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Show 11 " - s ' iwma j a raia iMmmm "iff i -- T mnniir - - - - r " The Daily Herald ' Tuesday, September Dissident arrested after return to China Aid efforts stem tide By DAVID W. CHEN Associated Press Writer of Somali refugees - water supply has collapsed and only half of U.N. food aid reaches the starving. The NAIROBI, Kenya Tens, if not hundreds of number of Somalis fleeing starthousands of Somalis already vation in their homeland for ref- have died from the combined ugee camps in Kenya has fallen effects of drought and warfare. by more than 90 percent as Aid officials estimate up to 2 efword spreads of stepped-umillion more in the nation of forts to feed them at home, a 6.5 million will die if food is not U.N. official says. delivered immediately. In fact, the news of acceleratan avThrough ed world relief operations has of 1,000 erage refugees daily created a reverse flow: An unfled Somalia for Kenya, said known number of Somali refuMoumtzis, who makes several Ethigees and drought-stricke- n trips a week to the 18 refugee opians have begun trekking to camps along Kenya's eastern Somalia from Ethiopia in border. search of food, said Panos But for the 10 days ending Moumtzis, spokesman for the Sunday, the number dwindled U.N. High Commissioner for to between 200 and 300 a day and fell below 100 for the first Refugees. "Wherever you put the food, time on Sunday, he said. More you create a magnet with people than 400.000 refugees live in running to it from either direc- the camps, about 80 percent of them Somalis. tion," Moumtzis said Monday. In Rome on Monday, the Despite the increased pace of United Nations announced aid deliveries, the amounts of plans to more than double its international relief actually relief pledge to the Horn of Afstill are woeSomalia rica nation, from 76,000 tons to reaching Moumtzis fully inadequate, more than 145,000 tons. The stressed. it said, would reach a food, Overall, about 10,000 tons ', 'country where civil war has created an anarchy so complete have been delivered so far to ,' that few hospitals function, the Somalia. By DIDRIKKE SCHANCHE Associated Press Writer p The first BEIJING leader to return to China since the Tiananmen Square crackdown was arrested today hours before he planned to announce the establishment of a human rights group. The government recently asked students to come home to help build China's future, but the arrest of Shen Tong indicates Communist authorities expect repatriated dissi cy JL Strauss said he learned of Shen's arrest by prearranged code after calling Shen's mother's home and learning from the dissident that it was swarming with police. The American adviser, Ross Terrill of Boston, was detained for . two hours in his Beijing hotel room after distributing a statement from' Shen, then released to the custody of the U.S. Embassy. The whereabouts of Shen and his fellow Chinese protest leaders, Qi Dafang and Qian Liyun, were not immediately known. dents to renounce the democracy movement. - Shen, 24, was arrested at his mother's home by police who confiscated computer disks and printed materials, she told Western journalists. ; Also detained were two other Chinese protest leaders, an American adviser to Shen and two French journalists, said Marshall Strauss, a spokesman for Shen's Democracy for China Fund, a human rights group based in Newton, Mass. mid-Augu- st, 1 3 rv i ,tv ft- - 7 U for free brochure and registration form. 37943(9 (24 Hr info) or 9 Adv. 1992 ) group opens summit Non-aligne- d ' JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) The movement, drift-- . ing.without direction since the end of the Cold War, opened a summit meeting today in search of new reasons to exist. Indonesia, which has taken oyer group leadership of the from Yugoslavia, plans to focus on the split between the rich north and a schism President poor south Suharto called the central unre" solved issue of our time. "Peace, common security, disarmament and the peaceful resolution of conflicts iiv various regiqns of the world must remain at ,the center of our efforts," he told the opening session. Non-align- ed - 108-nati- in car accident Czechoslovakia PRAGUE, Alexander Dubcek. the. of Czechoslovakia's 168 y "Prague Spring" reforms. (AP) leader ' A w;ise-riousl- - ! ) 7 TAX INCOME COURSE BEGINS SOON H&R BLOCK personnel. While many job opportunities are available, graduates are under no obligation to accept employment with H&R BLOCK. Call 1, Dubcek injured (Advertisement) H&R BLOCK is offering a Basic Income Tax Coarse starting September lftth. There will be a choice of morning, afternoon or evening classes held in Orem. The approximately three month coarse, for a total of 69 hoars, will be taught by experienced - - AP Photo talks Palestinian-Israel- i Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, right, leans over today to talk to a Palestinian fifth grader, Fida Matour, at the Shufat school for girls in . Arab East Jerusalem. Rabin visited on the first day of the school year. Meanwhile, Arab and Israeli negotiators meet in Washington. Shattered Sarajevo faces harsh winter injured today when his far skidded oi'a rain-slic- k rural highway and plunged into a gorge. The accident occurred aboulj55 miles from Prague. The injuries were "serious, but not critical," said Dr. Milan Rocen. head surgeon at Prague's Na Honmlce hospital. The doctor said in an interview that the former Czechoslovak leader had suffered "multiple injuries of the chest and spine." Dubcek had been transferred by helicopter to Prague from a hospital in Humpolec. , Scandal in Japan snares governor - TOKYO (AP) The scandal that forced Japan's most powerful politician to resign a governing party post last week snared a new victim today, a provincial governor who quit over reported donad tions from a trucking, Pictures of gingerbread houses company. the twinkling with snow adorn Kiyoshi Kaneko, 60, the goverwalls of government offices and nor of Niigata prefecture, said he d businesses of was the resigning over reports allies in Olympic Village. "Sarajevo Win- his 1989 gubernatorial campaign ter 1992," they read mockingly. received up to $2.4 million from Winters in Sarajevo, a Hiroyasu Watanabe, then presiriverside city tucf.ed into dent of Tokyo Sagawa Kyubin. ; the Dinari Mountains, average beShin Kanemaru, widely actween 32 and 40 degrees. Last year knowledged as the governing party was unusually cold, with tempera- kingmaker, resigned as Liberal tures hovering around 20 degrees. Democrat Party vice president' on Pamuk said the city consumes Thursday after admitting he xk about $7. million a month in fuel ceived $4 million from Watanabfej on the average, and double that who has been charged with making amount in the winter. illegal loan guarantees to ' ' I One reason fuel is in such scarce companies. supply is that lacks foreign exchange and its traditional supplier of natural gas is the former Soviet Union short of cash. Pamuk said a Bosnian delegaBERLIN (AP) With politi; tion would travel to Moscow soon to negotiate for gas, but he was not cians bickering over how to end the attacks on foreign asylilm-seek. .. optimistic. ,,. that are convulsing Ger is--. Another problem that, the head of the countfys the 1 fbr&ef-Commissioner U.N. High many, union warned today thathe police not carried has large yet ugees stocks of fuel to the capital. The violence could reach epidemic pror ' rfr portion's .'.n 220 tons of aid its brings to Sara" Police Union President- Herm:- jevo every day by air and road man Lutz said the federal governconsists of food and medicine. ment must find solutions because Pamuk met Monday with Holhis officers can't do the job alone. ; lingworth in an attempt to nail "What are we supposed to do down fuel supplies. beat a friendliness toward foreignUnited the said Hollingworth Nations was considering bringing ers into people's heads?" Lutz more fuel to the city but needed to said. Overnight, police in three eastensure that energy supplies don't ern German cities had to battlcthe fall into the hands of warring pargangs of rioters who ties. and burn down homes storm to "We will have to bring tons and try g for foreigners.! ; said. tons of fuel overland," he be will "That extremely expensive and, if there's fighting, dangermob-tainte- By JOHN POMFRET Associated Press Writer SARAJEVO, A shortage of diesel fuel could force Sarajevo's last government bakery to close next week, a op city official says, underscoring s about winter fuel short- agcfeMi the besieged capital. ifa Pamuk, chief executive of the Sarajevo city assembly, said MondayyVut bread production had scaled back 10 days already r VOOO loaves a from day to ago 40,000 ting diesel use to about 950 ga V a day . X) gallons of dieOnly aboutl sel now rema& ithe bakery's reserves, jeoparA pg its operations, he said in an intbAlew in his mor office. Bosnia-Herzegovi- Now Through Tuesday September 1st, 1992 CTy T-Bo- ne or Porterhouse) na tar-scarr- ed "That's about five days' worth," Pamuk said. "Unless we get emergency relief, it's going to be shut down. We will only have rice." He said starvation is not a worry in the capital, besieged for five months by Serbian fighters. But the fuel problem, which will Qcal Com Good at ail Smith's Locations. only rise as the mercury falls, worries that highlights increasing ' once a winter playSarajevo is facing its harshest ground winter in years. cut Other cities and villages off for months in the fighting between the mainly Muslim Bosnian could face a army and Serbs worse fate. "If peace comes soon, the winter will be miserable," said Larry Hollingworth, chief of operations for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in Sarajevo. "If it comes later, it could be a tragedy throughout Bosnia." A harsh winter will only compound the suffering concomitant to the violence claimed at least 8,000 lives by some accounts tens of thousands more since majority Muslims and Croats voted for independence on Feb. 29 over the objection of ethnic Serbs. Raza Kubai, a housewife and preganant mother of two, lives in the Olympic Village built for the 1984 Winter Games. This week she's been using her parquet floor as fuel to cook macaroni and rice. "It burns better than everything, even better than the chairs," the, woman said. Her winter faVnily's clothing was dewhen shell blew a mortar stroyed up in her living room, she said. bullet-pocke- 1,782-foot-hi- 1 mob-own- Bosnia-Herzegovi- ed na German police vmn of violence - er . . .- - - now-famili- ar asylum-seekin- ous." Pamuk said U.N. aid provides only about 30 percent of Sarajevo's needs. Even if supplies are secured, it's often difficult getting them to Sarajevo. The United Nation's mandate does not allow it to transport many goods supplied by other agencies. Since April, for example, a planeload of supplies from the Austrian city of Innsbruck earmarked for Sarajevo's fire department has sat in the Vienna airport because no one has agreed to bring them to the city's fire house. The 3,300 yards of hoses, protective uniforms and firchats are essential to keep operations going, Fire Chief Kenan Slinic said. '. Bomb at market kills 22 in Sri Lanka COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) A bomb hidden in a box of fish exploded in a crowded market in eastern Sri Lanka today, killing at least 22 people, most ot them Muslims, the military said. At least 50 people were wounded in the blast in the town of Naina-damariin Batticaloa district, about 140 miles east of Colombo," : officials c'd. The e;.; osion destroyed a bus parked nearby, said officials at the military headquarters in Colombo, who cannot be identified under briefing rules. They blamed Tamil Tiger rebels who are fighting for an independent homeland in Sri Lanka for the explosion . ; mm |