Around the world
TURNABOUT: Cambodia's secessionist prince, Norodom Chakrapong, has returned to Phnom Penh after fleeing to Vietnam, a government spokesman said Thursday. The spokesman said Chakrapong, son of head of state Prince Norodom Sihanouk, and another secessionist leader, Sin Song, had returned to the capital with Prime Minister Hun Sen late Wednesday.EXPLOSION: An explosion apparently caused by a gas leak wrecked a four-story apartment building in Marseille, France, Thursday, injuring 14 people, two seriously, firefighters said. The explosion destroyed 21 apartments, sent glass flying 200 yards and damaged parked cars, they said.
TRICKY OPERATION: Russia plans to launch an operation next year to seal off the nuclear torpedoes and reactor of an experimental submarine that sank off Norway three years ago, RIA news agency said Thursday. RIA quoted the head of a government committee for carrying out special underwater work, Tengiz Borisov, as saying an expedition team would examine the Komsomolets submarine next month and give final recommendations.
Across the nationRELEASED: The Rev. Jesse Jackson was released Wednesday after he and about 100 other demonstrators were arrested in New Haven, Conn., for blocking an intersection. Jackson and the others were protesting in support of health-care workers who are on strike at the Winthrop Nursing Home in New Haven. The arrests came when they walked several blocks from a rally at the facility and sat down, blocking an intersection.
STRIKE EXPANDS: The United Mine Workers stepped up their 5-week-old strike against some of the nation's biggest coal companies, ordering 2,000 more miners to join about 10,000 on the picket lines. The union on Wednesday accused the coal companies of refusing to bargain in good faith.
In Washington
PUNISHMENT: President Clinton says he has been promised a "prompt and timely report" on an investigation of an Air Force general accused of ridiculing Clinton in public remarks. Meanwhile, a Defense Department official confirmed that an investigation found that the general did make derogatory remarks about Clinton and said whatever disciplinary action is taken will amount to a career-ending event.