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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1996
Page
5
In northern Japan rescuers cleared rock debris after a fourth blast toppled a mountain slab that crushed a seaside highway tunnel trapping a bus of 19 and a car. Officials weighed final blasting before reaching the tunnel to free occupants and assess tunnel safety nationwide.
NATO shuts its liaison office in Pale amid tensions after two Bosnian Serb officers Djordje Djukic and Aleksa Krsmanovic were moved from Sarajevo to the Netherlands for war crimes investigations. President Zoran Lilic warned of backlash while diplomats seek to ease Muslim Croat differences over Mostar.
Malaysia marked the shell completion of the 88-story twin towers shaped like eight pointed stars. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad signed plates atop the structure as workers raised them to the crown. When finished in April the towers will reach 1,483 feet, surpassing Chicago’s Sears Tower. In another item, Italy freed Pietro Pacciani, linked to Florence murders, after an appeals court overturned his conviction.
In Frankfurt AP reports the last Nazi war crimes trial in Germany may have occurred already as elderly suspects lie too ill or aged to face local court proceedings. Alfred Streim, chief prosecutor at the Ludwigsburg Documentation Center, notes four charged men remain untried.
CompuServe Inc. reinstated access to all but five of about 200 adult oriented Internet newsgroups after a German probe. The service also introduced a no charge parental control to block offensive material, a move praised by supporters of free speech.
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