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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 2000
Page
2
Snapes naenpae and a rebel faction seized hostages for eight weeks amid a political crisis in Fiji during May 19. The rebels claimed to defend Indigenous Fijian culture against a powerful minority. The government was ousted after the military moved to discard the Fi jiracial constitution and offer amnesty to the rebels.
A woman holding a baby jumped in front of an oncoming Toronto subway Friday morning. The child died and the mother was seriously injured, police treat the incident as a murder death by her own action attempt. The two were crushed.
A Polish special court ruled that Lech Walesa did not collaborate with the Communist era secret police after evidence showed forged documents were used to discredit him in the early 1980s. Walesa, 56, said he defeated false arguments as he campaigns for the presidency on October 8 amid rival Aleksander Kwasniewski, who was also cleared of similar allegations.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to take an active role in Middle East negotiations and to convene a meeting with Russian Egyptian French diplomats and Israeli Palestinian and American representatives. He met Putin in Moscow amid efforts to gain international support for a Palestinian nation by September 13.
The U S Navy bomber Ventura on its 1944 mission from Alaska to northern Japan disappeared for 56 years. U S authorities found the wreckage on Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia and aim to identify the seven crew members. Gen Roland Lajoie led a weeklong expedition to the steep volcanic slope near a volcano on Kamchatka 4 200 miles east of Moscow.
More than 2,000 residents fled their homes as experts defused a British built World War II bomb containing 1.3 tons of TNT found in an eastern Berlin park. Traffic halted and flights rerouted as the hourlong operation unfolded.
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