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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 2001
Page
7
Doctors confirmed a 16-year-old boy has Ebola in Makokou as a second patient shows similar symptoms. The illness has already killed 21 in Gabon and Congo. Neither patient is known to have contacted earlier victims, raising fears of undetected cases.
Havana held a special session of the National Assembly to name five men who were convicted in Miami this month on espionage charges as heroes of the Republic of Cuba. The six month Florida trial produced sentences from 10 years to life for espionage conspiracy and related counts. The five were among 14 agents said to have been tasked by Havana to monitor possible U.S. invasion signals. Others have pleaded, fled, or remain unaccounted for.
Turkey criticizes the European Union for not including the Kurdistan Workers' Party and a militant leftist group leading a prison hunger strike on its terrorism list. Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit says there is no doubt these are terrorist organizations and calls the omission incomprehensible.
Paris reports emergency rooms braced for a busy New Year weekend as general practitioners began a strike seeking higher pay. The four-day Christmas walkout previously clogged hospitals while two unions press for a 14 percent rise in office fees and a 46 percent boost for home visits.
Two baby wallabies stolen from Dudley Zoo in central England were shaken but recovering after rescue by police. Zookeepers said thieves smashed glass to reach the marsupials and officers later found them playing with children at a Gypsy camp in Oldbury on Friday evening.
President Adolfo Rodriguez Saa faced violent protests over economic crisis policies as thousands filled Plaza de Mayo and streets around Olivos, Casa Rosada, and Congress. Police reported 12 officers injured, 33 arrests, and Cabinet members offering to resign amid calls for policy change and anti-corruption pressure.
U S forces moved a batch of war prisoners from Shibergan to a Kandahar base for interrogation and possible transfer to Guantanamo. The convoy followed an operation that began Friday with dozens of troops, while more inmates arrived at Kandahar and at Guantanamo. The Shibergan jail houses about 3,000 inmates, including 900 foreigners, as ICRC provided water equipment and military planners pledged humane treatment.
Washington AP The effort to purge residual anthrax spores from the Hart Senate Office Building ventilation moved into a second day. Capitol Police Lt. Dan Nichols expected fumigation to finish late Saturday. The building has been closed since Oct. 17 after an anthrax letter opened in Senator Daschle’s office. Technicians pumped steam to raise humidity and chlorine dioxide was added to kill the spores.
President Bush announces a new approach to combat a new kind of enemy as American led forces pursue Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. Bombers strike a Taliban al Qaida complex near Tora Bora while British and U S troops aid Afghan search for intelligence and prisoners rise to nearly 140.
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