 mao and 9 fen more than in the US.

Beijing

US

5.09 yuan

2 mao and 9 fen


Input: In fact, the gas price difference between the two places is larger than 2 mao and 9 fen because China's gas price does not include so many taxes as in the US; for example, the highway maintenance fee in China is paid separately.

two

2 mao and 9 fen

China

US

China


Input: Just now, I only narrated a fact.


Input: But I believe that different persons see different problems in this fact.


Input: Let me describe people's two reactions that I can imagine, or the two problems I can see.

two

two


Input: 1. The US gas price is too cheap.

US


Input: In an absolute sense, the US gas price has +already been cheaper than China's, and in a relative sense, the US gas price is even cheaper.

US

China

US


Input: In the US, the money you pay for a meal at McDonald's can fill up more than 10 liters of gas, but in Beijing you can get 5 - 6 liters of gas at most.

US

Beijing

McDonald

10 liters

5 - 6 liters


Input: The US low gas price policy has undoubtedly led to this country's excessive use of and overdependence on energy resources.

US


Input: However, there is more to this matter, the whole world has to share the various negative effects caused by the US excessive energy consumption: global warming, and wars caused by oil, etc.

US


Input: It is totally a joke that the US gas price could be cheaper than China's.

US

China


Input: 2. China's gas price is too expensive.

China


Input: Both Americans and Chinese buy gas from the international market, and the technology and cost of oil refinement are not too much different.

Americans

Chinese


Input: But with the US gas price including taxes even lower than China's gas price excluding taxes, you can see how much money Chinese oil companies have made out of this.

US

China

Chinese


Input: If there are no price controls and monopolies, China's gas price shouldn't have been this high.

China


Input: I want to say that I think these two opinions are both correct.

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Input: So, on the issue of oil consumption, I think China and the US, the No. 1 and No. 2 oil consumers in the world, are also a funny pair.

China

US


Input: From a global perspective, the US gas price is obviously too low.

US


Input: So Mankiw at Harvard even formed a " Pigou Club, " gathering social celebrities who support levying higher taxes on gas prices -LRB- hereby raising gas prices -RRB-.

Mankiw

Harvard


Input: China's gas prices are more complicated.

China


Input: In fact, gas prices in China are probably not very high, but in order to reduce China's future overdependence on gas, it may be better that China's gas prices are higher.

China

China

China


Input: But, the direct result of the gas price increase in China will be the increase of monopoly profits of the monopoly companies.

China


Input: This part of money will not become the government tax revenue, will not be used for public welfare, and on the contrary, will only make the benefits of those people working at the monopoly department even better.


Input: In other words, the gas price in China is too high in the distributive sense.

China


Input: It is the price that transfers the entire social resources to a very small number of people.


Input: But in terms of sustainability, China's gas price may still be too low.

China


Input: We need high gas prices to control the overdependence on energy imports.


Input: Perhaps someone will condemn me, saying further increase of gas prices will make life unbearable for people.


Input: If you are a taxi driver, my reply is: the reason your life is unbearable is not the gas price, but because of our taxi licensing regulation system.


Input: If you are a car owner, my reply is: ride the subway and bus more often.


Input: It saves money, reduces congestion, and also lets you know car owners are not in a position to say " life is unbearable. "


Input: Compared with most people, your life is already quite good.


Input: Comparing McDonald's in the US with McDonald's in China may not be right.

McDonald

McDonald

US

China


Input: Eating a meal at McDonald's in the US is more comparable to buying a 5 - yuan boxed meal in China.

McDonald

US

China

5 - yuan


Input: Eliminate the personal income tax -LRB- Reproduced from Yueguang blog -RRB-.

Yueguang blog


Input: Dift Wu

Dift Wu


Input: Official data confirm that in 2004 the total personal income tax for the country amounted to approximately 181 billion, of which 65% came from the working class, and only 10% came from the wealthy.

approximately 181 billion


Input: Clearly the personal income tax policy has too little effect on controlling wealth accumulation by the rich, and too little impact on improving the quality of life of wage earners.


Input: While this type of tax in China has no effect on regulating the income gap or on " taking from the rich to help the poor, " neither is it beneficial in expanding the working class.

China


Input: If this tax continues to be collected, it will be working against the original intention behind the income tax.


Input: Clearly the necessity for the personal income tax needs to be challenged.


Input: I propose eliminating the personal income tax just as the agricultural tax was eliminated, to give people an opportunity to prosper.