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Show n BfflM? As The Daily Herald Monday, February 22, 1993 7fZ t$ - m L" 2 fi i i . Israelis elect new chief rabbis " ': "" " - m Af J u r " i a. i 5 efforts in Bosnia 1 M - Israel JERUSALEM (AP) after rabbis chief new Sunday got an election campaign dubbed the dirtiest in Israeli history, with accusations of womanizing, bribery and electronic snooping. conclave of reliA met in Jeruleaders and lay gious salem and elected Yisrael Lau and as chief rabEliahu Bakshi-Doro- n bis of the European-descende- d Ashkenazi and Middle Sephardi communities of Israel. . They succeed Rabbis Avraham Shapira and Mordechai Eliahu, whose terms expire next month. They face a huge task in rescuing the tarnished stature of their office. 150-memb- er By LAURINDA KEYS Associated Press Writer if SARAJEVO, U.N. relief shipments to Bosnia resumed today and city leaders agreed to begin distributing food again to the capital's hungry residents. A cease-fir- e held around Sarajevo, meanwhile, and one U.N. official credited the United States' Bosnia-Herzegovi- 1 N i it"- r . . IH East-descend- ''" ; t 10-ye- ar Economics expert gets top position Kim's choice of Hwang sung, 67, showed the emphasis he is placing on the economy. Hwang ' was a Cabinet minister under , former Presidents Park Chung-he- e n and Chun in the 1970s - and the 1980s. . - But the appointment drew strong criticism from the opposition, a wliich called Hwang an ' politician for reform. - "Officials of the main opposition Democratic Party said they may ' Vote against the nomination when It comes before the National Assembly on Thursday. In- -' Doo-hwa- old-er- ed Muslims begin month of Ramadan ,' , The world's 1 billion Muslims feasted at celebrations Sunday on the eve of the holy fasting month of Ramadan. Ramadan, one of the most im- portant observances of Islam, marks the ninth month of the Muslim calendar, when the Prophet Mohammed began to receive Islam's holy book, the Koran, from God. The period of fasting begins ' at dawn today in most of the Islamic world. from food, The faithful refn-idrink and temporal pleasures between dawn and dusk. Generous for the needy are a tradi-tiodonations , -. n n. ' Worshippers flock to mosques for prayers or Koranic recitations and for sermons. Helicopters rescue gas rig workers l LONDON (AP) Helicopters lifted 387 workers from a North Sea gas rig's floating housing unit Sunday after it was cut adrift because of fears that high seas would drive it into the rig. Officials said the huge vessel . ;was in no immediate danger. ' The housing unit, w ith 497 peo-pie aboard, was cut loose from the Amoco gas production rig Lomond, 120 miles east of Aberdeen. First plans to airlift the men off w ere canceled because of the danger of flying in 70 mph winds, but when the wind abated to 55 mph the helicopters began relays to lift nonessential workers. Harry MacMillan. an Amoco spokesman, said the 1 iu remaining on board would be able to help set up a towing operation in the mornC ". ing. Americans win top acting avards Americans BERLIN (AP) Denzel Washington and Michelle Pfeiffer, both nominated last week for Oscars, won the top acting awards today at the Berlin tional Film Festival. Washington was honored as best actor for his portraval in the title role of Spike Lee's film "Malcolm X." and Miss Pfeiffer as best actress for her role in Jonathan KaAcadplan's "Love Field." Their for are nominations Award emy the same roles. festival drew some The 9,000 participants 12-da- suspects draw crowd's anger ld y LIVERPOOL, England (AP) A hostile crowd shouted abuse and tried to rush police vans carboys after rying two they appeared in court today on charges of kidnapping and murdering toddler James Bulger. Some in the crowd of about 300 threw rocks and eggs. A few tried to rush the police vans, screaming "Bastards!" Five people were arrested as a result of the fracas following the boys' first court appearance in this northwest port city. James' battered body was found on a rail line on Feb. 14, two days after he wandered away from his mother and was lured away from a busy shopping center. Security cameras videotaped the boy leaving the d with an oldcenter er boy. The grainy images, enhanced by computers, were broadcast and published nationwide, prompting an outpouring of shock and sympathy for hand-in-han- MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) - 10-year-o- m governing party's , SAtA AP Pholo SEOUL, South Korea (AP) President-eleKim Young-satoday appointed as prime minister an economics expert who is the ' chief policy-make- r. ct ',,-- Police attempt to stop a man today in Liverpool, England, huriing a rock at the police van James Bulger. boys accused of kidnapping and murdering containing two "' resumes ai U.N. U.N. James' young parents. The were not required to enter a plea during today's hearing and the them were not charges against te formally read. They spoke only to confirm their names and ages. A panel of three magistrates ordered the boys placed in the care of local government officials until their next court appearance on March 3. The judges issued an order preventing the publication of the boys' names or any other infor- mation that would identify them. The hearing was closed to the public, and the five journalists present were asked to leave the court during a discussion on where the boys would be housed. One boy, wearing a white sweater, red shirt and grey cor- duroy slacks, stretched and yawned frequently during the hearing. The other, wearing a blue track suit, leaned forward red-an- d- with his chin on his hand, looking around the brightly lit court room. One boy was accompanied by his father and his lawyer, the other by a social worker and a lawyer. Police have not commented on the motive for the killing or released the autopsy report giving the cause of death. The boys are believed to be the youngest children charged with murder in Britain since 1861. Ten is the youngest age at which children can face criminal charges, and prosecutors must prove they knew what they did was wrong. Despite an appeal for calm from the police and James's parents, more than 300 people gathered outside the courthouse. It was a varied group including a few skinheads and mothers with babies and strollers, plus a large contingent of journalists and camera crews. team heads for weapons site in Iraq By DILIP GANGULY Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD. Iraq - An Iraqi official denied anything ta Smidovich, a senior official of the U.N. Special Commission was being concealed. charged with tracking down such "There is nothing to hide, we weapons, landed at Habbaniya airhave fully complied with (U.N. port today. Twenty of them, all resolution) 687," said Husam experts in ballistic, nuclear and Refusing to tell Iraqi officials their destination, 33 U.N. weapons inspectors headed for an Iraqi armaments site today amid reports they have dis- chief coordinator for logistics support to the United Nations. covered a hidden ballistic missile facility. "This is 100 percent," he said U.N. experts said it was a major find and did not rule out the possibility that Iraq was hiding missiles biological weapons, joined with Patrice Palanque's group of ballistic missile experts in heading for the inspection site. The inspection teams have failed of Iraq implementing the resolution, which calls for destruction of to unearth any Scud missiles since Iraq's weapons of mass destruc- March 1992, although Western intion. telligence experts estimate Iraq A team led by Niki- - still has 100 to 200 hidden. capable of carrying nuclear warheads at the site. They spoke on condition of anonymity. Secretary of State makes trip to Beirut Lebanese factions and the Arab League, the troops were supposed to begin BEIRUT, Lebanon Secretary withdrawing from the capital and of State Warren Christopher ar- its environs to the Bckaa Valley by rived in Beirut by military helicoplast September. ter Monday, the first However, this understanding American official to visit the Lewas not implemented and U.S. ofbanese capital since 1983. ficials traveling with Christopher Riding in a group of three U.S. said he w ould make a point that the Black Hawk helicopters, Christodeadline had not been met. For days speculation swirled pher arrived at the Lebanese defense ministry compound at Ya; through the area that Christopher after a would go to Lebanon during his flight over Mediterranean waters from Cyprus. weeklong Mideast trip. But only The building was ringed by solafter his U.S. Air Force jet had left diers armed with rifles and maRiyadh, the Saudi capital, reportchine guns; more patrolled from ers aboard were told about the plan the rooftop. and were also asked not to divulge Christopher expected to receive it until the four helicopters landed from Lebanese leaders their safely in Beirut with Christopher, of his drive to revive Assistant Secretary of State Edward P. Djerejin, a handful of othMideast peace talks. Since Lebaclose aides, a security detail and er influence and non is under Sy ria's five Assad has Hafez President reporters. Syrian "We hae followed very closely already backed Christopher's diplomatic goal, there was little doubt the security situation over the last few days." a senior U.S. official that Lebanon would fall in line. But the side trip between visits said. "There have been various to Saudi Arabia and Israel had scenarios for the trip appearing in symbolic significance showing the press. We left it so we could n both U.S. interest in the always decide at the last minute to a and change our mind." giving Christopher country chance to reaffirm what his top Christopher was meeting with aides called steadfast U.S. support Lebanese President Elias Hrawi. for Lebanon's territorial integrity Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and Foreign Minister Fares Boucz. andsovereigntv. Some 30.000 to 35,000 Syrian Christopher told Assad about the in the are Lebanon. Under plan in a meeting in Damascus troops accord approved in Taif, Saudi on Sunday, the official said. By FAROUK NASSAR Associated Press Writer high-lev- Arabia, involvement for stopping the fighting. In the United States, Clinton ad- ministration officials said they were working out details of a plan to airdrop supplies into areas of Bosnia cut off by fighting . Relief officials said, however, that they would favor such a move only "as a last resort." Sarajevo's city council met this morning and decided city workers could again begin distributing food from U.N. warehouses, said Az-zeOhranovic, secretary to the council president. The city had boycotted aid distribution since Feb. 12 in solidarity m with Muslims in eastern Bosnia who have been cut off from food relief. U.N. officials estimate 100,000 Muslims are short of food in eastern areas surrounded by Serb forces. On Sunday, however, a convoy blocked for days by Serbs finally made it to the besieged eastern town of Zepa. The convoy of 10 Belgian trucks carrying food and medicine arrived to a "tumultuous welcome," said Tony Land, head of U.N. relief operations in Sarajevo. The U.N. high commissioner for refugees, Sadako Ogata, had canceled aid td most of Bosnia last week, frustrated by Serb roadblocks and the Sarajev o boycott. But she was rebuked Friday by U.N. Secretary-GenerBoutros Boutros-Ghal- i, who rescinded her U.N.-escort- al Charges filed ed order. Ogata said Sunday in Geneva that she had received assurances from the warring factions that they would not hinder shipments. U.N. officials said five relief planes landed in Sarajevo this morning, the first of at least 18 planned for the day. Gen. Philippe Morillon of France, commander of U.N. forces in Yugoslavia, said the first plane landed in heavy snow and that U.N. distribution centers had reopened. Some 2.500 tons of food has been stockpiled for nine days at U.N. warehouses in the city during the boycott. The cease-fir- e unilateral, nationwide was declared Saturday by Alija Izetbegovic, president of Bosnia's Muslim-legovernment. No fighting was reported Sunday in Sarajevo. Children played in the snowy streets, sledding and throwing snowballs at passing U.N. cars. "Morillon called Izetbegovic's d decision "courageous." He said it was made with newfound confidence based on the "involvement of the United States" in the search for an end to a conflict that has claimed more than 18,000 lives and driven millions from their homes. Morillon said the Bosnian Serbs and Croats were ready to accept in December, but such a cease-fir- e the besieged, outgunned Bosnians had kept fighting to regain lost territory and gain Western support. White House spokeswoman Dee Dee Myers said Sunday that she expected an announcement on a U.S. relief plan after President Clinton meets Tuesday with Boutros- -Ghali. Such an effort would be the first direct involvement in Bosnia by U.S. forces and would put American planes at risk of being shot down. in Aeroflot hijacking STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) ceived from Russian authorities. Air piracy charges were filed The couple were identified as Sunday against a man who used Tamerlane Musayev. 27, and his wife. Marina, 26. They were regrenades to hijack a Russian airliner and his wife, suspected of helpportedly from Baku, the capital of the takeover. to ing plan Azerbaijan, a former Soviet repubThe two, accused of commanlic torn by an ethnic war with deering an Aeroflot jet on Saturday neighboring Armenia. with roughly 72 people aboard, Musayev. appearing calm and were jailed pending appearances in smiling, told magistrate Gunnar a Stockholm court. Carstenson he commandeered the There were no injuries, and pasplane because he wanted to go to the United States. sengers on Sunday expressed symhad the "It would have cost 50 to 100 for who ijacker, pathy demanded to go to the United months' wages to buy a ticket," he said. States. It was not immediately clear His wife, who was sitting in a whether the couple would be extrarear seat w ith their infant daughter dited to Russia or prosecuted in throughout the ordeal, had told Sweden, where the man, who inipassengers she was surprised when be to acting alone, her husband took out the grenades tially appeared and ordered the plane flown to surrendered. Officials said no rebeen New York. for extradition had re quest The Karl G. Maeser Distinguished Faculty Lecture in 1989 by rival "a A el : (' Presented by James W. Cannon Professor of Mathematics Wednesday, February 24, 1993 8:00 p.m. Pardoe Theater, Harris Fine Arts Center Topic: Mathematical Parables Call Linda Bishop at for more information 378-271- 9 55-min- Mathematical Parables t war-tor- Our mathematical tale dabbles in history and concept. But it concentrates on people, people involved in an ancient scientific quest: to build an effective mathematical model of space. When Apollonius defined the ellipse, them hypertola, and parabola 200 years before Christ, he tried to give which meaningful names. His geometric analysis assigned to each an area, he found to be either defective ( elliptic ...), excessive (hyperbolic!!!), or, like Baby Bear's porridge, just right ( parabolic placed in parallel). And so the parabola, or parable, represents our hope of getting the right, wiLh properly drawn parallels. v t story-jus- |