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Bombing suspects will be tried in U.S. ■ Trial location tor two men accused of Embassy attack prevents conflict. WASHINGTON (AP) - Two sus pects in the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya have been brought to the United States for trial, U S. officials and diplomatic sources said. The first suspect, Khalid Salim, was flown by the FBI to New York, according to US. officials here and in Nairobi who spoke on condition of anonymity. The exact date of Salim’s arrest was not known. He had been identified as a Yemeni, but Yemeni officials denied it Later, another suspect, Mohammed baddiq Udeh, was flown to New York, according to a diplomat ic source in Nairobi. Odeh has been held by Kenyan authorities since Aug. 14, a week after his arrest in Karachi, Pakistan, on the day of die bombing. Odeh is said to be either a Jordanian or Palestinian who obtained Kenyan citizenship in 1994. Officials here said others among the several suspects in custody in Kenya also could be sent here for trial. Salim and Odeh will be tried in the United States, officials here said. A complaint already has been Hied against Salim in this country, offi cials said, indicating evidence had been gathered very swiftly to reach the point of filing charges so soon after the Aug. 7 bombing. That com plaint was expected to be unsealed shortly. Attorney General Janet Reno and FBI Director Louis Freeh called a news conference this afternoon to discuss developments in the case. The decision to try Salim, and perhaps others, in this country also represented a swift resolution of a potentially thorny problem of whether Kenya or the United States would handle the first prosecutions from the bombing that killed 247 people, including 12 Americans, and injured more than 5,000. Kenyan officials were said to be eager to seek justice for the hundreds of Kenyan victims but also wary that a trial there for an attack on a U.S. tar get might invite new terrorist assaults on Kenyan targets. It was not immediately clear whether Salim and others would be tried in New York or Washington. The grand jury and the FBI field office in New York had been investi gating Osama bin Laden’s role in at least three terrorist attacks or plots, officials said. They said investigators were trying to determine whether he provided financial backing for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, an aborted plot in New York to bomb bridges and tunnels and a November 1995 car bombing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, that killed five Americans. Libya shuns trial plan Qaddafi expects ‘tricks’from U.S., Britain UA1KU, tgypt CAP) - Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi said Thursday he would not surrender two suspects in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jetliner until receiving guarantees the United States and Britain will not play “tricks.” Qaddafi’s comments came a day after Libya announced acceptance CNN. He did not elaborate on what specific details and assurances he was seeking, saying that he expect ed Britain and die United States to try to impose new conditions. Since 1992, Libya has been sub jected to U.N. sanctions aimed at fencing Qaddafi to surrender the • men in the bombing of the jetliner 15 over Lockerbie, Scotland, thatlrilled ! i 270 peppfe, including 189 | Americans ' r ’ i 5 Qaddafi said during the inter view he wants sanctions lifted immediately after an agreement on the trial is reached. The U.N. Security Council, however, was considering a resolution Thursday that would suspend U.N. sanctions only after die two Libyan suspects— Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah—appear for trial. The Libyan leader reiterated his government has “no objection” to holding a trial in the Netherlands, which, according to the long-debat ed proposal, would be presided over by a three-judge panel carrying out Scottish law. But he added: “I expect mines. I expect tricks and conditions to make the trial impossible.” Asked if he believed the sus to diecidii.” Washington agreed to drop their earlier insistence that any trial be held in Britain or the United States. There are likely to be intense behind-the-scenes negotiations dur ing the coming weeks on the details of any trial, which still could fall through. In announcing acceptance of the proposal Wednesday, a Libyan Foreign Ministry statement stopped short of committing to turn over the suspects and talked of the need for “finding a final solution” to the case. Libyan defense attorney Ibrahim Legwell was quoted Thursday in Cairo’s Al-Ahram Weekly as saying the defense team could accept or reject the U.S. British proposal. The lawyers, he said, would insist on procedures to ensure the safety of the suspects and to limit access to them “to spare them any pressure by American or British intelligence. 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The agreement, which will widen or remove the zigzag lanes at many Wendy’s counters, follows agree ments to improve access at other restaurants, movie theaters and sports stadiums as foe latest example of foe Clinton administration’s aggressive enforcement of foe Americans with Disabilities Act ... It should be a model for banks and other businesses where customers line up for service, Reno said. “Integrating people with disabili ties into society, even into a fast-food line, is what foe ADA is all about,” Reno said. “People with disabilities do not want special treatment - they just want to be treated like everyone else.” The barriers for customers stand ing in line at Wendy’s and other busi nesses often are too close for wheel chairs to pass. “I haven’t been a regular patron of Wendy’s for that very reason,” said Trish Day, of Bowie, Md., who last u (The disabled) just want to be treated like everyone else. Janet Reno attorney general year settled a suit with local Burger King restaurants after her wheelchair got stuck? in a metal barriet “It's such a relief to be able to do something as simple as buy a hamburg er and fries like everybody else,” said Day, 33, who has cerebral palsy and has used a wheelchair most of her life. Wendy’s typically used separate wheelchair lanes at its approximately' 1,700company owned or leased restau rants. But shunting people in wheel chairs around the line reinforces stereo types about the disabled, Reno said. “Before today, customers in wheel chairs had to cut in line or wait for an employee to notice them, and that only added to the stereotype that people with disabilities need special treat ment,” Reno said. Internet gaming site deals ‘tbone’ Buffett virtual cards SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Sharon Osbeig looked like she was settling in for a night with a good book, not a challenging game of bridge with Omaha multibillionaire Warren Buffett. But there she was, wrapped in her fuzzy old blue bathrobe and reclining on her comfy living room couch. It didn't matter how Osberg looked, because Buffett was 1,600 miles away. His only presence was on Osberg’s laptop as his online bridge aher-ego, “tbone” (his favorite food). “C’mon, big one, Warren, an ace," Osberg, aka “sharono,” said as she rooted on her virtual partner. “Oh ...that wasn’t good.” ibidwnpHH tbone replied in an electronic mes sage. It was a typical Friday night for Osberg, a vice president of online financial services for Wells Fargo Bank in San Francisco and two-time bridge world champion. The evening gave a vivid demon stration of why familiar low-tech games like bridge are now driving the $81 million Internet game industry: Osbeig played with the Omaha busi ness tycoon without leaving her home in San Francisco's Forest Hill neighborhood. Internet bridge is becoming a pre ferred training ground for bridge players who want to keep their sharp edge, Osberg said. Online players can schedule more games with top-notch competitors who are in geographical ly distant places. With Osberg, 48, bridge is a more than just a hobby. She is a serious bridge player who took up die game in college. And she reached the pin nacle of the game as a member of U.S. teams that won World Bridge Federation championships in 1991 and 1993. Online bridge* which started in the early 1990s, was a natural for Osberg, whose job involves develop u^rcwlmernet services for WeUs^ Of course, unlike Osberg, not everybody gets to play the likes of Warren Buffett or his other bridge buddies like Microsoft chief execu tive Bill Gates. Osberg was introduced to Buffett five years ago by a mutual friend, Carol Loomis, a business writer for Fortune magazine. Osberg and Buffett became close friends because they both loved the age-old card game. Osberg eventually convinced the technophobic Buffett that he needed to get a computer for the first time just so he could play bridge online. / State college status sought McCOOK (AP) - The econom ic development group that unsuc cessfully sought the new state prison proposes a new project: making McCook Community College a four-year state college. Kay Randel, director of the McCook Economic Development Corp., said Nebraska offers an accessible network of universities, state colleges and community col leges -with one exception. “When Kearney State joined the University of Nebraska system (in 1991X southwest, southcentral and parts of central Nebraska lost the opportunity to attend a state college without traveling great distances,” Randel wrote in a proposal to die Nebraska State College System Board ofTrustees. iNeorasKa s state coupes are m Chadron in northwest Nebraska, Peru in southeast Nebraska and Wayne in northeast Nebraska. Carrol Krause, director of the state college Systran, said the board of trustees has briefly discussed RandeFs proposal. “The board certainly is not wanting to ignore the needs in McCook,” Krause said. RandeFs proposal notes that the MCC campus includes nine major buildings in a residential setting with room to expand. Harold Bennett, a member of die Mid-Plains Community College Area Board of Governors and for mer superintendent of McCook Public Schools, said RandeFs pro posal is an interesting concept “We have a very solid communi ty college at this time,” Bennett said. “Certainly, it is indie realm ofpossi bility to develop it further.” Peru State numbers down PERU (AP) - Enrollment for fall classes dropped 4 percent at embattled Peru State College, which faces proposals to move or close it The 108-year-old college in southeastern Nebraska is the small est of Nebraska’s state-run, four year colleges. mienm rresiaem rucnara Mynn was not surprised by the decline, but others might be surprised by die amount of the drop. He expected the drop to be much greater under the circumstances.* Peru State has been die talk of a possible move or closure since last year. It also has been the center of controversy for a top administrator making racially insensitive remarks at a faculty merting last school year. Its president, Robert Burns, also asked to be reassigned during the remainder of his contract Flynn noted that after a turbulent 12 months, preliminary enrollment tion is down just 44 students from last fall. He also noted that every public four-year college and univer sity in Nebraska has reported an enrollment drop at some point in the last two years. “That doesn’t mean we are satis fied with it,” Flynn said. “Itfc some thing we intend to reverse, and we will.” Peru Stated enrollment through August 1998 is more than 7 percent ahead of where it was in August 1995, he said. By late Monday, 1,101 students were registered for ) classes.
