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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1994
Page
3
Dozens of visitors at the Mont Saint Michel abbey filmed and did not intervene as a mother tried to save her child. Firefighters later rescued the child, but the mother died. The event drew outrage from locals and French media.
Israel's Cabinet approves expanded Palestinian autonomy covering education health welfare taxes and tourism in the West Bank while excluding east Jerusalem and Jewish settlements despite weekend violence by Islamic militants that left two Israelis dead.
Israel and Jordan renewed talks on water resources and border disputes delaying a formal peace. Jordanian Israeli and U S technical teams met to discuss regional development projects and progress toward a broader settlement.
Ernesto Zedillo of the Institutional Revolutionary Party secures a narrow majority in the August 21 presidential election with 50.18 percent of the vote. Diego Fernandez de Cevallos of the National Action Party gains 26.69 percent, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas of the Democratic Revolutionary Party trails at 17.08 percent.
A Sunday Independent poll finds 80 percent fed up with royal troubles yet 66 percent support keeping the monarchy long term. Sixty eight percent back a divorce for Prince Charles and Princess Diana amid their two year separation.
At Guantanamo Bay Naval Base nearly 28,000 Cuban and Haitian boat people live in two tent cities. U.S. officers say the situation is under control despite hunger strikes and occasional fights. Haitians seek political asylum while Cubans aim for Miami, as authorities monitor arrivals and logistics.
Fidel Castro forbade children and teens to depart Cuba by raft or boat on Sunday amid a wave of asylum attempts toward the United States. The government newspaper Juventud Rebelde reported the restraint as storms subsided and hundreds prepared to flee.
Human Rights Watch Asia says executed prisoners are the main organ source in China with organs often removed while the donor is alive or soon after death. The report cites coerced or absent consent and suggests executions align with transplant needs amid a secretive death-penalty regime since 1983, noting trials often unfair and tortured confessions.
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