Summit-bound police receive lecture on Okinawa snakes

Summit-bound police receive lecture on Okinawa snakes

GUSHIKAWA, Japan - Police officers receive instructions Aug. 10 on poisonous snakes peculiar to Okinawa Prefecture as they have to enhance security at the 2000 summit of the Group of Eight (G-8) nations in the Japan's southernmost island prefecture. About 150 officers were lectured by experts at the Okinawa police riot squad training center in Gushikawa in the prefecture, as part of preparations for the summit scheduled for July 21-23 next year.

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