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Kidnapped American released
UNITED NATIONS — An American kidnapped in Chad was
released on Monday after a week in captivity, a U.N. spokesman said.
Anthony Johnson, a technical consultant for the U.N. Development
Program, was taken to the U.S. consulate in Nigeria after his release, said
U.N. spokesman Joe Sills.
No ransom was paid for Johnson, Sills said. He gave no other details
of the release.
A Libyan-backed group claimed responsibility for kidnapping Johnson
last Sunday from his home in the western city of Mao. The kidnappers
said they seized him to show that Chad’s government did not have full
control over the country.
Sills said two Chadians kidnapped along with Johnson were still
being held.
Colon exam without the tube
NEW ORLEANS—Millions of Americans know they should have
their colons checked for cancer but can’t stand the thought of it. So
doctors are developing a decidedly less unpleasant alternative—a colon
exam without the tube.
Dr. David J. Vining of Wake Forest University, the principal devel
oper of the new method, calls it “virtual colonoscopy,” a way to combine
X-rays and computers to examine the entire colon without actually
putting anything into it except air.
The new approach yields a 3-D, from-the-inside view of the colon that
doctors can explore by moving around a joy stick while watching the
passing bumps and crevices on a computer screen.
Colon cancer is the No. 2 cancer killer of men and women after lung
cancer. This year, an estimated 55,300 Americans will die from it.
The mainstay of screening for this disease is a skinny, flexible tube
that is inserted through the rectum into the colon. The doctor looks
through the tube for growths called polyps that may be cancerous.
Hidden laboratory found
within sect’s holy building
TOKYO—In the cult’s most holy
building, a secret door behind a huge
Hindu statue leads to a hidden chemi
cal lab.
From there, an underground pas
sage connects to a storeroom filled
with all the chemicals needed to make
nerve gas.
The discoveries Monday are among
the many chilling details that police
have revealed in raids against the se
cretive Aum Shinri Kyo sect, or Su
preme Truth. The sect is the chief
suspect in last week’s nerve gas attack
on Tokyo subways.
Ten people were killed and 5,000
sickened in the March 20 attack. Hun
dreds of people remain hospitalized.
Inside or near several of the sect’s
drab concrete buildings near the foot
of Mount Fuii, police found rooms or
underground containers that they be
lieve were used to confine people who
tried to flee.
Police documents obtained by Japa
nese media say the group is directed
by a severe government-like network
of about 20 “ministries.”
A “ministry of defense” guards the
group’s facilities and searches for fol
lowers who attempt to escape; and a
“ministry of health treatment” stock
piled large amounts of drugs and sy
ringes, the reports said.
A “ministry of science,” which runs
the chemical lab, was researching ad
vanced weapons for a “final battle”
against outside enemies.
The functions of some of the agen
cies such as a “ministry of DNA” were
unclear, and police have not com
mented on the reports.
Police believe the group may have
regularly given stimulants to follow
ers, and may have used them in initia
tion ceremonies for new members, the
Mainichi newspaper said.
Former members say the sect also
administered psychiatric drugs and
‘‘cleansing” treatments in which fol
lowers were forced to drink salt water
until they vomited.
Police reportedly found 40 kinds
of chemicals at the group’s facilities.
Japanese reports said the chemicals
included: ingredients of sarin, the
nerve gas used in the Tokyo attack;
chemicals that can be used for making
illegal drugs; and glycerine com
pounds that can be used to make ex
plosives.
Police have focused on the first cat
egory, but are now beginning to investi
gate the other two, the Mainichi said.
Nearly a week of intense searches
have turned uptons of chemicals, mil
lions of dollars worth of yen and piles
of gold bars.
In Monday’s raids, police focused
on a windowless building with a 15
foot statue of Shiva, the Hindu god of
creation and destruction, and a sepa
rate statue of the god’s hand.
The sect combines elements of
Buddhism and Hinduism and claims
10,000 followers in Japan.
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Clinton proposes own cuts
WASHINGTON — President
Clinton Monday promoted a
multibillion dollar proposal to con
solidate, cut or sell operations at five
federal agencies. More than halfwould
come from NASA.
Clinton promises “a government
that does only what it needs to do but
everything it must do.”
In a veiled slap at deeper Republi
can budget cuts, Clinton said, “You
can reinvent government—cut costs
to taxpayers—without a mean spirit
or a meat ax.”
Changes at the Federal Communi
cations Commission, Federal Emer
gency Management Agency, Small
Business Administration, Interior
Department and National Aeronau
tics and Space Administration are the
latest installment of Clinton’s “rein
venting government” drive.
Most of the changes have been
publicized or were in the works previ
ously, but the White House hopes to
promote Clinton’s reforms by pack
aging the separate agency plans in
lumps.
The president said the effort shows
government can be trimmed without
sacrificing summer jobs, anti-drug
programs or his national service ini
tiative — all targets of the GOP bud
get ax.
Cl inton and Vice President A1 Gore,
who heads the “reinventing govern
ment” project, in December an
nounced $24 billion worth of savings
from several agencies, saying the
money would help pay for the
president’s $60 billion middle-class
tax cut initiative. Clinton gave Gore
90 days to propose more changes.
Gore, who promises to make gov
ernment work better for less, says the
“reinventing government” project al
ready has cut 98,000 jobs from the
federal payroll.
The White House has accused Re
publicans of targeting school lunch,
education, jobs and anti-drugprograms
for children. Republicans, who are
proposing much deeper cuts in the
federal bureaucracy, argue that
Clinton’s budget-cutting doesn’t go
far enough.
The proposed cuts include:
•Closing outdated offices at the
Interior Department, including the unit
that serves territories such as Guam.
Eliminating the territorial office also
deletes an assistant secretary’s posi
tion, the official said.
•Turning over some FEMA func
tions to states so they can more quickly
declare disaster areas.
•Consolidating the SBA’s popular
7-A loan program, removing govern
ment as a middleman between banks
and applicants.
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Strayed Americans
in Iraq called ‘spies’
BAUHDAD, Iraq—A top Iraqi
official called two Americans who
strayed across the border “spies”
Monday and suggested they were
intent on sabotage.
Still, Saadi Mehdi Saleh, Iraq’s
parliament speaker, indicated there
was some hope for leniency in their
case.
Saleh was qouted two days after
the Americans were tried in an Iraqi
court and sentenced to eight years
in prison for illegally entering the
country.
Saleh was the first Iraqi official to
comment on their convictions.
Themen—David Daliberti,41,
of Jacksonville, Fla., and William
Barloon, 39, from New Hampton,
Iowa - are both employees of U.S.
defense contractors in Kuwait. They
crossed the Iraq-Kuwait frontier
March 13.
“Those two detainees were en
tering our border secretly and by
illegal manner, maybe for political
or technical reasons. And we have
detained them to know these rea
sons,” he said, according to his of
ficial translator.
Implying their motivation may
have been sabotage, he said:.“We
have no aggressive intentions to
ward those two Americans. But we
have just applied Iraqi law accord
ing to the manner we do to all the
forei gners who are coming for sabo
tage or other political reasons.”
A translation by the AP of
Saleh’s remarks included the fol
lowing quote: “Sending spies or
saboteurs, we reject this equation
and don’t agree with it. The United
States of America must understand
this fact and then every problem
will have its solution.”
Conviction of the more serious
charge of sabotage would have re
sulted in a minimum of 20 years in
prison and possibly the death sen
tence for the two men.
Asked if there was room for le
niency, Saleh said: “The humanitar
ian doors are not shut to them yet.”
Nuclear talks paused
with North Korea
WASHINGTON—American ne
gotiators are returning from difficult
talks with North Korea over suspect
nuclear reactors.
Negotiators return with suggestions
on how to replace them but without an
agreement to end a long-running dis
pute.
In describing the interruption of
the negotiations in Berlin as a “pause,”
administration officials insisted there
had not been a breakdown. Nor did
they indicate the United States was
reconsidering its insistence that South
Korea provide replacement reactors
— a demand Pyongyang has been
rejecting for months.
The talks were halted two days
early.
“There have been some sugges
tions,” Secretary of State Warren
Christopher said Monday. “Our people
will come back and review the discus
sions.”
No date was announced for a re
sumption. “It’s my understanding that
they felt they had got as far as they
could,” said a senior U.S. official in
describing the judgment reached by
U.S. chief negotiator Robert Gallucci
and his delegation after talking to
North Korean negotiators over the
weekend.
An agreement reached last Octo
ber was intended to freeze a program
at the Yongbyon nuclear complexthat
American analysts said was produc
ingabomb’s worth ofweapons-grade
material a year.
In return, the United States pledged
North Korea would receive two light
water, less dangerous reactors worth
about $4 billion. South Korea, which
with Japan is putting up most of the
tab, was to provide the reactors.
But North Korea has been balking
at the arrangement, though interna
tional inspectors have given assur
ances the program has remained fro
zen.
U.N. threatens
to bomb Serbs
SARAJEVO, Bosnia
Herzegovina — Unable to stop die
intensifying war in Bosnia, U.N. peace
keepers warned Monday that NATO
may need to bomb Serb forces to pre
vent them from shooting at civilians.
The threat came as Serbs reported
the fiercest fightingyet on a northeast
ern battlefront where troops of the
Muslim-led government have been
“Events are spinning out
of control."
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COLUM MURPHY
U.N. spokesman
gaining ground. The Serbs also said
they launched a major counterattack
on government troops in central
Bosnia. And Croatian Serbs threat
ened to cross the border to help their
ethnic kin in Bosnia.
“Events are spinning out of con
trol,” said Colum Murphy, a spokes
man for the U.N. peacekeeping force.
“Our worst fears could become reality
in the not-too-distant future.”
Murphy warned the Serbs that the
new commander of the peacekeeping
force, Lt. Gen. Rupert Smith, would
call for NATO air strikes if the they
deliberately shell civilians.
“There are no hollow threats,” he
said. “Attacks that deliberately target
civilians will meet a determined re
sponse, including use of air power.”
In Washington Monday, Secretary
of State Warren Christopher told re
porters that “we have long been in
favor of more robust use of NATO
airpower,” and he said he welcomed
the U.N. peacekeepers’ warning.
A week of intense fightinghas all but
shattered an already tenuous three-month
truce. Each warring side has blamed the
other for spuming a political settlement
in favor of more combat.
The increasingly confident Bosnian
government army has seized 35 square
miles of Serb-held territory as well as
a vital communications tower in cen
tral Bosnia. A second*tower in the
northeast was virtually surrounded.
In apparentretaliation, Serbs shelled
the government-held towns of Gorazde
and Mostar over the weekend, killing a
child and wounding about 20 civilians.
