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Ohio prison riot
leaves 6 dead
LUCASVILLE, Ohio — Part of
Ohio’sonly maximum security prison
remained under siege Monday after
hundreds of prisoners rioted, killing
six inmates and taking eight guards
hostage.
Negotiators tried to work out a deal
with some of the state’s most danger
ous prisoners, asking them to free one
hostage in exchange for a chance to
outline their demands to the media.
About 450 prisoners were barri
caded inside one ccllblock of the
prison, located about 70 miles south
of Columbus in south-central Ohio.
Prison officials said a scuffle among
a few prisoners escalated into a riot
Sunday afternoon.
Ten guards and eight inmates were
injured.
Negotiations were under way Mon
day, said Sharron Komegay, a spokes
woman for the Ohio Department of
Rehabilitation and Correction.
The prisoners “arc tired and hun
gry. . . .We are at a very sensitive
stage,” she told reporters outside the
69-acrc prison.
Authorities said the eight hostages
were alive.
Officials cut off electricity and
water to the ccllblock, and refused to
deliver food. Prisoners were last fed at
about noon Sunday, but they may
have stored some food in their lock
ers, she said.
The rest of the prison’s 1,819 in
mates, including death-row inmates,
ware confined to cells away from the
affected area.
Ms. Komcgay said prisoners who
took 24-inch batons from guards dur
ing the riots killed the six convicts.
“I think it’s probably pretty obvi
ous who killed them,” she said. “Our
staff wouldn’t do that.”
The bodies of five inmates were
released early Monday. The sixth body
was thrown through a ccllblock door
later in the morning. Ms. Korncgay
said he had been dead for many hours.
The head of a state prison inspec
tion panel said in Columbus he was
not surprised by the violence.
“These arc the ones that for the
most part cannot get along in any of
the other prisons,” said state Rep.
Michael Shoemaker, who heads the
eight-member House-Senate Correc
tional Institution Inspection Commit
tee. “There arc a lot of guys who have
a lot of lime to sit around and think of
bad things to do, and they’re good at,
it.”
Southern Ohio Correctional Facility'
Inmates barricaded since Sunday will not be allowed to tell the media
their demands unless they release one of their hostages, prison
officials said today. Eight guards were taken hostage after a riot broke
out, five prisoners were killed and at least 18 other guards and inmates
were injured. 321 inmates refused to take part in the riots and were
removed to other cells. m-i
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•Acreage under fence: 68.9
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•Buildings interconnected by
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•"K" and "L" cell blocks house 80
men each. Total: 640
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NATO warplanes flex air power over Bosnia
SARAJEVO, Bosnia- Herzegovina
— NATO warplanes patrolled above
an overcast Bosnia on Monday to
begin enforcing a U.N. no-fly zone in
the first flexing of
thcalliance’smili
tary muscle out
side its territory.
Among the
planes was a
French Mirage
2000 that went
- down in the
Adriatic Sea, Pen
tagon sources said. The USS Roosevelt
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aircraft carrier launched a.search mis
sion for the pilot, said the sources,
speaking on condition of anonymity.
The flights were meant to impress
Bosnian Serbs of new resolve to en
force U.N. resolutions meant to end
Bosnia’s civil war.
Operation Deny Flight had more
political than military significance.
The year-long war has primarily been
fought with artillery, tanks and infan
try. NATO pilots were under strict
orders to shoot only as a last resort.
Bosnian Serbs bombarded the be
sieged eastern town of Srebrenica with
renewed ferocity Monday. U.N. offi
cials said at least 56 people died in an
hour-long barrage.
Allied planes arc policing Bosnia
from bases in Italy across the Adriatic.
Two U.S. Air Force F-15 jet lighters,
two French Mirage 2000s and two
Dutch F-16s flew the first mission.
AWACs surveillance planes manned
by multinational crews and Navy jets
on the Roosevelt also arc participat
ing.
NATO officials declined to dis
cuss specifically how violators would
be dealt with. They said previously
that NATO pilots would try to order
violators back home or force them to
land. Shooting down violators would
be the last resort.
There were no reports of the NATO
planes confronting any aircraft on
Monday.
One of the Pentagon sources said
the French plane went down about 15
miles off the coast of former Yugosla
via and another said “there was no
hostile action involved.” The French
Defense Ministry in Paris had no im
mediate comment.
King mrors deliberate as troops enter L. A.
LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of
National Guard troops reported to stag
ing areas Monday and civil rights
leaders pleaded for restraint as a fed
eral jury deliberated the ease of four
policemen accused of beating Rodney
Shielded from the public’s jitters
and the police buildup, the 12 jurors
resumed their talksafter meeting Eas
ter Sunday afternoon.
Scores ofTV trucks, satellite dishes
at the ready, surrounded the down
town courthouse.
Across town, guardsmen banged
their rifle butts on the bed of a troop
truck in a display of spirit at Califor
nia National Guard headquarters in
Inglewood.
About 600 guardsmen reported to
area armories by Monday morning
and the Police Department put 200
extra officers on the streets at al I times
in case a verdict in the ease triggered
violence.
Operations will be routine until the
jury reaches a verdict, both agencies
said.
“Unless there is a call for more,
they arc going to be here going through
somcdrills, training, probably double
clicking their equipment,” said guard
CapT. Lisa Corrivaia.
Deadly rioting broke out last spring
after Sgl. Stacey Koon, Officers
Laurence Powell and Theodore
Briseno and former Officer Timothy
Wind were acquitted of most charges
in a state trial.
In this federal trial, the four white
officers were charged with violating
the black motorisfs civil rights dur
ing a beating after a highway chase on
March 3, 1991.
The Rev. Benjamin Chavis, newly
elected leader of the NAACP, said
Monday he was concerned about the
buildup of “military apparatus” in
Los Angeles.
Chavis compared the heightened
alert to Operation Desert Storm as the
United Stales geared up for war with
Iraq.
“Law enforcement officials have
the responsibility to keep order,” he
said.
Yeltsin campaigning to save Russian reform
MOSCOW — Hilling ihe cam
paign trail two weeks before the refer
endum on his leadership, President
p Boris Yeltsin
urged his country
men on Monday to
support him and
endorse the “new
Russia” and its
post-Communist
reforms.
L Ycllsin’sspccch
to Moscow stu
dents was part of a campaign swing
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this week to rally popular support
before the referendum. The April 25
vote is aimed at resolving the power
struggle between the president and
the hard-line Congress.
‘ We must defend the course for
reforms together,” Yeltsin told about
1,500 people at the Moscow Aviation
Institute. “I hope you have made your
choice to support a new Russia.”
“In order to act more decisively, I
must have support of the electorate in
this critical moment. All together, we
must make this decisive choice,”
Yeltsin, said describing the referen
dum as his “last reserve.”
On Tuesday, Yeltsin plans to take
his campaign to the Kuznetsk Basin,
Russia’s largest coal deposit and the
center of strikes that shook the Soviet
Union in 1989 and 1991.
The referendum, approved last
month by the Congress of People’s
Deputies, will ask Russians whether
they have confidence in Yeltsin and if
they support his painful economic
reforms. It also asks if they favor early
presidential and5 parliamentary elec
tions.
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