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Show - - --·- -- -·-- - ~ i~ • 1 , i . -- ~ ~ ~ - . . -- I THE W 01~.L D --- ! Wi ,·~ ~ ~: WORLD DIGE,ST .,, SUSPECTED LEFTIST TERRORISTS KILL EXJUSTICE MINISTER IN TURKEY: Four assailants killed a former justice minister yesterday who had imposed restrictions on leftist prisoners. The attackers fled after shooting Mehmet Topac in his law office, the Anatolia news agency said. They reportedly left a note in the name of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Union FrontRevolutionary Left (Dev-Sol), Turkey's most violent leftist underground group. No motive was given. Topac served as justice minister in 1988-89 in a center-right Motherland Party government. GRENADE EXPLODES NEAR U.S. POSITIONS IN PORT-AU-PRINCE: In an bloody attack on the U.S.orchestrated return to elected rule, a grenade exploded yesterday of a pro-democracy demonstration, killing three Haitians and wounding at least 31. Hundreds of people fled in panic, leaving the dead and injured in a circle on the ground. U.S. soldiers and military police who sped in to investigate detained three men after firing more than 200 rounds into a warehouse. RAT WORSHIP CAUSE OF INDIA'S PLAGUE: At the Kami Mata temple in the desert state of Rajastan, the effort to stifle the first outbreak of plague in 28 years takes a back seat to an old Hindu practice - rat worship. The marble-floored temple, one of India's most famous shrines, is one of many sites in India where rats are worshipped and fed as they breed and breed and breed. On Sept. 20, for the first time in 28 years, Indians began dying of the plague in the western city of Surat. Since then, the official death toll in the Arabian Sea port has risen to 54. Unofficial estimates are 300. Hundreds of thousands of people who fled Surat already have spread the disease further than the last major plague epidemic, which killed 100 people in a southern state in 1962. Death toll tops 900 in Finland ferry sinking TURKU, Finland (AP) - Salvage workers using sophisticated electronic equipment scoured the Baltic Sea for the wreck of the Estonia without success Thursday, as the death toll from the ferry disaster topped 900. Swedish and Finnish maritime officials ordered inspections of all their ferries for bow door problems similar to that reported by a surviving crew member, who said water rushed in through the door of the cargo hold. Bjorn Erik Stenmark, Sweden's maritime safety director, said that since the accident, shipping companies had been telling him they had experienced similar problems in the past but had not reported them. "The huge catastrophe with the sinking of the Estonia perhaps could have been avoided if'the shipowners had followed the law and reported earlier close calls with ferries of the Estonia-type construction," Stenmark said. The Finnish Interior Ministry issued a statement saying: "All ferries ... which fly the Finnish flag will be subjected to inspections ... within a week. Special attention will be paid to cargo doors, front and back, and to alarm and monitoring systems ." Various investigations have begun to try to pinpoint the cause of Wednesday's disaster. The latest provisional death toll provided by Finnish authorities stood at 909, while 140 A dead body is unloaded from a military helicpter in Turku, Finland. people were confirmed rescued. The surging waters stymied investigators, who had hoped to use an ultra-sophisticated robot to examine the wreck and try to locate bodies. About 90 bodies had been recovered, the Finnish coast guard said. In a further setback, the approaching winter means any attempt to haul the ship to the surface will be delayed until next year. Watch the Monday Night game in "The Lounge" at the ~ Bristlecone restaurant ~ l \ at the Holiday Inn h< Taco Bar Monday Nii!hts $4.95 all-You-can-eat! 1S7S W. 200 N. S86-8888 |