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A STRONG EARTHQUAKE with an estimated magnitude of 6 on the Richter scale shook the Tokyo area Friday morning, the Central Meteorological Agency said. There were no immediate reports of injuries or property damage and no danger of a tsunami, or tidal wave, the agency said . . . ARCHIBALD ROOSEVELT JR., a grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt and a retired CIA officer, died Thursday of congestive heart failure at his home in Washington at age 72 . . . AN UNMANNED MODULE containing facilities to produce high-quality semicondutors in zero gravity was launched to rendezvous with the Mir space station, Soviet media reported.

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