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      3. BEIRUT (UPI) – Five Lebanese Muslim hijackers armed with               b) In what house of the Gene Assembly did they have majority?
guns and hand grenades released 73 passengers and nine crew members             c) Were they in the majority in the state Senate?
of a Middle East Airlines jet yesterday after a six-and hour air piracy         d) What made this victory a historical even for Republicans in
drama.                                                                    Virginia?
      a) Did the hijackers hurt the passengers and crew members?
      b) What weapons did the hijackers have?                                    10. BEIJING (Reuters)-.The United States and China are close to
      c) How long did they keep the passengers in the plane?              agreeing to resume military-to-military contacts, suspended by Beijing
                                                                          in the wake of the bombing on May 7 of China’s embassy in Yugosla-
        4. BERLIN (Reuters) – Faced by growing differences over how       via, sources in Beijing said Wednesday.
much Nazi-era slave laborers should be compensated, German and                   a) What contacts are the US and China likely to resume?
American negotiators have abandoned plans for a meeting in Bonn                  b) When and why were such contacts suspended?
later this month.                                                                c) What s the source of information?
        a) What plans did German and American negotiators abandon?
        b) Why did they postpone the meeting?
        c) What issue caused the differences?

       7. NEW YORK (UPI) – United Nations Officials rejected allega-
tions of mass murder committed by pro-Jakarta militia groups in East
Timor, but acknowledged that nearly half the territory’s population of
890,000 was unaccounted for.
       a) What was rejected as allegations by the United Nations offi-
cials?
       b What did the UIN officials acknowledge?
       c) What is the population of East Timor?

       8. MOSCOW (AP) – Russia’s reputation on foreign investment,
already shaky, has been weakened even further by the ruling of a court
in St. Petersburg that the 255-year-old Lomonosov porcelain factory be
renationalized.
       a) What weakened Russia’s reputation on foreign investment?
       b) What was the ruling of St Petersburg’s court?
       c) What is Russia’s reputation like among foreign investors?

        9. NEW YORK (AP) – For the first time in Virginia’s long po-
litical history, Republicans have taken control of the Old Dominion’s
General Assembly, seizing a majority in the House of Delegates and
holding on to the slim edge the party already had in the state Senate.
        a) Where did Republicans take control?
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