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Show Saturday, April 30, 1994 7A WORLD WORLD BRIEFS cx may be hospitalized for three WEEKS AN CIT (AP) — Pope lain in a hos- man weeks follow- d — Joaqu redicted the pope may not fall c isness OF was a . ed red shes take hisfirst steps from y week 5 two will need f phy sical therapy before can\ ak without a cane or The headofthe surgical said he may not limp, but | have to give up oneofhis fate pastimes: skiing. “But otherwise he should be able ntinue a regular life,” said Dr Gianfranco Fineschi. The pope planned to leave Frijay on a weekend trip to Sicily, vere he was expected to speak out rutches gainst the Mafia. Other trips and TORONTO (AP) — One of Lib- But the fatal crash Thursdayof one of Canada’s Sea King helicopters, part of an increasingly decrepit fleet built between 1963 and 1969, has reignited the debate. The pilot and co-pilot of the Sea King died and the navigator and crew chief were seriously injured whenthe helicopter caught fire and crashed south of Saint John, New Brunswick. The pilot ofthe ill-fated helicopter, Maj. Wally Sweetman, 40, apparently thought the craft was dangerous to fly, his mother said. nute operation “rehabilitation | for surgically repaired leg. diences in the coming weeks were canceled, including a visit to Belgium in May : The pope, who will turn 74 on May 18, fractured the top ofhis right thighbone anddislocated the joint when he slipped in his bathroom late Thursday. He underwent surgery at Gemelli Polyclinic in = eeks ed the top of the pope’s thighbone a metal re : £ vith a with placeme plastic top that its 0 th 910 , € hip joint with a six-inch scar. a are " H € > WE it was leit , : It didn’t go well, it went very well,” Fineschi said. “He'll come out ofit not with the hip God gave him, but with one a bioengineer made.” The pope was not put in traction and rested with his leg slightly elevated in his 10th-floor hospital swimml WOTK ides ws The pope crutches, - then need: will one | crutch. : two then nothing,” said Dr. Alessandro Masni wh assisted in th neratior I in tne operation ae, Wee10 2 SisteG ‘ t “He’s got good bones,” said another member ofthe surgical team, Dr. Cesare Sanguinetti, an orthopedic specialist. Navarro said the popewill cancel trips and meetings scheduled for the coming weeks. Among them are: a May 13-15 trip to Belgium, a Rwandan pullout Tene may be reconsidered OSROPS synod and lead a c¢ e of cardinals in preparatic NAIROBI r celebrations in 200 XCICcise machines. r was no word from the Vatican on whether the popewill Keep his scheduled meeting with precige | nine resident Clintonin early June in Rome . In November. the poe frac a ovemncs, the pope \ actured : anddislocated his armafter falling ad down steps at the Vatican at arecepuon The pope has had two previous operations at Gemelli Polyclinic — in 1981 after he was shot in the stomach by a Turkish gunman, and in July 1992 for the removal of a benign intestinal tumor. Kenya — Hundreds yuSaNGS Ol retugees fleein g the nic massacres in Rwanpoured into Tanzania within a 24-hour period, the biggest nd fastest exodus U.N. officials i they had ever seen. United Nations estimated that more than 250,000 people had onesrefuge in Tanzania between sundown Thursday and late Friday, when lines at the border stretched for five miles At the United Nations, meanwhile, U.N. chief Boutros BoutrosGhali asked the Security Council to reconsider its decision to largely Canada’s aging helicopters raise concernsforofficials ral Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s first actions whea hetook office last fall was to cancel the previous Conservative government’s $3.5 billion contract for new military helicopters. The move fulfilled a Liberal Party campaign pledge and appeared to end a long debate over the need for sophisticated submarine-hunting helicopters in a post-Cold War ra. Chretien said they were too expensive and not necessary. 1 epgime | The pontiff n os- meetuung w Helmut Koh “He was not happy with them,” said Shirley Sweetman. “They were like old cars, running on rubber bands and gum.” But Defense Minister David Collenette was quick to defend the aging Sea Kings. “] don’t want to make light of it, but from time to time planes do have mechanical problems,” he said. “I realize the speculation about the Sea Kings and their air- worthiness and wefeel they are still airworthyuntil the year 2000 Preston Manning, leader of the opposition Reform Party, said the government should not have canceled the contract before deciding on a replacement aircraft. “That’s the tragedy,” Manning said. “There’s twolives lost in it and it underscores the need for urgency.” The Conservatives had signed a contract to purchase 50British-Italian EH-101 helicopters. Later, under considerable political pressure, Prime Minister Kim Campbell reduced that number to 43 Political truce in Russia may not hold during May Day celebrations MOSCOW(AP) — President Boris Yeltsin’s die-hard opponents said Friday a political truce Yeltsin signed with some of his rivals was meaningless and announced plans for huge May Day demonstrations. The U.S. Embassy warned Americans to stay away from Sunday’s demonstrations for fear of violence. Authorities said thousands ofpolice were being brought into the city to control the crowds on the traditional Communist labor day. A police officer was killed in a clash with protesters on MayDaylast year, and hundreds ofpeople Extreme nationalist leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky signed on behalf of his Liberal Democratic Party, which won nearly 25 percent ofthe national vote in December’s parliamentaryelections. But several of Yeltsin’s bitter foes did not join the truce. Former Vice President Alexander Rutskoi, who has announced plans to form a united opposition to Yeltsin, did not attend. Gennady Zyuganov, chairman of the revived Communist Party, appeared at the ceremonyin the regal St. George’s Hall but did not sign. Both Rutskoi " ; and Zyuganov y ; are membersofthe , : were injured as marchers armed with stones and Accord for the Sake of Russia, a loose coalition of metal rods fought truncheon-wielding police. anti-Yeltsin forces that criticized the truce on Fri- Yeltsin and hisallies signed a political truce with some of his opponents Thursday in a nationally televised ceremonyin the Kremlin. The so-called Civic Accord, timed for just before May Day, day. ; “To join it means to agree to the destruction of ourscientific and industrial complex, massive embezzlement ofstate funds, degradation of the peo- contained a pledge byall sides not to use violence ple and destruction of the national culture,” the for political ends. The 245 signatories ranged from Russia’s Choice, the largest pro-Yeltsin coalition in parliament, to such little-known groups as Women of the Navy and the Society of Private Detectives. group said in a statement. Zyuganovurged his supporters to gather Sunday on Tverskaya Street, formerly GorkyStreet, a busy thoroughfare now lined with stores selling Western cosmetics, fashions and fast food. withdraw its 1,700 soldiers from Rwanda, saying the 270 peacekeepers remaining reported a “deterioration in thesituation.” His letter to the Security Council on Friday was leaked to The Associated Press. Theethnic slaughter in Rwanda has grownout of the decades-long feud between the majority Hutus, who dominate the army and the government, and the minority TutSiS. Yemen on the verge of starting civil war SAN’A, Yemen — Fighting between northern and southern army units has spread to south Yemen, southern officials said Friday, a day after southern soldiers were routed in a clash north of the capital. Thefighting has undermined ef- forts to salvage the four-year union of the former North and South Yemen and has brought this impoverished Red Sea country closer to civil war. President Ali Abdullah Saleh of the conservative north and Vice-President Ali Salem al-Beidh, leader of the southern Yemen Socialist Party, signed a reconciliation and reform charter in February to avert a war. But the union has been shaky fromthe start because of political rivalries between the two regions. Merging of the two countries armies — one ofthe last steps of the unification process — has not been completed. U.S. soldier faces 15 years in prison SEOUL, South Korea — The Supreme Court, upholding a lower court ruling, sentenced an American soldier on Fridayto 15 years in prison for murdering a South Korean woman. After the sentence was read for Pvt. Kenneth Markle III of Keyser. W.Va., about 100 students packing the small courtroom chanted “Kick out Americans.” The students demanded a stiffer penalty, saying crimes committed by some of the 36,000 American We wantto invite all of our friends and family to come to the Grand Opening of our new store. Mike Buckway Greg Stimpson North Ogden Layton neq & Cris Stimpson troops stationed in South Korea were increasing. Some students fought with court guards, breaking windows and slamming furniture. But there were no injuries. Neither Markle, his parents nor his lawyers were present at the sentencing. In South Korea, defendants customarily do not attend Supreme Court trials. Markle’s lawyer, Stephen Jory, has said he will appeal m U.S. courts to prevent South Korean authorities from taking custody next week. Markle was held in U.S. custody until the appeals process was completed. Report: Latin America dangerous for unions BRUSSELS, Belgium — At least 92 trade unionists were killed worldwide last year and thousands more were tortured, jailed or fired, a trade union report said Friday Latin America continues to be the most dangerous region for union activists, according to the annual report of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. Drawing held July 30, 199: at the North OgdenStore _ BONUS BALLOONS Dollars ¢ Golf Free With Purchase Layton Location North Ogden Location BC Ea 344 Washington A 392-4477 Riverdale Location TRAcerLs aSLK Colombia stands out, with 46 trade unionists killed in 1993 and 33 others going into hiding after receiving death threats, according to the report. At least seven unionists were killed in Guatemala, it said. The report said some 2,300 union activists in 38 nations were arrested for their work It said the crackdown on union rights in China was the worst in four years, with arrests, trials and accounts of widespread torture In Syria, some members of a Gocrors loct union have been jailed since 1980 Colombian coffee threatened by worm BOGOTA, Colombia — About 40 percent of Colombia’s coffee crop is slowly being eaten away by a wormspecies, the National Coffee Federation said Friday Stopping the onslaught of the hypothenemus hampei worm is all but impossible, the group said, despite $15 million that has been spent on fumigation and other prevention efforts About 1.4 billion pounds of coffee will be lost this year on the country’s 970,000 acres of coffee plantations The price of coffee has risen to about $1 per pound in Colombia, the federation said The Associated Press |