Salt Lake Tribune | 1996-01-30 | Page 6

A6 NATION/WORLD Tuesday January30, 1996 The Salt Lake Tribune Travel-Office Accounting Still Won’t Fly THE AS T s WASHINGTON — Financial-management prob lems still abc more than two y« $200.000 had not been enteredinto the checkbook Federal regulators will prolong their examination the GAO said of at the White House travel office — s after the Clinton administration vided goods andservices for trips by the White ng to a review by House press corps. which are arranged by the travel sacked the pre Those funds were owed to vendorsthat had pro Congress’ investigative agenc office foundthat the current tr call seeking comment onthereport The audit by the Gen Accounting Office (GAO el of fice rarely follows its uch as airlines and “ ithin 45 days of the invoice late. Ir ition, offic aul ees never balanced heckbooks from January through August 1995 “be cause other tz rn herpriority says the GAO report released last week Just before the GAO’s revie during that period e reconciledall its outstanding bank travel ¢ statements and discovered that deposits totaling White House officials did not return a telephone Re p. William Clinger, R-Pa.. TOKYO — Japanese prosecutors asked Monday for 10sentences, with year prison for each of three forced labor S. aping | || | servicemen accused of year-old Okinawan school + Those in September ; es are about twice as long as the average sentence for ré in Japan which is 3 to 5 years. Prosecutors in Okinawa had been ex pected to ask for stiff sen tences in light of the victim's age and the violent nature of the crime — perhaps the international furor caused by seven travel-office workers were fired.” said request the same: eat es came m da U Marine was sen t Aes i “ 4to 1 tenced i a, Okinawa, years in prison for killing ar Okinawan woman. Pfc Joshua Hill of Youngstown. Ohio, could have faced life in prison prosecutors chose not to the maximum sentence | treasure that was oneof Italy’s greatest artistic institutions Hundreds of Venetians gathered outside as flames licked throughthe roof. Flames kept firefighters from going inside Booms resoundedasthestructure collapsed cords outlining work she performedafterthe sale of the 1,050-acre tract known 50% SAVINGS 1 SARAJEVO. TED PRESS 3osnia-Herzegothrough : an area vina — Inching laced with mines, NATO soldiers reached the wreckage of a British armoredvehicle Monday andbegan the delicate operation of re- trieving three soldiers killed by a mine Expl te ied . oxplosivesexperts, clad in pro- tective gear from headto toe,iottbeaRuEdaWnt meant toast a 1 Se fie ed vehicle > te 2 at ) U.S. military presence in Oki town ¢ he ehicle € Mrkonjic Grad. It took them more than 11 hours to make it to the nawa. Both countries are hop: ing to have the issue resolved before Clinton comes to Tokyo in April for a state visit burned huskof the 8-ton Spartan armored personnel carrier All three servicemen have pleadedguilty to conspiring in the girl's abduction, although Navy Seaman Mareus Serb-held suburb of where French soldiers , than 330 percent net of atthe theesti more mated 6 million land mines in 3osnia and mapped Croatia have been Ivanko Some 15.000 Serbs — about a about missing family attacked northern city of Tuzla times in the head but said he did not intend to kill her. The prosecution has alleged that Hill has shown no remorse and could kill again 24, the three men paid the vic tim’s family about $6.000 which wasto be the first of two payments totaling $15,000. 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Muslim refugees demanding news Haig. a spokeswomanfor the Brit Silhoutte OPEN SATURDAY Prices start as low as $199.95 hoods, which are to come under dia reported that the victim's free of mines) said! Maj. Carol x Autumn Leaf fs dents — havefled their neighbor- sions had declared the area to be Also Monday. Japanese me x| @ 2 said U.N. spokesman Alexander issue a verdict next month father had rejected an offer of about $9,000 in compensation from the accused Gls. On Dec Earlier reconnaissance mis- x under fire the day before The United Nations plans to increase its international police forcein the suburb from 40 to 60. the control of the Muslim-led government in Mareh, Ivanko said He said there are indications more will leave Many Serbs are afraid the Mus im-led government will seek re enge for the Serbs’ 32-year siege of the capital In another sign of rough going for the outsiders attempting to yint out the dangers for the 5-1 ren eee eme c Sarajevo had come spokesman in the central town of Gornji Vakuf, 45 miles southeast Oe ed Peers eu oecemen, | Other perils face the NATO quarter of Sarajevo’s Serb resi- The explosion Sunday — and th e cautious t r recovery\ operation t raping the girl. Under Japa nese law, conspiracy to commit crime can Icarry the same protect their homes troops. An Americansoldier was grazed bysniper fire Sunday in a They have confirmedthat the individuals are dead,” said Maj Stephen Kilpatrick, a NATO Gill, 23. of Woodville Texas raping ener her. Ma hasas acadmittedod aoa fa ck Ledet, 2 eRodrico Ga.,saan and Boga ¢ 21, of G za. deny tered across nearlyevery part of Bosnia — sometimes homemade explosives packed with nails or bolts placed by people trying to sidering the case is expected to snse claimed that Hill was mentally unstable came angry after an argument with the victim. Hill admitted that he hit the woman several Let’s hope this bird rises again from the ashes,” tenor Luciano Pavarotti told RAI state television. “I’m devastated. It really was a jewel ofItaly.” Lifetime Steel Security Storm Screen Doors usually reserved for multiple was ever established. it openedin 1792, and it was re- built after a fire in 1836. OUS eeeeee eeePOTDDDDDD as Castle Grande or heinous murders clear motive for the “the phoe- nix,” and like the mythical bird for which it was named, the the ater has burnedbefore and risen from its ashes. A blaze slowed constructionof the theater before Bodies of British Soldiers two countries now are conduct 1 ; ing¢ a delicate review of the The three-judge panel con- house La Fenice, a 204-year-old sham, the head of the Senate Whitewater Committee said Monday Thereview’s extension to Minefield Experts Reach public outery in Okinawa Which hosts the majorityof the 47,000 U.S. troopsstationed in Japan, President Clinton apol ogized for the incident. and the penalty as committingit Clinger La Fenice means day evening destroyed the opera ton’s former law firm and its rolein a land transaction the government says was a the first lady's billing re- GAO report “unresponsive andrevealing at the same THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VENICE, Italy — A fire Mon- Clin- time.” He said the GAO report failed to cover the eight-month period immediately following the fir ings, due to “a lack of adequate record-keeping. 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