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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1997
Page
4
Rescue efforts struggle in Himachal Pradesh after flash floods and landslides. Rivers Sutlej and Andhara overflow, cutting off 12 villages from Chandigarh. Officials report damages around 71 million dollars and fear toll could rise beyond 200 to as high as 500.
Riots in Lusaka after authorities shut unauthorized stalls. police used tear gas and live ammunition. Witnesses describe running battles, with at least four injured and 66 rioters arrested. Police say three officers and one civilian were hurt. radio reports initially claimed deaths.
Thousands graduate from military camp Thousands of boys as young as 10 have graduated from a training program in Iraq named Saddam's Youth. The camp network operated 14 sites to train children in weapons plus religion science and sports amid unspecified emergencies. Col Riza Mezal Hamd confirmed some families sought younger entrants but were turned away.
NATO commander Gen Wesley Clark pressed Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic to surrender to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague. Clark urged Karadzic in Pale to turn himself in, citing pledges to withdraw from public life. Defense Department denied training for any operation to capture war crime suspects in the Serb controlled area.
Alfred Kokh resigns as deputy prime minister and chair of the State Property Committee. Maxim Boiko to replace him with Yeltsin’s approval. The government probes recent state asset sales, notably 25 percent of Svyazinvest, won by a Oneximbank-led consortium for 1.88 billion dollars including George Soros.
An Iranian court executed Ali Reza Khoshruy Karan Kordiyeh, the Tehran taxi driver nicknamed The Vampire, by a yellow crane after a three month spree of kidnapping rape stabbing and arson. Crowds of about 10 000 gathered as relatives demanded harsher punishment while riot police guarded the site at a western Tehran construction yard.
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