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World & National News from the AP Wire
Bombings in the
Balkans might cease
NATO warplanes attacked targets
across Serbia Tuesday in a thunderous
warning to President Slobodan
Milosevic to implement a Kosovo peace
plan, as eight major powers unanimously
signed off on a text meant to
secure U.N. blessings for the agreement.
Besides drawing up a draft Security
Council resolution authorizing a
peacekeeping force for Kosovo with
"substantial" N ATU participation, the
G-8 group of Russia, the United States
and six key democracies agreed on a
NATO bombing pause, once Serb forces
begin a verifiable withdrawal.
"We got what we came for," said
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright,
suggesting that the draft's appendix
that nailed down a dominant NATO
role for the peace force had as much
weight as the plan itself.
However, Russian Foreign Minister
Igor Ivanov warned that his country,
which has veto power in the Security
Council, will not vote for the
resolution as long as the NATO bomb
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Russian space station
to be abandoned
Russia's space agency confirmed
Tuesday that the Mir space station
would be left unmanned following its
crew's departure in August, the first
step toward discarding it early next
year.
By leaving it empty instead of
abandoning it immediately, Russian
space officials are putting off the
painful moment of parting with the
Mir, the last symbol of the nation's
space gloiy.
Last week, 31 leading Russian
space designers suggested that the
station continue orbiting unmanned
until next February or March.
The delay is a last-ditch effort to
raise the $250 million a year needed
to keep the Mir aloft. The Russian government
has said it would pay for the
Mir's operation only through August,
and efforts to lure private investors
for further missions have failed.
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If money is found, a new crew will
warm the Mir up again. If not, ground
controllers will lower it to burn in the
atmosphere with some fragments
falling into an uninhabited part of the
ocean.
NASA has long urged Russia to
discard the Mir so it could concentrate
its meager resources on the new international
space station. Because of
Russia's failure to build its key segment
on time, the first permanent
crew isn't expected to move in until
next March, almost two years behind
schedule.
Chinese authorities
close internet cafes
SHANGHAI, China ? Police have
closed some 300 cafes in Shanghai for
offering Internet services without required
licenses, a newspaper reported
Tuesday.
The closures, which came during
a crackdown last week, appeared to
be part of efforts to silence potential
sources of dissent around this pastFriday's
anniversary of the bloody 1989
crackdown on pro-democracy protests
centered on Beijing's Tiananmen
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By Krishnan Guruswamy
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NEW DELHI, India ? Raising the t
decibel level of their rhetoric, India de- c
manded Monday that Pakistan with- g
draw hundreds of fighters from its
Kashmir territory. Pakistan, which denies
its troops are involved, accused
India of rebuffing its peace overtures.
On the icy Himalayan peaks of
Kashmir, where a month of fighting
has left hundreds dead or wounded,
India's air force and army rained shells
on rebel foxholes, prompting a barrage
of artillery from Pakistan's side of
the Line of Control, a cease-fire demarcation
dividing the region both nations
claim.
Pakistan officials said Indian shells
fell on . their territory, killing four soldiers
and wounding five others.
In the Indian town of Dras, Pakistani
shells ripped apart a military 1
barracks and badlv damaged its com- 1
munications room. At least 50 shells i
hit the camp in a 30-minute span,
killing one civilian, an officer said, t
At least 10 rebels and three Indi- 1
an soldiers were killed in a fusillade of t
artillery and small arms fire on an- (
other front along the border in Kash- (
mir, the Muslim-majority territoiy over ?
which India and Pakistan have fought ]
two wars in 52 years.
Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari <
Vajpayee went on state-run televi- ?
sion to demand Islamabad remove the j
guerrilla fighters or have Indian troops (
evict them forcibly.
Minutes before Vajpayee's speech,
Pakistan's Foreign Ministry spokesman
Tariq Altaf said, "India is on the ,
warpath... We offered peace talks, but
they rejected it."
Pakistan proposed a round of talks
between the nations' foreign ministers
that were to have taken place Monday. ]
New Delhi, however, backed out, say- 1
ing the timing was "inconvenient." i
In his five-minute speech, the first c
nationwide address since the fighting
began, Vajpayee accused Pakistan of I
violating the Line of Control. i
India says Afghan guerrillas sup- t
ported by Pakistani soldiers are en- ?
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LANSING, Mich.-State Sen. Dale
Shugars wasn't satisfied simply to hear at
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Marilyn Manson. He had to see them ?
for himself. '
In April, Shugars attended a Manson
concert. He was marveling at the
ight show when Manson appeared, ^
strapped to a cross and wearing a black ^
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Wednesday, June 2,1999
/ in Kashmir
renched on the mountains in Indialeld
Kashmir.
"They have been sent to occupy our
erritory... to choke off our links with
>ther parts of our country," Vajpayee
aid. "No government can tolerate such
in incursion. Our government certainly
vill not," Vajpayee said.
In an apparent effort to forestall
3akistan from making the question of
ontrol over Kashmir a focus of the prorosed
talks, Vajpayee said the "subject
s one and one alone: the intrusion and
low Pakistan proposes to undo it."
Pakistan repeatedly has denied
hat its forces are involved in the fightng
In Islamabad, Altaf said Pakistan
loesn't "know what other initiatives to
;ake" to defuse the tension. "The in;ernational
community should focus
ts attention on the Kashmir problem.
Vithout a just solution to this prob*
em. there can be no nermanent neace
n the region," he said.
On Monday, New Delhi for the first
ime accused Pakistan of deploying heicopters
to drop supplies to the miliants
occupying strategic heights in Inlian
territory. However, the helicopters
lidn't cross the Line of Control, said
rir force spokesman Group Capt. K.
iajaram.
India's casualty toll stood at 60 dead,
217 wounded and 14 missing, army
spokesman Col. Bikram Singh said,
ie estimated that 221 Pakistani solliers
and an unknown number of
)thers have been killed so far.
Infantrymen struggled to carry the
lead and injured down the steep rock
aces, each body requiring geyen men
is many hours to bring it down.
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lilltops near Dras as soldiers trained
L55-mm and 105-mm mobile field guns
it them. Pakistani gunners respond:d
with a volley of shells at the army
:amp.
The Indian air force pressed its soihisticated
French-made Mirage 2000
ighter jets into battle," and officers on
he ground said the planes scored more
iccurate hits.
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red that would require parental ad
sories on tickets, posters and other
Ivertising for certain concerts.
The measure passed the state Sene
last month and is now before a
juse committee. If it passes the full
Duse, it will be the first law of its kind
the country.
"We found that, a lot of times,
rents weren't aware of what the lyrics
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does guarantee a red flag" [for parts].