The George Bush Forty-One Endowment has announced that a viewing area will be open to the general public for former President George Bush's parachute jump at the George Bush Presidential Library on Sunday.

WASHINGTON - With the storied riderless horse symbolizing the fallen president, Ronald Reagan's casket rolled on a century-old caisson to the Capitol on Wednesday for final tributes from high officials and common Americans in the first presidential state funeral in three decades.

A memorial honoring President Ronald Reagan is open to the public in the rotunda of the George Bush Presidential Library through July 5.

WASHINGTON - Lawmakers, dignitaries and mourners preparing for Ronald Reagan's funeral ceremony raced from the Capitol Wednesday after police feared an airplane was headed for the building and warned: ''You have one minute to impact.''

Chris Scotti was recognized Wednesday for a business that he began out of his room in Appelt Hall in 1995.

Texas A&M researchers have located the Japanese submarine that sank the USS Indianapolis near the Marianas Islands on July 30, 1945.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - World military spending surged during 2003, reaching $956 billion, nearly half of it by the United States as it paid for missions in Iraq, Afghanistan and the war on terror, a prominent European think tank said Wednesday.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Saboteurs blew up a key northern oil pipeline Wednesday, forcing a 10 percent cut on the national power grid as demand for electricity rises with the advent of Iraq's broiling summer heat.

SEA ISLAND, Ga. (AP) - Seeking to build on rare harmony with Europe after a U.N. vote, President Bush on Wednesday proposed a wider but unspecified role for NATO in post-occupation Iraq. French President Jacques Chirac immediately objected.