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Show NATION EWORLD sd "J I'd yl- FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, THE DAILY HERALD -- he A4 I W b- f'o Lamiyers: Clinton giiEEy GLOBAL BRIEFING Agents seize tons of cocaine - HOUSTON (AP) In one of the biggest cocaine busts in U.S. history, authorities seized nearly five tons of the drug aboard a freighter delivering iron ore from Brazil. The Coast Guard found 9,500 an estimated pounds of cocaine street value of $186 million during an inspection at sea last week of the t Cannes, a Panamanian-registerecargo ship. The cocaine seizure was one of the nation's 10 largest, Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater said Thursday. "This amount of cocaine could put at least one dose of the drug in the hand of every schoolchild across America, r": JO 580-foo- Greek-owne- d from preschool to high school," he said. : Woman in wheelchair guilty SANDUSKY, Ohio (AP) A '.. woman who uses a wheelchair because of muscular dystrophy and '. says the city's sidewalks aren't acces-- ; sible was found guilty Thursday of W using her wheelchair in a street. Judge Erich O'Brien of Sandusky Municipal Court said he had no w choice but to convict Kelly Dillery, ' who has suffered from the degenera-tive muscle disease since her high school graduation. "You were in the actual lane of travel," O'Brien told Ms. Dillery, adding that she put herself and r motorists in jeopardy. "None of us want to see you get ', hurt," he added. MIAMI (AP) ; A , with a long criminal record 'moirail served until last year. The president should have thought of the consequences of his marital infidelity By DAVID ESPO and WALTER R. MF.ARS Associated Press Writers Chief Justice through William Rehnquist who is presiding. After that, Clinton's allies are expected to seek a dismissal of the charges, and Republicans are expected to seek permission to question witnesses. Buoyed by the three-dadefense presentation by the some team, president's Democrats said they were increasingly optimistic the trial could be brought to an end in the next several days. "Continuation after this excellent summation ... would be an embarrassment to the beforehand, "just as Adam and Eve should have, just as you and you and you and you and millions of other people who have been caught in similar circumstances," he WASHINGTON Defending a longtime friend, former Sen. Dale Bumpers told the Senate impeachment trial of Bill Clinton on Thursday that the president was guilty of a "terrible moral lapse" with Monica Lewinsky but not of conduct warranting or even permitting his removal from office. "You can censure Bill Clinton. You can hand him listening carefully to his men and women remarks he knows well. Bumpers' remarks marked the end of one phase of the impeachment trial in which senators sat silently through hour after hour of opening arguments. nately the constitutional scholar and the bantering Southerner, as he addressed a hushed Senate where he Beginning Friday, they will be permitted to ask questions of House prosecutors and Clinton's legal team D y said. With each utterance of the word "you," Bumpers nodded in the direction of senators over to prosecutors. But you cannot convict," Bumpers said in an hour's defense summation concluding six days of opening presentations by both sides. "We are none of us perfect," said Bumpers, alter- u o The Associated Press President's side: Kennedy of Massachusetts told reporters. But Rep. Republican Henry Hyde of Illinois, the lead prosecutor, said, "I think a lot of people wish we would just go away. But we can't. We're going to see this thing door on us." After days of closely reasoned legal arguments and charts depicting evidence in through until they shut the Bumpers addressed his remarks to "colleagues." He was a Democratic senator for 24 years and recalled that he and Clinton "fought so many battles back home in our beloved Arkansas." and lawyers the case speaking to respectfully to "senators" Milosevic backs down, allows U.S. envoy to stay j boy The Associated Press was with shooting a Panamanian in a mall parking J businesswoman garage in one of two recent attacks that jjrevived fears of crime against tourists. t5 Rancifer Lynn Brown was charged armed robbery and attempted murder. His record includes arrests jSfor sexual battery, robbery and resist-- t ing arrest. I'l "Hopefully this time ... he will Suspend some time in jail," Miami-Dadpolice director Carlos Alvarez said. BELGRADE, Yugoslavia The Yugoslav government at m f 5 with 1 V I; e r.tui. . i i , - t rftf w f i Doctors pra healthy future for the seven ? i;Thursday, saying no signs of developmental problems have surfaced. "These children have a good chance ','joi being normal," said Dr. Leonard "jWeisman, chief neonatologist at Texas Children's Hospital. The two boys and five girls were Suborn last month to Nkem Chukwu Iand Iyke Louis. All are now off ventilators and receiving breast milk. Brain scans done after the seven t Jjwere born last month revealed no bleeding, usually a hallmark of deve- vJL '- lopmental problems. "CDC: Flu season mild so far The nation's flu season has been relatively mild so far, with New York the only state reporting a widespread outbreak, the government said Thursday. Since October, 40 other states have reported some flu cases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. "Influenza is unpredictable. We can't predict whether it will be a mild flu season for the entire year or if it's going to peak later than usual," said Dr. Tim Uyeki of the CDC's Center for Infectious Diseases. The season's peak usually runs from December to early March. Flu usually kills about 20,000 Americans a year. ATLANTA (AP) Salinas sentenced Ending a blockbuster trial, a judge convicted ; the elder brother of Mexico's former ; president of ordering the murder of a ,.top politician and sentenced him to 50 ; TOLUCA, Mexico (AP) years in prison Thursday. Raul Salinas de Gortari, brother of Carlos Salinas de Gortari, was convicted and sentenced for the 1994 murder of Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu, a leader of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party who also happened to be his former 1 1 -. HMririT.. Street patrol: 'ft Wft 1 A J A. A. J... I U3 I ht leave Yugoslavia by 5 p.m. Thursday after he accused Serb police of massacring 45 ethnic Albanians last week near the southern Kosovo vil, SRDJAN ILIO I he Associated . Press Serb police convoy patrols the village of Vraganica, Kosovo, Yugoslavia, Thursday. The Yugoslav government announced Friday it was "freezing" the expulsion order against the American head of the peace monitors in Kosovo A AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is enlisting U.S. allies to push on Yugoslavia a series of demands about Kosovo that could result in attacks by NATO if President Slobodan Milosevic rejects them. "Force is the only language he appears to understand," she said Thursday. "The world is confronted by new and unacceptable violence in Kosovo." A massacre last Friday of 45 ethnic Albanian civilians "has brought tensions to a razor's edge," Albright said as she prepared for a trip that is to involve consultations with British, French and other allies on the crisis in the Serbian province. As .Albright took verbal aim at Milosevic, it was clear that the Clinton administration and much of Europe still look to the Serbian leader for a solution to the conflict between Serbs and ethnic Albanians, many of whom want independence from Yugoslavia. Some members Congress and analysts of sug- gested other approaches, including the stationing of NATO forces in Kosovo. Sen. Richard Lugar, and a handful of other senators lage of Racak. Walker defied the order and remained holed up in his office in the Kosovo capital of Pristina. Albright: Milosevic understands only force By BARRY SCHWEID announced Friday it was "freezing" the expulsion order against the American head of the peace monitors in Kosovo backing down after the envoy declared he would ignore the order to leave. In a statement distributed by the state-ruTanjug news agency, the government said the expulsion order against William Walker would remain "frozen" until "the consequences of his behavior are fully clarified." Walker was ordered to n V HOUSTON (AP) 'surviving Houston octuplets , 1 5 Jft.if 7 babies get good forecast edicted senator from Arkansas, quotes Alexander Hamilton as he gives his defense presentation in the Senate impeachment trial of President Clinton on Thursday in Washington. U.S. Senate," Sen. Edward M. Opening questions Dale Bumpers, a former Democratic 1 charged j$ lapse 9 Defenders: Offenses don't warrant impeachment :Teen arrested in shooting 1 if have written President Clinton requesting an explicit US. statement that Milosevic must be replaced with a democratic government. "No American policy to promote a stable and peaceful Balkan region can succeed if Serbia remains, as it has of since the breakup Yugoslavia, under the grip of a regime that depends on crisis for its continued hold on power," the letter said. Examining the decision The statement noted that since the order was issued the Yugoslav government "was contacted by high representatives of several governments and international organizations in their efforts to have this Monday, decision The statement said it "especially took into consideration" appeals by Russian President Boris Yeltsin and U.N. Secretary-Genera- l Kofi Annan. The decision sets aside the standoff over Walker but by no means signals an end to the crisis in Kosovo. Patients wait longer for organs in some regions By LAURA MECKLER Associated Press Writer - WASHINGTON Patients who need organ transplants wait nearly two years in some parts of the country but less than two months in others, according to a government report that documents the wide disparity for the first time. In Pittsburgh, it took 721 days for a typical liver patient to get a transin Iowa, just 46 plant in 1994-96- ; days, according to a copy of the report, obtained ' Thursday by The Associated Press. In New York City, patients waited nearly 10 times as long as similar patients across the Hudson River in New Jersey. "It's a huge difference, and it's hard to ignore," said Dr. Claude Earl Fox, who heads the Department of Health and Human Services division that oversees the transplant program. Why the gap? In some communities, people are more likely to donate organs, creating a larger supply there, the report finds. And the best transplant programs tend to attract large numbers of patients, creating longer waits in those areas. Hoping to equalize waiting times, government officials have ordered a change in the way scarce organs are allocated. It's crucially important to thousands of American families: Some 4,000 people die each year waiting for a transplant. Geographic distribution Right now, organs are distributed geographically, offered first to patients in the community whereX they are donated, then to patients in the region. The government wants to ,., offer organs to the sickest patients first, no matter where they live, as , long as they have a reasonable," ' chance of survival. Ironically, the report, to be released Friday, was prepared by the leading opponents of a policy changej the United Network for OrgatCJ Sharing. The group coordinates the; transplant system under a govern- ment contract and was asked by the government to do the study. ; ; Wlm t IK POOR ( |
