Gandhi's great-grandson, Tushar, led a campaign to reclaim the ashes and disperse them into the country's holy river. South Korean President Kim Young Sam agreed to a parliamentary investigation into Hanbo Steel's failure. Tomobe, a former member of Shinshinto, the leading opposition party, lured investors with high interest rates. The spruce, revered as sacred by the local Haida tribe, was gold instead of green, a rare discoloration caused by lack of chlorophyll. At 50m, the felled tree was among the tallest golden spruces in the world.
Experts hope to graft some of the spruce's roots and branches onto other trees.
The annual Human Rights Report from the U.S. State Department highlighted a spat between old friends. The 1993 report had but one sentence about the German government's attitude to Scientologists. LIMA Increasing pressure on the Tupac Amaru guerrillas, Peru's President Alberto Fujimori ordered daily maneuvers by heavily armed police outside the Japanese ambassador's residence, where 72 hostages are still being held. So far, the tactic has produced only the occasional small exchange of gunfire. Fujimori met in Toronto over the weekend with Japan's Prime Minister, Ryutaro Hashimoto, to discuss ways of ending the ongoing crisis.