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Show The Salt Lake Tribune WORLD Japan Premier Tells Leaders He Will Resign THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Melinda Nokes 0-424-3800 H-274-0106 H-467-5683 All responses will be kept strictly confidential. Persons with relevant information will be compensated for their time and effort. TOKYO — Japanese voters expressed relief Sunday after. Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori i leaders ings below 10 percent, gave a pected to leave office in a closed-door meeting Seay Under Mori’s regime, Japan’s fledging economic recovery shown signs of slowing to a halt. Weeks of political guessing over the leader’s future helped send the stock market tumbling to a 15year low. With such a legacy, many vot- COULD THERE BE A MEDICAL PROBLEM? EARTHWEEK: A DIARY OF THE PLANET As the foot-;-and-mouth crisis announced it would ban all livestock markets forat least one week in an effort to contain the outbreak. The officials also ordered that all British vehicles entering other countries be disinfected. ‘The group's veterinary panel extended the banon exportsoflivestock, meat and milk products from Britain, where the outbreak of the wildly contagious discase originated. David Stuart of Oxford University said the foot-and-mouth virus was one of the most infectious found in any animal. He said, “If the virus infects a cell, within a couple of f hours that cell can be changed from a normal one to something that bursts open, releasing about 100,000 virus particles.” Nearly 45,000 grazing animals havealready been bummed in an effort to stop the spread ofthe disease, which only affects cloven-hoofed animals. High Andean Threat S Atleast 400 natives who live “All these problems are Mori's islands in Lake Titicaca are threatened with sinking if incessant rains continue to inundate their unique structures. The Uru, descendants ofthe ancientIncas, regard the lakeas sacred. They maketheir homes onislands constructed of dried reedliketotora plants. ‘Three ofthe 12 islandsare at riskofsinking as they become more waterlogged by increasing regional storms. a replacementandto avoid confu- sion in an upcoming summitwith President Bush.In the mearitime, the interim leadership bears the burdenoftrying to keep the country from slipping into another recession. Analysts say that with nationwide elections due in July, the LDPcan ill afford such a buffer zoneif it wants to avoid a humiliationat the polls. “The issue is how much the LDPcan regain the public's trust before the upper house elections,” said Nobuo Tomita, professor of political science at Tokyo’s Meiji University. By Steve Newman Foot-and-Mouth Update ers welcomed the news of Mori's imminentd fault,” Tsutomu Koide, a 58-yearold company worker, said Sunday. “I’m so glad he’s on his way out.” But with adearth ofcredible successors, the future still looks cloudy. Mori is expected to stay in office until early April to give the ruling coalition time to select Sunday, March 11, 2001 on Peru's famed floating Tensofthousands ofpeoplein eastern Congo fled from the slopes of Nyamuragira Volcano as it began its worst eruption since 1982. Yo Winder, head of the United’ Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, reported that lava was gushing down the flanks ofthe volcano as gas spewed from its craters. Windersaid, “More dangerousthan the lavais the poisonous gas and the ash. The gas and ash are threatening the drinking water reserves.” The 10,023Tropical cyclone Paula foot-high volcano is located 14 miles @ brought high winds and tor- north of Goma. Itis part of a chain of rential rains to the South volcanoes that dot the mountainous Pacific island nation of Vanuatu before region of eastern Congo. losing force southwestofFiji. The storm mayhave beenresponsiblefor the death Mystery Killer of a 19-year-old youth on the island of Hundreds of animals in TanSanto who disappeared while trying to zania’s world famous Ngoronmovehis canoe to safety during the goro Crater havedied ofa puzheightofthe storm. zling disease duringthe past 10 months. * Tropical storm Rita formed briefly Amongthe dead are sevenof the counover the remote waters of the central try’s remaining 17 black rhinos. Some South Pacific. animal conservationists fear that the dis- Southern Cyclones ease couldbe direct resultofthe severe drought that hit the northem part ofTanzania last year, causing widespread food shortages in communities surrounding the national parks. Others theorize that the deaths may be caused by Babesiosis, also known as Redwater Fever. The disease is brought on by the Babesia microti parasite and is transmitted through the bites of infected ticks. Babesiosis causes a form of anemia and subsequent breathing problems due to lackofsufficientred blood cells. Earthquakes a Mexico’s Pacific coast resort of Acapulco was rattled by a ww swarm of strong earthquakes that shook a wide areaofthe central part ofthe country. Nosignificant damage ‘was reported. Earth movements were also felt in eastern Japan, northwestem Vietnam, southwestern Tibet, Kyrgyzstan, northeastern India, the western India aftershock zone, eastern Romania, southem Bulgaria, the southern Netherlands and Australia’s remote Macquarie Island. Mutant Space Fungi Space scientist Yuri Karash warned reporters that mutant space fungi clingingto the surfaces ofthe space station Mir could surviveits planned descent to Earth later this month. Karash, whois an expert on the Russian space program, said there was a possibility that the microorganisms, which have been mutatingin isolation on the aging space craft for the past15 years,could pose a threat ifthey make it through the atmosphere. Westem researchers have frequently voiced concems about microorganisms being brought backto Earth followingthe discoveries of a Russian microbiologist who found many aggressive forms of fungi aboard Mir. The space station's fiery descent wouldputit into a watery grave somewhere between New Zealand and Chile,and at least 40 tons of debris are expected to makeit to Earth. ; Distributed by: The Los Angeles Times Syndicate E-mail: mail@earthweek.com ©2001 Earth Environment Service Less worries about his daughter. No worries about herbill. Cricket manele 599% as low as Plus. yourfirst month to)BS“a a2ia a Introducing Cricket, Comfortable Wireles One rate. No surprise charges. 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