Peruvian jet downs missionary plane in Amazon region
A Peruvian air force jet shot down an airplane carrying American missionaries over the Amazon. A woman and her infant daughter were killed, and veteran pilot Kevin Donaldson was wounded. The U S embassy said the pilot mistook the plane for contraband drug transport. The mission group identified Roni Bowers and Charity Bowers among the deceased.
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Peru
Amazon Jungle
U.S
Benjamin Ziff
Association of Baptists For World Evangelism
Iquitos
Roni Bowers
Charity
Kevin Donaldson
Submarine collision sparks call for court martial in Japan
Families of nine dead after the USS Greeneville struck the Ehime Maru off Oahu demand Cmdr Scott Waddle face court martial. U S Navy chose nonjudicial punishment for Waddle and eight others, citing a three admiral inquiry and signaling no jail time.
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Tokyo
U.S
Greeneville
Oahu
Hawaii
Robert Chaplin
Japan
Moriyuki Kato
Ehini
Cmdr
Scott Waddle
Moriyuki
Masaru Inagaki
Waddle
Navy
Honolulu
Fargo
Chinese scholars in U S fear returning home amid detentions
Detentions of five western-educated Chinese scholars by security police raise fears of an intensified crackdown on intellectuals. Wu Jianmin, a U S citizen, was detained April 8 in Shenzhen on suspected spying for Taiwan. The cases, linked to broader Sino U S tensions and the Tiananmen Papers controversy, threaten academic exchanges and normal research activity.
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Philadelphia
China
U.S
Beijing
Wu Jianmin
New York
Shenzhen
Taiwan
United States
Gao Zhan
American University
Li Shaomin
US S
Princeton University
Hong Kong
Xu Zerong
Oxford University
Tan Guangguang
Robin Munro
University of London
Human Rights Watch
Tiananmen
Jiang Zemin
Japan grants visa to Lee Teng-hui for medical visit
Japan awards a humanitarian visa to former Taiwanese president Lee Teng-hui restricting political activity during his stay while signaling tense ties with China. Lee will seek medical treatment in Japan and later visit Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, amid renewed U.S. contact.
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Tokyc
Japan
Lee Teng-hui
China
Lee
Yohei Kono
Yoshiro Mori
Kono
United States
State Department
Cornell University
Ithaca
N.Y
Cornell
U.s.china
Taiwan
Beijing
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Pierre Joseph Louissaint
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U.S. Navy
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Chaplin
Dents
Fisheries High School
Uwajimari
Toshihiko Nakao
Pacific Fleet
Jon Yoshishige
Yoshishige
Adm
Thomas Fargo
U.S. Pacific Fleet
Jennifer Lin
Knight Ridder Newspapers
Gilbert Rozman
Communist Party
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Russia
Enright Gardens
Eudora
Liworld.com
Visa
Kentucky Court
Kentucky
Laura
Krings
Merlor Fashio
Umma
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Lawrence
Kansas
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