Show :1 ram? 7- ' ' 7 mm &jii Page 6 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Friday July 23 1999 China arrests more protesting sect members BEIJING (AP) — As China stepped up a propaganda assault on the banned Falun Gong sect small groups of defiant protesters gathered today near the main leadership compound in Beijing The sect was banned Thursday highlighting official fears that it could threaten communist power by becoming a rallying point for anger over unemployment and corruption Police took away about 13 people today who stood quietly out- side if! ‘r : syr r- - AP photo riot May Kwok loft a 3 1 '2 old follower of the meditation group Falun Gong joins in a meditation exercise outside the Xinhua news agency in Hong Kong Friday mainland Chinese-ru- TOKYO (AIM — A jittery man with a knife hijacked a domestic Japanese jumbo jet shortly alter takeoff today stabbing the pilot to death in the cockpit officials said and reportedly flying the plane himself before lie was oxer-power- No one else was injured aboard the All Nippon Airways Boeing 747 carrying 501 passengers and a crew of 14 from Tokyo to the northern city of Sappom Transportation Ministry officials said The pin" returned to the capital about an hour after taking off Two minutes after takeoff the hijacker Yuji Nishiawa pulled knife and pressed it out an to a flight attendant's back forcing her to take him into the cock- officials said The unemployed man a pit fan of computer games reportedly just wanted to flv a leal plane Nishiawa forced the out and ordered the pilot to steer toward the US military's Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo flight-simulati- co-pil- ot media reports said When the pilot refused the hijacker stabbed him in the neck seized the controls and tried to steer there himself Ilk' reports said After a sudden drop in altitude the and another man co-pil- ot hurst into the cockpit and pounced on the hijacker tying him up with neckties Nishiawa was arrested after the plane landed said Norio C'hichi deputy police chief at llaneda Airport The government tightened security at airports across Japan The pilot Naoyuki Nagashima 51 was pronounced dead by a doctor on board shortly after Flight 6 landed Transportation said lYime Minister deployed tctimscl domestic violence and sexual abuse Het thnjiviieam’ far Umbmlmu 753-250- cism Television repeatedly-showe- today of closing Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing and the area around the Great Hall of the People the most prominent government building They were later reopened to tourists State media claimed Falun Gong spread “superstitious evil thinking” Reports blamed the sect in 16 deaths claiming fol- lowers had refused medicine committed suicide or killed others “Falun Gong has attempted to develop political power confronting our party and government” the Communist Parly newspaper People’s Daily said People's Daily devoted almost its entire front page to criticizing the sect The Liberation Army ran a front page photo of soldiers raising clenched fists and "vowing to push forward the struggle” against Falun Gong I political and labor activists The ban was posted today at a spot in Beijing's Temple of the Sun Park where some of the sect's middle-age- d largely female members gather to mediexercises tate and do yoga-lik- e C? 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Clide Rockers Prices Starting Russian media claims persecution media outlets MOSCOW (AP) — The heads of several prominent appealed to President Boris Yeltsin today to end what they called the “systematic persecution and blackmail'' of the free press by top Kremlin aides With parliamentary elections set for December and a presidential vole next summer the Kremlin entourage — along with other political forces in Russia — appear to he vying for influence over newspapers and television stations Today's statement accused Yeltsin's aides of going much further t) “For the first time in the history of new Russia we are witnessing crude and unabashed pressure on one of the main achievements of Russian democracy — the freedom of speech" said the open letter sent to Yeltsin today hy the heads of the NTV television station the Echo of Mowow radio station the Scgodnya daily newspaper and the Iiogi weekly news magazine at (post-Sovie- "t'W t-W- 't 875 North Main St'- - Willard Utah 84340 3 7 Brigham City Ogden wr J 17 ji v399-999- V ct- A -- W 723-364- 7 'M- "It- 4 vt -- Jr as — i A T v jk si- - S? - IK iS |