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Newspaper
Register Herald
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1998
Page
6
An 11 year old girl trapped under water for 25 minutes when her leg was caught in a pool drain died Saturday after being moved to Children’s Mercy Hospital. Lifeguards and firefighters repeatedly resuscitated her as they freed her from four feet of water.
Police ejected Catherine Felicitas from reporters area outside a hotel where Swissair Flight 111 families stayed. New York Post says impostor tried similar ploys to meet relatives of victims. In Boston, physicist Richard Seed signaled cloning plans saying his wife would carry an embryo formed from his cell nucleus.
Gene Bruce recalls the 1923 Honda Point tragedy near Santa Barbara where seven of Destroyer Squadron 11 wrecked after a navigational error. Seventy five years later a ceremony at Honda and Vandenberg marks the anniversary, with Bruce and one other sailor attending.
In Chelyabinsk big builders offer to construct a subway in place of taxes while a Siberian clothing plant pays workers with grocery carts. Ukraine and Moldova propose settling Gazprom debts with sugar wine and other assets as barter expands across Russia. Barter now fuels about half of industrial transactions and 40 percent of tax payments, hindering credit use and modern market development.
In China many youths from elite universities to mud-brick villages seek party membership not for ideology but for economic gain. Some activists frame patriotism, while businessmen benefit from easier loans and licenses via party ties, says Bruce Dickson of George Washington University.
In Osasco near Sao Paulo, Brazil, a church roof collapsed during a service early Saturday. Firefighters reported at least 30 dead and 538 injured as about 1,300 worshippers were inside. Survivors recounted prayers, fear, and being buried under rubble.
Castel Gandolfo Italy AP Pope John Paul II urged Italians to turn to prayer rather than psychics and astrology for guidance. Speaking from his window at the summer retreat he said many are planning for the future as they return to school or work and must decipher the design in daily God given signals.
In the Arctic Ocean off the Chukotka peninsula, three teenagers stranded for three days on ice floes reached land safely. The update came from STAR Tass quoting local official Nikolai Monetov who reported the rescue.
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