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Off the Record
Grandchild's snowball gives president a shiner
HOUSTON. Texaa: Pre-* nt George Bush had • tert we Sunday from a Chrtstmoa Day snowball ftght with Ms ate year old pandaorx at the precedential retreat la Camp David report* AFP
Bush had a lor* bruise under his right eye when he took
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The president waa in Houston. Teaaa Mly briefly white an hh way to Beevlite. Texas for his annual Quad hunt
Buah got the shiner from a snowball thrown by hl. grandson Marshall. the son of Marvin Buah. on Chrtatmaa morning aides said
Marshall and I 1 other Bush grandchildren spent Christmas at Camp Dovid
Man-made earthquake
HONG KONG Residents tn Hong Kong and Macao felt slight tremors Monday that apparently emanated from the man made earthquake' in southern China to level a small mountain as part of an airport expansion project. reports AP
There were no immediate reports of damage or Injurie* Hong Kongs government owned Radio Hong Kong said
There also was no immediate confirmation ihat the tremors were caused by the scheduled 1 80 pm 10550 GMT) detonation of 11.120 tons of dynamite to clear Potai Mountain in the southern city of Zhuhai
But Hong Kongs Royal Observatory said It recorded tremors that were 'consistent with the scheduled major blasting works at western Zhuhai.' lasting less than one minute
A resident of the nearby Portugese colony of Mac*> said the "Water in my tea cup moved a Uttte bit' and that other* felt slight vibrations
But some people called radio *181100. asking if tt had happened. They didn't feel a thing" the resident said
In the British colony of Hong Kong few people walking in the downtown Central and Wanchai districts reported feeing any tremor* amid the din of jackhammer* and construction work.
The Beijtng-funded Hong Kong newspaper Ta Kung Pao said the 43 kilometer* (27 mites) from Hong Kong .
The blast had been billed as Asia s largest man-made "earthquake," with a a force nearly equal to that of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Japan, in World War JI.
Robbery of the century
BUENOS AIRES: Newspapers are calling it Argentina's "robbery of the century" and so far it look* like a perfect crime, report* AP
Three men posing as Central Bank Inspectors convinced officials at a regional depository to hand over 30 million dollars worth of worn-out austral bills worth 50 dollars each that had been collected for Incineration
The robbery last Tuesday went off like clockwork. No one was threatened or Injured. A security guard from the depository, located 200 kilometers (124 miles) north of Buenos Aires In Rosario, watched the money being loaded onto two small planes that flew to Buenos Aires.
The money — 600,000 bills weighing 650 kilos (1.3 30 pounds) —reportedly wa* transferred to a white yen at suburban San Fernando airport. Where It is now. only those who have it know.
Centra) Bank and Economy Ministry officiate made no public comment on the robbery during the long Christmas holiday weekend. By late Sunday afternoon, police reportedly had no one under arrest and few clues.
A Central Bank spokesman cited by the newspaper La Nacion said it looked like an Inside job. The bogus inspectors knew the austral* were at the Regional Treasury In Santa Fe Province Bank in Roaario. The documents and procedures they used to identify themselves seemed legitimate.