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Newspaper
Register Herald
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1998
Page
5
In Nashville area congregations paused cleanup to worship in tents and parking lots after storms that killed six and left more than 1,600 structures damaged or destroyed. St. Ann's Episcopal Church confirmed 10 new members beside its ruined 1882 sanctuary.
A six foot saltwater crocodile was seen on the banks of a storm water drain in Westcourt Cairns near a previously mauling incident area. The animal fled after a rock was thrown and another six foot crocodile was removed nearby by environment officers a day earlier. Police warn the drain lies close to a heavily populated area and children often play in creeks.
Kevin Zebrowski, a 21 year old college student from New Jersey, vanished on New Year’s night after leaving a motel bar in Carrabassett Valley Maine. Searchers used dogs, snow mobiles and aircraft. his parents quit jobs to post fliers in New England and Canada. More than 34 months later his body was found behind a convenience store 340 yards from the bar. Residents and his family wonder how the body went undiscovered.
At the Summit of the Americas in Santiago leaders from 34 democracies approved a plan to begin negotiations in September for a Free Trade Area of the Americas by 2005. Talks start in Miami and end in Mexico City, with Clinton asserting progress from Miami to Santiago. Cuba remained excluded.
In Tel Aviv former prime ministers Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Shamir rail over land and peace. Peres urges withdrawal from most West Bank and Gaza to enable a Palestinian state and avoid ethnic strife, while Shamir defends holding the territories and rejects Oslo. Both remain active advocating divergent paths.
Wang Dan, Tiananmen protest leader, lands in Detroit after release from Chinese jail. He is hospitalized for tests at Henry Ford Hospital. White House officials call the release positive and linked to upcoming high level contacts with Beijing.
Tehran mayor Gholamhossein Karbaschi, freed after an 11 day detention on corruption charges, returned to the municipality amid large show of support. His arrest earlier strained relations between moderate and hard line factions within Iran's ruling hierarchy.
Eduardo Umana Mendoza, 50, a prominent Colombian human rights attorney known for defending guerrilla leaders, was shot by two men and a woman posing as journalists in his central Bogota office. His secretary was bound, a video camera was carried, and the government offered a $370,000 reward for information leading to the killers.
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