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YANGON, Myanmar (CNN) -- Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and an American man who swam to her lakeside home went on trial in the military dictatorship Monday behind closed doors inside a prison compound.

Soldiers guard the entrance to Insein Prison on Monday in Yangon, Myanmar.

The trial is expected to last about three months, said Nyan Win, spokesman for her National League for Democracy party.

Suu Kyi's lawyer asked the court to open up the hearings but was turned down because of security concerns, Win said.

Police put up roadblocks on the streets leading to the Insean Prison near Yangon, with a half-dozen officers at each station. Shops around the prison were closed, according to opposition exile groups.

A group of diplomats from Germany, Italy, Australia and Britain tried to pass through the barricades to attend the trial. They were stopped and turned away.

"It was a way of signaling our concern at what's happening and the need for the proceedings in the court to take place in an open and transparent fashion," Britain's ambassador to Myanmar, Mark Canning, told CNN.

About 100 supporters of Suu Kyi waited outside.

The American visitor, John Yettaw, is charged with immigration violations and trespassing into a restrictive area, charges that carry a maximum sentence of five years in prison.  Watch more on Suu Kyi's trial Â»

He is accused of staying overnight in Suu Kyi's lakeside home earlier this month, violating the conditions of her house arrest, according to the country's ruling military junta, which rarely grants her visitors.

The central Missouri man was appointed a lawyer selected by the U.S. embassy, Win said.

Suu Kyi, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and two of her maids have been detained under Section 22 of the country's legal code -- a law against subversion -- according to Nyan Win, spokesman for Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy.

Suu Kyi, 63, had been scheduled to be released from house arrest later this month after being incarcerated 13 of the past 19 years. She is now being held in a specially built area of Insein Prison, where Yettaw also is detained, a U.S. Embassy official told CNN on Friday.

The timing of Suu Kyi's detention raised suspicion among her supporters, who said the government's action was an excuse to extend her house arrest.  Watch former U.S. president Jimmy Carter discuss Aung San Suu Kyi Â»

"This is the cunning plan of the regime to put Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in continuous detention beyond the six years allowed by the law they used to justify the detention of her," said the U.S. Campaign for Burma, a pro-democracy group fighting for her release. "Daw" is an honorific.

The southeast Asian country was known as Burma before the military government changed it to Myanmar. Those who oppose the junta still use the old name.

Suu Kyi's lawyer, U Kyi Win, blamed her prison detention on Yettaw.

Local media said Yettaw, a 53-year-old former military serviceman from Falcon, Missouri, swam almost two miles across Inya Lake on May 3 and sneaked into Suu Kyi's home. Police maintain a round-the-clock presence outside the house. And swimming in the lake is forbidden.

U Kyi Win told CNN that Yettaw arrived at his client's house that day and that she asked him to leave immediately. U Kyi Win said Yettaw refused to leave, first saying he didn't want to swim in daylight for fear of being captured, and later blaming leg cramps. Yettaw finally left May 5.

Suu Kyi didn't tell authorities about the visit because she didn't want Yettaw or anyone else to get in trouble, Win said, nothing that several of her party members and supporters are already in jail. He added that Yettaw would likely be in the courtroom during the trial.

Little else is known about Yettaw's role in the Myanmar incident or his intentions, apart from local media reports that said Yettaw, a diabetic, told Suu Kyi's two housekeepers he was tired and hungry after the swim and they offered him food.

Some previous media reports referred to him as John William Yeattaw. He appeared healthy and in good spirits at a hearing on Friday at Insein Prison, the U.S. Embassy official said.

The defense will argue that Yettaw entered Suu Kyi's home due to poor government security, said Jared Genser, a Washington, D.C.-based lawyer who is one of the attorneys on her defense team.

"Frankly, she does not believe she did any offense," Genser said.

He noted that Insein Prison houses many political prisoners, and the conditions are poor for even a young, healthy person. Tuberculosis is rampant, mosquitoes and other insects are numerous, and nighttime temperatures at the prison frequently reach 90 degrees Fahrenheit (29-32 Celsius) with no fresh air traveling through the facility, Genser said.

"There is deep reason to be concerned with her detention," he said. "Insein is a notorious prison. It is filthy. ... When you combine that with her health concerns, it is very worrying."

Suu Kyi has been the face of Myanmar's pro-democracy movement and the focus of a global campaign to free her. Her National League for Democracy party won over 80 percent of the legislative seats in 1990, but she was disqualified from serving because of her house arrest, and the military junta ignored the results.

It was during her house arrest that she won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.

CNN's Kocha Olarn contributed to this report.

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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Carrie Prejean's lawyer gave Miss California USA executive director Keith Lewis what he said was a final warning to retract statements made about the former beauty queen or face a defamation lawsuit.

The lawyer for former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean, says the ousted beauty queen's good name is "tarnished."

Prejean, stripped of the Miss California USA title last week, "suffered severe emotional distress" and her reputation was harmed by Lewis, Charles LiMandri said in a letter sent Thursday to Lewis' lawyer.

LiMandri's letter also accused Lewis, whom he referred to as a "gay activist," of setting Prejean up to be fired because of her statements opposing same-sex marriage.

When Prejean, 22, was dethroned, Lewis said it was for "contract violations," including missed public appearances.

He told CNN's Larry King last week that it wasn't one thing Prejean did, but "many, many, many things."

"She came to us and said I'm not interested in your input; I'll make my own decision what I'm going to do," Lewis said. "You know, when you have a contract, when you're working for someone, you have a responsibility to follow through on what that requirement is."

Lewis told King it was clear "she was not interested in upholding the title or the responsibilities."

"Carrie Prejean's good name has been tarnished by your client's false and defamatory accusations," the letter from her lawyer to Lewis' said.

"Please view this letter as a last opportunity for Mr. Lewis to retract the defamatory statements made against my client and to seek to restore her good name," LiMandri said. "If he does not comply, I will have no alternative but to recommend that Ms. Prejean proceed to do so through litigation."

In response to the letter, Lewis issued a statement that said: "Mr. LiMandri obviously has never watched 'The Apprentice' if he believes that Mr. Trump could be so easily fooled. Facts are facts, and we stand by them."

LiMandri denied any contract violations, saying it was a "complete and utter pretext" for her firing.

The list Lewis gave to reporters of Prejean's missed appearances was "an outright fraud," he said.

Prejean "did not refuse reasonable appearance requests" that could "be expected to promote and further the intended purposes of Miss California USA," he said.

The beauty queen expected to be asked to attend "Rotary conventions and avocado festivals," not events Lewis suggested, LiMandri said.

"She did not think it was appropriate for her to accept Mr. Lewis' invitation to attend a gay documentary in Hollywood promoting same-sex marriage," he said. "It was not my client's job, as Miss California, simply to help your client promote his personal or business interests as a Hollywood agent and producer, or gay activist."

He accused Lewis of trying to make commissions off Prejean's appearances.

"Your client was trying to wrongfully profit off of my client's participation as Miss California, in violation of her contract, by taking 20 percent of any appearance fee she would earn, such as at the Las Vegas jewelers convention she attended at his request," LiMandri's letter said.

LiMandri cited a statement he said Lewis made during a May 15 conference call that "clearly shows that your client was trying to 'set-up' our client for termination" by relaying an offer to appear semi-nude in Playboy. Three people who worked for a public relations agency representing Prejean at the time heard it, he said.

"All three of those people distinctly remember Keith Lewis talking about sending Ms. Prejean an offer to do a Playboy photo shoot 'so when they take her title away, she doesn't sue me,' " he said.

LiMandri said Lewis -- and former co-executive director Shanna Moakler -- were "bound and determined to get her fired, and they have now finally gotten their way."

Miss USA pageant owner Donald Trump announced last month that Prejean could keep her title despite a controversy over topless photos, missed appearances and her statements against same-sex marriage.

Trump reversed himself last week.

"I told Carrie she needed to get back to work and honor her contract with the Miss California USA organization, and I gave her the opportunity to do so," Trump said. "Unfortunately, it just doesn't look like it is going to happen, and I offered Keith my full support in making this decision."

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question: What was Pageant director's response?

answer: Lewis issued a statement that said: "Mr. LiMandri obviously has never watched 'The Apprentice' if he believes that Mr. Trump could be so easily fooled. Facts are facts, and we stand by them."

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question: what does Carrie Prejean's lawyer says abouth dethronement?

answer: the ousted beauty queen's good name is "tarnished."

text: the ousted beauty queen's good name is "tarnished."

question: Who penned ultimatum?

answer: Carrie Prejean's lawyer

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question: What does Prejeans lawyer say?

answer: final warning to retract statements made about the former beauty queen or face a defamation lawsuit.

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(CNN)  -- Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa denied Saturday that a Colombian guerrilla group donated money to his 2006 presidential campaign, asking his country's civil commission to investigate the allegation.

Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, as pictured in June, says a probe into FARC's claims will clear his name.

Colombian media broadcast a 2008 video Friday in which guerrilla leader VÃctor Julio Suarez Rojas, better known as Mono Jojoy, said the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia donated money to Correa's campaign.

The guerrilla group, known by its Spanish acronym FARC, also has had conversations with Correa's emissaries and has reached "some accords, according to documents that we have," Suarez said in a videotape.

Correa denied the allegations and said he wants the nation's civil commission to see "if the Ecuadorian government, if the Alianza PAIS [political party] has received 20 cents from any foreign group, not just from the FARC."

The leftist president said that during the campaign, some opponents accused him of receiving money from leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, from drug cartels and from the FARC.

"They just don't know what else to say," Correa said. "It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country."

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question: What step has Presient Correa taken to prove FARC did not donate to his 2006 campaign?

answer: investigate the allegation.

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question: Who strongly denies the claims made?

answer: Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa

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(CNN) -- President-elect Barack Obama, who in 10 days will be sworn in using the Bible of his political hero Abraham Lincoln, visited the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Saturday night with his family.

The Obama family walks down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Saturday.

Obama, wife Michelle and daughters Malia and Sasha made the unannounced stop shortly after 7 p.m. ET.

The family walked up the steps of the memorial on a chilly night in Washington and then visited the museum at the site. On the way out, they stopped at the edge of the reflecting pool.

The parents were seen pointing in the distance to the Capitol and the Washington Monument.

The Obamas spent about a half-hour at the memorial before returning to the Hay-Adams Hotel, where they are staying.  Watch the family at the memorial Â»

Obama will be the first president to use the Lincoln Bible for his inauguration since Lincoln used it in 1861. Inauguration organizers have said Obama's inaugural theme, "A New Birth of Freedom," was inspired by Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.  Learn more about the Lincoln Memorial Â»

The president-elect also plans a train trip from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Washington three days before the inauguration, following the final leg of the train route taken by Lincoln.

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(CNN) -- Greece's economic turmoil threatens to topple the eurozone, shake the global financial markets and bring down the protagonist in the political drama: embattled Prime Minister George Papandreou.

Papandreou has been at the center of the financial storm in Europe, with his political future on the line after a turbulent day of political wrangling between the government and opposition.

As the 59-year-old comes under fire for his call for a referendum on the latest bailout package from Europe, the world is anxiously watching.

And uncertainty looms for a man surrounded by power from an early age.

Born in Minnesota and educated in the United States, Sweden and several other countries, Papandreou has seen the world as a student and a diplomat.

The son and grandson of former leaders, Papandreou is a product of Greece's political establishment. His grandfather served as prime minister in the 1960s, a position assumed about two decades later by his father after he founded the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, or PASOK party.

During his first run for Greece's top job in 2004, Papandreou did not shy away from touting his family legacy.

"I am very, very honored to have such a name," he said at the time. "It is a heavy responsibility, but it is the Greek people in the end who make the decision."

While his name is a political institution in the South European nation, his rise to power was hardly preordained -- considering he was born more than 5,000 miles from Athens, on June 16, 1952, in St. Paul, Minnesota.

His father, Andreas, joined the University of Minnesota faculty five years earlier as an associate economics professor, rising later to full professor before leaving in 1955 for a post at the University of Berkeley in California.

"He was a most charismatic character: His eyes seemed to burn with zeal," Scott Maynes said of the elder Papandreou in a University of Minnesota economics department newsletter.

"It bothered me that he seemed to see the CIA under every bed ... But what impressed me most of all about Papandreou was the strong commitment he inspired."

The prime minister's mother, Margaret Chant, graduated with a journalism degree in 1946, from the Twin Cities university.

Six years later, the same year her son was born, she earned her master's degree in public health.

In a letter in the 1972 edition of the University of Minnesota alumni news magazine, Margaret Chant Papandreou explained how her family left the United States in 1959 and settled into "political life" in Greece.

She wrote then that she initially spoke little Greek, though her children -- young George included -- "attended Greek schools." Her friends, she said, tended to be educated in England or the United States. And she particularly bristled at what she deemed Greece's "machismo" culture, and the tendency of men in authority to demean and unfairly punish women who spoke out.

"They detested me," Chant Papandreou recalled of those aligned against her and her husband. "I had 'mingled too much in politics,' they declared... If I weren't in the fight for the liberation of Greece, I'd surely be in the fight for the liberation of Greek women."

The Papandreou family's lives turned upside down following a military coup in April 1967, leading to a globe-trotting existence evident in the schools the prime minister attended including in Illinois, Stockholm and Toronto.

Papandreou also attended Amherst College, a small and prestigious liberal arts institution in central Massachusetts where he roomed with Antonis Samaras, according to Amherst's news office.

Samaras would later become his primary political rival as the leader of Greece's conservative New Democracy party. He has described the prime minister as untrustworthy and demanded he resign and call for snap elections in six weeks.

After attending schools in far-flung cities, he eventually returned to Greece and immersed himself in politics. He first won election to parliament in 1981 and within a few years, he was a key figure in his father's PASOK's party.

While still a parliamentary member, he assumed several ministerial positions where he coordinated the government's unsuccessful bid to win the 1996 Olympic summer games.

After a short stint away from top ministry positions and fresh off heading Greece's winning 2004 Olympic bid, he emerged as a prominent international figure in the late 1990s.

He became a tested diplomat on various issues, including fostering positive relations with Turkey, boosting support for the U.S.-led coalition against terrorism and serving as a key figure in helping defuse a 2002 crisis involving militants expelled from the West Bank after taking refuge in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity.

One of his biggest milestones came last month when he negotiated another round of bailout funding (and mandated austerity measures), worth about 130 billion euros ($178 billion).

It remains to be seen whether that agreement will be realized, or whether Papandreou will be in power if, and when, Greece turns the financial corner.

Journalist Elinda Labropoulou contributed to this report.

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text: United

text: States

text: Sweden

text: and

text: several

text: other

text: countries

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text: world

text: as

text: a

text: student

text: and

text: a

text: diplomat

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text: son

text: and

text: grandson

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text: of

text: Greece

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text: a

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text: Panhellenic

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text: Movement

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text: PASOK

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text: run

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text: top

text: job

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text: from

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text: very

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text: name

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text: Greek

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text: name

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text: South

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text: born

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text: than

text: miles

text: from

text: Athens

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text: Paul

text: Minnesota

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text: father

text: Andreas

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text: University

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text: Minnesota

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text: economics

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text: University

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text: Berkeley

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text: eyes

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text: with

text: zeal

text: Scott

text: Maynes

text: said

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text: the

text: elder

text: Papandreou

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text: a

text: University

text: of

text: Minnesota

text: economics

text: department

text: newsletter

text: It

text: bothered

text: me

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text: he

text: seemed

text: to

text: see

text: the

text: CIA

text: under

text: every

text: bed

text: But

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text: impressed

text: me

text: most

text: of

text: all

text: about

text: Papandreou

text: was

text: the

text: strong

text: commitment

text: he

text: inspired

text: The

text: prime

text: minister

text: 's

text: mother

text: Margaret

text: Chant

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text: a

text: journalism

text: degree

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text: from

text: the

text: Twin

text: Cities

text: university

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text: same

text: year

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text: son

text: was

text: born

text: she

text: earned

text: her

text: master

text: 's

text: degree

text: in

text: public

text: health

text: In

text: a

text: letter

text: in

text: the

text: edition

text: of

text: the

text: University

text: of

text: Minnesota

text: alumni

text: news

text: magazine

text: Margaret

text: Chant

text: Papandreou

text: explained

text: how

text: her

text: family

text: left

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: in

text: and

text: settled

text: into

text: political

text: life

text: in

text: Greece

text: She

text: wrote

text: then

text: that

text: she

text: initially

text: spoke

text: little

text: Greek

text: though

text: her

text: children

text: young

text: George

text: included

text: attended

text: Greek

text: schools

text: Her

text: friends

text: she

text: said

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text: to

text: be

text: educated

text: in

text: England

text: or

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: And

text: she

text: particularly

text: bristled

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text: she

text: deemed

text: Greece

text: 's

text: machismo

text: culture

text: and

text: the

text: tendency

text: of

text: men

text: in

text: authority

text: to

text: demean

text: and

text: unfairly

text: punish

text: women

text: who

text: spoke

text: out

text: They

text: detested

text: me

text: Chant

text: Papandreou

text: recalled

text: of

text: those

text: aligned

text: against

text: her

text: and

text: her

text: husband

text: I

text: had

text: mingled

text: too

text: much

text: in

text: politics

text: they

text: declared

text: If

text: I

text: were

text: n't

text: in

text: the

text: fight

text: for

text: the

text: liberation

text: of

text: Greece

text: I

text: 'd

text: surely

text: be

text: in

text: the

text: fight

text: for

text: the

text: liberation

text: of

text: Greek

text: women

text: The

text: Papandreou

text: family

text: 's

text: lives

text: turned

text: upside

text: down

text: following

text: a

text: military

text: coup

text: in

text: April

text: leading

text: to

text: a

text: globe

text: trotting

text: existence

text: evident

text: in

text: the

text: schools

text: the

text: prime

text: minister

text: attended

text: including

text: in

text: Illinois

text: Stockholm

text: and

text: Toronto

text: Papandreou

text: also

text: attended

text: Amherst

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text: small

text: and

text: prestigious

text: liberal

text: arts

text: institution

text: in

text: central

text: Massachusetts

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text: he

text: roomed

text: with

text: Antonis

text: Samaras

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text: to

text: Amherst

text: 's

text: news

text: office

text: Samaras

text: would

text: later

text: become

text: his

text: primary

text: political

text: rival

text: as

text: the

text: leader

text: of

text: Greece

text: 's

text: conservative

text: New

text: Democracy

text: party

text: He

text: has

text: described

text: the

text: prime

text: minister

text: as

text: untrustworthy

text: and

text: demanded

text: he

text: resign

text: and

text: call

text: for

text: snap

text: elections

text: in

text: six

text: weeks

text: After

text: attending

text: schools

text: in

text: far

text: flung

text: cities

text: he

text: eventually

text: returned

text: to

text: Greece

text: and

text: immersed

text: himself

text: in

text: politics

text: He

text: first

text: won

text: election

text: to

text: parliament

text: in

text: and

text: within

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text: few

text: years

text: he

text: was

text: a

text: key

text: figure

text: in

text: his

text: father

text: 's

text: PASOK

text: 's

text: party

text: While

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text: a

text: parliamentary

text: member

text: he

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text: several

text: ministerial

text: positions

text: where

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text: coordinated

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text: government

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text: unsuccessful

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text: win

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text: Olympic

text: summer

text: games

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text: short

text: stint

text: away

text: from

text: top

text: ministry

text: positions

text: and

text: fresh

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text: heading

text: Greece

text: 's

text: winning

text: Olympic

text: bid

text: he

text: emerged

text: as

text: a

text: prominent

text: international

text: figure

text: in

text: the

text: late

text: He

text: became

text: a

text: tested

text: diplomat

text: on

text: various

text: issues

text: including

text: fostering

text: positive

text: relations

text: with

text: Turkey

text: boosting

text: support

text: for

text: the

text: U.S

text: led

text: coalition

text: against

text: terrorism

text: and

text: serving

text: as

text: a

text: key

text: figure

text: in

text: helping

text: defuse

text: a

text: crisis

text: involving

text: militants

text: expelled

text: from

text: the

text: West

text: Bank

text: after

text: taking

text: refuge

text: in

text: Bethlehem

text: 's

text: Church

text: of

text: the

text: Nativity

text: One

text: of

text: his

text: biggest

text: milestones

text: came

text: last

text: month

text: when

text: he

text: negotiated

text: another

text: round

text: of

text: bailout

text: funding

text: and

text: mandated

text: austerity

text: measures

text: worth

text: about

text: billion

text: euros

text: billion

text: It

text: remains

text: to

text: be

text: seen

text: whether

text: that

text: agreement

text: will

text: be

text: realized

text: or

text: whether

text: Papandreou

text: will

text: be

text: in

text: power

text: if

text: and

text: when

text: Greece

text: turns

text: the

text: financial

text: corner

text: Journalist

text: Elinda

text: Labropoulou

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: When did he first run for top job?

answer: 2004,

question: who was born in Minnesota?

answer: Papandreou

text: Papandreou

question: Where was George Papandreou born?

answer: Minnesota

text: Minnesota


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Santiago, Chile (CNN) -- Aid poured in for Chile from home and overseas, with a local television station hoping to raise $27 million by Saturday and the United Nations pledging funds toward recovery efforts after a massive earthquake.

"Chile Helps Chile," a telethon that started Friday, runs until Saturday night, according to TV Chile's Web site. The site includes phone numbers and and e-mails for making donations in nearly 20 countries outside the South American nation.

Hundreds of people died when the 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck Chile last Saturday. The world's fifth-strongest earthquake since 1900 resulted in a tsunami that toppled buildings, particularly in the Maule region along the coast.

It's still unclear exactly how many people died.

Army divers have been searching the waters near the city of Constitucion for the bodies of as many as 400 tourists who were camping on an island during a summer festival.

"There were horrible screams. People calling out for us to go and rescue them. They were crying for help. But there was nothing we could do," local fisherman Agustin Diaz said.

Full coverage of Chile's earthquake

United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Friday pledged up to $10 million to support relief and recovery efforts during a two-day visit, where he met with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet.

"I am visiting this city with a deep sadness," Ban told reporters Saturday while in Concepcion. "Standing before this destruction, I can feel for your loss, your struggle.

"At the same time I am very grateful, very moved by such a strong determination," he added. "The leaders, the people on the ground, they are all united."

Ban also announced Friday a team effort between U.N. agencies and the Chilean government to determine the priority areas for funds, with emphasis on health, shelters, education and water. The secretary-general plans to bring the matter in front of the United Nations on his return.

Chileans proud to help out their own

The Chilean government has asked the United Nations for items such as field hospitals with surgical facilities, dialysis centers, generators, saltwater purifying systems, mobile bridges and field kitchens.

Chile endured two more strong aftershocks Friday -- the first a 6.0-magnitude earthquake and the other 6.6. They were the latest in scores of aftershocks that have hit in the past week.

Friday's aftershocks did not cause any known injuries or damage and no tsunami warnings were issued.

A six-member U.S. Agency for International Development disaster response team has been sent to Chile to assist with relief effort, said State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley.

Shocking scenes hours after quake

The United States has sent 71 satellite phones, plastic sheeting and two mobile water treatment units, the State Department said. Six more water treatment units are to arrive within a week. A field hospital and two C-130 aircraft to assist with moving supplies around the country have also been deployed.

The United States has also sent $1 million to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to aid their efforts.

Chile has announced three days of national mourning beginning Sunday. Every house has been authorized to hang the national flag in memory of those who perished.

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The death toll was revised downward Thursday as authorities reviewed discrepancies in the reported number of dead in the Maule region.

To limit confusion, Deputy Interior Minister Patricio Rosende read aloud the names of 279 Chileans whose bodies had been identified by Thursday evening. The new tally does not account for hundreds of unidentified victims.

"It takes months sometimes to compile the information, because one of the biggest problems in the affected areas is the lack of precision and uncertainty at the scene," Rosende said.

Despite the disaster, the Chilean Davis Cup tennis team will open competition Saturday in Coquimbo, Chile, against Israel. Team officials and players said they would be playing in honor of quake victims.

"It will be difficult, but we will do our best for our country," said player Fernando Gonzalez.

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text: past

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text: scene

text: Rosende

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text: disaster

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text: Chilean

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text: Cup

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text: team

text: will

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text: competition

text: Saturday

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text: Chile

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text: Israel

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text: officials

text: and

text: players

text: said

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text: would

text: be

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text: in

text: honor

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text: quake

text: victims

text: It

text: will

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text: difficult

text: but

text: we

text: will

text: do

text: our

text: best

text: for

text: our

text: country

text: said

text: player

text: Fernando

text: Gonzalez

question: What was the size of the quake

answer: 8.8-magnitude

question: When will mourning begin?

answer: Sunday.

text: Sunday.

question: How long ago was the 8.8-magnitude earthquake?

answer: last Saturday.

text: last Saturday.

question: What day does national mourning begin?

answer: Sunday.

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question: Where was the earthquake?

answer: Chile

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question: What strength was the earthquake?

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Boston (CNN) -- Out of sheer boredom, Susumu Ito, in World War II, became a forward artillery observer, one of the most dangerous jobs available.

"I lied to my mom and told her it was assigned," he recalled. "I didn't want to tell her I thought it was exciting."

Forward artillery observers are among the first to go behind enemy lines, scouting for enemy installations and troop formations, targeting them for artillery strikes. In combat, he used an artillery periscope to spot enemy positions and direct cannon fire.

Ito had been in the Army since 1940, but after the attack on Pearl Harbor, many Japanese-American soldiers were discharged, and even those kept on were disarmed and reassigned.

"They took our rifles away, they didn't know what to do with us," Ito said.

At first, the Army made him a mechanic, a job he found tedious.

"Except for reveille at 6 o'clock in the morning, we had duties that were entirely like civilians."

In 1943, the creation of the segregated 442nd Regimental Combat Team allowed Japanese-Americans to prove their loyalty to the United States. Ito and thousands of other Asian-Americans welcomed the chance to demonstrate their courage in combat.

"The majority got into the infantry, and that's what I expected, but I was happy to be in the artillery," he said.

On Wednesday, Ito, along with more than 1,000 members of the 100th Battalion, 442nd RCT, will be honored on Capitol Hill with a Congressional Gold Medal for their extraordinary accomplishments in World War II. The Congressional Gold Medal is the nation's highest civilian award.

Japanese-American WWII vets awarded special medal

During World War II, Ito watched as hundreds of men, including dozens of his friends, fell in battle. He witnessed prisoners in striped uniforms look back at their liberators with sunken eyes. He even got to walk around the Berghof, Adolf Hitler's residence near his famed "Eagle's Nest" retreat in the Alps.

Before deploying to Europe, Ito had seen and been behind the barbed wire that surrounded his family's barracks at Rohwer Relocation Center in southeast Arkansas. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese-Americans were labeled "enemy aliens," and more than 110,000 were sent to internment camps across the United States. Though he was concerned, Ito says that he and his family accepted this as something that had to be done.

"It was a strange feeling to have an armed guard give me a pass in order to be let in," he said.

Ito captured many of his wartime experiences with his small Argus camera. Under orders not to bring cameras, he brought one anyway, as he wanted to keep a record.

"It was quite unique because no one to my knowledge had a camera, they all obeyed orders. I bent them whenever possible."

Ito is now 92 years old, a retired Harvard Medical Emeritus professor who spends his days inside a laboratory using high-tech microscopy equipment to view his cell specimens.

His photographs still generate a range of emotions. Many are group shots of smiling war buddies, posing near their howitzers or against scenic backdrops. Some feature the capture of German soldiers or the damaged buildings of the Berghof, and others contain more solemn reminders of the concentration camps, which evoke a sense of indignation.

Ito's unit, the 522nd Field Artillery, liberated concentration camp prisoners from a subcamp of Dachau, a town in southern Germany.

"It was an awful feeling, hearing a Lithuanian teenager, in his gray uniform, translate what had happened," he recalled.

As he snapped photos of the survivors, he thought of his parents and the stark difference in treatment between the German and American camps.

"I have objected to Americans calling the U.S. relocation centers 'concentration camps,' because in my mind, they were nothing compared to the emaciated bodies and crematoria we found in Germany," he said.

The 442nd motto was "Go for Broke," a saying that rings true for the regiment's battle-hardened soldiers. Most notably, it related to the famous rescue of the Lost Battalion in France in October 1944, when around 230 men in the 141st Regiment, 36th Texas Division, were surrounded by German forces in the Vosges Mountains.

Ito still gets goose bumps talking about it. The 442nd dug foxholes in the dense woods, as trees burst and casualties mounted from shrapnel.

"It was so dark, you couldn't see the man in front of you," he said. Artillery continued to rain down on them.

On the fifth day, two infantry companies, plus 2nd Lt. Ito and his three men, were ordered to charge the hill and reach the 141st. The hill was later renamed Banzai Hill.

" 'Banzai' was a Japanese battle cry," Ito explained.

The Japanese were notorious for massed suicidal offenses, and now the Americans were directing the same charge at the Germans. Ito and the three men under his command were part of the K and I companies that sent up 371 men. Only 25 soldiers reached the battalion unhurt; including Ito and his three artillerymen.

"I lost so many colleagues in the rescue," Ito recalled, his voice hoarse. The 442nd suffered 800 casualties in less than a week. "I don't know why I was so fortunate. I'm very grateful for the time given to me. I aim to make the most of it."

Needless to say, Ito is proud of his regiment's accomplishments and humbled by the recognition after all these years. He believes this unit's dedication to American patriotism is finally being noticed.

"Despite the fact that we were rounded up, segregated and interned, I think the message I would like to spread is that our loyalty to the United States is unquestioned."

CNN's Amanda White contributed to this story

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question: What is the award called?

answer: Congressional Gold Medal

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question: Which Japanese-American fought in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team in WW II?

answer: Susumu Ito,

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question: With what  are they being honored?

answer: Congressional Gold Medal

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question: Where are members of the 442nd RCT are being honored?

answer: Capitol Hill

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question: what is the nation's highest civilian award

answer: The Congressional Gold Medal

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question: who are  are being honored on Capitol Hill with a Congressional Gold Medal

answer: more than 1,000 members of the 100th Battalion, 442nd RCT,

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