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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1997
Page
4
Italian authorities grilled nine suspects on Saturday in connection with the unusual seizure of the bell tower at St Mark's Square Venice. Police detained one man believed linked to the incident.
Eight separatists seized a tower, proclaiming a republic and promising to stay until their envoy arrived. Police intervened with a swift raid ending the standoff with no injuries. a ninth man was later detained as the claimed envoy no show.
Mobutu Sese Seko arrives in Kinshasa after a bid to discuss a power handover with rebel leader Laurent Kabila. The leaders planned a Wednesday meeting in Pointe Noire to finalize negotiations as Kabila’s forces close on the capital.
Pope John Paul II urged reconciliation as tens of thousands lined Beirut streets to see his popemobile amid war ruins from the 1975-90 civil conflict. He spoke of a past of deaths and displacement and lauded Lebanon as a hopeful, diverse nation with Christian and Muslim communities coexisting.
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