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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1997
Page
3
Recovery workers descended into a cave near the Bosnian village of Hrgar to remove up to 300 bodies, many with identification cards. Officials say thousands remain missing from the 31-year war as exhumations continue and violence memories persist.
Coup leader Hun Sen ignored King Norodom Sihanouk's plea for peace talks and pushed an offensive against the resistance's last stronghold on the Thai border. Stray shells from Tuesday's fighting landed in Thailand, which fired artillery and mortars back across the border. Thailand remains on alert to prevent spillover of Cambodia's warfare.
CARE International said the UN approved oil-for-food deal is not delivering enough food or medicine to Iraq. Children, the sick, and vulnerable groups face starvation and death as aid lags and shipments remain delayed.
Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams travels to Washington to press for renewed Belfast talks amid a renewed IRA cease fire. He meets Sandy Berger and congressional allies to apply pressure on Northern Ireland leaders and to advance Mitchell's plan for a power-sharing government in the British-ruled state.
A Vietnam Airlines jetliner crashed during landing near Phnom Penh International Airport in Cambodia. At least 62 people were killed, four survived, as rescuers faced flooded roads and burning wreckage after a heavy downpour. Witnesses said the plane overshot the runway on approach.
In New Hampshire a 400 respondent Republican poll shows George Bush leading with 16 percent while Jack Kemp and Steve Forbes each stand at 11 percent and Lamar Alexander at 11 percent. The results reflect early preferences before the state's primary.
Pentagon officials say a decommissioned Air Force satellite will be used as a target for a ground based laser test at White Sands New Mexico. Defense Department spokesman Kenneth Bacon noted the Army runs the laser and has already tested it on a variety of objects.
Assemblyman Martin Luster, a longtime critic of legislative power, endorses a statewide ballot proposition this November to require a constitutional convention. He argues the convention could draft reform proposals to democratize the Legislature and overhaul the budget and legislative process in New York.
Sen. Alfonso D Amato and Rep. Michael Forbes urge closing Brookhaven National Laboratory reactor after leaks of radioactive tritium shut it since December. They warn the operation threatens Long Island health and drinking water, following the Energy Secretary Pena ousting lab managers over environmental concerns.
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