Bosnian forces press assault around Sarajevo amid siege
Bosnian government forces launch a major offensive to break the three year siege of Sarajevo, attacking north of the city with artillery and infantry. Serbs fire back, civilians die, hospitals are hit, and UN observers note shifting control around Mojmilo as peacekeepers’ role is questioned.
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Sarajevo
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Kosovo
Bosnia
U.N
Gary Coward
Coward
Associated Press
United Nations
Immigrant father harms family then kills himself in Wisconsin
A Laotian immigrant fatally harmed his wife and severed his young daughter's hand before killing himself in Appleton. The girl, age seven to ten, was later hospitalized in serious condition after surgeons reattached her right hand. Police seek interpreters as relatives cite cultural tensions and shame over a teenage daughter's relationship. A large cutting instrument was recovered. the mailman found the bodies about 75 miles northwest of Milwaukee.
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Ray Reimann
Mai Lot
Reimann
Milwaukee
Jackson song sparks debate on anti-Semitic lyrics
Michael Jackson defends a new song containing anti-Semitic slang as a cry against bigotry, while Jewish leaders worry the ambiguous lines could be misunderstood by about 20 million listeners. Rabbi Marvin Hier cautions on potential misinterpretation. The track appears on HIStory Past Present and Future Book 1.
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Los Angeles
Michael Jackson
Marvin Hier
Simon Wiesenthal Center For Holocaust Studies
Mr. Jackson
Bread package hides drugs at New York prison
Guards at Mid-Orange Correctional Facility found 40 small bags of marijuana, a plastic bag with 10 racks of crack cocaine and 37 bags of heroin in a gutted bread package meant for inmate Lamont Barnes. Barnes, serving a murder sentence from 1973, is charged with drug possession.
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Lamont Barnes
Greek father keeps vigil as 8 year old remains trapped
In EGION Greece a man stands by a collapsed five story building after a magnitude 6 1 quake. At least 17 people were killed 59 hospitalized and hundreds left homeless. Rescue teams searched for more than 20 unaccounted residents amid rubble while a Swiss unit detected voices including a 20 year old woman and a young boy named Andreas Bogdanos.
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Egion
Greece
Associated Press
Andreas Bogdanos
Doctor overdose kills cancer patient in Chicago
Vincent Gargano, 41, a Des Plaines mail sorter treated for testicular cancer, died after a chemotherapy overdose at University of Chicago Hospital. Hospital president Ralph Muller apologized, noting despite checks, a human error occurred. Testicular cancer has high cure rates when detected early or late.
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Chicago
University of Chicago Hospital
Ralph Muller
Vincent Gargano
Des Plaines
Summit Leaders Seek International Emergency Fund
At the G seven summit in Halifax leaders of major industrial nations discuss a special international emergency fund to prevent future Mexico style crises. Clinton voiced confidence America will not be last resort next time. The group agreed to double an IMF credit line to 58 billion dollars while debates over Bosnia and U S Japan trade linger.
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Halifax
Nova Scotia
United States
Bosnia
John Major
Clinton
Congress
U.N
International Fund For
U.S
Canada
Japan
France
Germany
Britain
Italy
International Monetary Fund
U.S. and Japan face stalemate on auto trade at summit
President Clinton frames the Japan auto dispute around American jobs as he meets Prime Minister Murayama at the seven-nation summit. With no progress and a June 28 deadline, he warns of punitive tariffs on 13 models if no deal is reached, while Tokyo resists.
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Halifax
Nova Scotia
Clinton
Japan
U.S
Tomiichi Murayama
Murayama
Former Boy Scout leaders charged with raping scouts
Cranston Rhode Island AP report says two former leaders face charges for abuses alleged against scouts at Champlin Boy Scout Reservation. A 25-year-old survivor says he was harmed repeatedly from age 14 to 17 starting in 1981. Paul Tondreau and Kenneth Gaspar were arrested and held for bail hearings.
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Cranston, R.I
Champlin Boy Scout Reservation
Paul Tondreau
Kenneth Gaspar
Tondreau
Gaspar
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