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• "I am the Storyteller of Damascus," Hallak said, chain-smoking, in an interview with The Associated Press in the Syrian capital. "In these events, many people were harmed. I am one of them."
• The war, now in its fourth year, cost him his job and his home, destroyed in shelling. He's among the more than 9 million people driven from their homes in a war that has killed more than 160,000, leveled parts of cities and unraveled the country's social fabric -- with no end in sight as rebels and the forces of President Bashar Assad battle.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Monday, June 9, the 160th day of 2014. There are 205 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On June 9, 1954, during the Senate-Army Hearings, Army special counsel Joseph N. Welch berated Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., for verbally attacking a member of Welch's law firm, Fred Fisher, asking McCarthy: "Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
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• On this date:
• In A.D. 68, the Roman Emperor Nero committed suicide, ending a 13-year reign.
• In 1870, author Charles Dickens died in Gad's Hill Place, England.
• In 1911, Carrie (sometimes spelled "Carry") A. Nation, the hatchet-wielding temperance crusader, died in Leavenworth, Kansas, at age 64.
• In 1934, the first Walt Disney animated cartoon featuring Donald Duck, "The Wise Little Hen," was released.
• In 1940, during World War II, Norway decided to surrender to the Nazis, effective at midnight.
• In 1943, the federal government began withholding income tax from paychecks.
• In 1953, 94 people died when a tornado struck Worcester (WU'-stur), Massachusetts.
• In 1969, the Senate confirmed Warren Burger to be the new chief justice of the United States, succeeding Earl Warren.
• In 1973, Secretariat won the Belmont Stakes, becoming horse racing's first Triple (Continued on page 29)
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