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Show 'aS A2 THE DAILY HI KAi.t). Provo, I tah, Tuesday, October 3. B 1 B 1995 8 in New York City. He said he heard the move was By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press Writer NEW YORK A blind sheik cuiiiicfcd ol conspiring to wage a holy war against the United States d says the government has him and shipped him off to an isolated prison hospital to '"break my spirit." hit his first interview since he w as com icted. Sheik Omar n said Monday lie was deified a fair trial and now the gov erlirrjpnt was trying to separate him from his lawyers, purportedly because of his health. "This is part of a government planning for hardship against me anil frying to break m spirit." n told The Associated ,1'ress hi a telephone interview from his cell at ihe U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield. Mo. .'the Egyptian cleric w',as 'moved early Monday from the .Metropolitan Correctional Center stnp-searjjie- Abdel-Rahma- -- Abdel-Rahma- SIMPSON: made for health reasons. "Well they make me sicker. They make me sicker.' he said Earlier, at a hearing in one of his lawyers, Lynne Stewart, complained to U.S. District Judge Michael Mukasey that the sheik had been taken "to a peculiarly inaccessible part of the world." Later, she told reporters her client had been taken "to Middle America, to "Noplaceville." Faye Pollard, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, said Abdel-Rahma- n was moved to Missouri so that he could receive a medical evaluation. She said the outcome of the evaluation will determine whether he remains at the center, is transferred to one of four other federal prison medical facilities, or goes to a regular prison. n complained that d when he he was arrived at the medical center and New-York- Abdel-Rahma- strip-searche- stunned, as did his attorney, Carl on the Douglas, a second-stringthe mundane team legal assigned task of silting next to Simpson during testimony readhacks. "Surprise doesn't begin to describe my feelings," Douglas said afterw ard. Prosecutor Christopher Darden w as there, but Marcia Clark wasn't. Darden. asked if he could believe the rapid end to deliberations, said. "I think I have to believe it. It's happening. Nothing shocks me anymore." Moments before the verdict w as delivered, tension filled the courtroom. Before ti.e jurors filed in. Judge Ito told the courtroom that the jurors requested anonymity and would not be available for corn-meto the media or to the attorneys involved in the case. The jury then filed in. Judge Ito instructed the foreman to check the envelope containing the verdict to make sure it had not been tampered with overnight er " ('Continued from Page A 1) j '; pwliqe went on tactical alert to brace for possible trouble in the streets. ,. Npws helicopters roared Barricades blocked the street. In thp courthouse lobby, hundreds of people vied for the few precious puhjjc seats in the courtroom. As their lottery numbers were pulled, the lucky few cheered. !.7'hey came to take their place in hisjoy. to experience the verdict ivj ;ic century. , tcame Monday without warning. As the judge brought in the of the hottest seats juy. two-thirin l()wn wvie empty, two of the leading attorneys in the case weren't even present, and most of the. media not expecting such a were upstairs in swjft erdict the, press room. "Is that correct'.'" Iio asked the lorcwoman. a black woman in her early 50s who was chosen by her colleagues last week after just three minutes. ,, ",)es." she said. Jaw s dropped. There were gasps ni the courtroom. Simpson appeared oul-sr.d- e. TRIAL: n' Editor's now: The verdii t in the O.J. Simpson trial came at press time for lie Daily Herald. Tomorrow's paper will include more coverage and analysis on the verdict. case than coulii name the new speaker of the U.S. House. e The case became a metaphor for a string of social issues. Advocates against domestic violence used O.J. and Nicole Brow n Simpson's stormy marriage to bring attention to their cause. Those who wondered about a mnaway media had a strong illustration of what happens when a sensationalized case comes to life in the tube and on the front page. Protesters against racism and police excess got a new poster boy in Detective Mark Fuhrman. The issue of race became central to the case. Defense attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. urged the jury to make its verdict a message against the racism that he claimed was behind a conspiracy to convict his client. Polls showed the case had divided the country along racial lines: most whites thought Simpson was guilty: most blacks thought he was innocent. For Kevin Starr, an urban history professor at the University of Southern California and the state's official librarian, the critical question will be if all Americans black and white accept the verdict. "It's really a test case on the whole question of race in America " nt) matter what verdict. he said. "The question is do we have a culture in common that includes all of us Americans.' If we don't, we're going to have a divided culture that will make Yugoslavia look like a festival." high-profil- (intinut'd X f rom Page All si'nrr." he said. "You put it all together i' might as well be 'Davs Of Our Lives."' Most of all. it was there. Ali the time'. It' became, a fixture on CNN. Court TV and'ABC's "Nightline." It proved the lifehlood of tabloid V from "A Current Atfair" to 1 "Hard Copy." ' 'it was pan of the American li'KNfyle." Levin said, "li was like livery day you could turn oil 'the set and predictably watch the' same." The trial of O.J. Simpson d eclipsed and. in some cases, real of national, events global and even interplanetary significance. hW-riall- . out-Mste- The peace between accord Israel and Jordan: the baseball -tnjse: the war in Chechnya: the carriage of Rwanda: American Hoops in Haiti: the bombardment vt Jupiter by the Shoemaker-Lev- y ;omet: the Republican revolution n Congress: the bombing of the )klahoma City federal building. came - and most went I Jdiroui:h the public's awareness as 'we twitched and debated the trial, e familial Hy assuming a wilh'Maaia and Bob. Nicole and I Lee. In the midst of the Republican jtakevxer of Congiess. a national name recognition "poll- - testii g Jtouikl tin c Americans knew the pnru.tp.il players m the Simpson tiist-nam- m was not given any better medical care than before. "They show your private parts to everyone. I told them. 'No I can't do that.' They said. 'This is the law. you have to do it.' I said. 'Well, this is the American law that humiliates a human being,'" n said. The sheik and nine others were Abdel-Rahma- convicted Sunday of plotting killings, kidnappings and bombings to force the United States to change its Middle East policies. Abdel-Rahma- n said he was denied a fair trial by a judge w ho refused to allow jurors to be questioned adequately to weed out their biases about Muslims or Arabs. He said he has plenty of grounds to appeal, including the fact that the judge did not tell defense lawyers that the alleged mastermind of the multiple plots Siddig Ibrahim Siddig Ali was talking to the government before opening statements. PREDICT: (Continued from Page Al) defense was objecting so much," Perry said The defense raised more than 60 objections during Prosecutor Marcia Clark's rebuttal statement last week. Ivan Soeine of Provo predicted that Simpson would get the lesser murder, charge of second-degrerather than murder on both counts. "Too many lies have been told," Soeine explained. "They had too much evidence against him than for him." But there are some people who feel that O.J. may have murdered his wife and her friend, but the prosecution did not have an ironclad case. "He's going to be acquitted, but I believe he's guilty," said Doug Fowkes of Provo. "The defense raised reasonable doubt. Mark Fuhrman messed up. He messed everything up." Fuhrman was the Los Angeles Police detective who found the bloody glove at the Simpson estate. The prosecution presented evi- first-degr- the trial. Ali was Siddig allegedly the architect of plans to assassinate 'Divjjion of Air Quality. report is The available bv Com-;pl- 0 The Scale good air: 51-K- 200-29- itrc air quality this morning as of was as follow s; tiiiheahhlul. ardous. Kta.m. American government, the great superpower, it's been led by a small country, which is Egypt. The American government did the dirty work for the Egyptian government," he said. "I am jailed for my political beliefs and my religious beliefs. Despite that, there is not a shred of evidence that I am a conspirator." dence to the jury that Fuhrman used racial slurs, something they initially denied during his testimony. However, Fowkes said he knew Simpson was guilty because he tried to flee from police during the infamous slow-spee- d chase in the white Bronco June 17, 1994. "If he were innocent, would he have been riding in the Bronco with a gun to his head?" Fowkes asked. Joe Haws, of Joe's Spic and Span diner in downtown Provo, said Clark failed to present hard evidence against Simpson. "I think he'll be acquitted. I don't think they have enough circumstantial evidence to convict him," Haws said. "I think he was involved, but I don't think he did it. I think he knows who did it." jte air quality today was good for all areas alons: the Wasatch Fifjal change 'clearing ; Outlook forecast calls for httlc ' ; in pollution levels with a index of 1.0(H) plu- - j. ? Monday's Highs 07 ....35 ..good Njnth Provo l.lnifiin pa 21 good i . V - very haz- co oz so Gligorov suffered scratches to , the head and a slight eye injury that would require surgery. Gligorov's armored Mercedes apparently saved him from more serious injury. Police said two suspects in were arrested, but their mid-20- s their identities were not know n. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blast. The bomb went off about 100 yards from Gligorov's offices in Skopje, the Mace- donian capital. The president's route to his office is well known, and the car often slows at the point where the bomb exploded because of heavy traffic. A small car in front of the presidential limousine was reported to have slowed down deliberately before the blast. Windows as high as the ninth floor on nearby buildings were shattered when the bomb exploded near the Bristol Hotel. ni; ii ' sion. Local media speculated the!' bomb might be the work ofc: Macedonian nationalists who-- :: would oppose compromises-"with the republic's neighbors. Glisorov, was a leading Communist official in the for- -' "f mer Yugoslavia. He was elected'1' Macedonia's president in 1992;" He had returned from a one--'- "' day trip to Belgrade on Moiv"''1 day, where he talked with Pres-1'.ident Slobodan Milosevic mntii'il Carki'i rpi'nnni !UU!Llill l JL1U1U has not recognized' Serbia tion. Macedonia because of border -disputes and out of solidarity-'Wlth Greece. Greece, which claims Mace-- , donia has territorial designs oh its province bearing the same . name, imposed an embargo on . Macedonia last vear. 1' tl!"-.'l'- 1V.V.-,U- I of '"h . Macedonia signed a U.S. -- and Greece brokered interim'' agreement on Sept. 13. '' uuiiiM j Classified Advertising IIIMlI uiLliijA 0 Retail Advertising Subscriptions and delivery service 5 1 3 . . 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About 1.000 U.S. soldiers: ;i are stationed on Macedonia's northern border with Serbia in" the United Nations' first peacekeeping mis-m-. NEWS carbon monoxide and the trend is increasing With the current foremst. onnc may be in the good range. ! 300 and above A Macedonia bomb d car exploded today as the president of Macedonia drove by. injuring the leader of the volatile SKOPJE, remote-controlle- Macedonia is a southern Balkan republic of 2 million people that seceded peacefully - EfjcUaihjlicralb Abbreviations Overall air quality jrfcc moderate. 9 Hosni President Mubarak and to bomb the United Nations, two tunnels and a bridge and a federal building in New York City in a span. Abdel-Rahma- n also said the judge refused to allow the defense to get a State Department document that would prove the United States arrested him at the request of the Egyptian government. "Well, we see now that the By SASA PESEV Associated Press Writer long-ago'Ju- .co. .33. ..good tele-;ph- at t . h Still, the end of the trial was marked by the same odd images with which it began on that night. Late Monday, hawkers of and O.J. watches stood outside the courthouse, trying to sell their wares in the clow of the television lights. Member Downtown Provo nine-mont- Egyptian For new subscriptions, restarts home delivery information cancellations or billing info3 rmation call weekdays from 6 30 am to 5 3C p m tak-- n 1 he tollnw ing information is Iff""! ' the Wasatch Front air pollu- lioifivpoii compiled bv the Utah Macedonian leader injured in bombing Just days into the trial, Siddig Ali pleaded guilty in a cooperation deal and was not seen again during " u irrji DEPARTMENT HEADS CoSjnCATlSiSJNC. 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