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American-led coalition troops have rescued a U.S. prisoner of war identified as Pfc. Jessica Lynch, a supply clerk who went missing after her maintenance company was ambushed near the city of Nasiriya on March 23.

The White House announced that it considered Republican-led proposals to provide $3 billion in aid to the airline industry "excessive," saying that the war with Iraq has not damaged air travel as badly as the industry had projected. Betty Ann…