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Show I THE WORLD THE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL• ~OUTHERN UTA.Jl UNIVERSITY• WEDNESDAY, MA't 22, 1996 More than 500 die in ferry sinking DIGEST ----. ADAMS SAYS SINN FEIN 'ARMED' WITH VOTES, NOT IRA VIOLENCE: Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams appealed yesterday to gain admittance to peace talks even if the Irish Republican Army continues attacks, saying his party was "armed" only with votes. Determined to distance his IRA-allied party from the outlawed group, Adams made his appeal as Sinn Fein and four other Northern Ireland parties began campaigning for the British-ruled province's special May Gerry Adams 30 election. The election, demanded by leaders of the province's British Protestant majority, will determine which parties hold .enough public support to gain seats in negotiations s tarting June 10. MAJOR GIVES ULTIMATUM ON BEEF BAN, THREATENS TO DISRUPT EU BUSINESS: Britain threatened yesterday to disrupt the European Union blocking everything from police laws to closer unity unless there is a deal by June 21 to lift a gJobal export ban on British beef. Prime Minister John Major's ultimatum, aimed particularly at Germany, plunged the EU into a political crisis that could becom e its biggest in 3 0 years. In 1965, France boycotted monthly ministerial meetings for six m onths in a farm-funding dispute. "This is not how I wish to do business in Europe. But I see no alternative," Major told the House of Commons, to cheers from some of his Conservative Party legislators. EARTHQUAKE SHAKES NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: An earthquake shook the San Francisco Bay Area yesterday afternoon, jarring residents from Monterey.l ay.to Sac~a~en to. J'h,e ,U.S: Geological Surv5r. ~ "t: ~~e ~~e at:~ 7;.,1~ #!~~~$1~~ i~ues ~ ;~r..<~. San Jose ohtfuf9iilaveras Eaulf. ''1lt was a jolt, followecl by ·a' · lot of rolling, 11 said Myna Bushman, a computer su pervisor at t he coun ty building in Santa Cruz. There w ere no immediate reports of damage or injury, according to Michelle Lloyd of t he Santa Clara County Office of Em ergency Services. The Bay Area Rapid Transit system stopped service while they checked tracks and o ther equipment. No damage was reported WEBER STATE LIBRARY NEAR BOTTOM NATIONALLY: Weber State U niversity's Stewart Library is among the lowest in the country in per-student expenditures compared to library facilities at similar universi ties. Weber State spends only 19 cents m ore per student annually on library acquisi tions than the school at the bottom of the spending list - Austin Peay State in T ennessee.And the $56.74 per student it does spend is less than half t he average expenditure of $105.16 at comparable schools. The WSU library also has fewer books per student. The average at the selected schools is 48. Weber has 3 1. F.E.C. SAYS JOE WALDHOLTZ IS OWED A REFUND; GREENE'S LAWYER'S SCOFF: A Federal Election Commission letter implying that Rep. Enid G reene's campaign could owe her ex-h usband, Joe Waldholtz, a whopping refund has been m et with incredulity by the congresswoman's attorney. The FEC has sen t form letters to Greene, R-Utah, saying her campaigns can not keep money beyond donation limits. That includes the $1.8 million she claims Waldholtz embezzled from her fa ther and funneled illegally into her foe waldholtz campaigns, according to a copyright story in yesterday's Deseret News. The letters do not specifically name Waldholtz or the am ount of m oney that must be repaid. But they note that if contributions exceed donation limits "you should either refund to the donor the amount in excess of $1,000 or get the donor to redesignate and-or reat tribu te the excessive amount in writing." I DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) - More than 500 passengers, many of t hem teen-agers, drowned yesterday after a ferry hit a rock and capsized in Lake Victoria, state-run radio and joumalists said. Passing ships pulled 40 survivors from the water and recovered 21 bodies after the ferry sank 30 miles northwest of the T anzanian lake port of Mwanza, Radio Tanzania said. No more survivors among the 600 people aboard the MV Bukova were expected to be found, the radio station said. "This is not an ordinary tragedy. It is a national tragedy," President Benjamin Mkapa said in a live radio broadcast. H e declared three days of m ourning and ordered flags to be flown at half-staff. A total of 441 passengers were listed as being aboard t he ferry, Mkapa said. But survivors and Radio Tanzania put the figure at 600. Man y of t hose aboard the ship were teen-age students returning home at t he end of the school term, survivors said. One man iden tified only as C hacha to ld Radio Tanzania t hat the ship was overcrowded. "There was no proper procedure for ticketing," he said. The ferry was traveling southeast from Bukoba to Mwanza, about 110 miles away. Journalists in Mwanza said the ferry struck a rock before it sa nk. Mwanza is Tanzania's most important port on Lake Victoria, handling the cotton, tea and coffee grown in the fertile western part of the country. The MV Bukoba is owned and operated by the state Tanzania Railways Corp., which sent the MV Victoria, the largest steamer on the huge lake, and other vessels to the rescue, Radio Tanzania said . Since 1977, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania have operated separate ferry services in Lake Victoria with only haphazard rescue cooperation. Prior to that, the East African Railways and Ha rbors Corp. jointly provided shipping, air and railway services. Lake Victoria is t he world's second largest fresh water lake after Lake Superior. Americans flee chaos in Africa BANGUI, Cen tral African Republic (AP) Americans and other foreigners fled chaos in the streets of the capital yesterday, evading looters to reach the airport and be flown to safety in neighboring Cameroon. Extra Marines were sent in to help with t he evacuation aboard a U.S. Air Force C-130 transpqrt plane; U.S. officials said they 2t'fllfuated 13,AmeriqaB\ o&~-e plii~~ yes~er<t:.iy ·., ~ -.would try .to 'fly 'morel >1ut-toclay. Tlre·French • Foreign Ministry said it flew out an unspecified number of its citizens. At least 12 people - including a 7-year-old girl killed by a stray bullet - have died in fighting since t he second army m u tiny in two m onths erupted Saturday. Peace ta lks bet ween t he soldiers and the Central African Republic's government resum ed Tuesday afternoon and, for the first time since t he mutiny began, no shots were heard. Bu t armed mutineers wandered the streets and sporad ic looting and vehicle hijacking continued. Only 13 of the 79 expected U.S. evacuees made yesterday's flight out of Bangui, said U.S. Embassy spokesman Jerry H uchel in the Cameroonian capital Yaounde. "The airport itself is secure and there were vari!)US parts of the city that were secured by tf0!)R~Wt ~me Q.~ die :ro3id&;W~re·.~ot. :, ., oj,en;.!,-' nuche l aid iri a·'t~leph9ne{ntervi~w.~. " T here were armed gangs of kids running around stealing vehicles, so it was just hard to m ove around the city." One of those to reach Yaounde, Graham O wen, said the Bangui offices of his small business development program had been destroyed during the m utiny, and computers and vehicles were stolen. It was unclear how many of the 254 Americans living in the coun t ry wanted to leave. ~w, f Freemen send out armed gaurds JORDAN, Mon t. (AP) - The Freemen sent ou t Freemen represen tative had a heated armed patrols around their farmhouse yesterday confrontation with Duke, a Colorado state senator for the first time in the 58-day standoff after talks who arranged the first face-to-face negotiations with a m ediator broke up in anger. bet ween the Freemen and FBI. The mediator, a leader in the so-called patriot Duke talked alone w ith an unidentified movement in Colorado, blamed Freem en Freeman for about 15 minutes yeterday m orning. stubbornness for the Reporters a half-mile away breakdown and went so far as could see Duke waving his to praise the FBI's patience. arms angrily as groups of "The FBI has now pursued Freemen and FBI agents each and every avenue to a looked on separately from peaceful solution," mediator '=""~ ~ I a distance. Charles Duke said. 11 • •• If it The Freemen ret urned to should com e to a less than their compound, and peaceful solution, I can tell armed guards appeared a you for sure t he FBI has bent short time later. over backwards to avoid it." Twice-daily talks in the At least a half-dozen standoff started last Freemen, carrying rifles over Thursday, when D uke A truck carrying Colorado state Sen. their shoulders and wearing arrived to try to end the Charles Duke and FBI negotiators sidearms, spread out in the deadlock that began makes its way down m edia hill ;ust fields and hills. The antiMarch 25 with the arrest outside the Freem en farm in Montana. of two Freem en leaders. government fugitives have m aintained two sen try posts D uke is a leader in his for most of their standoff with the FBI but had not state's patriot m ovement, a loose confederation of groups that feel established government has gone previously conducted foot pat rols. The increased show of fo rce came after a beyond its legal or constitutional boundaries. ~-'~. |