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Copenhagen - Denmark, Sweden and Norway will send a joint team of experts to Canada and the United States on a fact-finding mission to study the Aug. 14 blackout, the Danish Emergency Management Agency said Monday. "We want to find out what can be done to co-ordinate the different authorities and utility companies involved when such an event happens," said a Danish Emergency official, Col. Joern Devantier. "It's a unique opportunity because it was the biggest blackout in recent history," Devantier said. New York - French President Jacques Chirac called for the transfer of power in Iraq from military occupation forces led by the United States to the Iraqi people in a two-stage plan. In an interview with The New York Times published Monday, Chirac said the plan would consist of a symbolic transfer of power from the Americans to the Iraqi Governing Council, then a gradual process of transferring real power over a period of six to nine months. Chirac's comments came just before he left for New York to meet with U.S. President George W. Bush Washington - Democrat Carol Moseley Braun, who made history as the first black woman elected to the U.S. Senate, formally launched her long-shot bid for the presidency Monday, vowing to "fix the mess" created by the current leadership.
