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pythonCode/personTestingOutput/contra.xml

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ TALKING TO <ent type='ORG'>CONGRESSIONAL</ent> INVESTIGATORS</p>
 <p> A county coroner in <ent type='GPE'>Los Angeles</ent> has yet to announce the
 cause of death of <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>Steven</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Carr</ent></ent>, a 27-year-old U.S. mercenary who
 has provided <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent> with much of what it knows about weapons
-shipments to the <ent type='NORP'>contras</ent>. Had <ent type='PERSON'>Carr</ent> lived, he was also expected to
+shipments to the contras. Had <ent type='PERSON'>Carr</ent> lived, he was also expected to
 testified in federal court against 29 contra supporters allegedly
 involved in cocaine trafficking, an assassination attempt on
 former contra leader <ent type='PERSON'>Eden Pastora</ent> and a scheme to kill U.S
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ that <ent type='PERSON'>Carr</ent> was murdered, at this point he said there doe
 appear to be any evidence of "foul play." But in the days before
 his death, <ent type='PERSON'>Carr</ent> told several people that he feared he would be
 assassinated. He was "very paranoid and frightened" because of
-his role as a witness, <ent type='PERSON'>Carr</ent>'s sister <ent type='PERSON'>Ann</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Naples</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Fla</ent>., said.</p>
+his role as a witness, Carr's sister <ent type='PERSON'>Ann</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Naples</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Fla</ent>., said.</p>
 
-<p> Here is what the police are saying about <ent type='PERSON'>Carr</ent>'s death. He
+<p> Here is what the police are saying about Carr's death. He
 died at 4 am on December 13 in a parking lot near his friend's
 apartment in <ent type='GPE'>Van Nuys</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Calif</ent>., where he was staying. In the
 predawn hours on this Saturday morning, while his friend,
@@ -55,13 +55,13 @@ for violating the country's neutrality and sent to prison. <ent type='PERSON'>Ca
 was one of several mercenaries based in northern <ent type='GPE'>Costa Rica</ent> on
 land owned and managed by a U.S. citizen and reported <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent>
 operative named <ent type='PERSON'>John Hull</ent>. Evidence from several sources suggests
-that the <ent type='NORP'>contras</ent> operate what amounts to a military base on
+that the contras operate what amounts to a military base on
 property controlled by <ent type='GPE'>Hull</ent> as well as an airbase for the
-movement of cocaine from <ent type='ORG'>Columbia</ent> into <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent>.</p>
+movement of cocaine from <ent type='GPE'>Columbia</ent> into <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent> States.</p>
 
 <p> While in jail, <ent type='PERSON'>Carr</ent> spilled the beans about the contra
 operation. To reporters, he claimed that <ent type='GPE'>Hull</ent> had told him that
-<ent type='GPE'>Hull</ent> was the <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent> liaison to the <ent type='NORP'>contras</ent> and was receiving $10000 a
+<ent type='GPE'>Hull</ent> was the <ent type='ORG'>CIA</ent> liaison to the contras and was receiving $10000 a
 month from <ent type='ORG'>the National Security Council</ent> to help finance the
 operation. <ent type='PERSON'>Carr</ent> told <ent type='ORG'>Honey</ent> why he was revealing such secrets:
 "<ent type='PERSON'>Carr</ent> said that the mercenaries had been led to believe that
@@ -81,10 +81,10 @@ defense.</p>
 <p> On May 16, <ent type='PERSON'>Carr</ent> was released from jail. He later described
 the events which took place in his life over the course of the
 next week to <ent type='ORG'>Honey</ent> and an U.S. congressional aide involved in an
-investigation of the arms supply network to the <ent type='NORP'>contras</ent>.</p>
+investigation of the arms supply network to the contras.</p>
 
 <p> <ent type='PERSON'>Carr</ent> said that <ent type='GPE'>Hull</ent> bailed him out of jail as a way of
-persuading him to testify on <ent type='GPE'>Hull</ent>'s behalf. <ent type='GPE'>Hull</ent> requested that
+persuading him to testify on Hull's behalf. <ent type='GPE'>Hull</ent> requested that
 <ent type='PERSON'>Carr</ent> testify that the reporters forced him to make the charges
 against <ent type='GPE'>Hull</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Carr</ent> said.</p>
 
@@ -94,9 +94,9 @@ U.S. supports. He said he met with two officials, <ent type='PERSON'>Kirk Kotula
 the counsel general and <ent type='PERSON'>John Jones</ent>, the acting chief of the
 consulute.</p>
 
-<p> According to <ent type='ORG'>Honey</ent>'s notes of her conversation with <ent type='PERSON'>Carr</ent>
+<p> According to Honey's notes of her conversation with <ent type='PERSON'>Carr</ent>
 about his meeting with the officials, <ent type='PERSON'>Carr</ent> said: "The officials
-told me they knew all about <ent type='GPE'>Hull</ent>'s contra operation and they had
+told me they knew all about Hull's contra operation and they had
 me call him. He picked up the phone instantly, as if he had been
 waiting for my call.</p>
 
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ the matter. The embassy told me to get the hell out of <ent type='ORG'>Dodge</en
 I'd go back to La Reforma prison. They told me that the bus to
 <ent type='GPE'>Panama</ent> leaves at 7:30 pm and to be on it," he said.</p>
 
-<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Carr</ent> spent the next three days staying at <ent type='ORG'>Honey</ent>'s house. On
+<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Carr</ent> spent the next three days staying at Honey's house. On
 night of May 19, <ent type='PERSON'>Carr</ent> left the house to visit a friend, and the
 following day, the U.S. embassy told the court that <ent type='PERSON'>Carr</ent> was in
 their custody and that he would appear at the trial, <ent type='ORG'>Honey</ent> said.
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ the Senator's office is investigating the matter. "There are
 obviously some very serious questions regarding the U.S.
 embassy's role in <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>Steven</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Carr</ent></ent> leaving <ent type='GPE'>Costa Rica</ent>," he said.</p>
 
-<p> After <ent type='PERSON'>Carr</ent>'s return to the U.S., congressional investigators
+<p> After Carr's return to the U.S., congressional investigators
 said they had planned on bringing him before <ent type='ORG'>Congress</ent>. His
 testimony, based on his participation on a March 6, 1985 arms
 shipment from <ent type='GPE'>Fort Lauderdale</ent> to Ilogango Air Base in El
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ Bush--to that weapons shipment, <ent type='PERSON'>Sheehan</ent> said.</p>
 shipment of weapons that flew out of the <ent type='GPE'>Fort Lauderdale</ent> Airport
 went to <ent type='LOC'>Ilopango</ent> airport," said <ent type='PERSON'>Sheehan</ent>. "He witnessed and can
 identify <ent type='PERSON'>Felix Rodriguez</ent> as the guy who off loaded the weapons to
-smaller planes which were then flown to <ent type='GPE'>Hull</ent>'s ranch in Costa
+smaller planes which were then flown to Hull's ranch in Costa
 Rica."</p>
 
 <p> In early 1986, <ent type='PERSON'>Carr</ent> and two other eye-witnesses told federal
@@ -153,13 +153,13 @@ reportedly a liaison to fired Lt. Col. Oliver <ent type='PERSON'>North</ent>, an
 <ent type='PERSON'>Sheehan</ent> said.</p>
 
 <p> With no criminal indictment by October, <ent type='PERSON'>Sheehan</ent> alleged
-before a congressional committee that <ent type='ORG'>the Justice Department</ent> had
+before a congressional committee that the Justice Department had
 engaged in a "willfull conspiracy...to obstruct justice....A
 number of telephone calls were then placed to Mr. <ent type='ORG'>Kellner</ent> (the
 U.S. Attorney in <ent type='GPE'>Miami</ent>) personally by <ent type='PERSON'>Edwin Meese</ent>...instructing
 Mr. <ent type='ORG'>Kellner</ent> 'to proceed very, very, very slowly' in any
 investigation of this case." <ent type='ORG'>Kellner</ent> has said he
-has talked with <ent type='PERSON'>Meese</ent> about the case, but denied <ent type='PERSON'>Sheehan</ent>'s
+has talked with <ent type='PERSON'>Meese</ent> about the case, but denied Sheehan's
 allegation.</p>
 
 <p> A grand jury has recently formed in <ent type='GPE'>Miami</ent> to reportedly hear
@@ -167,12 +167,12 @@ evidence about the March 6 weapons shipment. But the one person
 who could have provided the grand jury with an eye-witness
 account that the weapons were transported from U.S. soil to El
 Salvador--evidence which is essential in making a case that the
-U.S. Neutrality Act and <ent type='ORG'>the Arms Export Control Act</ent> were
+U.S. Neutrality Act and <ent type='ORG'>the Arms</ent> Export Control Act were
 violated--is now dead.</p>
 
 <p> "A great deal of the information <ent type='PERSON'>Carr</ent> provided did check
 out. It will now be harder for anyone to bring a prosecution with
-<ent type='PERSON'>Steven</ent>'s testimony now unavailable, and I think that is very
+Steven's testimony now unavailable, and I think that is very
 unfortunate," <ent type='ORG'>Winer</ent> said.
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