Hong Kong Vigil Commemorates Tiananmen Anniversary
Tens of thousands gather in Victoria Park Hong Kong to mark the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown with candles and a sculpture titled Pillar of Shame. Organizers claim 55 000 participants. Beijing police enforce quiet. Bao Ge, a rights activist, vows to form an independent political party after years in labor camps.
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Swissair halts gold chocolate bars for Jewish sensitivities
In Geneva the national airline stopped distributing chocolates wrapped as gold bars after Swissair spokesman Jean Claude Donzel called the wrappers disturbing amid scrutiny of Switzerland's Nazi era finances. In Iran mourners mark Ayatollah Khomeini's death anniversary at his shrine as crowds flood the roads. In Algeria voters go to the polls in the first multiparty parliament election since the army coup, while Ehud Barak visits Rabin's grave and pledges to continue his work for peace.
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Walesa Meets John Paul II In Brief Czestochowa Encounter
Lech Walesa, once Solidarity icon and Nobel laureate, delivers a 20 second kiss to Pope John Paul II in Czestochowa amid Poland’s post communist political shift. The meeting, low key among thousands, marks a symbolic reunion of two Poles who helped end communism. The pope then continues to Zakopane for a day off.
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Three Communists Named to New French Cabinet
Paris AP report says Socialist Premier Lionel Jospin formed a mainly moderate cabinet that includes three Communists and an ecologist to build a National Assembly majority. Dominique de Villepin announced the list from the Elysee Palace after talks with President Chirac.
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