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Ecuador’s vice president resigns
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Days after surviving an impeachment
attempt on corruption charges, the vice president of Ecuador resigned
Wednesday when a judge ordered his detention.
Vice-President Albert Dahika, the 42-year-old economist consid
ered the chief architect of the government’s free-market reforms
announced his resignation in a handwritten letter delivered to Con
gress.
Dahika has denied the corruption allegations. His whereabouts
Wednesday night were unknown.
In an order announced earlier Wednesday, Supreme Court Presi
dent Carlos Solorzano ordered authorities to put Dahika under protec
tive custody in a Quito jail after finding “indications of guilt” against
him.
McDonald’s opens first kosher branch
JERUSALEM (AP) — Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce
and, what’s this, no cheese?
McDonald’s opened its first kosher restaurant Wednesday, giving
observant Jews the chance to savor what has so long been taboo.
“The only difference is we are not serving some of the menu items
like cheeseburgers, ice cream and milkshakes," said Omri Padan,
owner of the Israeli franchise.
About 30 percent of Israelis cat only kosher foo^l, in which meat is
never mixed with dairy products.
The restaurant, in the Jerusalem suburb of Mevasseret Zion, will be
closed Saturday, the Jewish day of rest.
McDonald’s has several non-kosher restaurants in Israel, including
one in Jerusalem whose opening in May prompted protests by obser
vant Jews.
Nobels awarded for ozone work
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two Americans and a Dutch scientist won
the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their controversial work
warning that gases once used in spray cans and other items are eating
away Earth’s ozone layer.
Two other Americans received a physics Nobel for discovering
subatomic particles.
The chemistry prize went to Mario Molina of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Sherwood Rowland of the University of
California at Irvine, and Paul Crutzen, a Dutch citizen working at the
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany.
Work by Molina and Rowland predicting an ozone “hole” laid the
groundwork for its discovery in 1985 over the South Pole.
The Nobel in physics went to Martin L. Perl of Stanford University
and Frederick Reines of the University of California at Irvine.
Bosnia truce takes effect
Fighting should let up
as orders reach fields
S ARA JEV O, Bosnia-Herzegovina
(AP) — What the world hopes will
become a permanent cease-fire for
Bosnia finally took effect early Thurs
day despite frantic last-minute battles
for territory.
The U.S.-brokered truce went in
force Thursday at one minute after
midnight (7:01 p.m. EDT Wednes
day), U.N. officials said.
They said it probably would take
hours for orders to reach field com
manders, making it likely that fight
ing would taper off overnight rather
than ena suddenly.
Sarajevans greeted the cease-fire
with volleys of gunfire. This time,
soldiers and civilians were firing into
the air in celebration.
The 60-day truce, part of a U.S.
led effort to bring peace to the
Balkans, was delayed for 48 hours
while engineers tried to restore utili
ties to Sarajevo and armies battled
for the final bits of territory.
The Muslim-led government and
its Croat allies seized two Serb-held
towns in northwest Bosnia before set
ting a firm time for the truce to begin.
Hours before the truce, the gov
ernment was reportedly still advanc
ing toward a third town, Prijedor, in
northwest Bosnia. And Serbs were
rushing to expel up to 20,000 non
Serbs remaining in northern Bosnia.
Bosnian Foreign Minister Muhamed
Sacirbey, speaking in Brussels, Bel
gium, said the truce could be endan
gered if the expulsions continued.
“The cease-fire and the peace pro
cess are in jeopardy if the ethnic
cleansing is not confronted,” he said.
The U.S. State Department said it
was “exceedingly concerned” about
the reports.
While Sarajevo, still ringed by
hostile Serb forces, remained cut off
from the outside world, the cease-fire
agreement appeared to have secured
it limited supplies of gas and electric
ity. But water was still short because
of electrical pumping problems.
Another condition of the cease
fire — stable routes to the govern
ment enclave of Gorazde — had not
yet. been met. It could take days for
thetUnited Nations to clear mines.
But, in contrast to dozens of cease
fires that have failed since 1992, all
sides appeared serious about making
this one work. The truce is to lead to
negotiations in the United States at
the end of the month and a later peace
conference in Paris.
“All conditions have been met,
and we have the security that tonight
we will have a cease-fire,” said Anto
nio Pedauye, the United Nations’
chief civilian official for Bosnia.
If the cease-fire does take hold,
Russian Foreign Minister Andrei
Kozyrev said the war could be settled
in weeks.
“It’s quite realistic to speak of
achieving a political settlement in a
matter of probably one month,”
Kozyrev said in Helsinki, Finland.
GOP rivals focus on Clinton
more than Dole in TV forum
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) —
Agreeing with one another more
often than not, the Republican presi
dential candidates used their first
televised forum Wednesday to
preach the virtues of lower taxes
and less government and the dan
gers of giving President Clinton a
second term.
If the goal of Bob Dole’s rivals
coming into the forum was to knock
the GOP front-runner off stride,
none appeared to succeed. Dole
delivered a crisp account of why he
believed he was the best candidate
in the field and offered a detailed
defense of his conservative creden
tials.
At every turn, Dole said Clinton
was defending the status quo against
a new Republican Congress trying
to balance the budget, cut taxes and
shift power from Washington to the
states.
“We must elect someone who
knows how to make that change,”
Dole said. “I will not permit the
slow decline of America — a coun
try that I love.”
In advance, it appeared that
Texas Sen. Phil Gramm was ready
to aggressively go after Dole, using
a pre-forum rally to suggest that
Dole was a politician all too ready
to break his promises.
“How are we different from Bill
Clinton if we don’t keep our prom
ises?” Gramm asked at his rally.
But the Texas senator made no
such comparison during the forum.
His toughest criticism of the Senate
majority leader came when Gramm
pledged not to “cut deals with
Democrats in Washington because
you know cutting deals with Demo
crats in Washington is not going to
bring back the American dream.”
Several others also took issue with
Dole, at least indirectly.
“We do not need to replace their
set of professional politicians with
our set of professional politicians,”
said commentator Pat Buchanan.
“I think it will take a candidate
from outside Washington, D.C., to
beat Bill Clinton,” said former Ten
nessee Gov. Lamar Alexander.
Given the format, which allowed
for no interaction among the candi- •
dates, the rival camps said direct
attacks made little sense.
“If you were talking about some
one else you were wasting your time,”
said Tom Rath, a senior Alexander
adviser. “So they all competed for
the Mr. Congeniality award.”
Peace Corps takes commitment
By Kasey Kerber
Staff Reporter
The 1990s could be the best de
cade ever for the Peace Corps, a
spokesman said.
“When we started back in the ’60s,
public support was strong. This
dropped off in the ’80s or ‘me’ gen
eration,” said Jeff Martin, Denver
regional Peace Corps public affairs
director.
“Now support is at an all-time
high, and we have a record number of
volunteers with 7,000.”
The Peace Corps, which celebrates
its 35th anniversary this year, was
organized to help people in develop
ing countries, he said. The organiza
tion serves 95 countries and has more
workers in natural resource projects
than any other international develop
ment organization.
Martin will meet with students
interested in the Peace Corps today in
Nebraska Union from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
i Steven Most, a University of Ne
braska-Lincoln graduate, served as a
Peace Corps volunteer in Zaire for
two years.
“I went to Zaire in 1991, com
pleted a 10-week training course and
then worked as a management con
sultant for a hospital and 35 health
centers,” Most said.
Throughout the two years. Most
stayed in a village of 10,000, in which
he was one of only 10 foreigners. The
building he slept in received three
hours of electricity a night, which
was cut to two and a half during the
Persian War.
While the majority of his stay was
uneventful, Most’s departure from
Zaire was prompted by a violent po
litical uprising.
“I was fortunate,” Most said. “Vio
lence didn’t break out in the village I
was in. I was evacuated to Rwanda.
Friends in one region were evacuated
by Belgium paratroopers that came
under fire.”
While such an incident did occur,
Most said it was rare and that Peace
Corps volunteers rarely had to expe
rience such an event.
Scott Madsen, a Nebraska
Wesleyan University graduate, served
as a volunteer in Microensia, an iso
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lated island chain in the Pacific, from
1989 to 1991.
“It was a commitment,” Madsen
said. “They would put us on an island
that might only be a mile long and
three-fourths of a mile wide. There
was no electricity or about any mod
em convenience you could think of.”
One of Madsen’s motives was to
become acquainted with the new cul
ture in which he had been placed.
“I feel like I went out there to meet
people that really weren’t that differ
ent from me,” Madsen said.
“Actually, I’m now married to a
woman from Microensia. I heard there
were some students at Concordia
College in Seward and I looked them
up. One of them would later become
my wife.”
Both Madsen and Most stressed
the importance of commitment from
those interested in becoming Peace
Corps volunteers.
“I don’t think this is an experience
for someone who just wants to try it
out,” Madsen said. “You’ve really
got to think it through and be com
mitted.”
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Iraq misled U.N. monitors
on weapons, report says
UNITED NATIONS (AP) —
Iraq tested toxins on animals and
misled U.N. monitors on the wide
scope of its weapons programs, the
chief U.N. weapons inspector said
in a report Wednesday.
“Iraq’s efforts to conceal its
biological weapons program, its
chemical missile warhead flight
tests and work on the development
of a missile for the delivery of a
nuclear device led it to provide
incorrect information concerning
certain of its missile activities,”
Rolf Ekeus said.
The United Nations imposed
economic sanctions after Iraq’s
1990 invasion of Kuwait. Security
Council members have repeatedly
said they will not consider easing
the sanctions until Baghdad fully
cooperates with the weapons moni
tors.
“The report makes clear the vast
deception effort that Iraq promul
gated and shows how difficult it
will be to establish compliance on
Security Council resolutions on
weapons of mass destruction,” said
James P. Rubin, a spokesman for
the U.S. mission.
“Clearly, Iraq has a long, long,
long way to go,” he said.
Iraq tested its biological toxins
on animals, including sheep, don
keys, monkeys and dogs, the re
port said.
In 1988 and 1989, Iraq tested
bombs and rocket shells loaded
with botulism, the carcinogen afla
toxin and subtilis, which was used
to simulate anthrax.
Following Iraq’s 1990 invasion
of Kuwait, Iraq intensified its pro
duction of botulism and anthrax
and tested a spray tank that could
be hooked up to aircraft and used
to spray 500 gallons of anthrax
over a target, the report said.
The “authority to launch bio
logical and chemical warheads was
predelegated in the event that
Baghdad was hit by nuclear weap
ons during the Gulf War,” it said.
Iraq flight-tested chemical war
heads and had designs for a missile
that could reach targets as far as
2,000 miles away, the report said.
Ekeus said Iraq inflated the
number of missiles and missile
parts it destroyed as part of the
monitoring program in order to
hide its research and missile test
ing.
He also said an Iraqi report to
the monitors on Baghdad’s bio
logical weapons program, which
Iraq earlier said was limited to
defensive research, was “essen
tially false.”
