Show vW i A6 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Monday July 22 2002 In brio! Eon deil to pave way for end to 1 9 year civil war Sudan- - welcomes MERNA Neb (AP)— A" mysterious mitewide dent in lithe earth has genentteda debate among scientists about whetha the depression was the catastrophic creation of a meteorite or the patient work of Mother Nature rctired Wakefield Dort University of Kansas geology professor will make ms case for the enter’s unearthly ori-- 1 gin at die annual Meteoritical Sodety meeting itf Los Angeles on Ibesday Nebraska scientists have their doubts “It is not a crater There is no evidence” said University of Nebraska scientist Mark Kuzila who has studied the ' Sudan (AP) — Opposition groups on Sunday g welcomed a deal to try rerolve Africa’s cautiously civil war but some worried that Sudan's Islamic govern ment was offering southern rebels too much undesthe accord The agreement signed Saturday in Kenya between die government and the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army was believed to have resolved the major issues in the war and established a framework for talks next month to draft a final peace deal The most contentious issue of the war — which has left more than 2 million people dead — has been the SPLA’s demands for some form of autonomy for die southern Sudanese who are mainly animist and Christian The deal between it and Khartoum's Islamic oriented government includes agreement on die separation of state and religion for the southern Sudanese as well as A leading official from Opposition leader Hassan Turabi’s Popular National Congress Party offered cautious praise for the said die party “welcomed in deal Mohammed Hassan principle Saturday’s signing (but) issues and established facts such as Islamic law fedendr promised’’ KHARTOUM longest-runnin- e:T' — ! " T T' - - ’ I ' ' s : 11 ) on the site hopes his' i will generate for further tests to ' prove nis theory "This is an intellectual chasm” he said "If we had the money we could settle this in a matter of one sumi -- members of a banned Islamic extremist group suspected of involvement in dozens of religiously motivated killings offi-1 vr Frank Baitak of rural Mama Neb views the rim of what many consider a iritewide crate? Officials from aay tfw water was mwed by a maiaoritei white offlrWt from the tWvwvty of NflbnutlwMiy that I W88 moat Mealy raiitad by wind erosion during the past 15 centuries n fOfillBXIOn i its annual Heritage Days cele- bration ' Doit has collected samples from the site and claims he found thousands of minute black’magnetic particles not native to Nebraska He also notes that Pawnee Indian legend tells of a "thundering cloud” that appeared over the ‘leavinglbehind children of black stone” Doit’s team also found a layer of crushed glass about three feet below the surface with a pocket of gray soil underneath But University of Nebraska geologist Vem Souders speculates that what Doit found is fulgurite which is fumed when lightning strikes sand According to Dort’s theory the depression was formed by the impact of a large meteorite that packed an explosion with the force of several hydrogen bombs between 3000 and 500 years Dort I in 1991 leagues discovered the unusual dento a topographic map — a nearly perfectly round formation smack dab in die middle of Nebraska Doit’s team renamed the depression the Mema Cratef after the nearby village of 377 residents Because less than 60 impact craters have been confirmed in North America Doit's initial conclusions caused a media stir with articles appearing in magazines that included National Geographic Earth and Discover The town embraced its new- found fame in 1992 adding the slogan “Mema Rocks” to ed i e Greek terror suspects charged ATHENS Greece (AP) — Greek authorities on Sunday charged two alleged members of the November 17 terror organization in die assassination of American and British service-me-n and a newspaper reported the deadly urban guerrilla group planned to attack US and NATO peacekeepers Police also arrested a 10th alleged group member in northern Greece Sunday as they continued dismantling an organization that killed four US military officials and 19 other people in 27 years Thomas Serifis 36 who worked for the Athens public bus company was being questioned A magistrate on Sunday also arraigned three of the first sus- pected November 17 terrorists arrested after police achieved their first breakthrough against the group in 27 years after a botched June 29 bombing That trio included two brothers who confessed to nine of tire 23 killings attributed to November 17- - AP photo i mer” occurred in the town of Jhang in Punjab province said inspector Farhan Tknveer of the Jhang police They had been in hiding since returning from neighboring Afghanistan where they jght alongside the Taliban against forces Tfcnveer told The Associated Press One of the four militants whose names were not given is wanted in connection with dozens of sectarian killings in Pakistan including a 1992 rocket attack on a police armored vehi- cle in which six police died said Tanveer “All the four activists are involved in a number of religiously motivated killings of Muslims across the country” he said minority-Shiit- I v' 'y y - V ( Dort who has done his own MULTAN Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police arrested four US-back- r w- 5 site' Pakistan arrests four extremists Lashkar-e-Jhang- ft- y Jts in dais said Sunday The arrests of the members of the Sunni Muslim osur&Go In the middle of the debate is Frank Baitak bom in a homestead on the j edge of the contentious : still whose depression family forms die land in and around it about 10 miles west of Mema ‘ "I don’t think anybody can prove it one way or the other” Baitak said "They’ve been up here poking around for yews and they don’t know anymore about it than I do "If it’s absolutely proven to be a enter there’ll be a cer- tain numbers of tourists that will come around I suppose” he said "But it wouldn’t make any difference to me — I'm not going to run a hamburger The Nebraska research included drilling test holes inside and next to the depression going much deeper than the Kansas team did The Nebraskans said they found the crater had the same ‘ origin as similar though less impressive depressions in the region carved out by relentless winds during dry periods ' thousandspf years ago a geofogy j University : Tennessee said he will listen with interest to Doit’s presentation "It’s another piece of die scientific puzzle? 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