By The
Associated Press
Edited by Kristine Long
NEWS DIGEST
Harding issue cast aside
LILLEHAMMER, Norway —
Tommy Moe succeeded Sunday where
Olympic officials had failed: He
brought everyone’s attention back to
the Games. The U.S. hockey team—
somewhat shakily — kept it focused
there.
Moe, an un
derdog Ameri
can skiing just
hours after res
olution of the
Tonya Harding
debacle, left
thousands of
Norwegians
stunned when
he won the
men’s downhill gold over local hero
Kjetil Andre Aamodt.
The American hockey team, look
ing for its first gold medal in 14 years,
made up a two-goal third period def
icit to salvage a 4-4 tie with France.
Moe’s victory, by .04 seconds, was
the closest Alpine race in Olympic
history. He collected the first U.S.
men’s Alpine gold in a decade and
only the second ever.
“I didn’t even have any thoughts in
my mind that I was going to win,” said
Moc, a free spirit from Palmer, Alas
ka, who’s competing in his second
Olympics. “I just figured, ‘Hey, I’ll ski
the best I can.’”
He did, grabbing the gold just four
days short of his 24th birthday. Cana
dian Ed Podivinsky took the bronze.
While Moe’s upset win canceled
the party on the slopes, Norwegians at
the Viking Hall celebrated a world
record-setting gold medal performance
by one of their own, speedskater
Johann Olav Koss. The Slovakian
hockey team made its Olympic debut
with a 4-4 tie against medal favorite
Sweden. And at the luge, Duncan
Kennedy kept hope alive for the first
U.S. medal ever in the event.
Koss, one of many 1992 Olympi
ans expected to excel in these Games
with the one-time-only, two-year turn
around, smashed his own world record
in the 5,000 meter. The silver went to
teammate Kjell Storelid.
By day’s end, Norway had three
medals—more than any other nation.
The American hockey team par
layed a pair of miscucs by French
goalie Petri Yloncn into a 4-4 tie.
Ylonen, who turned long shots by
Peter Laviolette and Brian Rolston
into goals, slammed his stick to tne ice
in anger when the game ended.
The United States grabbed an early
2-1 lead, but three American miscues
near the net allowed France to move
ahead in the final period.
In other hockey action, Slovakia
scored an impressive 4-4 tie with sec
ond-seeded Sweden in its first Olym
pic hockey game.
The country gained its indepen
dence just 13 months ago. Four of its
players are from the 1992 bronze
medal Czechoslovakian team. The
Canadian team, silver medal winners
in 1992, whipped Italy 7-2 in its first
game here.
The Moe medal and the Sunday
debut of the U.S. hockey team provid
ed a welcome break from the Harding
Nancy Kerrigan flap, which ended
with American officials agreeing to
let Harding skate.
“The matter has been resolved,”
Kerrigan said in a Sunday statement
that pointedly omitted Harding’s
name.
“Regardless of my opinion on the
ruling, the Olympics have begun and
it’s time to skate.”
Palestinian gunmen
fire at Israeli agents
BEITUNIYA, Occupied West
Bank — Palestinian gunmen
sprayed automatic gun fire at a car
carrying Israeli security agents in
the occupied West Bank Sunday,
killing one and injuring two, offi
cials said.
The ambush occurred as agents
of the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal
security service, drove by the vil
lage of Beituniya, six miles north of
Jerusalem, said Maj. Gen. Shaul
Mufaz, commanderof the occupied
West Bank forces.
Three agents were wounded but
returned fire, Mufaz said, adding
he did not know how many gunmen
were involved.
One Israeli died en route to
Hadassah hospital in Ein Kerem,
spokeswoman Jennifer Basu told
The Associated Press. She said all
three were in civilian clothing.
The army clamped a curfew on
Beituniya and nearby Ramallah,
and cut off electricity in El Amari
refugee camp. Soldiers reportedly
detained two suspects during
searches for the gunmen.
The agents’ white Mercedes car
was wrapped in canvas and then
towed away to conceal it from pho
tographers. Security sources said
more than 40 bullets were fired.
Army radio reported that the
attack was claimed by Izzedine el
Qassam, the military arm of Hamas,
a radical Muslim group opposed to
the Israel-PLOpeace accord. Hamas
has been blamed for most of the
attacks on Israelis since the accord
was signed Sept. 13.
Violence against the peace agree
ment has escalated since Israel and
the Palestine Liberation Organiza
tion agreed Wednesday on security
arrangements for the proposed
Palestinian autonomy.
Palestinian opponents to the Is
rael-PLO accord have said the au
tonomy is too limited, and have
vowed to sabotage the peace pro
cess through anti-Israel violence.
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Haitian fuel shortage
not affected by explosion
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A
spectacular explosion that destroyed
the capital’s main center for contra
band gasoline sales probably will not
seriously worsen Haiti’s fuel shortage
from a U.N. embargo, diplomats said
Sunday.
They said smuggling of fuel from
the neighboring Dominican Republic
has increased recently in defiance of
the embargo imposed in an effort to
force the army to let President Jcan
Bertrand Aristide return to power.
Asoflate Saturday officials did not
suspect sabotage in the explosion,
which set off a fire that destroyed a
half-block ofbuildings on RuedeCesar
in downtown Port-au-Prince.
No casualties were reported, but
authorities said Sunday they could not
be sure until the wreckage was
searched.
A stretch of warehouses, stores and
at least one hotel was destroyed by the
blaze. Tens of thousands of gallons of
contraband gasoline and diesel fuel
were stored in the warehouses in 55
gallon drums, eight-gallon plastic
containers or one-gallon jugs.
Haiti’s already impoverished econ
omy has suffered from the fuel embar
go imposed in October after military
leaders reneged on an agreement to
allow the return of Aristide. He was
overthrown by a bloody coup in Sep
tember 1991 after less than a year in
power as the country’s first freely
elected president.
The army has stockpiled gasoline
in underground depots around the
capital, but the fuel at the burned
warehouses was the main source of
sales to ordinary and well-to-do Hai
tians.
Speaking on condition of anonym
ity, a Western diplomat said gasoline
and diesel fuel are being brought in
through several routes from the Do
minican Republic.
Despite an increased Dominican
military presence on the border, fuel is
getting to Haiti on skiffs along the
north coast, rowboats across central
Saumarte Lake and in some vehicles
crossing the border, he said.
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