Earlier this month Sudan and Eritrea agreed to abolish entry visa requirements, opening their common borders for free movement of both nationals.

Earlier that month, Wise suffered two heart attacks within a week while on holiday, and had to undergo a triple heart bypass in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on 22 January 1999.

Earlier in the month, Lord had cancelled a performance of his Durham Concerto in Germany for what his website said was a continuation of his medical treatment.

Earlier that month, he had established a new mile world record of 3: 48. 8 and two weeks later equalled Sebastian Coe's world record of 3: 32. 1 in the 1500 m. The Moscow Olympics marked only the second time that Ovett and Coe had met each other in international competition ( the first being the 800 m in the 1978 European Championships ) and there was huge media speculation over which would emerge as the greater.

Earlier this month, the MoD agreed to pay almost £ 3m in compensation to Mr Mousa's family and nine Iraqi men after admitting breaching human rights ".

Earlier that month Ukraine's Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka had stated that there were no political reasons for the interrogations of the opposition leaders Tymoshenko, Lutsenko and Oleksandr Turchynov.

( Earlier in the month, on April 5, 1865, Seward had been injured in a carriage accident, and suffered a concussion, a broken jaw, a broken right arm, and many serious bruises.

Earlier studies reported a prevalence rate between 1 %- 2 % in a clinical setting, however a study done by Coccaro and colleagues in 2004 had reported about 11. 1 % lifetime prevalence and 3. 2 % one month prevalence in a sample of a moderate number of individuals ( n = 253 ).

Earlier the same month the opposition Social Democrats took to the streets to protest the changing of hundreds of street names, including a bridge that was to be named after Aleksandrov.

Earlier that month Strong Ukraine had announced the same move.

Earlier in the 1970s, Conservative prime minister Edward Heath ( elected in 1970 ) had attempted to reduce trade union powers due to the rising level of strikes across the country.

Earlier, Edward I had attempted to control the situation by exiling Gaveston from England.

* Earlier graduates include J. C. R. Licklider, pioneer in artificial intelligence ; Charles Nagel, founder of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce ; Julian Hill, co-inventor of nylon ; Clyde Cowan, co-discoverer of the neutrino ; James R. Thompson, Governor of Illinois ; David R. Francis, Governor of Missouri ; William H. Webster, former Director of the FBI ; Edward Singleton Holden, President of the University of California ; Nathan O. Hatch, president of Wake Forest University ; Thomas Lamb Eliot, President of Reed College ; and Abram L. Sachar, founding President of Brandeis University.

Earlier the same year, her brother Vilhelm had been elected King of Greece, and her sister Alexandra had married Edward, Prince of Wales.

Earlier, Rustichello had written a work in French known as the Roman de Roi Artus ( Romance of King Arthur ) or simply the Compilation, derived from a book in the possession of Edward I of England, who passed through Italy on his way to fight in the Eighth Crusade in 1270-1274.

Earlier, under Henry VIII and Edward VI, the Merchant Adventurers included Thomas Poyntz, brother of Lady Anne Walsh in whose house Crowley had served as tutor.

Earlier in his career he was Arturo Toscanini's successor as music director of the New York Philharmonic, serving from 1936 to 1943.

( Earlier, while music director of the New York Philharmonic, he conducted music by Abram Chasins, Bernard Wagenaar, and Howard Hanson.

Earlier it had been intended to name the species " Utahraptor spielbergi " after film director Steven Spielberg, in exchange for funding palaeontological research, but no agreement could be reached on the amount of financial assistance.

Earlier, he was at the Pentagon as acting director of the Army Staff, Headquarters, Department of the Army, under General Eric K. Shinseki.

Earlier, she co-founded and was the executive director of the Fair Trial Initiative, which supports attorneys working on death penalty cases.

Earlier, he was associated with Shri Ram Centre, New Delhi as the artistic director.

Earlier coaches have included Ken Wilkins and Hal Waller, the public relations director.

" Earlier, in December 1984, the Council on Hemispheric Affairs had issued a report condemning the Contras and the United States government as being among the worst human rights violators in Latin America: " The CIA directed forces are among the worst human rights violators in Latin America, responsible for systematic brutality against a civilian population.

Earlier, there was a strong romantic nationalist element mixed with Enlightenment rationalism in the rhetoric used in British North America, in the colonists ' Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution of 1787, as well as the rhetoric in the wave of revolts, inspired by new senses of localized identities, which swept the American colonies of Spain, one after the other, from 1811.

Earlier alumni include Henry Addington, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Elias Ashmole founder of the Ashmolean Museum, John Buchan, author of The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Clavell, highwayman and author, Colin Cowdrey, English Test batsman, William Webb Ellis, often credited with the invention of Rugby football, John Foxe author of Actes and Monuments popularly abridged as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, William Golding, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, and Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury.

Earlier in that year, Mexico had broken off diplomatic relations with the United States, based partly on its interpretation of the Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819 ( which newly independent Mexico claimed it had inherited ).

Earlier live action films to use the new Technicolor process include the final musical number in the feature The Cat and the Fiddle released by MGM in February 1934, and in short sequences filmed for other movies made during 1934, including The House of Rothschild ( 20th Century Pictures / United Artists ) with George Arliss and Kid Millions ( Samuel Goldwyn / United Artists ) with Eddie Cantor.

Earlier, on 11 October 1883, the General Time Convention, forerunner to the American Railway Association, approved a plan that divided the United States into several time zones.

Earlier, in June 1935, the surprise Anglo-German Naval Agreement was signed between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany.

Earlier, Guatemala had been a state within the United Provinces of Central America since 1823, before that part of the First Mexican Empire under Agustín de Iturbide, and before 1821 ruled by the Captain General of Guatemala, a Spanish colonial official owing allegiance to the Viceroy of New Spain and the King of Spain, back to the Spanish conquest of the region in the early 16th century.

Earlier Royal Standards of the United Kingdom incorporated the Arms of Hanover and of the Kingdom of France, representing the title of Elector ( later King ) of Hanover and the theoretical claim to the throne of France ( a claim dropped in 1800 ).

Earlier releases consisted of single episodes on VHS ( double episodes in the UK and some countries, edited together into " movie " format ; later in the UK, a selection of first and season episodes were released by Playback on both VHS and DVD ), most notably a United Kingdom 18 certificate cut of the pilot episode, presented as a standalone film ( reshuffling and reworking many scenes, and removing much of the continuity ties with the following series, as well as incorporating footage from the first season episode " Mad Over Miami ", and with profanity that was not present in the aired version ).

Earlier however, at the direction of the Comintern in 1928, the party advocated for many years a separate ' Negro Republic ', to be founded in the heavily black populated areas of the Southern part of the United States.

Earlier Spanish expeditions had sighted the area, and named it " Punta de Santa Elena ", which now remains one of the oldest continuously used European place names in the United States.

Earlier in April during that year in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, he had taken 4 wickets for 25 runs against Kenya during the match.

Earlier sources however, noted Sultan Iskandar's concerns with the deepening rift between Mahathir and Abdullah and had asked to be photographed together with the two leaders during the United Malays National Organisations ( UMNO ) 60th anniversary celebrations in Johor Bahru.

Earlier in his United career, he had also worked as a bricklayer in the Barnsley area.

Earlier leaks had also stated that International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) had reported to the United States diplomats in Delhi about the grave human rights situation in Kashmir which included the use of electrocution, beatings and sexual humiliation against hundreds of detainees.

Earlier, BoC had revealed plans for a major expansion in the United States, concentrating on the growing Asian community in California.

Earlier in his sporting career he represented New Zealand in Rugby union, when from November 1984 to January 1985 he toured the United Kingdom with the New Zealand Secondary Schools Rugby union Team.

Earlier material was on various homegrown labels, completely self produced, or put out on Kevin Seconds own label, Positive Force Records ( AKA United Front ), before BYO Records housed them.

Earlier the same year Raczyński was appointed Polish ambassador to the League of Nations and in 1934 he became the ambassador of the Republic of Poland in the United Kingdom.

Earlier that year ( Feb 14 ) as US embassy counselor, he delivered Franklin D. Roosevelt ’ s ultimatum to the Japanese Foreign Ministry in Tokyo which warned that if Japan attacked Singapore, it would mean war with the United States.

Earlier in 2005, Japan and the United States had issued a joint declaration calling for a " peaceful solution " to the Taiwan issue, a declaration that angered the PRC, which protested that this declaration constituted interference in " internal affairs ".

Earlier masts were one-piece aluminium alloy, but were changed to two-piece ones with a non-conductive composite fiberglass tip ( known as " comptip ") not for performance reasons, but after a few people in the United States of America were electrocuted trying to raise masts under power lines and their families sued Hobie Cat.