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http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071201/NATION/112010054/1001
“China rejects another Navy mooring”
REUTERS NEWS AGENCY
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “China turned down a request for another U.S. Navy ship to visit Hong Kong amid a spat over a long-planned docking of the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier, the Pentagon said yesterday.
China will not allow the USS Reuben James, a frigate with about 200 crew members, to visit Hong Kong over the New Year’s holiday and has barred the next planned quarterly flight into Hong Kong by a C-17 aircraft to support the U.S. Consulate there, said Marine Corps Maj. Stewart Upton.”
UPDATE:
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=104&sid=1301668
“NTSB Probes Amtrak-Freight Train Crash”
December 1, 2007 - 4:28am
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “CHICAGO (AP) - Investigators studying the collision of an Amtrak train and a freight train that injured dozens of people, some seriously, will try to determine how both trains ended up on the same track at the same time, authorities said.
Most of the 187 passengers aboard the Amtrak train walked away unhurt after the accident Friday on the city’s South Side, which catapulted people from their seats. Four people had to be pulled from the front of the train, where the engine was located, authorities said.
The accident sent 71 people to a dozen hospitals, most of them in stable or good condition, according to the Chicago Fire Department. Three people were expected to be hospitalized overnight, said National Transportation Safety Board Vice Chairman Robert Sumwalt.
“We’re here to find out what happened so we can keep it from happening again,” Sumwalt said Friday night.”