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JAPAN has told the International Whaling Commission it wants to expand its research whaling into the northern Pacific Ocean from the Antarctic, raising its yearly take to 400 minke whales . . . RICHARD MCCLURE SCARRY, whimsical American author and illustrator of popular children's books, died of a heart attack in Switzerland at age 74, his wife said . . . A HIKER slipped and plunged 100 feet into a crevasse, becoming the third person to die on Mount Wash-ing-ton in New Hampshire this year . . . BEIJING breathed a sigh of relief Monday as cold cloudy weather swept into the city and a 20-hour rain storm broke the capital's 16-month drought.