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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1997
Page
4
The Progress M1 cargo ship docked with the Mir space station on schedule, marking the first successful automated docking after two prior failures. Mission Control chief Vladimir Solovyov said the operation was clean and the crew avoided manual intervention.
Thai villagers guided a drifting yacht to shore near Phuket after the Russian father and his son said they were lost at sea for six days. The incident involved a hospital transfer and later events referenced a drunken-flight assault case in the UK.
Cape Town AP reports top apartheid era generals refused apologies to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission insisting the military was politically neutral and honorable. Maj. Gen. Joep Joubert said race did not drive actions while Gen. Constand Viljoen claimed the defense force served the state without human rights abuses.
Guerrillas blew a roadside bomb and fired mortars at an Israeli position in southern Lebanon killing two Israeli soldiers and a Lebanese militiaman. Six Israelis and two SLA members were wounded. Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the strikes and a rocket barrage wounding a militiaman and a civilian woman.
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