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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 2001
Page
21
With 75 percent of votes counted Alejandro Toledo led Alan Garcia 52 to 48 in a runoff that highlighted racial divisions. Toledo, a shoeshine boy who rose to World Bank economist, becomes Peru’s first freely elected president of Indian descent, observers call the vote Peru’s cleanest in years.
Prince Gyanendra ascends the throne as Nepal’s new king after the massacre that killed nine royals. Crowds in Kathmandu clash with police as mourners demand answers to whether Crown Prince Dipendra killed his family and himself and whether the deaths were an accident. King Gyanendra pledges a full explanation amid public unrest.
In Alliance Ohio more than 10 000 people queued for preventive antibiotics after two Beloit West Branch High School students died and a third fell seriously ill from Neisseria meningitidis. Officials said a shared water bottle at a school picnic may link the cases.
In Washington the Democratic Senate will slow President Bush's energy proposals as lawmakers revamp the Republican bill for a summer vote. Democrats seek faster action with short term steps including boosting aid to low income families to cover electricity and natural gas bills amid the energy debate.
In New York the Rev. Al Sharpton is urged by his mother to stop his prison hunger strike at the Metropolitan Detention Center Brooklyn. He continues fasting after receiving support from Coretta Scott King while serving a 90 day sentence for trespassing on Navy property during a Vieques protest. The Navy defends Vieques bombings as vital to national security despite health-critique from critics.
After planning, 125 spent fuel assemblies are loaded into two robust casks for a cross state train trip from West Valley to Idaho National Laboratory. The move ends decades of indoor pool storage at the West Valley site and marks progress in the 1.6 billion cleanup of the 230 acre facility run by Nuclear Fuel Services from 1966 to 1972. The shipment, likely this summer, will depart through 11 states to Idaho.
Herald-Journal seeks accuracy and prints corrections. A Sunday story on a 1970 Jackson college protest misstated that Medgar Evers was killed. the rumors concerned his brother Charles Evers.
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