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Army on track on re-enlistments

By wire services
Published July 5, 2005

Even though the U.S. Army appears likely to miss its goal of recruiting 80,000 new soldiers this year, it's ahead of the pace needed to reach its goal of convincing 64,162 soldiers, from privates to top sergeants, to re-enlist by the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30. Through the end of May, 45,333 soldiers had re-enlisted, said Lt. Col. Pamela Hart, an Army spokeswoman at the Pentagon. That's 70 percent of the Army's full-year goal.

Two parachutists died Monday after their chutes became entangled during a jump in southern New Jersey, police said. The two, a man and a woman, were jumping from an airplane operated by the Freefall Adventure Skydiving School based in Gloucester County. Police said the parachutists were about 150 feet from the ground when their lines became entangled. The names of the victims were not immediately released.

Prince's teacher wins lawsuit

An art teacher who said she was ordered to help Prince Harry with his school work won her unfair dismissal case against Eton College on Monday. Sarah Forsyth had secretly recorded a conversation with Harry, the second son of Prince Charles, to back up her claim that she had been ordered by a superior to assist the prince with his art project. The college, which said Forsyth was dismissed because she did not meet its standards, issued a statement saying it still believed she didn't.

Drug smuggling

An Indonesian judge agreed Monday to hear new evidence in defense of an Australian beauty school student convicted of smuggling drugs into Indonesia, including testimony from witnesses who say someone planted marijuana in her surfboard bag. Schapelle Corby was sentenced to 20 years in May for smuggling 9 pounds of marijuana onto the resort island of Bali. She says the drugs were planted by baggage handlers in Australia.

Iran's ultraconservative president-elect on Monday dismissed as "baseless" allegations of his involvement in the 1979 hostage-taking at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and in killing dissidents. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also said Iran is seeking "fair and expanding" relations with the world.

Authorities in Idaho said Monday they found human remains during their search for a missing 9-year-old boy whose sister was found days earlier at a restaurant with a sex offender. Sheriff Rocky Watson said the remains were found in western Montana and would be sent to an FBI lab for DNA analysis. He did not say whether the remains were believed to be those of Dylan Groene.

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