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Show A4 SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1999. THE DAILY HER ALD Talks with Milosevic complicated by indictment : GLOBAL BRIEFING Artifact theft verdict: guilty FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) A Utah man and an Arizonan were found guilty on federal charges accusing themof theft of archaeological artifacts from Grand Canyon National ark, Park officials said Thursday that Johnny Chatterley of Kanab and Brian Griffiths of Fredonia were fined $1,000each on May 26 and were banned fromentering the park for threeyears. Chatterley was convicted of pos: sion and removal of archaeological resources, possession and removal of objects of antiquity, theft of public property, failure to obtain a backcoun‘mit and having a fire in an ignated area iffiths was convicted on the samecharges plus oneofgiving fa BELGRADE, (AP) as old as 000 yea JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — of former Indonesian President Suharto was questioned extensively Friday by the attorney general's office in connection with allegations his father corruptly accumulateda for- tune in office. Bambang Trihatmodjo, Suharto’s Balkan U seer tary of state, str ssed that the former Russia Russian prime minister was: neither negotiating on behalf Slobodan Milosevic for nine hours Friday, declaring the Yugoslav president key to a oO TO nor was he acting as a mediatorin the conflict pit- Kosovo peace plan despite ting the 19-nation military again urged a pause in NATO's bombing campaign Chernomyrdin as taking our message to Belgrade,” Talbott said at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, where he briefed the North Atlantic Council, NATO's top policy- complications caused by his alliance against Serb police and Yugoslav troops. indictment for warcrimes, Viktor Chernomyrdin “[ do not see Mr, to give peace negotiations a chance, and pronounced himself “very satisfied” with the talks despite no signs of a breakthrough, Russia's ITAR-Tass news agence id. But his U.S. counterpart was critical of the effort, empha- sizing the Russian only rep- resents Moscow — not the alliance. Strobe Talbott, the deputy information. Artifacts taken included prehistoric stonetools and projectile points, some Suharto’s son interrogated Yugoslavia Russia's envoy met face-to-face with making body, on his talks in Moscow with Chernomyrdin and Finland's president “He is taking only the message of the Russian president and the Russian govern- ment.” Talbott said, adding: “He will also refer to what he Et DAVID GUTTENFELDERThe AssociatedPress Temporary home: Ethnic Albanian refugee Rhamadan Balaj Deli, right, walks slowly with two canes to join his friends at a tented nursing home Thursday in a Kukes, Albania, refugee camp. unde nds to be the posi- tion of the U.S. government Mr. Chernomyrdin is not ing for N.NATO orthe United § ates.” The United States and negoti Pakistan| downs Indian DRAS,India — AnIndian enclosure on the popular Okapuka game farm outside Windhoek as he tried to free up a mechanism used to feed the lions, witnesses said. They said Lusse ignored warnings from the group of tourists from the United Kingdom, the United States and South Africa that one ofthe lions was stalking him, “It happenedso quickly. There was nothing we could do,” said Usi Hoebeb, a Namibian. “We threw rocks at them, but the lion had him by the throat.” ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) Riot police brutally dispersed a student gathering at Abidjan’s university campus sev sly injuring several stu dents and arresting others, local newspapers reported Friday: The incident was thelatest in a string ofclashes this week between police and demonstrating students throughout this West African nation. Police stormed into ¢ helicopter gunship was blasted from the ashmir's skies above jagged Himalayan peaks Friday as the military pressed aheadwith airstrike to dislodge Islamic militants it says are backed by neighboring Pakistan. Despite the escalation in the military conflict, the political leadership in the two nuclear-armed appeared to said it tempering now are trying to answer that, question with separateinv the latest fighting. India said Pakistani soldiers entrenched in the cloud- tigationsof gasolineprices in California, the nation’s most kissed mountains ofthe disfrontier populousstate. region Tl at the Universite d'Abidjan and left a trail of blood and damageas they pursued students into dormitory rooms, beating and kicking many, it age between March 5 andi April 9. In California, the; increase was even sharper: 45-cent climb to $1.60); according to the Lundberg: had downed the helicopter. Fighting in Kashmirescalated Wednesday when Indian aircraft launched dozens ofsorties to hit mountain encampments. The military says they attacked 600 Afghan guerrillas and Pakistani soldiers dressed like militants who hadinfiltrated the Indian-held part of Kashmir, Pakistan denied that has strongly its forces are involved, and has accused nearbyhospital with fractured limbs and headinjuries, the newspapers Le Jour and Notre Voie reported. inside Pakistani territory. India of launching strikes Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif telephoned India’s Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Friday, Letter, a newsletter that anayii lyzes oil and gasoline marii kets. Thefull-servicepricefor? Escape: A local resident runs as. Thursday. shells aimed at Indianpositions after a Cabinet meeting Friday. “This is a big conspir acy of the army.” The United States, Russia and other countries have urged restraint, fearing Kashmir could become a All four people on board independence from Britain in aircraft 1947, two over Kashmir. Last year, India and Pakistani spac it of smoke, according to Indian television cameraman Nitin Delhi totry to defusethe ten- Bhatnagar, sion, theattack. Laurent Kabila. Foreign Minister Amri Sued Ismael said the aimof the truce was to enhancechancesofa settlement of nine-month-old Congolesecivil war, The cease-fire was set to go into effect at midnight local timeFriday, he said Congoleserebels have captured the Pakistan Television said Friday. In New Delhi, continued to blame the Pakistani armed forces in the hugeinfiltration of soldiers and guerrillas, but cleared 5 government of eastern thirdof the country since they took up arms in August, with the helpof troops and equipment from ‘We have received some information that who the in India’s territory, about four miles inside the Line of Control that divides Kashmir between the rival nations said Indian Air Comm ore. Subash Bhojwani On Thursday two Indian MiG fighter jets crashed, and Pakistani state-run televi sion showed the captured Rwandaand Uganda. Theyaccuse Kabilaof nepotism, corruption and Pakistan government did not pilot have much to do withthis,” Friday, calling ethnic warmongering. Fernandes er of war. told witnessed The helicopter went down Defense Minister George Fernandes reporters A few miles inside the Pakistani border, officials the wreckage of oneof the two showed mountainside where rrashed and rolled in a swirl Minister Sartaj Aziz to New state-run land in the townof Kargil, India, flashpoint for an all-out war: on Friday declared a unilateral cease- andoffered to send Foreign ARTHUR MAX The Associated PRess the Russian-built MI-17 heli were killed when a missile smashed into the rear, sending it spinning into copter fire in Congo, whereit has been backing rebels fighting to oust President KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Rwanda up cents per gallon on aver hmiri Islamic militant Several students were rushed to a Rwanda declares cease-fire . retail gas Council, an umbrella group of claimed fi The investigations focus, on a price spi shot down the helicopter. groups, shortages’ March andearly April? n The Federal Trade Commission and the, California attorney general, believes Pakistan's military — not its government is to blamefor puted supply nies when prices shot up sQ high and so during nations be their reactions, and India However, the United Jehad Demonstrators dispersed ai blamed for the bigg fastest gasolineprice spikeint US.historyarein retreat. "| Prices are falling natior wide in a trend that is: expected to continue for sev: eral weeks as fire-damaged refineries’ in Californig! return to normal operation and world markets work, througha glut ofcrudeoil. Yet, for motori and some public officials, a big question remains. Were dr ers gouged bythe oil compa The Associated Press. rule. Namibia's capital while than 840,000refugees. season, By ARTHUR MAX year ago amid protests against his lodge outs international force that the allies say is necessary tg guaranteethe return of more LOS ANGELES(AP) — As’ the Memorial Day weekend.’ kicks off the summerdriving 15 billion fortune during 2 years in power. Heresigned a ninehorrified tourists looked on helpy, local media reported Friday, The warden, Steyn Lusse, 28, was attacked Thursdayinsidethelion and the compos but pricing: puzzling Felix Tanmpubolon, chieflawyer for WINDHOEK,Namibia (AP) — lion killed a gamewardenat aprivate dis dropping, second son, was accompanied by Juan Lion kills warden in Namibia sharply Gasprices: the formerfirst family. ime magazine's Asianedition last week reported Suharto andhisfamily ama’ have agreed over the Kosovoci 4 that began March 24, 13:4 months after Serb forces begantheir crackdownon the’. majority ethnic Albanians in’: outhern Serbprovince ow and Washington's’ differences are ove: the bombingsof Rus long: time Serb ally and the makeup’ of an international military force envisioned to eventually’ keep the peace in Kosovo. NATO and Russia are’ especially divided over the withdrawalof Yugoslav army, #7 Serb special police and para:'2 military forces from K planes hima “ prison of one of the India and Pakistan have fought three wars since their Pakistan exploded under- Indian MiGs it were shot down Thursday inside its territory. Officials say the intruded into its India insists that neither plane was eking inside premium rose some parts to nearly $2 ins of Northern California. 4 Nationally, the jump was ster and steeper than any other, includingprice increas es that followed Iraq's inva}ii: sion of Kuwait in 1990 and the Araboil embargo in 1974, said Trilby Lundberg, pub* lisher of the Lundberg’: Survey, a bimonthly review of,’ gasoline prices. But it folky lowed more than a year offi,’ historically low prices results: ing from weak demand and’ ground nuclear devices and Pakistani territory, saying an oversupplyof crude. declared themselves nuclear powers, generating fears of one of the MiGs developed “The industry has not insisted on making a hand mechanical problems as. it flew in Indian territory and some profit at the retail was shot down whenit went arecrazed price cutters.’ What bothers investigas: an arms race onthe volatile South Asian subcontinent An Indian milita ry crashed, and the second jet troop movements by Pakistan across the unoffi cial border and said Indian in an appropri to help the first pilot. The wreckageof oneof the downed MiGs lay in pieces on the side of ridge seven miles inside Pakistan terri- Singh also said nearly tory. The tail, emblazoned with the tri-colored Indian spokesman reported some forces “wer ate state of J.J. alert.” Maj. Gen. i one-third of the 600 mili tants who hadintruded into Indian territory have now flag, was snapped off and several pieces of the wreck been killed mile. were strewn across half a level,” said Lundberg. “They tors is that as retail pricesiv rose, gross California refineries revenues — which)” include operating costs that'™ can fluctuate widely — rosbi'* onaverage from 27 cents pet“! gallonof gasolineto 70 cent# per gallon, according tt California Energy Commissionfigures. 7 Weis SRE eeeee POOR Cc |