Show fViSfi 4 W7" t liiiitPiip'ilji 0m mm & fat ’ to - Hbtt Page 2— The Herald Journal Logan Utah Monday August 10 1998 Nationi9 In brief US officials ask UN to stand up to Iraq WASHINGTON (AP) — Iraqi leader Sad- - over his latest act of defiance — putting a dam Huisein should neither pick a fight with freeze on UN weapons inspections the United Statea nor make the mistake of “This at this stage is not a problem believing that this nation's resolve has been between Saddam Hussein and the US it is a weakened by the attention on President Clin- problem between Saddam Hussein and die ton’s legal troubles US officials say United Nations and the United Nations has to “Anybody who believes that controversies stand up for what it has obliged him to do” in the united States will deter us or prevent Albright said us or impede our ability to respond to threats Sen Joseph Biden noted that even to die United States in a swift and aprewnriatH France and Russia which in the past have manner makes a serious mistake White been more sympathetic toward Iraq had House national security adviser Sandy Berger joined in the UN Security Council’s unanisaid Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation" mous condemnation of Iraq’s latest effort to Clinton’s preparation to testify in the Monishackle the arms inspection teams ca Lewinsky matter “is not a distraction in “Before we go threatening force we should terms of foreign policy I can assure you of try very hard to see if we can keep this coalithat’ Secretary of State Madeleine Albright tion together” he said on "Fox News Sunsaid on NBC’i "Meet die ness" day" D-D- AP photo 8WWng telephone workers wearing the red shirts of the Communications Wtorkera of America protest outside their depot on Sunday in New York Bell Atlantic workers hit the picket lines negotiations continue — NEW YORK (AP) Thousands of Bril Atlantic workers planned to march in picket lines today the first business day of the strike against the telephone company Although hundreds of employees from Maine to Virginia began picketing Sunday after their contract expired at 12:01 am the bulk of the 73000 striking workers were expected to report to picket captains today Company and union officials continued to meet in New York and Washington early today to end die over the proposed three-ye- ar contract which workers say fails to offer job security “We think we have a fair offer that inrfmfcj rignifirant increase working very hard to resolve this” Bell Atlantic serves 27 million customers in 13 Eastern stales and Washington DC with telecom- munications wireless communications cable and digital TV and Internet and data services The company one of several regional phone companies or Baby Bells spun off from AT&T in 1984 recently announced plans to merge with GTE Corp At the same time Albright and others insisted that it is the United Nations not the United States that must confront Saddam The administration has not moved to increase US forces in the Persian Gulf region Defense Secretary William Cohen LITTLE ROCK (AP) — Two teen-ag- e boys accused of opening fin on classmates and teachers in their school yard killing five of them face an unusually public trial in a juvenile courtroom packed with survivors and victims1 relatives Andrew Golden 12 and Mitchell Johnson 13 go before a judge Tuesday for a juvenile court hearing equivalent to a trial for adults Although they’re accused of five counts of capital murder which could warrant die death penalty for adults die boys can be found innocent or guilty only of being delinquents If sentenced as delinquents they would be free in a few years That frustrates and infuriates some survivors and victims’ relatives and has spurred legislators and Gov Mike Huckabee to tty to change the state’s juvenile justice system For many the hearing will reopen the pain of March 24 when four girls and a teacher were killed and nine hirfenj and mother teacher were wounded at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro There is anger in the city of about 30000 said Larry Salinger a criminologist and sociologist at Jonesboro's Arkansas Skate University “The victims want to be heard The families want to be heard They want to be able to say what has happened to them as a result of the shooting They want to draw it out” Salinger said Jones’ appeal is public on the Web LITTLE ROCK Aik — (AP) Although a judge has sealed Paula Jones' appeal to restore her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Clinton it's still available to the public — on the Internet The conservative group supporting Jones’ case posted parts of the appeal on the Internet in the one-da- y gap after the appeal was filed and before the 8th US Circuit Court of Appeal sealed it The group the Rutherford Institute also made sure news organizations knew about it “It was kind of a surprise to go to The Washington Post Web site and see it” said Michael Gans the clerk of die 8th Circuit at St Louis While it’s impossible to “unring the bell” Gans said foe court still considers the filing to be under seal The Rutherford Institute has since removed the appeal from its Web site Boys 7 and 8 face murder charge CHICAGO (AP) — Two 7 and 8 were arrested Embassy in Kenya as consul general for almost two years work toward ing becoming an ambassador and making his farm ly proud then a bomb exploded killing him his sou and at least 200 oth ers Bartley's father Joshua Bart-- y of Jacksonville Fla spent much of Sunday on the telephone being comforted by family bers and government officials after his son's body was identified son Jay Bartley’s Bartley was among the first to be ld identified as having died in the bombings “I feel down in spirit” the retiree told The Florida “I jut caat seem to get myself together I miss them very much” Julian Bartley who was 35 Times-Unfa- If1 m a two-stor- y red-bric- ' os ‘The photojournalists were Hardesty said Sunday “We will be pursuing a defense of the efaaiges” The riot began around 10:30 pjn Saturday and continued into early Sunday The violence marred the city’s 13th annual Hot August Nights celebration a classic auto and '30s music festival that pumps about $120 million into the local economy “Last night there was a core Police Hoover said Sunday “They were the ones going into Sof gang-banger- s" first-degr- ee AP photo t One person hits another with a street barricade traffic police said People began in August Nights celebration earty on Sunday In Reno Nev congregating and an estimated 1000 people took over one the crowd and sparking vio- downtown intersection many lence” jumping on cars As many as Hoover said more than 2000 15000 people were on downtown streets police said gang members many from central and northern California came Bottles were thrown at police to town for the event which who donned riot gear and used began Wednesday dogs and pepper spray to men Tfouble began when a few cars the disturbance Some of overheated in bumpeMo-bumpe- r arrested wore bulletproof vests and carried firearms Reno as rioting continued during the annuel Hot During the height of the violence railroad traffic was halted so emergency vehicles could park on the tracks and people were prevented from leaving down- town casinos and other business es Mayor Jeff Griffia said fewer than 20 people were treated for minor injuries Hoover said the celebration has become two different events “First there’s the family- - NORTH BERGEN N J (AP) — Four people including a woman who panicked and baljumped off a fourth-flocony died in a fire in a high-ris-e or About 20 firefighters were injured in the fire which broke out Sunday afternoon in die Westview Towers which does not have sprinklers Some 20-sto- ry Nights firefighters emerged from the building burned with skin peeling from their faces About 80 firefighters needed several hours to extinguish the blaze Battalion Chief Charles Severi-n- o said it started in a fourth-floo- r apartment There were oxygen canisters in the apartment but officials were unsure what caused the blaze One woman died while res died on die sixth floor while mak- ing their way downstairs to escape Although the 'blaze was contained to the apartment where it started Severino said the tem-i-n the hallways rose to perature 300 degrees making conditions very difficult for firefighters Severino did not know the extent of the firefighters’ injuries They were taken to hospitals Lori Hanford visiting her mother who lives in the building said an elderly woman and her daughter lived in the apartment Emergency personnel gather at the scene of a where the fire started APphoto high-da- e that kfled four people About 20 firafigfrtare ware irfand fire on Sunday in the fire Scientists study link in climate disease NEW YORK (AP) — Although many scientists have k suggested that climactic changes related to global warming could Many in the neighborhood remembered Bartley as a man with an affinity for foster outbreaks of cholera dengue fever and malaria languages produce much supporting evi--if dence because only modest en researchers have been unable to “He joined the Peace Corps because he thought it would be a of malaria worldwide coinciding with extreme El Nino-affect- ed weather events Heat and rainfall affect transmission of the disease Tens of thousands mosqu- ito-borne of people in Kenya and Somalia were afflicted by Rift Ufey fever also mosquito-born- e after El Nino of wanning rains the heaviest since 1961 fell However that is changing in the region because of El Nino which could The incidence of cholera amounts pood way to help people and improve his languages” said Peter Saltz a former president of a Queens chapter of the National Association for the Advancement prove to be a blessing for scien- tists The New York Times reported today Scientists say the of Colored People APphoto Bartley served in the Peace Edith Bartley rends n statement on 8undey in front of the State in American Samoa in Corps Depertmenl buMng emouncing twt e lew hours eeriier her (after Julian 1970 before becoming a e In Nairobi Kenya wee confirmed among the officer Bartley and Saltz Bartley the consul general Her brother Jay had atao been confirmed dead in tie Meat deal met in 1971 on a tour of Africa's west coast ambassador" Saltz said “He es warm and generous Bartley wu stationed in the was out for the betterment of his “I will always remember him Dominican Republic Colombia countty” as a man who was not shut up in Louis Segesvary a former his own bog” said Segesvary Spain Israel and Korea before hu assignment in Kenya spokesman far the US Embassy now spokesman for the State “He said he wanted to be an in Nairobi remembered Bartley Department's African Bureau foreign-servic- five-count- : her The woman’s mother died on die balcony and a married couple Baldwin still lives there I very smoothly" he said “But after die official events end the families go inside and the gang members come out looking for trouble” Griffin said the disturbance was caused by “hoodlums' And thugs and criminals’’ and is not representative of people who come to attend Hot August cuers tried to get her down from die apartment's balcony Severino said she panicked and jumped as rescuers tried to get a ladder to house in the Jamaica section of Queens His mother Gladys soft-spok- friendly events which have gone Four killed in fire at high-ris-e building ry mmm Kit' block the inspection teams from some areas and demanded an end to the economic sane-tioOut have crippled the country since the end of the 1991 Gulf War Cohen said Saddam will fail in his attempts both to split die Security Council and end die sanctions Among the 130 people arrested in connection with die riot were two photographers from the Reno Gazette-Journ- al The newspaper carried a series of graphic photos of die riot in its Sunday morning edition including one of a circle of youths beating a man Mark Studyvin and Steve Keegan were charged with unlawful assembly and obstruction of justice said Jim Hardesty a lawyer for the newspaper El Nino effect probably will make 1998 the warmest year hi several centuries In the belief that this year and last might foreshadow the weather of the next few dwadft scientists have begun — data about weatheMdatod illness and death according to the limes Some findings: The World Health Organization reports leaps in the incidence 's1 - US troop strength reached more than 30000 last February when Saddam tried to RENO Nev (AP) — Police blamed gang members from around the West for starting a riot during an annual classic car and music festival Many mourn death of diplomat son grew up in “We have a very formidable force that (Saddam) ought not to consider trying to contest” he said Police blame gang for Reno riot apartment building on boys ages murder charges in connection with the beating death of an girl who disappeared last month while riding a bicycle The boys were expected to appear in Juvenile Court today said Patti Simone a spokeswoman for the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office The body of Ryan Harris of suburban Lynwood was found July 28 in some tall weeds in the back yard of a house on the South Side She had been missing since she failed to return from a ride on a borrowed bicycle about 24 hours earlier “It is believed she was killed for the bicycle” Simone said Neighborhood resklents found the body after Ryan's family handed out handwritten and photocopied fliers The Cook County Medical Examiner’s office said Ryan had been beaten with a Hunt object An article of her clothing plus leaves and shrubbery branches hiul been forced into her mouth in an apparent attempt to gag her the medical examiner's office said NEW YORK (AP) — Julian But Cohen also noted that the one aircraft carrier group and nearly 20000 troops in the region was twice as much firepower with double the number of cruise missiles compared with a year ego engaged in news gathering” Jonesboro shooters head for trial Bartley had been at the US told ABC's “This Week” that “we don't want to have (Saddam) put us in a position of constantly responding to his initiative" MMMFWajMVM WPHWWI" increased greatly over the past year in Latin America and Africa The increase was associated with El Nino rains and floods In the southern Rockies a warm wet winter resulted in more food and cover for deer mice which transmit the deadly hantavirus to humans and increased their numbers Three deaths were reported Hundreds of thousaadiTof nr people were subjected to lory ailments alter forest fires in Southeast Asia POOR |