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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1997
Page
3
President Alberto Fujimori toured a Lima prison housing Tupac Amaru rebels and rejected demands to release about 300 jailed comrades. He criticized rebels for media leverage and urged a peaceful solution while police questioned a Japan TV reporter and interpreter over the ambassad or siege.
Richard Branson and crew of three landed safely in the Atlas wilderness after a rapid descent. Alex Ritchie crawled outside the 174-foot Global Challenger capsule to jettison a one-ton fuel tank, halting the plunge. Branson credited Ritchie with saving their lives during the near-disaster staged near Marrakech.
U N secretary general Kofi Annan told outgoing U S secretary of state Warren Christopher that the United States must work more closely with others and that a good leader must sometimes be a follower. Annan took office January 1 after Boutros Boutros-Ghali's term ended.
In Jerusalem Yasser Arafat angrily rejected a proposal by U S envoy Dennis Ross to complete Israeli troop withdrawal from the West Bank next year. Arafat demanded completion by September 1997 as set in the 1995 peace accord, while Netanyahu proposed May 1998 as the target.
Bonn report says Swiss government proposed using unclaimed WWII era bank funds to finance a Holocaust victims fund. The offer came after tensions over a Swiss official's remark that Jewish demands for compensation were extortion and blackmail, prompting calls for apology from Jewish groups.
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