By The
Associated Press
Edited by Jennifer Mlratsky
News Digest
Friday, January 20,1995 Page 2
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India avalanche
traps hundreds
JAMMU, India — Five hun
dred motorists were stranded in a
tunnel for a fourth night Thursday
by a snowslide that swept cars and
buses off a Himalayan mountain
road, killing at least 125 people.
Heavy snow prevented rescue
teams from searching for hundreds
more people missing after
Monday’s avalanche on the main
highway linking Jammu-Kashmir
with the rest of India.
Indian air force helicopters flew
400 survivors to safety Wednesday
and Thursday.
Information from the site has
been sketchy because of poor com
munications.
Initially, police and state offi
cials said 1,000 people were trapped
when the avalanche blocked the
entrance and exit to the Jawahar
tunnel in northern Jammu-Kash
mir state.
But Thursday, police said they
made contact with rescue workers
and learned there were about 500
motorists inside the tunnel and that
they were not trapped but had taken
shelter there after the avalanche.
Police said the motorists in the
tunnel were safe and that soldiers
and villagers had brought them
food and blankets.
A total of 125 bodies were re
covered from buses knocked by the
snow into a deep gorge three miles
from the tunnel.
Officials have not been able to
account for hundreds of people
believed to have been inside other
vehicles and fear many of them
have been swept away by the ava
lanche.
Judge questions Microsoft settlement
NEW YORK—The federal judge
overseeing the antitrust case against
Microsoft Corp. questioned the lim
ited scope of the agreement Thurs
day, raising issues at the heart of the
software giant’s dominant role in the
computer industry.
A day before Microsoft and the
Justice Department were to seek final
approval of the settlement, U.S. Dis
trict Judge Stanley Sporkin in Wash
ington said he will ask the two sides
to explain why certain business prac
tices were left out of the agreement.
Sporkin said he wanted to know
why Microsoft wasn’t required to es
tablish a barrier between the develop
ment of operating software, which
runs the basic functions of a personal
computer, and applications software,
which includes word processing and
spreadsheet programs.
Microsoft critics said it gave its
own applications programmers ac
cess to operating software improve
ments before sharing them with other
companies, a key advantage that
helped Microsoft attain unparalleled
strength.
Sporkin’s ruling is not itself a sign
that he will reject the agreement, but
rather an agenda for winning his ap
proval . It indicates the judge has taken
into consideration many of the criti
cisms of the settlement, forged last
July after a four-year government in
vestigation of Microsoft. "
Sporkin questioned why the Jus
tice Department created no system to
monitor Microsoft’s compliance with
the agreement, which requires
changes in incentives Microsoft gave
personal computer makers to install
its software.
The judge said he also wanted to
know why the settlement shouldn’t
have a provision that bans Microsoft
from misleading statements about
products in development, a market
ing practice known as “vaporware”
that tends to prevent potential com
petitors from entering a market.
Sporkin also wanted to know why
Microsoft wasn’t required to disclose
codes that give it an advantage over
other software companies in creating
word processing and other applica
tions software.
Microsoft spokesman Greg Shaw
said the company will be able to ad
dress the issues raised by Sporkin.
“We’re hopeful the judge will grant
this,” he said.
The Justice Department had no
immediate comment.
If the settlement is rejected,
Sporkin could order the Justice De
partment and Microsoft to try again.
That raises the prospect of much
harsher restrictions on Microsoft that
could, in the extreme, include split
ting it up like AT&T more than a
decade ago.
Microsoft, based in the Seattle sub
urb of Redmond, Wash., makes the
standard operating programs MS
DOS and Windows, which run the
basic functions of nearly all PCs in
the world today.
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Rebels leave palace,
Russia raises flag
GROZNY, Russia — Troops
hoisted Russia’s flag today over
Chechnya’s presidential palace, the
symbol ofthe republic’s independence
drive during five weeks of war with
Moscow.
Earlier in the day, Chechen fight
ers had abandoned the palace which
had been wrecked by weeks of Rus
sian artillery and rocket fire. The rebels
also withdrew from the railroad sta
tion.
The Chechen withdrawal gave the
Russians effective control over most
of Grozny’s center. It was not imme
diately clear if the Chechens, who
took up new positions in the capital,
would continue to fight for control of
the center or move to the countryside
to wage what they have promised
would be a guerrilla war against the
Russians.
Rebels had stubbornly held off the
Russians there since Moscow began
its ground assault on Grozny, the
Chechen capital, on New Year’s Eve.
The Chechen withdrawal gave the
Russians effective control over most
of central Grozny.
The rebels also withdrew from the
railroad station, which was in Rus
sian hands.
Rebels said they left the palace
after a Russian bomb or shell pen
etrated the demolished building to
the basement on Wednesday night.
Rebel fighter Aindi Beksultanov
said the rebels had no plans to try to
retake the palace. “Why? It’s just a
skeleton,” he said.
He said the last of the rebels with
drew at 3 a.m. today. They also
evacuated an unknown number of
Russian prisoners from the palace,
he said.
Rebels moved to new positions in
the city today, so they clearly in
tended to continue their battle in the
capital. It was not clear whether they
intended to try to retake positions in
the city center.
Russian soldiers were circling the
palace from about 300 yards away
today, but at midday it was not clear
whether they had taken over the
building.
Grozpy was relatively calm after
a night of relentless artillery and
rocket attacks. A pall of dark smoke
hung over the city, amid intermit
tent artillery and rocket fire.
Thousands of people have been
killed since Russian troops moved
into the predominantly Muslim re
public in the Caucasus Mountains
on Dec. 11 to put down its drive for
independence.