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ZAIRE BLAST: An American relief worker lost her legs and another was less severely injured when their car hit a land mine near a Rwandan refugee camp in eastern Zaire. Marianne Holtz, 56, of McCall, Idaho, was in critical but stable condition Monday after her legs were amputated, the American Refugee Committee's Nairobi office reported.WAR REMAINS: Four decades after the end of the Korean War, North Korea Monday handed over the remains of a U.N. soldier who may be the first of 1,119 Britons listed as missing in action in the conflict. A cool autumn breeze stopped blowing as a white-gloved, four-man U.N. honor guard bent over to pick up the red casket at the strip of concrete that marks the world's most heavily guarded border. The first repatriation of Korean War remains in more than a year came against a backdrop of increased tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
SRI LANKA: Armored columns advanced toward the rebel stronghold of Jaffna in the bloodiest day of a two-week offensive, Sri Lanka's government said Monday. A military statement said 41 soldiers and 92 Tamil rebels were killed as troops marched toward Jaffna City on Sunday.
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IMPLANTS: An attorney for a woman who won a $3.9 million judgment against Dow Chemical Co. for problems linked to breast implants said the company should be liable for punitive damages as well. A jury in Reno, Nev., awarded Charlotte Mahlum the $3.9 million in compensatory damages on Saturday after finding the company liable for faulty silicone breast implants. She says they leaked and made her sick.
INSURERS: Dow Corning Corp. is facing off against its insurers in court this week to determine how much they should pay toward settling and defending the company against breast-implant lawsuits. Dow Corning, once the largest manufacturer of breast implants, has been the target of hundreds of thousands of lawsuits by women who allege the implants caused a variety of diseases.
SLAYING: A 94-year-old man accused of fatally shooting his nephew may have been upset about the family's talk of putting him in a nursing home, police said. William Edward Brown shot his 74-year-old nephew Joseph Brown in the chest after he arrived for his weekly visit Sunday in Winston-Salem, N.C. The victim's daughter, Brenda Huffman, said William Brown had objected to his sons' discussion of putting him in a nursing home. Ironically, Joseph Brown had opposed the idea, Huff-man said. William Brown was jailed without bond on a murder charge.
SHOOTINGS: Two brothers riding home from a Halloween party in Compton, Calif., were fatally shot by a gunman firing from another car, police said. Bobby Millan, 12, and his brother Mario Millan, 14, were killed Saturday night by a driver who chased down the car they were in and may have fired on them with an assault rifle. No arrests have been made.
SHUTTLE: After sunning the shuttle's belly, Columbia's crew went back to work Monday conducting experiments on protein crystals, water drops and space-grown potato plants. On Sunday, commander Kenneth Bowersox turned the spacecraft's belly toward the sun for eight hours to maintain pressure in the shuttle's four main landing gear tires.