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31 Colombian soldiers killed in ambush
BOGOTA, Colombia—Colom
bia put its army on maximum alert
Tuesday after a rebel ambush of a
military convoy killed 31 soldiers
and wounded 18 near the border
with Ecuador.
The attack occurred at sunset
Monday on a fog-covered road out
side the town of Puerres, 350 miles
southwest of the capital, Bogota.
About 150 rebels exploded dy
namite on the road as the six-vc
hicle convoy passed by, then opened
fire with machine guns and gre
nades before fleeing into the sur
rounding jungle, the military said.
Defense Minister Juan Carlos
Esguerra said soldiers throughout
the country were placed on maxi
mum alert, and the army was con
sidering calling reservists back to
active duty to fight the rebels.
President Ernesto Samper con
demned the ambush, saying it “has
put all of Colombian society in
mourning” and called for a full in
vestigation.
“This can not be considered an
act of war. It was very simply a
crazy, barbarous, and cowardly ter
rorist attack,” he said from the presi
dential palace in Bogota.
Samper said his administration
would consider implementingemer
gcncy security measures, but he
gave no details.
The ambush was in an area where
the anny was deployed to guard
against attacks on the Trans-Andcan
oil pipeline. No damage to the pipe
line was reported.
“It was such a surprising attack
that we weren’t able to defend our
“It was such a
surprising attack that
we iveren’t able to
defend ourselves. ”
WILLIAM CORAL
Colombian soldier
selves,” said one soldier, identified
as William Coral. Wounded by gre
nade shrapnel, he was being treated
at the Ipiales Hospital in southern
Colombia.
The Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Colombia, the largest and
oldest of the rebel groups fighting
the government for 34 years, was
believed responsible, Army Gen.
Mario Hugo Galan told RCN radio.
He ordered reinforcements into
the jungle region to try to ferret out
the rebels.
Armed forces commander
Holdan Delgado and army com
mander Harold Bedoya flew to the
ambush site Tuesday morning.
Guerrillas control vast areas of
rural Colombia and have frequently
targeted state-owned oil installa
tions. But they rarely attack large
cities and pose no real threat to the
government.
Several guerrilla groups have
stepped up attacks in recent weeks.
Samper asked Congress on Mon
day to extend special emergency
powers to tight rebels and crime.
The powers case search restric
tions and increase sentences for
criminals.
Kaczynski defense seeks dismissal
HELENA, Mont. — Theodore
Kaezynski’s lawyer asked a judge to
block the prosecution of the
Unabomber suspect, saying Tuesday
that government leaks have jeopar
dized his chances for a fair trial.
Michael Donahoe said the release
of information from unidentified fed
eral sources demonstrates a “lynch
mob mentality” on the part of federal
investigators.
The result was a “lethal media blitz”
that “poisoned the entire population of
grand jurors within the United States
against Mr. Kaczyunski,” he wrote in
his motion.
Donahue, one of two court-ap
pointed attorneys for Kaczynski, said
the prosecution should be halted until
the court can decide whether the leaks
will prevent a fair trial.
“The government should not be al
lowed to proceed before various grand
j uries throughout the country that have
been permanently poisoned by the
government’s outrageous conduct in
disclosing to the media the highly in
criminating nature of evidence taken
from Kaczynski’s cabin,” Donahoe
said.
“In Mr. Kaczynski’s case, the pos
sibility that he could ever be afforded
anything that might remotely resemble
that (fair trial) process has been for
ever lost.”
U.S. District Judge Charles Lovell
did not immediately ruleon Donahoc’s
petition, which sought a delay in any
grand jury proceedings against
Kaczynski.
A federal grand jury will hold its
regularly scheduled meeting Wednes
day in Great Falls and is expected to
hear evidence against Kaczynski. The
lone charge filed against him thus far
makes no mention of the Unabomber
attacks that killed three people and
injured 23 over the past 18 years.
Lovell scheduled a hearing for 3:30
p.m. Friday to consider whether to
pursue Donahue’s motion by calling
witnesses, and told both sides to pre
pare written briefs.
Kaczynski ,53, was arrested April 3
after federal agents, tipped off by his
suspicious brother, began searching
his mountain cabin near Lincoln.
Leaks about the case began appear
ing as soon as a search of Kaczynski’s
home began April 3. Most claimed
that evidence collected there tied
Kaczynski to the Unabomber bomb
ings.
Donahoe’s motion also requested a
hearing to question Justice Depart
ment officials about what they have
done to prevent leaks. He also asked
Lovell to dismiss a charge of possess
ing bomb-making materials, and re
quested the return ofhundredsof items
taken in a search of Kaczynski’s cabin.
Should the government contend it
is not responsible for the leaks,
Donahoe said he will put reporters on
the stand and ask them to identify their
confidential sources.
“If past practice is an indicator, the
effort will be a futile one,” said Dick
Winfield, who has practiced media
law in New York for 30 years. Winfield
said Donahoe’s intent may be to scare
federal officials into believing they
may be discovered as sources.
Israel targets
Palestinian
refugee camp
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Israeli heli
copter gunships targeted Lebanon’s
largest Palestinian refugee camp Tues
day, widening their 6-day-old on
slaught against Iranian-backed guer
rillas. Israeli aircraft also bombarded
Beirut, killing a 2-year-old girl, after a
rocket attack on northern Israel.
Despite a flurry of diplomatic ac
tivity involving the United States,
France and other countries, there was
no sign of a letup in Israel’s offensive
aimed at stopping the rocket attacks by
Hezbollah guerrillas.
From hideouts in the valleys of south
Lebanon, the guerrillas fired more
volleys of Katyusha rockets into north
ern Israel, drawing more Israeli
airstrikes.
Five civilians were killed and 20
wounded on Tuesday. All told, 46
people have been killed and 166
wounded on both sides since the hos
tilities began Thursday.
Most of the dead have been Leba
nese civilians.
The attack before dawn Tuesday on
the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp near
the port of Sidon was the first on a
Palestinian target since Israel began
the offensive.
The three Cobra gunships fired six
rockets, gutting the house of Palestin
ian guerrilla leader Col. Munir
Makdah, who escaped unhurt, police
said. Two of his bodyguards and one
of their wives was wounded.
Makdah opposed the 1993 peace
accord between the Palestine Libcra
t ion Organization and Israel, and broke
from the group to form his own militia.
He later allied with Hezbollah.
Israel hopes its raids, which have
forced 400,000 refugees to flee north
toward Beirut, will pressure Lebanon
and Syria to disarm Hezbollah.
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Clinton, Hashimoto reaffirm
U.S.-Japanese military alliance
TOKYO (AP) — Seeking to calm
security jitters. President Clinton
pledged Wednesday to keep 100,000
American troops in the Asia-Pacific
region to preserve peace and stability.
Japan strongly welcomed Clinton’s
pledge.
In a swift follow-up to sponsoringa
peace initiative for the Korean Penin
sula, Clinton signed a joint declaration
with Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro
Hashimoto reaffirming U.S.-Japan se
curity ties.
The two leaders said the alliance is
the cornerstone “for maintaining a
stable and prosperous environment for
the Asia-Pacific region as we enter the
21 st century.” They pledged close co
operation on defense matters, includ
ingjoint production of a jet fighter, the
F-2.
Still, about 4,500 demonstrators
shouted slogans and waved effigies in
a Tokyo park Tuesday to protest the
U.S. military presence in Japan. A
cardboard effigy of Clinton was printed
with the words, “Give me more land,
more people, more money!”
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