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December 15, 2001
 Leaning Tower Reopens With Less of a Lean
After a $27 million realignment that dragged on over a decade, visitors are once again making the dizzying climb up Pisa's Leaning Tower. The tower reopened to the public, a little less off center but still confounding visitors...
December 14, 2001
Bush Plans to Sign Defense Bill
President Bush will sign the $343 billion defense bill that Congress passed, giving full financing to his missile defense program while providing the largest military pay raise in two decades and setting up a new round of base closures...
Negotiator Suspends Talks with Isreal & Palestinians
Facing a roadblock, American peace mediator Anthony Zinni is suspending talks with Israel and the Palestinians to appeal directly to Arab leaders to prod Yasser Arafat to clamp down on attacks against Israel. Zinni is in Jordan and then will travel to Egypt to deliver...
Panel Evaluates Amtrak Rail System
A panel reviewing America's passenger rail system is considering shifting much of Amtrak's duties to states and private companies, effectively ending a three-decade monopoly of intercity train service. The congressionally mandated Amtrak Reform Council has...
December 13, 2001
 US: Isreal Needs to Explain Arafat Break
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell directed two U.S. envoys Thursday to seek an explanation from Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for the decision to cut off contact with Yasser Arafat. Powell, at a news conference, said the United States could not impose "constraints" on Israel...
 Gunmen Storm Indian Parliament, Open Fire, Launch Grenades
At least five gunmen stormed the Indian Parliament on Thursday, killing seven people with grenades, AK-47 rifles and a human bomb. Security forces killed the attackers during a 90-minute gunbattle...
 Bush Scuttles Arms Control Treaty
In a historic break with Russia, President Bush served formal notice Thursday that the United States is withdrawing from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, a move effective in six months...
 Putin: Canceling ABM Treaty a 'Mistake'
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday called the U.S. decision to withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty a "mistake." Putin repeated Russia's often-stated position that the 1972 treaty is a cornerstone of world security...
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House Passes Defense Bill
The U.S. House overcame its objections to base closings to give final passage to a massive $343.3 billion defense authorization bill Thursday. The bill includes pay raises for all service members and full funding of President Bush's prized missile defense efforts...
 Bush Invokes Privilege to Keep Documents
President Bush invoked executive privilege for the first time Thursday to keep Congress from seeing documents of prosecutors' decision-making in cases ranging from a decades-old Boston murder to the Clinton-era fund-raising probe...
Pardon Documents Must be Turned Over
Lawyers for Marc Rich, the fugitive financier whose pardon stained President Clinton's departure from office, must turn over documents withheld from a grand jury investigating the pardon, a judge ruled Thursday...
December 12, 2001
 Israel Cuts Off Contact With Arafat
Israel on Thursday cut off contact with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, charging that he was "directly responsible" for the latest bloody attacks that killed 10 Israelis and wounded more than 30 others...
Isreal Strikes Back in Gaza
Israel launched a swift military retaliation against the Palestinian territories Wednesday, hours after Palestinian militants killed 10 Israelis in a double attack on Jewish settlers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
 Cuban Spy Ring Leader Gets Life
The leader of a Cuban spy ring was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for trying to infiltrate U.S. military bases and conspiring in the deaths of four Cuban-Americans whose private planes were shot down by Fidel Castro's government in 1996...
 Election Overhaul Bill Approved
A year after a tumultuous election left the winner of the presidency in doubt, U.S. House leaders passed a bill that would send money to states to improve voting systems. It comes on the 1-year anniversary after the Supreme Court halted a recount of Florida's ballot boxes in a move that essentially declared Bush president...
 House Majority Leader Prepares to Retire
House Majority Leader Dick Armey says he won't seek a tenth term. Armey says the conservative causes he has championed, "peace through strength and supply-side economics," have changed the world for the better. His brief remarks on the House floor focused on...
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