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4/20/2006 2:31:00 PM -0400
Newstrack: Croatian police said Monday they have seized 26 kilos of heroin, hidden in a car being driven from Serbia-Montenegro into Croatia by two Bulgarians. Pompey Hawkins, one of the members of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen during World War II, died in Indianapolis at age 91. The Bush administration's $92.2 billion spending bill to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and Hurricane Katrina relief has been fattened with pork. Convicted BTK serial killer Dennis Rader's good behavior in a Kansas prison has earned him privileges including TV viewing and magazines. U.S. President George W. Bush met with 92-year-old former President Gerald Ford and former first lady Betty Ford at their California home during the weekend. Two plots for school massacres in Alaska and Kansas were foiled by police hours before they were to begin, USA Today reported Monday. A retired CIA veteran is disputing U.S. President George Bush's claim that there was faulty intelligence on Iraq in the run-up to the war. China's military colleges will now be required to administer drug and psychological tests to new recruits. Venezuelan lawmakers are considering raising taxes for foreign oil companies operating in the country's richest oil field, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. A Kosovo Serb leader Monday praised a history-making visit of Kosovo's ethnic-Albanian president to mark the Serb Orthodox Easter Sunday.

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Hansen buying Spear Technologies

RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif., April 20 (UPI) -- California's Hansen Information Technologies said Thursday it was buying Spear Technologies Inc., which sells asset management tools.

Spear, which has its headquarters in San Francisco, sells primarily to customers in the public transit and railroad market, including four of the 10 largest U.S. public transit agencies.

Its products also are used by three of the five largest bus companies serving central London.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Analysis: The other face of Kazakhstan

By CLAUDE SALHANI
UPI International Editor
4/24/2006 9:52:00 AM -0400
Is there a dark, hidden side to Kazakhstan -- one involving brutal political assassinations, battles for control of the country's media and unspoken ...

Walker's World: Britain's last Queen?

By MARTIN WALKER
UPI Editor
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On her 80th birthday, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is popular, useful and rules over a far more prosperous nation than she inherited. But after almost 1000 ...

 

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