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JOHN GLENN PRE-FLIGHT

Astronaut John H. Glenn, Flight Surgeon Dr. William Douglas and equipment specialist Joe Schmitt leave crew quarters prior to the Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) mission on February 20, 1962. Glenn carries a portable ventilation unit. (UPI Photo/NASA)

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CHICAGO, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Former Cook County Board President John Stroger, a Chicago political machine leader and first African-American to hold the top county job, died Friday at 78.

Conviction ends racially charged trial

NEW YORK, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- A racially charged trial in New York state has ended with a black man being convicted of manslaughter in the death of a white teenager.

GOP in Virginia abandons loyalty pledge

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DRESDEN, Germany, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- John H. Noble, a U.S. citizen who spent 9 1/2 years in Soviet prisons on trumped-up spy charges, has died in Germany at the age of 84.

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CHICAGO, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Some parents at Chicago's John H. Kinzie Elementary School are demanding that school officials remove a controversial book from the required reading list.

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HOUSTON, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- Teamsters President James P. Hoffa promised a women's conference in Houston this weekend the labor union would fight a planned Mexican truck program.

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