Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday January 5 2003 A6 World— I I — y paffirislii) ©®gM suraCsoir ©apfiaiiiro : ‘MADRID Spain (AP)— A court upheld an order Satur- day jailing the captain of the sunken oil tanker Prestige whose spilled cargo caused what could be Spain’s worst ecological disaster Globs of oil from the mas- sive spill which have already tarred Spain's coastline began soiling the French coast this week frustrating efforts by cleanup crews Saturday to contain the spreading pollu- tion Even as French workers in white protective suits scooped up balls of oil with gloved hands larger black clumps — some as wide as 1 8 inches — washed ashore Local authorities appealed for more help “It’s no longer little balls but plates” of oil said Col Patrick Toufflet a cleanup commander in the Landes region south of Bordeaux which mobilized about 100 workers including soldiers and firefighters Two hundred more soldiers should arrive on beaches Monday to speed the cleanup Ecology Minister Roselyne Bachelot told LCI television Hundreds of miles of French coast are affected In the Gironde region authorities ordered a halt in sales of Ays- ters from the Bay of Area- chon which harvests 12000 tons of oysters a year 10 per-cent of France's annual pro- : duction In the same region globs of oil have washed up on dikes protecting a nature reserve that houses wild swans herons and other wildlife Lab tests have traced the oil to the Prestige the aging sin- tanker that was car- rying 77000 tons of oil when it sank off northwestern Spain The Prestige’s hull cracked gle-hull- Ooavos Son jjaoO in a storm Nov 13 The ship broke in two and sank six days later after being towed out to sea It spilled at least a quarter of its cargo tarring hundreds of miles of Spanish coast and forcing thousands of fishermen and other workers to live off government hand- - touts The provincial court of A Coruna rejected an appeal of the jailing of the ship’s Greek captain Apostolous Man- - ( gouras saying there was “solid and conclusive” evi- dence he disobeyed Spanish authorities in refusing to have the stricken tanker towed away from the coast The court set the captain's bail at $31 million Man- ' gouras has been in prison since Nov 17 The court also uiged inves- tigations into whether govem- ment decisions during the crisis made matters worse AP photo Shaolin monk warrior group from central China's Songshan Shaolin Temple perform Hard Qi kungfu named “Lying On Spears” during the Shaolin Charity Tour in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday The Hard Qi kungfu is one of the Shaolin external kungfu woiks by directing the inner Qi to a certain part of the body to make this part produce extreme power World-famo- Dower KunQTU ® on tour Pakistan cities have reputation for forged passports GUJRAT Pakistan (AP) — Walk the windswept streets and you'll hear the same thing no matter who’s talking There is they say in Gujrat an itch — to go elsewhere to join loved ones overseas to seek fortunes'that can’t be found on the rutted streets of home The people of this teeming city on central Pakistan's Punjabi plain ache to travel to other countries 1 1 era And in a post-Sewhen Western visas are harder than ever to come by Gujratis have a reputation for finding a way “Anywhere you go in the world if you find Pakistanis with fake documents you’ll find someone from Gujrat” pt said Mirza who runs a travel agency on the grounds of Gujrat's sports stadium and has six British Airways outstanding sales performance certificates on his wall He wouldn't give his last name Last week the American government circulated photos of foreigners suspected of entering the United States illegally in a case that has raised fears of terrorism One suspect's photo that the FBI released under the name Mustafa Khan Owasi is apparently a jeweler in nearby Lahore named Mohammed Asghar who says he never traveled to the United States He said he had been mistakenly identified and that the acknowledge that passport forgery operations are every- where an official from Pakistan's Federal Investigative Agency says some 70 percent of fake travel documents come from two cities just 30 miles apart — Gujranwala and Gujrat This is what the United Forgery central? Javaid Shami a supervisor in Gujrat's police to the department talks Associated Press in Gujrat city on Saturday photo was identical to one he used for a forged British visa several months ago But though authorities States fears: that in the serpentine bazaars of Pakistani towns like Gujrat out of investigators' reach fake Americans and fake American visitors are being created with cameras and laser printers and the intricate work of forgers' skilled hands While many of the illegal travelers arc simply looking for better-payin- g jobs it is a route open to terrorist exploitation “If we think there's a smuggling ring that's willing to smuggle people in that might harm America we'll deal with it" President Bush said lust week That won’t be easy Europe and the United States remain alluring economic beacons especially for a city of 25()(XX) people with many loved ones already abroad and little industry beyond a few ceiling-fa- n and factories washing-machin- e - And when the market makes demands supply is rarely fur behind ' “They have very good printing presses And (hey have very gixkl forgers” Javaid Shani a supervisor in Gujrat's police department said Saturday “If the inspec-- ! tors at the airport ‘have a difficult time identifying the fakes how can our people do it well?" Reported prices in Pakistan have ranged from $220 for a fake Egyptian visa to $25000 for customers' w ho want to go to the United States The head of the Federal Investigative Agency's passport crimes unit Abdul Malik said the agency's immigration branch referred 4fX) cases of foigery and fake documents in 2002 More than 450 investigations are still pending from 2(XX) he said Foreign chefs compete in China HANGZHOU China (XPj ' — The contestants stood on ' one side of the table stirring shrimp pork and vegetables in sizzling woks On tire other side an even larger crowd of reporters and TV crews jostled to catch every morsel of action Why all the excitement? The 20 or so amateur chefs competing in a cook-of- f in the eastern city of Hangzhou on Friday were foreigners showskills ing off their in the birthplace of one of the country's ancient regional cuisines The contest recorded for television with running commentary by food critics stir-fryi- underscores China's changing attitudes toward its own cultural past Once attacked in the tradition-bashing early decades of communist rule China's culinary culture is nowcelcbrated as a point of rising national pride and seen as a way to lure tourists Aimed at promoting Hangzhou as a tourist spot the event echoed the recipe of haute cuisine and competitive AP photo Contestants from Cameroon take part in the Iron Chef-styl- e cooking competition in Hangzhou China on Friday Twenty or so amateur in the eastern city of chefs in white hats competed in a cook-of- f on Friday Hangzhou theatrics on “Iron Chef” the cult television program that began in Japan and has spread to the United States and elsewhere In contrast to “Iron Chef” whose high-intensi- ty competi- tors include professional chefs the Hangzhou contest was a playful meeting of amateurs united by their love of food In brief drop leaflets over Iraq — For the second WASHINGTON US-Briti- sh (AP) time in three days US and British warplanes dropped propaganda leafleLs over southern Iraq on Saturday that provide the radio frequencies broadcasting messages urging Iraqis to oppose President Saddam Hussein The US Central Command said 240000 leaflets were dropped early Saturday over the cities of Al Amarah and As Samawah both about 170 miles southeast of Baghdad It was the 3th time in three months that coalition air crews have dropped leaflets the command said The messages broadcast nightly include information on UN weapons inspections The broadcasLs are part of the US military's psychological operations in preparation for a possible war with Iraq 1 Pakistan officials deny US claim of hot pursuit — Pakistan ISLAMABAD Pakistan (AP) insisted Saturday that it never gave the United States permission to chase Taliban and fighters from Afghanistan into Pakistan da the latest fallout from a week-ol- d border incident that is still touching raw nerves “Absolutely not The Americans cannot cross the Pakistani border from Afghanistan to chase what they say are vestiges of Taliban and Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told The Associated Press on Saturday The claim directly conlradicLs American assertions that US tnx:ps could cross the border if they were in hot pursuit of suspects Solzhenitsyn in hospital with high blood pressure MOSCOW (AP) — Alexander Solzhenitsyn the Nobel author who chronicled the Soviet Gulag was hospitalized with high blood pressure his foundation said Saturday Prize-winni- Hie Homs teD® 3h9 Ma© Solzhenitsyn remained in a Moscow hospital but was feeling better a ' spokeswoman for the Solzhenitsyn Fund said She declined to say when he was admitted Solzhenitsyn earned international recognition with his harsh critiques of the Soviet system for which he spent two decades in exile mostly in Vermont Since his return to Russia in 1994 the reclusive writer has surfaced occasionally to criticize die country’s rocky transition to capitalism (Msmi 'Train Gaffib OBiiMb lil&gffl Mt&fcia& |