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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1997
Page
4
Tens of thousands converge on Khomeini's shrine to mark the eighth anniversary of the revolutionary leader's death. Mourners arrive by car and bus, filling Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery south of Tehran, beating their heads and chests in Shiite ritual.
At Woolwich Crown Court Ronnie Kray testified that police pathologists removed his brother Reggie's brain, later buried in a separate casket, as part of a long running dispute with authorities. The elder Kray described the incident amid cocaine trafficking charges and family tensions. A separate Kabul blast near Bala Hisar fort wounded six civilians when a truck exploded at a military base, with no confirmed military casualties.
In Czestochowa Poland Pope John Paul II met Lech Walesa once a Solidarity icon and leader. The brief encounter shown Walesa now a private citizen and Nobel Peace Prize winner standing among bishops while the pope plans a journey to Zakopane. The symbolic meeting marks a new Polish landscape post communism.
In Paris Premier Lionel Jospin unveiled a largely moderate cabinet including three Communists and an ecologist to secure a governing majority in the National Assembly. Dominique Voynet will head Environment. Jean-Claude Gayssot and Marie-George Buffet join as Communists. Hubert Vedrine becomes foreign minister. Dominique Strauss-Kahn leads economics and finance.
Japan's government approved a 1998 fiscal reform blueprint to cut public works and overseas development aid by 7 and 10 percent, reduce a five year defense buildup by 7.9 billion dollars, and trim overall spending by 1.72 billion dollars. Analysts call the plan promising but warn that remaining liabilities, including 230 billion dollars from the defunct railway, still loom.
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