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a,='- NewsQgest Bosnia cease-fire delayed SARAJEVO, Bosnia Herzegovina — Already dimmed by shelling that killed 16 people over two days, the newest hopes for a break in Bosnia’s bloody cycle of war were mired Monday in ajumble of tangled wires and cables. The cease-fire scheduled to take effect Tuesday at one minute after midnight (7:01 p.m. EDT Monday) was delayed because the govern ment and Bosnian Serbs could not finish restoring electricity and natu ral gas service to Sarajevo, said Hasan Muratovic, the Bosnian government’s minister in charge of relations with the United Nations. Muratovic appeared on Bosnian television at the end of a day punc tuated by Serb shelling and retalia tory NATO airstrikes. “It will not happen because the conditions have not been met yet,” Muratovic said. Electric service was only par tially restored, and there was still no natural gas service. Muratovic blamed much of the gas problem on Russia, where the supplies origi nate, for failing to order the valves opened on the pipeline running through Hungary to Bosnia. Both sides pledged to honor the truce when it does take effect, but fighting continued in Bosnia’s northwestern and southern regions. NATO planes attacked Serb tar gets in northeastern Bosnia on Monday after Serb shelling of gov ernment territory killed a Norwe gian peacekeeper and claimed doz ens of civilian casualties. Net>raskan Editor J. Christopher Hain Night News Editors Julie Sobczyk 472-1766 Matt Waite Managing Editor Rainbow Rowell Doug Peters Assoc. News Editors DeDra Janssen Chad Lorenz Brian Sharp Art Director Mike Stover Opinion Page Editor Mark Baldridge General Manager Dan Shattll Wire Editor Sarah Scalet Production Manager Katherine Policky Copy Desk Editor Kathryn Ratliff Advertising Manager Amy Struthers Sports Editor Tim Pearson Asst. 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Asked who might be responsible, he said, “It leans toward the domestic side.” n Amtrak’s Sunset Limited, bound from Miami to Los Angeles with 248 passengers and 20 crew members, derailed while crossing a 30-foot-high bridge 50 to 60 miles southwest of Phoenix sometime after 1 a.m. Four cars plunged from the bridge at 50 mph, with three coming to rest on their sides on the sandy bottom of the desert wash. Passengers,jolted awake, made their way through jumbled be- * longings and crawled out the win dows. “I heard babies screaming, and their mother was holleringeach one oftheir names, one after the other,” said Betty Addington, 60, of Dallas, who was traveling with her 80-year-old mother to visit a sister in Los Angeles. One person was killed, 12 were seriously hurt and about 100 others suffered less serious injuries, said Sgt. J Tim Campbell,a sheriffs spokesman. Some were treated at the scene and at least 67 were taken to Phoenix hospi tals. Amtrak put the total number of injured at 78. The railroad identified the dead man as Mitchell Bates, 41, a sleeping-car attendant based in Los Angeles. “The last thing he said to me, be fore he went to bed last night, was' See you tomorrow,baby doll,’” said Helen Martinez of Los Angeles, a waitress on the train. Phoenix hospitals reported treat ing at least 40 people, including one woman who was listed in critical con dition. Amongthe hospitalized were a 3-month-old boy and a 31-year-old woman who was on her honeymoon. Deputies found a one- or two-page message signed “Sons of Gestapo” at the scene, the sheriff said. The note referred to the government sieges at Waco and Ruby Ridge, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. An electronic database search of U.S. newspapers big and small found no mention of a “Sons of Gestapo.” A f search of about six months’ worth of Internet discussion groups and World Wide Web pages also found nothing.. The site — 27 miles east of this speck on the map of southwestern Arizona — is accessible only by air and by four-wheel-drive vehicle. It took an hour for the first rescuers to reach the victims. Investigators from the FBI, Na tional Transportation Safety Board and other federal and state agencies combed the scene. The sheriff said the saboteurs some how “separated” the rail and that a wire was attached to disable an elec tronic system that would have warned the crew of a break in the line. Investigators found that in a 19 foot section of track, 29 of the spikes that hold the rail to the wooden crossties had been pulled out, accord ing to a source who spoke on condi tion of anonymity. Amtrak President Thomas M. Downs told a Washington news con ference tKat someone removed a 36 inch steel bar weighing about 18 pounds that is used to connect two sections of rail. He said he hadn’t heard about the spikes being removed. “Someone obviously intended to drop the train off the trestle into the ravine,” Downs said. The bars are bolted to the rails and keep them from separating whe:n trains pass over, Downs explained. He said the sabotage could have been done in about 10 minutes by someone with a rudimentary knowledge of railroad ing. The last train to pass the spot was a freight that used the track about 18 hours before the wreck, Downs said. He didn’t know when the tracks were last inspected; ABC reported the last inspection was Thursday. Derailing or wrecking a train in volved in interstate commerce or its track or trestle is a federal felony, punishable by up to 20 years in prison. If death results from the crime, the death penalty can be imposed. AA The Support Group^ Alcoholics Anonymous * Tuesday Meetings 12-1 PM : IJ) (on campus) • ; : y For more information, call Community Healtft£&t&ation 472-7440 Now is the time! ? 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CD Media 5410 NW 44th Street Lincoln, NE 68524 media Non-refundable limited one-time offer expires November 1,1995 Earthquake hits Mexican coast; {leath toll at 65 MANZANILLO, Mexico — A powerful earthquake shook Mexico’s Pacific coast Monday, toppling two multi-story resort hotels, cracking homes and bridges and killing at least 65 people, authorities said. At least 90 people were reported injured. The 7.6-magnitude quake — felt as far north as Dallas and Okla homa City, according to seismolo gists — was the second powerful tremor to hit Mexico in a month. All of the known dead were in coastal communities in the Pacific coast states of Jalisco and Colima. “The injured are everywhere,” said Li vas de la Garza, a textile shop owner in the city of Manzanillo, one of the hardest-hit areas. The quake struck at 9:37 a.m. and was centered underwater three miles south of the angled Pacific coast be tween Colima and Jalisco states. The U.S. Geological Survey put the epi center of the quake 15 miles east southeast of Manzanillo and about 335 miles west of Mexico City. J The tremor lasted about two min utes and was followed by two small aftershocks. The quake opened fis sures up to a foot wide in the main coastal highway. Rescuers, clearing rubble with bull dozers and cranes, pulled 12 bodies and 10 injured people from the Costa Real hotel in the port and resort area of Manzanillo, in Colima, the official news agency Notimex quoted civil defense officials as saying. Authori ties feared the toll would rise. A strong aftershock startled the blue-masked rescue workers, who still labored with picks and shovels at sun set. At least 30 guests were registered at the hotel and 27 employees were working, Notimex said. It was not clear how many were in the building l when the quake hit.
