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Sunday, September 18, 2005
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A return, but hardly to normalcy
September 18, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A1 NEW ORLEANS – The first residents can return Monday to this city of music and Mardi Gras, but they’ll come home to massive problems. Nearly one out of five police …
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Local officials take closer look at disaster plans
September 18, 2005 in City on Page A1 What if it happened here? How would local emergency management respond to a disaster, either natural or man-made, on such a large scale that it forced mass evacuations affecting Spokane …
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Blast kills 30, ends bloody week in Iraq
September 18, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A1 BAGHDAD, Iraq – Four days after al-Qaida in Iraq declared all-out war on the Shiite majority, more than 250 people have been killed, 30 of them by a car bomb …
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Bridge bash
September 18, 2005 in City on Page A1 Doug Reinhardt took his two children to Saturday’s Monroe Street Bridge celebration not just to share in a historic moment, but to show them the result of hard work. But …
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Drug war’s ‘ice age’
September 18, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A2 With Congress and many states clamping down on homemade meth production, narcotics officials are turning their attention to an imported form of the drug that is fast replacing that which …
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Iran’s president lashes out
September 18, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A3 UNITED NATIONS – In a defiant speech, peppered with anti-American rhetoric and veiled threats, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told world leaders at the United Nations on Saturday that his country …
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Hurricane forces new priorities on Bush
September 18, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – Hurricane Katrina swamped President Bush’s second-term domestic agenda, reordering his priorities and changing the political landscape. His open-ended commitment to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast has …
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New chance to face the world
September 18, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A4 CLEVELAND – In the next few weeks, five men and seven women will secretly visit the Cleveland Clinic to interview for the chance to have a radical operation that’s never …
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Fish oil gets lots of hype – and support from clinical science
September 18, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A5 PHILADELPHIA – Americans love their fish oil – and so do many of their doctors, which makes this “natural” remedy different from most others. That’s because it has something other …
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Ophelia dashes past Northeast
September 18, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A6 CHATHAM, Mass. – Tropical Storm Ophelia rushed past southeastern Massachusetts with little effect Saturday, piling waves 19 feet high well offshore but sparing Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket and Cape Cod from …
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Two killed in train wreck
September 18, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A6 CHICAGO – A commuter train derailed Saturday on Chicago’s South Side, killing at least two people and injuring more than 80, some of them critically. The double-decker Metra train was …
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Academy creates chapel for Jews
September 18, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A7 WASHINGTON – Retired Navy Cmdr. Howard Pinskey remembers well that as a midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy, he would walk outside the campus gates every Saturday to attend Shabbat …
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Stem cell, DNA researchers honored
September 18, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A7 NEW YORK – Two scientists who first identified stem cells and two others who did pioneering work in DNA research have won prestigious medical awards. The $50,000 prizes from the …
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FBI probe of 2001 anthrax attacks yields no arrests; trail going cold
September 18, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A8 WASHINGTON – Four years after the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks, one of the most exhaustive investigations in FBI history has yielded no arrests and is showing signs of growing cold …
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Six Brazilians charged in $70 million bank robbery
September 18, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A9 SAO PAULO, Brazil – Federal prosecutors have charged six men accused of stealing $70 million from Brazil’s Central Bank last August in one of the world’s biggest bank robberies, media …
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Gaza border flow slowed
September 18, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A9 RAFAH, Gaza Strip – Palestinian forces sealed off five major breaches along Gaza’s southern border Saturday, firing warning shots and clashing with stone-throwing crowds in their strongest effort yet to …
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Indonesia begins troop withdrawal from Aceh province
September 18, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A9 LHOKSEUMAWE, Indonesia – Indonesian soldiers began boarding a warship today to leave Aceh province, honoring a major concession in a peace deal to end one of Southeast Asia’s longest-running wars. …
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In passing
September 18, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A10 Sisai Ibssa, 60; fought for Oromo people Washington Sisai Ibssa, who championed the cause of nationalism for the Oromo people of the Horn of Africa, died Aug. 20 of a …
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Mayor who led Selma during civil rights era dies at 75
September 18, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A10 SELMA, Ala. – Former Selma Mayor Joe Smitherman, who held office for decades during the turbulent civil rights era, died last week. He was 75. Smitherman died in a Montgomery …
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Pope’s death carefully detailed
September 18, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A11 VATICAN CITY – Struggling to swallow and breathe, Pope John Paul II mumbled his final words weakly in Polish: “Let me go to the house of the Father.” Six hours …
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Schroeder, Merkel stump for Germans’ votes
September 18, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A12 BERLIN – Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and conservative challenger Angela Merkel kept on the road Saturday making election-eve appeals to the large number of undecided voters to back their competing visions …
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Afghans vote despite violence
September 18, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A12 KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghans braved an outbreak of violence today to vote in landmark legislative elections, hoping to strengthen a fragile democracy after decades of war and sideline the Taliban …
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New Zealand PM works to build coalition
September 18, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A12 WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Prime Minister Helen Clark courted coalition partners today after narrowly winning an election that featured a rival bid to strip special rights from indigenous Maori and …
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North Korean nuclear talks stretch on
September 18, 2005 in Nation/World on Page A13 BEIJING – The United States and other countries failed to agree Saturday to a Chinese proposal that would let North Korea pursue peaceful nuclear activities if it gives up its …
Celtic Woman is coming to Spokane
