OCR Text |
Show NATION & WOI A4 SA1 1 RDAY. DI.C THE DAILY HtRALD (www HarkTheHerald com) tMBhR 30. 2000 GLOBAL PcD BRIEFING Lawmaker assassinated BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) Gunmen on Friday assassinated a lawmaker who head3d a congres- sional peace committee, his mother, three bodyguards and an unidentified victim at a roadblock in southern guerrilla-dominate- d Colombia. Police immediately blamed the country's largest guerrilla faction, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, for the attack the second in two weeks against a prominent civilian involved in peace efforts. An armored drive vehicle carrying Rep. Diego and the others in southern Caqueta State was stopped and sprayed with automatic weapons fire, National Police Gen. Alfredo Salgado said. four-whe- el Tur-ba- y By HRYOJE HRANJSKI could see was the (intruder's) feet as they came out of the door," AH we Associated Press Writer . i emiger afemrapiis A NAIROBI, Kenya passenger burst into the cockpit of a British Airways jet with 398 people aboard and grabbed the controls Friday, sending the plane into two violent nosedives that left people screaming and praying out loud. The plane landed safely after the crew and other passengers subdued the attacker, who officials said was bent on suicide. The man, identified only as a Zanne Augur, graduate student crash witnesses and airline offi- cials said. Most of the 379 passengers aboard Flight 2069 were asleep or watching a movie when the man burst into the cockpit and grabbed the controls. Pas sengers screamed and the engines roared as the plane plummeted an estimated 10,000 feet, witnesses said. "There was this awful lurching, it felt like turbulence, but with this horrible noise, it was like a roller coaster, when the pit of your stomach drops out," said Zanne Augur, 32, a graduate student at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. "But you (intruder's) feet as they came out of the door," Augur said. "They got him out and held him down on the ground." One of the passengers PHILADELPHIA (AP) -Speople killed in a crack house had been lined up on the dining room floor and shot by four masked intruders, police said. Six men and one woman were killed Thursday night. Three others were wounded and remained hospitalized Friday. "We know that a robbery occurred inside, but it would seem to me that you don't slaughter 10 people for a few bucks," Capt. James Brady said. "So I think there's a deeper motive involved robthan a single, straight-u- even four more spots m Cabinet .... WASHINGTON .1 p hi r.rr Presi- (AP) dent Clinton probably won't decide until the last moment whether to commit the United States to an international treaty creating the world's first permanent war crimes court, the White House said Friday. "He will probably take the chance over the next day or so to confer with some of his advisers and reach a final decision, I believe, by Sunday," White House spokesman Jake Siewert said. Sunday is the deadline for countries to sign on to the treaty at U.N. headquarters in New York. After Sunday, countries must ratify the treaty before they can become party to it, a process that can take years or be stalled in parliaments. WASHINGTON 'Jfc - live in cities and more will join them in the next two decades, putting pressure on governments to make urban areas more livable, according to a report released Friday. Though most of this increase will occur in the world's poorer countries, industrialized nations will not escape the pressures of urbanization, The Population Institute said. Even in wealthier countries, more and more educated people will move from rural areas to cities in search of better opportunities. Police deaths rise More WASHINGTON (AP) than 150 police officers died in the line of duty in 2000, an increase of 12.7 percent from the year before, police organizations said Thursday. The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund and the Concerns of Police Survivors said 151 police officers have been killed so far in 2000, up from 134 in 1999, the lowest level since 1965. The annual average in the 1990s was 153, compared to 187 during the 1980s and 222 during the 1970s. Photos vandalized Someone SELMA, Ala. (AP) broke into the National Voting Rights Museum and destroyed more than 30 photographs of the 1965 Bloody Sunday clash. It was second break in in less than two weeks at the museum, which President Clinton visited earlier this year to mark the 35th anniversary of the landmark civil rights confrontation. Police Chief E.L. Tate discounted the possibility that the vandalism was racially motivated and said he suspects juveniles in both cases. -- 1r tL, Si' I JULIA MALAKlEThc Assiicialcd Press preparation for Saturday's predicted storm. East Coast prepares to face storm Cabinet lineup. Rod Paige, the superintendent of Houston's school system, is his nominee for secretary of education, Gale Norton of Denver his choice for secretary of the interiJ. Principi his or, Anthony appointee to. return as secretary to the Department of Veterans Affairs, and Gov. Tommy Thompson is to be secretary of health and human services. With that announcement and New Year's good wishes, Bush flew back to Austin for the holiday weekend. There are three regular Cabinet slots still to be filled, the- secretaries of labor, transportation and energy, plus other major positions including CIA director and United Nations ambassador. "I am a e governor," said HHS nominee Thompson, like Bush an opponent of abortion. His nomination to run the government's biggest civilian agency had been anticipated, and abortion rights activists had their protests ready, declaring that they would contest his confirmation by the Senate. Paige is the second black appointee to the Bush Cabinet; Colin Secretary of Powell was the first nominee the pro-lif- put workers on standby. Airlines were expecting flight cancellations throughout Half of (AP) 0 1 Scramble before the storm: Stella Pang, of Newton, Mass., grabs. a loaf of bread from the partially empty grocery store shelves Friday in Boston. Shoppers were crowding the stores and getting food essentials in Associated Press Writer the world's 6 billion people now J" hi By CHERIE HENDERSON Cities growing Presiden- orado, a veteran of both the Vietnam War and Veterans Affairs, and the governor of Wisconsin on Friday to join his Republican sus- Decision delayed WASHINGTON (AP) Bush chose a black educator from Houston, the former attorney general of Colt-elect bery." Brady said police had no pects. . University basketball player from Sumter, S.C. "I could hear the pilot screaming and you could hear a tussling match going on in there and he was 'help,"" hollering Bvnum told WBT Radio in Charlotte, N.C. "I just grabbed his neck, shoulders, whatever I could get hold of and just joined in the fight," Bynum said. "I was able to pull him off and from there we got him to the ground and the pilot was able to get control of the plane." UsSi fills Blizzard Coming 7 dead in shooting who helped subdue the Clarke intruder was Bynum, 39, a former Clem-so- n could tell it wasn't turbulence, it was fierce movement." The cockpit intruder bit the captains ear and finger before he was overpowered in a struggle with crew members and first class passengers, the airline said. Augur said two men sitting in the front row rushed to help. "The next thing you know bedlam breaks out. All we could see was the two-minu- te Kenyan, forced the Boeing 747400 into a wild ride of dips and dives, terrifying passengers on the flight from London to Nairobi and injuring five people, pDaoue Shovels, snowblowers and salt were flying off store shelves as people along the East Coast got ready Friday for a powerful convergence of storms that could bring the heaviest snowfall in five years to some areas. A storm taking shape off North Carolina was expected to make its way up the East Coast, passing Philadelphia by Saturday afternoon and reaching Boston by evening. At the same time, a storm in the Midwest was working its way east over the Appalachians, and the two were expected to merge. Snow of a foot or more was possible in some areas, and high wind could create blizzard conditions. Road maintenance crews around the region got plows ready, outfitted trucks with snow gear, piled up salt and sand and . the weekend. TWA began canceling some domestic flights to and from the East Coast for Friday evening and Saturday in anticipation of the storm. "It's going to be ugly," Delta Russ Air Lines spokesman Williams said. "We're going to be taking down a significant portion of our schedule throughout the Northeast." Shore True Value Hardware in Somers Point, N.J., sold all 300 shovels that had been delivered the day before. Another delivery was expected, and Austin Gibbons, 79, said he would be back. In the meantime, he was headed to a liquor store: "I need a bottle of J&B. That's going to hold me over." Customers at Pennington Market in Pennington, N.J., bought milk, bread and soup along with snacks and deli trays to prepare for both the storm and the New Year's weekend. -- r- And shoppers at Pelican Ski & Snowboard Shops in Morris Plains, N.J., grabbed sleds along with snow boots and long johns. Pelican Ski store owner Ken Spilatro said sales have doubled in the past few days, a welcome development after a stretch of warm winters. "We've been waiting for this for a couple of years," he said. The Morton Salt company in Providence, R.I., had 15 extra trucks and a dozen extra crew members helping customers dig salt pile to keep pubinto a lic works departments supplied. More than 400 plows were ready to clear Pennsylvania's 3,600 miles of state highways. New York City alone had about 200,000 pounds of salt and thousands of cleanup workers on call. The snowfall could be the city's heaviest since the blizzard of Jan. 1996, which dumped more than 20 inches of snow. The city got a total of 13 inches in all of last year. 60-fo- ot 7-- 8, State-designa- te t announced. Pai ge has been superintendent of the Houston Independent School District since 1994. president-elec- Norton was elected the first woman attorney general of Colorado in 1990, and held the job for eight years. She had previously held staff jobs in the interior and agriculture departments in Washington. As secretary of veterans affairs, Principi will return to an agency at which he was acting secretary under former President George Bush in 1992. Barak draws line in Mideast peace talks By ELLEN KNICKMEYER Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM Prime Minister Ehud Barak on Friday drew what he called his bottom line in any peace deal with the Palestinians: No transfer of over sovereignty Jerusalem's revered Temple Mount to the Palestinians, and no right of return for Palestinian refugees. Barak spoke after another day of confrontations between Israelis and Palestinians. Israel once again clamped a full closure on the West Bank and Gaza Strip after bombings that killed two Israelis a day earlier. An Israeli shell killed a Palestinian policeman near the Gaza Strip crossing on Friday, and a stone-throclash with Israeli police injured 15 Palestinians. The Palestinians criticized immediately Barak's remarks, which raised additional doubts about for prospects renewed peace negotiations in the coming w weeks. This statement effects negatively ; the peace process and harms efforts that had been made to push it forward," said Nabi Aburedeneh, spokesman for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Barak has said his gov ernment is willing to renew talks with the Palestinians based on peace proposals by Pret Clinton. The Israeli leader has hinted at far concessions, reaching prompting criticism from some Israelis who say he is going too far in his effort to strike a deal. But Barak said he wouldn't relinquish sovereignty to the Palestinians of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's walled Old City, the holiest site in Palestinians Judaism. revere the site as Haram the Noble Sanctuary and demand as-Sha- sovereignty over it. "I don't plan on signing a document that would transfer sovereignty of the Temple Mount the anchor of our identity to the Palestinians," Barak said. Barak's aides have spoken of some compromises on the religious site, one of the most sensitive issues in the Mideast negotiations. The Israeli government has not said explicitly what the Jewish state is prepared to give up, though previously there was talk that sovereignty might be granted to a third party, such as the U.N. Security Council. Muslims already have control over the site. The embattled prime minister, who faces an day-to-da- y uphill battle for Feb. 6 against right-win- g opposition leader Ariel Sharon, also reiterated his pledge never to concede to a Palestinian demand that their refugees be allowed to return to their original homes in Israel. For Palestinians, the key sticking point has been the fate of nearly 4 million in scattered refugees Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Israeli leaders have said it would be demographic suicide to absorb Palestinian refugees in their coun5 try of 6 million people million of whom are Jewish. 1 |