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Tue May 30, 2006 MILWAUKEE - A man opened fire at a group of people Monday evening at a park packed with Memorial Day picnickers, killing two in the group and wounding three, police said.
The shooting, next to a playground, prompted hundreds of people in South Shore Park on the Lake Michigan shore to scatter, screaming. |
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May 30, 2006 OLYMPIA, Wash. - Police fired pepper spray as about 150 anti-war protesters tried to enter the Port of Olympia as part of ongoing demonstrations against the shipment of Army equipment to Iraq.
Protesters chanted "Out of Olympia, Out of Iraq" as they rocked a chain-link gate to the port late Monday, and at least three tried to use wooden boards to pry the gate open, The Olympian newspaper reported. A 50-ton piece of equipment was moved to reinforce the gate on the other side. Comment:
"The majority were very peaceful, nonviolent, just exercising their constitutional rights," sheriff's Capt. Bradley Watkins said.Nevertheless, they were ALL blasted with pepper spray. |
By CHARLES J. HANLEY and MARTHA MENDOZA
Associated Press Mon May 29, 2006 More than a half-century after hostilities ended in Korea, a document from the war's chaotic early days has come to light - a letter from the U.S. ambassador to Seoul, informing the State Department that American soldiers would shoot refugees approaching their lines.
The letter - dated the day of the Army's mass killing of South Korean refugees at No Gun Ri in 1950 - is the strongest indication yet that such a policy existed for all U.S. forces in Korea, and the first evidence that that policy was known to upper ranks of the U.S. government. "If refugees do appear from north of US lines they will receive warning shots, and if they then persist in advancing they will be shot," wrote Ambassador John J. Muccio, in his message to Assistant Secretary of State Dean Rusk. Comment: It took over 50 years for the truth about No gun Ri to be widely known - and yet how many people will simply ignore it now? Makes you wonder how many years it will take for everyone to accept the truth about the attrocities in Iraq...
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www.chinaview.cn 2006-05-30 16:22:05
BEIJING, May 30 (Xinhuanet) -- Britain is becoming the fastest growing and largest market in the world for the booming internet adult porn business, with record numbers of people downloading porn from the Internet, said a survey available Tuesday.
According to the survey for the Independent by Nielsen NetRatings, the world-leader in Internet analysis, British Internet surfers look up the word "porn" more than anyone in the English-speaking world. |
Friday, May 26, 2006; Posted: 6:55 p.m. EDT (22:55 GMT)
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (AP) -- A federal jury found a wealthy suburban couple guilty Friday of harboring an illegal immigrant and forcing her to work as their maid for 19 years.
The Filipino national testified during the eight-day trial that she felt like a prisoner in Jefferson and Elnora Calimlim's home. |
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