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To: TobagoJack who wrote (4513)	6/8/2001 12:42:16 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

>>Eight Children Die As School Stabbing Stuns Japan By Keiko Kanai IKEDA, Japan (Reuters) - Eight children were killed and 15 people injured in Japan's worst school tragedy Friday when a middle-aged man with a history of mental illness went on a stabbing rampage at an elementary school in western Japan. The injured were mostly 7 and 8-year-old students at the school in Ikeda, a suburb of the western city of Osaka. Seven of those killed were girls and one was a 6-year-old boy, Japanese media said. . . . . . It was the worst mass-killing in Japan since the 1995 fatal sarin gas attack on crowded Tokyo subways by the Aum Shinrikyo (Aum Supreme Truth) cult which left 12 dead and thousands ill. The motive behind the incident was unclear, but NHK public broadcaster said that the suspect had told police he had taken 10 times the usual dosage of tranquilizers and was babbling. While school shootings, such the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado, have become a grim part of life in the United States, random tragedy on such a scale is unheard of at Japanese schools. . . . . Japan's traditional sense of safety has been changing in recent years with the number of senseless crimes, often committed by teen-agers, rising rapidly. . . . . Voicing deep concern over rising crime rates, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi vowed to do whatever he could to restore Japan's reputation as one of the world's safest countries. ``The safe society is crumbling. We must think of ways to deal with this problem,'' Koizumi told reporters.<< dailynews.yahoo.com

To: TobagoJack who wrote (4513)	6/8/2001 6:28:04 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 74559

>>China tests ALCM China test-fired a new air-launched cruise missile (ALCM) for the first time last month, according to U.S. intelligence officials. The weapon, China´s first land-attack cruise missile, is Beijing´s answer to the ship-launched U.S. Tomahawk. The ground-hugging, air-to-surface missile was launched from a B-6 bomber and was deemed successful by defense and intelligence agencies, according to officials familiar with the test. The missile is assessed to be capable of carrying a 1,100-pound warhead -- either high-explosive or nuclear to an unknown range. It was the first time China test-fired its new land-attack cruise missile. Military analysts said China has been working secretly on the cruise missile, which is an extended-range version of the C-802 anti-ship missile. The missile is said to be powered by a turbojet engine and is expected to have a range of at least 111 miles. Richard Fisher, a specialist on the Chinese military with the private Jamestown Foundation, said his research has shown the new ALCM will have "substantial range" and will be fitted with television-camera precision guidance. Mr. Fisher said the new missile has been dubbed variously the "Hong Niao," or Red Bird, and "Chang Feng," or Long Wind. The missile is said to be a hybrid of three missiles: the Russian Kh-55 cruise missile, the Tomahawk -- obtained clandestinely from recent U.S. attacks -- and a cruise missile purchased from Israel. "This has been expected for some time," said Mr. Fisher, who is writing a book on the Chinese military. China is said by defense officials to be aggressively developing a land-attack cruise missile capability to match the U.S. Navy´s famed Tomahawk and Air Force´s ALCM. It has been receiving assistance in the program from Russia, which has provided hardware and technical assistance. The Air Force recently moved a stockpile of ALCMs to Guam for the first time to make the missiles more available for use in a regional conflict. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman declined to comment on the test. But he said: "Like many countries, China is developing an air-launched, land-attack cruise missile capability."<< washtimes.com