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S. KOREA: South Korean prosecutors, expanding their investigation of a politically charged slush-fund scandal involving former President Roh Tae-woo, arrested one of his close confidants Friday. The arrest of Lee Hyun-woo, Roh's former chief bodyguard, came a day after the ex-president was jailed for receiving multimillion-dollar bribes from businesses in exchange for government projects during his 1988-93 term.AIRLINER SLIDES: A Delta Air Lines wide-bodied airliner arriving from Cincinnati, Ohio, slid off the runway after landing at Zurich airport on Friday and buried its wheels in the ground, the airport authority said. None of the 156 passengers or crew aboard were injured and all were evacuated from the Lockheed Tristar L1011. Airport officials said the cause of the accident was not immediately clear.
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SALARIES FALL: With managed health care increasing, doctors' salaries declined last year for the first time in the 14-year history of the American Medical Association's annual survey of physicians' pay, The New York Times reported. The AMA's preliminary survey indicates that the median earnings of all physicians dropped 3.8 percent last year to $150,000, the Times reported. It had risen 2 percent in 1993 and 7.9 percent in 1992.
WRITER DIES: Jack Finney, whose novels included the cult classics "The Body Snatchers" and "Time and Again," died of pneumonia Tuesday in Greenbrae, Calif., at age 84. Finney wrote several books that were made into motion pictures. The film "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," based on his "The Body Snatchers," was released in 1956 and remade twice. Other films based on Finney works are "Five Against the House," "Good Neighbor Sam," "House of Numbers" and "Assault on a Queen."
KIND STRANGERS: If not for the kindness of strangers, Russians Michail and Katrina Rakov might have spent their honeymoon in an airport lounge in Honolulu. Rakov accidentally left an envelope with $3,100 in cash in the restroom of the plane as he and his wife of a year flew to Hawaii Saturday from St. Petersburg, Russia. It took the couple a year to save up the money. A plea by a flight attendant for the return of the envelope went unanswered. But it didn't take long for the passengers to find their spirit of aloha: Flight attendants took up a collection and the couple landed in Honolulu with $1,200.