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/ 18 October 2005
A century-old dam on the rain-swollen Mill River deteriorated overnight and officials in Taunton, Massachusetts, prepared for the worst on Tuesday, evacuating residents, cancelling classes and closing off downtown amid fears of a wall of water up to 1,8m deep.
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/ 18 October 2005
Saddam Hussein’s rights have been ”violated” in the legal process following his capture, one of his top United States lawyers said on Tuesday on the eve of the deposed Iraqi leader’s trial opening on charges of ordering the massacre of 143 countrymen two decades ago.
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/ 18 October 2005
Mangaung mayor Papi Mokoena has been relieved of all leadership positions in the African National Congress in the Free State, the party announced on Tuesday. Free State ANC deputy chairperson Pat Matosa said the decision by the party’s provincial working committee (PWC) was taken in the interests of stabilising local government at all levels.
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/ 18 October 2005
Improved financial management and an increase in tourism revenue has seen the Robben Island Museum move into the black over the past financial year, MPs heard on Tuesday. ”We have, over three years, turned a loss of R8-million [in 2002/03] to a profit of R7,3-million,” museum chief financial officer Nash Masekwameng told Parliament’s arts and culture portfolio committee.
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/ 18 October 2005
Noam Chomsky, the American linguistics expert and United States foreign policy critic, was named the world’s top public intellectual, according to a new British magazine poll released on Tuesday. Best known for his loud and consistent criticism of US foreign policy over the last 40 years, Chomsky (76) decisively beat novelist and academic Umberto Eco to top the poll.
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/ 18 October 2005
Gauteng’s car-free day on Thursday will be voluntary, the City of Johannesburg said. Speaking to the media on Tuesday, the city’s deputy director for transport management, Alfred Sam, said the city would not close any routes for private cars. He conceded that Johannesburg did not have the best transport system in the world, but urged everybody to participate.
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/ 18 October 2005
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has moved a motion in the Cape Town city council asking for the informal settlement in District Six to be moved as soon as possible. ”The conflict over the accommodation of squatters in District Six must be squarely blamed on the ANC’s failure to deliver on the empty land restitution promises it made for the area at the time of the last local government elections,” DA MP James Masango said on Tuesday.
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/ 18 October 2005
Senegal’s private press united on Tuesday in a joint editorial denouncing the day-long closure of a radio network and a wave of arrests, saying ”the monster is still alive” and censorship had put press freedom at stake. ”The authorities have pushed their desire to control the press to a new level,” said the angry editorial published either in print or online by 18 newspapers in the West African country.
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/ 18 October 2005
Prom night, that iconic moment in the life of almost every American teenager, is under unprecedented scrutiny after a Long Island school cancelled its prom on the grounds it had become an overpriced ”orgy” of drugs, alcohol and sex. Kellenberg Memorial High School’s decision to scrap an event it described as ”an exaggerated rite of passage that verges on decadence” is the culmination of decades of debauchery.