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Kidnapped diplomat released
SAN’A, Yemen—Kidnapped U.S.
diplomat Haynes Mahoney III was
released late Monday by Yemeni
tribesmen who had held him hostage
at their desert stronghold, Interior
Minister Yehya al-Mutawakil said.
The minister said that Mahoney
was released at 10:30 p.m. He was
kidnapped Thursday on his way to a
Thanksgiving dinner.
“We have met all the demands of
the kidnappers. We pledge to carry
them out,” the minister said in a tele
phone interview. He said Mahoney
already had been returned to the cap
ital, San’a.
The demands included payment to
the tribe for an oil-pumping station
used by the U.S Yemen Hunt Oil Co.,
back salaries for 150 tribesmen who
were discharged from the presidential
guard, back salaries for a number of
similarly discharged officers and an
economic development plan for the
tribe’s region, said Saleh al-Tam, a
provincial official of the Yemen So
cialist Party, one of the country’s
main political groups.
Five gunmen abducted Mahoney,
the head of the U.S. Information Ser
vice office, Thursday in San’a after he
left a reception at the Taj Sheba hotel
and headed to a friend’s house for
Thanksgiving dinner.
Al-Mutawakil and some influem
tial tribal chiefs had negotiated with
the tribe holding Mahoney in the desert
stronghold at Gahm, 45 miles north
east of San’a.
The Saudi Arabian daily Asharq
Al-Awsat reported Monday that au
thorities had seized “a number of rel
atives” of the tribal leader, Sheik
Mubarak Saleh al-Sa’idi, in an effort
to speed the American’s release.
Tribal sources, speaking on condi
tion of anonymity, said that the de
tained relatives included the sheik’s
son.
Yemen is in the throes of a severe
political crisis because of differences
between President Ali Abdullah Saleh
and Vice President Ali Salem al-Beidh
over the pace of reforms, including
the failure to rein in an unruly security
situation in a nation of armed tribes
men.
Mahoney, a widely traveled diplo
mat in his 40s whose father, retired
diplomat Haynes Mahoney II lives in
Boston, had sent his wife and Ambas
sador Arthur Hughes a stream ofhand
written notes saying his kidnappers
are treating him well.
AP
Mahoney is the first foreign diplo
mat among 200 other foreigners that
local press reports said had been kid
napped over the past 18 months.
The news accounts said most of the
kidnapped foreigners were released
after a few days and that their abduc
tors demands included employment
for their men, the release of impris
oned relativesor improved living con
ditions in their regions.
The same tribe had seized 23 West
ern tourists last month for a couple of
days.
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Trucker to be tried on porn charges
Stull steps down as Missouri s coach
SEWARD — A Seward truck
driver accused of taking hundreds
of sexually explicit picturesof chil
dren will stand trial, a judge ruled
Monday.
County Judge Mary Gilbride
ruled that Harold Sullivan, 37,
should stand trial in Seward Coun
ty District Court.
Sullivan’s arraignment is set for
Jan. 10.
He is charged with nine felony
counts of taking sexually explicit
pictures of children and one felony
count of having sexual contact w ith
a child.
Each of the nine pornography
charges carries a penalty of from
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one to 20 years in prison and-or a
fine of up to $25,000.
The sexual contact charge car
ries a maximum penalty of five
years in prison.
An amateur photographer,
Sullivan isaccusedofluringneigh
borhood children into his apart
ment and taking pictures of them in
the nude.
A friend of Sullivan’s, Barbara
M ills, 42, of Seward, also has been
charged in the case.
She faces three counts of visual
depiction of sexually explicit con
duct of a child. Mills is accused of
allowing her children to be photo
graphed by Sullivan.
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Bob Stull,
hired to resurrect the Missouri foot
ball program just like he did at Tcxas
E1 Paso, stepped down as coach Mon
day and was named an assistant ath
letic director.
Stull never won more than four
games in a season since becoming
coach in 1989. Missouri has not had a
winning season since the 1983 team
went 7-5.
Athletic Director Dan Devine an
nounced Stull’s new job at an after
noon news conference.
Stull, 48, was 15-38-2 overall at
the Big Eight school, including 3-7-1
this year. He also exited Missouri
with a 16-gamc road losing streak and
Kevorkian
fugitive aft
ROYALOAK, Mich.—Ajudge
issued an arrest warrant Monday
for Dr. Jack Kevorkian on a new
charge of assisting a suicide.
Kevorkian was declared a fugitive
after failing to surrender when au
thorities said he had promised to.
The judge signed the warrant
charging Ke vork ian for last month’s
suicide of 72-year-old Merian
Frederick, said Larry Kozina of the
Oakland County Prosecutor’s Of
fice.
Earlier Monday, Prosecutor Ri
chard Thompson said Kevorkian’s
attorney Michael Schwartz, had told
him the retired pathologist would
surrender later in the day.
“Mr. Schwartz, has not kept his
word,” Kozjna said. He said police
were searching for Kevorkian.
Frederick, whohad amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s
disease, died Oct. 22 by inhaling
carbon monoxide in an apartment
next to the one in which Kevorkian
lives in Royal Oak.
Thompson said last week’s death
declared
erabsence
of Dr. Ali Khalili in the same apart
ment remains under investigation.
Kevorkian already faces assist
ed-suicide charges in two deaths in
neighboring Wayne County. The
crime carries up to four years in
prison and a $2,000 fine on convic
tion.
Kevorkian, 65, has threatened a
hunger strike if jailed. He refused
solid food, but accepted juice, wa
ter and vitamins, during a three
day stay earlier this month in the
Wayne County Jail.
The new warrant was issued less
than a day after police raided
Kevorkian’s apartment.
Kevorkian said officers “burst
in” Sunday night as his sister and
two friends arrived to visit.
Schwartz said the apartment was
subjected to a search without a
warrant.
Police said they had received a
tip that a suicide was to take place
in the apartment and waited until a
search warrant arrived before en
tering.
an overall record of 2-24 on the road.
Stull had promised big improve
ment this season, and the Tigers
opened impressively with a 31-3 vic
tory over Illinois. They also were
blown out in four losses, 73-0 to Tex
as A&M, 49-7 to Nebraska, 35-3 to
West Virginia and 28-0 to Kansas.
Missouri closed out its season by
showing up late for the Kansas game
Nov. 20. Stull blamed it on state troop
ers who escorted the team bus into
town but then stopped at red lights.
Missouri was 3-8 in 1992 but closed
the year impressively with victories
over Kansas State and bowl-bound
Kansas, and Stull was given a two
year contract extension.
Nel>ra§kan
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Kara Morrison
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