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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1998
Page
5
Rescue efforts in Vanimo Papua New Guinea shift to cremation due to heat and disease risk after a 23 foot wall of water. Officials report at least 1,200 dead and 6,000 missing with mangrove debris and bloated corpses in lagoons. Prime Minister Bill Skate weighs evacuations as bodies multiply.
U.S. and Britain weigh convening a Scottish court in the Netherlands to try Libyan suspects Abdel Basset al Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah for the 1988 Pan Am 103 bombing. President Clinton cites practical hurdles and Gaddafi’s resistance to U.S. or British trial locations. Indictments were issued in 1991 in Scotland and the United States.
A 23 year old man, Thomas Robert Gilmour of Ballymoney, appeared in court denying ties to the firebombing that killed Quinn brothers Richard 11 Mark 10 and Jason 9 during sectarian clashes over a blocked Protestant march. He faces murder charges and was ordered jailed until Aug 12.
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