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Javier Solana stepped down as NATO Secretary General Sergio Silvio Balanzino will serve as acting Secretary General until George Robertson takes the post in mid-October A look at the three men: Javier Solana 1977-95 Is a member ot Parliament ' 1982-92 Holds a variety ot Cabinet posts ! such as: Minister ot Culture, government ‘ spokesman, and Minister of Education and Science July 1992 Becomes Minister ot Foreign Alt airs Dec. 5,1992 Becomes NATO Secretary General and Chairman ot the North Atlantic Council O Oct. 6.1999 Steps down from NATO < Oct. 18, 1999 Starts as the European Union's foreign policy representative Sargio Silvio Balanzino V O 1959 Enters the Italian Foreign Service 1962-72 Serves as Secretary to the Permanent Italian Mission at the OECD in Pans aa Vice Counsul in Neuchatel. Switzerland. Deputy Couneel General in Zurich, and as Counselor m Nairobi 1975-82 Becomes Counselor in Athens and then In Ottawa, in charge ot the NATO Special Secretariat 1990-94 Serves as Italy's Embassador to Canada C Feb. 1.1994 Becomes NATO's Deputy Secretary General George Robertson 1976 Is naarty kited m a car coitisron with a Navy vehicle carrying explosives Once he recovers, he becomes chairman ot the Seatbelt Survivors Campaign 1997 Is appointed defense secretary Oct. 14. 1999 Is scheduled to become NATO Secretary General Born in 1946 on the Isle of Islay. Scotland MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Typhoon Dan maintained its strength as it blew away from the north ern Philippines yesterday, dumping heavy rains, dam aging hundreds of houses and killing at least one per son on the main island of Luzon, officials said. Forecaster Leny Ruiz said the typhoon, the 13th to hit the country this year, was expected to gather strength as it moves toward southern China. One man drowned in the swollen Maluyo River in Balaoan. La Union province, Aurora Moya of the regional Office of Civil Defense, said. Elvira Calina, head of civil defense in Thgue- garao, the capital of Ca gayan province, the first to be hit by the typhoon, said initial reponii houses in &| were damage!a son was injure:] Electrical toppled in : and flooding<.j in others, roat and roads imj: said. Calina said:| of Cagayan miles north oi tatio a w._t shut off as tfcln. proached. resit entc. Residents i® 1 ’ ^ 1 v Agno River in town were ata yesterday to to er ground alien released from stream. Floods forced of people in tow Sur and Hoi provinces to homes, Moya Si Source NATO AP R»—rc* Japanese prime minister inspects nuclear pi U$ioc TOKAIMURA, Japan (AP) — Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi inspected the site of Japan’s worst nuclear acci dent yesterday as outrage swelled over growing evidence the accident was caused by a stunning — and possibly criminal — disregard of safety procedures. “This accident has become a concern not only to Japan but to the whole world,” Obuchi said after spend ing 25 minutes in the Tokaimura nuclear complex. “I wanted to come to the site as soon as I could." Obuchi visited Tokaimura, 70 miles northeast of Tokyo, as the investigation into the accident intensified with police raids on the uranium-processing plant and the Tokyo headquarters of the plant’s operator, JCO Co. Authorities are searching for evidence of wrongdo ing behind the Sept. 30 accident, which sent three work ers to the hospital, forced the evacuation of surround ing homes and kept hundreds of thousands locked in their houses for fear of contamination. Japanese media reported that the Science and Tech nology Agency was considering revoking JCO’s operat ing license after confirming that the company had ig nored government-approved processing procedures. Agency officials, however, said no decision would be taken until the investigation was finished! Police said late yesterday that ^bout 260 items were seized in the raid on JCO’s Tokyo office and about 700 uversity Tiiddei l to a Japan's nuclear presence Tokaimura. where Japan's worst-ever atomic acodeffl uranium-processing plant, is not the only region with a presence The followtng map shows nuclear-related iaxa the nation Figures indicate number ot plants at Nuclear power plant ■rf Nuclear fuel processing plant Ci Nuclear waste disposal plant ill Notes Indudes plants under construction or Tokyo 10 operetions. as of Deeatnbet I9M oi oi Source Citizens' Nuclear Information Center AP research items were seized from the Tokaimura plant. Among the items were reports on procedu plant and other documents. Kyodo News service said they included manual workers had used atv\\ep\Mfor shorten their work, but police wo\i\<\Mccm Obuchi, who also planned to visit wik families evacuated in the aftermath of cident, acknowledged that the governirffits was lacking. 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