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Show A The Daily Herald Thursday, January 25, 1996 Cousteau's ship floating again SINGAPORE (AP) Jacques Cousteau's ship Calypso, which sank 2 12 weeks ago at a Singapore shipyard, was lifted off the sea floor today by a floating crane. Salvage crews pumped water and mud out of the ship, and planned to work overnight on preserving its engine, said an official connected with the salvage, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The Calypso tipped over and sank Jan. 8 after being hit by a barge at the Kwong Soon Engineering shipyard on Singapore's west coast. It settled on its side in 5 feet of water. No one was injured in the sinking. 1 Head of police accused of plot PORT-AU-PRINC- Haiti E, In a dramatic accusation (AP) on the Senate floor, a legislator accused Haiti's new police chief of plotting to assassinate senators who are battling his appointment. Senators immediately set up a commission to investigate the charge and meet with President Aristide and Premier Claudette Werleigh. Speaking to the Senate on rt Wednesday, Sen. Sabalat said he had a letter incrimJean-Bertra- Jean-Robe- Fourel inating Celestin, a former colonel and Jean-Mar- ie army medical doctor. "Today I learned that Mr. Fourel Celestin is threatening to kill me and other senators because he isn't happy that we didn't accept his nomination," Sabalat charged. Chinese exhibit scaled down U.S. TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) museums have agreed to Taiwan's plan to withdraw 23 fragile art works from a 475-pieexhibition of Chinese art that is to tour the United States. The four U.S. museums holding the exhibition say they understand Taiwan's concerns that the works could be damaged if sent on tour, Richard Wang, secretary general of Taiwan's National Palace Museum, said today. Taiwan decided Tuesday that 23 works, including landscape and flower paintings, calligraphy and porcelain objects up to ,000 years old, cannot be go abroad because they are too fragile. in Art lovers have held sit-ithe capital, Taipei, and collected signatures for a petition for more than two weeks, demanding that the government send replicas instead of the originals. Human rights teams want NATO guards during work in Bosnia By GEORGE JAHN Associated Press Writer SARAJEVO, Starting with the spring thaw, human rights teams plan to dig up Bosnia's killing fields to harvest evidence of mass murder and war crimes. They want NATO to stand guard. The Western military alliance, which wants to limit the number of roles it will play, is finding it difficult to say no. "My job does not incorporate investigations of human tragedies and investigations in war crimes," Bosnia-Herzegovi- Adm. Leighton Smith, the American commanding the Bosnian force, told reporters last week. But since then, public and political pressure has mounted. And NATO officials have moderated their refusal. "We will provide a secure environment in which the teams that have to look at some specific sites can go and look at those specific sites," U.S. Lt. Gen. William Carter said Wednesday. "We will provide reconnaissance of those sites ... if we have troops in the vicinity." But Carter was firm about the limits of NATO's involvement: "We have no mission in terms of physically securing a specific site or individuals or the exhumation of bodies." Red Cross questions court The Red TORONTO (AP) Cross and others linked to a contaminated blood scandal have gone to court to challenge a commission's authority to investigate the charges. The Canadian Red Cross ety, federal and provincial Socioffi- cials, and pharmaceutical companies all face possible findings of misconduct in connection with contaminated blood supplies that spread the AIDS virus and hepatitis in Canada before 1986. The panel, known as the Krev-e- r Commission, says the contaminated blood infected more than 2,000 hemophiliacs and transfusion recipients with the HIV virus, and probably even more people with hepatitis, between 1978 and 1985. to offer testimony Ex-preside- nt SEOUL, South Korea (AP) Choi Kyu-haSouth Korea's only former president not in jail, will be asked to testify against two successors charged with bribery, insurrection and treason, prosecutors said today. Choi's testimony is the next ' draphase of a complex political ma that reached a new climax this week with the criminal indictment of two former presidents and miliChun Doo-hwa- n tary strongmen Tae-woand Roh Choi, 76, was a caretaker leader for eight months after President Park Chung-he- e was assassinated He by his security chief in 1979. in a military was replaced by Chun h, o. . coup. y- i - - at s 5 I I The question yet to be thoris whether oughly resolved at that includes assisting teams who the to start at worst plan digging suspected mass grave sites with the first spring thaws. Human rights officials, who believe peace is impossible without learning the truth about suspected massacres, say supporting their work is part of NATO's mission. Top human rights envoys have met with Smith to argue their I 5 "i far. case. And diplomats have added their pressure: John Shattuck, the U.S. assistant secretary for human rights, visited a suspected grave site last weekend near Srebrenica, Russian soldiers sleep on the grounds of a powwhere up to 7,000 men are said to er station now used as a military base Wednesin Simin Han, near Tuzla, have been massacred. Assistant day are of Yugoslavia, said Monday he had agreed to a permanent liaison between his office and Gold- - i'i. W? f- - " ' :'-- - , AP PhdlO' ing force which human rights groups hope win provide protection for them when they begin, their work to search for mass graves of victims, Russian soldiers the peacekeep part killed in the Bosnian conflict. stone's. Goldstone has refused to ian organizations and the accom- - (loomed i N peacekeepers who comment on what he has been plishment of the non military preceded the N.YIO lurce in Bosnia promised, but Smith said the aspects of the settlement."' But clearly NATO is reluctant "Minion creep is defined as' judge had "come away happy." NATO commanders have to commit itself to too much, takine the first step down explained their shift by citing a Smith and others have warned of slope and as a result of blanket clause of the Bosnian the dangers of "mission creep" that cieep ending up out of conpeace agreement saying that gradually accepting new trol." ( ailer said. NATO's role in. NATO's deployment should help responsibilities. Taking on too Bosnia should be a "very con-- ,' "facilitate the work of humanitar- - much was one of the mistakes that trolled process." Bosnia-Herzegovin- State Secretary Richard Holbrooke called the Srebrenica killings the worst atrocity in Europe since the Holocaust. NATO gave some ground. Smith, after meeting with Richard Goldstone, chief magistrate of the war crimes tribunal on former a is--- a. ' tiwt'-slippei- U.N. panel recommends destruction of smallpox virus G. HIGGINS Associated Press Writer By ALEXANDER ce 1 Under the Dayton peace agreement, 60,000 NATO troops were dispatched to Bosnia to keep the peace while the country rebuilds, politically, morally and physicall- GENEVA A key U.N. panel has recommended destroying the world s remaining stocks of smallpox virus, but delayed action for more than three years in hopes of building broad support. The executive board of the World Health Organization agreed late Wednesday to set June 30, 1999, as the destruction date, pending approval by the World Health AssemWHO bly, spokesman Philippe Stroot said today. The delay is "to give time to reach a broader consensus," said Stroot. The assembly meets every May, but the final vote can come at any of those annual sessions. Laboratories in the United States and Russia have the world's only remaining stocks of the virus. Experts have been recommending since 1986 that the virus be destroyed lest it escape from storage, but a final decision has been deferred because of concern that the virus might be needed for future research. The last known case of smallpox, which disfigures and causes blindness and even death, was recorded in Somalia in 1977. The virus was declared eradicated in the wild in 1980. The board's agreement by consensus to the 1999 target was an advance over the panel's meeting a year ago, when the members were so divided they put off even a discussion of the issue. Previous decisions to destroy the virus have been canceled. In September 1994 a committee of ' ' "to 190-nati- scientific experts recommended unanimously to WHO that the virus be destroyed on June 30, 1995. In the discussion Wednesday, most delegates, including representatives of Australia and the United States, favored immediate destruction, officials said. 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