Topic: - on October 31, 2002 at 1:28:54 AM CET
USA: Drei Jahre Haft für Striptease am Flughafen?
Einer Französin, die aus Verärgerung über die scharfen Personenkontrollen an einem US-Flughafen einen Striptease hinlegte, drohen nun drei Jahre Haft.
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Topic: - on October 31, 2002 at 1:26:46 AM CET
Haider rüstet für den Tag danach
Die Ankündigung kommt nicht überraschend und für die jetzige FPÖ-Führung im Wahlkampf doch nicht gelegen. Alt-FPÖ-Chef Haider verspricht ein Comeback in der Bundespolitik. Aber erst nach der Wahl. Und nur, wenn die FPÖ schlecht abschneidet. Haiders Begründung: Er lasse sich die FPÖ nicht von Schwächlingen ruinieren. Heftig teilt Haider gegen seine ehemaligen Weggefährten Westenthaler, Grasser und Riess-Passer aus.
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Topic: - on October 31, 2002 at 12:36:06 AM CET
64 years ago today
War of the Worlds Broadcast
Radio Listeners in Panic, Taking War Drama as Fact Many Flee Homes to Escape 'Gas Raid From Mars'--Phone Calls Swamp Police at Broadcast of Wells Fantasy This article appeared in the New York Times on Oct. 31, 1938. A wave of mass hysteria seized thousands of radio listeners between 8:15 and 9:30 o'clock last night when a broadcast of a dramatization of H. G. Wells's fantasy, "The War of the Worlds," led thousands to believe that an interplanetary conflict had started with invading Martians spreading wide death and destruction in New Jersey and New York.
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Topic: - on October 31, 2002 at 12:23:37 AM CET
Tackling 'witch' murders in Tanzania
Communities in northern Tanzania along the shores of Lake Victoria are stepping up their efforts to eradicate the murder of old people, mainly women, who have been accused of witchcraft. The women often become targets of attacks when traditional healers identify them as the cause of an illness or other misfortune.
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Topic: - on October 31, 2002 at 12:13:36 AM CET
Magic meets science at witches' school
Today's witchcraft, teachers at the school on Klagenfurt, Austria, say, is just mainstream science applied in a different way.
"A witch is someone who looks holistically on life, who does life-counselling things. A witch serves to help humans," said Sonja Kulmitzer, 28, who runs the school with Starchel.
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Topic: - on October 31, 2002 at 12:07:48 AM CET
Saudi Arabia Takes Steps To Acquire Nuclear Weapons
Highly-reliable sources indicate that the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has, since the beginning of October 2002, and possibly before, begun active efforts to acquire completed nuclear weapons.
It is known that Saudi officials had approached officials of the Government of Pakistan in this regard, on the basis that Saudi possession of such weapons would act as a deterrent to any possible Israeli threat of nuclear force against Saudi Arabia. The sources indicated that Saudi Arabia was not interested in acquiring nuclear weapons manufacturing capability, or weapons-grade raw material, but only in acquiring actual weapons, preferably for missile delivery using Saudi CSS-2 medium-range ballistic missiles (MRBMs) which had been acquired from the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
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