2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, September 19, 1997 NATION/WORLD 10 tourists killed by Egyptian gunmen 1 AROUND THE NJ I t 6 Twenty-four people Were wounded, including seven hospitalizations CAIRO, Egypt (AP)--Three men in white shirts and ties strode calmly up to .,bus as German tourists climbed aboard yesterday -- then pulled a gun od explosives from a black plastic bag. Ten people were killed in a hail of gun- fire and firebombs that set the bus ablaze. The noontime attack - which police, blamed on Muslim radicals - sent ;frightened tourists and bystanders streaming in panic from Cairo's Egyptian Museum, a major tourist land- -mark that contains one of the world's .tgreatest collections of Pharaonic antiq- uities. Police fired on the gunmen, wound- "irng and capturing two of them. A third suspect was arrested nearby as hun- dreds of people fled the museum, famed for its rich gold artifacts from the tomb of King Tut. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but police described the gunmen as Muslim extremists. The attack came three days after Egypt con- victed 72 people of subversion in its largest trial yet of Muslim extremists. "I saw one man hurl a Molotov cock- tail at the left side of the bus, while another opened fire," said Mohammed Fadl, an office worker. "There was black smoke coming out of the bus, and then it burst into flames" "The whole place was in panic," said Stephen Thomas, a Briton who was vis- iting the museum with his wife and two children. Another witness, an American from Buffalo, N.Y., who gave his name only as Mark, said the gunfire continued "for what must have been 10-15 minutes. It was crazy, people were running" Other witnesses said the gunmen threw one firebomb under the bus and another inside. Twenty-four people were wounded, including seven hospitalized in stable condition in Qasr el-Aini hospital, police said. Officials said other victims were treated and released, but had no details. More than 30 German tourists were already on the bus when the gunmen opened fire shortly after noon, when the museum was crowded with visitors and nearby Tahrir Square was jammed with pedestrians and vehicles. After the attack, two bodies, one rid- dled with bullets, lay across the stairs of the charred bus, its tires melted and its windows blown out. Seven other bodies were inside, some sprawled across the aisles. A tenth victim died after being removed from the bus. There was disagreement over the nationalities of the dead: police said nine were Germans and the other was the Egyptian bus driver. But German officials said only seven of the dead were German. Police said six of the dead were women and four were men. After the attack, hundreds of police- men carrying plastic riot shields, assault rifles tipped with tear gas canis- ters and rifles sealed off the downtown museum to search for the gunmen. Mahmoud Hamdy, the driver of a tour bus parked nearby, said the attack- ers wore white shirts and ties and looked just like any other Egyptian tourist agent working in the area. A police statement identified two of the suspects as Saber Farhat Abu el-Ulla and his brother Mahmoud. It said Saber Abu el-Ulla was convict- ed of a 1993 attack on a Cairo hotel that killed two Americans and a Frenchman, and was committed to a mental institution after being ruled mentally ill. JOIN THE DAILY. CALL 76-DAILY. RELIGJOUS SERVICES AVAVAVAVA CANTERBURY HOUSE JAZZ MASS Episcopal Center at U of M 721 E.Huron St. Ann Arbor, MI 48104 (313)665-0606 The Rev.Matthew Lawrence, Chaplain SUNDAYS 5:00 Holy Eucharist with live jazz Steve Rush and Quartex LUTHERAN CAMPUS MINISTRY LORD OF LIGHT LUTHERAN CHURCH 801 S. 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UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHAPEL, LCMS 1511 Washtenaw, Near Hill Pastor Ed Krauss, 663-5560 SUNDAY WORSHIP: 10:30 a.m. Oilman testifies about lofty donation WASHINGTON - Blunt and colorful, oilman and international fugitive Roger Tamraz testified yesterday that his $300,000 in Democratic contribu- tions won him a meeting with President Clinton over the objections of nation- al security aides. "I did believe my contributions gave me access," Tamraz declared in the Senate hearing room where witnesses in past weeks have denied that political contribu- tions gained donors favorable treatment. The millionaire oilman also talked of involvement with the CIA, torture in his homeland of Lebanon for assisting the United States during a covert operation and his flight from "trumped up" embezzlement charges. Now a U.S. citizen who got to pitch his Caspian Sea pipeline project during a brief encounter with the president, Tamraz bristled at a National Security Counci assessment of him as an unsavory figure unfit to meet Clinton. "I would like to know why, after all I have accomplished, lived through, seen anm participated in, I should be deemed unfit to visit the White House," said Tamraz. "I have risked my life many times for this country for no material gain." Tamraz said he donated money to the Democratic Party during the past electior to "promote myself" and his plan for a pipeline from the Caspian Sea region aws Turkey. U.S. trade deficit soars to $10.3 billion WASHINGTON - The U.S. trade deficit soared to $10.3 billion as a flood of Japanese cars produced the biggest gap with Japan in two years - an untimely blow just as the adminis- tration stepped up efforts to convince Congress that freer trade is good for the economy. The Commerce Department reported yesterday that America's overall July deficit was up 25 percent from June. Imports hit an all-time high while U.S. exports shrank by 1.4 percent. The politically sensitive deficits with both Japan and China widened consid- erably and the trade imbalances with Germany, Italy and France surged to records. So far this year, the trade deficit is running at an annual rate of $114 bil- lion, surpassing last year's eight-year high of $111 billion. Critics argued that dramatic mid- course corrections are needed before President Clinton is granted the author- ity he is seeking from CongressAt expand free trade beyond Mexico to the rest of Latin America. "We need to switch to a strategy that generates good jobs and a high and rising standard of living," said Robert Scott, an economist at the labor-financed Economic Pcy Institute. New AIDS cases drop for first time ATLANTA -New cases ofAIDSir the United States fell 6 percent last year the first drop since the epidemic telar in the early 1980s, and the governmen credits powerful new drugs. The same period also showed a in AIDS deaths, a trend reported1h government earlier this year. Deathi from the disease fell 23 percent, fron an estimated 50,140 in 1995 to aboui 38,780 in 1996, the Centers for Diseasc Congtrol and Prevention said yesterday In 1996, an estimated 56,730 peopk were diagnosed with AIDS, down fron the 60,620 new cases in 1995, the CDC said. AC4Y.vi:OG:{{5.0: WORLb. Israelgovernment, settlers compromise JERUSALEM - Israel agreed yes- terday to permit Jews to remain in the heart of an Arab neighborhood in east Jerusalem, appeasing hard-line members of the ruling coalition but angering Palestinians who called it "a trick.' The 11 Jews who triggered the crisis by moving into two buildings Sunday in the Ras al-Amud neighborhood vacated the compound yesterday evening, under an agreement reached between the government and the owner of the buildings, Miami millionaire Dr. Irving Moskowitz. But several of their supporters remained at the site, part of the deal that allows 10 seminary students to stay on as security guards and workers. The building dispute between Palestinians and Jewish militants touched on the sensitive issue of Jerusalem's final status. Palestinians hope to create a Palestinian capital in east Jerusalem - a move Jewish hard- liners are determined to prevent. Israeli government critics said yester- day's deal had, in effect, sanctioned anev Jewish settlement in the disputed territor) But Prime Minister Benjami Netanyahu hoped the compromis would satisfy the Palestinians whili placating right-wing members i parliamentary coalition who had threat ened to bring down his government i the Jews were forcibly expelled. Chechen frin tean exeCUtes mudrers GROZNY, Russia - With bursts c gunfire from theirAK-47 rifles, mem& of a Chechen firing squad sent a message to Moscow yesterday as the executed two convicted murderers, The executions, the second thi month, were carried out under recentl imposed Islamic law. They were intended both as a grapt ic warning.to criminals in the restiv Muslim republic and as the latest asset tion of Chechnya's independence fror Russia, which denounced the carlie executions. - Compiled from Daily wire report dngetsourf0otball tickets Lt Us resent t f an alernative! on't sit home simply because you didn't get all ofI fl your football tickets. Kickoff begins on Thursday, September 25, when the world-renowned Chicago Symphony Orchestra performs with conductor/ pianist Christoph Eschenbach. Instead of spending your weekend with screaming fans, why not spend your Friday evening with one of U-M's most talented football fans, famed violinist Nadja Salerno- Sonnenberg? 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