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From staff and wire
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The manhunt for Charles
Lannis Moses Jr. ended late
Tuesday when the fugitive
was wrestled to the ground
after entering a Wyoming
couple’s home, authorities
said.
Moses, accused of shoot
ing two Nebraska police offi
cers on Saturday and gunning
down a farmer on Monday,
had outrun authorities in the
hills just over the Nebraska
Wyoming state line.
He was caught at about
8:40 p.m. MST (9:40 p.m.
CDT) after entering a farm
house, where the occupants
wrestled a firearm away from
him and called police, Sgt.
Troy Lees of the Wyoming
State Patrol said.
Moses was not injured in
the confrontation Tuesday
night.
But he was taken to a hos
pital in Lusk for injuries he
sustained in a shootout with
Nebraska officers on
Saturday night, Lees said.
“We’re all going to sleep
better tonight when we do get
to bed, and I think the citizens
of Nebraska will sleep bet
ter,” said Col. Tom Nesbitt of
the Nebraska State Patrol.
A first-degree murder
warrant was issued for Moses
on Tuesday, one day after
Robert Sedlacek, 48, a
farmer near Paxton, was shot
to death.
Authorities, already
searching for Moses after the
shootout Saturday, found
Moses in Wyoming on
Tuesday afternoon, but he
managed to escape in the
remote, hilly area.
Police and National
Guard troops with night
vision equipment had been
searching a secluded area by
foot and helicopter Tuesday
night for the Texas survival
ist.
Moses, a 31-year-old
construction worker, had
been the subject of a three
day manhunt that began in
western Nebraska.
The Nebraska State
Patrol received a message at
about 2:20 p.m. Tuesday that
Charles Lannis Moses Jr.,
was involved in a high-speed
chase with the Wyoming
State Patrol near Lusk, said
Capt. Jim Parish of the
Nebraska State Patrol.
Officers spotted Moses in
a stolen blue 2000 Chevrolet
pickup with Nebraska license
plates in Lusk. Under hot
pursuit, Moses drove into a
pasture, Parish said.
Moses abandoned the
truck and continued eluding
the authorities by foot, Parish
said.
State troopers, county
deputies and the FBI fol
lowed him but maintained
their distance because Moses
was thought to be armed and
dangerous, Parish said.
Gov. Mike Johanns
^ We're all going to sleep
better tonight when we do get
to bed, and I think the citizens
of Nebraska will sleep better”
CoL Tom Nesbitt
' Nebraska State Patrol
declared a state of emergency
Tuesday, which allowed the
guard to use two unarmed
Blackhawk helicopters in the
search.
The Nebraska State
Patrol already had two planes
and another helicopter taking
part in the manhunt.
Police believe Moses had
been hiding out on the farm
and killed Sedlacek to steal
his pickup truck.
Moses is also suspected
of shooting two police offi
cers Saturday night in
Sutherland.
Police found a car
believed to be stolen by
Moses in Paxton, said Capt.
Bob Thorson of the Nebraska
State Patrol.
Nesbitt said police did not
apprehend Moses on
Saturday night because they
were unable to use aerial sur
veillance and search methods
because of bad weather.
Johanns expressed his ,
appreciation Tuesday for the
efforts of the National Guard,
Nebraska and Wyoming State
Patrol and the FBI.
Staff writer Jill Zeman
contributed to this report.
Blow dealt: IRA stops disarmament talks
BELFAST, Northern Ireland -
Stung by the British government’s deci
sion to suspend Northern Ireland’s
power-sharing agreement, the IRA
broke off disarmament talks Tuesday,
dealing a damaging blow to hopes of
resurrecting Northern Ireland’s
Protestant-Catholic administration.
In a hard-line statement, the IRA
also formally withdrew from the table
its latest hint that it might someday dis
arm. The outlawed group accused the
British government and the province’s
major Protestant party, the Ulster
Unionists, of pursuing “a military victo
ry,” something that “cannot and will not
happen.”
The development underscored the
failure of a 3-month-old deal brokered
by American diplomat George Mitchell.
Mitchell had persuaded the Ulster
Unionists to establish a four-party coali
tion alongside the IRA-linked Sinn Fein
party. In exchange, the IRA was sup
posed to begin negotiating the gradual
destruction of its hidden weapons stock
piles, a goal of the province’s 1998
peace accord.
Instead, Britain suspended the 10
week-old administration’s powers
Friday after confirming the IRA had
made no commitments to the disarma
ment commission. The commission is
charged with securing the IRA’s total
disarmament by May in line with the
Good Friday accord.
The British and Irish governments
still intend to hold separate talks today
in London with Northern Ireland’s key
parties. But the odds against transfer
ring powers back soon to the Belfast
administration look greater than ever.
Tuesday’s IRA statement came after
an ill-tempered meeting between Sinn
Fein leaders and Peter Mandelson,
Britain’s secretary of state for Northern
Ireland, who took the decision to resume
direct control of the province.
“It was a bad meeting, quite
frankly,” said Sinn Fein leader Gerry
Adams, a reputed former IRA comman
der. “And this Sinn Fein leadership has
now no further room to move.”
Adams said he blamed Mandelson
for rejecting the IRA’s last offering to
the Belfast-based disarmament com
mission.
Canadian Gen. John de Chastelain,
^ It was a bad meeting, quite frankly.
And this Sinn Fein leadership has now
no further room to move.”
Gerry Adams
Sinn Fein leader
head of the disarmament commission,
reported late Friday - hours after
Mandelson revoked the local Cabinet’s
powers - that the IRA had for the first
time said it might put its weapons
“beyond use” in the event of unspeci
fied political progress.
In Tuesday’s statement, the IRA said
it was now “withdrawing all proposi
tions” presented to de Chastelain.
Mandelson said the IRA’s last offer
ing “had real potential, and people will
be sad that it could not be worked on and
developed in the way that is needed.”
Northern Ireland’s peace process
now finds itself tied up in a knot: The
Ulster Unionists won’t share power with
Sinn Fein unless the IRA disarms, and
the IRA won’t budge unless the Ulster
Unionists drop that condition.
The province’s major Catholic
party, the pacifist Social Democratic
and Labor Party, condemned the IRA
statement as a rejection of the Good
Friday accord.
Seamus Mallon, the SDLP’s deputy
leader and senior Catholic in the sus
pended Cabinet, said the IRA and Sinn
Fein seemed bent on treating disarma
ment as “a bargaining chip.”
“We must now clearly establish if, in
effect, the IRA is going to be part of the
new future,” Mallon said. “Or are they
going to believe that they can thwart the
wishes of the Irish government, the
British government, the people of the
island of Ireland and, indeed, world
opinion?”
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Bush, McCain debate
campaign financing
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Facing
their final debate before the make-or
break South Carolina primary, John
McCain turned philosophical
Tuesday, and George W. Bush tried to
trump him with a rival plan to over
haul campaign financing.
McCain told an audience in Irmo:
“I’m as interested in how this cam
paign is judged as I am in winning or
losing. I’ve always had a sense of his
tory.”
Bush used his appearance to roll
out a six-point plan that repackaged
' some of his previous campaign
finance proposals and included a new
one: prohibiting federally registered
lobbyists from donating to lawmak
ers while Congress is in session.
“I trust most people in Congress,”
the Texas governor told about 250
people gathered in a banquet center.
“But 1 think it’s important to have
reforms so the people do as well.”
McCain, who has focused much
more strongly on campaign financ
ing, dismissed Bush’s plan because it
would still allow wealthy individuals
to give unlimited amounts of “soft
money” for political party activities.
The 90-minute debate, sponsored
by the South Carolina Business and
Industry Political Education
Committee, also included the third
candidate left in the race for the
Republican presidential nomination,
radio talk show host Alan Keyes. It
was being broadcast live on CNN
with Larry King as moderator.
A USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll
published Tuesday showed Bush
leading McCain 49 percent to 42 per
cent, just above the margin of error. A
Los Angeles Times poll had the two
in a statistical dead heat.
The stakes in Saturday’s voting
are huge for both candidates.
McCain hopes for a win to show
his 18-point victory in New
Hampshire was no fluke. Bush wants
to break McCain’s momentum and
show he still deserves the front-run
ner’s mantle. Bush won the leadoff
Iowa caucuses and last week’s
Delaware primary, but McCain didn’t
campaign in either state, and polls
have shown some of Bush’s support
slipping.
rid and Nation
Datelines ■
■ Florida
Inmates pick lethal
injection over electric chair
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -
Not one of Florida’s death row
inmates has chosen the electric
chair over injection since the state
changed its primary method of
execution last month. -
The electric chair, previously
the state’s sole execution tool, had
seen a decade marked by flames
shooting from the apparatus in two
executions and blood flowing from
a man’s face in a third.
The Legislature changed the
primary method to injection - sav
ing electrocution as an option -
after the U.S. Supreme Court
agreed to hear a case challenging
its use of the chair. After the state
law was changed, the court backed
out of deciding whether the chair
was cruel and unusual punish
ment.
■ California
Oscars: 'American Beauty’
receives eight nominations
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.
(AP) - The Oscars embraced dys
function and darkness Tuesday,
bestowing a leading eight nomina
tions on the suburban burlesque
“American Beauty” and honoring
movies about abortion, death row
and the tormented souls of the
dead.
The top nominees included
“The Cider House Rules,” set in a
combination orphanage and abor
tion mill; “The Sixth Sense,” about
a boy from a broken home who can
see ghosts; and “The Green Mile,”
about the bonds between prison
guards and condemned men.
Those four movies, along with
“The Insider,” a film about a
tobacco industry whistle-blower,
were nominated for best picture.
■ Afghanistan
Passengers: Hijackers sought
asylum for their families
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -
While most passengers on the
hijacked Afghan plane cowered in
fear, dozens of others - many of
them women and children -
laughed, tossed aside their veils
and received the choicest food and
drink from their captors.
They were the relatives of the
hijackers, according to some of the
freed hostages who returned to
Afghanistan. Seventy-three pas
sengers returned home; 74 freed
hostages stayed in Britain either
seeking asylum or considering it.
Mohammed Shamsullah said
the hijackers’ goal was to seek asy
lum for themselves and their fami
lies. He said more than 30 of the
people on the plane were relatives
of the hijackers.
■ Washington, D.C.
Technology experts seek
to tighten Internet security
WASHINGTON (AP) - With
the FBI seeking to question sever
al hackers about last week’s
Internet attacks, President Clinton
today began exploring ways to
tighten security on the World Wide
Web.
Surrounded by technology
experts and a hacker known as
Mudge, Clinton said the attacks
nevertheless served as a needed
wake-up-call.
Afterward, some of the partici
pants said they discussed ways to
share information but made clear
to Clinton that they do not want a
large federal presence in Internet
security.
