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Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winners James Brolin and Judy Davis star as Ronald and Nancy Reagan in The Reagans .
James Brolin and Judy Davis play Ronald and Nancy Reagan in the CBS film .
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yes

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The day after Wilkie resigned , Howard said in a televised address that Iraq possessed " chemical and biological weapons capable of causing death and destruction on a mammoth scale " .
In a televised address back in March , Mr Howard declared Iraq had weapons capable of " causing death and destruction on a mammoth scale " .
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yes

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The rate of survival without serious brain damage is about 10 per cent , said Dr Leo Bossaert , executive director of the European Resuscitation Council .
The rate of survival without serious brain damage is about 10 percent , said Bossaert , a professor at the University Hospital in Antwerp , Belgium .
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yes

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" Fighting continued until midnight , " western rebel commander Ousmane Coulibaly told Reuters by satellite phone on Sunday .
" They ransacked and burned the two villages completely , " rebel commander Ousmane Coulibaly told Reuters by satellite phone from the bush .
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no