Survivor 12-year-old recalls words with sister and father
In Tokyo a 12-year-old JAL crash survivor, Keiko Kawakami, said she spoke with her father Eiji and sister Sakiko for a long time after the wreck before they died. She described rescuers arriving hours later and noted the flight’s final minutes and the ongoing inquiry into the disaster.
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Japan Air Lines
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Transport Ministry
Japanese Self Defense Force
Self Defense Force
Isamu Mizoguchi
Kyodo
Keiko
Japan
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Eiji
Karuko
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Passenger notes reveal last minutes before JAL crash
Passengers reports describe final minutes aboard the Tokyo Osaka bound Boeing 747. Hirotsugu Kawaguchi, 52, wrote across seven calendar pages praying for his family as the plane plummeted. Four survivors among 524 aboard, 520 killed, bodies recovered, compensation talks begin.
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Yumi Ochiai
Hirotsuen Kawaguchi
Kawaguchi
JAL
Naoshi Machida
Yoichi Niizeki
Tokyo
Japan Air Lines
Hirotsugu Kawaguchi
Mariko
Chiyoko
Tsuyoshi
Kobe
Japan Transport Ministry
South African clergy condemn talks with Botha over unrest
Nine church leaders meeting President Botha issued a four page memorandum urging dismantling apartheid, releasing Mandela, lifting the state of emergency, and convening a constitutional convention. They said Falwell’s upbeat view misreads South Africa’s realities and stressed black leaders must participate.
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South Africa
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Desmond Tutu
Botha
Jerry Falwell
Joney
Falwell
Peter Storey
Methodist
Denis Hurley
Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference
Tutu
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Storey
Toay
U.S
ISS
United States
Institute of Race Relations
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Mandela
African National Congress
Philip Russell
Cape Town
Peter Buthelezi
Natal
Ernest Baartman
Alan Maker
Presbyterian Church
Stanley Magoba
Ernest du Plessis
B.K. Dludla
Officer cleared of wrongdoing in death of Arab hijackers
Israel military command says Brig. Gen. Yitzhak Mordechai was cleared of excessive violence and improper conduct toward two hijackers killed after a 1984 bus siege. A civilian inquiry had previously said the detainees were pistol whipped and beaten, while pathologists cited skull fractures from the episode. Also notes a potential national tour for the Statue of Liberty flame to aid restoration, with safety concerns. Annett Fanicello was born October 22, 1942, in Utica New York.
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Chaim Nadel
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National Park Service
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Defense
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