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The Battalion • Page 5
The sect denies in-
[ilvement, saying the
lemicals are used to
take plastics.
TOKYO (AP) — Police re-
irned Sunday to the main com-
und of a secretive doomsday
d of pt It, this time officially looking
evidence linking the group to
deadly nerve-gas attack on the
have: owded Tokyo subway.
Hundreds of police armed
th a warrant specifying they
jre investigating murders
arched laboratories and stor-
e areas for nine hours, seizing
papers and chemicals.
Sunday’s raid was officially
iked to the investigation of the
arch 20 attack on the morning
miSp; sh-hour subway, which killed
°r of: people and left 5,000 others
tion t. th symptoms such as seizures
ikeAU d temporary blindness.
The sect has denied any in-
Ivement in the attacks, con-
nding the stockpiled chemicals
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were used to make plastic, ce
ramics and pesticides.
Those claims were repeated
Sunday in a television appear
ance by cult lawyer Yoshinobu
Aoyama and Fumihiro Joyu, the
leader of its Moscow branch,
which claims 30,000 followers —
three times the number of believ
ers said to be in Japan.
Joyu said the chemicals were
used (;• make a
wide range of
goods from
toothpaste to
plastic food con
tainers that
would help the
group set up self-
sufficient farm
ing cooperatives.
‘‘There’s
been so much Aum Shinri Kyo-
bashing recently that we find it
harder and harder to buy what
we need to buy,” Joyu said on
Asahi Television. ‘‘We have to
make it ourselves.”
Kyodo News Service and sev
eral major newspapers say po
lice last year found chemical
residues in soil samples around
cult compounds that match the
sarin used in the subway at
tacks as well as a mysterious
chemical cloud that killed seven
people last summer in Matsumo-
to, 125 miles west of Tokyo.
Police have told Japanese
newspapers that the cult’s chem
ical stockpiles could yield
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"We find it harder and harder to
buy what we need to buy. We
have to make it ourselves."
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branch leader of the Aum Shinri Kyo
enough sarin to kill millions if
used in an urban center. The es
timates are vague, but give an
indication of the potency of va
pors from the liquid sarin, one
tiny droplet of which can kill in
seconds just by being inhaled or
touching the skin.
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|- Hillary Rodham Clinton and
Pakistani Prime Minister Be-
icer nazir Bhutto pledged a mutual
determination Sunday to help
h tur women improve their lot in life.
If One on one and in public, two
r '| of the world’s best-known
women displayed what appeared
to! be a genuine kinship as Clin-
von |ton began her 12-day tour of
.gw South Asia with a trip to the
SC. prime minister’s residence.
Bana:
“I know that much remains
to be done in every society, in
both of our countries, to ensure
that women assume their right
ful place and are given the op
portunities to exercise their
rights, but I am very optimistic
by what I see happening in the
world,” Clinton said.
Neither woman is without her
share of critics, however, and
Bhutto took note of that when she
told Clinton, “women who take on
tough issues and stake out new
territory are often on the receiv
ing end of ignorance. I can per
sonally attest to that.”
Bhutto’s critics say her govern
ment has failed to live up to her
lofty words and that there has
been no significant progress in
improving the situation of women
in this male-dominated society.
Setting such criticism aside,
the first lady and Bhutto sought
to emphasize the positive, includ
ing Pakistan’s efforts to reserve
'government jobs for women, es
tablish a women’s development
bank, set up special women’s po
lice stations and train women
health-care workers.
The magnitude of the chal
lenge facing women differs
sharply between the United
States and Pakistan. Where
women in the United States
want more opportunities for
advancement in the work
world, many Pakistani women
lack access to basic health care,
education and family planning
and are allowed only limited
participation in society.
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