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He was a regular vacuum cleaner out there
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterHorse racing announcer Kurt Hoover, a regular on HRTV who is also the inter-track television host for Hollywood Park, has hit more than a few daily doubles. But he experienced a different kind of double at Angel Stadium last week -- catching two foul...Tags: Eric Chavez, Rafael Furcal, Newspapers, Major League Baseball, Defense
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Couple who died in Oceanside car crash remembered
jennifer.maloney@newsday.comRobert and Betty Rowe were inseparable. Married for nearly 60 years, the Baldwin Harbor couple was known as kind, outgoing and, most of all, close to each other. The Rowes died together Saturday in Oceanside when a woman drove through a red light and...Tags: Family, Death and Dying, Judaism, Long Island, Road Accidents
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Colombia leaders call ransom story 'absolutely false'
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersColombian authorities sought over the weekend to discredit a Swiss academic and former intermediary in talks with a left-wing rebel group who has been linked to a disputed report that officials paid $20 million for last week's release of 15 high-profile...Tags: Fiction, Electronics, Terrorism, Radio Industry, Defense
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Freed Colombian hostages urge hope
Associated Press WriterFreed after years as rebel-held hostages, French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt and four Colombian police officers sent messages of hope in a radio broadcast Sunday to captives still detained in remote jungle camps. The former hostages appeared...Tags: Law Enforcement, Kidnapping, Terrorism, Defense, Radio
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Zimbabwe youth militias accused of holding women as sex slaves
From a Times Staff WriterShe has to call the young men her "comrades." She cooks food for the comrades and serves them. She sweeps the comrades' floor and cleans up after them. And whenever any of the comrades wants sex, she is raped. Asiatu, 21, is a prisoner of the comrades...Tags: Teen-agers, Slavery, People, Demonstration, Heads of State
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AP IMPACT: US wavered over S. Korean executions
Associated Press WritersThe American colonel, troubled by what he was hearing, tried to stall at first. But the declassified record shows he finally told his South Korean counterpart it "would be permitted" to machine-gun 3,500 political prisoners, to keep them from joining...Tags: Espionage and Intelligence, Prisons, Ohio State University, Douglas MacArthur, Murder
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Israel TV shows work at cemetery for prisoner swap
Associated Press WriterIsrael TV on Sunday showed tractors working at a cemetery where Lebanese and Palestinian fighters are buried, part of a prisoner swap between Israel and Hezbollah. Israeli military officials said the exhumation of bodies would begin Monday, and...Tags: Death and Dying, Defense, Religious Conflicts, Prisoners and Detainees, Prisons
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Special court for vets addresses more than crime
Associated Press WriterThe first clue that the Tuesday afternoon session in Part 4 of Buffalo City Court is not like other criminal proceedings comes just before it starts. Judge Robert Russell steps down from his bench and from the aloofness of his black robe. He walks into...Tags: Trials, Defendants, Prisons, Western Medicines, Medicine
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NYPD now has own scholar to help review threats
Associated Press WriterHe was a flight surgeon with the Navy and a CIA officer in Pakistan. He has also earned a doctorate in sociology and written two books. Now Marc Sageman can add a new entry to his resume: terrorism guru for the New York Police Department. Sageman,...Tags: Georgetown, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Imperial and Royal Matters, New York University, Espionage and Intelligence
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Hundreds line up for slain cop's wake
In the heat of a July morning, they lined up Sunday in front of a Northwest Side funeral home in dress uniforms and flak vests, in short-sleeved patrol shirts and dark suits.
Some of the Chicago police officers took a break from duties on the street to...Tags: Garfield Park, Roscoe Village, Funeral Parlor and Crematorium, Jeff Long, Union League Club
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