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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1998
Page
5
A Continental Micronesia Boeing 747 carrying 423 passengers returned to Guam after an engine blast forced a fuel dump. No injuries were reported. officials said the cause was under investigation and passengers were reboarded onto a second plane to Honolulu about four hours later.
Union leaders drew tens of thousands through Rome on Saturday urging Premier Prodi to boost job creation. Organizers pegged the crowd at 300,000, with police at 100,000, as they pressed for action to cut unemployment, notably in the south. Pietro Larizza warned that a strike could follow if concrete steps aren’t taken.
Iraq on Saturday reversed its opposition to a U.N. Security Council resolution allowing it to spend 300 million dollars of oil for food revenues to buy spare parts for repairing and upgrading its oil industry. The Foreign Ministry said the measure imposes no indefinite oil-for-food expansion until sanctions are lifted.
Rigoberto Antonio Morales Barrientos, 23, linked to the kidnapping and slaying of American Danita Gonzalez Plank de Orellana and her infant daughter, was captured in El Tejar, four days after escaping custody. Police said the suspect, held on kidnapping and murder charges since May 28, fled from prison and was recaptured a day after the escape.
Pope John Paul II told Austrian officials in Vienna that Europeans must seek reconciliation with Jews for unspeakable suffering and warned that Western Europe cannot remain an island of comfort. He urged sacrifices to bridge economic divides and addressed the role of former Communist nations as the EU expands. The ceremony included Kurt Waldheim, while controversy over a pedophilia case also shadowed the church.
After eight years of center-right rule the opposition Social Democrats won a plurality in the 200-seat parliament but fall short of a majority. Milos Zeman and other party leaders meet President Vaclav Havel for coalition talks as the party seeks to form a left-wing government amid ongoing deadlock.
Belfast council member Billy Hutchinson, a Protestant peace advocate, discusses decommissioning as voters prepare to elect a 108 member local assembly. He notes paramilitaries guard caches and no weapons have been turned over yet, while IRA stockpiles include assault rifles, heavy guns, rockets, Semtex, and a surface-to-air missile from the Libya era.
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