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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 2001
Page
6
In Belfast, Catholics and Protestants joined in brief prayers over a Protestant teen's death, the sole fatality in a week of clashes near a Catholic girls' school. John Reid urged calm as Protestant groups menaced Catholics walking to school in Ardoyne.
London officials opened a design competition for a 4.2 million memorial fountain to honor Diana in a former Hyde Park pump house beside the Serpentine. It is planned to be completed in summer 2003. Rosa Monckton, a friend of Diana, leads the memorial fountain committee.
In Kruger National Park South Africa a brush fire killed 23 people and left 30 elephants and four rhinoceroses dead as rangers counted losses in the southwestern sector. Runaway fires previously devastated about a quarter of the park in 1996 and killed hundreds of animals.
Tokyo officials appoint an expert team to wipe out city crows that gorge on garbage and threaten pedestrians. The capital hosts at least 21 000 crows, up from 7 000 in 1985, believed to have migrated from Southeast Asia jungles. A separate report notes an 81-year-old man gored to death by a bull while filming Medina del Campo's running of the bulls, Felix Rodriguez of Rouen cornered by a bull in The Funnel section at the town center entrance.
Thousands march in the West Bank for the funeral of two gunmen killed in an Israeli helicopter strike. A mourner-led protest in Tulkarem threatened more attacks while nearby clashes and a symbolic funeral in Ramallah echoed the week’s violence.
Mexican President Vicente Fox told the Organization of American States that the Cold War era Inter American Reciprocal Defense Treaty is obsolete and useless and may be withdrawn within 60 days. He cited collective goals like poverty, crime, and environmental harm as better focus than military alliance.
An Italian NATO soldier guards an Ethnic Albanian from the National Liberation Army as he hands over a weapon in Radusa near the Kosovo border. NATO resumes rebel weapon collection as the peace process enters a new phase, pledging greater rights for the ethnic Albanian minority.
Colombia urged an international narcotics conference and the State Department backed the move as a path to stronger cooperation. Deputy assistant secretary William Brownfield praised global drug fight efforts, noting progress from a $1.3 billion package and ongoing fumigation and lab destruction.
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