Tokyo cult's hidden gun parts linked to nerve gas attack
Police found dozens of hidden machine gun parts and learned of germ warfare experiments in the probe of the Aum Shinri Kyo cult. Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported a conscription law among cult rules, and authorities say the group planned guerrilla strikes and sarin attacks on Japanese cities. The Tokyo subway attack on March 20 killed 12 and sickened 5,500.
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Nihon Keizai Shimbun
Defense
Science
North Korea seeks food aid from UN and Japan
Seoul reports North Korea facing severe shortages and asking the United Nations for food aid. North Korea also requested emergency rice from Japan and said it would accept aid from South Korea if tied to conditions. Officials say Pyongyang seeks 5,000 tons of rice via UNESCO for schoolchildren.
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North Korea
United Nations
Japan
Li Song Rok
International Trade Promotion Committee
South Ifn
Seoul
U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Fraud trial opens for Maxwell heirs and associates
The late Robert Maxwell's sons Kevin Maxwell and Ian Maxwell, plus Larry Trachtenberg and Robert H. Bunn, stand trial for conspiring to defraud Maxwell pension plans. All plead not guilty as the case ties to the collapse of Maxwell's publishing empire after his 1991 death, with potential up to ten years in prison if convicted.
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Robert Maxwell
Maxwell
Kevin Maxwell
Ian Maxwell
Larry Trachtenberg
Robert H. Bunn
Maxwell Pension Plans
Ifi
Tokyo Governor Cancels World City Expo Tokyo 96
Governor Yukio Aoshima scrapped the planned World City Expo Tokyo 96 promising to cut costs. The $2 billion international expo set for next year would have showcased city livability with interested participants from Berlin Paris New York and Seoul.
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Hokyo
Tweedlay
Yukio Aoshima
Tokyo
Berlin
Paris
New York
Seoul
WHO urges tobacco-free world on No Tobacco Day
WHO marks World No Tobacco Day highlighting a World Bank estimate that tobacco costs the globe 200 billion dollars annually. Dr. Hiroshi Nakajima warns three million deaths yearly with a projection of ten million within 40 years, urging higher taxes and bans on promotion to curb smoking.
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Geneva
World Health Organization
U.S
Daniel L. Spiegel
U.N
World Bank
Hiroshi Nakajima
U.N. Health Agency
France
IPSOS
WHO
Unicef
U.N. High Commissioner For Refugees
Vladimir Petrovsky
New York
Map reveals mass grave of 89 soldiers in Vietnam
An American veteran drawn map led Vietnamese officials to a mass grave in Tan Chau district Tay Ninh province 55 miles northwest of Ho Chi Minh City. 89 Communist soldiers killed in the Vietnam War were buried there. Diggers found remains. none could be identified. The find follows a prior discovery of 95 remains at another site last year.
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Hanoi
Vietnam
Vietnam Veterans of America
Wu Xuan Hong
Vietnam-Usa Society
U.S
Tan Chau
Tay Ninh
Ho Chi Minh City
Saigon
Hong
Jim Kapucinski
Bay Village
Ohio
VVA
Jim Doyle
Fresno
Calif
United States
Canada faces tough vote on gun control bill
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien faces party and provincial opposition as the government pushes a gun control bill through the House of Commons. The plan includes registering all firearms by 2003 and tougher penalties for crimes involving guns, costing $62 million to start. Critics argue it infringes privacy and citizens' rights. Provincial leaders from Alberta to Newfoundland oppose funding and enforcement.
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Jean-Chretien
Canada
House of Commons
Chretien
Liberal Party
Flouse' of Commons
Senate
Justice
Allan Rock
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Northwest Territories
Yukon
Quebec
British Columbia
Ontario
Newfoundland
Ralph Klein
Prosecutors appeal release of Colosio assassination suspect
Prosecutors in Mexico City appeal the release of Tran Gilino Sanchez Venegas in the 1994 killing of presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio. They seek to rearrest and try him, claiming a key video link to gunman Mario Aburto Martinez and ignored evidence. The eight day ruling window follows his prior year detention on suspicion.
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Trangilino Sanchez Venegas
Luis Donaldo Colosio
Mario Aburto Martinez
Sanchez
Colosio
Tijuana
Martinez
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