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M OTA7’C T) 1 C5" C"f" Associated Press X lL Vf Cf ty XSbV lr Edited by Brandon Loomis Kremlin sends 11,000 troops to Azerbaijan MOSCOW - The Kremlin sent more than 11,000 reinforcements, includ ing Red Army units, to the Caucasus on Tuesday to halt a civil war be tween Armenians and Azerbaijanis that has killed 56 people. New clashes were reported, and Tass said 2,000 people armed with anti-aircraft guns and other artillery were massing on hills around Na gorno-Karabakh, a disputed district 1,250 miles southeast of Moscow. In Armenia, “demands are being made to arm citizens and send them to Nagorno-Karabakh,” according to the official news agency, and the government newspaper Izvestia re ported 16 attacks on weapons depots in 24 hours by Armenians hunting for guns. In one raid, 3,000 people stormed a police station in Armenia’s Artash region and seized 106 automatic weapons, 30 carbines, 27 rifles, more than 3,000 cartridges and a grenade Turkey 500 Hun ..r John Bruoe/Datfy Nebraskan launcher, the newspaper said. “We can’t bring ourselves to pro nounce it out loud, but what is hap pening now in Karabakh, in northern Azerbaijan, can unambiguously be termed a civil war,’’ correspondent O. Shapovalov wrote in the newspa per Komsomolskaya Pravda. “The madness is continuing,’’ an editor at Armenia’s official Armcnpress news agency said from Yerevan, the republic’s capital. Gorbachev and the Soviet Presid ium declared a stale of emergency in the strife-torn mountain area Monday night, empowering the government to deploy units of the Soviet army, navy and KGB to protect lives and guard vital installations such as rail roads. Internal security troops already in the region have been incapable of halting the most protracted ethnic conflict in Gorhachev’s nearly five year tenure as Kremlin leader. Izves lia said Tuesday that the conflict threat ens Gorbachev’s entire campaign for “perestroika,” or economic and so cial reform. More than 6,000 additional inter nal security troops were sent Tuesday to reinforce existing Interior Ministry detachments, Tass said. To assist them, more than 5,000 Red Army soldiers, who traditionally carry heavier weap onry , also were dispatched, Tass said. Soviet media did not say how many total troops were in the region. Residents of Yerevan and Baku, Azepital, said by phone they had seen no sign Tuesday night of the rein forcements’ arrival. The Bush administration supported Gorbachev’s use of troops in the Caucasus and criticized feuding Azerbaijanis and Armenians for “revisiting old ethnic hatreds.” “We recognize the right of any state to ensure the safety of its citi zens, and it looks like that’s the pri mary concern at the moment,’ said White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater. The Kremlin emergency decree empowers local officials to ban dem onstrations and strikes, impose cur fews, censor the media, confiscate weapons, disband unofficial organi zations and detain people for up to 30 days. Interior Ministry officials said they could not recall such measures being taken in the country since World War II. Gennady I. Gerasimov, the For eign Ministry spokesman, denied the decree was a backtracking in Gor bachev’s reforms, which have led to greater openness and liberalization of society since he became Soviet leader in March 1985. “I would not interpret this step as being at odds with glasnosl and de mocracy,” Gerasimov said. “On the contrary, the step opposes anarchy.” in a ironi-page commentary in Izvestia, Albert Plutnik wrote: “Per estroika has to defend itself. And it’s not its fault if to defend itself and others, it needs the help of emergency measures.” In Moscow, spokesman Vladimir A. Yanchenkov of the Interior Minis try, which is in charge of police af fairs, said the death toll in the Cau- | casus had risen from 37 to 56 in Azerbaijan and that 156 people had been injured. Two of the dead were members of law enforcement agencies, he said. Most of the victims were Armenians, the ministry said. Yanchenkov said authorities had recorded 167 “pogroms,” or ethnic attacks, and cases of arson. In the Shaumyan region of Azer baijan, fighters took an armored per sonnel carrier and infantry fighting vehicle and seized soldiers as hos tages, Komsomolskaya Pravda said. The armored vehicle crushed a police car in a “barbarian slaughter,” the paper said. Some of the fighters were mas querading as soldiers by wearing their uniforms, it said. Soviet TV showed Interior Minis try troops firing in the air as they rode in armored personnel carriers through an Azerbaijani village near Nagorno Karabakh to enforce the emergency decree. Bank linked to Noriega pleads guilty to money laundering I TAMPA, Fla. - A Luxembourg bank pleaded guilty today in a $32 million global money-laundering case with links to cocaine traffickers and fallen Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, and agreed to forfeit a rec ord S14 million. Under the plea bargain, the two divisions of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International will also receive five years' probation. The plea did not affect charges against six bank officers - one of whom said he was Noriega’s personal banker - and two Colombians prose cutors say were part of the Medellin cocaine cartel. Their case opened today with pre-trial motions. But under the plea bargain, BCCI agreed to cooperate in prosecuting the remaining defendants. The cash forfeiture of $14 million frozen by the government was the largest ever by a financial institution in the United States, said Dave Runkel, U.S. Justice Department spokesman. BCCI entered the plea as it was about to go on trial in the first federal prosecution of a major bank on charges of conspiring to aid drug trafficking through secret accounts. The more than 30 charges against the two bank entities included lax fraud, failure to report currency trans actions over SI0,000 and laundering cocaine profits. U.S. District Judge W. Terrell Hodges did not immediately set a sentencing date. He imposed a gag order to prevent parties in the case from talking to the news media, and bank officials and attorneys refused comment on tnc agreement. During a two-year sting called Operation C-Chase, customs agents posed as money launderers and pene trated powerful Colombian syndicates, authorities said. According to the indictment, agents contacted BCG representatives in 1987 and opened accounts at different branches. BCC1 officials were to receive drug money and put it in certificates of deposit in the branches, agents said. The branches used reportedly in eluded locations in brancc, Panama, ■ Uruguay, the Bahamas, Luxembourg ■ and England. Customs agents claimed the money 1 was intended mainly for Colombian drug traffickers, investigators said bank officials would create a loan at a branch, permit the agents to with draw the funds, then repay the loan with the CDs. The bank divisions and nine of the bank’s officers were indicted in 1988. Noriega is not mentioned in the in dictment. Supreme Court to hear 2 child abuse cases WASHINGTON (AP) - The Su preme Court on Tuesday agreed to decide whether people accused of child abuse have the right to at least one face-to-face confrontation with their young accusers. The justices, ir. two cases of enormous importance forchild-abuse prosecutions nationwide, said they will consider reinstating the child molesting conviction of a Maryland day-care center owner and an Idaho woman’s child-abuse conviction. Decisions in the two cases are expected by July. Stating that the Constitution’s Sixth Amendment requires a face-to-face confrontation, the justices in 1988 struck down an Iowa man’s sexual assault conviction because two 13 year-old girls were allowed to testify while protected by a large screen placed in the courtroom between them and the defendant. The Sixth Amendment, in part, says, “In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right... to be confronted with the witnesses against him.” The 1988 decision appeared to leave unanswered whether there may be exceptions to the face-to-face require ment. Maryland’s highest court threw out Sandra A. Craig’s conviction, saying her 7-year-old accuser and three other young witnesses wrongly were al lowed to testify against her over closed circuil television. But the slate court stopped short of invalidating the Maryland law that allows young children to testify by closed-circuit television, outside the presence of the defendant, in such cases. About half the slates have similar laws. In the appeal acted on Tuesday, Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran Jr. said the state court ruling in Craig’s case “struck an untrue balance between a defendant’s con stitutional right... and the compel ling governmental interest of safe guarding the physical and psycho logical well-being of a child.” In its ruling last July, the Maryland Court of Appeals said Craig is en titled to a new trial on charges that she sexually molested a girl who attended her Howard County day-care center for two years before it was closed in 1986. Craig had been sentenced to 10 years in prison for her 1987 convic tion on those charges. She also faces trial on charges Court to review pro-environmentalist ruling challenged by Bush, Department of Interior WASHINGTON (AP) - The Su preme Court said Tuesday it will consider limiting the power of envi ronmentalists to prevent the opening up of federal lands to commercial development. The court voted to review a pro enviromentalist ruling challenged by the Bush administration. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals here ruled last June that the National Wildlife Federation may sue the Inte rior Department over its plans to change the status of some 130 million acres of public land in Western states and Alaska - more than one-fourth of the nation’s public lands. The federation said it is suing to 'protect federal lands against unwise or premature disposition and devel opment,” including millions of acres lo be opened up to mining and min eral leasing. The move to reclassify the land for development and other uses was made by the Reagan administration in 1985, following a policy instituted by then Secretary James G. Watt in 1981. The wildlife federation said the Reagan administration violated fed eral law by opening the land to devel opment without following procedures in the 1976 Federal Land Policy and Management Act. The appeals court said the federa tion has legal standing to sue because affidavits show some of its 4.5 mil lion members use some of the land for recreation. The appeals court over ruled a federal judge who had thrown out the suit. The Bush administration said the appeals court permitted a wholesale challenge to the Intenor Department’s reclassification based on a vague al legation it will ieopardize use of a liny portion of the land by wildlife federation members. stemming from the alleged molesta tion of 12 other children who at tended the day-care center in Clarksville, Md. At the 1987 trial, four children were allowed to testify outside the courtroom with only a prosecutor and one of Craig’s lawyers present. Craig and her other lawyer remained in the courtroom, where they could watch the testimony over a closed-circuit television. In the Idaho case, the issue is whether a defendant’s right to con frontation was violated by the testi mony of a pediatrician who had ex amined a 2-year-old girl allegedly abused by her father. Laura Lee Wright and Robert Giles were convicted in Idaho of lewd conduct committed on Wright’s two daughters, who were then 5 and 2. Wright was sentenced to 20 years in prison, hut the state Supreme Court threw out her conviction last June 13 and ordered a new trial. The stale court ruled that the trial judge wrongly had allowed a pedia trician who had examined the 2-ycar old girl to testify about what she told him. The girl did not testify at the trial,and therefore could not be cross examined by Wright’s lawyer. I he state court said the pediatri cian's testimony “lacks particular ized guarantees of trustworthiness and, in fact, is fraught with the dangers of unreliability which the (Sixth Amend ment) is designed to highlight and obviate.” The cases arc Maryland vs. Craig. 89-478, and Idaho vs. Wnght, 89 260. 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