Word: manila
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...least 34 passengers aboard a ferry drowned when a freighter plowed into the vessel in Manila Bay last night. Most of the 600 people aboard the ferry were asleep and heard no warning alarms when the accident occurred. Ships in the area picked up 451 people from the sea; the rescue effort and investigation continue. The collision left a three foot hole in the lower deck of the ferry. Many of the dead were women and children found inside cabins. The accident occurred the day the ferry company went public.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
...Manila three days after the election, Clinton was already deep into the very Clintonesque process of mulling things over. Sitting with his aides on the floor of Air Force One's conference room, he reviewed the political dilemmas of earlier Presidents, from Lincoln onward, pondering, as a senior official put it, "how they were perceived, and how they conceived their presidencies...
Before taking off last week for Manila en route to Indonesia, Clinton again expressed his confidence that he could have it both ways. "I don't think we have to choose," he said, "between increasing trade and fostering human rights and open societies." He would be frank about differences on these issues "as well as our potential partnerships with the Chinese, with the Indonesians and with others," he said...
...verge of dying, says TIME Rome Reporter Greg Burke. The stories were fueled by the Pope's appearance during his visit to Zagreb 10 days ago. "He looked terrible," says Burke. "He seemed feeble and tired." The Vatican flatly denies the rumors. The Pope's trip to Manila next year is still on, according to a spokesman...
...will spend $1 billion over the next 10 years to pay for research into its wartime activities and to fund cultural exchanges with other Asia-Pacific countries as a symbol of remorse for its wartime atrocities. But groups of women demonstrated at the Japanese embassies in Seoul and Manila, angered that the package contained no compensation for the tens of thousands of Asian women forced into sex slavery by the Japanese army...