10,000 hunt for French rail bombs
Thursday, March 4, 2004 Posted: 4:07 AM EST (0907 GMT)
The group says it has hidden several bombs under French rail tracks.
PARIS, France -- Thousands of French rail workers are searching the network for bombs after a group threatened attacks unless it was paid millions of euros.
A letter from the previously unknown group, which calls itself AZF, has already directed police to an explosive device under tracks in central France, officials said.
Fearing more bombs may be hidden, the state rail company SNCF has sent nearly 10,000 maintenance workers to inspect its some 32,000 km (20,000 miles) of track on foot.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/03/04/france.bombthreat/index.htmlOfficial Tells of Investigation Into Mad Cow Discrepancies
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Published: March 4, 2004
The government has begun a criminal investigation into whether documents were falsified in the lone case of mad cow disease found in the United States, the Agriculture Department's inspector general said yesterday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/04/politics/04COW.html?th