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...last thirteen polls have the French voting “no” on May 29, and Chirac is getting nervous. Last Thursday he even pleaded for a “yes” vote in a prime-time televised conversation with 80 young voters at the Palais de l??Elysée, France’s White House, going so far as to admit that he felt pained by what he called their age group’s fear of the future...
...town of Acayucn and eventually used up their ammunition. A day later the bodies of the 17 officers were discovered lying along the banks of the Coachapa River by a helicopter pilot. Some had been tortured. Most had been executed with a bullet in the head. Observed Vicente L??pez Estrada, head of the Veracruz state judicial police: "The drug traffickers are well armed...
...government estimates, or as many as 150,000 by unofficial counts. There are no sanitary facilities in the encampment; periodically, municipal trucks distribute small plastic bags of potable water. Along with a few donated blankets, that is all the relief aid that the tent dwellers have seen. Says Julieta L??pez Uribe, 63, a camp resident: "The government has forgotten about...
...India brought the most advanced undersea technology to the search by chartering the L??on Thevenin, a French cable-laying ship, and a remote-controlled underwater drone operated by a British company. Known as Scarab 1 (for submersible craft assisting repair and burial), the diving machine was built by Ametek Inc. in 1976 to install and repair transoceanic telephone cables. The Scarab 1 is 11 ft. long, weighs approximately 2 tons and is equipped with sophisticated sonar, as well as television cameras with zoom lenses and high-intensity lights that illuminate the ocean floor. A team of eight engineers from...
...plane's voice recorder on the ocean floor, 6,700 ft. below. Maneuvering the sub closer by firing small bursts from its thrusters, they gingerly extended one of Scarab's mechanical arms so that it carefully picked up the black box. The submersible was then slowly hoisted aboard the L??on Thevenin, clutching its prize...