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Editor's note: CNN Contributor Bob Greene is a best-selling author whose new book is "Late Edition: A Love Story."

Bob Greene says Logan, Ohio, paid an extraordinary tribute to its most dedicated football fan.

(CNN) -- "Yes, it's all gone now," Craig Dunn told me the other day. "If you're not from around here, you'd never know it was ever there."

Dunn is the sports editor of the Logan, Ohio, Daily News, a paper with a small circulation (around 4,000) and a small news staff (five people put the paper out, covering the entire county). Last fall, when I was crisscrossing the country on the CNN Election Express, I spoke with Dunn about the town's high school football stadium, which was being demolished.

Bill Sauer Field, it was called.

The story I wrote appeared briefly on the Political Ticker and then went away quickly; there was so much rapidly breaking news coming out of the presidential campaign that the story was little more than a blip.

Yet I found myself, during the last year, thinking about Bill Sauer Field, and Logan, Ohio, and how it's possible for all of us, if we make the effort, to find the best in ourselves -- to find the best in each other. I find myself thinking about Bill Sauer, and about what that little town did for him, more than I think about almost anything else on which I reported during our long journey through America.

And so, with a new football season beginning all across the United States, I spoke with Craig Dunn again the other afternoon.

"When I drive by the place where it used to be, it's not with a sense of sadness," he said. "It's with pride for what this town once did."

Bill Sauer Field was the core of public life in Logan. The town, population 7,300, gravitated to the old stadium on Friday nights in autumns to watch the high school team, the Chieftains, play their games.

And who was Bill Sauer?

A self-made millionaire from the community who had bestowed the stadium upon the town? A prominent local politician? A long-gone Logan football hero?

No.

Bill Sauer was born in Logan more than 100 years ago -- in 1908. From the time he was a little boy, he could not walk. He spoke with great difficulty. His parents, desperate, searched for answers. Logan was and is a rural community, and back then sophisticated medical diagnoses were not easy to come by. His mother and father were eventually told that the boy had cerebral palsy.

He attended public school in Logan. It was not easy, of course. He was 23 by the time he graduated from Logan High School.

Then, as now, the boys who were strong and swift and athletically graceful were the ones most celebrated. Bill could not even take a step on his own.

But he loved the Logan sports teams, and he took pride in supporting them. Football, basketball, track and field -- he never missed a game, and he seldom missed a practice session. He would be there on the sidelines, sitting in his wheelchair, cheering for his classmates.

His life didn't get any less arduous after he graduated. His father died. It became incumbent upon Bill to support himself and his mother. He sold Christmas cards; he sold magazine subscriptions. At the town's swimming pool, he ran the concessions stand.

His philosophy of life, Craig Dunn told me, was basic: However often you get knocked down, you get back up one more time.

Bill Sauer grew older. New generations of healthy and talented young athletes played for the Logan Chieftains on Friday nights. No matter the weather, no matter how he was feeling, Bill was always there.

The Logan football stadium had been constructed in 1925. It was the heart of the town; it was what made the community feel like a community.

In 1975, there was a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the stadium. On that night, it was renamed.

For him.

For Bill.

The whole town had fallen in love with him. All of the quarterbacks who had ever thrown touchdown passes in that stadium, all of the linebackers who had ever made jarring tackles, all of the field goal kickers who had ever won games for Logan as the scoreboard clock ticked down ... and the place was renamed for the boy who could never run a single stride.

As the years went by, when visiting teams would come to town, few of the opposing players would have any idea why the stadium in Logan bore the name that it did.

That didn't matter.

Logan knew.

Bill knew.

He never married or had a family. He kept going to the games, sitting on the sidelines, right up until his death in 1988. The town, by honoring him the way it did, had given his life meaning, and contentment, and joy.

The decades after his death passed; the stadium grew too old, too outmoded. Finally, by last year, there could be no more delay. It was time to tear down Bill Sauer Field.

It has vanished now. The new athletic complex -- Logan Chieftain Stadium, it is called -- has risen out near State Route 328. Craig Dunn, the sports editor, spends his Friday nights in the fall covering the games there. Plans are in the works, he said, to erect a plaque at the new stadium in memory of the lifelong fortitude of the town's most faithful fan.

"They want the plaque to be in a place where the Logan players can see it as they run onto the field for every game," Dunn said. "They want to make sure that Bill is never forgotten."

This can be a mean old world sometimes. But other times, when you least expect it, it can light you up.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Bob Greene.

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question: What was Sauer a fan of?

answer: Football, basketball, track and field

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question: What condition did Sauer have?

answer: cerebral palsy.

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question: What did the town name after Sauer?

answer: high school football stadium,

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question: What was named after Sauer?

answer: the town's high school football stadium,

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question: What medical condition did Sauer have?

answer: cerebral palsy.

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question: Who was a dedicated fan of his football team?

answer: Craig Dunn

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question: What physical handicap did Sauer have?

answer: cerebral palsy.

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People in Singapore queue outside the office of  AIA, a subsidiary of AIG.

The crowd formed just hours after the U.S. Federal Reserve Board authorized the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to lend $85 billion to a crumbling AIG. In return, the federal government will receive a nearly 80 percent stake in the company.

One person who lined up in Singapore, retired teacher Wong Yoke Inn, said she was going to pull her investments from AIA even though it would cost her about $3,000 -- the equivalent of about $2,000 in the United States.

She joined an orderly crowd whose members were each given a number and a time to return to meet with a representative of AIA Singapore -- AIG's division in the island nation.

AIA tried to allay investors concerns in a statement distributed outside the Singapore office and posted on the company's Web site.

"AIA Singapore has more than sufficient capital and reserves ... to meet our obligations to policyholders," the statement said.

"The funds maintained in Singapore are segregated from American International Group, Inc. (AIG) and are held specifically for the purpose of meeting our obligations to policyholders."

The U.S. government announced Tuesday night that it would act to save America's largest insurer from filing for bankruptcy. Such a move almost certainly would have further roiled world markets already reeling from the bankruptcy filling of Lehman Brothers and the sale of Merrill Lynch to Bank of America.

AIG has $1.1 trillion in assets and 74 million clients in 130 countries.

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Pirates off the eastern coast of Africa fired on U.S. sailors Saturday as they tried to reach the lifeboat where an American captain is being held, a U.S. official familiar with the situation told CNN.

The guided missile frigate USS Halyburton, with helicopter capabilities, is now at the scene.

The gunfire forced the sailors, who did not return fire, back to the guided missile destroyer USS Bainbridge, the official said.

Capt. Richard Phillips reportedly offered himself as a hostage to the pirates during an attack Wednesday on the U.S.-flagged container ship Maersk Alabama in the Indian Ocean.

The Alabama was en route to Mombasa, Kenya, with a cargo of food aid when it was hijacked about 350 miles off the Somalia coast.

The American crew regained control of the vessel, but the Maersk company would not say how. There are about 20 crew members.

The Alabama arrived Saturday in Mombasa, along with an 18-person armed security detail on board.

"For security reasons, the vessel will berth in a restricted area of the port and will not be accessible to the media. FBI agents will debrief members of the crew on board the vessel before they disembark. The crew will not be available to the media in Mombasa," Maersk Ltd. said.  Watch the latest Maersk briefing Â»

The U.S. Navy -- which is in charge of the situation -- requested help from the FBI to resolve the standoff.

The FBI is launching a criminal investigation into the hijacking and hostage-taking, two law enforcement officials told CNN. The probe will be led by the FBI's New York field office, which has responsibility for looking into cases involving U.S. citizens in the African region. Agents from the office were scheduled to leave for Africa sometime this weekend, the officials said.

Phillips lives in Underhill, Vermont, where neighbor and longtime family friend, Tom Walsh, told CNN the captain's wife, Andrea, was surrounded by relatives.

"If they need us to help with anything. That's kind of the way it is in these communities. ... just showing that we're concerned. We want to do whatever she needs," Walsh said. "She has a lot of family there."  Watch more about the hostage situation Â»

Earlier Saturday, pirates sailing a hijacked German cargo ship returned to port after failing to reach the area of the standoff with the Bainbridge, a local journalist told CNN.

The German ship Hansa Stavanger was among several pirated vessels trying to sail to the area some 300 miles off the Somali coast, a Somali journalist told CNN.

The pirate crew had intended to help the pirates holding Phillips but turned back because of the U.S. naval presence, the journalist said. The Hansa Stavanger is now at the Somali port of Eyl, the journalist said.

The Hansa Stavanger was hijacked April 4 off the Somali coast.

Pirates have been searching the waters off Africa's coast for the Alabama's lifeboat, a U.S. military official with knowledge of the situation said Friday. They are using hijacked vessels and skiffs launched from larger ships, the official said.

The guided missile frigate USS Halyburton, with helicopter capabilities, has joined the Bainbridge in the area. A third ship, the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer -- with a medical facility aboard -- should be there by the end of the day. iReport.com: Share your thoughts on how the pirates are being handled

Phillips is being held by four gunmen in the covered, fiberglass lifeboat. He jumped overboard at one point to try to escape, but one of the pirates jumped into the water after him and brought him back onboard the 28-foot boat.

The pirates fired shots, the military official said, without providing further details.

Phillips appeared to be tied up by the pirates after the escape attempt, a Defense Department official told CNN.

For the U.S. Navy, bringing in more firepower is more than just a means to resolve a hostage situation, said Chris Lawrence, CNN's Pentagon correspondent.

Attacks in the area have picked up so drastically in recent months that the Navy has to reposition some of its fleet to deal with the threats, he said.

The pirates have shown no signs of giving in.

Meanwhile, the acts of piracy were having an effect on tourists disembarking from ships in Mombasa.

"Well, we got the international news stories on television on the ship and everybody's concerned about the route that we were on because there was always the possibility that we would be approached by pirates," one male passenger said.

CNN's Stephanie Elam, Mohammed Jamjoom and Barbara Starr contributed to this report.

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- One of the main stumbling blocks to talk with Iran has been the condition that Iran suspends its uranium enrichment. Now, the Obama administration may take that option off the table, at least for now.

This is from an Iranian nuclear plant in the central province of Isfahan on April 9.

The United States and its European allies, which have just invited Iran to a fresh round of nuclear talks, are coming to the realization that if Iran's nuclear program isn't quite at the point of no return, it will be soon. With 5,500 centrifuges, roughly enough for about two weapons worth of uranium a year, Iran isn't going to just shut down its enrichment facility as a goodwill gesture.

For years, Iran has been willing to endure sanctions and economic isolation. What it hasn't been willing to do is suspend enrichment.

Iran maintains enriching uranium for nuclear energy is its right. Now the West seems to have come around to Iran's way of thinking. Last week during a speech on proliferation in Prague, Czech Republic, President Obama admitted as much when he said, "We will support Iran's right to peaceful nuclear energy with rigorous inspections."

The International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog, has long argued to allow Iran to maintain a small face-saving nuclear enrichment program under the guise of "research and development."

Allowing such a program under the Non-Proliferation Treaty, at least while negotiations continue, would involve strict IAEA inspections -- something which may give the international community the kind of insight into Iran's nuclear program which it has long sought.

It would also give Iran the cover to come back to the table without claiming it never gave in to the West. Rather, Tehran can boast the international community came around to its point of view. Preventing Iranian enrichment may be an ultimate pipe dream, but officials hope the right package of incentives, coupled with the threat of tougher sanctions, which could cripple its stumbling economy, could deter Tehran from developing a nuclear bomb.

If adopted, the new strategy will undoubtedly be condemned by Israel, which has warned the U.S. that it has until the end of the year to put an end to Iran's uranium production before it takes matters into its own hands.

However, moving beyond the issue of enrichment helps Obama inch closer toward engagement with Iran, something he promised during the campaign and has begun to undertake with small, albeit significant, steps, most noticeably his New Year's message to the Iranian people.

Those who watch Iran closely say Obama's outreach is being warmly received in the region. While the response from spiritual leader Ayatollah Khamanei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seems vague at first glance, experts argue the regime is being quite conciliatory, even flirting with the U.S. overtures and opening the door for talks.

Now the administration is taking another leap, inviting Iran to several meetings on Afghanistan as a way to engage on issues of mutual interest. The U.S. is also seriously considering allowing U.S. diplomats around the world to interact with their Iranian counterparts and setting up a U.S. interests section in Iran.

Officials say not to expect any dramatic breakthroughs before the Iranians head to the polls to elect a new president in June. But Obama's conservative critics, including several Republican lawmakers, worry Obama is making it too easy for Iran to come back to the table and is giving credibility to Iran's defiant Ahmadinejad in his bid for re-election.

The goal of stopping Iran from building a nuclear weapon remains, but the tactics are shifting and the rules of the game have changed.

Obama and his advisers are betting that by finally giving Iran what it thinks it wants, the U.S. and its allies will get what they need -- a way to bring Iran to the table and start meaningful negotiations, which have eluded them for the past four years.

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text: but

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text: right

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text: with

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text: threat

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text: tougher

text: sanctions

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text: stumbling

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text: nuclear

text: bomb

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text: new

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text: end

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text: year

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text: Iran

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text: table

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text: Ahmadinejad

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text: bid

text: for

text: re

text: election

text: The

text: goal

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text: stopping

text: Iran

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text: building

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text: nuclear

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text: tactics

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text: the

text: rules

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text: game

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text: advisers

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text: allies

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text: past

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text: years

question: What does Israel want the U. S. to do?

answer: Iran's uranium production

text: Iran's uranium production

question: What does the Obama Administration hope for?

answer: deter Tehran from developing a nuclear bomb.

text: deter Tehran from developing a nuclear bomb.

question: Who is Barack Obama?

answer: President

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(CNN)  -- Police say it now appears that a southern California family missing since early February voluntarily left for Mexico.

But the apparent inactivity of bank cards, credit cards and cellphones since they vanished continues to baffle police and trouble family members.

"I've been in this business for over 35 years but never seen anything like this," Lt. Dennis Brugos of the San Diego Sheriff's Department told CNN.

"This whole thing doesn't add up," Michael McStay, the brother of Joseph McStay, said in a phone interview. "If they left, I don't need to know why. The bottom line is, I need to make sure they are OK."

Information gathered on the home computer of Joseph and Summer McStay indicates the couple was making travel inquires about Mexico on the Internet a week before they were reported missing, Brugos said.

"It had to do with travel in Mexico with children and whether you needed to have passports for children," Brugos said. "It looks as if there were some planning."

The McStays and their children, Gianni, 4, and Joseph, 3, have not been seen or heard from since February 4.

The McStays' two dogs were found unattended, without food or water, in the San Diego-area home, investigators said.

McStay's brother, who initially feared the family might have been kidnapped, still believes they are in danger.

"They can't fend for themselves," he said. "If something did happen in Mexico, I would not be able to live with myself."

A sport utility vehicle belonging to the McStays was found abandoned on February 8 two blocks from the San Ysidro border checkpoint into Mexico, authorities said.

Surveillance video taken that evening appears to show the family "casually" walking into Mexico, sheriff's investigators said.

Brugos believes the four individuals seen on the security footage bear a strong resemblance to the missing family, including the hats the children wore and the woman's boots and coat.

The sheriff's office met Tuesday with the department's liaison detectives in Mexico, he added.

"There is nothing to suggest any criminal involvement in their disappearance, but we would like to find the family," Brugos said.

Michael McStay, who said he will be handing out fliers at the San Ysirdo checkpoint and canvassing the stores, is desperate for any information.

"Who knows what happens once you leave U.S. soil?" he said. "We've all seen the news about what goes on down there. Even if they left voluntarily, were they going down for a weekend and never made it back? What would compel someone to go? I have no idea. If they left it would have had to be something heavy.

"It just doesn't make sense."

Joseph McStay is 5 feet, 9 inches tall and weighs 175 pounds. He has brown hair and brown eyes. Summer McStay, also known as Lisa Aranda-Martelli, is 5 feet, 5 inches tall and 115 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.

Anyone with information on the whereabouts of the McStay family is urged to contact Sgt. Dave Martinez of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department at 858-565-5200. Anonymous calls can be made to 888-580-8477.

A Web site, http://www.mcstayfamily.com/, has been set up in an effort to help locate the family.

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text: now

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text: a

text: southern

text: California

text: family

text: missing

text: since

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text: February

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text: left

text: for

text: Mexico

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text: apparent

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text: brother

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text: home

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text: week

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question: When did the family go missing?

answer: February 4.

text: February 4.

question: When did Joseph and Summer McStay and their children go missing?

answer: early February

text: early February

question: How many went missing?

answer: four

text: four

question: What is still troubling police?

answer: apparent inactivity of bank cards, credit cards and cellphones since they vanished

text: apparent inactivity of bank cards, credit cards and cellphones since they vanished

question: What did the surveillance video show?

answer: the family "casually" walking into Mexico,

text: the family "casually" walking into Mexico,


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(CNN) -- Russia will begin the construction of a new naval base this year in Georgia's pro-Russian separatist region of Abkhazia, according to a Russian media report Monday.

Russia's Black Sea fleet is based in Sevastopol under a lease agreement with Ukraine that expires in 2017.

Russia's Itar-Tass news agency quoted an unnamed official at Russian naval headquarters as saying it wanted to station vessels at the Abkhaz port of Ochamchire on the Black Sea, Reuters.com reported.

"The fundamental decision on creating a Black Sea Fleet base in Ochamchire has been taken," the official told Tass, in quotes carried by Reuters.com. "This year we will begin practical work, including dredging, along Abkhazia's coast.

"It will take more than a year to implement all works." The official added that the deployment was to protect the breakaway region from Georgian attacks.

Georgia launched a campaign against South Ossetia, a Russian-backed separatist territory, on August 7 last year. The following day, Russian tanks, troops and armored vehicles poured into South Ossetia and Abkhazia, advancing into Georgian cities outside the rebel regions.

The two sides blamed each other for starting the conflict and have made accusations of ethnic cleansing.

Moscow has since recognized Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent regions -- a move which angered many Western governments who suspect Russia of acting to thwart Georgia's ambitions of joining NATO.

This latest development comes despite comments made last year by Abkhazia's leader that his territory would not be hosting Russian military bases.

"There will be no new bases," Sergei Bagapsh told Russia's Novosti news agency, adding that Russia's Black Sea Fleet will not be based in the republic either.

"Only units of Russia's ground forces that have always been based here will continue to be stationed in Abkhazia," he said.

Russia's Black Sea Fleet is currently based in the port of Sevastopol which belongs to Ukraine -- another former Soviet state which, like Georgia, aspires to NATO membership.

The fleet is due to leave Ukraine for good in 2017, in line with a 20-year lease deal signed in 1997. However, Russia's diplomats and military have said they want the fleet to stay at its traditional home base after the expiry of the deadline, Reuters.com reported.

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text: construction

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text: following

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text: development

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text: hosting

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text: will

text: be

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text: new

text: bases

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text: 's

text: Novosti

text: news

text: agency

text: adding

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text: 's

text: Black

text: Sea

text: Fleet

text: will

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text: based

text: in

text: the

text: republic

text: either

text: Only

text: units

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text: Russia

text: 's

text: ground

text: forces

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text: based

text: here

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text: continue

text: to

text: be

text: stationed

text: in

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text: said

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text: 's

text: Black

text: Sea

text: Fleet

text: is

text: currently

text: based

text: in

text: the

text: port

text: of

text: Sevastopol

text: which

text: belongs

text: to

text: Ukraine

text: another

text: former

text: Soviet

text: state

text: which

text: like

text: Georgia

text: aspires

text: to

text: NATO

text: membership

text: The

text: fleet

text: is

text: due

text: to

text: leave

text: Ukraine

text: for

text: good

text: in

text: in

text: line

text: with

text: a

text: lease

text: deal

text: signed

text: in

text: However

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text: 's

text: diplomats

text: and

text: military

text: have

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text: want

text: the

text: fleet

text: to

text: stay

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text: its

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text: home

text: base

text: after

text: the

text: expiry

text: of

text: the

text: deadline

text: Reuters.com

text: reported

question: where is Georgia located?

answer: Abkhazia,

text: Abkhazia,

question: What does Moscow recognize as independent region?

answer: South Ossetia

text: South Ossetia

question: Who does Georgia blame?

answer: South Ossetia,

text: South Ossetia,

question: what is the reason of conflict?

answer: Russia's Black Sea Fleet is currently based in the port of Sevastopol

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(CNN) -- India is trying to reclaim the famous metal-rimmed glasses and some other artifacts from freedom leader Mahatma Gandhi that are up for auction next week in New York, a top official said Saturday.

Mahatma Gandhi was known for his peaceful opposition to tyranny, which led to India's independence.

"The government will be doing whatever is required to get them back," India's culture ministry secretary Jawhar Sircar told CNN.

He said there were "several options" in place for India.

When asked whether India planned any indirect participation in the bidding reportedly scheduled next week at the Antiquorum auction house on New York's Madison Avenue, he said it is one of the "speculative" options.

"I can't disclose what (exactly) those options are. But we are doing something," Sircar remarked.

The glasses are scheduled to be auctioned off along with Gandhi's pocketwatch, sandals, bowl, and plate with letters of authenticity, according to the Web site for Antiquorum, which specializes in watches.

The glasses and other items are estimated to sell for as much as $30,000, the Web site said.

CNN's Harmeet Shah Singh contributed to this report.

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NEW YORK (CNN)  -- He says it's true. She says it's not.

Former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey and his wife, Dina Matos McGreevey, in 2004.

Former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey says he and his wife, Dina Matos McGreevey, used to engage in sexual relations with his ex-aide and driver, Teddy Pedersen.

Dina Matos McGreevey has denied the allegation.

The New York Post and New Jersey's Star Ledger reported online Sunday that Pedersen said he had sexual relations with the McGreeveys in the late 1990s during the couple's courtship, and after the McGreeveys' marriage in 2000.

In the article, Pedersen describes trysts during which he and Jim McGreevey would both have sex with Dina Matos McGreevey, but says that, in his opinion, "me being part of their sexual relationship enhanced it for both of them."

Pedersen described regularly sharing a hotel room with the McGreeveys during out-of-town business trips.

In a statement issued Monday, Dina Matos McGreevey acknowledged that Pedersen had long had a "close relationship" with her former husband, but called his sexual claims "completely false."

"This all has to do with the publicity I have received since [New York] Gov. [Eliot] Spitzer resigned," her statement said, alluding to her recent New York Times op-ed piece on Silda Wall Spitzer and her recent discussion of betrayed political wives on CNN's "Larry King Live."

"Jim has enlisted one of his cronies in trying to distinguish that situation from his own, and to discredit me in the media," she said.

In August 2004, she stood silently beside her husband while he publicly declared himself "a gay American," admitted to having an office-compromising affair with another man -- later identified as a staff member -- and announced his intention to resign.

They are in the process of divorcing.

Jim McGreevey Monday confirmed Pedersen's claims.

"This happened, this happened in the past, and now, we need to move on with our lives," the former governor said in a written statement. "For all our sakes, particularly our daughter, we need to close this chapter and look toward the future."

The statement went on to say he had removed references to the incidents Pedersen describes from an early draft of his book.

"I still hope Dina and I can resolve our issues privately," it concluded.

After Dina Matos McGreevey issued her refutation, Pedersen stood by his story, telling the New York Post, "Dina is still in denial. It's time for her to face the truth." E-mail to a friend

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question: What is the name of Jim McGreevey's wife who was involved in a sexual scandal

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(CNN) -- If there is one thing that Africa can learn from the global financial crisis it's that the West doesn't always get it right, Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai told CNN.

Two young boys plow their dry cornfield in Kwale, Kenya which has been blighted by drought.

"It sends a message that anyone can make a mistake. Nobody has a blueprint and nobody is a know-it-all," she said of the current turmoil engulfing the global banking system.

"I can tell you I never would have thought we could experience what we're experiencing in America now," she added.

"Because for one we never would have thought that the Americans could be caught 'asleep,' not monitoring their financial system and therefore waking up one day and finding out that their most respected institutions are collapsing right and left."

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned the global financial crisis will have a "major impact," on low-income countries.

In a recent report, "The Implications of the Global Financial Crisis for Low-Income Countries," the Fund singled out sub-Saharan Africa as particularly vulnerable to the crisis, as lower global growth reduces export demand and depresses commodity prices.

And last month, anti-poverty campaign group ActionAid forecast Africa's income would drop by $49 billion dollars between 2007 and the end of this year.

Most of that, it said, would be due to a fall in export earnings, aid and income from rich countries now in recession.

"Although developing countries didn't make this crisis, it has become all too clear that they are in the firing line when it comes to suffering its worst effects," Claire Melamed, Head of Policy at ActionAid said in a statement accompanying the report.

"There is a real risk that development will start to go backwards in many countries as the money dries up and that the recession will lead to worsening poverty and terrible consequences for the men, women and children caught in its grip," she added.

Wangari Maathai said many Africans had become so accustomed to their daily struggles that they assumed life could not get any worse.

"Some of the impact that the western banks or the Western people are experiencing we've been experiencing for decades," Maathai said.

"We've been raising and educating children who cannot get any employment. Long ago our hospitals collapsed, our infrastructure collapsed, our education system collapsed.

"That's why people are saying it can't get any worse, but you and I know it can get worse," she said.

Now 69, Wangari Maathai has long campaigned for human rights and the empowerment of Africa's most impoverished people.  Watch Revealed: Wangari Maathai Â»

More than thirty years ago she founded the Green Belt Movement, a tree-planting campaign to simultaneously mitigate deforestation and to give locals, especially women and girls, new purpose. They have since planted more than 40 million trees.

In 2004, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to promote sustainable development, democracy and peace, and has recently repeated calls for Africans to 'rise up' and demand greater accountability from their governments.  See photos of Maathai receiving the Nobel Peace Prize Â»

"What Africa needs to know is that now that the world has its own crisis in its own hand, if they don't take care of themselves and place themselves in a position where they can be assisted, they will suffer, the people will suffer," Maathai told CNN.

Earlier this month, the group of 20 industrialized nations agreed an unprecedented rescue package worth $1.1 trillion to tackle the global economic crisis.

It included $750 billion dollars for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), three times the Fund's previous lending capacity, as well "special drawing rights" to an additional $250 billion.

Of the commitment, Maathai said: "I'm glad that the G20 identified that they must help the poor people, but the biggest problem for the poor developing countries in Africa is that they are already facing so many challenges."

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text: Peace

text: Prize

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text: What

text: Africa

text: needs

text: to

text: know

text: is

text: that

text: now

text: that

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text: world

text: has

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text: own

text: crisis

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text: hand

text: if

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text: n't

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text: care

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text: themselves

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text: place

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text: where

text: they

text: can

text: be

text: assisted

text: they

text: will

text: suffer

text: the

text: people

text: will

text: suffer

text: Maathai

text: told

text: CNN

text: Earlier

text: this

text: month

text: the

text: group

text: of

text: industrialized

text: nations

text: agreed

text: an

text: unprecedented

text: rescue

text: package

text: worth

text: trillion

text: to

text: tackle

text: the

text: global

text: economic

text: crisis

text: It

text: included

text: billion

text: dollars

text: for

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text: International

text: Monetary

text: Fund

text: IMF

text: three

text: times

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text: Fund

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text: previous

text: lending

text: capacity

text: as

text: well

text: special

text: drawing

text: rights

text: to

text: an

text: additional

text: billion

text: Of

text: the

text: commitment

text: Maathai

text: said

text: I

text: 'm

text: glad

text: that

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text: identified

text: that

text: they

text: must

text: help

text: the

text: poor

text: people

text: but

text: the

text: biggest

text: problem

text: for

text: the

text: poor

text: developing

text: countries

text: in

text: Africa

text: is

text: that

text: they

text: are

text: already

text: facing

text: so

text: many

text: challenges

question: who is nobel peace laureate?

answer: Wangari Maathai

text: Wangari Maathai

question: What has he said aobut the West?

answer: doesn't always get it right,

text: doesn't always get it right,

question: Who needs to take responsibility for the future?

answer: Africa

text: Africa

question: who need to take responsibility?

answer: governments.

text: governments.

question: Who said Africans need to take responsibility for the future?

answer: Wangari Maathai

text: Wangari Maathai

question: What is the name of the laureate winner?

answer: Wangari Maathai

text: Wangari Maathai

question: Who says West is fallible?

answer: Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai

text: Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai