RUSSIA TRIP: President Bush will send Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates to Moscow on Tuesday for talks with their Russian counterparts. White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said the two will travel to the Russian capital for discussions on missile defense, cooperation on weapons non-proliferation and counterterrorism.
KRAKOW CEREMONY: About 25 Holocaust survivors, including some saved by German industrialist Oskar Schindler, will mark the 65th anniversary Sunday of the Nazi’s liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Krakow, Poland. The survivors — some returning to Poland for the first time since the war’s end — will march through the Podgorze district in Krakow to the grounds of the former camp in Plaszow, where about 8,000 people perished.
DISTRACTED: A former couple steering a ferry apparently were distracted by conversation as their ship was about to run aground, Canada’s Transportation Safety Board said in its final report on the March 2006 crash that killed two passengers. Fourth Officer Karl Lilgert and Quartermaster Karen Bricker had ended a relationship two weeks before the accident and were working their first shift alone together since the break-up, the report said, when the ferry — Queen of the North — hit Gil Island off Canada’s Pacific Coast.
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