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	Anarchy reigns all over Albania // U.S. troops rescue Americans Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times ...to evacuate Americans trapped in chaos as Albania...towns descended into anarchy Thursday. Gangs ransacked...deserted the central prison, allowing 600 prisoners...returned to loot the prison. Pressure was building...Tirana is in total anarchy." The new eruption...
	U.S. TROOPS HELP EVACUATE AMERICANS ARMED ANARCHY IS SWEEPING ALBANIA.(News) Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer ...to evacuate Americans trapped in chaos as, one by...towns descended into anarchy yesterday. Gangs ransacked...deserted the central prison, allowing 600 inmates...returned to loot the prison. Pressure was building...Tirana is in total anarchy.'' The new eruption...
	Haiti is on the brink of total anarchy; Looters and fights for water add to... Newspaper article from: The Saturday Star (South Africa) ...Prince Haiti teetered on the brink of total anarchy last night as looters rampaged in the...destruction of Port-au-Prince's main prison complicated the security situation. International...schools and homes. Experts say people trapped by Tuesday's quake would begin to succumb...
	RIOTERS JAILED OVER DISORDER.(News) Newspaper article from: Birmingham Mail (England) ...Ross McCarthy A RIOTER who became trapped in the Armani store in Birmingham...was sentenced to nine months in prison. ANARCHY STR Shenaz Muzaffer, prosecuting...Bristol Street, has been sent to prison for 16 months. And Gavin O'Donnell...
	ALBANIAN EXODUS BEGINS U.S. EVACUATES TRAPPED CITIZENS.(News) Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) ...to evacuate Americans trapped in chaos as, one by...towns descended into anarchy Thursday. Gangs ransacked...deserted the central prison, allowing 600 inmates...returned to loot the prison. Pressure was building...Tirana is in total anarchy.'' The new eruption...
	Protests rock G8/G20 summits in Canada. Newspaper article from: The Kurdish Globe (Erbil, Iraq) Summary: The rise of anarchy, or a violation of civil liberties Widespread protests, and...to do all that campaigners insist is necessary to free people trapped in the prison of poverty. Since the UN report published a decade ago, the...
	Ministers trapped by lonely passion for partnership Newspaper article from: The Scotsman ...to save that money? What budgets, for health or roads or prisons, would Jack McConnell need to slash? How would Labour MSPs...Messrs Dewar and Wallace, would argue, than replicate the anarchy in Cardiff. But Scotland is not Wales. The tradition of cross...
	`Eagles' soars as tale of raid in Iran Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times ...employees from a Tehran prison in 1979. The raid was...for help. But with anarchy quickly overtaking Iran...moved to a more secure prison. This really is two...two executives from prison, they remain trapped in Iran. Getting them...
	Today in History - March 15 News Wire article from: AP Online ...Marines evacuated hundreds of foreigners trapped in Albania by that country's descent into anarchy. Five years ago: A Houston jury spared...bathtub. (Yates was sentenced to life in prison; however, she was later acquitted by reason...
	Leader: Help for Haiti Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday (Edinburgh, Scotland) ...and the efforts to reach survivors still trapped under the rubble were becoming increasingly...desperate. As tensions mounted and fears of anarchy grew - thousands of criminals are unaccounted for after the collapse of the main prison - the local people were asking visiting...