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US President Calls Japanese PM on Submarine Accident
US President George W. Bush talked with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori through telephone on Tuesday to express his regrets about the sinking of a Japanese trawler by a US submarine.
"The president expressed his regrets and apologizing for the accident and said the United States would do all it can to be of assistance to the Japanese government and the Japanese people," White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said.
He said Bush called Mori from the Oval Office and the conversation lasted 10 minutes.
The USS Greeneville, an attack nuclear submarine based in the Pear Harbor, sank the Japanese vessel off Hawaii late on Friday, leaving nine people on the Japanese ship still missing.
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