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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1995
Page
2
A Curtis C-46 cargo plane crashed Tuesday near Villavicencio in central Colombia as it neared the airport. All nine aboard died, including four crew and five passengers said to be health workers from Valle de Uaupes.
Police shot four inmates during a dawn bid to recapture about 100 convicts who tunneled out of Vila Velha federal prison near Vitoria in Espirito Santo. State troopers searched the region with horses and a helicopter, recapturing 25 inmates.
The Federal Labor tribunal in Brasilia ruled a week-long oil workers strike illegal and ordered tens of thousands to return to work by Wednesday after noon. The decision grants Petrobras the right to dismiss workers without compensation as oil workers seek a 23.6 percent raise and oppose privatization moves. Government electric workers also strike.
A Stuttgart court accuses German businessman Wolfgang Weber of a $3 million fraud. Weber, a German citizen living in Paraguay since 1969, cannot be extradited due to dual nationality, a judge ruled. From Wires.
Russian troops shelled rebel positions and launched helicopter strikes southeast of Grozny breaking a two week truce during Victory Day celebrations. In Moscow, Clinton and Yeltsin discussed Chechnya as civilian deaths drew international outrage while interior troops widened operations beyond mopping up. Four attack helicopters fired rockets toward Shali and Serzhen Yurt as clashes continued. Interfax cited 38 rebels killed since Tuesday and one soldier dead, a toll not independently confirmed.
Rebels freed a U.N. food barge and its crew in southern Sudan. All 20 Sudanese crewmen and an Italian aid worker are safe. A Filipino aid worker Romy Delos Santos remains hostage in Tonga. Rebels seized 864 tons of relief before the barge was forced ashore west of Malakal. The UN demands Delos Santos’s unconditional release and will reassess local needs.
British minister Michael Ancram met Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness in Belfast for a 3 1/2 hour session on the IRA arsenal. McGuinness urged higher level talks while Ancram pressed disarmament under neutral supervision as a condition for peace talks. Sinn Fein seeks troop withdrawal and police reform but sees disarmament as surrender without broader pact.
Croats from Bosnia and Croatia attacked a primary supply corridor linking Serb-held lands near Sarajevo. Heavy shelling forced Serbs to close the Bosnian corridor, risking encirclement of Serb-held areas in Croatia and western Bosnia. UN monitors logged 1000 artillery detonations. 24 rounds hit Brcko wounding 15 civilians.
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