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Top Stories Wikipedia Current Events of the West Indies tour of England at , Chris Benoit mystery editor organizations, removing Anti- London, England. confesses: claims "terrible Imperialist Territorial Units, Unit coincidence" for Revolutionary Proletarian England's victory tied the two The anonymous individual who Initiative, and Units for match series 1-1 after West Indies wrote about Nancy Benoit's death Proletarian Initiative while adding won the first Twenty20 yesterday. hours before police discovered Revolutionary Struggle. her body says the comment was •After 16 years of existence, the Chris Gayle got the West Indies off a "terrible coincidence". National Football League to a good start with 61 runs off 37 announced that it would shut balls, but the England bowlers and Former Japan Prime Minister down its European operation fielders restricted their score to Kiichi Miyazawa dies at 87 known as NFL Europa with 169-7 after 20 overs despite some Former Japanese Prime Minister immediate effect. big hits from Marlon Samuels. Kiichi Miyazawa, serving from 1991 to 1993, died at his home in In reply, England faltered, losing Tokyo yesterday at the age of 87. Shares in Blackstone Group fall below IPO price three in 14 balls followed Stock in the Blackstone Group, a by the dismissal of Featured story major private equity founded by for 19. However Owais Shah scored 55 to help England past the International Red Cross Peter G. Peterson and Stephen target. condemns Myanmar regime Schwarzman, has fallen below its In an unusual move, the ICRC initial public offering price of The tour now moves on to a series publicly criticised Myanmar's US$31.00. of three One-Day International military government for human matches starting on 1st July. rights abuses. The ICRC said Blackstone L.P. (NYSE symbol: BX) Earlier in the tour, England won a private and confidential dialog initially soared 13% after being four match Test series 3-0. with the Burmese government offered on the New York Stock had not yielded results. Exchange last week. However, lately the the stock has dropped to Cricket: 2007 Future Cup-2nd ODI Wikipedia Current Events below US$30. The stock was issued to brokerages for US$31 a In the 2007 Future Cup, India beat •Rebels unsuccessfully try to share. South Africa by six wickets in the assassinate Guillaume Soro, second One-Day International Prime Minister of Ivory Coast, but Some fear that the so-called (ODI) held at the Civil Service kill three others in a rocket "Private Equity Boom" may be at Cricket Club Ground, Stormont, attack. its peak. Others attribute the Belfast, Northern Ireland. •British police defuse a bomb in falling price to recent discussions The best of three series now Central London. A second bomb in Washington of closing, what stands level at 1-1 after South is found hours later. critics call "loopholes," that allow such firms to pay capital gains tax Africa's victory in the first ODI. •At least 13 people die in clashes instead of income tax. between militants and Indian Sachin Tendulkar, in posting a security forces in Jammu and West Indies cricket team in score of 93, became the first Kashmir. England 2007 - 2nd Twenty20 batsman to score 15,000 runs in •The European Union revises its England have beaten West Indies one day cricket. list of designated terrorist by five wickets in the second

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NFL Europa ceases after 15 List of air carriers banned in the One unnamed EU official was seasons EU. The ban is scheduled to come reported by The Guardian to have NFL has informed that their into effect on July 6. Just hours described Indonesia's civil aviation "farmer-league" NFL Europa has after the ban a Boeing 737 authority as "not very reliable", been discontinued after 15 operated by one of the blacklisted referring to a lack of reaction to seasons. Instead the NFL will focus airlines, TAAG Angola Airlines, warnings of an imminent ban and on "the focus of its international crashed into a house during requests that Indonesia reassured business strategy to presenting landing with at least six fatalities officials that the problem was the NFL to the widest possible in Northern Angola. being dealt with. global audience, including broader media visibility and the staging of Indonesia currently has 51 Indonesia has responded to the international regular-season airlines, having grounded several ban by saying that, according to games". "The time is right to re- and revoked the licences of others information unseen by the EU, focus the NFL's strategy on on June 25. The EU said that Indonesian safety standards are initiatives with global impact, substandard maintenance and rising. Director-general of civil including worldwide media operation and a slow reaction by aviation at the Indonesian coverage of our sport and the Indonesia to solve the problem transport ministry Budhi Mulyawan staging of live regular-season NFL were the main causes of the ban. Suyitno said that "Our data can games," said Mark Waller, senior EU holidaymakers who have show them that we have improved vice president of NFL International, booked flights with banned airlines on every line," to Reuters The US to NFL.com via travel agents will be refunded had already downgraded for the services. Indonesia's safety rating earlier The NFL are focusing on the this year. international market now. In EU transport commissioner October the owners passed a Jacques Barrot said of the ban Also affected by the bans are resolution to set up to two regular- "Once more, the EU blacklist will Ukraine's Volare Aviation, while season games in international prove to be an essential tool not Russia has imposed bans on four stadiums per year. The first of only to prevent unsafe airlines of its airlines after consulting the these games are played on from flying to Europe and to EU and restricted six others, Wembley Stadium in London on inform passengers travelling Bulgaria has revoked the licences October 28 when the Miami worldwide, but also to make sure of six cargo airlines and Moldova Dolphins and New York Giants that airlines and civil aviation has banned eight airlines. meet. authorities take appropriate actions to improve safety." Meanwhile, International In 2006 NFL Europa changed its Airlines, subject of a controversial name from NFL Europe to NFL Operations and safety editor at EU ban earlier this year, had Europa to focus more on the Flight International David restrictions on some of it's aircraft German and Dutch markets. When Learmount commented that lifted. The airline's fleet of Boeing the NFL Europa shut down, it had Indonesia, whose airline industry 777s and some of their Boeing 6 teams based in Holland and was deregulated the early 1990s, 747s and Airbus 310s will now be Germany. Hamburg Sea Devils is one of a handful of cases where allowed back into European won the last World Bowl (number deregulation has lowered safety airspace. 15) last Saturday. standards instead of improving them, saying of the move by the The announcements come after EU bans all Indonesian airlines EU "Standards in aviation safety three accidents involving as well as several from Russia, have been going up dramatically Indonesian airliners - the New Ukraine and Angola on a worldwide basis, but there Year's Day crash of Adam Air Flight The European Union banned all of are still places where they are [of 574, which killed 102 people, the Indonesia's air carriers yesterday, the standards of] the 70s and 80s. subsequent accident involving none of which presently operate In Indonesia the safety watchdog Adam Air Flight 172, which services to Europe, as well as was told earlier this year to pull its cracked in half on a hard landing several from Russia, Ukraine and socks up, but the EU is clearly but held together, preventing Angola. They are the latest convinced that it has not done so." serious injury, and the March crash additions to the already extensive of state-run Garuda Indonesia

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Flight 200, which claimed 23 lives. sentenced in January to 10 years times". All the accidents involved ageing in federal prison. Boeing 737 aircraft. Disruption has been caused to According to the Pensacola News transport in the area with roads "Mrs. Dino" sentenced to one Journal, Jo Hovind’s attorney, Jerry closed and bus routes diverted. year in prison Barringer, plans to appeal the Piccadilly Circus tube station has Jo Hovind, wife of Kent Hovind, guilty verdict as well as the prison reopened after an earlier closure was sentenced to one year and sentence. one day in prison for 44 counts of Police are reviewing major events evading bank reporting Car bomb defused in central to be held in London over the requirements. In November 2006 London weekend. Jo was convicted of 44 counts and A car containing an large explosive Kent was convicted of 58 counts, device has been defused in the CBS News has reported that a and both decided not to present a Haymarket, London. A second message appeared on the widely defense at trial. device was later found in a car used jihadist Internet forum Al- park in Park Lane. Hesbah at 08:09 a.m. June 28, Kent Hovind, self-styled as Dr. saying: "Today I say: Rejoice, by Dino despite lacking any degrees A car, a light metallic green Allah, London shall be bombed." from accredited schools, is Mercedes-Benz E Class saloon The message went on to mention currently incarcerated at Federal (produced 1984-1995), parked the recently announced Correctional Institution, Edgefield, near the nightclub 'TigerTiger', knighthood of Satanic Verses and according to the Federal contained petrol, gas cylinders and author Salman Rushdie. Bureau of Prisons is scheduled for nails. Police described it as a release in July 2015. "potentially viable explosive Park Lane was closed to the public device". due to a suspicious car parked in In addition to the prison time Jo the underground car park beneath Hovind, 51, was ordered to pay Police carried out a controlled Hyde Park. Police, who believed US$8,000 in fines and serve three explosion at 02:00 BST and the the two incidents to be linked, years supervision when released car has been taken to a forensic cordoned off Park Lane and Hyde from prison. In January 2007 Kent explosives laboratory for further Park to allow the bomb disposal was ordered to pay US$640,000 in investigation. unit access to the vehicle. The car owed funds to the Internal was illegally parked on Cockspur Revenue Service (IRS), pay Eyewitnesses saw the car driving Street and was towed to the pound prosecution's court costs of "erratically" and colliding with bins on Park Lane, it was then US$7,078, and serve three years before being abandoned. An discovered that the car contained parole once released. ambulance crew in the area an explosive device. alerted police after seeing smoke Though the couple were indicted inside the car. Former Japan Prime Minister on these charges last summer in Kiichi Miyazawa dies at 87 July 2006, they had a long history Deputy Assistant Police Former Japanese Prime Minister of tax protesting and running the Commissioner Peter Clarke said Kiichi Miyazawa died at his home Creation Science Evangelism there could have been "significant in Tokyo yesterday at the age of Ministry without proper licensing. injury or loss of life". 87. According to the IRS, Kent Hovind had never filed any income taxes A meeting of COBRA, chaired by He served as the prime minister of with the agency. new Home Secretary Jacqui Smith Japan from 1991 to 1993. was held about the incident. Mrs. Hovind was found guilty in Miyazawa was born on October 8, November on 44 counts of evading Police say it is too early to tell who 1919, in Fukuyama, Hiroshima bank-reporting requirements. The is behind the threat. Prime Prefecture. He graduated from same jury found her husband Minister Gordon Brown said the Tokyo Imperial University with a guilty on 58 federal counts, country faces a "serious and degree in law. He joined the including failure to pay $845,000 continued security threat" and Ministry of Finance in 1942, and in in employee-related taxes. He was urged people to "be vigilant at all 1953, he was elected to the Diet of

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Japan. Party factions. receiving a tip from Wikipedia administrators. The fact the edit In the 1970s and '80s, he held a He subsequently served as finance originated from a computer in number of positions in minister in the Cabinets of Keizo Stamford, CT (the site of WWE government, including Minister of Obuchi and Yoshiro Mori, who headquarters) appears to be International Trade and Industry in drafted him to rescue Japan from another coincidence. 1970-71, Minister of Foreign another financial crisis. Affairs from 1974 to 1976, The anonymous editor left a Director General of the Economic He retired as a legislator in lengthy apology to the Wikimedia Planning Agency in 1977-78, and October 2003 when he abandoned community, explaining, "I hope Chief Cabinet Secretary from 1984 seeking re-election at the strong this puts an end to this speculation to 1986. urging of then-prime minister that someone knew about the Junichiro Koizumi. tragedy before it was discovered." He was Minister of Finance under Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita in Chris Benoit mystery editor Wikinews is continuing to follow 1987, but resigned in 1988 amid confesses: claims "terrible the story, but the anonymous user the "Recruit" insider-trading coincidence" has declined an interview. scandal. The anonymous individual responsible for suggesting, 14 Below is the full, unedited apology: Elected prime minister in 1991 as hours before police discovered the “Hey everyone. I am here to talk a member of the conservative body, that WWE wrestler Chris about the wikipedia comment that Liberal Democratic Party, he tried Benoit's wife was dead is saying was left by myself. I just want to unsuccessfully to save the his/her comment was a "terrible say that it was an incredible economy following the bursting of coincidence." coincidence. Last weekend, I had an asset-speculation "bubble" in heard about Chris Benoit no the late 1980s, and also tried to In a post made at 12:26 AM EDT showing Vengeance because of a push through political reform bills. Friday morning to the talk page of family emergency, and I had heard a Wikinews article headlined as the rumors about why that was. I was "A nation can be governed either "Death of Nancy Benoit rumour reading rumors and speculation by the rule of right or the rule of posted on Wikipedia hours prior to about this matter online, and one might. I will not stand by the rule body being found", the user of them included that his wife may of might. The position of prime admitted to writing that Nancy have passed away, and I did the minister should not be acquired by Benoit was dead at the Wikipedia wrong thing by posting it on really trying to," he was once article page for Benoit came from wikipedia to spite there being no quoted as saying. information that was garnered evidence. I posted my speculation from "rumors and speculation on the situation at the time and I It was during a state dinner on online." Freakishly, the post turned am deeply sorry about this, and I January 8, 1992 that U.S. out to be true. was just as shocked as everyone President George H. W. Bush when I heard that this actually vomited in Miyazawa's lap and The IP Address of the individual would happen in real life. It is one then fainted. A new Japanese verb making the apology was identical of those things that just turned arose after incident: "bushu-suru" to that of the one who posted the into a huge coincidence. That night or "bushuru", meaning "to commit Nancy Benoit rumor, a strong I found out that what I posted, an instance of embarrassing public confirmation of the admission's ended up actually happening, a 1 vomiting" or literally "to do a authenticity. The lengthy apology in 10,000 chance of happening, or Bush." was not signed, with the individual so I thought. I was beyond wrong claiming, "I am just an everyday for posting wrongful information, Miyazawa stepped down as prime individual who posted a wrongful and I am sorry to everyone for minister in June 1993 after a no- remark at the time that received this. I just want everyone to know confidence motion against his so much attention because it it was stupid of me, and I will Cabinet was submitted by turned out to actually happen." never do anything like this again. I opposition parties and approved by just posted something that was at lower house of the Diet with the Wikinews originally broke the story that time a piece of wrong support of rival Liberal Democratic about the suspicious edit after unsourced information that is

If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Saturday, June 30, 2007 Wikinews Page 5 typical on wikipedia, as it is done feel terrible about the mainstream Department officials held talks all the time. coverage this has received, since it with representatives of Myanmar's was only a huge coincidence and a military regime, with the U.S. Nonetheless, I feel incredibly bad terrible event that should of never issuing a "very pointed and very for all the attention this got happened. I am not sure how to direct" demand that the junta because of the fact that what I react, as hearing about my release detained democracy leader said turned out to be the truth. message becoming a huge part of Aung San Suu Kyi. Like I said it was just a major the Benoit slayings made me feel coincidence, and I will never terrible as everyone believes that ICRC President Jakob Kellenberger vandalize anything on wikipedia or it is connected to the tragedy, but said in a press release: "Despite post wrongful information. I've it was just an awful coincidence. repeated entreaties by the ICRC, learned from this experience. I That is all I have to say, I will the [Myanmar] authorities have just can't believe what I wrote was never post anything here again consistently refused to enter into a actually the case, I've remained unless it is pure fact, no spam serious discussion of these abuses stunned and saddened over it. nothing like that. Thank you, and with a view to putting a stop to let this end this chapter of the them." I wish not to reveal my identity so Benoit story, and hopefully one I can keep me and my family out day we will find out why this "The continuing deadlock with the of this since they have nothing to tragedy ever actually happened.” authorities has led the ICRC to do with anything. I am not take the exceptional step of connected to WWE or Benoit at all International Red Cross making its concerns public," in anyway. I am from Stamford as condemns Myanmar regime Kellenberger continued. "The the IP address shows, and I am In a departure from its usual organization uses confidential and just an everyday individual who neutrality, the International bilateral dialog as its preferred posted a wrongful remark at the Committee of the Red Cross today means of achieving results. time that received so much issued a statement condemning However, this presupposes that attention because it turned out to Myanmar's military State Peace parties to a conflict are willing to actually happen. I will say again I and Development Council for enter into a serious discussion and didn't know anything about the human rights abuses. take into account the ICRC's Benoit tragedy, it was a terrible recommendations. This has not coincidence that I never saw The Geneva, Switzerland-based been the case with the authorities coming. International Committee of the of Myanmar and that is why the Red Cross, or ICRC, said the ICRC has decided to speak out I hope this puts an end to this Myanmar junta is systematically publicly." speculation that someone knew causing thousands of people to about the tragedy before it was suffer, especially along the border In March this year, the ICRC closed discovered. It was just a rumor with Thailand, where government its offices in Yangon, Myanmar's that I had heard about from other soldiers raid villages, destroy food former capital, after the people online who were supplies, force people from their organization's staff were prevented speculating what the family homes and commit acts of from visiting prisons or conducting emergency Chris was attending to. violence, including murder and independent field operations in the I made a big mistake by posting child abuse. Detainees, the ICRC border areas. this comment on his page, since said, were being forced to work on all we had were what we thought government projects or act as The condemnation of Myanmar by was going on and nothing about porters for the military. the ICRC is the strongest since it what actually was going on yet, denounced the 1994 Rwandan and sadly what happened turned The statement comes amidst other Genocide. out to be my speculation at the developments in Myanmar, where time. I assumed wiki would edit 51 detainees who were arrested in Separately in Beijing, U.S. and out my information, which they a crackdown on democracy Myanmar officials met yesterday in did, so thats why I didn't go back demonstrations last month were the highest-level talks between the to edit it out myself. released on Wednesday. two countries since 2003.

I know I keep repeating it but I In Beijing yesterday, U.S. State The U.S. delegation was led by

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Assistant Secretary of State Eric Burma. McCormack said in a statement. John, who met with Myanmar Information Minister Kyaw San, 51 detainees released, AIDS Earlier, another NLD activist, Su Su Minister of Foreign Affairs Nyan activist on hunger strike Nway, was released for health Win and Culture Minister Khin reasons. Aung Myint. In Yangon, also known as Rangoon, 51 NLD supporters who The release of the 51 activists One U.S. official, speaking to were detained last month in a coincided with a visit by United Agence France-Presse (AFP) on crackdown on prayer vigils have Nations envoy Radhika condition of anonymity, said the been released, according to the Coomaraswamy, special discussions were "very pointed and NLD. representative for children and very direct." armed conflict. She met acting However Phyu Phyu Thin, an AIDS prime minister Lieutenant-General In Washington, U.S. State campaigner who was arrested on Thein Sein on Wednesday morning Department spokesman Tom May 21 for organizing a prayer in the new administrative capital, Casey said the U.S. delegation campaign for the release of Suu Naypyidaw. However, it wasn't demanded the release of Suu Kyi Kyi was not among those freed. known if the U.N. envoy had raised and other political detainees, but While it isn't known where Phyu the issue of the detained activists. received no positive response from Phyu Thin is being held, the NLD the Myanmar officials. says she has started a hunger Lady Bird Johnson released strike. from Austin hospital "I don't think we saw anything Former First Lady "Lady Bird" coming out of them that will “The NLD calls for the immediate Johnson was released Thursday indicate, unfortunately, that they release of Phyu Phyu Thin, who after a week at Seton Hospital have changed their basic should receive health care from after being admitted for tests opinions," Casey was quoted as her family,” NLD spokesman Myint because she was not feeling well. saying by AFP. "We certainly did Thein was quoted as saying by The She is the widow of Lyndon B. not hear that they were planning Irrawaddy. “We [the NLD], Johnson, President of the United on releasing Aung San Suu Kyi or together with her family, are States from 1963 to 1969. She is other political prisoners," he seriously concerned about her best known for her conservation continued. health.” and beautification efforts involving wildflowers and roadsides. Long-standing U.S. diplomatic Phyu Phyu Thin began her hunger policy is to not meet with Myanmar strike on June 19 and has been As President Johnson and his wife, leaders in their own country unless taking only liquids, Myint Thein Lady Bird Johnson, criss-crossed the U.S. officials are first allowed told The Irrawaddy. States by road during the 1964 to visit Suu Kyi, leader of the presidential campaign, she National League for Democracy An outspoken critic, who has said informed her husband of her (NLD), which won elections in the junta is understating the feelings about the roadside 1990. The military, which has ruled number of HIV and AIDS cases in junkyards they saw along the way. Myanmar since 1962, never Myanmar, Phyu Phyu Thin runs a Inspired by her comments and honored the results and has kept small clinic that provides care and enthusiasm from audiences, he Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize counseling to HIV/AIDS patients. observed "If it's beautifying they laureate, under house arrest for want, it's beautifying they'll get." most of the time since then. The U.S. State Department issued Recognizing that "ours is an a statement on Wednesday, calling automobile society," the President Myanmar is also known as Burma, for Phyu Phyu Thin's release. did not want to curtail roads. He its former name under the British wanted to make roads the Empire. The military officially "The United States calls for the "highways to the enjoyment of renamed the country Myanmar in immediate and unconditional nature and beauty." Lady Bird 1989, but many countries and release of Phyu Phyu Thin [and] thought that her love of seeing organizations, mostly those that others recently detained while Texas highways in spring had refuse to recognize the military praying at pagodas," State influenced her husband. She government, still refer to it as Department spokesman Sean enjoyed the results of Texan

If you would like to write, publish or edit articles, visit www.wikinews.org Saturday, June 30, 2007 Wikinews Page 7 wildflower conservation programs expanded "guest worker" plan and The VIRGO teams cooperates with which began in the 1930s. a "path to citizenship" for the LIGO (Laser Interferometer immigrants currently residing Gravitational-wave Observatory) in One of the most prominent results illegally in America. The bill was the US, and GEO 600 (German-UK of the President's beauty initiative largely drafted behind closed doors Gravitation Wave Detector). was the Highway Beautification Act in negotations between the White of 1965. It created restrictions on House and Senate leaders of both CNN discontinues Pipeline billboards and junkyards. As parties. service; will provide live video expected, it had been free controversial. When the House Proponents argued that the bill CNN has shut down its CNN considered its version of the bill on would have fixed enforcement Pipeline service, just as it said it October 7, the debate lasted into problems with current immigration would in a May 25, 2007 the early morning hours of October policy and that it was a reasonable announcement. The pay-service, 8. A pointed but tongue-in-cheek compromise, while opponents which allowed news from the amendment by Representative charged that it amounted to an channel to be viewed online, will Robert Dole (R-Kan.) to strike out "illegal alien amnesty". Public be offered at no charge to online the term "Secretary of Commerce" opinion polls showed that the bill viewers beginning July 2, 2007. wherever it appeared in the bill was unpopular among Americans and insert the words "Lady Bird" surveyed, many of whom believed The service is currently closed, and lost by a voice vote. Saying, it would make things worse. is under construction so that the "Beauty belongs to all the people," According to Rasmussen Reports, free service can be completed. the President signed the bill and only 22% of Americans favored the Archive news videos are still gave the first pen to Lady Bird, bill as of June 25. available. along with a kiss on the cheek. "Bush wanted to do something Today in History In 1982, she founded the National good, but the Senate wouldn't let 1864 - U.S. National Parks: U.S. Wildflower Research Center to him. It's disappointing," Miguel President Abraham Lincoln granted continue the mission of changing Gonzalez told Reuters. Gonzales Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa public attitudes toward native has been in the United States for Grove of Giant Sequoias to plants. In 1997 it was renamed five years. California for "public use, resort, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower and recreation". Center. New pictures from Mars 1894 - London's Tower Bridge, a The space probe Mars Express has combined bascule and suspension Comprehensive immigration provided new pictures - with bridge, opened. bill fails in United States ground resolution of approximately 1905 - Albert Einstein published Senate 13 metres per pixel - of the Aeolis the article "On the The Comprehensive Immigration Mensae region. Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" Reform Bill backed by both United and introduced the theory of States President George W. Bush This Martian area is currently special relativity. and Massachusetts Senator Ted subject of discussion for 1971 - The Soyuz 11 spacecraft Kennedy failed to receive enough unexplained features. According depressurised during reentry, cloture votes to overcome a some theories, the shaping of the killing cosmonauts Vladislav possible filibuster and move on to surface could be result also of Volkov, Georgiy Dobrovolskiy and a final vote in the United States aeolian, wind-erosion, glacial or Viktor Patsayev. Senate. The cloture vote was 53 other activities. 1997 - During an internationally votes against and 46 votes in televised ceremony, the United favor; 60 votes are needed to Testing the theory of relativity Kingdom officially transferred invoke cloture in the Senate. on the existence of sovereignty of Hong Kong to the gravitational waves People's Republic of China. The large, complex bill was a The European laser interferometer June 30 is Independence Day in compromise referred to as the (VIRGO) is going to test the Albert the Democratic Republic of the "grand bargain" that would have Einstein's theory on the existence Congo (1960). made many changes to American of gravitational waves. immigration laws, including an Quote of the Day

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