Violence in refugee camps
injure several U.S. soldiers
PANAMA CITY — About
1,000 rioting Cuban refugees, an
gry at the slow pace of finding
them new homes, threw rocks,
bricks and bottles at U.S. soldiers
Thursday, injuring about 120 of
them.
At least three Cubans were also
reported injured.
The rioters caused heavy dam
age in two of four U.S. jungle
camps near the Panama Canal.
About 8,500 refugees were placed
in the camps after President
Clinton in August ordered U.S.
warships to intercept boats flee
ing Cuba.
. She said the American troops did
not fire their weapons during the
violence.
Reeder said she had no reports
of deaths.
“7his is the worst
incident we have had.
Our concern is the
security of our troops.
MELANIE REEDER
U.S. military spokeswoman
There also have been rock
throwing protests at the U.S. bast
in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, when
thousands of Cuban and Haitiai
refugees are being held. As man}
as 650 people participated in twe
skirmishes Sept. 6 at two camp;
there.
The violence Thursday came as
119 refugees were being flown to
Spain or Miami under a plan to re
locate refugees who have spent
more than three months in the
sweltering camps. Those refugees
apparently were not involved in the
melee.
mere s uneasiness, said
Reeder, adding that troops were
given orders to use tear gas after
rioting continued Thursday after
noon at one camp.
Troops set up roadblocks
around the camps, 12 miles west
of Panama City, searching for
about 100 refugees who escaped,
i The injured soldiers were being
treated at a mobile army field hos
, pilal, mostly for minor injuries,
; cuts and bruises.
Alternate jury panel selected
for Simpson’s murder trial
LOS ANGELES — A predomi
nantly black and female panel of 12
alternate jurors was selected Thurs
day for O.J. Simpson’s murder trial,
ending a search that began more than
two months ago.
The group closely resembles the
original panel, which legal experts
have said is favorable to Simpson.
Superior Court Judge Lance Ito
said he would mle later on whether
two of the original 12 jurors would
be removed because of unspecified
allegations of misconduct.
If any are kicked off, members of
the alternate panel would be selected
at random to replace them.
The alternate panel includes nine
women and three men. There are
seven blacks, four whites and one
Hispanic.
The alternates were selected from
a larger pool of 38 prospects after
OJ. Simpson
ON TRIAL
lawyers used Iheir peremptory chal
lenges, which allow for each side to
excuse people for any reason but race
or sex. Each side had 12 challenges.
Besides the possible dismissal of
jurors for misconduct, some of the
alternates will probably sit in judg
ment of Simpson because of the like
lihood that jurors will be lost for vari
ous reasons during the trial, which
could last six months.
‘Godfather of Soul’ wanted
AIKEN, S.C. — James Brown, slill on pro
bation for aggravated assault and failing to stop
for a police officer, is again a wanted man. This
time its for allegedly hitting his wife and
knocking her to the floor.
An arrest warrant was issued Thursday
charging the “Godfather of Soul” with crimi
nal domestic violence for allegedly shoving his
wife. Adrienne, during an argument at the
couple’s home in Beech Island.
Brown and his third wife have been mar
ried about 10 years. They had a scries of highly
publicized fights in the 1980s, and Brown said
in 1988 that he was filing for divorce.
Aiken County Sheriff’s spokesman Tim
Hoffman said police responded to a 911 call
from Mrs. Brown, 44, about 11:30 p.m.
Wednesday.
They found her at home alone, he said. She
was taken by ambulance to Aiken Regional
Medical Centers. Hospital officials wouldn’t
say whether she was admitted.
Hoffman said Mrs. Brown told deputies that
during a scuffle, Brown. 61, shoved her to the
door, where she struck a chair, cutting her lip.
Brown left before police arrived, but
Hoffman said he was not considered a fugi
tive. “I think he’ll turn himself in as soon as
he finds out about the warrant,” Hoffman said.
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Low-level waste compact
rejects new appointees
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A five-state
compact overseeing development of a low
level radioactive waste storage facility over
stepped its authority when it voted Thurs
day not to seat two more Nebraskans on the
commission, several angry Nebraska resi
dents said.
Nebraska Gov. Ben Nelson had notified
the Central Interstate Low-Level Radioac
tive Waste Commission Tuesday that he was
appointing a second voting member and a
non-voting member to the commission.
The commission is overseeing the devel
opment of a low-level radioactive waste stor
age facility near Butte in Boyd County.
But commissioners from Kansas, Arkan
sas, Louisiana and Oklahoma voted not to
seat the two new appointees at Thursday’s
meeting. Nebraska commissioner Dick
Coyne abstained.
Commission attorney Alan Peterson said
that seating the extra two members would
have violated the federal rules that created
the multi-state compact.
The commissioners did not make any
comment before voting. Commissioners did
agree to hold a special meeting to discuss
the request, most likely in conjunction with
the next regular meeting in Nebraska in
March.
Nelson’s aid, Steve Moeller, said it ap
peared the commission had already made
its decision.
“Saying you won’t seat them today, and
then will have a meeting to discuss it, is a
little like saying you will give someone a
fair trial and then hang them,” Moeller said.
When appointing the new commission
ers, Nelson cited a state law that allows the
host state of the compact to have two at
large voting members and one non-voting
member from the county in which the fa
cility is located.
Moeller aigued that the commission docs
not have the authority to override stale law
by rejecting the appointments.
Nelson wants Butte rancher Craig Zeisler
as a non-voting member and University of
Nebraska-Lincoln economics professor
Greg Hayden as a voting member on the
commission. Zeisler was at Thursday’s
“This will not give Nebraska
a majority on the
commission, it won’t hurt
you one bit. This action
shows you do not intend to
treat Nebraska, its governor,
or its citizens with the respect
they deserve. ”
DIANE BURTON
Auburn, Neb.
meeting but Hayden was delayed by weather
in Lincoln, Neb.
“Right now, Craig is as much a commis
sioner as anyone else on this board,”
Moeller said. “It is patently unfair for you
to sit here today and say you aren’t going to
respect Nebraska laws. I guarantee you that
Nebraska is not going to back down from
this.”
Several speakers noted that the commis
sion had never before voted on seating a
member. When one speaker, Diane Burton
of Auburn, Neb., asked the commissioners
for some explanation of their vote, no one
replied.
“What in the devil are you afraid of,”
Burton asked. “This will not give Nebraska
a majority on the commission, it won’t hurt
you one bit. This action shows you do not
intend to treat Nebraska, its governor, or
its citizens with the respect they deserve.”
Gene Crump, executive director of the
commission, said Nelson was wrong to rea
son that any state law can direct the com
mission to change the way it operates. The
federal law creating the compact system
can’t be superseded by state laws, he said.
All five compact states would have to
ratify any proposed changes which would
then be submitted to the U.S. Congress for
final ratification, Peterson said Thursday.
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