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2002
In Ghana the government raised the cost of electricity by 60%.
2002
In California 2 girls (one 16 and Jacqueline Marris, 17) were rescued in Kern County 12 hours after being kidnapped and raped near Lancaster by Roy Ratliff (37). Police shot Ratliff dead. Police credited the new Amber alert system, named after a Texas girl abducted and killed in 1996.
2002
In Colombia a helicopter crashed while on an army medical evacuation mission in a rebel zone killing six people. Also a 14-year-old girl died and five other people were wounded w hen suspected rebels threw a grenade at a bakery in the village of Venecia, 40 miles south of Bogota.
2002
In Atlanta, Georgia, a 35,000 pound billboard collapsed at a suburban shopping center and 3 construction workers were killed.
2002
In Mexico Pope John Paul II beatified Juan Bautista and Jacinto de los Angeles (d.1700) as part of a trip reaching out to Indians across the Americas, who have been increasingly converting to rival Protestant faiths. Beatification is a necessary step on the path to sainthood. Bautista and Angeles had informed Spanish authorities of an Indian religious and were killed by fellow Indians. Christian officials decapitated and quartered 15 men and staked their body parts by the roadside as a warning.
2002
In Mexico the government decided to yield to protests by machete-wielding farmers and radicals and cancelled plans to build a new international airport on the eastern outskirts of Mexico City.
2002
In Northern Ireland a Protestant construction worker was killed with a booby-trap bomb. Police blamed the IRA.
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