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Show U.S. DIGEST P'l!R:", GANG MEMBERS GET LONG TERMS FOR NGOR KILLING: Three immigrant gang members convicted of robbing and murdering Oscar-winning actor Haing Ngor were sentenced yesterday to long prison tem1s, one to life with no possibility of parole. Superior Comt Judge J.D. Smith said 20-yearold Jason Chan and his co-defendants, Tak Tal< Sun Tan Sun Tan, 21, and Indra Lim, 21, had been - - - - - convicted simultaneously by three juries convinced of their guilt. He sentenced Chan to life without parole, Tan to 56 years to life, and Lim to 2~ years to life. DEADLY PLANE CRASH OCCURS DURING AIR SHOW FOR CHILDREN: A pilot flying stunts at an air show in front of about 12,000 children died yesterday in Manasses, Va. when his stunt plane crashed. Dr. Miles Merritt, a dentist who was volunteering at the show, died in the crash at Manassas Regional Airport. Merritt hit the ground while trying to pull out of a maneuver, witnesses said. About 12,000 schoolchildren were attending the air show sponsored by Drug Abuse Resistance Education. No one in the crowd was injured. PRELUDE TO A FINAL AND VERY PRIVATE GOODBYE: Cardinal Roger Mahony prepared yesterday to lead a private, star studded vigil in advance of the final goodbye to Frank Sinatra. Gregory Peck, Kirk Douglas, Mia Farrow and others were to join the Sinatra family for the evening vigil at Good Shepherd Catholic Church. Reporters were to be kept out of the vigil and today's Frank Sinatra funeral for Sinatra, who died of a heart attack last Thursday. Sinatra's casket was to be placed in a burial vault at Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City, Ca. Gingrich says he'll seek inquiry onto deals with China WASHJNGTON (AP) - House Speaker Newt Gingrich announced yesterday he'll seek approval of a special panel with far reaching powers to investigate the Clinton administration's dealings with China on missiletechnology. "This has nothing to do with campaign finance. This has to do with the national security of the United States and an effort by a foreign military to penetrate our military system, an effort by some people to give the Chinese secrets in violation of American law," Gingrich said. He said the panel he envisions would have eight members - five Republicans and three Democrats. Gingrich said he hoped Democrats would support the effort, even though House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt signaled his opposition. Gingrich said that Rep. Christopher Cox, RCalif., who was a deputy counsel in the Reagan White House, would be chairman of the panel. The speaker said the special committee would investigate allegations that an aerospace company, Loral Space and Communications, received favorable treatment from the Clinton administration on high-technology exports to China. The firm's chief executive officer, Bernard Schwanz, was the Democratic Party's largest single donor for the 1996 election. Loral and another areospace company, Hughes · Electronics Corp., exported commercial House Speaker Newt Gingrich gestures during an appearance on NBC's 'Meet The Press' in this file photo. satellites to China to be launched arop Chinese missiles. After a missile with a Loral satellite on it exploded in 1996, technicians of the two companies allegedly gave information to the Chinese that Republicans suggested helped China make its long-range missiles more accurate. Gingrich cited allegations that the Chinese miJitary sought to influence U.S. policy-makers ~ possibly compromising national security interests. ~~~~~~~~~~~ . ~~~~1 THEWORLD I- - WORLD DIGEST PAKISTAN SAYS INDIA THREATENING TO ATTACK KASHMIR, BLAMES WEST: Pakistan claimed yesterday that India's crackdown in a border province between the two rival nations amounted to a "direct military threat." The declaration heightened fears of conflict in the days after India's nuclear tests. India's hard-line Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani said Monday that his country wanted to provide better weapons to its forces in India's part of Kashmir. Advani, who was scheduled to visit India's Jammu-Kashmir state today, said India's nuclear capability showed his country's resolve "to deal firmly and strongly with Pakistan's hostile designs and activities in Kashmir." r;::::;;;::;;,:-;:;;~-, CASTRO DENOUNCES U.S.-EUROPE DEAL ON CUBA TRADE AS UNCLEAR: Cuban President Fidel Castro yesterday denounced a deal between President Clinton and European leaders that regulates trade with Cuba as unclear, contradictory and J unethical. The deal, announced Monday in · \' London, aims to ease U.S. restrictions on .. F-i d_e_l _C_a_s_tr_o _, multinational companies doing busioess with - - - -- Cuba. An agreement between the United States and the European Union over the 1996 Helms-Burton Act should not be reached at Cuba's expense, Castro said in a speech to the World Trade Organization. BORDER EXCHANGE OF GUNFffiE IN KOSOVO: Serbian police exchanged fire yesterday with ethnic Albanians seeking independence in the Kosovo province. A 95-year-old woman was killed, ethnic Albanian sources said. The Kosovo Information Center said the clash occurred near Srbica, in the heart of the Drenica region where police began a clampdown on the separatists in March. More than 150 people have died since in Kosovo, whose ethnic Albanian majority seeks independence from Serbia. Suharto says he will step down JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP)- Student protesters interpreted as "resistance.on my part to step forced their way into the halls of Parliament and down." But Indonesia's increasjngly,aggressive army tanks took up position around President opposition took it as just that. Suharto's white-columned palace yesterday, both Students pushed their way into the halls and sides bracing for new clashes after Indonesia's onto the roof of Parliament, occupying the authoritarian leader said he will step down building ahead of what's touted to be the largest but not just yet. yet in months of growing anti-government "Hang Suharto! Hang Suharto!" the more than protests·- a rally that the opposition hopes will 15,000-strong student draw up to 1 million contingent chanted students and workers from inside the " to a park just outside echoing, marblethe presidential trimmed building, palace. unfurling banners Army tanks and demanding reforms trucks rolled out by from the roof of .,, the dozens just before · parliament in a ~ midnight yesterday, protest unlike any ~l']~ 0unloading barbed other in Indonesia's !l<C~~,L...t~ wire for barricades to history. 8 block off the park and Jli:,R.~ ~~iif,li] ~ taking up positions Under pressure from economic crises, 'f!~~~W:~~i.t)~~~~[l!Jm[t~d!~ . . on streets around the months of student ~ i: site - apparently protests and now riots Students gather on and around parliament in the intent on keeping in the capital of his Indonesian capital of Jakarta yesterday during an students from the country, Suharto told anti-government protest. Over 100 students scaled protest site when the nation yesterday the building and took up J?OSitions on the roof as daylight came. that he would end his President Suharto gave a national address on T. V. While much of the 32-year reign - but public has turned only at a still-unspecified time, and only after he against him in the face of soaring food and fuel oversees government reforms, a Cabinet shuffle, prices, Indonesia's top military brass are backing and new elections. Suharto, a retired general who came to power in "This decision comes from my feeling of 1966. responsibility in an effort to save the country Fearing more unrest, crowds of Indonesians from destruction," Suharto said in a sometimes lined up yesterday at the· Australian Embassy to somber, 15-minute speech televised nationally. apply for visas. The U.S. Embassy closed its visa He said his insistence on making long-refused office after sendingnon-essential staff and ~efo~~ ~-e_f?re he steps down should not be hupdreds of other Americans out of Jakarta. -..- - ·~·· · · · ······ ····-············---· |