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ctb_ABC19980108.1830.0711.tml_1
The financial assistance from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are not helping.
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ctb_ABC19980108.1830.0711.tml_2
In the last twenty four hours, the value of the Indonesian stock market has fallen by twelve percent.
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ctb_ABC19980108.1830.0711.tml_2;4
In the last twenty four hours, the value of the Indonesian stock market has fallen by twelve percent. In Singapore, stocks hit a five year low.
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ctb_ABC19980108.1830.0711.tml_2;3
In the last twenty four hours, the value of the Indonesian stock market has fallen by twelve percent. The Indonesian currency has lost twenty six percent of its value.
0uncausal
ctb_ABC19980108.1830.0711.tml_10
So when Wong Kwan spent seventy million dollars for this house, he thought it was a great deal.
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ctb_ABC19980108.1830.0711.tml_10;11
So when Wong Kwan spent seventy million dollars for this house, he thought it was a great deal. He sold the property to five buyers and said he 'd double his money.
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ctb_ABC19980108.1830.0711.tml_11
He sold the property to five buyers and said he 'd double his money.
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ctb_ABC19980108.1830.0711.tml_13
Now with new construction under way, three of his buyers have backed out.
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ctb_ABC19980108.1830.0711.tml_18
She estimates her properties, worth a hundred thirty million dollars in October, are worth only half that now.
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ctb_ABC19980108.1830.0711.tml_22
But in the past three months, stocks have plunged, interest rates have soared and the downturn all across Asia means that people are not spending here.
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ctb_ABC19980108.1830.0711.tml_24
You can get seventy percent discounts at the shopping malls.
0uncausal
ctb_ABC19980108.1830.0711.tml_28
And at the big brokerage houses, after ten years of boom, they 're talking about layoffs.
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ctb_ABC19980108.1830.0711.tml_29
I think that the mood is fairly gloomy, and I think it's not going to change for a couple of years.
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ctb_ABC19980108.1830.0711.tml_31
To either hold on tight or get out, as much of Asia goes into recession.
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ctb_ABC19980108.1830.0711.tml_9;10
Not that long ago, before the Chinese takeover, the news about real estate here was that the sky was the limit the highest prices in the world. So when Wong Kwan spent seventy million dollars for this house, he thought it was a great deal.
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ctb_ABC19980108.1830.0711.tml_29;30
I think that the mood is fairly gloomy, and I think it's not going to change for a couple of years. So for Hong Kong, it's time, as investment bankers like to say, to reposition.
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ctb_ABC19980114.1830.0611.tml_0
In Washington today, the Federal Aviation Administration released air traffic control tapes from the night the TWA Flight eight hundred went down.
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ctb_ABC19980114.1830.0611.tml_0;1
In Washington today, the Federal Aviation Administration released air traffic control tapes from the night the TWA Flight eight hundred went down. There's nothing new on why the plane exploded, but you can not miss the moment.
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ctb_ABC19980114.1830.0611.tml_3;5
There was no hint of trouble in the last conversation between controllers and TWA pilot Steven Snyder TWA eight hundred climb maintain one five thousand. But a minute and a half later, a pilot from a nearby flight calls in.
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ctb_ABC19980114.1830.0611.tml_3;4
There was no hint of trouble in the last conversation between controllers and TWA pilot Steven Snyder TWA eight hundred climb maintain one five thousand. TWA's eight hundred heavy climb and maintain one five thousand leavin - three thousand.
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ctb_ABC19980114.1830.0611.tml_5
But a minute and a half later, a pilot from a nearby flight calls in.
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ctb_ABC19980114.1830.0611.tml_6;7
Ah, we just saw an explosion up ahead of us here about sixteen thousand feet or something like that. It just went down.
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ctb_ABC19980114.1830.0611.tml_9
TWA eight hundred, if you hear center, ident.
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ctb_ABC19980114.1830.0611.tml_8;10
The controller at Boston center tries to raise TWA eight hundred. There is no response.
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ctb_ABC19980114.1830.0611.tml_10;11
There is no response. Later, the controller asks the Eastwind pilot for more details.
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ctb_ABC19980114.1830.0611.tml_13
It - It just blew up in the air, and then we saw two fireballs go down to the, to the water, and there was a big small, ah, smoke, from ah, coming up from that.
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ctb_ABC19980114.1830.0611.tml_14
At one point, when it became clear controllers could not contact the plane, someone said a prayer.
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ctb_ABC19980120.1830.0957.tml_1;2
People have predicted his demise so many times, and the US has tried to hasten it on several occasions. Time and again, he endures.
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ctb_ABC19980120.1830.0957.tml_2;3
Time and again, he endures. He has outlasted and sometimes outsmarted eight American presidents.
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ctb_ABC19980120.1830.0957.tml_4;6
Fidel Castro invited John Paul to come for a reason. The entire world will see images of the Pope in Cuba.
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ctb_ABC19980120.1830.0957.tml_6;7
The entire world will see images of the Pope in Cuba. They 'll see images of the Pope with Fidel Castro.
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ctb_ABC19980120.1830.0957.tml_9
For nearly forty years, the United States has said categorically it would not tolerate totalitarian rule in its own backyard.
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ctb_ABC19980120.1830.0957.tml_10
It is the US economic and political embargo which has kept Cuba in a box.
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ctb_ABC19980120.1830.0957.tml_11
The main positive for Castro to invite the Pope is international, to be able to say to the rest of the world, this government is not as closed, as intolerant, uh as totalitarian as some make it out to be.
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ctb_ABC19980120.1830.0957.tml_12
One of the scenarios widely advanced before the visit is that through the Pope, Cuba, still led by Castro, can begin a more productive relationship with the world.
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ctb_ABC19980120.1830.0957.tml_11;12
The main positive for Castro to invite the Pope is international, to be able to say to the rest of the world, this government is not as closed, as intolerant, uh as totalitarian as some make it out to be. One of the scenarios widely advanced before the visit is that through the Pope, Cuba, still led by Castro, can begi...
0uncausal
ctb_ABC19980120.1830.0957.tml_13
That will, in turn, bring pressure on Washington to change.
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ctb_ABC19980120.1830.0957.tml_12;14
One of the scenarios widely advanced before the visit is that through the Pope, Cuba, still led by Castro, can begin a more productive relationship with the world. Those observers looking for a battle between uncompromising representatives and very different ideologies will, in all likelihood, be disappointed.
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ctb_ABC19980120.1830.0957.tml_14
Those observers looking for a battle between uncompromising representatives and very different ideologies will, in all likelihood, be disappointed.
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ctb_ABC19980120.1830.0957.tml_16
He says he and the Pope both want to end the exploitation of man by man.
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ctb_ABC19980120.1830.0957.tml_18
The main negative is the risk that the Pope's visit will persuade a great many more Cubans to break loose of the Cuban government.
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ctb_ABC19980120.1830.0957.tml_18;19
The main negative is the risk that the Pope's visit will persuade a great many more Cubans to break loose of the Cuban government. If so, then the Pope's visit would really open up a new chapter in the government's relations with its own society.
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ctb_ABC19980120.1830.0957.tml_19
If so, then the Pope's visit would really open up a new chapter in the government's relations with its own society.
1causal
ctb_ABC19980120.1830.0957.tml_4;5
Fidel Castro invited John Paul to come for a reason. This is clearly an opportunity for Cuba to look good internationally.
1causal
ctb_ABC19980120.1830.0957.tml_12;13
One of the scenarios widely advanced before the visit is that through the Pope, Cuba, still led by Castro, can begin a more productive relationship with the world. That will, in turn, bring pressure on Washington to change.
1causal
ctb_ABC19980304.1830.1636.tml_0
Finally today, we learned that the space agency has finally taken a giant leap forward.
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ctb_ABC19980304.1830.1636.tml_1
Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Eileen Collins will be named commander of the Space Shuttle Columbia for a mission in December.
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ctb_ABC19980304.1830.1636.tml_1;2
Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Eileen Collins will be named commander of the Space Shuttle Columbia for a mission in December. Colonel Collins has been the co-pilot before, but this time she's the boss.
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ctb_ABC19980304.1830.1636.tml_5
It wasn't until twenty years after the first astronauts were chosen that NASA finally included six women, and they were all scientists, not pilots.
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ctb_ABC19980304.1830.1636.tml_6
No woman has actually been in charge of a mission until now.
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ctb_ABC19980304.1830.1636.tml_7
Just the fact that we 're doing the job that we 're doing makes us role models.
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ctb_ABC19980304.1830.1636.tml_12
In space, some say female pilots were held up until now by the lack of piloting opportunities for them in the military.
1causal
ctb_ABC19980304.1830.1636.tml_13
Once Colonel Collins was picked as a NASA astronaut, she followed a normal progression within NASA.
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ctb_ABC19980304.1830.1636.tml_16;17
Many NASA watchers say female astronauts have become part of the agency's routine. But they still have catching up to do two hundred and thirty four Americans have flown in space, only twenty six of them women.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_0
Iraq's Saddam Hussein, facing U.S. and Arab troops at the Saudi border, today sought peace on another front by promising to withdraw from Iranian territory and release soldiers captured during the Iran - Iraq war.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_1
Also today, King Hussein of Jordan arrived in Washington seeking to mediate the Persian Gulf crisis.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_2
President Bush on Tuesday said the United States may extend its naval quarantine to Jordan's Red Sea port of Aqaba to shut off Iraq's last unhindered trade route.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_3
In another mediation effort, the Soviet Union said today it had sent an envoy to the Middle East on a series of stops to include Baghdad.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_3;4
In another mediation effort, the Soviet Union said today it had sent an envoy to the Middle East on a series of stops to include Baghdad. Soviet officials also said Soviet women, children and invalids would be allowed to leave Iraq.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_5
President Bush today denounced Saddam's " ruinous policies of war, " and said the United States is " striking a blow for the principle that might does not make right. "
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_6
In a speech delivered at the Pentagon, Bush seemed to suggest that American forces could be in the gulf region for some time.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_7;8
" No one should doubt our staying power or determination, " he said. The U.S. military buildup in Saudi Arabia continued at fever pace, with Syrian troops now part of a multinational force camped out in the desert to guard the Saudi kingdom from any new thrust by Iraq.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_8
The U.S. military buildup in Saudi Arabia continued at fever pace, with Syrian troops now part of a multinational force camped out in the desert to guard the Saudi kingdom from any new thrust by Iraq.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_9
In a letter to President Hashemi Rafsanjani of Iran, read by a broadcaster over Baghdad radio, Saddam said he will begin withdrawing troops from Iranian territory on Friday and release Iranian prisoners of war.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_9;10
In a letter to President Hashemi Rafsanjani of Iran, read by a broadcaster over Baghdad radio, Saddam said he will begin withdrawing troops from Iranian territory on Friday and release Iranian prisoners of war. Iran said an Iraqi diplomatic delegation was en route to Tehran to deliver Saddam's message, which it said it...
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_10
Iran said an Iraqi diplomatic delegation was en route to Tehran to deliver Saddam's message, which it said it would review " with optimism. "
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_11
Saddam appeared to accept a border demarcation treaty he had rejected in peace talks following the August 1988 cease-fire of the eight-year war with Iran.
1causal
ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_12
The move seemed aimed at heading off more trouble with Iran, which had condemned Iraq's invasion of Kuwait on Aug. 2 but also criticized the multinational force dispatched to Saudi Arabia.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_13
Saddam said he sought to " turn the gulf into a lake of peace free of foreign fleets and forces that harbor ill intentions against us. "
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_14
In other developments: The Pentagon said that Defense Secretary Dick Cheney is considering urging Bush to order a national callup of armed forces reserves for active duty because of the drain on units sending soldiers abroad.
1causal
ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_15
Bush can call up to 200,000 reservists for up to 180 days without seeking congressional approval.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_16
Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Yuri Gremitskikh said special ambassador Mikhail Sytenko left Tuesday for consultations with the governments of Syria, Jordan, Egypt and other Arab countries.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_17
Sytenko, a former deputy secretary-general of the United Nations, is also expected to visit Baghdad, Gremitskikh said at a regular news briefing today.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_18
The outlook darkened for about 3,000 Americans caught in Iraq and Kuwait when Saddam sent his forces into the small, oil-rich sultanate.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_19
The Iraqi ambassador to Greece said in Athens the Americans and other stranded foreigners could leave " as soon as the threats from the United States and its allies are eliminated. "
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_20
ABC quoted an Iraqi Foreign Ministry official in Baghdad as saying Americans in Iraq are " restrictees " who will stay there until the crisis ends.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_22
Spokesman Yuri Gremitskikh said the first group of 230 evacuees was assembling in Baghdad today, but evacuation plans were hampered by desert heat and lack of transportation.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_25
The British Foreign Office said today conditions in Kuwait appear to be deteriorating.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_27
Banks remained closed.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_28
The Iraqi ambassador to Venezuela said on Tuesday that Iraq would retaliate against Venezuela and other OPEC oil cartel members if they boost oil production to fill the gap created by blocked supplies from Iraq and Kuwait.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_29
With Kuwait now " annexed, " Iraq has control of 20 percent of the world's oil reserves.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_30
A steep rise in world oil prices followed the Kuwait invasion.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_29;30
With Kuwait now " annexed, " Iraq has control of 20 percent of the world's oil reserves. A steep rise in world oil prices followed the Kuwait invasion.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_30;31
A steep rise in world oil prices followed the Kuwait invasion. The U.N. Security Council on Aug. 6 ordered a global embargo on trade with Iraq as punishment for seizing Kuwait.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_31
The U.N. Security Council on Aug. 6 ordered a global embargo on trade with Iraq as punishment for seizing Kuwait.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_31;32
The U.N. Security Council on Aug. 6 ordered a global embargo on trade with Iraq as punishment for seizing Kuwait. Bush then sent U.S. troops and planes to Saudi Arabia, saying Iraqi troops massed nearby in Kuwait threatened Saudi Arabia and its vast oil reserves.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_32
Bush then sent U.S. troops and planes to Saudi Arabia, saying Iraqi troops massed nearby in Kuwait threatened Saudi Arabia and its vast oil reserves.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_33
Twelve Arab League nations voted for an Arab force to protect Saudi Arabia, with the vanguard of Syria's contingent arriving Tuesday, according to diplomatic sources in Riyadh, the Saudi capital.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_35
The predominantly Moslem nation of Bangladesh said today its troops would join multinational forces in Saudi Arabia.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_35;36
The predominantly Moslem nation of Bangladesh said today its troops would join multinational forces in Saudi Arabia. The size of the contingent was not disclosed.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_37
Turkey and Saudi Arabia in effect shut down Iraq's major oil outlets through those countries, but according to Jordanian officials, a smaller line into Jordan remained operating.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_38
Truckloads of goods rolled into Iraq from Jordan on Tuesday and Iraqi-bound cargo was unloaded from ships at the Red Sea port ofAqaba despite the U.N.-ordered sanctions.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_39;41
King Hussein was reportedly carrying a message to Bush from Iraq's Saddam, with whom the king met Monday. Crown Prince Hassan, King Hussein's brother and political adviser, was asked today about the message the king was said to be carrying.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_39
King Hussein was reportedly carrying a message to Bush from Iraq's Saddam, with whom the king met Monday.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_40
The monarch will meet Bush on Thursday in Kennebunkport, Maine.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_41
Crown Prince Hassan, King Hussein's brother and political adviser, was asked today about the message the king was said to be carrying.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_42
In an interview from Jordan on ABC, he declined to discuss details, but said: " I don't think that his majesty would be traveling at this crucial moment if the Iraqi leadership did not have a rational approach to the future. "
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_43
A CBS News report citing unidentified Jordanian sources said that Saddam's message called for an international conference to be convened to discuss an Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_43;44
A CBS News report citing unidentified Jordanian sources said that Saddam's message called for an international conference to be convened to discuss an Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait. In exchange, the buildup of U.S. forces in the region would halt.
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ctb_AP900815-0044.tml_45
Bush, however, says he sees no short-term hope for a diplomatic solution to the gulf crisis _ at least until economic sanctions force Saddam to withdraw his army.
1causal
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This repository integrates the CausalTimeBank (CTB) corpus into hf datasets. Please find the original dataset here. We used the UniCausal reformatting of the data as the basis for this repository. Please see the citations at the end of this README.

Usage

Causality Detection

from datasets import load_dataset
dataset = load_dataset("thagen/CausalTimeBank", "causality detection")

Causality Identification

from datasets import load_dataset
dataset = load_dataset("thagen/CausalTimeBank", "causality identification")

Citations

The CausalTimeBank paper by Mirza et al., 2014:

@inproceedings{mirza:2014a,
  title = {Annotating {{Causality}} in the {{TempEval-3 Corpus}}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the {{EACL}} 2014 {{Workshop}} on {{Computational Approaches}} to {{Causality}} in {{Language}} ({{CAtoCL}})},
  author = {Mirza, Paramita and Sprugnoli, Rachele and Tonelli, Sara and Speranza, Manuela},
  editor = {Kolomiyets, Oleksandr and Moens, Marie-Francine and Palmer, Martha and Pustejovsky, James and Bethard, Steven},
  year = {2014},
  month = apr,
  pages = {10--19},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  address = {Gothenburg, Sweden},
  doi = {10.3115/v1/W14-0702}
}

UniCausal by Tan et al., 2023 — who's dataformat we used to make CTB compatible with hf datasets:

@inproceedings{tan:2023,
  title = {{{UniCausal}}: {{Unified Benchmark}} and {{Repository}} for {{Causal Text Mining}}},
  shorttitle = {{{UniCausal}}},
  booktitle = {Big {{Data Analytics}} and {{Knowledge Discovery}} - 25th {{International Conference}}, {{DaWaK}} 2023, {{Penang}}, {{Malaysia}}, {{August}} 28-30, 2023, {{Proceedings}}},
  author = {Tan, Fiona Anting and Zuo, Xinyu and Ng, See-Kiong},
  editor = {Wrembel, Robert and Gamper, Johann and Kotsis, Gabriele and Tjoa, A. Min and Khalil, Ismail},
  year = {2023},
  series = {Lecture {{Notes}} in {{Computer Science}}},
  volume = {14148},
  pages = {248--262},
  publisher = {Springer},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-39831-5_23}
}
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