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 | | The United States justice department reported that America's prison population had grown to 1,931,859, of whom 791,600 were fl; the ACLU pointed out that America, with only 5 percent of the world's population, accounts for 25 percent of the world's prisoners. |
 | | The United States and China were negotiating an apology for the spy-plane accident in which one Chinese pilot died; American officials visited the crew of the American plane, who were still being held by the Chinese, and handed out candy. |
 | | United States troops intervened in the Macedonian conflict by escorting several hundred rebels out of a Macedonian town; riots ensued in Skopje, the capital, and an American diplomat was shot, apparently by accident, by a Macedonian soldier. |
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