OCR Text |
Show I •: ::, ., THE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL• SOOTHERNUTAH UNIVERSITY• WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1997 ' U.S. DIGEST YEARS AFTER RACIALLY CHARGED HOAX DEFAMATION CLAIMS GO TO TRIAL: A defa mation lawsuit over a ":;:,,, ~ decade-old racial case that was declared a hoax was delayed yesterday in Poughkeepsie N. Y. when one of the defendants refused to enter court for jury selection without a crowd of supporters. The case erupted in 1987 when '-s"'" te"""v_e_..:., n ,._._ black teen-ager Tawana Brawley claimed that Pagon six white law enforcers abducted and raped her. · es Those claims were declared a hoax by a grand jury that also exonerated the man at the center of the accusations, then-assistant district attorney Steven Pagones. FBI CLOSES FLIGHT 800 CRIMINAL PROBE, RELEASES VIDEO RECREATION: After scrutinizing more than l million pieces of wreckage, conducting 7,000 interviews and spending up to $20 million, the FBI pulled out of the probe into TWA Flight 800 yesterday saying the explosion was not caused by a criminal act. Investigators also released a videotaped simulation of the jet's last minutes to back up their conclusion and explain what scores of witnesses actually saw when the plane plunged into the Atlantic Ocean. The FBI will suspend the probe, turning the investigation over to the National Transportation Safety Board. ELLEN CELEBRATES EPISODE NUMBER 100: "Ellen" star Ellen DeGeneres celebrated her show's 100th episode yesterday in ~ Los Angeles, Ca. The commedienne generated · headlines and raised eyebrows last season when she came out on television and in real life as a lesbian. DeGeneres celebrated the milestone with companion Anne Heche, and sliced a cake Ellen that parodied the Time magazine cover that profiled her coming out. "Ellen" is seen on ABC. DeGeneres THE NATION ~-- ll~I Clinton increases forces in the Gulf 15 and F-16 fighter aircraft -will be "on call" WASHINGTON (AP) - President Clinton should the commander in the region, Gen. yesterday ordered up to 45 additional U.S. An thony Zinni, decide to send them into the warplanes to the Persian Gulf today in the region, Bacon added. standoff with Saddam Hussein as t he United The spokesman said the president approved the States resumed U-2 surveillance flights over Iraq deployment of the additional military aircraft " to without incident. strenghthen our The Clinton forces" in the ad ministration Gulf region . " As and its allies were many as 40 to 45 also weighing an additional increased flow of combat aircraft" humanitarian will be involved, goods to Iraq if Bacon sai.d. Saddam allows The F-l l 7s will U.S. weapons depart Holloman inspectors to ~ Air Force Base in return . i:2 New Mexico and "Some further ~ the B-52s from aircraft ~ Barksdale Air deployments 8 Force Base in were deemed ~ Louisiana, the necessary by the president," ~ spokesman said. Also, Saddam National Security Iraqi President Saddam Hussein attended a m eeting of the Hussein's Adviser Sandy Council of Ministers in Baghdad. government said Berger told Iraq is not a reporters at the "ca mp of refugees," yesterday as it rejected a U.S. White House. Clinton acted on a offer to ease economic sanctions and help end a recommendation last week by Defense Secretary crisis over U.N. weapons inspections. William Cohen and the chairman of the Joint Iraqi officials said the 3-week-old crisis will Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Henry Shelton. Clinton opted to send six F-117 Stealth fighters continue until the United Nations accepts Iraq's conditions for the resumption of U.N. weapons to Kuwait and six B-52 bombers to the Indian inspections in the country, including a balanced Ocean island of Diego Garcia, Pentagon composition of the inspection tea m. Iraq says spokesman Kenneth Bacon told reporters. American inspectors dominate the team. Iraq In addition, some 30 other warplanes also began ratio ning gas to the public. including two B-1 bombers and several dozen F- THE WORLD WORLD DIGEST SCHOOL BUS FALLS INTO RIVER, AT LEAST 30 CHILDREN KILLED: Divers and fishermen used nets to pull children dressed in blue-and-white school uniforms from a New Delhi, India river yesterday after an overcrowded bus plunged into the shallow, murky water. At least 30 children died and about 20 were missing. Witnesses said the driver was racing another bus when his vehicle skidded off a bridge, plunginginto the river. Some students tol.d a local TV network they had asked the driver to slow down, but he did not. SWISS FUND STARTS PAYING HOLOCAUST VICTIMS: Eighty Holocaust survivors received the first checks yesterday from a $200 million fund set up by Swiss banks, but many recipients complained the payments were far too small. Riva Sefere, a 75-year-old Jewish survivor of a Nazi labor camp in Latvia, was the first to receive a $400 check at a ceremony in the Latvian capital, Riva Sefere Riga. The money was provided by Swiss banks and industry in response to claims they profited from the Nazi war machine during World War II. So far, almost $200 million has been collected by the fund. TRIAL OF COLD WAR-ERA DISCO BOMBING PROMISES EVIDENCE AGAINST LIBYA: Three employees of Libya's former embassy in East Germany and two German sisters went on trial yesterday in the bombing of a disco that killed two American servicemen 11 years ago. The blast occurred at 1:50 a.m. on April 5, 1986, just as the popular West Berlin hangout for American servicemen was filling up, and prompted retaliatory U.S. air strikes on Libya. Prosecutors say they have evidence of what the United States alleged from the start: Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi ordered his agents to bomb the disco. Islatnic tnilitants own up to killings Seven of the dead were still unidentified. There LUXOR, Egypt (API - Militants blamed for most were 24 people wounded. of the violence in Egypt's five-year Islamic Police shot the six attackers as they tried to rebellion claimed responsibility yesterday for the revolt's deadliest attack: the massacre of 62 people escape. Authorities said one was a member of al Gamaa, the group that claimed responsibility for at an ancient temple crowded with tourists. the attack. The al-Gamaa al-Islamiya, or the Islamic Al-Gamaa has been a main target of police Group, said in a faxed statement that Monday's attack was a failed battling a violent campaign aimed at attempt to take overthrowing hostages to trade for Mubarak's secular the freedom of their government and spiritual leader, a turning Egypt into a blind Egyptian cleric strict Islamic state. jailed in the United Th~ government States for plotting to ~ has arrested and bomb New York ~ jailed thousands of landmarks. § suspected radicals, The sandstone "\ ;!i put hundreds on terraces of the ~ trial and executed 63 Temple of ~ people in the past Hatshepsut were ~ five years. But albloodstained -f.{ ~ Gamaa and similar yesterday, but dozens Rosemarie Dousse a victim of the terrorist attack radical groups are of tourists warily talks to a journalist in a hospital in Egypt, yesterday. difficult to fight returned. Many because of their others were fleeing small, loosely connected cells. the country, however, and agencies were Last year, al-Gamaa took responsibility for scrapping tours - spelling trouble for Egypt's killing 16 Greek tourists at a hotel near the important tourism industry. President Hosni Mubarak visited the temple on pyramids on the edge of Cairo. The group also claimed an assassination attempt on Mubarak the Nile River's West Bank across from· Luxur to while he was visiting Ethiopia in June 1995i he reassure tourists, and replaced his interior was unharmed. minister, blaming him for lax security. Thirty-one of the dead were Swiss, police said. In its statement yesterday, the group said the gunmen's "brave" hostage attempt went awry The others included eight Japanese, five because police opened fire too quickly, forcing Germans, four Britons - including a child - a militants to return fire. Bulgarian, a Colombian and a French citizen. rn;-~!'11-••.-::-:-:--:----;;;;;;;;;;;j - |