Ugandan president vows action
■ The country’s troops
will hunt down the
terrorists who killed two
Americans.
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) -
Ugandan troops will hunt down those
responsible for killing two Americans
and six other foreign tourists, Uganda’s
president promised Wednesday,
acknowledging that park rangers failed
to alert soldiers to a possible attack by
Rwandan rebels.
“If we don’t catch them, we shall kill
them,” President Yoweri Museveni said,
apologizing to the victims’ families.
Ugandan and Rwandan soldiers set
out on foot patrols Wednesday in a man
hunt for the rebels, who used machetes
to kill two Americans, four Britons and
two New Zealanders in a jungle so
dense it is known as the Impenetrable
Forest. FBI agents were also in
Kampala to aid in the investigation.
The two dead Americans were iden
tified as Rob Haubner, 48, and his wife,
Susan Miller, 42. Both were employees
of Intel Corp., die world's largest manu
facturer of computer processors. Their
family issued a statement saying: “We
are shocked by this news, and we are
trying to cope with this devastating situ
ation as best we can.”
The Americans were among more
than 12 foreigners the rebels kidnapped
late Sunday in their fight to undermine
Rwanda’s Tutsi-led government
. The rebels were among Hutu fight
ers who fled Rwanda in 1994 after
killing more than 500,000 minority
Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus in
government-orchestrated genocide.
The Hutu fighters are angry at the
United States, Britain and Uganda for
providing aid to Rwanda’s new Tutsi-led.
government In notes left on the tourists’
bodies, the rebels said: “Americans and
British, we don’t want you on our land.
«
If we don 't catch them,
we shall kill them
i Yoweri Musevini
Ugandan president
You support our enemy.”
A Ugandan commander said sol
diers tracked the rebels to a base in
Congo’s Virunga National Park on
Tuesday, killing some of them before
they scattered.
Museveni said rangers should have
known an attack was possible. There
were unconfirmed reports of a separate
raid on a nearby village hours before the
attack on foe tourists.
The Express newspaper of London
also reported Wednesday that the rebels
sent letters to Ugandan officials two
weeks ago warning that Britons and
Americans would be targeted, but the
threats were not passed on to British
tour operators or diplomats.
The United States had no warning
that Hutus might attack tourists in
Uganda, State Department spokesman
James Foley said Wednesday.
Museveni also welcomed outside
help in tracking down the killers.
White House spokesman David
Leavy said the FBI and Justice
Department had investigative teams in
Uganda. “We will work tirelessly to
bring those who perpetrated this crime
to justice,” Leavy said.
Supreme Court rules
for disability financing
WASHiNU lUN (Ar) - Public
schools must finance one-on-one nurs
f ing care for some disabled students
throughout the school day, the
Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in a
decision that may strain educational
budgets across the nation. (
Voting 7-2 in the case of an Iowa
teen-ager, the court said public financ
1 ing is required under the Individuals
with Disabilities Education Act
because the federal law’s exemption for
I medical services applies only when a
| doctor’s help is needed.
The decision’s immediate impact is
certain: Iowa’s Cedar Rapids
Community School District must pay
tens of thousands of dollars a year to
provide nursing care for Garret Frey, a
quadriplegic on a ventilator who is
thriving as a high school sophomore.
The ruling’s broader impact is
t cloudier.
The court’s two dissenters said the
decision blindsides unwary states
with fiscal obligations they could not
have anticipated.”
Contacted at his Cedar Rapids
school and told about his victory,
Garret said: “Ith going to help a lot of
other kids, not just me and otter kids in
Iowa. It’s going to help all over.”
The National School Boards
Association was less enthusiastic: “At
the current time, the public educational
system in this country is not adequately
funded to provide full medical services
for approximately 17,000 students with
severe disabilities,” Anne L. Bryant, the
group’s executive director, said.
“We want Garret in school - he’s an
excellent student,” she said. “But
schools can’t do it alone.”
The federal government now pays
about 12 percent of the nation’s special
education costs.
The law, first approved in 1975,
provides that all children with disabUi
«
It’s going to help a
lot of kids, not just
me and other kids
■ in Iowa.’’
Garret Frey
disabled high school student
ties receive a “free appropriate pubhc
education ” It requires schools to pro
vide various “special education and
related services,” but an exception is
made for medical treatment
Cedar Rapids school officials said
the help Garret, 16, requires so he can
attend high school is so involved and
expensive that it should be considered
medical treatment
i Bob Dole to be sent to Kosovo
WASHINGTON (AP) - Increasing diplomatic efforts
for a Kosovo peace deal, die administration is sending for
mer Sen. Bob Dole to the province today, officials said
j Wednesday. i
State Department spokesman James Foley pointed to
recent encouraging signs that the Kosovar Albanians have
4 been moving toward acceptance of a peace plan proposed by
six mediating nations.
After the Albanians formally agree, Foley said, “pres
sure on the Serbs to do so will mount,” Foley said.
“We believe that that message will become increasingly
clear to President (Slobodan) Milosevic in the days to
come,” he added.
r-- -
On Capitol Hill, Defense Secretary William Cohen pre
dicted that without a peace plan and peacekeepers, there was
a “likelihood of bloodshed continuing to take place on a
massive scale, with migrations of tens of thousands of peo
ple out of the region spilling into the other areas.”
That, Cohen said, could “present us with a military mis
sion in the future which would be far more expensive” than
the 4,000-member U.S. contingent die administration envi
sions for Kosovo under a peace agreement
Foley said Dole will go to Pristina to meet with a variety
of Kosovar Albanian leaders. The hope is to win their
endorsement of the delegation’s decision to sign the accords
during talks at Rambouillet, France, last month.
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Lewinsky
attacks
Starr office
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WASHINGTON (AP) -
Disclosing an abortion and thoughts of
suicide, Monica Lewinsky gave the
world an unabashed account of her life
Wednesday and unleashed her long
pent-up loathing for Kenneth Starr’s
investigation. And she said she now
regards President Clinton “to be a
much bigger liar than I ever thought”
In a television interview and a sep
arate book, the 25-year-old former
White House intern spoke openly of
sexual encounters with the president
and several other men.
But she saved some of her sharpest
words for the prosecutor who trans
formed her affair with Clinton into an
impeachment crisis while providing
her immunity from criminal charges.
Lewinsky said in her book,
“Monica’s Story,” that Starr’s office
“was sick” for asking so many detailed
questions about her sexual encounters
with die president and also engaged in
“dubious tactics” by trying to coerce
her cooperation during a first con
frontation in January 1998.
She said in her book that that first
meeting made her so distraught that
she considered hurling herself from
the 10th-floor window of the hotel „
room where prosecutors interviewed
her, and later weighed fleeing the
country.
In Wednesday night s long-antici
pated ABC interview with Barbara
Walters, Americans were shown a far
different personality than the stem wit
ness forced to testify before a grand
jury and by videotape at the impeach
ment trial. Lewinsky was animated
and smiled frequently during the inter
view.
Lewinsky questioned the sincerity
of the president’s apology for the entire
episode, saying, “I think he’s sorry he
got caught.”
In both the interview and
Lewinsky’s book, written by Princess
Diana biographer Andrew Morton
with the former intern’s cooperation,
she volunteered details about intensely
personal matters in her life.
She acknowledged she had an
abortion after becoming pregnant dur
ing an affair with a fellow Pentagon
worker. The abortion occurred in die ,
latter part of 1996, while she was still
seeing Clinton in secret meetings at the
White House.
■ North Carolina
Trial for Marine pilot
handed over to jury
CAMP LEJEUNE (AP) - An
eight-man military jury began delib
erating manslaughter charges
Wednesday against a Marine pilot
accused of flying i ecklessly into
Italian ski gondola < sables, sending
20 people to their deaths.
Capt. Richard Ashby, 31, of
Mission Viejo, Calif., was at the con
trols of the EA-6B Prowler jet when
it hit the cable Feb. 3,1998, near the
Alpine town of Cavalese, Italy.
The jury deliberated for about
four hours Wednesday afternoon. w
■ Oregon
Cargo ship’s bow
washed up on beach
WALDPORT (AP) - The bro
ken bow of the cargo ship New
Carissa washed back onto the
beach Wednesday after attempts
over the past month to firebomb it,
pump it and tow it out to sea all
failed to make the oil-laden men
ace go away.
The bow nosed onto the beach
at dawn just off a rocky stretch of
the Oregon coast after a storm 50
miles out in the Pacific ripped the
hulk free from the tug that was
towing it out to sea to be sunk.
■ Japan
U.S. accused of spying
on North Korea
TOKYO (AP) - North Korea
accused the United States of making
160 spy flights over the Communist
country in February, calling the mis
sions a “villainous threat” to peace
on the Korean Peninsula.
State-run Korean Central Radio,
said the flights endangered Korean
reunification efforts.
In Washington, Pentagon
spokesman Army Col. Richard
Bridges declined to comment on the
spy-plane issue.
■ China
Negotiators discuss
China’s WTO admission
BEUING (AP) - Top U.S. and
Chinese trade negotiators met
Wednesday to try to spur China’s
fitful, 13-year-long effort to join
the World Trade Organization.
U.S. Trade Representative
Charlene Barshefsky held a more
than hourlong meeting with
Chinese Foreign Trade Minister
Shi Guangsheng on Wednesday
afternoon, and their aides contin
ued discussions late into the night,
a U.S. trade official said.
■ Turkey
Kurdish rebels vow
to fight without Ocalan
ANKARA (AP) - Kurdish
rebels will escalate the war for
autonomy in southeastern Turkey
despite the loss of their leader, a
spokeswoman for the rebels’ polit
ical wing said Wednesday.
Tlirkey hoped that the Feb. 15
capture of Abdullah Ocalan,
founder and leader of the
Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK,
would deal a final blow to his
rebels:-But fighting has continued
in the southeast and the Germany
based Kurdish agency DEM said
the rebels had killed 29 soldiers
since clashes over the past 10 days.