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BILOXI: Coroner insists death count is accurate Death toll is not being held back BY GEORGE PAWLACZYK Sun Herald EAST BILOXI - The Katrina death toll is not being held back, the Harrison County coroner said as body recovery teams under his direction entered a new phase - searching with heavy equipment. "There is no reason for me to deceive the public or the news media because that's not going to help the situation either," Coroner Gary Hargrove said. "Because if we start reporting low numbers and keep them low and then all of a sudden, 'bam,' we walk in...

In Geneva in October 1994...U.S. and North Korean representatives finally announced a breakthrough in their talks. The two countries had begun bilateral negotiations over nuclear proliferation concerns...and finally a settlement was at hand. The U.S. initiated the talks after North Korea threatened to withdraw from the international Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty....The United States was already convinced the North Koreans had produced at least one nuclear weapon....Between sessions, North Korea violated an international treaty when military personnel removed fuel rods from a nuclear reactor without the presence of a UN monitor. The United States threatened to lobby the UN for sanctions against...

"We have made our choice: yes to peaceful nuclear technology and no to nuclear weapons," Iran's president, Mohammad Khatami, said in Tehran on Tuesday at a military parade featuring the Shahab-3 missile, with a range that could reach Israel. Missiles at the parade were draped with banners that read "Crush America" and "Wipe Israel Off The Map," according to The Associated Press and Agence France-Presse.

KERRY'S DIRECT ATTACK April 27, 2004 Key Unanswered Questions: Bush’s Record In The National Guard For Immediate Release “If George Bush wants to ask me questions about that through his surrogates, he owes America an explanation about whether or not he showed up for duty in the National Guard. Prove it. That's what we ought to have. I'm not going to stand around and let them play games.” -- John Kerry, NBC News, 4/26/04 Bush Has Said He Used No Special Treatment To Get Into The Guard. How Does He Explain The Fact That He Jumped Ahead Of 150 Applicants...