2A - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, October 28, 1999 NR ArmenianIIAaiame tt L YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) - Gunmen seized Armenia's parliament in a torrent of automatic weapons fire yes- terday, killing the prime minister and seven other politicians. The attackers were still barricaded in the building with dozens of hostages shortly before dawn today. With the bodies of Prime Minister ,Vazgen Sarkin and Parliament Speaker Karen Demirchian sprawled on the podi- um where they fell, the attackers demanded to seethe president. During the night, the gunmen released three hostages, all of them reportedly sul- fering heart trouble, but continued to press their demand for talks with President Robert Kocharian, the coun- try's leader. The president promised to take all pos- sible steps to end the crisis and free the hostages. But there were no immediate indications of progress toward ending the standoff Police said up to five gunmen were holding hostages in the main chamber of the parliament building. The gunmen claimed they were holding about 50 hostages. "They said it was a coup and called on the journalists to inform people about it. They said they were going to punish the authorities for what they did to the nation, said one reporter who was in the chamber during the attack. A man identified as the gunmen's leader, Nairi Unanian, spoke in a tele- phone interview with a local television station "This is a patriotic- action" he said. "This shake-up is needed for the nation to regain its senses. "The country is in a catastrophic situa- tion, people are hungry and the govern- ment doesn't offlcrany way out,"Unanian said. In an interview with Armenian i V channel A I Plus, he said the deaths were unintended except for Sarkisian, who he claimed had failed to sene the naion. The other deaths, he said, were "the result of technical mistakes." "Other than the prime minister, agen Sarkisian, all the others are innocent ic- tims," he said in the interview, as report- ed by the ITAR-Tass news agency. Armenian television broadcast footage of the stunning attack, showing at least two men in long coats firing automatic weapons in the parliament chamber. Some lawmakers dove under their desks, others fled into the streets. One of the attackers approached the prime minister and said: Enough of AROUND THE NATION Stewart's jet wreckage partly removed MINA. S.. - Federal safety investigators removed from a deep crater yesterday, about a fourth of the wreckage of the executive jet that crashod here Monday after a 1,400-mile flight on autopilot with all six people aboard, including champion golfer Payne Stewart, apparently already dead from oxygen deprivation. Until now, National Transportation Safety Board workers had confinod their search to the perimeter of the impact area, a cow pasture about* miles west of Aberdeen in northeastern South Dakota. They had recovered some human remains and parts of the twin-engine Learjet 35 that 'were spread 150 feet around the crash site in knee-high grass. Before returning to Washington yesterday morning, NTSB vice chair Robert Francis said that because the Learjet was in a vertical dive whenit burrowed into wet ground at a high speed, there will be "some slow going' because the wreckage is so compacted and commingled with mud. "It's going to be a challenge, with the wreckage and sorting out what's there." Francis said. It will take several days to remove what is left of the aircraft to a hangar at the Aberdeen airport for closer examination, he said. And it could take months more to pinpoint a cause of the accident, which said he thought was "unique in the history of aviation." 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"Everything is being done for you and the future of your children' The attacker identiied by reporters as ljnanian, an etureme national-itind f nner journalist opened 'i 1re 1i he other gunmen included Unanian's broth- er and uncle, the reporters said . T'hc attack was likely to plunge Armenia into a major political crisis. The country, which became independent fol- low ing the In9 Sox iet collapse. has been plagued by political and economic turmoil for the past decade. President linton said he was shocked and saddened b y the attack. Sheri L. Szuch,PhD 0% Fat and proud of it! Licensed "-Eati -De -Re h *Gri Indivic Super Phone Clinical Psychologist ing Disorders ression ationship Issues ef & Loss dual - Group. Family Therapy vision and Consultation and Fax 734-741-8584 Cut thle fat out of You'll be in and out in no lime * Automa'ed SelfSserve I Resumes while you wait *(olor copies in no time -Report binding in minutes up its own backyard. A New England-wide coalition of environmental groups released a study yesterday suggesting it's about time. For the third consecutive year, total emissions of nitrogen oxide, sulfur diox- ide and carbon dioxide from the 14 old- est plants across New England increased. "We've eroded half the gains we've made, if not a little more," said Rob Sargent, spokesperson for MassPIRG. Old plants don't have to meet the same emissions standards as new plants because of a loophole in the fed- eral Clean Air Act. Sargent, like his counterparts throughout the Northeast, has spent a good part of the last three years rallying small grassroots groups in demonstra- tions against the dirtiest power plants, including the; "Filthy Five" in IM Caviar importers look toward trial 4i, NEW YORK --Two men are on trial in Brooklyn federal court in a case that highlights an international endangered- species law and the lucrative black market for the world's finest fish eggs, known as caviar. Eugeniusz Koczuk, the owner-o import company called 6 0 International, and his associate Wieslaw Rozbicki are the first people to be prosecuted under new provi- sions in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. They could get five yearsiln prison and be forced to forfeit S2 mil- lion if convicted. 425 E. Washington * Suite 101F * Ann Arbor* Michigan * 48104 Office: 1/2 block from campus; client parking available ARoUND THE W.O.RLD. +f t] y 1 ^ c- r ?. . r ..;N, Pols try to salvage N. Ireland accord BELFAST, Northern Ireland - Politicians emerged tight-lipped last night from a final round of negotia- tions led by U.S. diplomat George Mitchell, who is trying to salvage Northern Ireland's peace accord. The former U.S. Senate majority leader returning to Belfast after a three-day break, presented confi- dentiat proposals to all eight parties that support the Good Friday accord of 1998. The two key protagonists - the Ulster Unionists, the chief represen- tative of the province's British Protestant majority, and Sinn Fein, the political party linked to the Irish Republican Army - wouldn't dis- cuss what formulas Mitchell had put on the table. Participants believe this will be Mitchell's final week of trying, to breathe fresh life into the accord he helped deliver 18 months ago. But Mitchell's office denied suggestions he was pursuing a definite decision- making deadline this weekend. a For more than a year, Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble. has refused to establish a new four-pty government for Northern Ire6d upon which so much of the accord rests. NATO-escorted convoy attacked PRISTINA, Yugoslavia - A convoy of Serbs fleeing Kosovo under NATO escort came under attack yesterd n the western city of Pec, the refugee agency spokesperson said. The convoy of at least 150 peopk leaving the southwestern city o1 Orahovac was traveling to Montenegrc when it was attacked by people whc attempted to pull evacuees from.th( vehicles, U.N. refugee agency spokesperson Peter Kessler said. - Compiledf om Daily wire reports The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter term by students at the University of Michigan. Subscriptions for fall term, starting in September, via U.S. mail are $100. Winter term (January through April) is $105, yearlong (September through April) is $180. On-campus subscriptions for fall term are $35. Subscriptions must be prepaid. The Michigan Daily is a member of the Associated Press and the Associated Collegiate Press. ADDRESS: The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1327. 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