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Show THE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL• SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY• FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1998 U.S. DIGEST JUDGE RECOMMENDS LIFE IN SOLITARY FOR WORLD TRADE CENTER PLOTTER: Declaring "Yes, I am a terrorist and am proud of it," the mastermind of the World Trade Center bombing was sentenced yesterday to spend the rest of h is We in prison - probably in solitary confinement. U.S. District Judge Kevin Duffy branded 291..-__;:.. .w.i...u.;u year-old Ramzi Yousef an "apostle of evil." Yousef was convicted in separate trials for the famzif Trade Center bombing, which killed six people _o_u_se..;.__ _ and injured 1,000 in 1993, and the deadly 1994 bombing of a Philippines Airline plane. Prosecutors did not seek the death penalty. FLOODING FROM HEAVY RAINS CLOSES ROADS, FORCES EVACUATIONS: A huge storm stretching from Mississippi to Quebec forced residents from their homes yesterday, closing highways and schools, damaging houses and killing at least six people. More than a million customers were without electricity as ice froze on power lines in the Northeast and Canada. The emergency spillway on a small dam failed this morning, sending a gush of floodwaters downstream and prompting evacuations. CISNEROS HIRES SUPERLAWYER, DENIES OBSTRUCTION: Accompanied by new, high-powered defense counsel, former Housing Secretary Henry C . Cisneros pleaded innocent Thursday to illegally concealing payments to an ex-mistress while under consideration for his Cabinet post. Cisneros, appearing in court with former mistress and co Henry defendant Linda Jones, was accompanied by Cisneros prominent Washington lawyer Brendan V. - - - - - Sullivan Jr. THE NATION nn - Unabotnber suspect attetnpts suicide in jail cell SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski tried to hang himself with his underwear in his cell early yesterday morning, authorities said. Sacramento County Undersheriff Lou Blanas confirmed the suicide attempt had taken place. Courtroom observers said red marks were visible on Kaczynski's neck during an abbreviated court session today, but no mention of the attempt was made in court. Kaczynski arrived at the federal courthouse this morning without his underwear, Blanas said. "We searched his cell. We can't find his underwear. We assume they were flushed down the toilet," Blanas said. Blanas said Kaczynski would be placed on 24hour watch in a cell monitored by a remotecontrolled camera. " He's been a model prisoner for the last 18 months," Blanas said. Lead defense attorney Quin Denvi.r had no immediate comment on his client's suicide attempt. Indeed, yesterday's court session - which was expected to feature opening statements - instead revolved around Kaczynski's competency to serve as his own attorney. Kaczynski, who had fought to avoid psychological testing earlier in the case, agreed today to undergo such tests to prove that he is competent to be his own attorney. Despite the protests of government prosecutors, Un abomber suspect Th eodore Ka czynski, w earing a bullet-proof vest, is escorted into Federal Court in this file photo. who questioned the sincerity of Kaczynski 's offer, U.S. District Judge Garland Burrell Jr. said he believed Kaczynski would submit to the tests. "I'm going to trust him," Burrell said. Kaczynski - who interrupted Monday's court session by renewing a request to fire his lawyers - brought the trial to a halt again today by asking to represent himself. "He feels he has no choice but to go on as his own counsel," defense lawyer Judy Clarke told Burrell. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~---JI THEWORLDI~- WORLD DIGEST IRAN'S PRESIDENT, DESPITE ANTI-AMERICAN PRESSURE, EXTENDS OLIVE BRANCH: With powerful ant i-American religious leaders against him, Iran's President Mohammad Khatami reached out as far as he dared toward Washington . In an interview with CNN in T ehran, aired in Iran yesterday and in th e United States on Wednesday, Khatami appealed for "a crack in the wall of mistrust" between Iran and the United States. T he opening that Khatami provided toward ending nearly two decades of hostility also could benefit the United States in its efforts to retain influence in the Persian Gulf. ISRAEL TO ANNOUNCE SIZE OF PULLOUT DELAY IMPLEMENTATION: Trying to appease both his hard-line coalition partners and President Clinton, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared yesterday he would decide the size of a West Bank troop pullback before he meets Clinton in two weeks - but won't carry it out for several months. The Benjamin decision to start the withdrawal will be made Netanyahu after Israel determines whether Palestinians are carrying out their obligations. TURKISH MINISTER DEFENDS PRACTICE OF VIRGINITY TESTING: Even though Turkey is moving to ban virginity tests on young women as a human rights violation, a Turkish Cabinet minister defended the practice yesterday for girls in state institutions. The government's campaign to outlaw the widely accepted testing gathered momentum in September following the attempted suicides of five teen-age girls. The girls first took rat poison and then jumped into a deep water tank after the head of their orphanage ordered the tests because the girls had returned late to their dormitories one evening. ' At least six dead in Canadian stortn blacked out. Motels and h otels with generators TORONTO (AP) - A wave of ice storms shut were booked solid with people fed up with down highways and toppled power lines across eastern Canada, leaving about 3 m illion people shiveri ng by ca ndlelight. The six fatalities blam ed on the storm without electricity yesterday and cau sing at include three traffic death s and th ree caused by least six deaths. im provised A sta te of efforts to heat emergency was powerless declared in h om es. Ottawa, the The city's nation's capital, parks were and repair littered wi th crews were branches; summoned officials from the United estimated States to h elp 16,000 trees with the .,, were damaged. m assive ~About 600 cleanup. ; soldiers from a "The streets r:! Quebec army here look like bombs hit ~ base were sent : ~ to help clear them, with ~ tree branches trees lying all i::from power over the place," said Marjorie Mohamhed Abdi shares a cot with his 14-month-old-son lines and Northrup, who yesterday after spending the night in a shelter in Montreal. roadways. " We're going was displaced after her senior citizen's home in Montreal lost to have a very bad situation for the next four or five days, 11 Hydro-Quebec official Guy L'Italien power. said. Southern Quebec, including the Montreal The company called in reinforcements fro m area, was the hardest hit. Hydro-Quebec, the Maine and Vermont utility companies to help provincial power company, said n early I exhausted repair crews who have been working million homes and businesses lost electricity and many won't have power restored until next around the clock to re-link severed power lines. week. The first storm hit southern Quebec late Thousands of residents took refuge in Monday, and forecasters said freezing rain community centers after their h omes lost would continue falling through today. power, but even some of the centers were . ..;;,;~~~- ....---18 ... |
