Show A8 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Monday World T£ J i is ! 2004 April 19 i In brief US-Russan-Dut- crew ch Authorities seek motive in shootings in Kosovo Q off to space station blasts BAIKONUR Kazakhstan AP) — A Russian rocket roared ( into space Monday carrying an American a Russian and a Dutch man to the international space station on the third manned mission since the halt of the US shuttle program American Michael Finckc Russian Gennady Padalka and Andre Kuipers of the Netherlands representing the European Space Agency were to spend two days en route to the ISS aboard the Soyuz TMA-- 4 spacecraft The Russian-bui- lt capsule is the only means to get to the orbital outpost since the suspension of US space shuttle flights following the February 2(X)3 Columbia disaster "Our Russian partners are picking up the ball" Fincke 37 said “It’s iJ very symbolic what we can do when people all over the world work together"Just before boarding the spacecraft the trio paused to wave farewell to relatives space officials and others who had traveled to the desolate ' Baikonur cosmodrome in the steppes of Kazakhstan: Padalka held up two ’ Serbia-Montene-g- ro WSJ m& ''Si f ik l&lj (f AP photo - fingers in a victory sign Fincke gave and Kuipers brandished a thumbs-u- p a clenched fist They shook hands after the spacecraft entered orbit approxinine minutes after the 7:19 am (9:) 9 pm MDT Sun- mately ' lift-ohaving shed its boosters along the way day) ff American killed in French bus crash PARIS (AP) —r A bus carrying American teenage soccer players overturned in a ditch east of Paris on Sunday killing one boy and seriously injuring three others id ' The roads were1 wet from overnight rain hut authorities in the' region said it was not immediately clear why the tour bus carrying about 35 people — including two drivers — overturned y east of Paris near French officials said excessive speed may have been a factor School officials identified the boy killed as Matt Helms 13' “His teammates loved him” middle school soccer coach Ray Colley said from the Helms family's home Jn Jacksonville NC “He was just really fun and so focused' Seinc-et-Mar- ne Milry-Mor- PRISTINA (AP) — Investigators searched for evidence and interviewed eyewitnesses Sunday in an attempt to find out why a Jordanian UN police officer opened fire on US correctional officers in Kosovo killing two The Jordanian officer was also killed in the shootout Sat- prison in urday at the UN-ru- n the'northem town of Kosovska Mitrovica ' The shooting was the latest 'shock for the I IN mission in the province which is still grappling with the fallout from violent clashes last month between ethnic Albanians and Serbs that killed 19 and injured more than 900 in Kosovska Mitrovica “The shooting struck a huge blow at the very idea of said Alex Anderson the Kosovo project director of ' Iniemational Crisis Group a think-tan- k Brussels-base- d It will “affect the perception of the peacekeepers among the ' British version of walking and chewing gum? An unidentified runner in the 2004 London Marathon flips near the 6 mile mark in London on Sunday a pancake as he runs round the course g” peace-keepin- ' 50000 flee Sudani clash NAIROBI Kenya (AP) — At least 50000 people have fled their homes in recent weeks because of militia attacks and fighting between Sudanese government and rebel forces in southern Sudan the United Nations said Sunr day The clashes between the government forces and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army rebels occurred despite a cease fire between the warring parties which are involved in talks to end the country's war The cease-fir- e signed in October 2002 is supposed to refnain in force as long as talks continue But there were no immediate indications that the v fighting would detail the nego- tiations Since early March the United Nations has received reports of villages schools and health UN said clinics being destroyed and looted as well as incidents of ' rape in Shilluk Kingdom in the northern Upper Nile region the office of the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan said in a statement Most of the attacks have been carried out by militia that oppose the rebels said Ben Parker a UN spokesman Rebel spokesman Yasir Arman said the militia carrying out the attacks are supported by the government which is trying to force rebel supporters from the region Ad'Dirdeiry M Hamed Sudan’s deputy ambassador to Kenya said no government troops were involved in the serious fighting that has effected civilians has been from militia targeting civilian settlements" he said in a telephone interview from Sudan “Fighting between government troops and rebels is a much smaller element in the conflict as far as we He said the clashes pitted rival groups of a southern faction against each other The' southern faction was tied to the government until its leader defected to the rebels late last year splitting the faction into “The most knOw” UN agencies and aid groups have been forced to suspend operations in the area because of the violence the fighting and pro-reb- el groups! “We are entitled to support” our ally he said “But we haven't given them any support over the previous few months" population" - In Belgrade the Serbian Orthodox Church said the shtxrting “proves that the UN does not control the situation!" 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