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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1998
Page
4
Red Cross evacuated the last foreign workers from Mazar e Sharif as fighting intensified between Hezb e Wahadat allied factions and Uzbek forces loyal to Rashid Dostum. Two Red Cross workers and nine other foreigners were flown to Pakistan amid casualties cited by aid groups.
A Formosa Airlines Saab 340 carrying eight passengers and five crew vanished over the Taiwan Strait on a domestic flight from Hsinchu to Kaohsiung. Coast guard recovered a life jacket and body part as search teams likely located remains amid rough seas and fog.
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan orders a review of senior staff pay scales after a Germany supplied 275000 salary supplement to the new environment chief Klaus Mensa. Mensa returns the money to avoid impropriety while nations use lump sums to recruit abroad. Separately, eight student activists receive a retrial ordered by an appeals court amid clashes. The court cites insufficient evidence tying the group to an illegal organization, while rights groups watch the case as a test of government reform.
Fires across Brazil’s Yanomami reservation scorch a 25 million acre area, driving wildlife away and threatening staple foods for about 9,000 Indians. Officials report huts burned and forest fires spreading, while priests and residents urge rain in a drought linked to El Niño.
A freak blizzard coated Jerusalem and parts of Israel with snow, halting schools and paralyzing transport. Upper Galilee saw eight inches and Mt. Hermon sixteen inches, while snow also blanketed the West Bank towns of Hebron, Bethlehem and Ramallah.
In Berlin, four coaches and two doctors go on trial for secretly giving 19 teenage East German female swimmers performance enhancing drugs. Prosecutors say the pills and injections harmed hormonal growth and caused lasting health issues, amid state driven Olympic aims. Egon Krenz attended the rare proceeding as a symbol of Cold War era scrutiny.
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif urged India's new government to renew bilateral talks to resolve differences between the neighbors. He said the Indian leadership could restart stalled negotiations, but India must rein in its intelligence agency blamed for recent Punjab bombings that killed 20 and wounded scores.
An 18 year old Israeli hacker known as The Analyzer was arrested in Jerusalem for allegedly infiltrating computers in Israel and the United States. Police say he will face a judge within 24 hours and that accomplices were also arrested with US evidence aiding the case.
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