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Show The Utah Statesman World News ~Frlday7Sepl 17 Girl is reclusive after escaping from almost nine years in captivity VIENNA, Austria (AP) - The young woman who endured 8 1/2 years in captivity has adopted a "reserved attitude" toward her parents since her dramatic escape from her kidnapper last week, psychologists treating her said Thursday. Experts who have been meeting with 18-year-old Natascha Kampusch since she bolted to freedom on Aug. 23 told reporters she has been in regular telephone contact only with her mother and has not had any further contact with her father. The three had had a tearful reunion when she escaped, and both parents have begged to be able to see her again. Monika Pinterits, a lawyer who specializes in representing traumatized young people, said Kampusch might not decide for weeks or months whether to live with one of her parents. They divorced after her abduction as a 10-year-old schoolgirl in March 1998 _ a case that until last week was one of Austria's greatest unsolved mysteries. Kidnapper Wolfgang Priklopil, 44, killed himself by jumping in front of a train after Kampusch escaped. Max Friedrich, a criminal psychiatrist on the team treating Kampusch, said the years she spent as a prisoner - often confined to a windowless underground cell - amounted to "isolation torture." Kampusch's mother, Brigitta Sirny, issued a statement saying she was grateful that so many people sympathized with her daughter's plight but pleading with the media to "leave her alone." "The whole fuss has really become too much for me and for all of us," Sirny said, adding that she would no longer grant any interviews. The young woman's father, Ludwig Koch, has filed a court claim for a $45,000 share of Priklopil's estate to help compensate for her extreme mental suffering and help ensure "the future security of my child," the Kronen Zeitung daily reported for Friday's editions. As therapists continued caring for Kampusch in the secure, unidentified location where she has been resting since escaping Priklopil, police said they tentatively planned to question her again about her ordeal. "It all depends on whether Ms. Kampusch can and is willing to talk," said police Maj. Gen. Gerhard Lang of the Federal Criminal Investigations Bureau. Investigators on Thursday finished collect- ing and preserving fingerprints, traces of DNA and other biological evidence from Priklopil's sprawling home in the Vienna suburb of Strasshof, and Lang said it would be analyzed at a police laboratory. Police questioned her in three 20-minute sessions on Wednesday, and another lawyer, Guenter Harrich, said she seemed "rather exhausted" by the time they were done. Investigators spent another day gathering evidence from Priklopil's sprawling home in the Vienna suburb of Strasshof. Lang said officers moving from floor to floor collecting and preserving fingerprints and traces of DNA expected to finish that part of the inquiry in a day or two. Police said they have found no evidence of any other secret rooms like the cell where Kampusch was kept, which contained books, clothes, a television, a bed, a toilet and a sink. Investigators say she was allowed to listen to radio and watch videos, and with the help of a book taught herself how to knit. Officers cataloging videos and notes for closer examination found a number of children's and youth books, Lang said. 903 South 800 West Logan, UT 84321 435-752-4215 Hours: Mon-Sat: noon-10 pm High Thrill Rides & GoCarts start at 5 p.m. on M-F and noon on Saturday. miniature Resolution passed by UN to help peacekeepers end violence in Darfur UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. Security Council passed a resolution Thursday that would give the United Nations authority over peacekeepers in Darfur as soon as Sudan's government gives its consent _ which it has so far refused to do. The resolution is meant to give more power and funding to a force, now run by the African Union, that has been unable to stop the humanitarian catastrophe in Darfur. The violence has killed more than 200,000 people and continues to worsen. The document passed 120, with China, Russia and Qatar abstaining. Yet the council cannot take any significant action on the resolution until Sudan reverses its opposition to a U.N. force. Dimming the prospects for the resolution to actually go into effect, Sudan President Omar AlBashir rejected it, the official SUNA news agency said. "The Sudanese people will not consent to any resolution that will violate its sovereignty," the agency quoted alBashir's government as saying. The ruling party leadership called on the Sudanese people to "strengthen further their cohesion and ranks and prepare to face any development." The United States and Britain, the two original sponsors of the resolution, said they hoped that the vote would help put new pressure on al-Bashir to acquiesce. "It is imperative that we move immediately to implement it fully to stop the tragic events unfolding in Darfur," U.S. Ambassador John Bolton said. "Every day we delay only adds to the suffering of the Sudanese people and extends the genocide." ' More than 200,000 people have died in the remote Darfur region since 2003 when ethnic African tribes revolted against the Arab-led Khartoum government. The government is accused of unleashing Arab militiamen known as janjaweed who have been blamed for widespread atrocities. A peace deal signed by the government and one of the ethnic African rebel groups operating in the region has had little effect. U.N. officials and aid workers say the crisis has only deepened in recent months, with rape, killings and other attacks in Darfur at a new high. China and Russia said they supported the contents of the resolution but wanted Sudan's consent before adopting it. By pushing ahead, China said, the council only risked triggering further violence in Darfur. "This is obviously not the intended outcome of the council in adopting this resolution," U.N. Ambassador Wang Guangya said. In Washington, Assistant Secretary of State Jendayi E. Frazer said she was "absolutely confident" the Sudanese government would accept a U.N. peacekeeping force. Kristen Silverberg, assistant secretary of state for international organizations, said "we are very pleased" with passage of the resolution. At a joint news conference with Frazer, Silverberg called Russia's abstention "inexplicable." One central element of the resolution would give the peacekeepers new power to intervene to protect civilians in Darfur. The current African Union force has had little authority to intervene to stop such attacks. Peacekeeping authority for the Darfur mission would be in the hands of a separate U.N. force already deployed in Sudan's south. That peacekeeping force, which now has about 10,000 troops, would be expanded to 17,000 military personnel and up to 3,300 civilian police to cover both areas. The African Union has called for the U.N. to take control of the peacekeeping force, whose formal mandate expires on Sept. 30. Al-Bashir has offered to send government troops to Darfur but Western nations insist that would not help. In a new bid to win Sudan's consent, the council has planned a high-level meeting for Sept. 8 to discuss the issue with Sudanese officials as well as representatives from the African Union, the Arab League and the Organization of the Islamic Conference. The resolution is the first to refer to the "responsibility to protect" _ a notion agreed to at a summit of world leaders a year ago, in which the international community vowed to intervene to protect civilians if their government could not. "The test before the coun- cil today was whether it was prepared to act to mandate the resolution and assume its responsibilities to the people of Darfur," Britain's Deputy U.N. Ambassador Karen Pierce said. "The adoption of this resolution shows that it is." 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