Tamagotch craze hits Tokyo as egg-sized virtual chicken charms shoppers
In Tokyo hundreds queued for hours to buy Bandai Tamagotch key chain games priced at 18 dollars. The egg-shaped device hatches a virtual chick managed by feeding playing cleaning and disciplining it. Neglect makes the chick cry grow sick and eventually die. Bandai has sold up to 500,000 units amid repeated stockouts.
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Japan
Takeshi Ogiwara
Hakuhinkan
Bandai Co
Bandai
Flower shop owner beaten in Winston-Salem case
Kalvin Michael Smith, a 26 year old Winston-Salem house painter with a long criminal record, held on 1 million bail after attacking Jill Marker at Silk Plant Forest on December 9, 1995. Marker, three months pregnant, was struck over 20 times, suffered brain injuries, and later gave birth to son Barron Lloyd in April.
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Winston-Salem
N.C
Kalvin Michael Smith
Jill Marker
Madagascar cyclone leaves towns cut off and deaths feared
Aid workers could not reach many towns washed out by a cyclone that killed at least six people and left 30,000 homeless in southern Madagascar. Officials warned the death toll would rise with at least 100 missing as worst-hit areas remained inaccessible.
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Cholera Outbreak Kills Hundreds in Abia Nigeria
Guardian newspaper cites traditional chief Eze Kingsley Orji Agwu that more than 200 people died in Item village between Dec 27 and Jan 15. Abia Health Board confirms cholera but without casualty figures. In Nkporo, Dr Clement Obu says dozens die daily from the disease.
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Nigeria
Abia
Independent Guardian
Eze Kingsley Orji Agwu
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Nkporo
Clement Obu
GM Strikes Moraine Plant Over Truck Line Contract
About 4 300 workers at the GM Moraine Ohio truck plant walked out after voting 1990 to 1534 against a tentative three year contract. The plant builds the Chevrolet Blazer GMC Jimmy and Oldsmobile Bravada. Union chair Jim Marlow said a quick deal could be reached if talks resume.
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General Motors
International Union of Electrical Workers
Jim Marlow
Jeane Dixon, famed astrologer, dies at 79 in Washington
Jeane L. Dixon, world renowned psychic and author, died Saturday at 2:30 p.m. from cardiopulmonary arrest at Sibley Hospital. Born January 3, 1918, in Medford Wisconsin she rose to prominence after predicting President Kennedy would die in office and later wrote several best selling books and a horoscope column.
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Jeane L. Dixon
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Sibley Hospital
Jean Vincent
Jeane Dixon
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Matsu
Walter Reuther
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Medford
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California
James L. Dixon
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Republican moderates push role in budget balancing drive
Moderate Republicans see themselves as catalysts for a budget balancing deal between Congress and President Clinton. They claim clout in the House to press for a balance by 2002, lower spending, and tax cuts, while Senate leverage has waned after November elections. The party plans late February votes on a constitutional balance amendment as centrists seek to shape the process.
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Israelis adopt peace formula amid Bitter divide
Israel's Likud and Labor leaders reach a compromise plan for a final peace with the Palestinians. It envisions annexing West Bank settlements near the pre 1967 line while not ruling out an independent Palestinian state. Palestinian officials rejected it and Netanyahu said he is not bound by it. Kept by Beilin and Eitan as a breakthrough, the accord aims to guide talks starting in March.
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Michael Eitan
Beilin
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