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02-29-2004, 05:32 PM
Jean-Bertrand Aristide flees Haiti amid chaos:
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - FEBRUARY 29: Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune (seated R) and Haitian Supreme Court Justice Boniface Alexandre (seated L) address members of the news media following President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's departure from the country at the prime minister's office February 29, 2004 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. According to the Haitian Constitution, Alexandre assumes control of the country following Aristide's departure and resignation. (Photo by Scott Olson/***** Images)
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - FEBRUARY 29: Haitian police officers stand guard outside the prime minister's office February 29, 2004 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Violence continues to escalate in the city after President Jean-Bertrand Aristide left the country early this morning. (Photo by Scott Olson/***** Images)
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - FEBRUARY 29: A Haitian police officer watches out the window of the prime minister's office February 29, 2004 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Violence continues to escalate in the city after President Jean-Bertrand Aristide left the country early this morning. (Photo by Scott Olson/***** Image )
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PORT-AU-PRINCE,HAITI - FEBRUARY 29: Haitian police working with rebels patrol the streets as they round up looters after former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide left the country February 29, 2004 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Aristide left Haiti after bowing to pressure from rebels threatening to attack and governments abroad. Looting and shooting broke out as the news spread. (Photo by Joe Raedle/***** Images)
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PORT-AU-PRINCE,HAITI - FEBRUARY 29: Haitian police working with rebels frisk a looter as they try to stop them, after former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide fled the country February 29, 2004 in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. Aristide left Haiti after bowing to pressure from rebels threatening to attack and governments abroad. Looting and shooting broke out as the news of his departure spread. (Photo by Joe Raedle/***** Images)
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PORT-AU-PRINCE,HAITI - FEBRUARY 29: Haitian police working with rebels duck as they hear gun fire after former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide fled the country February 29, 2004 in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. Aristide left Haiti after bowing to pressure from rebels threatening to attack and governments abroad. Looting and shooting broke out as the news of his departure spread. (Photo by Joe Raedle/***** Images)
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI: A member of a special US embassy protection team keeps guard outside the office of Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune where a press conference given by the US and French ambassadors and the Prime Minister was being held after the resignation of embattled Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide 29 February, 2004 in Port-Au-Prince. Huge clouds of smoke Sunday billowed over Port-Au-Prince as angry mobs went on the rampage after the embattled Aristide resigned and fled the country. AFP PHOTO Yuri CORTEZ (Photo credit should read YURI CORTEZ/AFP/***** Images)
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A U.S. Embassy special security agent stands guard outside U.S. Embassy in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, February 28, 2004. Embattled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide called on Saturday for an end to looting and violence after many of his armed loyalists terrorized residents of Haiti's capital as rebels advanced on the city.At least 65 people have been killed during the three-week-old revolt against Aristide, accused of corruption and political thuggery by his foes. *******/Daniel Aguilar
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A Dominican soldier stands guard at the Dominican Embassy in Port-Au-Price, Haiti, February 28, 2004. Embattled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide called on Saturday for an end to looting and violence after many of his armed loyalists terrorized residents of Haiti's capital as rebels advanced on the city. At least 65 people have been killed during the three-week-old revolt against Aristide, accused of corruption and political thuggery by his foes. *******/Daniel Aguilar
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Two Dominican special force soldiers take position at the Mal Paso border crossing with Haiti in Jimani, 175 miles northwest of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004. (AP Photo/Miguel Gomez)
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Dominican soldiers help evacuate an unidentified man from the Dominican Republic's Embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004. (AP Photo/Walter Astrada)
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Sister Marie Benedicte (C) and sister Marie Rita (in car) emerge from a bulletproof French embassy vehicle guarded by members of a special embassy armed force as they arrive at a local hotel in the Petionville suburb of Port-Au-Prince(AFP/Roberto Schmidt)
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A Canadian soldier guards his country's embassy prior to an evacuation of personnel in Port-au-Prince after Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide left the country in Port au Prince, February 29, 2004. Aristide, who resigned in the face of an armed revolt, was traveling to Morocco on Sunday, the Haitian consul in neighboring Dominican Republic said. *******/Daniel Morel
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Haitians celebrate as U.S. helicopters escort a patrol of U.S. Army Humvees through the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in this Sept. 20, 1994 file photo. (AP Photo/John McConnico)
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A US soldier pretends to slug it out with an Iraqi boy as they guard the Imam Al-Khadum Mosque in Khadimiya north of Baghdad, Iraq on Sunday Feb. 28, 2004 for the Shiites' festival of Ashoura, the ten- day mourning of the death of one of their most important saints, Imam Hussein. For the first time in decades, Shiite Muslims in Iraq will be able to mark Ashoura at the Shiite holy city of Karbala, which was banned during the rule of toppled dictator Saddam Hussein. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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A Polish army soldier serving with Coalition Forces in Iraq waves at Shiite pilgrims inside a passing minibus, at a checkpoint just north of the holy Shiite city of Karbala, Iraq, Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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A Polish soldier (R) watches the traffic at a mobile checkpoint in a suburb of Kerbala, some 110 km (68 miles) south from the Iraqi capital Baghdad February 29, 2004. Coalition forces and Iraqi security personnel are on full alert one day ahead of the Shi'ites religious day of Ashura in the Iraqi holy city of Kerbala. *******/Faleh Kheiber
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A U.S. soldier, right, gives instructions to new Iraqi army soldiers, known as the ICDC (Iraqi Civil Defense Corps) during their joint patrol at a Baghdad commercial center, Sunday Feb. 29, 2004 in Iraq. U.S. forces are now slowly delegating the tasks in securing the capital to the ICDC. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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Iraqi boys walk past a US tank while beating their backs with chains to mark Ashoura, the ten-day mourning of the death of one of their most important saints, Imam Hussein, Sunday Feb. 29, 2004 in Khadimiya north of Baghdad, Iraq. For the first time on Tuesday March 2, Shiite Muslims in Iraq will be able to mark Ashoura at the Shiite holy city of Karbala, which was banned during the rule of toppled dictator Saddam Hussein. (AP Photo/Samir Mizban)
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British soldiers patrol a road in the southern port city of Basra, Iraq. Thousands of British soldiers have complained that they suffered equipment shortages during the war in Iraq last year because of poor planning by senior officers, a newspaper said. AFP/Ahmad Al-Rub
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Iraq's Al-Muthanna province governor Mohammed Ali Hassan (C) raises arms with Japanese troops Commander Col. Koichiro Bansho (L) and Col. Masahisa Sato (R). Iraq's bankrollers have appointed Japan to chair a donor committee charged with monitoring the flow of reconstruction money through two trust funds, an Arab member of the body said AFP/Kazuhiro Nogi
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A move cross-country in a BV206 all-terrain vehicle, towing a Royal Marine ski patrol. The Minister of State for the Armed Forces, Adam Ingram MP, visited 3 Commando Brigade during a winter training exercise with Norwegian and Dutch commandos in the Arctic conditions of northern Norway, to experience at first hand the rigorous training undertaken by the UK's only high-readiness mountain warfare formation.
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Indian Ocean (Feb, 26, 2004) – Aviation Electronics Technician 2nd Class Jeremy Snipes, of Jacksonville, Fla., performs an operational check of aircraft instrumentation in the cockpit of an F/A-18C Hornet assigned to the “Knighthawks” of Strike Fighter Squadron One Three Six (VFA-136) in the hangar bay aboard USS George Washington (CVN 73). The Norfolk, Va.-based nuclear powered aircraft carrier is on a scheduled deployment. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate Airman Janice Kreischer. (RELEASED)
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The Bow Mariner, a chemical tanker sinks after an explosion off the coast of Virginia, Saturday, Feb 28, 2004. The Coast Guard continued searching the frigid Atlantic Sunday for 18 crew members of the tanker which was carrying 3.5 million gallons (13.3 million liters) of ethanol. Three crewmen were known dead and six others were rescued. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard)
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Infrared video image of U.S. Coast Guard helicopter rescuing survivors on emergency rafters after an explosion on board the 570-foot (170-meter), 39,000-ton Singapore-flagged Bow Mariner, a chemical tanker carrying 11,000 tons of industrial ethanol, killed three crewmembers at least 50 miles (80 km) from the Virginia shore, February 28, 2004. The U.S. Coast Guard searched frigid waters off the Virginia coast February 29 for 18 missing crew. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY *******/U.S. Coast Guard/Handout
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Surviving crewmen from the 570-foot tanker Bow Mariner are shown in this video image arriving at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital via a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter in Norfolk, Va., on Saturday night, Feb. 28, 2004. The tanker carrying 3.5 million gallons of industrial ethanol exploded and sank about 50 miles off the Virginia coast Saturday, the Coast Guard said. At least three of the 27 crew members died and most of the others were missing. (AP Photo/WVEC-TV Channel 13 via Virginian-Pilot)
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National Guard soldiers take cover during clashes with anti-President Hugo Chavez protesters in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)
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A Venezuelan national guardsman takes up a position after shots were fired during clashes with opponents of the government, in Caracas, February 29, 2004. Venezuelan troops on Sunday clashed with opponents of President Hugo Chavez and his supporters marched through the capital as they rallied ahead of a ruling on an opposition bid for a recall referendum. The fresh violence broke out as tens of thousands of Chavez supporters marched Sunday to protest what they criticized as U.S. meddling in Venezuelan affairs and to rally support for the leftist president as he battles the referendum challenge. *******/Jose Miguel Gomez
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National Guard soldiers fire tear gas at anti-President Hugo Chavez protesters who tried to pass the National Guard barricade after a pro-Chavez march passed nearby in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - FEBRUARY 29: Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune (seated R) and Haitian Supreme Court Justice Boniface Alexandre (seated L) address members of the news media following President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's departure from the country at the prime minister's office February 29, 2004 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. According to the Haitian Constitution, Alexandre assumes control of the country following Aristide's departure and resignation. (Photo by Scott Olson/***** Images)
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - FEBRUARY 29: Haitian police officers stand guard outside the prime minister's office February 29, 2004 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Violence continues to escalate in the city after President Jean-Bertrand Aristide left the country early this morning. (Photo by Scott Olson/***** Images)
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - FEBRUARY 29: A Haitian police officer watches out the window of the prime minister's office February 29, 2004 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Violence continues to escalate in the city after President Jean-Bertrand Aristide left the country early this morning. (Photo by Scott Olson/***** Image )
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PORT-AU-PRINCE,HAITI - FEBRUARY 29: Haitian police working with rebels patrol the streets as they round up looters after former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide left the country February 29, 2004 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Aristide left Haiti after bowing to pressure from rebels threatening to attack and governments abroad. Looting and shooting broke out as the news spread. (Photo by Joe Raedle/***** Images)
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PORT-AU-PRINCE,HAITI - FEBRUARY 29: Haitian police working with rebels frisk a looter as they try to stop them, after former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide fled the country February 29, 2004 in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. Aristide left Haiti after bowing to pressure from rebels threatening to attack and governments abroad. Looting and shooting broke out as the news of his departure spread. (Photo by Joe Raedle/***** Images)
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PORT-AU-PRINCE,HAITI - FEBRUARY 29: Haitian police working with rebels duck as they hear gun fire after former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide fled the country February 29, 2004 in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. Aristide left Haiti after bowing to pressure from rebels threatening to attack and governments abroad. Looting and shooting broke out as the news of his departure spread. (Photo by Joe Raedle/***** Images)
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI: A member of a special US embassy protection team keeps guard outside the office of Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune where a press conference given by the US and French ambassadors and the Prime Minister was being held after the resignation of embattled Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide 29 February, 2004 in Port-Au-Prince. Huge clouds of smoke Sunday billowed over Port-Au-Prince as angry mobs went on the rampage after the embattled Aristide resigned and fled the country. AFP PHOTO Yuri CORTEZ (Photo credit should read YURI CORTEZ/AFP/***** Images)
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A U.S. Embassy special security agent stands guard outside U.S. Embassy in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, February 28, 2004. Embattled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide called on Saturday for an end to looting and violence after many of his armed loyalists terrorized residents of Haiti's capital as rebels advanced on the city.At least 65 people have been killed during the three-week-old revolt against Aristide, accused of corruption and political thuggery by his foes. *******/Daniel Aguilar
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A Dominican soldier stands guard at the Dominican Embassy in Port-Au-Price, Haiti, February 28, 2004. Embattled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide called on Saturday for an end to looting and violence after many of his armed loyalists terrorized residents of Haiti's capital as rebels advanced on the city. At least 65 people have been killed during the three-week-old revolt against Aristide, accused of corruption and political thuggery by his foes. *******/Daniel Aguilar
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Two Dominican special force soldiers take position at the Mal Paso border crossing with Haiti in Jimani, 175 miles northwest of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004. (AP Photo/Miguel Gomez)
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Dominican soldiers help evacuate an unidentified man from the Dominican Republic's Embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004. (AP Photo/Walter Astrada)
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Sister Marie Benedicte (C) and sister Marie Rita (in car) emerge from a bulletproof French embassy vehicle guarded by members of a special embassy armed force as they arrive at a local hotel in the Petionville suburb of Port-Au-Prince(AFP/Roberto Schmidt)
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A Canadian soldier guards his country's embassy prior to an evacuation of personnel in Port-au-Prince after Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide left the country in Port au Prince, February 29, 2004. Aristide, who resigned in the face of an armed revolt, was traveling to Morocco on Sunday, the Haitian consul in neighboring Dominican Republic said. *******/Daniel Morel
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Haitians celebrate as U.S. helicopters escort a patrol of U.S. Army Humvees through the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in this Sept. 20, 1994 file photo. (AP Photo/John McConnico)
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A US soldier pretends to slug it out with an Iraqi boy as they guard the Imam Al-Khadum Mosque in Khadimiya north of Baghdad, Iraq on Sunday Feb. 28, 2004 for the Shiites' festival of Ashoura, the ten- day mourning of the death of one of their most important saints, Imam Hussein. For the first time in decades, Shiite Muslims in Iraq will be able to mark Ashoura at the Shiite holy city of Karbala, which was banned during the rule of toppled dictator Saddam Hussein. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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A Polish army soldier serving with Coalition Forces in Iraq waves at Shiite pilgrims inside a passing minibus, at a checkpoint just north of the holy Shiite city of Karbala, Iraq, Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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A Polish soldier (R) watches the traffic at a mobile checkpoint in a suburb of Kerbala, some 110 km (68 miles) south from the Iraqi capital Baghdad February 29, 2004. Coalition forces and Iraqi security personnel are on full alert one day ahead of the Shi'ites religious day of Ashura in the Iraqi holy city of Kerbala. *******/Faleh Kheiber
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A U.S. soldier, right, gives instructions to new Iraqi army soldiers, known as the ICDC (Iraqi Civil Defense Corps) during their joint patrol at a Baghdad commercial center, Sunday Feb. 29, 2004 in Iraq. U.S. forces are now slowly delegating the tasks in securing the capital to the ICDC. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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Iraqi boys walk past a US tank while beating their backs with chains to mark Ashoura, the ten-day mourning of the death of one of their most important saints, Imam Hussein, Sunday Feb. 29, 2004 in Khadimiya north of Baghdad, Iraq. For the first time on Tuesday March 2, Shiite Muslims in Iraq will be able to mark Ashoura at the Shiite holy city of Karbala, which was banned during the rule of toppled dictator Saddam Hussein. (AP Photo/Samir Mizban)
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British soldiers patrol a road in the southern port city of Basra, Iraq. Thousands of British soldiers have complained that they suffered equipment shortages during the war in Iraq last year because of poor planning by senior officers, a newspaper said. AFP/Ahmad Al-Rub
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Iraq's Al-Muthanna province governor Mohammed Ali Hassan (C) raises arms with Japanese troops Commander Col. Koichiro Bansho (L) and Col. Masahisa Sato (R). Iraq's bankrollers have appointed Japan to chair a donor committee charged with monitoring the flow of reconstruction money through two trust funds, an Arab member of the body said AFP/Kazuhiro Nogi
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A move cross-country in a BV206 all-terrain vehicle, towing a Royal Marine ski patrol. The Minister of State for the Armed Forces, Adam Ingram MP, visited 3 Commando Brigade during a winter training exercise with Norwegian and Dutch commandos in the Arctic conditions of northern Norway, to experience at first hand the rigorous training undertaken by the UK's only high-readiness mountain warfare formation.
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Mr Ingram experienced for himself a night's sleep in a snowhole
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Indian Ocean (Feb, 26, 2004) – Aviation Electronics Technician 2nd Class Jeremy Snipes, of Jacksonville, Fla., performs an operational check of aircraft instrumentation in the cockpit of an F/A-18C Hornet assigned to the “Knighthawks” of Strike Fighter Squadron One Three Six (VFA-136) in the hangar bay aboard USS George Washington (CVN 73). The Norfolk, Va.-based nuclear powered aircraft carrier is on a scheduled deployment. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate Airman Janice Kreischer. (RELEASED)
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The Bow Mariner, a chemical tanker sinks after an explosion off the coast of Virginia, Saturday, Feb 28, 2004. The Coast Guard continued searching the frigid Atlantic Sunday for 18 crew members of the tanker which was carrying 3.5 million gallons (13.3 million liters) of ethanol. Three crewmen were known dead and six others were rescued. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard)
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Infrared video image of U.S. Coast Guard helicopter rescuing survivors on emergency rafters after an explosion on board the 570-foot (170-meter), 39,000-ton Singapore-flagged Bow Mariner, a chemical tanker carrying 11,000 tons of industrial ethanol, killed three crewmembers at least 50 miles (80 km) from the Virginia shore, February 28, 2004. The U.S. Coast Guard searched frigid waters off the Virginia coast February 29 for 18 missing crew. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY *******/U.S. Coast Guard/Handout
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Surviving crewmen from the 570-foot tanker Bow Mariner are shown in this video image arriving at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital via a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter in Norfolk, Va., on Saturday night, Feb. 28, 2004. The tanker carrying 3.5 million gallons of industrial ethanol exploded and sank about 50 miles off the Virginia coast Saturday, the Coast Guard said. At least three of the 27 crew members died and most of the others were missing. (AP Photo/WVEC-TV Channel 13 via Virginian-Pilot)
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National Guard soldiers take cover during clashes with anti-President Hugo Chavez protesters in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)
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A Venezuelan national guardsman takes up a position after shots were fired during clashes with opponents of the government, in Caracas, February 29, 2004. Venezuelan troops on Sunday clashed with opponents of President Hugo Chavez and his supporters marched through the capital as they rallied ahead of a ruling on an opposition bid for a recall referendum. The fresh violence broke out as tens of thousands of Chavez supporters marched Sunday to protest what they criticized as U.S. meddling in Venezuelan affairs and to rally support for the leftist president as he battles the referendum challenge. *******/Jose Miguel Gomez
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National Guard soldiers fire tear gas at anti-President Hugo Chavez protesters who tried to pass the National Guard barricade after a pro-Chavez march passed nearby in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)
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Felipe Izquierdo, a cameraman for Univision television, is carried away by National Guard soldiers after being shot in the foot while covering clashes between anti-President Hugo Chavez protesters and the National Guard in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)
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An anti-President Hugo Chavez protester holds a sign reading 'I signed for Venezuela,' referring to his signature on a petition asking for a referendum on Chavez's rule, as other protesters create a barricade during clashes with the National Guard in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Feb. 29, 2004. (AP Photo/Gregorio Marrero)