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Show 8Mal The Daily Herald Tuesday, January 7, 1997 Milosevic DrisfG foes seek Watchdogs seek Maginot Line ' PARIS (AP) In a landmark court case, French language watchdogs are pushing for a crackdown on the use of English by building a Maginot Line in cyberspace. law, the Using a Association for the Defense of the French Language and the Future of the French Language went to court Monday to press a Georgia Tech campus in eastern France to translate its Internet site. An estimated 85 percent of Internet sites are in English world- 't wide, while only about 2 percent are in French, and the watchdog groups are trying to protect cyber sites based in France. "Under the French constitution, ; French is the official language, and parents who haven't mastered Eng- ' lish have the right in France to understand the education offered to ' their children in France," said the groups' lawyer. Marc Jobert. The groups, partly funded by the j' Culture Ministry, cite a 1994 ' French law that bans advertising in any single language except French, legislation that placated traditional- ists. But the law has been winked at by businesses geared for foreigners or aiming at the export market. The groups are also going after j stores and restaurants that fail to include the language of Moliere. If Georgia Tech loses the case, ' the school could face fines of up to ' S5.(X)0 each time the untranslated Internet site is visited. The Police in Paris is expected to j Court its decision Feb. 24. , announce ' j f charges ICZZZT ? little-enforc- ed ' - w ... - jjfr 5,fs-- ,. - ? Ju. "A ' - 1 AP Photo ( People struggle to remove debris from the streets of the historic city of Ouro Preto in the Brazilian state cardboard boxes and stuffed animals boarded flat-be- d trucks to nead for higher ground. Floods also hae hit communities across two of his neighbors' houses. Mudslides OURO PRETO. Brazil "It was like a thunderclap." he said. the state line in neighboring Rio de Janeiro blanketed the hills and water flowed down "When I opened the window, all I saw was state. the cobblestone streets of this tourist city, earth." Overflowing rivers have covered roads named a world historical treasure by the Just yards away from Ferreira's brick and cut off access to seven towns. United Nations. The Rio state town of Cardoso Moreira home, the mud buried Murilo Casimiro de Torrential storms in southeastern Brazil was almost entirely under water. Boats Melo. his wife and their five children Saturhave killed at least 71 people and have driven day morning. In the other house, a cruised ai"ng streets picking up families more than 34.000 from their homes. Floods girl was the lone survivor in a family of six. stranded on rooftops and ferrying them to from 18 swollen rivers have deluged 175 a shelters. "I don't want to live here any more," cities. In many areas, residents remained Police and civil defense workers across said. without drinking water, electricity or teleMinas Gerais have distributed 65 tons of The Brazilian state of Minas Gerais usualan averfood and clothes. 6.700 blankets. 3.500 phones today. ly receives heavy rains in January "All I have is the clothes on my back." age of 12 inches. But recent rainfalls have sleeping mats, and 103.000 square feet of Margarita Meyer toid Globo television as she been extraordinary: Belo Horizonte received plastic tarp for shelter. As the rain slackened Monday, police heliswept water out of her badly damaged home 13.5 inches in the first five days of the year. Ouro Preto's famed Baroque churches copters that had been grounded by storms in Betim, a small city south of Belo stand securely on high ground, but officials took off to carry food and medicine to isolatthe state capital. "But what's imporsay the city's only hospital is in danger of ed areas. tant is that I am alive." Late Monday. President Fernando HenRescue crews working under a gray drizcollapsing. Patients stayed in the building zle Monday pulled five bodies from under Monday because there was now here better to rique Cardoso authorized emergency funds for the state government to purchase food, take them. thick red mud in Ouro Preto. a colonial-er- a medicine and materials to rebuild residents to Leandro blankets, Jose of is center Brazil's most that urged Mayor important city g areas. Families lugging destroved homes. evacuate baroque art and architecture. : ( HEBRON, West Bank (AP) Reenacting his attack on Palestini- -' ans, an Israeli soldier returned to a deserted Hebron market before rifle dawn today, raised his 6 to his chest and told interrogators he blanked out after he pulled the M-1- "I put the weapon on automat- ie," said Pvt. Noam Friedman, 22. "I don't remember anything until the shots were over." "I shot toward the market, hop- ing to kill as many Arabs as 1 could," said Friedman, who has a history of psychiatric problems. The scene was eerie. A floodlight brightened Gross Square at 2 a.m. Friedman wore a bulletproof vest over his army uniform, and he was surrounded by more than a dozen army guards. His head slightly tilted, Friedman spoke haltingly into a micro phone held by an investigator. With his right hand, he gripped the Mr 16 from which the ammunition clip had been removed. With the same hand, he was cuffed to another soldier. In Israel, suspects who confess to, a major crime are asked by investigators to reenact it. For example, police took Yitzhak Rabin's assassin. Yigal Amir, back to the Tel Aviv square where he gunned down the Israeli prime minister. Six days ago. Friedman opened fire for real, spraving shots at Palestinian shoppers, wounding five. He told investigators today that he hoped to scuttle a planned trom Israeli pullback troop Hebron. I wanted to prove that Hebron is ours, always and forever." Friedman said. Man sentenced for kidnapping SEOUL. South Korea (AP) South Korean man was sen tenced to 10 years in prison today on charges ot kidnapping ana sex ually assaulting a New jersey woman. Korean South prosecutors 21. in early arrested Jang Jun-h1996. nearly two years alter ne nea to his home country. Jane and his accomplice Mm were accused of abduct g trom a snopping woman the ing mall in Edgewater. N.J., in July 1993. raping her at a motel, men rying to extort ransom money rom her family. Jang, who had been living witn is mother in Leonia, N.J., fled to Seoul after his father posted 350.CKK) bail for him in 1994. Kim had pleaded CUilty in New in fharnes of kidnapping kind sexual assault and is serving an prison term. U S. prosecutors handed over investigation records after their was 'request to extradite Jang rejected. A o. Jun-sun- 1 Jose Apolinario Ferreira's eyes moistened By MICHAEL ASTOR as he described a mudslide that swallowed up Associated Press Writer reenacts crime ' Gerais Monday. ttorms kill at least 71 in Brazil Israeli gunman ' tf Minas Fer-reir- Ilori-zont- e, low-lyin- Church council blames Shell for By CAROLYN HENSON Associated Press Writer Years of oil spills and GENEVA political repression have devastated the Ogoni region of southern Nigeria, casting its people into poverty and spreading fear, according to a report by the World Council of Churches. The organization, w hich has 330 member churches in more than 100 countries, accused the oil company Shell on Monday of destroying the livelihoods of many Ogonis and leaving the env ironment a mess. According to the env ironmental group Greenpeace. Shell's Nigerian operations were responsible for spilling .6 million gallons of oil in 27 separate incidents in Ogoniland between 1982 and 1992. The WCC team that visited the h region early last year said gas flares that have dirtied the air for 35 years also have harmed plant life, polluted surface water and caused acid rain. Dc ;ite the fact that Shell ceased operations in Ogoniland in it is still the largest foreign 1993 e the oil producer in Nigeria six since listed spills report then from ruptured pipelines flowing through the region. At Ebubu. site of one the most publicized oil spills, the WCC team reported a scene of total dev 26 years after the inciastation dent. "The soil and oil are caked together into a thick black crust which covers the area. Liquid crude oil is still present in deep crevices two to three feet deep formed in spots where trees once stood. The air remains polluted by the vapor." the report said. The council questioned Shell's claims that the spill occurred during the civil war, when a retreating army cut a main pipeline. The account conflicts with villagers' version of w hat happened, and, according to the report, with 1 oil-ric- 106-pag- the fact that 12 people out farming were killed in the resulting inferno. "One would not expect villagers to be casually tending farms and tapping palm oil from trees if one is in a war one and troops are retreating." the report noted. The WCC. which is made up of Anglican. Protestant. Orthodox n Catholic and other churches, disputed Shell's contention that most of the spills were the result of sabotage bv the 500.000 Ogoni tribal members. Compensation disputes over damaged land in the region have led to lengthy negotiations and expensive lawsuits, pitting poor subsistence farmers, three quarters of whom cannot read or write, against a powerful multinational corporation, the report noted. A Shell spokesman in LonJon. oil pollution Eric Nickson. said Monday the company would not comment on the report until it had details of its allegations. The report documented personal accounts of harassment and repression by Nigerian authorities seeking to quash protests against the oil companies. Covert operations were carried out by the Nigerian government under the guise of "ethnic clashes" between the Ogoni and neighboring ethnic groups, the report said, resulting in thousands ol deaths and injuries. "It was in the interest of the Nigerian government to provide protection for Shell so that their operations could proceed smoothly. Nothing could be allowed to stop the production of oil. the lifeblood of the country." the report said. GET YOUR i ! FREE, EXAMINATION FIND OUT NOW whether careful, professional chiropractic care can relieve your aches and pains. This examination normally costs S50.00 or more. It includes a spinal alignment check, orthopedic tests, and exam for excess or restricted spinal motion, urinalysis, anemia screen and a report of your exam findings or other tests are FREE. 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