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Cory sprains her left ankle
MANILA : Philippine President Corazon Aquino sprained an ankle on Thursday as she stepped out of a helicopter tn a ricefield outside Manila for a meeting with farmers, reports Reuter.
Aquino. 58. lost her balance but Presidential Guards caught her by the arm preventing her from falling, witnesses said.
She hobbled onto a makeshift stage to speak to a crowd of about 4.000 farmers In Cabiao town 65 km (40 miles) north of Manila. She later distributed land titles
A medical bulletin said Aquino had sprained her left ankle and that X-rays did not show any fracture Aquino cancelled a meeting In Manila later on Thursday with Takuro Endo, president of Nissan Diesel Motor Company Ltd of Japan, her spokesman said.
Bush ‘downgrades’ Soviet Union
WASHINGTON : President Bush Friday called the Soviet Union a great power', apparently downgrading it from 'superpower' status. Robert Gates, the next CIA chief, said In a major speech to newspaper editors recently that there Is now only one superpower tn the world, and that is the United States. Bush, who was speaking al a press conference, also Indirectly rejected President Gorbachev's plea to the West for aid upto 100 billion dollars (presumably over the next five years). Bush said. •President Gorbachev knows that we have understandable questions about (the Soviet Union's) credit-worthiness". He never believed, said Bush that Gorbachev had given up on reform. Til tell you there is something that is positive there, and that is that Yeltsin and Gorbachev appear to be In communication.' repots PTI.
Gayoom ‘man of the sea’
COLOMBO : Maldivian President Maumoom Abdul Gayoom has been presented with 'Man of The Sea' award by the Italian naval league In recognition of his services towards protecting and preserving the marine environment The award-presentation ceremony was held on May 21 In Palermo, Italy, according to reports reaching here today from Male, the capital of the Maldives President Gayoom told the ceremony that enormous work had been undertaken by the Italian Naval League to protect the seas and the marine life.
Gayoom also focussed on some of the Important works undertaken by the Maldivian government to protect low lying Islands of the Maldives from the possible dangers of the sea level rise. Among the steps undertaken are the control of the damage done to the reefs, prevention of Indiscriminate throwing of rubbish into sea and minimisation of the damage caused by tourists taking corals from the reefs as souvenirs, report Xinhua
‘Worst brat in Britain’ wins damages
LONDON : A slx-year old boy on Thursday "won substantial" damages from the mass-circulation newspaper The Sun. which had described him as "the worst brat In Britain" and Invented quotes from his mother. The tabloid, with a ctrcula tlon of some four million, in July 1989 alleged that Jonathan Hunt was 'Britain's naughtiest kid" for killing his cat. wrecking his home and slicing his own ear The newspaper failed, however, to say that the child liad become mentally liandl capped after suffering from meningitis at birth. A court awarded Jonathan 'substantial" but undisclosed damages, after his lawyer argued that the ailing boy wus "not willfully naughty and is not therefore as portrayed In the article" Ills mother also sued Rupert Murdo< h's newspaper for libel because it had invented quotes from her. notably describing the boy as a "terror". The Sun has apologised to the Hunt family. reports AFP ___