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Reacting to an epidemic of juvenile crime in the nation's capital, the Washington city council adopted a measure that would impose a curfew on youths 17 and under. The bill would require youngsters to be off city streets after 11 p.m. on weeknights and after midnight on weekends. Mayor Marion Barry has yet to decide whether he will sign the measure.
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SOBBING, HEARTFELT "THANK YOU!"
The American F-16 pilot shot from the sky by Bosnian Serbs was rescued by a force of U.S. aircraft after surviving on rainwater, insects and grass for six days in Serb-held territory. Captain Scott O'Grady emerged from a pine forest with his pistol in hand and fell exhausted into the just opened helicopter door. "Thank you! Thank you!'' he yelled over the engines before collapsing in sobs as the door shut behind him. Though the rescuers were the target of intermittent ground fire, there were no American casualties.
SERBS FREE 111 U.N. HOSTAGES
The Bosnian Serbs released 111 more U.N. peacekeepers but kept 53 in custody; 93 other hostages were held at their posts by the surrounding Bosnian Serb forces. Western and U.N. officials welcomed the move but demanded that all the Blue Helmets be freed unconditionally. The Bosnian Serbs, meanwhile, intensified their shelling of Sarajevo and increased their sniper attacks on civilians, confident that nato air strikes against them were out of the question while they held their pawns.
CALI CRACKDOWN
Colombian police captured one of the principal leaders of the Cali drug ring that supplies 80% of the world's cocaine and increasing amounts of heroin. "I am a man of peace," Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela protested when he was discovered in a house, hiding in a closet. Four days earlier in Miami, U.S. authorities filed charges against scores of suspected cartel members and accomplices, including the former head of the Justice Department's international criminal-affairs office.
HANSEI, BUT NO SHAZAI
Despite the boycott by the main opposition party, Japan's coalition government rammed a resolution through parliament expressing the "deep remorse" of Japan for its "colonial rule and acts of aggression" during World War II. The Socialists and their conservative partners, the Liberal Democrats, reached an agreement after weeks of wrangling over the wording. The watered-down declaration stopped short of a full apology, however; it used the word hansei (remorse), rather than the stronger shazai (apology).
TAIWANESE RAPT OVER U.S. TRIP
Taiwan hailed the visit of President Lee Teng-hui to the U.S. as a giant crack in the 16-year diplomatic isolation forced upon it by China, which regards Taiwan as a rogue province. Officially, Lee is visiting the U.S. only for an alumni gathering at his alma mater, Cornell University, although more than 300 journalists are accompanying him. Beijing protested the visit by canceling high-level talks with the U.S.
ARGENTINA WANTS THE FALKLANDS