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Newspaper
Register Herald
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1998
Page
6
Six youths ages 17 to 23 rode a mattress on a flat car along the Conway Scenic line in New Hampshire. The car collided with a maintenance vehicle, injuring all six, four hospitalized, one in critical condition. The incident occurred Monday night on a tourist route through the White Mountains.
The Scottsdale edition of the Tribune changed its masthead to Good News Tribune and showcased positive local gains such as improved curbside recycling in Mesa and surrounding suburbs along with the line that tap water tastes better than in years. Geere notes newspapers are steeped in reporting bad news.
Pretoria, South Africa. Adriaan Vlok, ex law and order minister, testified that former President P W Botha ordered the Aug 31 1988 bombing of Khotso House, headquarters of the South African Council of Churches, in Johannesburg. He said Botha told him to make the building unusable without deaths, and that Vlok passed the order to Gen. Johan van der Merwe who directed the use of explosives.
Rescue teams faced decaying corpses in tropical heat as 1,200 dead and 6,000 missing were tallied after a 23 foot high wave struck the north coast. Officials warned of disease as scavengers plagued the scene and evacuation considerations began.
Vice President Al Gore arrives in Ukraine for talks on aid and investment. He will tour Chernobyl and view the Object Shelter over reactor No 4, a structure feared to be unstable and prone to fire. High radiation and imperfect instruments hinder precise assessments inside.
In Yangon and Mandalay final exams for the 1996 97 year will be held Aug 18 in students home towns after campuses were shut two years earlier due to student unrest. Classes were canceled indefinitely in December 1996 but some have resumed in recent months.
In Beijing Jiang Zemin and Japan's Communist Party chairman Tetsuo Fuwa met to end a 31 year ideological feud and seek stronger party to party ties. State media said closer relations could boost Sino Japanese links following last month’s normalization of relations.
Italian judge indicted seven people in a 25 year old bombing near Milan police headquarters that killed four. Gianfranco Bertoli, already imprisoned for life, was previously the sole defendant and is linked to a right wing conspiracy to kill Interior Minister Mariano Rumor.
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