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Grieving family members of those who perished in the Feb. 18, Taegu, Korea, subway conflagration claim local authorities are bungling the investigation and protecting officials who may not have observed proper safety and rescue procedures during the blaze that killed, at latest count, 197. Police revealed on Feb. 25 that subway authorities edited out several incriminating minutes of taped conversation between a train conductor and the control station before making the tape public. Among the previously deleted portions: An order to the conductor to "kill the car"?to remove the carriage's master key and flee. There was no discussion...
...families, claiming the hasty cleanup is part of a broader attempt to cover up fatally flawed safety procedures, won an injunction to stop official tampering with the site and are demanding that the mayor of Taegu resign. So far police have arrested seven people, including the alleged arsonist, the train conductor and five other subway staff. The Korean government has also set up a special task force to probe the disaster, pledging to "win the trust" of victims' families...
...Illegal Use of Hands Ghosts of scandals past returned to haunt the World Cup last week, when Senegalese midfielder Khalilou Fadiga was accused of shoplifting a gold necklace worth $240 in Taegu City, South Korea. If the hairs on the back of your neck are standing up, it's because you recall in 1970, en route to the Mexico World Cup, English skipper Bobby Moore was arrested in Bogota, Colombia, for?stealing a gold necklace. Moore, one of the greatest defenders in the history of the game, was arrested, released and endured a two-year investigation before finally being cleared...
...racing to build its economy. It wanted monetary reparations to finance highways and steel mills?retrieving artifacts wasn't a high priority. Japan returned only 1,326 items, including 852 books and 438 pieces of pottery. Says You Hong June, director of the Yeungnam University Museum in Taegu: "The Koreans should have got up and left. It is an embarrassment that our government allowed this to happen...