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United Press International - December 28, 1997 20:46
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Around the World, Around the Clock...with United Press International.
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Two hours after the United Airlines 747 had taken off from Japan, it
a massive downdraft. The turbulence killed one passenger and injured
another 70. The plane returned to Japan, where the injured were treated
at hospitals.
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Major airports across the country are incorporating new baggage and
identity checks on domestic flights starting January 1. The new
regulations will probably slow down air traffic as they are phased in.
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Former North Carolina governor Terry Sanford has inoperable cancer of
the liver and esophagus. Dr. William Fulkerson, with Duke University
Medical Center, says little can be done for Governor Sanford.
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Oklahoma County District Attorney Robert Macy will try Timothy
McVeigh and Terry Nicols on state murder charges for the 1995 Oklahoma
City bombing. Macy told ABC's ''This Week'' that Oklahoma, as the scene
of the tragedy that left 168 people dead, had a right to try McVeigh,
who has been sentenced to death for murder, and Nicols, who this week
was found guilty of conspiracy and involuntary manslaughter.
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Iraq has stopped its oil exports in protest against food and other
shortages. Saddam Hussein is also cutting back on milk rations for
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Police say charges probably will not be filed against Dr. Jack
Kevorkian and an associate, who turned in two dead bodies on Saturday.
Dr. Georges Reding calls Kevorkian his medical hero and has formed a
''fellowship'' with the doctor.
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The British and Irish governments have condemned the Saturday killing
of a Protestant paramilitary leader in a Northern Ireland prison. Billy
Wright, who was 37 years-old, and headed the Loyalist Volunteer Force,
was shot five times in the Maze prison by fellow inmates members of an
Irish Republican splinter group, the Irish National Liberation Army.
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By Peter Burns (UPI).
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