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90 killed in Chinese train wreck
Premier calls for increased safety measures
BEIJING — An express train de
railed early Sunday in the mountains
of southern China and 90 people were
killed and 66 others seriously injured,
the official Xinhua News Agency
reported.
It was China’s sixth major trans
portation accident n a month. A total
of 314 people have been killed.
The No. 80 Kunming-Shanghai
express derailed and overturned at
1:35 a.m. as it traveled between
Qiewu and Dengjiacun stations, 220
miles from Kunming, the capital of
Yunnan province, Xinhua quoted the
Ministry of Railways as saying.
The cause of the derailment was
not known, Xinhua said.
The report did not say how many
cars derailed, how many passengers
were on the train or in whicn direction
the train was going. It was not imme
diately known whether any foreigners
were among the dead or injured.
Acting Premier Li Peng ordered
army and police to the scene to main
tain order. Army units and local
medical workers took the injured to
hospitals.
The accident took place in Yunnan
close to its border with Guizhou prov
ince. The remote region is among
China’s least developed areas.
Xinhua reported the train derail
ment with unusual speed, about 21
hours after itoccurcd. It issued a story
on Monday’s plane crash about 12
hours after it took place, but it fol
lowed a report from Japan’s Foreign
Ministry.
In the past, China’s state-run media
often has taken days or even weeks to
report accidents.
Xinhua said officials of both prov
inces rushed to the scene and Yunnan
Gov. He Zhidiang and two other offi
cials were appointed to head an inves
tigation.
The derailment came six days afler
a domestic airliner with engine
trouble crashed near Chongding, kill
ing 108 people. Two trains collided
head-on in northeast China’s Hei
longjiang province Jan. 17, killing 19,
and 34 people died when paint thinner
caught fire on a train in central
China’s Hunan province.
A bus fell into a stream in coastal
Zhejiang province Jan. 18, killing 14
people. Forty-nine people died Dec.
30 when an overcrowded bus tumbled
off a bridge into a dry river bed .
On Friday, Li issued an emergency
directive calling on transportation
authorities to increase safety meas
ures.
In three weeks, China will cele
brate its biggest holiday, Spring Festi
val or Lunar New Year, during which
750 million people are expected to
travel to hometowns for the festivals.
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London AIDS summit to attract 145 countries
LONDON — Health officials from 145 countries are gathering in
London this week for a world AIDS summit at which they will plan a
global assault on the deadly epidemic.
The three-day conference, which opens Tuesday, will be the largest
meeting of government ministers ever held on a single health problem,
according to the world Health Organization.
The U.N. agency, based in Geneva, and the British government are
co-sponsoring the event.
“The conference, we believe, is going to mark another critical
turning point in the global Mobilization against AIDS,” Dr. Jonathan
Mann, the American director of WHO’s Special Program on AIDS, said
in an interview with The Associated Press.
University professor wins Junta-run elections
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — University professor Leslie Manigat
won Haiti’s presidential election with more than 50 percent of the vote,
election officials said. _
The junta led by Lt. Gen. Henn Namphy has promised to turn over
power to an elected president on Feb. 7. The three-man junta has ruled
this impoverished Caribbean nation since dictator Jean-Claude Duval
ier fled to exile in France in February 1986.
Shamir says he’s ready for talks with Arab leaders
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir told visiting U.S.
Jewish leaders Sunday he was ready to meet Arab leaders “openly or
secretly” but persisted in his opposition to an international Middle East
peace conference.
In the occupied West Back city of Ramallah, hundreds of Palestinian
youths clashed with Israeli soldiers and one Arab was seriously
wounded, the army said. But a fragile calm held in other parts of the
occupied territories, seized by Israel during the 1967 Middle East war.
Snamir has said accepting an international conference would be
tantamount to agreeing to a Palestinian state and Israeli withdrawal from
occupied territory, which his right-wing Likud Bloc opposes.
Officer killed with own gun
DALLAS — A man seized a
policeman’s gun and fatally shot the
officer in the face as he pleaded for h is
life as some spectators yelled “shoot
him,” authorities said.
Officer John Chase, 25, who last
month switched from an evening to a
day shift to spend more time with his
bride of three months, was attacked
Saturday as he was writing a traffic
ticket.
The suspect, Carl Dudley Wil
liams, 34, was shot by off-duty offi
cers who responded to the call. The
man died a few hours later at Park land
Memorial Hospital, police said.
A crowd of about 30 people gath
ered around the officer and his assail
ant, a homeless man with a history of
mental illness, according to police and
witnesses.
“The officer was saying, ‘Don’t
shoot me. I’ll help you whatever way
I can.’ But the guy shot him in the
head,” witness Mclitha Johnson said.
“One girl said that people in the
crowd were saying, ‘Shoot him, shoot
him again,”’ said Police Lt. Jerald
Calanc.
Witnesses said the attacker then
strolled down the street, dangling the
gun from his hand.
Investigators said they knew of no
motive for the shooting, but Chief
Billy Prince and some of his officers
blamed recent criticism of the depart
ment by some City Council members
for creating a dangerous environment
for the police.
“This is very tough on the officer
on the street,” Prince said at a news
conference. “Constant bashing” of the
department created a volatile situ
ation, he said.
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