Overcrowding on Akashi bridge at fireworks disaster
In Akashi Japan a crowd crush on a 20 foot pedestrian bridge after a fireworks display killed ten people most were children and injured 117. Police responded slowly while private security guards had called for help but were turned down.
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Akashi
Japan
Kobe
Tokyo
Kazuaki Sakaki
Sakaki
Deci
Sion
Yamaguchi
Nishikan Security Company
Masahisa Menda
Okura Beach
Asagiri
Yoko Nozue
Masafumi Oshita
Hyogo
Nobuhiro Okada
Okada
Yuta Yanagihara
Niigata Prefecture
Asahi Newspaper
Navy moves to raise Japanese vessel Ehime Maru off Honolulu
The Navy begins preparations to lift the sunken Japanese fishing boat Ehime Maru from 2,000 feet south of Waikiki after a collision with a U.S. submarine. A $40 million salvage aims to recover nine victims' bodies and clear debris, using remotely operated tools and a crane as work starts on the center mast.
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Los Angeles
Honolulu
U.S
Navy
Waikiki Beach
Jon Yoshishige
Pacific
Greeneville
Japan
Secrets in marriage reveal money as top concealment
A Reader's Digest poll shows about 40 percent of married Americans keep secrets from spouses, mainly about spending. About 43 percent hide real prices of purchases. 15 percent conceal work failures or a child's behavior. Extramarital affairs remained secret for 2 percent. Ipsos NPD surveyed 1,000 couples.
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Chappaqua
N.Y
Reader's Digest
Ipsos Npd
Indonesia moves to impeach Wahid amid clashes and peace talks
Indonesian legislators opened impeachment proceedings against President Abdurrahman Wahid defying his emergency decree. Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri arrived at a guarded parliament as troops protected lawmakers. Assembly chairman Amien Rais predicted Megawati could be installed by midday after Wahid’s dismissal. Six ministers quit Wahid’s cabinet in protest. Wahid refused to step down, warning of riots and provincial splits.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
Abdurrahman Wahid
Megawati Sukarnoputri
Assembly
Amien Rais
Megawati
Abdurrahman Wahud
Akbar Tandjung
Wahid
Agum Gumelar
Marzuki Darusman
Marsilam Simanjuntak
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