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In one letter, a black soldier heading South wrote his wife, " though great is the present national difficulties yet I look forward to a brighter day when I shall have the oportunity of seeing you in the full enjoyment of freedom. | [
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" I would like to no (sic) if you are still in slavery if you are, it will not be long before we shall have crushed the system that now oppreses you for in the course of three months you shall have your liberty. | [] |
Great is the outpouring of the coloured people that is now rallying with the heart of lions against the very curse that has separated you and me . " | [] |
In another letter dated January 1865, a well-to-do Washington matron wrote to Lincoln to plead for her son, who faced a dishonourable discharge from the Army . " | [
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James is a prisoner for a thoughtless act of folly, while those who have done nothing for the cause are free, " she wrote. | [
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Lincoln's notation on the letter read: " If his colonel will say in writing on this sheet he is willing to receive this man back to the regiment, I will pardon and send him . " | [
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The soldier was subsequently pardoned. | [] |
While the letters speak to the anguish of separation, a photograph of a black amputee speaks to the terrible physical cost of the war. | [] |
In a picture required for his military discharge, Pvt. | [] |
Lewis Martin, with haunted eyes, posed bare-chested to reveal his missing arm and leg, blown off during a battle at Petersburg, Virginia, in July 1864. | [
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The work on black troops has provided new insight into the rhythms of plantation talk and culture, said John Simon, professor of history at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and editor of Gen. | [
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Ulysses Grant's papers. | [
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" These (writings) are not only poetic but a linguistic treasure trove. | [] |
This is the first generation of African Americans that really can express itself without fear and punishment, " Simon said. | [
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" I think there's probably a whole lot of material that would expand our understanding of the sociology of the war, " said Edward Smith, director of American Studies at American University in Washington. | [
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The war between the North and South raged for nearly four years, claimed the lives of half a million Americans and forever seared the nation's consciousness. | [
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Southern records have already been preserved. | [
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They were put on microfilm about 30 years ago through a grant from the United Daughters of the Confederacy. | [
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The Civil War Conservation Corps is mostly retirees joined by students during the school year. | [
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Director Budge Weidman, who has shepherded the project from the beginning, predicts it will take up to a decade to complete. | [
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The work was inspired by a National Park Service plan to put computer databases at Civil War battlefields across the country so that Americans might research their ancestors. | [
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The records also provide insight into medical thinking of the day. | [] |
One soldier was discharged because of " mental incapacity and inebetude (sic) of the brain, alleged by the Patient to be connected with a fall on the head but believed to arise from long continued and excessive masturbation . " | [] |
Clinton arrives in Chicago on day of re-nomination. | [
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CHICAGO 1996-08-28 | [
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President Bill Clinton arrived in Chicago on Wednesday as the Democratic convention prepared to re-nominate him for a second four-year term. | [
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Clinton flew in by helicopter from Michigan City, Indiana, after ending a four-day, 559-mile trip aboard a campaign train from Washington. | [
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New bomb attacks on Corsica despite crackdown vow. | [
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Sylvie Florence | [
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AJACCIO, Corsica 1996-08-29 | [
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Separatist guerrillas planted two bombs overnight at government offices on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica despite fresh warnings of a crackdown by Paris, police said on Thursday. | [
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In the latest in a wave of attacks, a two kg (four lb) bomb seriously damaged two floors of Agriculture Ministry offices located just 50 metres (yards) from a police station in the centre of the island capital Ajaccio. | [
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No one was hurt. | [] |
A second device, packed with five kg (10 lbs) of explosive, was defused before it could go off, police said. | [] |
The new attacks followed by a day a warning of a new " get-tough " policy by Paris toward the separatists, who seek greater autonomy. | [
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Interior Minister Jean-Louis Debre, under fire for staging secret talks with one of the largest of several rival underground nationalist groups, told the daily La Corse in a statement he had given " firm orders " to police to round up those responsible for the bombings and bring them to justice. | [
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Judges on the island had accused Paris of taking a lax stance on guerrilla violence while conducting secret but widely-reported talks with separatists which have now failed. | [
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The latest bombing, close on the heels of the new orders, brought charges that police were powerless. | [] |
" No searches, no arrests, no police reinforcements visible on the island, despite the ministry's promises, " the daily France-Soir lamented. | [
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" On the island, as at the Place Beauvau (the Interior Ministry's Paris address), people are well aware who is who and who is doing what. | [
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It is time to end this nightly farce, " said the pro-government daily Le Figaro in an editorial. | [
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No one immediately claimed responsibility for Thursday's incidents, which brought to 23 the number of guerrilla attacks on the resort island since mid-August, when separatist guerrillas ended a shaky seven-month truce. | [] |
Corsica has been racked by low-level separatist-inspired violence, principally directed against government targets, for two decades. | [
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The daily Le Monde reported on Wednesday some separatist movements were considering taking their attacks to the French mainland on the principle that " 300 grammes of explosives on the continent have more impact than 300 kilos in Corsica ". | [
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The newspaper said separatists may take advantage of social unrest widely expected on the mainland in coming weeks over government austerity plans to stoke a popular backlash against the government. | [] |
Sweden's OM to open London forest products bourse. | [
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STOCKHOLM 1996-08-29 | [
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Swedish options and derivatives exchange OM Gruppen AB said on Thursday it would open an electronic bourse for forest industry products in London in the first half of 1997. | [
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" Together with subsidiaries OMLX, the London Securities & Derivatives Exchange and OM Stockholm, OM Gruppen will open an international electronic bourse for forest products in the first half of 1997, " OM Gruppen said in a statement. | [
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The first commodity to be traded on the PULPEX bourse will be pulp, but OM said trade would be extended to include products such as timber, recycled paper and other paper qualities. | [
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" Through the establishment of PULPEX, London will have a commodities bourse for forest products which complements existing bourses for oil, metals and' softs' (coffee, sugar and cocoa), " OM said. | [
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PULPEX was the result of a three-year project run in cooperation between OM and representatives of the forest industry, the company said. | [
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Huge swings in the price of pulp over the past few years have made pulp producers' profitability unpredictable, and made investing in new production capacity a risky business. | [] |
" Without the ability to hedge prices, changes in the world market price for pulp has had an immediate impact on players' profitability, " OM said. | [
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It said global production of pulp amounted to around 200 million tonnes per year, of which around 20 percent or 40 million tonnes was sold on the spot market. | [] |
At current prices, the value of this production was around $25 billion. | [] |
PULPEX will be both a marketplace and a clearing house, OM said, adding that the British Securities and Investments Board had been informed of OM's plans. | [
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PULPEX's clearing operation will be covered by the parent company guarantee issued by OM Gruppen to its wholly-owned bourses and clearing organisations. | [
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-- Stockholm newsroom, +46-8-700 1006 | [
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Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp oil stock levels fall. | [
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AMSTERDAM 1996-08-29 | [
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Oil product inventories held in independent tankage in the Amsterdam-Rotterdam-Antwerp area were at the following levels, with week-ago and year-ago levels, industry sources said. | [
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All figures in thousands of tonnes: | [] |
29/8/96 22/8/96 1/9/95 | [] |
Gasoline 400 400-425 425 | [] |
Naphtha 50-75 75-100 50-75 | [] |
Gas oil 1,600 1,650 1,850-1,900 | [] |
Fuel oil 325 325-350 425 | [] |
Jet kero 15 15-20 25 | [] |
Motor gasoline stocks dipped slightly as barges left for Germany, but there were few inflows of cargoes. | [
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Naphtha inventories also dropped as Germany again took barges and no cargoes entered ARA. | [
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Gas oil stocks fell with some cargoes arriving from the former Soviet Union, but very fast throughput to markets in Benelux, Germany and Switzerland. | [
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Fuel oil inventories dipped slightly with some straight-run arrivals, but fair bunkering demand removing more material. | [] |
Jet fuel stocks lowered as the aviation sector bought. | [] |
-- Philip Blenkinsop, Amsterdam newsroom 31 20 504 5000 | [
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German anti-nuclear activists in pantomime protest. | [
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BONN 1996-08-29 | [
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About 200 German anti-nuclear activists protested on Thursday against nuclear waste transportation by re-enacting scenes from a demonstration they staged in May that turned into a violent clash with police. | [
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] |
Activists dressed as police brandished batons and firing a theatre-prop water cannon at " demonstrators ". | [] |
Police who had turned out in force all around the government quarter fearing violence looked on in amusement. | [] |
Last May dozens of demonstrators and police were injured in violent clashes around the Gorleben nuclear waste depot as hundreds of protesters tried to block a delivery of waste by train and truck. | [
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Italy police arrest five over double Mafia killing. | [
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"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 0
}
] |
CATANIA, Sicily 1996-08-29 | [
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Italian Police said on Thursday they had arrested five people in connection with the slaying of the daughter and 14-year-old nephew of a Mafia boss earlier this week. | [
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Santa Puglisi, 22, and Salvatore Botta were gunned down in a cemetery in this eastern Sicilian city on Tuesday in a crime which shocked even hardened anti-Mafia investigators. | [
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The arrests followed a tip-off from a married couple who unexpectedly showed up at investigators' offices on Wednesday . " | [] |
They wanted to get a weight off their consciences, " a police spokesman said. | [] |
He added the couple had also shed light on the murder last year of the wife of Mafia boss Nitto Santapaola. | [
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Puglisi was shot as she knelt praying by the tomb of her young husband, who was himself killed last year in a Mafia ambush. | [
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Botta, who had accompanied Puglisi to the cemetary, tried to flee the lone gunman but was caught and killed. | [
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Thieves make off with cash from prison canteen. | [] |
LIMERICK, Ireland 1996-08-29 | [
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Thieves stole almost 2,000 Irish pounds ($3,000) from the officers' canteen of a Limerick jail on Thursday while warders slept in a room upstairs. | [
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Police said the thieves intercepted a woman arriving to work at the canteen, forced her to open the safe where takings were kept and made off with the cash. | [] |
While the robbery was going on, several officers were asleep in a room over the canteen, which is in the grounds of the prison on Ireland's southwest coast. | [
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Italians hold HIV-pensioner for harassing hookers. | [
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{
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GENOA, Italy 1996-08-29 | [
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{
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Italian police said on Thursday they had arrested a 61-year-old man after he fired blank shots at prostitutes he blamed for spreading AIDS. | [
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The pensioner, named only as Pietro T., told investigators he was infected with HIV, the AIDS virus, and his wife had died of the disease. | [
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{
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He did not say how they had contracted the illness. | [] |
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