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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1998
Page
2
In San Cristobal de Las Casas and Ocosingo, Chiapas police opened fire on demonstrators, killing a woman and wounding a child and a 17 year old. Authorities detained 27 officers and pledged police reform amid nationwide protests calling for peace with the Zapatista movement.
Iraqi authorities barred the US led Special Commission team headed by Scott Ritter from working and accused it of excess American influence. Other inspectors left the UN site as Baghdad demanded escorts and minders. The clash sparked warnings from Clinton and calls for continued inspections despite the Iraqi act.
An armed intruder released his hostage, Masahiro Abe, a Finance Ministry official, after a daylong standoff at the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Police took the intruder into custody minutes later. The assailant, a former ultralightist group leader, had demanded a meeting with Finance Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzaka and withdrawal of police.
GRAND ISLE Vermont residents faced widespread outages as the ice storm left over 400000 Maine residents and more than 100000 in northern New York without power. The system cut 13000 New Hampshire homes and 6000 Vermont customers, with fifteen fatalities in Canada and nine in the United States, including eleven flood deaths. Maine alone reports about 5.2 million in costs amid broader damage.
Inflation remained near a 10 year low in December as energy costs fell. The Labor Department reported December prices rose 0.1 percent, matching November, with the annual CPI up 1.7 percent for 1997. The drop follows the sharpest energy decline in six years and the smallest food-cost rise in five years, signaling the mildest inflation since 1986.
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright urges Congress to extend U.S. peacekeeping troops in Bosnia and expand NATO, noting unfinished Middle East diplomacy. Her speech reflects on her first year as top diplomat and calls for bipartisan support.
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