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By Scott Stearns, VOA News

President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice meet with senior Saudi diplomats today to discuss continuing violence between Israel and Hezbollah militants across the Lebanese border. Secretary Rice plans to then leave for the region for talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

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President George W. Bush meets with U.S.military service personnel who have recently returned from duty in Iraq and Afghanistan to hear about their experiences Friday, July 21, 2006, at Tamale Fiesta Kitchen restaurant in Aurora, Colorado. White House photo by Eric Draper

Ta Mok, also known as the "Butcher", military commander of the Khmer Rouge regime which terrorised Cambodia in the 1970s, has died in a military hospital in Phnom Penh. He was facing trial for genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the regime's rule.

Visit "Cambodia Log," a record of a tourist's visit to the vacant former homes of Ta Mok and genocidal Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot.

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First up is "Fiddlesticks", starring Flip the Frog. According to Wikipedia.org, Flip the Frog was Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's first sound cartoon. It is about a happy-go-lucky, needy frog.

Ub Iwerks created the character in 1930. He had drawn a frog and his girlfriend in "Night'", one of the last Silly Symphonies short films he drew while working for Walt Disney.

After leaving Disney, Iwerks began the Flip cartoon series with the help of Pat Powers. " Fiddlesticks" (released on August 16, 1930), is the first in the series and it was also the first color sound cartoon ever made. "Fiddlesticks" was made in two-color Technicolor, but the rest of the Flip series were made in black and white, except for "Techno-Cracked" (1933).


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Next is a Noveltoon called "The Stupidstitious Cat," in which a very superstitious cat tries to catch Buzzy for breakfast but Buzzy outsmarts him. Animation by Graham Place and John Walworth. Story by Carl Meyer and Jack Ward. Scenics by Anton Loeb. Music by Winston Sharples. Produced in 1946.


Click the picture to view the cartoon streaming in MPEG4. For more formats and information, click here. Free from the Internet Archive.

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