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Show Thursday, October lofi oliection of illegal Countries to open liaison offices SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovi- After winning a small step toward ending the war in Bosnia, a senior U.S. envoy hoped to persuade Croatian leaders not to ruin crucial peace talks by launching an offensive. Richard Holbrooke, assistant U.S. secretary of state, announced Wednesday that Bosnia and rival Yugoslavia agreed to open liaison offices in each other's capital, an encouraging sign that they are serious about peace. Though it does not mean mutual diplomatic recognition, Holbrooke said it marked "a small step on a long and difficult road." Liaison offices would represent the highest level of formal contact between the two countries since Bosnia broke from the Yugoslav federation in 1992, triggering a rebellion by Bosnian Serbs. Holbrooke did not say when the offices would open, but he said the plan "assumes full respect of the cease-firereferring to a week-ol- d truce that U.N. officials said seemed to be holding, except for sporadic fighting in the northwest. Holbrooke met with Bosnian government leaders in Sarajevo on Wednesday before leaving for Zagreb, Croatia, on what he said would be his last trip in former Yugoslavia before peace talks begin in the United States on Oct. 31. By ALEX BANDY ," Suspected killer shot by police South JOHANNESBURG, Africa (AP) An sus- ted of killing 38 people was shot and wounded after he attacked arresting policemen with an ax, police said today. The arrest of Moses Sithole, 31, late Wednesday ended a weeklong hunt for a suspect in a series of murders dating back more than a year in a black township near Pretoria and two areas near Johannesburg. Almost all of the 38 known victims were black women who had been strangled or shot to death. Some were sexually assaulted. With mounting public calls for the case to be solved, police last week took the unusual step of identifying Sithole as the prime suspect arid releasing a photograph of him. Acting on a tip, police went to the town of Benoni, 25 miles east of Johannesburg, and waited for him to show up at a place where he was expected, police spokesman Col. Reg Crewe said today, without elaborating. Sithole attacked the arresting policemen with an ax and was shot in the stomach and aim, Crewe said. He was listed in satisfactory condition and under police guard at a Benoni hospital. - Under South African law, police must charge Sithole by tonight or release him, Crewe said. . Journalists get prison for jokes V & ' A BUDAPEST, Hungary With communism all but buried in the dustbin of history, the ""JBUHl 1JIJIU3 f. sweet thnll of daring to read, write or even some- ) o thing that challenged its official version of truth has faded. But thanks to billionaire George Soros, the "samizdat," Mexico VILLAHERMOSA, Tropical Storm Roxanne (AP) drifted uncertainly today, its ferocity possibly spent after careening wound the Gulf of Mexico for a week, hitting some areas twice. Zl Roxanne, which twice grew to A hurricane, flooded much of the tJOlf coast and laid waste to the region's cattle and banana businesses. Roads were washed out or blocked by mud and rock slides, and tens of thousands of people evacuated from their homes. : On Wednesday, Tabasco Gov. Roberto Madrazo Pintado estimated more than half of the state's highways were seriously damaged, saying about $60 million was needed for repair. '.' Although the storm appeared to "be dissipating up, forecasters were hedging their bets. Even under Hungary's a pop"goulash communism" ular description of the Soviet bloc's most relaxed regime people could be harassed, fired from jobs or deprived of pass- resistance romance of smuggled tracts and banned literature of the former Soviet bloc. Soros will visit his native Hungary on Friday to open the AP Photo assistant at the central European University, Zsuzsa Zadoir, demonstrates how to use a press machine that was used for printing illegal newspapers during the communist regime. An world's largest collection of samizdat a Russian word as meaning part of the Central European Uni- tions that from 1949 broadcast to East Europeans in their own languages. (5ver the decades, the two stations amassed a huge collection. When they moved this year from Munich, Germany, to the Czech capital, Prague, Soros gained cus versity he finances. Much of the work was smuggled out of the Soviet bloc to Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, the U.S. financed sta- -- - Page tody of the archive for 50 years, though it remains U.S. government property. To wander among the tons of books, clippings and brittle bits of in paper stacked an elegant, building is to relish again the floor-to-ceili- ports for printing or distributing samizdat. Today, some of samizdat's most prolific authors are themselves in power, among them Czech President Vaclav Havel. President Hungarian Arpad Goencz, Bulgarian President Zhelev. Zhe-ly- u Budapest Mayor Gabor Demszky. "At the time, it just felt good to be able to write without holding anything back." recalled Fer- - enc Koeszeg. formerly an editor n samizof Hungary's dat journal. Beszeioe, or Speaker. It ua published from 98 89. "I admit we sometimes felt ue were just gadflies, but we were also convinced the Soviet svstem was in criMs." he aid Those who published samizdat did not think the system was in imminent danger of collapse, but thought they could weaken it enough that it would have to make compromises. "This came to pass in i 989. Koeszeg said, the year that communism collapsed all across Eastern Europe. A glimpse at the mountains of documents recalls endless hours of toil by many mostly women who typed and retyped manuscripts, using faded carbon paper Copving machines were strictly controlled by the government. Each copy usually included a request that the next reader type another five or six. Some of the bits of paper were so worn that photocopies rather than the original have been archived. Some pieces of samidat that best-know- 1 1 -- " weren't destroyed undoubtedly still exist in the files of the former Communist secret police. The fate of those items generally has not been an issue after 19S9. Japan scrambles, but tsunami fails to strike By KOZO MIZOGUCHI Associated Press Writer In Japan, people TOKYO take tsunamis seriously even when they don't happen. Today, following a strong earthquake, the alert was sounded along a huge stretch of shoreline in southern Japan that includes several big cities. Residents were warned that waves of up to six feet could pound the coast. Get away from the water immediately, they were told. Head for high ground. Television broadcast continuous warnings. The military sent in ships and planes. Media helicopters arrived in droves. Normally bustling docks along a 750-mil- e length of coastline were deserted. But the big wave never came. After three hours during which small waves measuring no more than 4 I2 inches washed ashore the alert was lifted. Nine boats were overturned or fishing banged up in port, but no other damage was reported. "We're just relieved the whole thing is over," said Osamu Fuji-zon- o, a coast guard official stationed in Hyuga, a port town on the east coast of the southern island of Kyushu. fear of Japan has a deep-seate- d tsunami with good reason. In this quake-pron- e part of the world, waves spawned by an earthquake often kill more people than a quake itself. In 1993, following a quake, a tsunami wiped out much of the northern fishing island of Okushiri, killing scores of people. In 1983, more than 100 people were swept out to sea when a tsunami nearly 50 feet high hit the northwest coast. Japan has an elaborate tsunami-warnin- g system, but sometimes waves strike too quickly for it to be effective. And authorities worry that false alarms like today's could make people blase. Even if authorities know when a tsunami is likely to strike, it's always hard to predict how big it will actually be. Powered by enormous energy, tsunamis can appear on the open sea as an almost imperceptible swell, unleashing their fury only when they reach shallow water. Today's alert came after a powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.7 jolted the southern Amami islands, miles southwest of Tokyo, at a.m. EXTRA jl LjJt t3uQi rvojq) l 750 I:4l mttkf ofoum (5k store right now heavy damage search-and-destr- missions? generations who might know of the Cold War, KGB and perestroika only from books will be able to savor ary. Roxanne causes mental as Stalinism. With the passage of time, the memory of producing, smuggling and reading underground literature has taken on a dreamlike quality. Did locking the door for a whole weekend, disconnecting the phone and plunging into Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago" really make one feel like a d hero? Did typewritten, lines on scraps of tissue-thi- n paper really send hordes of secret police on George Soros Teddies Club.' They were members of the opposition parties Musavat or the Popular Front. The Popular Front held the country's power before Aliev former Communist boss became 1993. in president ' The case has been condemned by international journalists' and human rights groups. power of words that helped undermine something so monu- single-space- A BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) Baku court sentenced five journalists to prison today for publishing cartoons and jokes that "insulted the honor" of President Geidar Aliev. The terms ranged from two to five years. The men, who put out a home-printe- d satirical newspaper called Cheshma, or "Spring," have been in custody since their arrests in Febru- ' fit Associated Press Writer think THE DAILY HERALD, Prove, Utah, self-pu- b na (AP) 1&, 1385 Th ' And Only Won clerbra The One AflU Onlv Sale This Year. 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