- The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, April 10, 1996
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U.S. pulls
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The Washington Post
WASHINGTON - U.S. Special
Forces helicopters evacuated 26 Ameri-
cans from the war-torn Liberian capital
of Monrovia late yesterday, as the gov-
ernment here laid plans for a full-scale
evacuation of another 425 Americans
and possibly hundreds of other people,
officials said.
Last night fierce fighting broke out
anew near the American embassy there
between a rebel faction and troops loyal
to the government, the officials said, at
the end ofa confusing day ofcontradic-
tory statements over whether a rescue
mission would go forward.
It would be the third evacuation of
. ,American citizens from Liberia in the
country's six-year civil war, which has
pitted several rebel factions against
government troops.
Liberia's bloodiest gunfire and shell-
ing in three yea broke out Saturday
after the country's ruling Council of
State fired warlord Roosevelt Johnson
from his job as a government minister
and ordered him arrested for murder.
Johnson's followers attacked troops
loyal tothe council, which itself is made
up of several factions that had been
intermittently fighting since 1990.
Yesterday's lull in the fighting briefly
raised questions among U.S. policy mak-
ers about whether alarger evacuation was
worth the risk. But then last night, new
shooting convinced State Department
officials to approve a full-scale evacua-
tion, according to an administration offi-
cial who asked to remain unidentified.
"There is shooting very close to the
embassy," the official said yesterday
evening. "Final preparations for an
evacuation are under way."
Earlier yesterday, State Department
spokesperson Glyn Davies said the situ-
ation was "very chaotic and dangerous"
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Rostenkowski pleads guilty to felonies
WASHINGTON - Dan Rostenkowski, the once-powerful
Illinois Democratic U.S. representative, who now is out of
money, out of work and shorn of his power, ended his four-year
legal ordeal yesterday by formally accepting a plea agreement
substantially harsher than a deal he once spurned.
Standing before U.S. District Judge Norma Holloway
Johnson, the former chairman of the House Ways and Means
Committee quietly pleaded guilty to two felonies to settle
charges that he had engaged in a pattern of corrupt activities
spanning three decades. He received a 17-month prison term
and was fined $100,000 under terms of the negotiated plea.
In subdued tones, the 18-term former congressman replied Rostenkowski
"guilty" twice when asked how he pleaded to charges he had
misappropriated funds from his official expense accounts and from the House post
office.
Rostenkowski was facing trial next month on charges he stole more than
$640,000 in government funds in a series of schemes, including the hiring of
"ghost employees" who gave him kickbacks, converting for personal use House
post office funds intended to pay for official mailings, and spending official fu*
on personal gifts for friends and families.
AP PHOTO
U.S. Marines arrive on the grounds of the U.S. Embassy in Monrovia, Liberia, in 1990 to evacuate Americans when rebel
fighting engulfed the city.
but that there was "no imminent danger
to American citizens.... Nobody's be-
ing targeted."
The U.S. military plan called for a
security force of about 150 Special
Forces troops to fly into Monrovia yes-
terday night, most likely in helicopters.
It was unclear whether any fixed-wing
aircraft among the armadaof U.S. planes
standing by in Freetown, Sierra Leone,
might also assist in the evacuation.
Assembled in Freetown are several
large C-5A and C-130 transport planes,
as well as a number of AC-130 gun-
ships, MC-130 intelligence aircraft, and
HC-130 refueling planes, said officials
of the U.S. European Command in Ger-
many. U.S. Special Forces personnel in
Liberia were trying to determine
whether the large transport planes in
Freetown could land at Monrovia's
shell-damaged airport.
U.S. officials said the earlier removal
of24 American adults and two children
from Monrovia to Freetown's Lungi
airport, aboard U.S. Special Forces MH-
53 helicopters, did not necessarily
presage full-scale evacuation. It was
undertaken "because they weren't go-
ing to fly out empty," said Pentagon
spokesperson Kenneth Bacon.
The evacuation could be complicated
by the approximately 15,000 frightened
Liberians crowded into the U.S. embassy's
housing complex in Monrovia. In addi-
tion, it could prove difficult to gather
together the hundreds of American citi-
zens spread over several suburban towns
outside the capital city.
But U.S. officials said the evacua-
tion, as difficult and dangerous as it is,
will be made easier because of the re-
cent experience rescuing U.S. citizens
there. The rescue was to commence
under cover of dark, as U.S. officials
tried to get word to Americans scat-
tered in and near the capital, and ad-
vised them on negotiating roadblocks
to get to collection points, the adminis-
tration official said.
U.S. officials must decide who's eli-
gible to fly out with the Americans.
About a dozen countries, including Brit-
ain and Lebanon, have asked for help in
extracting their citizens. American of-
ficials said they want to accomplish the
evacuation without inciting panic or
hostility among Liberians.
Eighteen Navy Seals and Army Spe-
cial Forces personnel, who flew in on
the helicopters from Freetown yester-
day, spent several hours assessing the
situation on the ground.
Postal service to help
last-minute taxifiers
WASHINGTON - The Postal Ser-
vice will accommodate last-minute tax
filers by keeping post offices open late
April 15. Post offices in every major
city will extend hours or offer late mail
pickups April 15. Many offices will be
open until midnight.
Local businesses and radio stations
have teamed up with some post offices
to make tax day fun, offering prizes, tax
advice and special activities. Among
the special events cited by the Postal
Service:
0 The last person to mail a tax form at
the stroke of midnight in Charleston,
W.Va., will receive a worst procrastina-
tor trophy from the postmaster.
And in Santa Rosa, Calif., for $1,
last-minute taxpayers can throw a pie in
the face of an IRS agent at the post
office.
The Postal Service said taxpayers
should use correct postage, since the
Internal Revenue Service will not ac-
cept tax returns with postage due. It
also suggests that last-minute filers re-
frain from using an office postage meter
because the IRS does not accept private
postmarks as proof of timely filing.'
Raleigh paper wins
Pulitzer for serice0
NEW YORK - The News & Ob-
server of Raleigh, N.C., won the 1996
Pulitzer Prize for public service jour-
nalism yesterday for stories on the en-
vironmental and health risks of waste
disposal in hog farming.
The New York Times won three
Pulitzers and Newsday won two. The
Associated Press won for spot news pho-
tography for aphoto taken by a freelance
of an infant being cradled by a firefigh
after the Oklahoma City bombing.
A special award was given to Herb
Caen, the San Francisco Chronicle col-
umnist, for what the Pulitzer board de-
scribed as "his extraordinary and con-
tinuing contribution as a voice and a
conscience of his city."
The prizes, themostprestigious a"avds
given for journalism, are presented an-
nually by Columbia University.
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Serbs release 3 POWs
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
(AP) - Serbs released three Muslim
prisoners yesterday in an effort to meet
international demands and gain admit-
tance to a conference where they can
claim some of Bosnia's reconstruction
aid.
Top civilian officials said they were
encouraged by the freeing of the former
prisoners ofwarbut would not announce
before today whether the Bosnian Serbs
will be allowed to attend the interna-
tional fund-raising conference.
The Bosnian Serbs failed to meet the
Friday deadline to free all POWs or
gather them in a central place under
international supervision and hand over
files to a U.N. tribunal in the Nether-
lands if they were suspected of war
crimes.
The Bosnian government and the
Bosnian Croats met the deadline.
Carl Bildt, who is in charge of imple-
menting civilian aspects of the Bosnian
peace agreement reached last fall, had
threatened to exclude the former war-
ring parties from the two-day confer-
ence that starts Friday in Brussels if the
prisoner issue were not resolved.
Bildt's deputy, Michael Steiner, was
alsoupbeat after meeting Momcilo
Krajisnik, president of the Bosnian Serb
parliament.
The European Commission and the
World Bank, which jointly administer
Bosnian reconstruction efforts, hope the
Belgian conference will raise an addi-
tional $1.1 billion for reconstruction
projects this year. Donors have already
pledged $600 million to $700 million.
36 missing after cliff'
collapses in Bolivia
LA PAZ, Bolivia - Some 200,000
tons of rock and dirt buried more than
100 homes in a poor La Paz neighbor-
hood yesterday, and at least 36 people
were missing, Mayor Ronnie MacLean
said.
A steep cliff with homes built on its
face collapsed, creating a storm ofrocks
and dirt that buried the dwellings. A
loud rumble minutes before2a.m. land-
slide woke a number of families, en-
abling them to flee the scene uninjured.
Officials held little hope forthosemiss-
ing, including many children, who were
believed to be trapped under the soil and
rocks. A series of smaller landslides ham-
pered rescue efforts. Three bodies had
been recovered by early evening.
President Gonzalo Sanchez de
Lozada mobilized soldiers and police
to aid in the rescue efforts.
La Paz, a city of 1 million, is located
in a large bowl surrounded by sheer
cliffs, many of them inhabited by poor
Indians.
Experts have repeatedly said the soi
structure on the cliffs is unsafe fo
homes, and previous landslides bav
reinforced the point.
Quebec demands
labels for kosher foc
TORONTO - In a Passover wee
crackdown that has outraged Montreal'
100,000-member Jewish community
the Quebec government has blocke
distribution of kosher foods labeled onl
in English because they violate th
province's law making French the offi
cial language.
Although kosher food labele
French is available year-round in Que
bee, supermarkets import additional kc
sher products from the United State
and Israel for Passover, when deman
is highest. Those typically are labele
only in English because there isn't tim
to re-label them in French.
For 10 years, the government permi
ted this under what Jewish communit
leaders call a "tacit understanding" t
exempt Passover imports.
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officer Mark Fuhrman as a pivotal player
in the case.
"It was a mistake embracing him,
and trying to paint him as the symbol of
the All-American," Shapiro said.
He said the prosecution failed when
it did not bond well with the jury.
"That starts in the voir dire, when
you talk to them," Shapiro said. "I think
you have to be consistent throughout;
you have to be credible, both in your
approach and in your demeanor.
"Jurors are smart. They judge people
the way we judge each other. ... I al-
ways tried to bond with the jury."
Shapiro also said the moment when
thejury announced the verdict was very
dramatic.
"It was a very emotional time in the
courtroom. I congratulated my client, I
talked to the prosecutors. But I'm not
the type who reacts to jury verdicts in
either a celebrating way or in a disap-
pointed way.
"I've always tried to be professional
throughout the trial, and at the time the
verdict was rendered," Shapiro said.
Michelle Fleischer, national events
coordinator for Borders, said Shapiro
initially planned to speak at the book-
store. The event was later limited to
signing because the crowd was expected
to be larger than Borders could accom-
modate for a speech. Fleischer said cop-
ies of "The Search For Justice" have
been selling well.
LSA junior Adam Clampitt said
Shapiro is a credit to the legal profession.
"I think he's given a great name to
defense lawyers," Clampitt said. "If he
can get offO.J., he can get off anybody."
LSA sophomore Kevin Fisher said
he followed the trial "a decent amount."
"I liked the fact that he (Shapiro)
wasn't the big proponent of playing the
race card," Fisher said.
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