Platform for Action at UN Fourth World Conference on Women
Delegates from 189 states produced a long Platform for Action seeking equal rights for women. It calls for access to credit, protection from violence, inheritance rights, and control over child bearing. Observers warn progress will be hard, with monitoring and resources limited, while Bella Abzug pushes a U S mobilization to boost voting in 1996.
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Supertyphoon Oscar Reaches Toward Tokyo
Forecasters said Oscar veered east of Tokyo delaying direct hit and the strongest winds. heavy rain and powerful gusts continued across eastern central Japan as officials urged residents to brace for the storm, canceling flights and disrupting travel.
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Belarussian troops defend downing of U S balloonists
Belarusian authorities say a helicopter gunship shot down two American balloonists Alan Fraenckel and John Stuart Jervis during the Gordon Bennett gas balloon race over western Belarus. The pair from St Croix, U S Virgin Islands, died as their hydrogen balloon fell 114 miles into a forest. Two other American balloons landed safely.
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Two French soldiers jailed for torture in military jail
Omar Damen and Franck Mareangel were sentenced to 15 years each for torturing fellow prisoner Stephane Metzger in a Carpiagne jail near Marseille during March 1992. Prosecutors cited chain of command failures and medical notes claiming the burns were for personal safety. Two cell mates were acquitted.
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