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Local edition
Friday, November 12, 1999
Vol. 1 · No. 316 · 5:03 a.m. · 50 days to Y2K
Today’s quotation“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”— Nelson Mandela
Friday, November 12, 1999 · 50 days to Y2K
Desk
A block in Düzce after the shock. AI illustration. Not a 1999 wire photograph.
Turkey
Magnitude 7.2. The fault that broke in August has broken again, to the east. Bolu and Düzce are in the dark.
8:18 a.m. · DÜZCE · November 12, 1999
World
Nov. 9, 1989. The Brandenburg Gate. A city that was two cities is still counting what changed.
12:00 p.m. · BERLIN · November 9, 1999
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54.9 percent no. No state voted yes. Only the capital territory did. A second question, on a new preamble, also failed.
9:00 p.m. · CANBERRA · November 6, 1999
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The Boeing 767 left Kennedy for Cairo. Radar lost it south of the island. Ships and aircraft are searching.
8:41 a.m. · NANTUCKET · October 31, 1999
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Winter losses, and the Øresund Bridge due on 1 July 2000. Felix and Scania are laid up in Helsingborg for sale.
8:26 a.m. · DRAGØR · October 31, 1999
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Paradip, Puri, the coastal districts. Telephone links have not come back. Officials have not issued a death toll.
8:33 a.m. · BHUBANESWAR · October 30, 1999
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Landfall near Paradip on Friday. Wind recorders failed. Officials have not issued a death toll.
2:00 p.m. · BHUBANESWAR · October 29, 1999
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Eight dead. Vazgen Sargsyan and Karen Demirchyan. Nairi Hunanyan led the group. They said it was a coup.
8:35 a.m. · YEREVAN · October 27, 1999
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Doctors Without Borders. Wars and epidemics. Friday in Oslo.
8:39 a.m. · OSLO · October 15, 1999
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Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is detained. The general, returning from Sri Lanka, was nearly refused a runway. He has the state. The constitution is, for the moment, a rumor.
8:34 a.m. · ISLAMABAD · October 12, 1999
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Adnan Mević, born two minutes after midnight at Koševo hospital. Kofi Annan is in the Balkans and is due to visit.
8:23 a.m. · SARAJEVO · October 12, 1999
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Izmailov names Budyonnovsk. Two Russian aircraft are down. Moscow says it holds the north to the Terek.
8:31 a.m. · MOSCOW · October 6, 1999
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A transitional administration with up to 8,950 troops. The Council has not voted.
8:29 a.m. · NEW YORK · October 6, 1999
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A militia convoy broke a roadblock. One hundred and sixteen men were detained. Two soldiers are stable.
8:32 a.m. · SUAI · October 6, 1999
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The order took effect Wednesday. Russian troops are digging in on the north bank of the Terek. At least 125,000 people have left.
9:13 p.m. · GROZNY · October 6, 1999
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The Liberal Democrats, the Liberals and New Komeito. Miyazawa stays at finance. Kono is foreign minister.
8:25 a.m. · TOKYO · October 6, 1999
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Counting from the election that ended on Sunday. The BJP is the largest party. Sonia Gandhi’s Congress is second.
8:27 a.m. · NEW DELHI · October 6, 1999
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A Thames Turbo went through a red signal outside Paddington and met a First Great Western express. Fire followed the wreck.
8:16 a.m. · LONDON · October 5, 1999
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About a third of Chechnya, he said. The Chechen staff denies that two northern districts are fully taken. Four Russians are dead.
8:35 a.m. · MOSCOW · October 5, 1999
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The Social Democrats remain first. The People’s Party is third. No coalition has been formed.
8:28 a.m. · VIENNA · October 3, 1999
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Saturday. No report of a push to Grozny. The air strikes have not stopped.
8:30 a.m. · MOSCOW · October 2, 1999
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More than 310,000 people were told to stay indoors. The three men are alive.
8:24 a.m. · TOKAI · October 2, 1999
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Putin says combat operations are under way. Chechen officials say the columns went in about six miles and pulled back. No major battle was reported.
8:28 a.m. · MOSCOW · October 1, 1999
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Tanks, missiles and a million-odd spectators filled Tiananmen Square. Jiang Zemin took the salute. The century the party seized in 1949 is the one it still holds.
8:26 a.m. · BEIJING · October 1, 1999
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The governor confirmed it at 6:15 a.m. The water jacket around the tank was drained. The three men are still alive.
8:31 a.m. · TOKAI · October 1, 1999
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A uranium solution went critical at a fuel plant in Ibaraki. The reaction lasted hours. Nearby houses were told to stay indoors.
8:19 a.m. · TOKAI · September 30, 1999
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11:31 a.m. local time. Felt in Mexico City. The count of the dead is not closed.
8:24 a.m. · OAXACA · September 30, 1999
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He offered help. Two of the three workers are in critical condition.
8:35 a.m. · WASHINGTON · September 30, 1999
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Thursday. Aircraft are still up. The Defence Ministry has not said that ground troops are inside the republic.
8:37 a.m. · MOSCOW · September 30, 1999
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About 4:25 p.m. He was arrested on the platform. The count of the dead is not closed.
8:34 a.m. · SHIMONOSEKI · September 29, 1999
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Wednesday. The air force has not stopped. The Defence Ministry has not said that soldiers are inside Chechnya.
8:39 a.m. · MOSCOW · September 29, 1999
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Monday morning’s figure. It has not been closed. The rescue phase was shut on Saturday.
8:25 a.m. · TAIPEI · September 29, 1999
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Fifty missions. Four districts of the capital. Putin says the bases have to be destroyed. Ground troops have not gone in.
8:34 a.m. · MOSCOW · September 28, 1999
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Monday morning’s figure. The rescue phase was closed Saturday. The number is not final.
8:18 a.m. · TAIPEI · September 28, 1999
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A closed ceremony at military headquarters. Maj. Gen. Syahnakri to Maj. Gen. Cosgrove. About 1,000 Indonesian personnel remain.
8:28 a.m. · DILI · September 27, 1999
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Monday. He said Russian soldiers would not be put under fire. Ground troops have not entered Chechnya.
8:35 a.m. · MOSCOW · September 27, 1999
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Monday, 10 a.m. 8,664 injured. About 162 still listed under the slabs. The number is not final.
8:25 a.m. · TAIPEI · September 27, 1999
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About 8 a.m., near Sun Moon Lake. A 12-storey block in Mingchien came down. The list stands at 2,060. It is not closed.
8:32 a.m. · TAIPEI · September 26, 1999
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Reconnaissance. UNAMET has begun to look into the killings. INTERFET is still in Dili.
8:26 a.m. · DILI · September 26, 1999
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It lets the government spend and use the army without waiting on parliament. About 100,000 are without a house.
8:28 a.m. · TAIPEI · September 26, 1999
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The strikes now cover the republic, not only the border. There is still no invasion order.
8:18 a.m. · MOSCOW · September 26, 1999
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Taichung and Nantou are disaster areas. A boy of six was pulled out after 87 hours. The list is not closed.
8:32 a.m. · TAIPEI · September 25, 1999
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Troops remain on the Dagestan line. A general said Thursday there was no invasion order.
8:38 a.m. · MOSCOW · September 25, 1999
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The foreign minister, on Friday. He said the mainland was using the disaster.
8:35 a.m. · TAIPEI · September 25, 1999
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Operation Brighton, Friday afternoon. Australian infantry, Gurkhas, armour. Commanders said no shot was fired in the sweep.
4:00 p.m. · DILI · September 24, 1999
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The border force is in place. A general said Thursday there was no invasion order.
9:10 a.m. · MOSCOW · September 24, 1999
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The FSB chief, on NTV. Residents spent the night out of a 12-storey block. He said there were no explosives.
10:30 a.m. · MOSCOW · September 24, 1999
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Thursday’s figure. It has not been closed. National Day next month is off.
7:00 a.m. · TAIPEI · September 24, 1999
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4,460 injured. About 2,600 still listed as trapped. Aftershocks overnight. The count is not closed.
6:10 a.m. · TAIPEI · September 23, 1999
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Killed Tuesday in Becora. Financial Times. He was 30. INTERFET is in the capital.
8:25 a.m. · DILI · September 23, 1999
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Three militia arrested. Australian troops met Indonesian soldiers at an empty camp. About 500 militia were reported in Liquiçá.
11:00 a.m. · DILI · September 23, 1999
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The border remains sealed. The Defence Ministry blames militants for the apartment bombs. Maskhadov has denied it.
9:00 a.m. · MOSCOW · September 23, 1999
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A 12-storey house, 125 miles from Moscow. A timer. Police said the crystals looked like cyclonite. No blast.
5:40 a.m. · RYAZAN · September 23, 1999
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Interior Ministry: 1,712 dead, 4,005 hurt. The Tunghsing Building in Taipei still has people in it. The count is not closed.
6:00 a.m. · TAIPEI · September 22, 1999
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About 30,000 troops on the administrative border. Putin has not sent them in.
9:00 a.m. · MOSCOW · September 22, 1999
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The second day of lifts is done. He warned the territory is not yet under control. A militia clash left four dead.
2:00 p.m. · DILI · September 22, 1999
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NATO agreed more than 200 may carry guns. The deal had been due Sunday.
4:00 p.m. · PRISTINA · September 22, 1999
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1:47 a.m., near Chi-Chi in Nantou County. A 12-story block down in Taipei. Power out across the island. The count is not closed.
1:47 a.m. · TAIPEI · September 21, 1999
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Sander Thoenes, 30, Financial Times. He had flown in from Jakarta. INTERFET is at the airfield.
4:40 p.m. · DILI · September 21, 1999
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The border force is still there. Putin has said the 1996 deal was a mistake.
9:10 a.m. · MOSCOW · September 21, 1999
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Black Hawks at the airfield. Trucks and light armour from the ships. Militias have not all gone.
3:30 p.m. · DILI · September 21, 1999
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The tremor was felt in Jiangxi. Beijing and Taipei do not have official ties.
12:00 p.m. · BEIJING · September 21, 1999
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Major General Peter Cosgrove commands the force. It is Australia’s largest deployment since Vietnam. Indonesia has consented. The militias have not all gone.
7:00 a.m. · DILI · September 20, 1999
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Twenty-five Hercules flights, Cosgrove’s Falcon, a Sea King. Tobruk and Jervis Bay are due at the port Tuesday.
6:00 p.m. · DILI · September 20, 1999
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Leukemia. University Hospital. Mikhail Gorbachev was with her. She had been in the clinic since July.
6:20 a.m. · MUNSTER · September 20, 1999
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About 30,000 men. Putin has not ordered a ground assault. Maskhadov has denied the bombs.
9:00 a.m. · MOSCOW · September 20, 1999
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A 90-minute meeting with Maj. Gen. Syahnakri. He called the cooperation first class. No landing today.
9:00 a.m. · DILI · September 19, 1999
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The military press service, on Sunday. Air attacks continue. He has not ordered a ground assault.
9:20 a.m. · MOSCOW · September 19, 1999
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The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, from Atambua. Militia still hold the roads in the east.
11:00 a.m. · ATAMBUA · September 19, 1999
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David Wimhurst in Darwin. About 20 tons on Saturday. The roads are still the militias’.
12:20 p.m. · DARWIN · September 18, 1999
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A military spokesman: the raids are to stop another attack on Dagestan. NTV showed vehicles on the administrative line.
9:15 a.m. · MOSCOW · September 18, 1999
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A three-hour meeting with Maj. Gen. Syahnakri. Nine ships are at sea. The landing is not Saturday.
4:00 p.m. · DARWIN · September 18, 1999
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The independence leader left the Indonesian capital on Saturday. He had been released from house arrest last week.
2:10 p.m. · JAKARTA · September 18, 1999
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Adelaide, Anzac, Tobruk and the rest left harbour. The landing is not Saturday. Resolution 1264 is three days old.
11:00 a.m. · DARWIN · September 18, 1999
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The independence leader, still in Jakarta. The force is in Darwin. Dili has no foreign troops.
2:00 p.m. · JAKARTA · September 17, 1999
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Maj. Gen. Syahnakri said they would go as the foreigners came in. Trucks have been moving west. No landing today.
2:00 p.m. · DILI · September 17, 1999
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Australia will put 4,500 into a force of about 7,000. Adm. Barrie: the most significant undertaking since the last war. Dili has not seen them.
10:00 a.m. · DARWIN · September 17, 1999
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Putin, after the Federation Council: harsh measures, a tighter border, no ground troops into Chechnya.
4:00 p.m. · MOSCOW · September 17, 1999
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After the Federation Council. Officials still blame the Caucasus. Maskhadov has denied the bombs.
4:00 p.m. · MOSCOW · September 17, 1999
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The first aid since the 30 August vote. Ermera, about 20,000 people. No foreign troops have landed.
11:00 a.m. · DARWIN · September 17, 1999
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The fourth apartment house in twelve days. Moscow is still at Kashirskoye and Guryanova.
9:00 a.m. · VOLGODONSK · September 17, 1999
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The Interior Ministry overnight. Turnout 85 percent of 17.5 million registered. An amnesty law for Islamist fighters.
8:00 a.m. · ALGIERS · September 17, 1999
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The Agreement to Maintain Security is dead. Habibie accepted a force on Sunday. Darwin is filling anyway.
12:20 p.m. · JAKARTA · September 16, 1999
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Maj. Gen. Kiki Syahnakri: once they are in, he will go. He hopes it takes no more than a week. No foreign soldiers have landed.
8:00 p.m. · DILI · September 16, 1999
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Gurkhas are arriving. Thailand will send the deputy commander. Resolution 1264 is a day old. The landing is not Thursday.
11:00 a.m. · DARWIN · September 16, 1999
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5:57 a.m. A GAZ truck. The fourth apartment blast in twelve days. Moscow still has two wrecked houses.
5:57 a.m. · VOLGODONSK · September 16, 1999
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A message after Volgodonsk. Officials still blame the Caucasus. Maskhadov still denies it.
3:00 p.m. · MOSCOW · September 16, 1999
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Resolution 1264, unanimous. Chapter VII. Australia will lead. All necessary measures. The soldiers are not in Dili.
4:00 p.m. · NEW YORK · September 15, 1999
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The mandate was voted Wednesday. Australian units are on the harbour. No foreign soldier has landed.
6:00 p.m. · DARWIN · September 15, 1999
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Sanctions eased in return for inspectors. No vote yet. Baghdad has not said yes.
1:00 p.m. · UNITED NATIONS · September 15, 1999
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Resolution 1264 is paper. The compound is still the compound. Australia is assembling. The landing is not today.
5:00 p.m. · DILI · September 15, 1999
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Kashirskoye Highway and Guryanova Street. Officials blame the Caucasus. No group has claimed the bombs.
8:00 a.m. · MOSCOW · September 15, 1999
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The official count is still open. The suburbs have not been released.
8:00 a.m. · ATHENS · September 15, 1999
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The brick house. A second Moscow apartment bombing in five days. Monday was mourning. Tuesday is the search.
7:00 a.m. · MOSCOW · September 14, 1999
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The northwest suburbs. The official count is still open.
8:00 a.m. · ATHENS · September 14, 1999
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A draft to authorise force. Troops, ships and aircraft are being assembled. The vote is not tonight’s. Dili has no foreign soldiers.
9:00 a.m. · NEW YORK · September 14, 1999
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Seven dead Monday. The August wreckage is still the landscape. People will not go back inside.
10:00 a.m. · IZMIT · September 14, 1999
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Five a.m. An eight-story brick block, six kilometres from Thursday’s blast. Monday was already a day of mourning.
5:00 a.m. · MOSCOW · September 13, 1999
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A 5.8 tremor just before 3 p.m. People jumped from balconies. The big quake was 17 August. The tents are still the address.
2:55 p.m. · IZMIT · September 13, 1999
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Jakarta accepted a force on Sunday. The foreign minister is to work out the details. Australia will lead. No foreign soldiers are in Dili.
12:10 p.m. · NEW YORK · September 13, 1999
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The northwest suburbs. The official count is still open.
8:00 a.m. · ATHENS · September 13, 1999
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Habibie reversed himself on Sunday. The Security Council is writing the mandate. Australia will lead. Dili is still a compound.
10:00 a.m. · DILI · September 13, 1999
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After a week of militia violence, Indonesia has agreed to an international peacekeeping force. Australia will lead it. The Security Council is writing the mandate.
2:00 p.m. · JAKARTA · September 12, 1999
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Officials have not closed the death toll. Some of the city is still outdoors.
8:00 a.m. · ATHENS · September 12, 1999
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Ninety confirmed on Friday. Luzhkov has called it terror. Putin is still at APEC. Crews are still in the rubble.
10:00 a.m. · MOSCOW · September 12, 1999
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The northwest suburbs. The official count is still open. Some of the city is still outdoors.
8:00 a.m. · ATHENS · September 11, 1999
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Robin Cook announced the embargo on Saturday. Clinton on Thursday had already suspended American military programs. Jakarta has not accepted a force.
2:00 p.m. · LONDON · September 11, 1999
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APEC is in its second day. The compound in Dili was entered Friday. Australia is still offering to lead.
10:00 a.m. · AUCKLAND · September 11, 1999
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He spoke at APEC on Saturday. The military programs were already cut Thursday. Jakarta has still not accepted a force.
3:00 p.m. · AUCKLAND · September 11, 1999
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Ninety confirmed dead. Luzhkov has called it a terrorist act. Putin is in Auckland. Yeltsin stayed.
9:00 a.m. · MOSCOW · September 11, 1999
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The count rose sharply on the second day. Luzhkov said there was no longer any doubt. Putin has named Monday a day of mourning.
9:00 a.m. · MOSCOW · September 10, 1999
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Crews remain in the northwest suburbs. The official count has not been closed. People are still sleeping outdoors.
8:00 a.m. · ATHENS · September 10, 1999
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Pacific Rim leaders opened a summit on Friday. Clinton said Timor would be an important part of the talks. Ramos-Horta is in town asking for a force.
12:00 p.m. · AUCKLAND · September 10, 1999
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The Indonesian military had promised protection. After the aircraft left, the militias went in. Damage was done. Clinton, in Auckland, demanded a force.
10:05 a.m. · DILI · September 10, 1999
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Yeltsin is staying in Moscow. The prime minister is the Russian name at APEC. The apartment house is the other file.
11:00 a.m. · MOSCOW · September 10, 1999
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Just after midnight on Guryanova Street. Two stairwells down. About 150 hurt. Luzhkov says a bomb.
12:05 a.m. · MOSCOW · September 9, 1999
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Two days after the shock. Crews are in the northwest suburbs. An 11-year-old boy was pulled out after 23 hours. Rain has slowed the work.
8:00 a.m. · ATHENS · September 9, 1999
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Effective immediately. If Jakarta will not stop the killing in East Timor, he said, it must invite the international community in. New lending is already frozen.
4:00 p.m. · WASHINGTON · September 9, 1999
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Clinton cut the military programs. Jakarta has not accepted a force. UNAMET is inside the fence. Belo is in Darwin.
10:00 a.m. · DILI · September 9, 1999
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Fifteen hundred injured, officials said Wednesday. Crews are in the slabs in the northwest suburbs. Turkey’s teams have arrived.
8:00 a.m. · ATHENS · September 8, 1999
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Hundreds of jolts since Tuesday afternoon. Tens of thousands slept in the open. The national road jammed as people left the city.
8:26 a.m. · ATHENS · September 8, 1999
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The flights that started Monday have not stopped. Belo is already there. UNAMET staff keep coming off the aircraft.
8:33 a.m. · DARWIN · September 8, 1999
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A United Nations team reached Jakarta on Wednesday. The president called the accounts from Dili lies. Martial law is a day old.
2:00 p.m. · JAKARTA · September 8, 1999
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Indonesia will handle security itself, officials said. Australia has been asking. The Security Council has not voted a mandate.
4:00 p.m. · JAKARTA · September 8, 1999
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The official count is at least 64 dead and 60 missing. About 1,500 have been treated.
8:41 a.m. · ATHENS · September 8, 1999
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The two spoke Wednesday. Dagestan, arms control and the new prime minister, Vladimir Putin, were on the call. The Bank of New York story is still in the papers.
5:00 p.m. · MOSCOW · September 8, 1999
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A quake northwest of the capital brought down apartment blocks in the afternoon. Rescue crews are in the rubble. The count of the dead is still being made.
2:56 p.m. · ATHENS · September 7, 1999
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A Tuesday count from the border. Indonesian forces are pushing people west. The camps on the other side are already short.
3:00 p.m. · KUPANG · September 7, 1999
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The Nobel laureate left Dili a day after militias attacked the compound. UNAMET is still inside its headquarters. The C-130s are still running.
12:00 p.m. · DARWIN · September 7, 1999
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Martial law is the paper from Jakarta. Fires are the fact on the ground. UNAMET has not left the fence.
4:00 p.m. · DILI · September 7, 1999
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The decree is Tuesday. Dili is still burning. UNAMET is the compound. Belo is already in Darwin.
10:00 a.m. · JAKARTA · September 7, 1999
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Crews are in the slabs. Ano Liosia was named first. The official count is not finished.
9:00 p.m. · ATHENS · September 7, 1999
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The Marmara camps are still up. Tuesday the same geology hit a second capital.
2:16 p.m. · IZMIT · September 7, 1999
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The two capitals spent August as rivals. Tuesday they are in the same geology.
6:00 p.m. · ANKARA · September 7, 1999
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The C-130s are taking those who can reach the field. The compound still has a crowd inside the fence.
8:23 a.m. · DILI · September 7, 1999
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The eight regional offices closed Monday. Staff who remain are inside the headquarters. Vehicles on the airport road were already fired on.
11:00 a.m. · DILI · September 7, 1999
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Hundreds were inside Ave Maria when Laksaur militia and soldiers entered on Monday. Three priests are among the dead. A first official total is not agreed.
8:20 a.m. · SUAI · September 6, 1999
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The RAAF started an evacuation on Monday. The security picture overnight has already cut how many can reach the airfield.
12:00 p.m. · DARWIN · September 6, 1999
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The Nobel laureate’s residence was attacked on Monday. He is being moved out of Dili. The church in Suai was hit the same day.
3:10 p.m. · DILI · September 6, 1999
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About 2,000 people were inside. Expatriate ICRC staff are being flown to Darwin. The house is no longer a refuge.
11:40 a.m. · DILI · September 6, 1999
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A man reached the car as the president greeted the crowd. The wound is to the hand. Guards killed the attacker. Mubarak gave the speech anyway.
2:20 p.m. · PORT SAID · September 6, 1999
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International staff are being withdrawn to headquarters. Vehicles on the road to the airport were fired on.
1:10 p.m. · DILI · September 6, 1999
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The result is a day old. Militias and elements of the security forces are still in the streets. Foreign staff are being told to keep their heads down.
9:00 a.m. · DILI · September 5, 1999
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Tens of thousands are on the roads. Foreign journalists are leaving. UNAMET has not left the compound.
1:30 p.m. · DILI · September 5, 1999
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Hundreds had taken refuge there. Annan is pressing Jakarta to restore order or accept an international force.
2:00 p.m. · DILI · September 5, 1999
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The blast was Saturday night. The building housed Russian military families. The count is still rising.
9:30 a.m. · BUYNAKSK · September 5, 1999
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Laksaur militia and soldiers hit a neighborhood on Saturday. On Sunday evening the town itself is on fire. The Ave Maria church is the refuge.
7:30 p.m. · SUAI · September 5, 1999
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Ian Martin read the numbers in Dili. Kofi Annan read them in New York. 344,580 to 94,388. The ballot was 30 August. The count finished this morning.
8:28 a.m. · DILI · September 4, 1999
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Albright, Mubarak and King Abdullah looked on. Israel is to give up more of the West Bank. Three hundred and fifty prisoners are to be released. Final-status talks are to resume.
2:30 p.m. · SHARM EL-SHEIKH · September 4, 1999
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Twenty-three of the dead are children. The building housed Russian military families. A second truck near a hospital was defused.
8:35 a.m. · BUYNAKSK · September 4, 1999
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Ian Martin read the numbers this morning. By afternoon the capital was burning. Journalists and observers are leaving. The UNAMET compound is the other address.
3:20 p.m. · DILI · September 4, 1999
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78.5 percent against. 344,580 to 94,388. He spoke at 9:02 p.m. in New York. In Dili it is already 4 September.
9:02 p.m. · UNITED NATIONS · September 3, 1999
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Visibility dropped to almost nothing east of Windsor. Seven died at the scene. One died later. Forty-five were injured. The airport’s fog warning did not go out.
8:00 a.m. · WINDSOR, Ontario · September 3, 1999
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Three days after the overrun the count is 65. Investigators have the recorders. The destination was Córdoba.
8:40 a.m. · BUENOS AIRES · September 3, 1999
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Militia surrounded the UNAMET office at dusk. Two local drivers were killed. By morning at least 20 houses were on fire. The count is nearly done. It is not public.
7:15 a.m. · MALIANA · September 3, 1999
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The split was still inside the building at midday. Tonight the Secretary-General has read it in New York.
10:05 a.m. · DILI · September 3, 1999
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Pro-Jakarta groups, at times with elements of the Indonesian security forces, are looting and burning beyond Dili. The count is still not public.
9:20 a.m. · DILI · September 2, 1999
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The result is to be announced in Dili and in New York together. Thursday is the third day of the count. The split is still inside.
11:00 a.m. · DILI · September 2, 1999
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Thursday is the second full day after the overrun. Investigators are on the field. Córdoba was the destination. The flight never left the ground.
8:15 a.m. · BUENOS AIRES · September 2, 1999
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The compound in Dili is still open. Maliana is not. The count has not been read. It will not be read today.
6:30 p.m. · MALIANA · September 2, 1999
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Aitarak moved on independence supporters beside the compound this afternoon. The Secretary-General’s office said at least two people were killed. The count is still inside.
4:00 p.m. · DILI · September 1, 1999
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In the first days of September 1899, Danish employers and the unions signed the settlement that still sits under the labour market. This week is the centenary.
9:15 a.m. · COPENHAGEN · September 1, 1999
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Sixty-five were killed on Tuesday night, 63 on the aircraft and two on the ground. The wreck is still on the Costanera.
7:40 a.m. · BUENOS AIRES · September 1, 1999
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A Northern Air charter from the Serengeti came down in cloud on the volcano. No one on board survived. Rescuers reached the wreck overnight.
8:10 a.m. · ARUSHA · September 1, 1999
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Westerplatte was first. The war in Europe began this morning in 1939. The century is ending with the monuments still being laid.
6:45 a.m. · GDANSK · September 1, 1999
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Helicopters finished the haul. The count is central. UNAMET will not read a result today. Militias are on the streets of the capital.
8:40 a.m. · DILI · September 1, 1999
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Polling closed yesterday. Helicopters are lifting the sealed boxes. Turnout was very heavy. The split of the vote is not public. Militias have not left the roads.
8:24 a.m. · DILI · August 31, 1999
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The containership has not been moved to Zeebrugge. Cyanide and other cargo are still on board. The Strait is watching the weather.
12:13 p.m. · DOVER · August 31, 1999
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They were blocked all day. Tonight a 17-vehicle convoy drove into UNAMET headquarters. Local staff came with them.
5:30 p.m. · DILI · August 31, 1999
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Flight 3142 did not get airborne. It ran off the runway, crossed the Costanera and hit a gas plant. Sixty-three people on the aircraft and two on the ground were killed. Córdoba was the destination.
8:54 p.m. · BUENOS AIRES · August 31, 1999
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Polling stations opened this morning. People have walked miles. The United Nations is counting heads, not yet results. Jakarta is pledged to honor the vote. The roads will have the last word.
6:30 a.m. · DILI · August 30, 1999
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Canberra has pledged to honor the United Nations process. The Defence Force is at Darwin. No landing has been ordered. Monday is a vote, not a deployment.
8:39 a.m. · DARWIN · August 30, 1999
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The Maritime and Coastguard Agency said so today. Seven days after the collision. Cyanide containers remain on board for the tow.
8:33 a.m. · DOVER · August 30, 1999
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President Habibie offered the ballot in January. The Indonesian military remains in the territory. Militias that spent August on the roads have not been disarmed.
9:13 p.m. · JAKARTA · August 30, 1999
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Polling ended at 16:00 in Dili. Boxes are being moved. The United Nations will not read a result today. Militias have not left the roads.
4:00 p.m. · DILI · August 30, 1999
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Polling stations open in the morning. Jakarta is pledged to keep order.
9:25 p.m. · DILI · August 29, 1999
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On the eve of the United Nations consultation the secretary-general called for restraint and tolerance. Polling is Monday.
9:01 p.m. · NEW YORK · August 29, 1999
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The Saint Vincent–registered vessel went down in the Atlantic at 41 degrees 42 minutes north, 9 degrees 42 minutes west. The crew was taken off.
8:16 a.m. · LISBON · August 29, 1999
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Tugs remain alongside. Two cyanide containers are still on board. The Maritime and Coastguard Agency has not yet declared the fire out.
8:33 a.m. · DOVER · August 29, 1999
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The June undertaking with KFOR gave the Kosovo Liberation Army 90 days. Hashim Thaçi is the political director. Weapons are still being collected.
8:17 a.m. · PRISTINA · August 29, 1999
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The franchises take effect Sunday. Bayside Trains and V/Line Passenger are among them. National Express takes V/Line Passenger.
8:33 a.m. · MELBOURNE · August 29, 1999
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The prime minister addressed a folk meeting at the hill in Jutland. The tower was raised in 1924.
8:30 a.m. · SKANDERBORG · August 29, 1999
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Everyone on board got out near Princess Harbour. Fire later destroyed the aircraft.
8:16 a.m. · WINNIPEG · August 29, 1999
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The State Department put Jakarta on notice as militias still roam Dili. Monday’s independence vote is still on the calendar. Getting to a polling station is the other question.
8:34 a.m. · WASHINGTON · August 28, 1999
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Prince Joachim and Princess Alexandra have a son, Nikolai William Alexander Frederik. He is a prince of Denmark and in the line of succession. The flags came out in the morning.
8:21 a.m. · COPENHAGEN · August 28, 1999
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A United Nations official said aid deliveries are being slowed by problems on the ground. Refugees have returned faster than housing can be rebuilt.
8:41 a.m. · PRISTINA · August 28, 1999
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KFOR has belatedly confirmed at least 15 bodies at a site in Grljare. Yugoslavia wants the Security Council in. The alliance says the dead are a crime, not a pretext to send the army back.
8:19 a.m. · BELGRADE · August 27, 1999
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Guns, rocks and buildings on fire, three days before the UN ballot. Jakarta says the vote will be free. The capital is not.
8:32 a.m. · DILI · August 27, 1999
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A new constituent body has effectively shut the old parliament. Opposition leaders say democracy is the thing being rewritten.
8:28 a.m. · CARACAS · August 27, 1999
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The Brazilian bishop who said that when he fed the poor they called him a saint, and when he asked why they were poor they called him a communist.
8:21 a.m. · RECIFE · August 27, 1999
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Four years after the Tokyo subway attack, residents in places like Otawara are still trying to keep members from settling. Lawyers call it a ban the constitution does not allow.
8:18 a.m. · OTAWARA, Japan · August 27, 1999
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Ankara is screening who may work in the rubble. Greece and Israel are already there. Some Islamic charities are not.
8:31 a.m. · IZMIT · August 27, 1999
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Authorities say the containers are not believed to be in immediate danger of going overboard. The ship is still burning. The exclusion zone holds.
8:27 a.m. · DOVER · August 26, 1999
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The Norwegian Dream will sit in a German yard until mid-October after striking the burning container ship Ever Decent near the Dover Strait.
6:23 a.m. · MIAMI · August 26, 1999
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Four days before a U.N.-run ballot on autonomy or independence, armed groups loyal to Jakarta are burning houses and threatening voters.
8:31 a.m. · DILI · August 26, 1999
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Firefighting tugs remain alongside. The Norwegian Dream is in Dover. Investigators are already asking how two large ships met in the fog.
6:32 a.m. · DOVER · August 25, 1999
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More than a week after the 7.4 earthquake, about 200,000 people remain homeless. Temporary housing is being organized as the weather turns.
8:30 a.m. · GÖLCÜK · August 25, 1999
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Seven days after the 7.4 shock at 3:01 a.m., apartment blocks still lie on the people who were in their beds. The homeless have not gone indoors.
8:18 a.m. · İZMIT · August 24, 1999
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The Norwegian Dream and the Ever Decent met before dawn in the Dover Strait. The box ship is on fire. The cruise ship is heading for port.
6:38 a.m. · DOVER · August 24, 1999
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A Boeing 767 bound for Narita rejected takeoff on runway 22R at Kastrup. One hundred and ninety-one people were aboard. They walked off.
8:36 a.m. · COPENHAGEN · August 24, 1999
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Rescue has become recovery in most streets. The number is still not one the government will sign.
8:00 a.m. · GÖLCÜK · August 22, 1999
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Officials have stopped promising a final number. The refinery fire is not out. Two hundred thousand people are sleeping outdoors.
8:15 a.m. · ADAPAZARI · August 21, 1999
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The Tüpraş column is still in the sky. Hundreds of thousands will not sleep indoors. The number is not closed.
8:00 a.m. · İZMIT · August 20, 1999
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Two moderate shocks west of the epicenter sent people back into the streets. The death toll is in the thousands and not finished. Athens has not gone home.
8:29 a.m. · GÖLCÜK · August 19, 1999
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A Danish civil-defense team has arrived in the earthquake zone with rescue dogs. They have worked collapses before. The rubble is two days old.
9:12 p.m. · İZMIT · August 19, 1999
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Naphtha from a ruptured tank set the Tüpraş plant alight. Aircraft are dumping foam. Rescuers are still in the apartments. Greece has sent teams.
8:20 a.m. · İZMIT · August 18, 1999
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A magnitude 7.4 shock struck at 3:01 a.m. along the North Anatolian Fault. Gölcük, İzmit and Adapazarı are in ruins. The death toll is still climbing.
6:39 a.m. · ISTANBUL · August 17, 1999
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An international anti-fraud unit in Sarajevo says nationalist officials from all three communities have plundered reconstruction money. The presidency disputes the scale.
8:40 a.m. · SARAJEVO · August 16, 1999
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About 450 cleaners and porters at three hospitals struck Monday against a plan to hand their work to a private contractor. Wards are running short.
2:14 p.m. · HILLERØD · August 16, 1999
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The Copenhagen-Oslo passenger cars take the 20-minute crossing to Helsingborg. Goods already use DanLink from Copenhagen’s Free Port. The Øresund Bridge opens 1 July 2000. After that, no more trains on this ferry.
8:29 a.m. · HELSINGØR · August 15, 1999
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Gunmen posing as a checkpoint near Beni Ounif murdered civilians on Sunday. Algiers blamed terrorists. Rabat closed a border post. The two governments are barely speaking.
8:30 a.m. · ALGIERS · August 15, 1999
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The crane Svanen lowered the final 140-meter section at dawn. Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Victoria walked to the join. Traffic waits until July 2000. The steel is in.
6:20 a.m. · ØRESUND · August 14, 1999
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Reservists and militiamen in a war of nerves. No landing. Lee’s ‘state-to-state’ line is still the argument.
9:00 a.m. · BEIJING · August 13, 1999
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5:45 a.m., a motorcycle, a Jeep Cherokee. He was 38. He had been threatened. He had a meeting set for Saturday.
5:45 a.m. · BOGOTA · August 13, 1999
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A Holocaust survivor. Chairman of the Central Council. Frankfurt said he was the country’s conscience. The cause was not given.
10:00 a.m. · FRANKFURT · August 13, 1999
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A MiG-21 fired on a Breguet Atlantique over the Rann of Kutch. Both nuclear capitals give conflicting maps. The wreckage is on the salt.
8:19 a.m. · NEW DELHI · August 10, 1999
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Armed groups crossed from Chechnya over the weekend. Villages in the Botlikh district are contested. Moscow has sent armor and aircraft.
9:22 p.m. · MAKHACHKALA · August 9, 1999
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Beijing turned down efforts to bring Pope John Paul II to the mainland. The Holy See still recognizes Taipei, not Beijing.
8:38 a.m. · BEIJING · August 9, 1999
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The fifth premier in 17 months is a 46-year-old former KGB officer who has run the domestic security service. Markets barely moved.
9:15 p.m. · MOSCOW · August 9, 1999
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The mission in Pristina is asserting itself as the province’s government. Serb police left under the June agreement. Bernard Kouchner said the KLA will not be the police, the courts or the customs.
8:20 a.m. · PRISTINA · August 8, 1999
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A day after fighters crossed from Chechnya, Moscow has helicopters over Botlikh. The hamlets are still in other hands. The war is a day old.
8:20 a.m. · MAKHACHKALA · August 8, 1999
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Fighters led by Shamil Basayev and Ibn al-Khattab have taken hamlets in the Botlikh district. Moscow is sending troops. It is the first day.
8:15 a.m. · MAKHACHKALA · August 7, 1999
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Two hundred and thirteen people died on August 7, 1998. The blast was aimed at Americans. Most of the dead were Kenyan. The street has not gone back to what it was.
8:40 a.m. · NAIROBI · August 7, 1999
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The defense minister who ran the Kosovo air war will succeed Javier Solana. The alliance wanted a politician who had already been through a fight.
8:38 a.m. · BRUSSELS · August 4, 1999
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Monday’s fire took the cables between Copenhagen Central and Dybbølsbro. Tuesday the trains are walked through by telephone. Østerport was shut for a gas.
9:07 p.m. · COPENHAGEN · August 3, 1999
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The Dongfeng-31, a solid-fuel rocket, was launched from a desert range. Beijing called it a routine test. Washington called it a reminder.
8:28 a.m. · BEIJING · August 2, 1999
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A head-on wreck. Cars were crushed. Rescue went on through the night.
8:38 a.m. · GAISAL · August 2, 1999
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A monthly record for Scandlines, despite HH-Ferries on the same 20-minute crossing. The Øresund Bridge is still unfinished. The three almost-new ferries have had a full month.
8:39 a.m. · HELSINGØR · July 31, 1999
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A gorge above Saxeten. A wall of water. Most of the dead are young, and most of them Australian. The company that sold the day is answering questions the mountain already answered.
2:12 p.m. · INTERLAKEN · July 27, 1999
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India and Pakistan have stopped the guns along the Line of Control. The heights are Indian again. The dead are still being counted. Neither side will call it a draw.
8:27 a.m. · NEW DELHI · July 26, 1999
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The monarch who ruled Morocco for 38 years died in Rabat. His son, 35, is king. Arab capitals sent condolences. The succession was prepared. The street is quiet.
8:24 a.m. · RABAT · July 23, 1999
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The Ministry of Civil Affairs. The movement is declared illegal. Rallies were in the cities on Wednesday.
8:26 a.m. · BEIJING · July 22, 1999
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Thousands have turned out in Chinese cities after Beijing moved on the meditation movement. The squares are not empty.
8:26 a.m. · BEIJING · July 21, 1999
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The dormitory raid in Tehran has a country behind it now. Police and vigilantes are on the squares.
8:36 a.m. · TEHRAN · July 12, 1999
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After two months of fighting along the Line of Control, New Delhi announced the peaks were back in its hands. Pakistani troops are withdrawing. Neither capital will call it a war.
8:15 a.m. · NEW DELHI · July 11, 1999
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The raid came after Thursday’s protest over a closed newspaper. Students are dead or missing, depending on who is counting. The capital has not had a night like it in years.
8:19 a.m. · TEHRAN · July 9, 1999
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The press court closed Salam. Hundreds walked at the university. President Khatami’s opening is being tested in the street, not in a column.
8:32 a.m. · TEHRAN · July 8, 1999
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The former general took office as prime minister and said talks with the Palestinians and with Syria would be the work of the government. Netanyahu is out. The file is open.
8:31 a.m. · JERUSALEM · July 6, 1999
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Paavo Lipponen is prime minister. The European Council meets in Helsinki in December. Finland is in the euro; Denmark and Sweden are not.
8:18 a.m. · HELSINKI · July 1, 1999
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Donald Dewar, the first minister, called it the most historic day in Scotland since 1707. The chamber sits in the Assembly Hall on the Mound until a new building is finished at Holyrood.
8:21 a.m. · EDINBURGH · July 1, 1999
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A dormitory at the Sealand Youth Training Center burned before dawn. Kindergarten groups were asleep inside.
6:36 a.m. · HWASEONG, South Korea · June 30, 1999
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The PKK leader, seized in Nairobi in February, has been condemned on İmralı. Europe will ask Ankara not to hang him. The southeast has heard the sentence.
8:16 a.m. · ANKARA · June 29, 1999
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NATO troops are on the roads. Serb police have been leaving. Ethnic Albanians are coming back. Houses are burning in both directions.
8:26 a.m. · PRISTINA · June 27, 1999
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India has used the air force since May. Pakistan denies regular troops are across the Line of Control. Two nuclear states are still on the ridge.
8:20 a.m. · NEW DELHI · June 26, 1999
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One hundred and sixty million dollars to move 58,000 farmers in a Tibetan area of Qinghai. Washington asked for a delay. The board voted anyway.
8:21 a.m. · WASHINGTON · June 24, 1999
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The seven rich countries and Russia closed a weekend on the Rhine. Poor-country debt is to be cut faster. The communiqué treated the Kosovo war as finished business.
8:29 a.m. · COLOGNE · June 20, 1999
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Clinton, Yeltsin, Schröder and the rest at the Museum Ludwig. The war they spent the spring watching is supposed to be over. The poorest countries want the debts cut.
8:29 a.m. · COLOGNE · June 18, 1999
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J18, they called it. Masks, sound systems, and broken glass in the Square Mile. Cologne has the leaders. London has the streets that do not want them.
2:29 p.m. · LONDON · June 18, 1999
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The accusation is work for the United States and Israel. Shiraz is the city named. The case is already a fight between the elected president and the other state.
8:30 a.m. · TEHRAN · June 17, 1999
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The ANC’s man took the oath in Pretoria after an election the party won easily. Nelson Mandela is a private citizen. The rainbow now has a manager, not a saint.
8:15 a.m. · PRETORIA · June 16, 1999
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NATO and the KLA hold the track. UNHCR asked them to wait. The pass is full anyway. Homes are a rumor at the other end.
8:38 a.m. · MORINA · June 15, 1999
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Two days after KFOR crossed the border, Albanian refugees began walking back from Macedonia and Albania. UNHCR asked them not to rush.
8:26 a.m. · BLACE, Macedonia · June 14, 1999
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Hundreds of Yugoslav soldiers have left the capital. British, French and American troops are on the roads. Russians are already at the airport.
8:37 a.m. · PRISTINA · June 13, 1999
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British and other NATO units crossed from Macedonia at dawn. A Russian column, unannounced, was already at the airport. The peace has a race in it.
6:34 a.m. · PRISTINA · June 12, 1999
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A column from Bosnia has been seen heading for Pristina. Moscow was not given a sector in the peace plan it liked. Tonight it is writing one with trucks.
9:00 p.m. · PRISTINA · June 11, 1999
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Sixteen seats. Turnout 50.5 percent. Social Democrats 324,256 votes. June Movement 317,508.
8:40 a.m. · COPENHAGEN · June 10, 1999
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Secretary-General Solana ordered a halt after Belgrade began to pull forces from Kosovo. The bombers are on the ground. They can be back in the air if the withdrawal stalls.
8:22 a.m. · BRUSSELS · June 10, 1999
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Serb forces will leave Kosovo. An international force will go in. After seventy-eight days of bombing, the war has a piece of paper. The roads are not yet safe.
8:20 a.m. · KUMANOVO, Macedonia · June 9, 1999
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The pope who is Polish has come home. Thirteen days, the old cities, and a country that is in NATO now. The crowds are the same size they were when this was still the other side of the wall.
8:18 a.m. · WARSAW · June 7, 1999
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A vigil the mainland will not permit. Candles, names, and a city that still has a park for it. Beijing is watching. The park is full.
8:17 a.m. · HONG KONG · June 4, 1999
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Martti Ahtisaari and Viktor Chernomyrdin left Belgrade with a yes. NATO’s terms — a Serb withdrawal and a foreign force — are on the table. The bombing has not yet stopped.
8:15 a.m. · BELGRADE · June 3, 1999
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66.35 percent. 266 seats in a house of 400. Thabo Mbeki will succeed Nelson Mandela. The Democratic Party is second.
8:36 a.m. · JOHANNESBURG · June 2, 1999
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The king’s silver jubilee includes a signal the kingdom had refused. Driglam namzha meets the evening news. The mountains have a set now.
8:34 a.m. · THIMPHU · June 2, 1999
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The fire was Saturday. The wreckage is still being cut. A mountain road that takes the holiday traffic to the south has a death toll instead of a timetable.
8:32 a.m. · SALZBURG · June 2, 1999
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Yugoslav officials said a hospital building was struck. The alliance has not issued a matching count. The war is in its tenth week.
8:00 p.m. · BELGRADE · May 30, 1999
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Olov Borén, 42, and Robert Karlström, 30, were killed this afternoon after a bank robbery in Kisa. First reports say they were shot with their own service pistols. Three men are sought.
2:14 p.m. · MALEXANDER · May 28, 1999
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The charges: deportation, murder, persecution. A president at war is now a defendant on paper. He is not in custody.
8:29 a.m. · THE HAGUE · May 27, 1999
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A 52-ton Breda prototype came off the German ferry at 8 p.m. on three flatbeds. Test runs at Ørestad in two weeks. Passenger service is due in 2002.
9:22 p.m. · RØDBY · May 27, 1999
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Jets struck ridgelines on the Indian side of the Line of Control. New Delhi’s account is Pakistani troops and militants on the heights. Islamabad’s is that they are not. Two nuclear states now have an air war in slow motion.
8:16 a.m. · NEW DELHI · May 26, 1999
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Judges have confirmed an indictment of the Yugoslav president and others. The paper is not yet public. The bombs have not stopped.
8:19 a.m. · THE HAGUE · May 24, 1999
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The count from Monday’s election is in. Labour’s man must now find partners. The settlers and the religious parties will count ministries.
8:20 a.m. · JERUSALEM · May 18, 1999
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Ehud Barak, the former army chief, won the prime minister’s race. Benjamin Netanyahu conceded. Talks with the Palestinians, frozen in the last term, are back on the table.
8:39 a.m. · JERUSALEM · May 17, 1999
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Ten bombs fell on Friday. Belgrade says civilians. The alliance says a military command. Independent counts have not settled.
8:30 a.m. · PRISTINA · May 15, 1999
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The alliance says it hit a military command post. Survivors and Belgrade say the dead were refugees. The campaign is in its eighth week.
8:24 a.m. · BRUSSELS · May 14, 1999
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Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, the central banker who took Italy into the euro, is now head of state. The parliament needed more than one day. It got a man the markets already knew.
9:20 p.m. · ROME · May 13, 1999
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The members chosen last week have a Speaker. The Queen’s opening is still in July. Devolution now has a chair.
2:10 p.m. · EDINBURGH · May 12, 1999
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Crowds are still at the American and British missions. Three Chinese journalists died in Belgrade. NATO has called it a mistake. The campaign has not paused.
8:15 a.m. · BEIJING · May 10, 1999
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NATO hit the Chinese Embassy on Friday. Three journalists are dead. Washington has called it a mistake. The street outside the compound in Beijing did not.
3:00 p.m. · BEIJING · May 8, 1999
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Alliance officials called it a mistake, an old map, a target that was a warehouse in the file. Beijing does not accept the apology. The air war has a new capital in it.
8:10 a.m. · BELGRADE · May 7, 1999
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No party has a majority after Thursday’s election, the first for the new Parliament.
8:40 a.m. · EDINBURGH · May 7, 1999
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The first elections to a Scottish Parliament and a Welsh Assembly. Labour will have to share. Westminster is still sovereign. Holyrood is no longer a theory.
9:24 p.m. · EDINBURGH · May 6, 1999
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Three bombs in three weeks. Brixton, Brick Lane, Soho. At least four dead. More than a hundred wounded.
8:39 a.m. · LONDON · May 2, 1999
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Parades in European capitals. Sorties over Serbia. The camps in Macedonia and Albania have not emptied. Belgrade has not signed.
8:18 a.m. · BRUSSELS · May 1, 1999
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The Admiral Duncan on Old Compton Street was packed at 6:37 p.m. Brixton and Brick Lane had already had a weekend. This one was in the heart of the gay West End.
9:15 p.m. · LONDON · April 30, 1999
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The 1965 transmitter on Mount Avala was a landmark and a relay. RTS is still on the air through local stations. Six days ago the headquarters was hit.
10:30 p.m. · BELGRADE · April 29, 1999
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Allied Force is not a pause. Milošević has not accepted the terms. The refugees are in the camps.
12:00 p.m. · BRUSSELS · April 27, 1999
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The BBC presenter was 37. One shot. Dead at Charing Cross Hospital at 1:03 p.m. Scotland Yard has a murder inquiry.
8:40 a.m. · LONDON · April 26, 1999
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Leaders posed on the Mall. The air campaign was intensified. Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic sat as members. Belgrade is still the target list.
8:21 a.m. · WASHINGTON · April 26, 1999
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The fiftieth anniversary was planned as a parade. The air campaign made it a target list. Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic sat as members. Belgrade is still the other capital.
8:22 a.m. · WASHINGTON · April 25, 1999
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The two said they would work jointly toward a settlement. NATO’s birthday summit is ending as a war council.
8:15 a.m. · WASHINGTON · April 25, 1999
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NATO hit the RTS building in Belgrade last night. The alliance called it command-and-control. The night shift was in the building.
8:36 a.m. · BELGRADE · April 24, 1999
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The alliance that was built for a European stalemate is in the air over Yugoslavia. Three new members sit at the table. Moscow is not in the room.
9:20 p.m. · WASHINGTON · April 23, 1999
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Allied Force began March 24. Milosevic has not withdrawn from Kosovo. The refugee columns into Macedonia and Albania have not stopped.
9:00 p.m. · BRUSSELS · April 20, 1999
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Norman Foster’s glass dome is open. The parliament that sat in Bonn is home. The ghosts of the Reichstag have been invited in under glass.
8:33 a.m. · BERLIN · April 19, 1999
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Thursday’s strike on a refugee column is two days old. Belgrade is showing the wreckage. The alliance says the pilots took tractors for trucks. The campaign is in its fourth week.
8:28 a.m. · SKOPJE · April 16, 1999
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The Home Secretary has considered the case again and will not stop Spain’s request. The general remains in Britain. The courts remain open.
8:30 a.m. · LONDON · April 15, 1999
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Alliance aircraft struck a column on the road between Djakovica and Decani. Belgrade calls it a massacre. NATO calls it a mistake — tractors taken for trucks. The dead are still on the road.
8:22 a.m. · BRUSSELS · April 14, 1999
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A passenger train was on the bridge when the bombs hit on Monday. The alliance called it a tragic accident. Belgrade called it a massacre.
10:20 a.m. · BELGRADE · April 13, 1999
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A missile struck a rail bridge as a train was on it. Civilians are dead. The alliance says the target was the bridge.
8:31 a.m. · BELGRADE · April 12, 1999
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NATO has not paused. Columns are still on the roads into Macedonia and Albania. Milošević has not moved.
8:33 a.m. · BRUSSELS · April 10, 1999
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Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara is dead. Soldiers opened fire as he arrived to board a flight. The army that put him in is the army that took him out.
8:39 a.m. · NIAMEY · April 9, 1999
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UNHCR is putting up tents. The border at Blace has been a bottleneck. NATO is flying food. The province they left is still being emptied.
8:27 a.m. · SKOPJE · April 8, 1999
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Macedonia and Albania have taken the columns. UNHCR is short of tents. Belgrade has not accepted the terms. The sorties continue.
8:38 a.m. · SKOPJE · April 7, 1999
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Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah were flown to the Netherlands to face trial under Scottish law. Pan Am 103 killed 270 in 1988. Eleven years later, a court is in sight.
8:17 a.m. · TRIPOLI · April 5, 1999
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Churches in Belgrade and in the camps held services. NATO did not announce a halt. Columns are still leaving Kosovo.
8:26 a.m. · SKOPJE · April 4, 1999
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Western capitals have the holiday. Yugoslavia has the tenth night of Allied Force. The refugees have the roads.
9:00 a.m. · BELGRADE · April 2, 1999
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Allies hit a crossing in Serbia on Thursday. The river is a supply line. The war is in its second week.
8:32 a.m. · BELGRADE · April 1, 1999
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Carved from the Northwest Territories, the Inuit homeland now has a capital at Iqaluit and a legislature of its own. The map of Canada changed on a Thursday.
8:27 a.m. · IQALUIT · April 1, 1999
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They were on the Macedonia border. Belgrade has the pictures. NATO says the air campaign continues.
8:39 a.m. · BELGRADE · March 31, 1999
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Allied Force began last Wednesday night. The targets are air defenses and barracks. Refugees are already on the roads.
8:00 a.m. · BELGRADE · March 30, 1999
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A stealth aircraft was shot down over Serbia on Saturday. The pilot was rescued. Belgrade has the wreckage on television.
8:36 a.m. · BELGRADE · March 28, 1999
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Saturday night, west of Belgrade. NATO said the aircraft was lost and the pilot was missing. The air campaign is in its fourth night.
8:15 p.m. · BELGRADE · March 27, 1999
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NATO is back in the air. Serb forces are moving through Kosovo. Refugees have started for the borders.
8:28 a.m. · BRUSSELS · March 25, 1999
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A truck caught fire in the bore between France and Italy. The tunnel is closed. The death count is in the thirties.
9:09 p.m. · CHAMONIX · March 24, 1999
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Cruise missiles and aircraft hit targets in Serbia and Kosovo after Belgrade refused a deal on the province. It is the alliance’s first war. Moscow is furious. The refugees are already moving.
8:15 a.m. · BRUSSELS · March 24, 1999
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The fighters are on the ground at Grazzanise, near Naples. Copenhagen calls it alliance duty. The Folketing voted the planes. The nights will vote the rest.
8:25 a.m. · GRAZZANISE, Italy · March 24, 1999
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The secretary-general has given SACEUR the order. Clinton has ruled out ground troops. Allied Force is the name. Tomorrow night is the first wave.
8:39 a.m. · BRUSSELS · March 23, 1999
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The last American envoy has seen Milošević. He has not come out with a signature. Solana has the next paper.
8:41 a.m. · BELGRADE · March 22, 1999
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The unarmed mission is leaving overnight. Serb forces are already moving. Holbrooke is bound for Belgrade.
8:15 a.m. · PRISTINA · March 20, 1999
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The second round is over. OSCE verifiers are preparing to leave. NATO’s threat is no longer a corridor argument.
7:00 p.m. · PARIS · March 19, 1999
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The autonomy plan has one set of names on it. Serbia has refused the NATO force. The château is finished.
8:15 a.m. · PARIS · March 18, 1999
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The second round opened Monday. St. Patrick’s Day in the city. The Contact Group wants names on the Rambouillet draft this week.
8:27 a.m. · PARIS · March 17, 1999
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Jacques Santer’s college walked out overnight. An independent committee said it could not find anyone who would take responsibility. Brussels is without a Commission in the morning.
8:31 a.m. · BRUSSELS · March 16, 1999
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The Albanian and Yugoslav delegations are back at the table. Rambouillet did not produce two signatures. NATO’s January warning is still in force.
8:24 a.m. · PARIS · March 15, 1999
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The alliance that was built to contain the Warsaw Pact has taken in three of its former members. Moscow called it a mistake. Independence, Mo., called it a ceremony.
8:37 a.m. · INDEPENDENCE, Mo. · March 12, 1999
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Oskar Lafontaine walks out of Gerhard Schröder’s four-month-old government. The mark and the euro both moved on the news.
9:14 p.m. · BONN · March 11, 1999
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The Kleber Center will have the delegations. Rambouillet did not close. NATO’s threat has not been withdrawn.
2:00 p.m. · PARIS · March 10, 1999
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Rambouillet has closed for now. The Albanian and Serbian delegations have not signed the same paper. NATO’s threat remains on the table.
8:16 a.m. · PARIS · March 6, 1999
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Rambouillet is in recess. The second invitation is mid-March. The planes have not moved. The threat has not been lifted.
12:00 p.m. · BRUSSELS · March 5, 1999
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Twenty people died when a low-flying jet cut a cable at Cavalese in 1998. A military jury at Camp Lejeune has found Capt. Richard Ashby not guilty. Italy is furious.
8:25 a.m. · CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. · March 4, 1999
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The Ottawa Convention is law today for the states that signed. Anti-personnel mines are banned in those capitals. The United States, Russia and China are not among them.
8:19 a.m. · GENEVA · March 1, 1999
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Olusegun Obasanjo, a former general who once handed power to civilians, is voted back as a civilian. The army that has run the country for most of 16 years is to step aside.
8:41 a.m. · ABUJA · February 27, 1999
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Rambouillet did not produce a signature. The parties have been sent away. March is the next invitation.
11:00 a.m. · PARIS · February 25, 1999
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Sir William Macpherson’s report on the murder of Stephen Lawrence is published. It tells the Met the word, and it tells Parliament the law must change.
8:31 a.m. · LONDON · February 24, 1999
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A wall of snow has come off the mountain and into the houses. Helicopters are the only road. The Alps have had a winter of this. Today it reached the street.
8:16 a.m. · GALTÜR, Austria · February 23, 1999
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The Contact Group set a deadline. The Kosovo Albanian delegation has not signed. Belgrade has not signed. NATO’s January warning is still on the table.
8:31 a.m. · RAMBOUILLET · February 22, 1999
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Saturday was supposed to be the end of the conference. The château is still talking. NATO is still waiting.
6:30 p.m. · RAMBOUILLET · February 20, 1999
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The call came at 13:05. Trains through Central were stopped until 19:30. A bag was not a bomb. Shortly after Central reopened, Vesterport was closed: a box at a phone booth. Streets around it were sealed. Fourteen bus lines were diverted.
2:08 p.m. · COPENHAGEN · February 19, 1999
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The diesel railcars, built by Siemens-Duewag in Krefeld-Uerdingen, reached the border at midday. They go on through Jutland and Funen to Nyborg. The line is Nærum to Jægersborg. They replace the old Y-trains.
8:17 a.m. · PADBORG · February 19, 1999
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The château still has both delegations. NATO’s threat is the clock in the hall. Nobody has signed.
5:00 p.m. · RAMBOUILLET · February 18, 1999
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Embassies have been rushed. Hostages have been taken and released. Turkey has its prisoner. Europe has the street.
1:10 p.m. · BONN · February 17, 1999
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A day after Turkish agents took the PKK leader in Nairobi, protests have spread through European capitals. Greek consulates are the first address.
8:23 a.m. · BERLIN · February 16, 1999
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The Kurdistan Workers’ Party leader, hunted for years, was taken from the Greek ambassador’s residence and flown to Turkey. Kurdish protests have already started in Europe.
9:23 p.m. · NAIROBI · February 15, 1999
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The funeral was Monday. The new king is 37. The peace with Israel, the border with Iraq and the Palestinian file are all still on the desk.
8:30 a.m. · AMMAN · February 9, 1999
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Presidents and kings have come. Abdullah is already king. Today is the grave.
8:34 a.m. · AMMAN · February 8, 1999
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The monarch who held the East Bank for 46 years died of cancer in Amman. His son, named heir only weeks ago, is king. The region has lost its most durable broker.
8:29 a.m. · AMMAN · February 7, 1999
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Serbs and Kosovo Albanians are in a château outside Paris. NATO is in the corridor. The Contact Group wants a deal on paper.
8:41 a.m. · RAMBOUILLET, France · February 6, 1999
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The king who made peace with Israel is in Minnesota. Amman is waiting. The succession is named: Abdullah.
9:30 a.m. · ROCHESTER, Minn. · February 3, 1999
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Seven years after a failed coup, the former paratrooper takes the presidential sash. He has promised a political revolution in an oil country.
2:26 p.m. · CARACAS · February 2, 1999
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The North Atlantic Council issued the warning on Saturday. Both sides in Kosovo are told to reach a settlement. Javier Solana has the authority to give the order.
9:14 p.m. · BRUSSELS · January 30, 1999
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The pope said Mass and spoke to young people at the Kiel Center. He met President Clinton. Mexico was yesterday. Rome is next.
9:11 p.m. · ST. LOUIS · January 26, 1999
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A 6.2 shock at midday. Older masonry is down. First counts of the dead are already in the hundreds. The roads into Quindío are cut.
2:14 p.m. · ARMENIA, Colombia · January 25, 1999
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The fourth papal visit to Mexico. The basilica and the Zócalo are on the itinerary. He flies to the United States on Tuesday.
8:33 a.m. · MEXICO CITY · January 22, 1999
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Serb police say they fought the KLA. Villagers say the dead are farmers. The verification mission is calling it a massacre.
8:21 a.m. · RAČAK, Kosovo · January 16, 1999
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Bülent Ecevit of the Democratic Left has been asked to form a government in Ankara. The last cabinet fell. A general election is already on the calendar.
8:39 a.m. · ANKARA · January 11, 1999
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The Folketing’s opt-out still holds. Nationalbanken has tied the krone to the new currency overnight. Notes and coins here do not change. The peg does.
8:12 a.m. · COPENHAGEN · January 1, 1999
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From 1 January it is no longer a government department. The transport minister is sole owner. DSB S-tog is a wholly owned limited company.
8:18 a.m. · COPENHAGEN · January 1, 1999