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Poles celebrate pope's 25th anniversary

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Oct. 13,2003 12:23 a.m.

KRAKOW, Poland -- Troubled by television pictures of a stooped and frail Pope John Paul II, Poles on Sunday celebrated the 25th anniversary of their native son's papacy with prayers for his health and memories of his inspiration for their overthrow of communism.

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Car bomb rocks center of Baghdad

By Alyson Brodsy and Charles J. Hanley · Monday, Oct. 13,2003 12:23 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Suicide attackers struck again Sunday in Iraq, this time with twin car bombs in the heart of Baghdad that fell short of a hotel full of Americans but exploded on a busy commercial street, killing six bystanders and wounding dozens, U.S. military and Iraqi officials said.

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By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Oct. 10,2003 1:23 a.m.

PHILADELPHIA -- Mayor John F. Street tried to get his re-election campaign back on track Thursday after FBI bugging devices were discovered in his office, insisting that he has done nothing wrong and that prosecutors have assured him he is not the target of the investigation.

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Israeli special forces enter camp

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Oct. 10,2003 1:20 a.m.

RAFAH, Gaza Strip -- A large Israeli armed force rolled into the Rafah refugee camp on the Gaza-Egypt border early today on a mission to destroy tunnels used for smuggling arms, witnesses and military sources said. Witnesses said a large number of tanks and other armored vehicles entered Rafah from two directions. They were joined by special forces, including engineering units with dogs trained to uncover tunnels.

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Suicide car bombing kills 10, wounds scores

By Alyson Brodsy and Hamza Hendawi · Friday, Oct. 10,2003 1:19 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A suicide car bomber crashed a white Oldsmobile into a police station in Iraq's largest Shiite Muslim enclave Thursday, killing himself, nine others and wounding as many as 45. Earlier, gunmen -- one dressed as a Shiite cleric -- shot and killed a Spanish military attache.

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Basic tools might repair space shuttles

By Alyson Brodsy and Paul Recer · Friday, Oct. 10,2003 1:17 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- Repairing the space shuttle heat shield in orbit may be simpler than NASA once thought, requiring one of the most basic of home repair items -- a foam paint brush. NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe said that engineers studying ways for spacewalking astronauts to fix a hole in the panels that protect the space shuttle from re-entry heat have found that an ordinary foam paint brush could be used to spread a special compound while the craft is in orbit.

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IU alum talks of NASA work

By Lauren Schaefer · Friday, Oct. 10,2003 12:38 a.m.

During the Cold War, science and technology were revolutionized, leading to such creations as weapons of mass destruction and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics program -- later to be known as NASA. Such progression required the skills and expertise of scientists, historians and politicians. Greats such as Werner Von Braun and Robbert Goddard gathered in the United States to transform the way the world looked at science. One such man, Joseph N. Tatarewicz, stood in Room 140 of the Student Building Tuesday before his lecture, fumbling with one of the great products of this technological age -- a projector.

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Listening device found in Philly mayor's office

By Alyson Brodsy and David B. Caruso · Thursday, Oct. 9,2003 1:39 a.m.

PHILADELPHIA -- The discovery of a listening device in Mayor John F. Street's City Hall office has touched off a political furor just weeks before Election Day and raised strong suspicions that the bug was planted by the FBI as part of a criminal investigation.

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Warlords fight in Afghanistan

By Alyson Brodsy and Amir Shah · Thursday, Oct. 9,2003 1:38 a.m.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Fighting erupted Wednesday between rival warlords who both claim allegiance to the government of President Hamid Karzai, and an official of one of the warring groups said as many as 60 people were killed and scores more wounded.

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By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, Oct. 8,2003 1:58 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- President Bush questioned whether investigators would be able to determine who leaked the identity of an undercover CIA officer Tuesday, but said his staff was cooperating.

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Turkish parliament approves troop deployment in Iraq

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, Oct. 8,2003 1:52 a.m.

ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkey's parliament voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to allow troops to be sent to Iraq, a move that could lead to the first major contingent of Muslim peacekeepers there. But Iraq's Governing Council said it opposes any deployment of Turkish soldiers.

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Israel won't hesitate to strike, leaders say

By Alyson Brodsy and Ravi Nessman · Wednesday, Oct. 8,2003 1:08 a.m.

JERUSALEM -- Bolstered by U.S. support for Israel's bombing raid in Syria, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Tuesday his nation won't hesitate to attack its enemies anywhere -- heightening concerns it may widen the Palestinian conflict by again striking countries it accuses of harboring terrorists.

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Iraq conflict takes different turn

By Alyson Brodsy and Steven R. Hurst · Wednesday, Oct. 8,2003 1:06 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Insurgents killed three U.S. soldiers with roadside bombs, the military reported Tuesday, and former Iraqi intelligence officers demanding jobs hurled stones and charged American forces guarding occupation headquarters in the capital.

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Around The World

By Alyson Brodsy · Tuesday, Oct. 7,2003 1:35 a.m.

GROZNY, Russia -- Chechnya's Kremlin-appointed leader was officially declared the winner Monday in a presidential election, a widely expected outcome after his main challengers withdrew or were removed from balloting condemned by critics as a sham but promoted by Moscow as a step toward peace.

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