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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1998
Page
3
A powerful earthquake measuring 7.7 with a depth of 12 miles struck Okinawa and surrounding islands in southwestern Japan. The Central Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami warning predicting waves up to 7 feet as residents were urged to move to higher ground. No casualties or damage reported initially.
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will meet Israeli and Palestinian leaders in London Monday for crucial talks aimed at reviving the stalled peace process. Afif Safieh calls the sessions decisive, as the 14 month stalemate over West Bank withdrawal persists. Yasser Arafat vows to declare statehood in May 1999 regardless of a deal. Israel rejects the American initiative despite top-level meetings.
The New Yorker reports Kofi Annan knew of Rwanda plans to exterminate Tutsis and that his office ordered UN peacekeepers not to act. A fax cited by The New Yorker shows Annan approved the nonintervention directive, with aide Iqbal Riza admitting responsibility while noting Annan was kept informed.
Dr. Judah Folkman of Harvard and Boston Children’s Hospital says the drug combination angiostatin and endostatin that eliminates cancers in mice is very promising but cautions the success may not apply to humans. Human trials hoped to start within a year. The treatment blocks tumor blood supply.
Space shuttle Columbia and its crew came home ending two weeks of lab work that advanced brain research amid animal losses. Within an hour the crew faced medical tests while NASA began unloading surviving animals for immediate dissection to study space induced nervous system changes.
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