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Show TheSaltLakeTribune .# PAGE2 Compiled from Tribune news services by Brian Mac Intyre AHE GLOBE KYRGYZSTAN Gunmen openfire on delegation, killing one Chinese official Convenient Scapegoat : Fairly or not, Title IX frequently is blamed when ATTACK ON JEWS HomeCourt Advantage BISHKEK — Gunmenopened fire with automatic weapons ona visiting Chinese delegation Friday, killing oneofficial and wounding twoothers and their Kyrgyz driver, a Chinese Embassyofficial said. The 2 SATURDAY, May 27,2000 Many nationwide homebuilders who came to Utah hoping to capitalize on the 1990s building boom have since left the state, leaving an industry dominated by homegrown companies. See Sunday Business. Chinese representatives were from the local administration ofXinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, which borders Kyrgyzstan to the east. Veteran Songsters All They had come to the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, to help the embassyinvestigate an arson attack earlier this month at a Chinese market, an embassy spokesman said. The victims’ names were notreleased. The high but enthusiastic voices ofthe Salt Lake Children’s Choir have hit the sweet notes for the past 20 years. See The Arts. The delegation was to inspect the remains of a Chinese market storehouse that was destroyed ina fire. Anotherfire brokeoutat the market on Friday, ge the ITAR-Tass news agency reported. There was no immediate word on what caused thatblaze. Kyrgyz and Uygurs share the rugged and sparsely inhabited Pamir Mountains in Central Asia, and are close ethnic cousins whospeak related Turkic languages. Contacts andtrade across the remote border THE HEADLINES were revived after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. HARARE — Police opened fire on a groupofruling party supporters, fatally wounding one man, whenthey attempted to free 19 peoplejailed for political violence, police said Friday. For three hours, moretha. 50 ZANU-PFsupporters attempted to storm thepolice station in Mvurwi, 90 miles north of Harare, prompting paramilitary po- A groundskeeper records someof the damage from an attack by vandals against Greece's largest Jewish cemetery on Friday in Thessaloniki. Vandals painted Nazi slogans and symbols on the cemetery’s Holocaust memorial, synagogue and more than 90 graves. Greece’s Jewish community, nearly wiped out by the Nazis, demanded the govemmentprotestthe attack. TURKEY | Parliamentary panel documents casesoftorture in police stations lice to fire tear gas andlive rounds over the heads of the mob,said Assistant Inspector Tarwireyi Tirivavi. One man was hitin the thigh at close range by a * _ tear-gas canisterandlaterdied in a hospital, Tir- tary human-rights panel documents cases oftorture in police stations across Turkey,contradicting gov- The mobwas attemptingto free 19 fellow party occupying white-owned land. More than 1,400 farms havesince been occupied, according to the CommereeFarmers Union, which represents mostly white ers. "Fil Fiji’s presidentsayshe has fired the country’s elected government SUVA — Fijian President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara said today that he had fired the country’s dem- ocratically elected government and would appoint a newcaretaker administration by Monday. He also said rebel leader George Speight andsix gunmenwhostormed parliamenton May 19 would likely be granted immunity from prosecution for their roles in the coup attempt. The announcementsignaled that Mara was caving in to two ofSpeight’s three main demands. But Mara did notgivein to the third demand — that he resign as president. ‘The announcementwasthelatestoffer to Speight in an attemptto bring an endto the hostage standoff at parliament. Speight, whohas declared himself prime minister and appointed his own cabinet, did not immediatelyreact. Mara, a figurehead in the government, has been the country’s acting leadersince the coup began and he declared a state of emergency. Earlier today, three people were injured in a gunbattle between governmentsoldiers and armed rebels holding Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry and more than 30 members of his governmentin parliament. Chaudhry, whowas elected prime minister last year,is the first leader of Fiji from its ethnic In- dian minority. Ride Down Mt. Morgan.” So says a disciplinary panel of Actors Equity. The play's producers, the Shubert Organization,filed disciplinary charges against him after the impromptu tirade at two performances last month. “Mt. Morgan”is the story of a bigamist whose efforts to keep his two families unaware of each other fail after heis injured in a car crash. ANKARA — A shocking report by a ivavi said from police headquarters in the capital. members whohad beenarrested for attacking opposition supporters. But the 19, arrested during rioting with opposition supporters Sunday and Monday, hadalready beentransferred to Bindura prison, 60 miles north of Harare. The killing marked thefirst time a memberof President Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front party has been slain in political violence that began in February. The violence started after Mugabe losta constitutional referendum that would have strengthened his powers andallowed him to seize white-owned land. Rightafter the referendum,black squatters began “Star Trek: The Next Generation’ alum Patrick Stewart has generated huge publicity for the Broadway show in which he’s starring — by accusing producers of failing to promote it. But now he must apologizefor the angry he gave during curtain calls of ArthurMiller's play “The ernmentassertions that abuse is not systematic. Dmitry Lovetsky/The Associated Press An officer in St. Petersburg embraces his wife and son before being shipped to Chechnya on Friday. CHECHNYA Russian general says armed forces now need to focus on rebel bosses GROZNY — With federal forces making little progress againstrebelfighters in breakaway Chechnya,a top Russian general said Fridaythat the military was changing strategy to focus on the elimination of rebel commanders. Gen. Gennady Troshev,wholeads the Russian troops in Chechnya,said Russia would consider initiating peace talks with the rebels after the field commanders are wiped out. Buthe ruled outtalks with top rebelleaders, including ChechenPresident AsJan Maskhadov. Moscow wants to negotiate “with those Chechens whounderstand, not those with weapons in their hands,” Troshevsaid on the NTV televisionstation. Hesaidthe newstrategy called for “the apprehensionorelimination ofthe bands’leaders.” Russianforces havehadlittle success ousting rebels from strongholds in Chechnya’s southern mountains since invading the republic in September, and the conflict showsnosign ofending soon. Russia relies on air and artillery raids on the rebels, whostrike back with ambushes on Russian convoys, often behindfederal lines. Rebels also have launched sporadic attacks in Grozny, the Chechen capital, even though the main rebel contingents fled the city this winter. Two Russen checkpoints in Grozny were shelled on WednesY. ter a big organizing meeting. of another man are better educated on average, makeless moneythan heterosexual men of the ry. It showspictures ofwoodenpoles placed under prisoners arms and used to suspend them in the air, metal bars used to beat suspects onthesoles oftheir feet, and exposed electric cables found in rooms in which the walls were covered with black leather for soundproofing. The commission, led by Sema PiskinsutofPrime Minister Bulent Ecevit’s Democratic Left Party, said Police stations sometimes appeared to have just been cleaned before its visits. SWEDEN Oops! NATOtroopshit ground in neutral country, are sent packing STOCKHOLM — With their field packs, camou- flage uniforms and weapons, the 116-memberelite Italian military unit was ready for anything except, perhaps, mapreading. The heavily armed Alpini, as Italy’selite alge corps is called, hit the ground in neutral Sweden instead of in NATO-member Norway, where they were supposed to join the Cooperative Banners exercise. It was notclear whytheir Airbus passenger plane in southern Sweden’s Kristianstadinstead ofKristiansand, which is in southern Norway, on Tht y. Thesoldiers did not know they were in Sweden until immigration officials pointed out the navigational error. It was thefirst time immigration officers in KrisHenge turned back a NATO advance,the media noted. Men whoconsider themselves “unmarried pat age,according to a study that claims to take the mést comprehensive lookeverinto the lives of homosexuals in America. Women who have female “unmarriedpartners” also tend to be more educated, but earn salaries compara- ble to those of heterosexual womenin the same age bracket, according to the study in this monith’s of Demography, the journal of the Population of America. “An importantpoint thatis clearly articulated is that it illustrates the impact of anti-gay discrimination on income levels,” said David Smith, for the organization Human Rights Campaign,'an advocacy groupfor gays and lesbians. Advocates applauded whatthey said was the first ive study of homosexuals but cautioned against drawing anyfirm conclusions until more re- search is done. : “Demographically, this is a hard population to tatget and analyze. Data on sexualorientation is not 4s easily available asinformation on race, gender and age,” said Seth Sanders, a study author and an economist at the University of Maryland. CEREEIEEEEEIED. NOTED Rebuked: For their conduct, six senior CIA officials involved in the agency's handling of home computer ‘security breaches by former Director John Deutch Three of the six officialsstill work at the spy agency. Reoponed: Cape Hatteras Lighthouse in Buxton, N.C., on Friday in a maritime forest set 1,600 feet back from the ocean surf that had threatened to topple the landmark before it was moved last year. Today's Birthdays: Henry Kissinger is 77. Joseph Fiennes is 30. pif er nr epiarltlelywrya rove place violence. Tenneco officials said it was justacoincidence that the Aiken County sheriffchased McClain down on the road and arrested him the day af- clean off “sticky” television screens, and now demand to be furnished signal alarms in case they are attacked, — Compiled by Chuck Shepherd LIST LONG... At Risk: The Swedish Hotel Workers ia the European Unionhas set before seriously consid- ering the country’s admissioninto the group. The governmenthas repeatedly said that while cases oftorture dooccur,officers guilty ofabuses are prosecuted andtorture is not systematic. The parliamentary report, the result ofa two-year survey by a 25-member commission, gives far different sto- WHY THE THRILL OF FINDING AN HeNcsT LANYER DOCAN'T Bizarre Workplace: National Labor Relations Board lawyers argued at a March hearing that Tenneco Packaging plant (now named Pactiv), in order to disrupt union organizing in July 1999 at a plantin Beech Island, S.C., eetearn Gary McNile baron negerlnin ene friendly local some male guests to Gays Make Less Than Heterosexuals NON SEQUITUR NEWS OF THE WEIRD 7 The six-volumereport, obtained Friday by The Associated Press, includes photographs of torture cells with exposed electrical wires and bars from which prisoners are suspended. The report comes as Turkeyis pressing to improve its human-rights record, a key condition that Dest by Univernal Prensa Syndicate ZIMBABWE Party allies storm police station; one man fatally wounded in melee ofhaving to pur.net ‘werweoqquitur net (ISSN 746-9502) hry ten. 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