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...last Saturday's downing in North Korea, might be released this weekend, according to Rep. Bill Richardson, who's serving as a U.S. envoy to Pyongyang. Though North Korea has said only that Chief Warrant Officer Bobby Hall would be sent home "very soon" after being detained during a probe of the incident. Richardson, Democrat from New Mexico, said Hall was "in good shape and I think he'll be home before Christmas." Earlier Thursday, Richardson accompanied the casket carrying the body of the pilot killed in the incident, Chief Warrant Officer David Hilemon, as the North Koreans handed...
...Pyongyang to discuss the nuclear accord that the U.S. might delay because of the copter tragedy, will oversee the return of Hilemon's body. North Korea's official radio reported Hall was "now in good health," but said Pyongyang would hold him at least until completion of a probe. Meanwhile in Washington -- where Administration officials have become apoplectic over North Korea's actions -- Defense Secretary William Perry said: "I believe the pilot made a mistake, and for many reasons we regret that mistake, but I do not believe the mistake warranted shooting down the helicopter." Perry said he had some...
...securities. Stock and bond prices swung down on Wall Street amid fears that other large municipalities might harbor high-risk investments. In Washington, Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan told Congress that he was closely monitoring the situation in Orange County; meanwhile, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission launched a probe into some of Citron's trades in derivatives, which are volatile securities whose value is pegged to some underlying asset or market and which can magnify an investor's gains or losses...
...consortium of governments today announced the arrests of 88 alleged drug distributors -- 60 in the U.S. -- and the seizure of $52 million and nine tons of cocaine as a result of an international, two-year long probe of worldwide money laundering. The probe -- called "Operation Dinero" and conducted by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and officials from Italy, Spain and Britain -- also found links between the Italian Mafia and the Cali cartel in Columbia. Along the way, agents seized paintings by Rubens, Picasso and Reynolds from drug smugglers. The DEA used a private bank in the British West Indies...
Wrinn said investigators will pass out a second round survey today to probe the symptoms of the sickness in more detail, and they will release more results when that survey is complete...