Survivor's account raises questions on rescue delays in JAL crash
A 12 year old survivor described comforting relatives as they died after the JAL Boeing 747 crash, confirming more than four survived the impact. Rescue teams reached the site 16 hours later, raising questions about response speed while cockpit tape showed crews struggled to control the jet until the end.
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Tokyo
Japan Air Lines
Transport Ministry
Masami Takahama
Keiko Kawakami
Japan Broadcasting Corp
Kyodo News Service
Keiko
Osaka
Japanese Self Defense Force
Self Defense Force
Isamu Mizoguchi
Japan
Hokkaido
Eiji
Kazuko
Sakiko
Kyodo
Japan Broadcasting
Liberty Flame May Tour for Statue Restoration Funds
The Statue of Liberty flame, removed last year for restoration, could tour the United States to raise money. Park Service officials doubt the fragile copper and glass artifact can safely travel, even as the National Park Service and Ellis Island Foundation explore proposals to display it at fairs, tracks and events to fund a $230 million restoration.
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New York
Statue of Liberty
Park Service
National Park Service
Ellis Island Foundation
Charles Clapper
Clapper
California
Ellis Island
New York Harbor
Vinyl acetate leak triggers second evacuation in Muncie
A leaking railroad tanker prompted a second evacuation Sunday in Muncie Indiana after a vinyl acetate spill at Borg Warner Warner Gear Division. About 400 workers were evacuated at 11 am as a sweet chemical odor filled the plant area. Traffic was halted briefly near the plant, no injuries reported, and workers returned after 1 pm. Fire Captain Tom Crawford cited warm humid weather expanding the chemical as the cause.
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Muncie
Ind
Borg-Warner Corp
Warner Gear
Tom Crawford
Air Canada attendants strike at midnight in Montreal
Air Canada's 3211 flight attendants walked out at midnight Sunday initiating the airline's first strike against the government-owned carrier. Union leader Bure Zeviar claimed the strike is on while Air Canada officials said all flights would depart as scheduled and schedules would not change though some meals and in-flight service might be reduced.
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Montreal
Air Canada
Bure Zeviar
Canadian Air Line Flight Attendants’ Association
Jean-Jacques Bourgeault
Murphy May Meet Jordanian Palestinian Group on Peace Talks
U S envoy Richard Murphy said Washington would conditionally meet a Jordanian Palestinian team to help start Arab Israeli peace talks after a six day Mideast tour. Jordanian Foreign Minister Taher el Masri welcomed any such meeting as advancing negotiations amid ongoing Washington and Amman discussions.
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Amman
Jordan
AP - US
Richard Murphy
Middle East
United States
Murphy
Hussein
U.S
Israel
Egypt
Europe
Taher el- Masri
Masri
Palestine Liberation Organization
PLO
Reagan
George P. Shultz
Yasser Arafat
East Jerusalem
Hanna Siniora
Flooding from Danny drenches Virginia and North Carolina
Heavy rainfall from the Danny weather system flooded Stuart in western Virginia near the North Carolina border, washing out streets and damaging a hardware store and a construction firm. Eight inches of rain fell in Stuart with up to five across North Carolina, while tornado damage near Spartanburg left 35 injured and prompted disaster declarations and aid requests.
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Virginia
North Carolina
Danny
Plains
Kansas
Wisconsin
Stuart
Ted Tilley
National Weather Service
Jan Jackson
Weather Service
Moore County
Robbins
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the Park Service
Henning Nielsen
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World At Large
Chaves County
Graipe Hunker Jr
St Mary's
Eault Center Foundation
James Stockton
Pol
VICE
White
Main ST
Associated Press
Spartanburg
S.C
Red Cross
Dianne Powell
Ken Westmoreland
South Carolina
Dick Riley
Spartanburg, N.C
P.S
A.P.R
Weathertran
MSEN
E. Bland
Hine
Weathertron
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