Cockpit attack on Alaska Airlines jet shocks crew and passengers
A 6-foot-2 carpenter Peter L Bradley attacked an Alaska Airlines cockpit crew on a locked jet. Five to seven passengers tackled him as a co-pilot used a fire axe to fend off the assailant. Bradley, restrained by passengers, appeared in court with injuries and was in FBI custody after landing the plane. In Atlanta, former black militant H Rap Brown alias Jamil Abdullah Al Amin fled after allegedly killing a police officer and wounding another, as Deputy Kinchen died later. Al Amin, 56, faced aggravated battery charges with potential murder upgrade.
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San Francisco
Alaska Airlines
Peter L. Bradley
Bradley
FBI
Atlanta
H. Rap Brown
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin
Al-Amin
Ricky Kinchen
Putin boosters in Chechnya rally for strong army
Soldiers in Chechnya cast absentee ballots Friday backing acting President Vladimir Putin as he seeks a March election term. A top general says Russians back a powerful military to restore global clout, amid Putin’s push to revive armed forces and negotiate nuclear reductions.
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Moscow
Chechnya
Russia
Vladimir Putin
Putin
Boris Yeltsin
KGB
NATO
Japan approves record budget amid economic slump
Japan approved a record 773 billion dollar budget aimed at reviving the economy, with Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi praising signs of recovery. The measure cleared the upper house 141 to 102 after backing from ruling coalition parties, and was approved by the lower house last month. The budget rises 3.8 percent from the current fiscal year.
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Tokyo
Japan
Keizo Obuchi
Havel Rapidly Improves After Brief Hospital Stay
Prague reports President Vaclav Havel is recovering from bronchitis and likely to be released over the weekend. Doctors said his condition has improved quickly, marking his eighth hospitalization since December 1996 when part of his lung and a cancerous tumor were removed.
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Havel
Prague
Czech Republic
Vaclav Havel
Boris Stastny
Iran hails end to ban as US eases sanctions
Iran welcomed the U S decision to lift a ban on some imports saying it could hasten ties and aid the economy. Iran’s spokesman and political analysts praised the move as a step toward improved Tehran Washington relations while President Khatami echoes reform-era openness and people-to-people contact.
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Tehran
Iran
Madeleine Albright
Washington
United States
Hamid Reza Asefi
Foreign Ministry
Albright
Saeed Laylaz
Mohammad Khatami
Tehran-Washington
Food plight worsens in Mozambique amid floods and seed shortages
Mozambican flood victims face hunger as fields remain waterlogged delaying planting. Seed shortages and soggy soil threaten the April start, risking a September harvest and continued food aid into 2001. Floods killed 492, displaced 360,000, damaged 1.9 million acres. 125,000 families need seed. only about 50,000 have received seeds or food aid so far.
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Maputo
Mozambique
Byron Ponce Segura
the Food and Agricultural Organization
Cial
South Carolina House to return Saturday on budget battle
South Carolina House members will reconvene Saturday after an unusually long week of debate on the $5.8 billion budget bill packed with 640 amendments. Speaker David Wilkins cited fatigue and fear that Democrats may press for more spending changes in health care education and tobacco settlement funds.
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Columbia
South Carolina
David Wilkins
Wilkins
Greenville
Ken Kennedy
Kennedy
Mr. Kennedy
Lawmak
House
Gunmaker to install locks on handguns nationwide
Smith & Wesson agrees to fit locks on its weapons to enhance child safety in a deal that ends lawsuits over gun violence. The agreement, after two months of talks with state federal officials and the Clinton administration, creates a new code of conduct for handgun sales and distribution. Clinton hopes other firms will follow suit. The firm says locks have accompanied every weapon since 1997 and that guns are shipped in lockable boxes.
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Nashington
Lves
Smith & Wesson
Ccal
Clinton
Indictments Issued In Counterfeit Checks Case In Columbia
Six people face federal charges for creating and cashing bogus checks using two company names. Indicted are Alvarado Jeffrey Branch 30 Joseph Charles Davis 39 Summerville Lucien Greene 43 Georgetown Ronald Greene 42 Georgetown Nicole Latarsha Ladson 27 James Island Janeen Renae Morris North Charleston. Also indicted are a Charleston bank employee for stealing over 200000 and failing to report a 14500 deposit. Nelson J Harris 43 Goose Creek and Dwight Wayne Joran 41 North Charleston charged with stealing furniture from a North Charleston yard and driving a stolen truck into North Carolina. Potential penalties range up to 35 years or 750000 for the furniture case and 30 years or 750000 for the interstate theft case.
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Columbia
U.S
J. Rene Josey
Josey
Alvarado Jeffrey Branch
Joseph Charles Davis
Summerville
Lucien Greene
Georgetown
Ronald Greene
Nicole Latarsha Ladson
James Island
Janeen Renae Morris
North Charleston
Charleston
Linda Krawebeck
Charleston Area
North Carolina
Nelson J. Harris
Goose Creek
Dwight Wayne Joran
High Point
N.C
Man dies as wife clings to tree for hours on Lake Marion
John A. Berry, 71, died after they fell from a boat on Lake Marion in Santee. His wife Myrtle Jean Berry, 70, clung to a tree for about six hours before being found Thursday night and rescued, then treated for hypothermia and remained in stable condition Friday at Orangeburg’s Regional Medical Center.
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Santee
West Columbia
Lake Marion
John A. Berry
Natural Resources Department
Mike Willis
Berry
Myrtle Jean Berry
Willis
Cener
Orangeburg
Four arrested in seizure of counterfeit goods
Deputies and the secretary of state said investigators bought almost $60,000 of what are believed to be fake sunglasses and watches, then raided the Bargain Exchange Flea Market resulting in more than $80,000 in seized merchandise carrying Oakley Nike Old Navy and Reebok labels. Four people face charges of using a counterfeit mark or trafficking in counterfeit goods. The group includes Bang Richard Bingham 37 Easley Steve Lawrence Peele 28 Greenwood Linda Ann Thomas 42 Cleveland Tenn and Glenn R. Austin 50 New London Conn.
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Easley
Secretary of State
Tim Morgan
Bargain Exchange
Oakley
Nike
Old Navy
Reebok
Bang Richard Bigham
Steve Lawrence Peele
Greenwood
Linda Ann Thomas
Cleveland
Tenn
Glenn R. Austin
New London
Conn
Jim Miles
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