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Show -- SB A.--. CTtDgDCo I Wednesday, October 23, 199S .The Daily HeraSd , iRfcSh-Ortega refuses to admit defeat r MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) Conservative businessman Arnoldo Aleman maintained a Strong lead today in Nicaragua's presidential vote but Daniel Ortega's Sandinistas said they would not concede defeat until the tallies are double-checkeOfficial results still trickling in from Sunday's election appeared to give Aleman enough votes to avoid a run-oagainst Ortega, who was president from 1984 to 1990. The Sandinistas say some 60,000 votes out of the 300,000 they counted are missing from the computation center in Managua. The leftist Sandinista National Liberation Front announced late Tuesday that it would not accept the provisional vote count being announced until the tallies had been checked again. ; ff American to help identify remains A notMEXICO CITY ( AP) ed American forensic expert has been called in to help identify human bones found on the ranch of the jailed brother of former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. " Attorney Eduardo Luengo Creel said he suspects the bones may have been planted to implicate his client, Raul Salinas de Gortari, who is accused of masterminding a political assassination and financial misdealings. Luengo told reporters Tuesday that he has contracted with the C.A. Pound Human Identification Laboratory at the University of Florida at Gainesville to help identify the remains. The laboratory is run by William R. Maples, who has helped identify the remains of Nazi killer Josef Mengele, Spanish explorer Francisco Pizarro and Russian Czar Nicolas II. Norway's extremely popular leader resigns By DOUG MELLGREN Associated Press Writer Gro Harlem OSLO, Norway Brundtland, the most popular and influential figure in Norwegian politics, announced today that she was stepping down as prime minister. In a surprise announcement in Parliament, Brundtland said she would deliver her letter of resignation at a regular meeting of the government on Friday. Thoerbjorn Jagland, leader of the Labor Party, was expected to succeed Brundtland. According to the Norwegian state radio, Brundtland said she wanted to resign now to make it clear to voters who will be Labor's prime minister candidate in national elections next year. leader stunned The h this country of 4.3 million people with the announcement of her resignation. In 1981, the Harvard-educate- d Mrs. Brundtland became Norway's first woman prime minister and its youngest ever. In reporting her plans to resign, the stunned national news media said an era in Norwegian politics is over. oil-ric- Guards detained "She has been Norway's face abroad in an entirely different way from that of her predecessors. Her international in involvement affairs has led to her being known in countries that scarcely would have been aware of Norway other-wise- ," news the Norwegian agency NTB said. For months, Brundtland had refused to comment about her future plans. Ever since October 1992, when she stepped down as a leader of the Labor party month after her son committed suithe national media had regcide ularly predicted she would also from-Harvar- ' Cargo plane crashes in Ecuadoran port city prisoners told him they set the mattresses on fire. The prisoners tried to extinguish the fire with a thin hose connected to a small water tank, but it The CARACAS, Venezuela concrete jail cell was as black as a coal mine. was too weak. Mejias denied initial reports from authorities Piled on top of one another were 26 bodies, some that prisoners had rioted and guards fired the tear them of embracing. canisters to restore order. Most of their hair and clothes were bumed off, their gas was calm. Nobody had done any"Everybody in wide terror. tongues protruding, their eyes opened said. he Flames that roared through the holding cell at La thing wrong," is crime "This a against Venezuela and against Planta jail in downtown Caracas early Tuesday told caused one of the worst tragedies in a prison system humanity," Justice Minister Henrique Meier remain "This cannot unpunished." that human rights groups label among the worst in reporters. Two metal bunk beds were about the only things the Western Hemisphere. cell that weren't burned to ashes. Most of the in the The cause of the blaze is unclear though three had slept in hammocks or on the floor. prisoners detained for been have questioning. guards consumed their bedding and clothes. The blaze Antonio Marval, the director of Venezuela's bodies were taken to the city victims' The for be responsible jails, acknowledged guards may the fire though he did not provide details on what morgue by late afternoon. Several hundred inmates, some armed with sharp pieces of metal and homehappened. "There were excesses by three guards ... who made handguns, had congregated at the jail for several hours to prevent authorities savagely attacked the prisoners," he told reporters entrance from entering to transport the bodies. outside the jail in downtown Caracas. They were demanding that reporters and lawyers The few survivors described the horror. Jose Alberto Mejias, 31, was one of five inmates from the Attorney General's office enter the burned from the cell who managed to flee. He said guards cellblock ahead of the National Guard so they locked them in the cell after 6 a.m. roll call and could give their version of events. Anxious family members of inmates waited outfired tear gas canisters at them. The canisters prothe jail for hours trying to learn the fate of their side fire." and duced sparks "everything caught "I stayed calm ... I climbed up a wall and loved ones. "We just want to know if they're dead or alive," crawled into a hole and passed through to another said Maria Abreu, 62, whose son is an inmate at La cell ... The other guys couldn't get out," he said. A lawyer from the Attorney General's office said Planta. By VIVIAN SEQUERA Associated Press Writer grouped and made of flimsy By CARLOS CISTERNAS Associated Press Writer 1 1 Yc "It's impossible to know too number of victims because the PANTS, ALONG WITH A SUIT, AND WE STILL . c; TY LOWER THE PRICE. 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New reports said the aircraft struck the tower of the l,a Dolorosa church in downtown Manta. a Pacific coast city of 150.000 residents about 160 miles southwest of Quito. The craft broke up in flames, setting fire to surrounding houses. Radio Quito said the church was almost completely destroyed- .' in the crash. "The plane didn't gain altitude and fell to the ground like a ball of fire," one witness told a Quito radio station. Civil defense and municipal workers and firefighters were struggling to rescue victims. EXTRA PAIR OF ) made-ria- l, t A cargo QUITO, Ecuador in the in flames crashed plane downtown of an Ecuadoran port, killing at least 23 people and raining fiery debris on dozens of homes, authorities and radio reports said today. The Boeing 707 had just taken off for Miami with a cargo of frozen fish when it slammed into the bell tower of a church in Man-t- a at 10:40 p.m. ( :40 p.m. EDT) Tuesday, the reports said. Radio reports said all three crew members, believed to be Americans, were killed. A correspondent on the scene for Radio Quito said the bodies of 20 residents were in the town morgue, burned to death. A priest at the church was among the dead. At least 20 people were hospitalized with "critical burns," said Leonardo Cedeno, head of the Manta hospital. Authorities feared the toll could go higher because the homes in the area of the crash are tightly .J 1 d, n 1 at Venezuelan jail in fire was to appoint eight women in KeT cabinet, a record of percent. Mrs. Brundtland, a physician with a public health degree once said leadership "-still associated with men. ... lw ' trappings are more noticeable ' in is that position'." when a woman Brundtland said she thought' it ' was necessary to clarify her own ' position well ahead of the Septerh ber 1997 elections. She said she had informed Nor way's King Harald V that she' wants to be officially relieved of' her duties in two days. J i( step as prime minister. Labor is Norway's largest political party. Brundtland, often mentioned a candidate for the post of U.N. Secretaformed four govry-General, ernments during her political career. Her first term as prime minister came nearly 5 years ago when she was appointed by her iLabopfParty to replace Oddvar Nordli. It lasted seven months until Labor was swept away in an election wave of conservatism. She returned to power in May 1986 when a Conservative-le- d coalition resigned. Her first act QSED |