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Show As The Salt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Stuck Ship MayBeFreed, Sunk Today Saying That He Fears for His Life, Lawyerfor Rebel Leader Resigns Leaders of European Unioncall on Turkeyto give Ocalana fair and freetrial SS THE ASSOCIATED COOS BAY, Ore. — After days calmer seas Friday fi- THE ASSOCIATEDP! nally allowed salvage workers to connect the broken ANKARA, Turkey — A lawyer for imprisoned Kurdish rebel bow of a groundedfreighter to a tug that will attempttodislodge the wreck Gray smoke billowed from the tug’s stacks and green water pellers as the boat took up slack onthe 1,100-yard-long tow cable connecting it to the New Carissa Crews hoped to keeptheline taut ceived death threats against himself and membersof his family. On Thursday, Turkishultra-na- jen Margot’The Associated Press Jody Sol of Oakland, Calif., protests outside 24-Hour Fitness in San Francisco on Monday. Advocatesfor the obese say the club's ads that bash fat people are just as bigoted as gayorracial slurs. Early Thursday, a heavy-load THE ASSOCIATED PRESS the looped of thecableto the tugboat in precarious maneuver that had workersin orangeslick SAN FRANCISCO — Ahealth clubis in hot water after borrowing somescience-fiction humorto The 639-foot Japanese-owned bulk carrier got stuck in thesurf Feb. 4 after it dropped anchor to wait out a storm before entering Coos Bay fora loadof woodchips. At least 70,000gallonsof oil have warn that, when space aliens ar- Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit would not be tolerated if they wereabout minorities or gays. Company officials say they won't take down thead, and noted in a statementlast week that obe- sity is a major cause of health problems Thebillboard ad, with aliens in The billboard reads “When they come, they'll eat the fat ones the background, has promptedactivists to picket a downtown 24- HourFitness center, and nowcity officials are getting involved Thecity’s Human Rights Commission decided to sendaletter to the president of 24-Hour Fitness, criticizing the companyfor mak- irst Somesaid it might even cross overfromhurtful to dangerous. It suggests to methat theenvi ronment is possible for hate crimes,” said Frances White of the National Association to Ad Fat Acceptance ing jokes about fat people that Forest Service Says Colorado Ski Deaths Can Be Blamed on Failure to Follow Rules THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ‘Thefive deaths at Breckenridgeand two at nearby Keystone promptedVail Resorts, which owns those two resortsandtwoothers, to create a new speed and court sy patrol forits slopes. 0 follow safety rules Nationally, serious ski-related injuries are on the The Forest Service, which manages the land used rise, and many longtime skiers have complained investigation after a spate of fatal accidents in Colorado and New Englandfocusedattention on ski safe- about rudeand reckless skiing O'Rourke, ranger for the Dillon district for the White River National Forest praised Vail’s new safety campaign. At Breckenridge a six-person team studied acci Jent reports, visited the sites andinterviewed wit They aren't just giving lip service,’ she said They arevery aggressive about going out there and nesses, nailing people who aren't doing the right thing. Though manyof the theories on the accidents did not hold up, Forest Serviceofficial Tere O'Rourke said t go for it phenomenonencouragedbytele vision mmercials aimedat young males may have played arole Many longtime customers of Vail and other resorts have complained they feel unsafe be ause there wereso many skiers and snowboarders racing down In society there really is encouragement to go faster, be extreme, and that is more of a factor than back to following the skier behind them Felton said the deaths werethe result of human error. It always comes responsibility code. Nigeria’s Presidential Election Gives Nation Hope for Democracy HE WASHINGTON POST ABUJA, Nigeria The elec tion of a president today may be the first time in 20 years that Ni more than 100 million i a's »ple one-sixthof all Africans get a voice in choosing their overnment. It's an improvement over three decades of corrupt, of. ten brutal, military rule, but falls far short of democracy, according to many Nigerians Amid the harangueof city mar kets or the placidoffices of law ers and church leaders, the elec. tion has inspired not celebration but a cautious hope For now, Nigeria's senior sol ments, Nigeria remains the most influential nation among a wide the strongmen of Africa will have no future,” said Edem Kodjo, a for mer prime minister of Togo and THE ASSOCIATED PRESS <K. The conflict has killed 37,000 people, mostly Kurdish ci- vilians and guerril Ocalan was denied legal counsel for thefirst 10 days after his roomwhilehe spokewith Ocalan Hesaid he was onlyallowedto ask Ocalan questions about his health and anofficial present during the 20-minute meeting took notes on whatwassaid. The capture of Ocalan outside the Greek Embassy in Kenya has capture in Nairobi, Kenya, by worsenedalready tense relations Turkish commandos, with Greece. Starr has given Steele evidence grand juryinvestigation by mak- District Judge Claude Hilton has Dubelier made the comments about thelie detector tests after in preparation for her March 30 trial, but at Starr’s request, U.S Starr's witnesses in a case involv: ing presidential accuser Kathleen ordered theinformation kept se- Willey ran into problems when they tooklie detectortests, a defense lawyer said Friday in federal court eret for now In arguing for secrecy, Starr said heisstill investigating allegations of perjury and obstruction made the as of justice with the Willey matter. Clinton has testified that Willey’s story was untrue. Hilton denied a series of defense motions to dismiss the case or suppress Steele’s grand jury court as he argued unsuc motion, Starr deleted fromtheindictment the allegation that Without naming the sertion testimony. 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The same civilian politicians form the core of those rule, they hopeto formacoalition overament with prominent civil ians who have beentheir political and isiness partners for years Still, this weekend's voting ad youngvillagers in the oil-produc ing Niger Delta Last week, the People's Demo: the continent begana halting shift year-old war against Ocalan’s Kurdistan Workers Party, or ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Some of corrupt and economically ruinous The country’s main income, from its r pts for selling crude oil, were halved this year because from Cold War dictatorships to ward gnore democratic gc ‘ his client for the first time on Thursday, but said soldiers wearing ski masks remained in the Polygraph Problems Plague Starr Witnesses time the soldiers left, in 1979, the civilians who followed proved beingelected to office now, and lier this decade. Ten years after Okeuoglu was allowed tovisit lan’s trial is to be held. Thethree-member court tribunal must contain a member of the military, which is waging a 15- As the military preparesto quit office, Nigerians are uncertainit will stay out. The only previous with fortunes they gained in of: fice are making what many Ni eran: s say is a tactical retreat Diseredited by economic ruin vances what could be Africa's most impe nt political transfor mation since Nelson Mandela led outh Africa out of apartheid ear tice system andspecifically the secretary-general of the Organi zation of African Unity liers many of whom have built business and political fiefdoms and the unpopularity of their Humanrights groupsrepeated. ly havecriticized the Turkish jus- State Security Courts where Oca: Garages By 3-B Construction swath of countries. If it turns democratic threatenthe lawyers.” witnesses Eric Dubelier ski rage, she said yy many of thenation’s resorts, decided to begin an criticized the lawyer's decision. There have been small groups who havestaged demonstrations. but the state immediately measures,” Ecevit said demonstrations do not in any way independent counsel Kenneth leaked into the sea DENVER - Rejecting so-called ski rage and con i yout congestion on the slopes, the U.S. Forest » has determinedthat five deaths at the Breck: » Ski Resort this year were causedby afailure Okcuoglusaid. “I could fortheir lives and are considering resigning. 1 be eating fat folks sl ‘Lamnot being protected by the state, whose duty it is to probekilled anytime.” Okcuoglu said other members of Ocalan's legal staff also feared City’s Human Rights Commission WadesInto Health Club’s Fat Flap helicopter had skillfully lowered the load. eral organizationsthat claimto represent the Kurds in the Middle East, including the Kurdistan Democratic Party in northern Iraq, led by Massoud Barzani. It has been allied with the Turkish government in opposition to the PKK. ThePatriotie Union of Kurdistan, another large Kurdish group in northern Iraq, is led by Jalal Talabani. The PUK and KDP haveagreed to work together to govern the Kurds now protectedin a safe haven in northern Iraq theisland prison whereOcalan is being held. tect us,” arrest Feb. 15 in Berlin and subsequent imprisonment in where heis considered a terrorist. The PKK was founded andturned to armed struggle in 1984, It nowsaysit is for an autonomous Kurdishstate or a federation with not an independent state. WhatOther Groups Represent the Kurds? Thereare sev- tionalists stoned a bus carrying Okeuoglu and other lawyers to Asked whether the remaining fuel oil would leak fromthe ship the ship’s anchor chains and pump out bilge water to lighten fore his Turkey, in 1978 fighting Turkey, and Okcuoglu said he has re- elict, sending it thousands of feet to the bottom of the ocean. ers scrambling about the wet deck attach thecable. On thedeck of the New Carissa workers hustled to cut through political settings. WhatIs the PKK? The Kurdistan Workers Part operates in southern Turkey andwas led by Abdullah Ocala able to do myjob.” Ocalan's capturehassetoff patriotic fervor throughout Turkey iles out into the Pacific Ocean, wherea Coast Guard gunboatwill open fire on the beleagueredder “parking lot several countries, including Iraq and Turkey. Until 1991, the Kurds had been unable to speak their own language in Turkey. Now, use of Kurdishis banned onlyin broadcasts, educational or said he was resigning because “mylifeis in danger andI am un- tanks out to sea by this morning. Plans areto haul it more than 200 at 33 degrees, Milweesaid theoil Ataturk, the founderof modern Turkey,foughtto regain the land, destroyingplans for a Kurdishstate. In pursuing their goal for independence, the Kurds have beeninvolvedin rebellions against Lawyer Ahmet Zeki Okcuoglu Hall said he hoped to see the proposed dumping site hovering WhatDo They Want? Anindependenthomeland. In the 1920 Union ish rebel organization. ooking better every day.” would maintaintheconsistencyof European Ocalan,citing previousarrest or- 420-foot bow section and the 100,000gallons of heavy oil inits a 15 ders for allegedlinks to the Kurd- nd smoked them yet, but it’s With water temperaturesat the Treatyof Sevres, which divided the Ottoman empire afterits collapse, the Kurds were promised a homeland. But Mustafa Kemal The who have volunteered to defend “Someonegave mesomeci gars — I haven't unwrappedthem it does leak, we'd have to repeal alty. in small communities. antee Ocalan free andfairtrial. Police in Istanbul detained Osman Baydemir, one of 15 lawyers We're not out of the woods yet it we're getting closer,” said U.S, Coast Guard Captain Mike someof thelaws of physics. borders cut off their migration paths, and they have mostly settled wherehecouldget the death pen- off at Friday night's high tide “If have been goat and sheep herders, but the advent of national The moves werelikely to stoke Western worries about the fairness of Ocalan’s treason trial, leaderscalled on Turkey to guar- until the first attempt to haul it as it sat on the bottom, Bill Mil wee, salvage consultant for the Who arethey? The Kurds are a nomadic people who share a commonlanguage, relatedto Iran’s Farsi. They are overwhelmingly Sunni Muslims, living mostly in Syria, Iran, Turkey and Iraq, wherethey make up 15 percentofthe total population. Population estimates range from25 million to 30 million. Traditionally, Kurds Friday, saying he feared for his life, and police detained a second memberof the legal teamforsus: pectedties to the guerrilla group churnedbeneath its spinning pro- ship's Japanese owners, said: i Facts About the Kurds leader Abdullah Ocalan resigned andgive it a burial at sea Hall. 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