Show L&an Utah Sunday March 3 2002 A6 — The Herald Journal ' t World Q 1 : Guantanamo prisoners stick to hunger strike those not tried by a military GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE Cuba (AP) — About 75 captives of the war on terrorism held to a hunger strike for a fourth day Saturday in a protest rooted iq uncertainty over their indefinite detention and their fate a US military commander said Six detainees have been given liquids with an intravenous drip one against his wishes officials said "Right now we have a hunger strike of about 75 hard-line- rs with number of sympathy strikers joining in gated am! lawyers On Saturday 85 detainees refused to eat breakfast and 73 wouldn’t eat lunch down from a high of 194 who declined lunch Thursday Fewer than 10 were refusing to drink fluids Lehnert isaid By Saturday afternoon Cox arineMaisu detainees had six been sajd treated for dehydration with intravenous drips at the camp tribunal would be prosecuted in US courts returned to their home countries for prosecution or released outright They could also be held indefinitely Defense Secretary Donald H Rumsfeld has said The prisoners — whom the US military savs belong to terthe international rorist network and Afghanistan’s fallen Taliban regime -- r are being interro-da infirmary “Five of the six agreed to die IV There was one individual who did not want the IV” Cox said “Wfe overrode his desire and administered the IV to him” It is fee first mass protest since the initial group of o detainees was flown to on Jan 11 Some of the inmates were held for months in Afghanistan before they arrived Guatf-tanam- ' Bridgerland Applied Technology College periodically” said Brig Gen Michael Lehnert commander of the detention mission at this US naval base in southeast- era Cuba A large group among the APphoto 300 detainees stopped eating Pham Quoc Huy Is comforted by his mother on a Wednesday some telling their bamboo cot in their home near his village of Dong Spn In central captors they were upset that a ' highlands of Vietnam Pham is suffering from what his parents say guard stripped a detainee of in are the effects of the jungle defoliant Agent Orange used heavily his turban during prayers on the region by the US armed forces during the Vietnam War Tuesday But Lehnert said that while ' the turban issue was one cause the “underlying complaint” was concern about the future “The single biggest com- plaint is that they want to know what will happen to Twelve-year-o- Professional Truck Driving Training — mines in the trucking industry have never been better BATC is of local industry Classes taught the needs hew a to meet ing program in a facility BATC instructors are fully certified and bring many years of experience to the training program Contact Neil Anderson 1 for more infbmation regarding this exciting opportunity at (435) state-of-the-- ld 750-309- 12-we- ek training program 8 am to 2:30 pm M-- F Following PTDIA (Professional Truck Driving Institute of America) curriculum Tuition includes DOT physical CDL books and fuel US Vietnam hold conference on Agent Orange HANOI Vietnam (AP) — Researchers at he first conference on Agent Orange a defoliant used by US forces during the Vietnam War said they will report “extraordinarily” high ' diox- levels of cancer-causin- g in in people living in heavily sprayed areas conference The three-da- y that starts Sunday is the result of agreement reached last July to cooperate on Agent Orange research American and Vietnamese scientists are also con- -' ducting a pilot study to test Soil and sediment for dioxin ' “Thekey fact aboutthis conference is that it's happening that the Vietnamesegov- ernment is backing it and the US government is backing it” said Rick Weidman director of government rejations for the Vietnam Veterans of America "We think it's a tremendous step forward" From 1962 to 1971 US forces sprayed an estimated 1 1 million gallons of defoliants mainly Agent Orange on Vietnam to destroy jungle ‘ cover for Communist troops American veterans and : gg FREE GIFT BAG WITH TRAVEL-TOT- - 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