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Show T TV A r E 111 yVSV JNAl 1UK SATURDAY, AUGUST HOPE FADES Bishop on trial for genocide A Roman KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) Catholic bishop in Rwanda went on trial Friday on charges that he failed to offer sanctuary to victims of the 1994 genocide. Attorneys for Augustin Misago asked the judge to release the jailed clergyman on bail and requested more time to prepare their defense, Rwandan television said. The judge then adjourned the proceedings until Aug. 25 to consider the motions, it said. Misago, the bishop of the diocese of Gigonkoro in southwestern Rwanda, is Rwandan cleric to the highest-rankinface charges of genocide and crimes against humanity. ftRLD I THE DAILY HERALD 21, IW) GLOBAL BRIEFING !; T 5 II aowe s dUDOTOUg .(DHBS (DDD Teams search for life amid WASHINGTON (AP) Whv now? For months. George W. Bush successfully about questions dodged whether he used drugs with 'stink of death' an artful reply that he acted irresponsibly in his youth. His sudden decision to offer partial, unsatisfying answers is baffling. . By BRIAN MURPHY The Associated Press g Hairball kills girt A HASTINGS, England (AP) girl died after an operation to remove a giant hairball from her stomach, the result of her habit of chewing her hair, an investigation has found. Rachel Haigh was rushed to Conquest Hospital in Hastings in southeast England after complaining of stomach pains. While recovering from surgery, she suffered internal bleeding and died on Jan. 1. Doctors said that despite the size of the hairball, Rachel still had been able to eat and drink normally. Woman kills eclipse baby BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- A Romanian woman killed her baby born during the Aug. 11 eclipse, apparently fearing ancient superstitions that the child would grow up cursed, a newspaper reported Friday. The woman from a remote village in northern Romania, reportedly admitted throwing the infant down an outdoor toilet shortly after giving birth in her home, local prosecutor Vasile Selaru said. Neighbors in the village of Strahotin said the woman was "fearful of rumors that monsters are born during the eclipse," the daily Monitorul de Botosani reported. Channel claims swimmer A DOVER, England (AP) Mexican woman died Friday while trying to swim across the English Channel, coast guard officials said. The woman, who was not identified, got into trouble about eight miles off more than a third the coast of Dover of the way into the 21 mile crossing to France. Attempts by a lifeboat crew and paramedics to revive the swimmer failed, and the woman, who was about six hours into the crossing, was pronounced dead. Three other swimmers making the crossing all were reported fine. Thief trapped inside school Two UTRECHT, Netherlands (AP) nights trapped in a school taught a bumbling burglar a painful lesson: He's a little too stealthy for his own good. Police in this central Dutch city say the thief, who was not idenmore than 48 hours this tified, spent wr k stuck in a crawl space beneath the floor of an elementary school after hiding there when his Monday night break-iset off alarms that summoned n police. After their search turned up nothing unusual, officers and employees of the alarm company locked every door in the including the trap door building leading to the crawl space, the newspaper De Telegraaf reported Friday. Air Canada deal grounded Air Canada MONTREAL (AP) has asked the federal government to approve a plan that would see it take over Canadian's international business while the smaller airline focuses on domestic routes. Canadian Airlines rejected the proposal, however, saying Friday that it's not acceptable. "Canadian's international routes are the most profitable part of our operation," Canadian Airlines spokesman Jeff Angel said from the airline's headquarters in Calgary. IZMIT, Turkey Someone heard what sounded like scratching. The father of a missing girl had no doubt it was she. "She's in there," the man pleaded to American rescuers. Two members of the rescue team crawled into a crack in a buckled wall. The father directed them to a spot where he believed the girl was trapped. But when the drill punched through the concrete, there was only the unmistakable odor of a decomposing body. All the resources, experience and sophisticated equipment brought in by the Urban Search and Rescue Team of Fairfax County, Va., couldn't alter one inescapable fact Friday: time was quickly expiring for anyone left alive in the rubble of Tuesday's giant earthquake, which killed thousands. The Fairfax units fanned out in ever widening forays around Izmit, 90 miles southeast of Istanbul and near the quake's epicenter. But the hopes raised by four rescues on their first day quickly drained away. Without water, anyone still alive had very little time left a discouraging rule of nature confirmed every place visited by Red Rescue, the code name for the Fairfax teams that work during the day. At night, Blue Rescue takes over the exhausting task of trying to pull survivors from the ravaged structures. This place stinks of death," said Master Technician John Chabal, a Red Rescue member from Sykesville, Md., as he drove around Izmit hoping to find someplace that might hold a survivor. Misery is a familiar sight for Fairfax unit the one of two fire department e groups desU.S. the governignated by ment for foreign disaster assistance. The other, based in the Miami area, is expected in search-and-rescu- LIMA, Mont. (AP) A mod- The quake, which registered a magnitude of 5.3, occurred at 7:50 a.m. about 13 miles northwest of Lima in the extreme southwest corner of Montana, near the Idaho line, according to the earthquake studies office at the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology in Butte. "It shook the floor of the building," said Kathy Cherry, who works at Yesterday's Cafe in Dell, near the epicenter. "It kind of startled us." However, she said there was no damage. Janet Rogers, owner of Jan's Cafe in Lima, said the quake caused "a lot of clatter" from household objects, but nothing fell off shelves in her house. "There is no visible damage that I've seen, so far, in the The hubbub over questions squandered momentum Bush had built with a con vincing victory in Iowa's straw poll have-you-ev- KXSml .rjqff& I "JSJllzfS1 last Saturday. It also exposed weaknesses that were ignored or unnoticed Georgi W. Bush while his campaign rocketed almost effortlessly to the top of the Republican field. The shift of strategy left veteran political consultants t0 mr I'll shaking their heads. "He didn't need to be talking about this," said Ed Gillespie, a Republican operative. Even supporters who commended Bush for talking about the subject said he did so clumsily. By Friday, he was back on message and would only say: "I told the American people that years ago I made some mistakes. I've learned from those mistakes." After fit v 'iKz) Senate Minority . Leader Tom Daschle suggest-- . ed that Bush's background was getting less scrutiny than President Clinton's, the questions about drugs started picking up. News organizations surveyed the other candidates about past drug usage. Bush, alone, refused to answer. No evidence EYAL WARSHAX'SKYThc Associated Press Surviving: A woman sits in front of her destroyed house in the town of Golcuk, 60 miles east of Istanbul, Turkey, Friday. Lack of water and sweltering heat has made chances of survival slim for the up to 35,000 people still believed trapped under debris caused by Tuesday's earthquake that has left at least 10,000 people dead. western Turkey on Saturday. In the past decade, Fairfax had been sent to earthquakes from Armenia to Mexico. They've coped with the aftermath of hurricanes. In 1997, they hunted for survivors in the bombed federal building in Oklahoma City. Last year, they did the same at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. They also are familiar with the psychology of crises as hopes grow weak. "Many people start, hearing what they want to hear" said one of the team leaders, Lt. Ben Dye of Woodbridge, Va. Magnitude 5.3 quake rattles southwestern Montana erate earthquake struck a sparsely populated area of southwestern Montana early Friday, but there were no reports of injuries or significant damage. Bush squanders lead with drug issue - town," Rogers said. She said the quake awoke her daughter, who asked: "Mom, why are you shaking the bed?' The earthquake was felt from Great Falls to Billings to Idaho Falls. "My bed started to shake," said Maria Day, who was staying in The Guest House in Livingston. "If I didn't know better, I would have thought someone was under it shaking it for a joke." Steve Morehouse at the Bureau of Reclamation office in Dillon said engineers found no problems in their initial check of Clark Canyon Dam, located a few miles north of the epicenter. The dam is 147 feet high and 2,950 feet across and of impounds 125,000 acre-fee- t water for irrigation. Lima Dam, an earthen structure about 15 miles east of Lima, does not appear to have been affected, said Laurence Siroky, head of the state's Water Operations Bureau. "There's nothing that appears out of the ordinary at this time," he said Friday morning. However, an observer was stationed at the dam throughout the day to make sure no problems developed, Siroky said. He said earthen dams are more flexible than concrete structures and that makes them more resilent to the shaking in a quake. Mike Stickney, head of the earthquake studies office, said the lack of damage was due primarily to the isolated location. "If this quake had been under downtown Helena, there clearly would be some minor damage," Stickney said. "But felt. "It's been an active region," he said. "There was a quake of similar magnitude in January of 1960. At that time we couldn't locate epicenters as well as we can now. There was apparently a big one in this location in 1897." A quake of magnitude 5.0 can cause considerable damage in populated areas, though modern building codes can substantially reduce the potential for damage. The Hebgen Lake earthquake, which occurred 40 years ago this week about 70 miles east of Friday's quake, was a magnitude 7.5, with each increase of 1.0 in magni- Stickney said he expects aftershocks, but they likely tude signifying a tenfold increase in strength. The Hebgen quake killed 28 people. Tuesday's earthquake in Turkey was a magnitude 7.4, or about 100 times more powerful than Friday's Montana will not be strong enough to be quake. in a rural area, there aren't a lot of structures to be damaged." Though there is no evidence or credible allegation that he has ever violated drug laws, Bush kept getting peppered with the questions. He finally lost his cool during a home state news conference. Leveling dark accusations against unnamed rivals who "planted" the rumors, Bush vowed not to answer the questions. "The people of America are sick and tired of this kind of politics," he said. "And I'm not participating." Hours later, he was decided to participate, after all. The Dallas Morning News wanted to know if he could answer the question posed to federal employees in standard background checks: Did he use illegal drugs in the last seven years? Bush sought clarification of the question, which a senior adviser later said was confusing. That gave him a little time to consider whether to reply and how to frame his answer. The adviser, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Bush decided it was fair to expect a presidential candidate to answer the same question posed to federal employees. He also felt it would be a political benefit to put some distance between, his campaign and any "mis-- ; takes" he refuses to talk" about. And, finally, Bush: assumed the headlines would be that he was committed to federal background checks and would live by the same standards. til 7!i inl |
