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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1995
Page
3
A Rio de Janeiro mall robbery aftermath saw state troopers shoot an unarmed suspect three times in the back while he lay prone, with a Globo crew recording the event. State Security Secretary Euclimar da Silva ordered officers identified and punished. Police had previously killed the van driver in a shootout.
Ali Mahdi Mohamed, a top Somali warlord who controls northern Mogadishu, condemns the exit of the last 2,400 U.N. troops after rival factions rejoiced. He praises humanitarian aid but says the mission failed to restore order or disarm factions amid U.S. and Italian Marine protection.
Florence prosecutor Pierluigi Vigna backs the theory that Mafia bombings of two Rome churches were retaliation against Pope John Paul II. The July 1993 blasts damaged St John Lateran Basilica and San Giorgio in Velabro after the pope condemned the Mafia during a Sicily visit two months earlier.
A 5.2 magnitude earthquake struck near Pasto in southern Colombia at 6:23 p.m. causing five deaths, damaging buildings and briefly cutting power and telephone services. A rockslide injured a girl and left two people trapped. their status was unclear. The Civil Defense reported the details from Bogota.
The dollar slid to as low as 93.75 yen amid a global wave of speculation despite a coordinated intervention by the Fed, Bank of Japan, and several European central banks. Officials claimed efforts to stabilize the dollar, but it closed at 94.14 yen after Thursday’s 95.22 yen.
Workers forge a 51 mile tunnel under the Maluti Mountains to deliver Lesotho snowmelt water into South Africa’s Vaal basin. The Katse dam, Africa’s tallest at 610 feet, underlines a large cross border effort with German built machinery, and international contractors.
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