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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1998
Page
3
Forensic experts started exhuming more than 240 bodies from a large mass grave near Donja Glumina east of Tuzla. The site, found with help from witnesses, is linked to killings at the war's start in 1992 95. Officials say many victims were residents of Srebrenica.
President Boris Yeltsin, on his first trip out of Russia since May, canceled a welcoming ceremony in Tashkent because he was not feeling well. He appeared stiff and stumbled during a public event before holding a one on one summit with Islam Karimov.
Two Chinese democracy activists Xu Wenli and Qin Yongmin marked the 20th anniversary of the Democracy Wall movement by urging exiled colleagues to press for the release of activists in prisons and labor camps. The appeal followed the 1978 79 free expression period in Beijing and the first poster that sparked a brief era of debate. In Lesotho a gunshot and bombing attempt at a ruling party rally killed one and wounded several. suspects detained as police investigate.
Former President Jimmy Carter, an oft proposed laureate, did not meet the February 1 nomination deadline for the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize. The award that year went to Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin for the Camp David accords, with the committee later noting Carter's positive initiative. Carter remains a candidate in this year's awards, with the prize announced in Oslo on Friday.
Rebels clashed with government troops near the Kindu airstrip in eastern Congo after shooting down a Boeing 727 over the airport. The aircraft carried civilians fleeing fighting, with rescue workers reporting no survivors. Rebel commander Kabanga Kalunga said his forces and Rwandan allies have closed in from three directions, while government forces reportedly retreated along the sole road out of town.
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