2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, September 15, 1995 Russia: ttack was act o terrorism E~'OR9 ':/'' From Daily Wire Services MOSCOW-Russian police yester- day deemed a grenade attack against the American Embassy an act of terror- ism and stepped up security during a diplomatic fence-mending visit by U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott. Kremlin outrage over NATO airstrikes against Serb rebels in Bosnia- Herzegovina had inflicted serious strain on U.S.-Russian relations, and the cur- rent atmosphere of acrimony has been linked by some politicians and observ- ersto Wednesday's rocket-propelled grenade blast at the embassy. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, in which no one was injured, but the Moscow district prosecutor's office opened a criminal investigation into what it was classify- ing as a terrorist act. "There are people in Russia who might have carried out such an action in response to continued bomb attacks on the Bosnian Serbs to demonstrate to the United States their readiness for the most resolute steps," Stanislav Terekhov, the head of Russia's Union of Officers, told Interfax, a Russian news agency. Defense Minister Pavel S. Grachev added heat to the dispute by claiming in an interview with Interfax that the NATO bombing runs had killed 800 and wounded more than 2,000 civilians - figures far larger than any confirmed in the West. In an unexpected show of modera- tion, however, vacationing President Boris N. Yeltsin vetoed laws passed by the State Duma, the lower house of Parliament, that would have required Russia to unilaterally breach U.N. sanc- tions against the Serbs. Yeltsin's press service said the president nixed the measures because they contained "con- tradictions to international law." Talbott, the U.S. government's top Russia expert, flew in for a whirlwind round of discussions with senior Rus- sian officials, including Foreign Minis- ter Andrei V. Kozyrev. But few details of their three-hour meeting were dis- closed. The envoy declined to say whether he thought the round fired at the em- bassy a day earlier was connected with the recent tensions between Moscow and Washington, and he sought to mini- mize those strains. "I would not describe it as a rift," he told reporters upon his arrival for a 24- hour visit. "Obviously we have some points ofdifference on tactics and some other issues with the Russians. What is really important is what we have in common ' According to a statement by the Rus- sian Foreign Ministry, Talbott met with Kozyrev for three hours. Kozyrev, the statement said, "stressed the immediate need to stop NATO airstrikes and for a cease-fire in the area of Sarajevo and in all Bosnia," the Interfax news agency reported. Judge in bombing trial won't step down OKLAHOMA CITY - In a blow to both the prosecution and defense, a federal judge tossed aside mounting pressure and refused to step down yesterday in the trial of Oklahoma City bombing suspects Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. U.S. District Judge Wayne E. Alley also ordered the trial to begin May 17 at the federal courthouse in Lawton, Okla. - a decision bound to please federal prosecu- tors who want to keep it in Oklahoma, but one the defense found deeply disturbing. Alley, a former Army brigadier general who was appointed to the federal court 10 years ago by President Reagan, dismissed allegations from defense attorneys and government lawyers that he and the other seven federal judges here had a conflict of interest. In an unusual stand of solidarity, the defense and prosecution cited the heavy damage that the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building caused to the U.S. District Courthouse across the street, as well as the fact that many of the federal workers killed in the explosion were friends and relatives of courthouse employees. But, said Alley, "I have no knowledge of facts disputed in this case. And I do not harbor and have never exhibited bias or prejudice against" McVeigh or AP PHOTO U.S. troops protect the U.S. Embassy in Moscow yesterday afternoon. Talbott was dispatched to Moscow Russia has called the bombing of the after a week of increasingly angry state- Bosnian Serbs "genocide," and parlia- ments by Russian politicians. Yeltsin mentarians have demanded that Yeltsin warned Sept. 8 that NATO's actions unilaterally lift U.N.-imposed economic threaten to spread war throughout Eu- sanctions against the Serbs. rope. 0! FBIagents testify i Oj Sm s aw tt Nichols. Faulkner leaves open door to Citadel CHARLESTON, S.C. - Shannon Faulkner, saying she was battling an "emotional catastrophe" when she with- drew from The Citadel, said in court papers yesterday she might want to return to the military college. "I do not believe the gates of The Citadel should be shut on me for trying to accomplish the impossible," she said in an affidavit. In the document, she asked to remain as a plaintiff in the lawsuit she filed 2 1/2 ago. In other filings, attorneys for The Citadel argued it's too late for Nancy Mellette to take her place. Mellette is a senior at a North Caro- lina military prep academy who wants to intervene in the case. The motion said the case is now be- tween the state and the federal govern- ment and that the U.S. Justice Depart- ment will adequately represent her. Faulknerbecame the first female Cita- del cadet last month but left school after a week because ofthe stress of the court fight and her isolation on campus. She spent most of her time on campus in the infirmary. "I recognize now that it was an im- possible task to require myself to per- form under the world's spotlight in sur- roundings where I did not even have a person to confide in," she said in the document. "I felt stranded, isolated and hated." Pilot survived war, died in peacetime MIAMI - John Stuart-Jervis sur- vived the most perilous of assignments as a British Royal Navy pilot. From the Suez Canal crisis of 1956, when his plane was shot down by Egyp- tian forces, to jungle warfare in South- east Asia, "he was always where the trouble was," said his wife, Caroline. On Tuesday, the retired aviator was killed when his sport balloon was shot down by the Belarussian military dur- ing an international race. "Ever since he was old enough to fly he did," Mrs. Stuart-Jervis said yester- day in a telephone interview from her home in Naples. "If he had to go, I know in my heart this is the way he would want to go." 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Simpson's double-murder trial lurched closer to conclusion yesterday, when prosecu- tors called two FBI witnesses they hope will convince jurors that a defense ex- pert was wrong when he told them that evidence at the Bundy crime scene sug- gested that Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were killed by two assailants. Prosecutors used FBI Special Agents Douglas Deedrick, an expert on fiber evidence, and William Bodziak, a foot- print specialist, to offerthejury alterna- tive explanations for the bloodstains defense scientist Henry Lee detected on an envelope, the front walkway of Nicole Simpson's condo and on Goldman's blood-drenched trousers. Lee, the avuncular dean of American forensic scientists, testified last month that the stains - which went undetec- ted by Los Angeles Police Department g Idbon QUALITY DRY CLEANING & SHIRT SERVICE 332 Maynard (Across from Nickels Arcade) 668-6335 investigators - "could be" from the shoe of a second assailant. He also said the patterns did not come from the Bruno Magli shoes that left other imprints at the scene. Deedrick, who testified concerning hair-and-fiber evidence during the prosecution's case-in-chief, took the stand shortly after lunch yesterday. In a brief examination by lead prosecutor Marcia Clark, he testified that the blood- stain impressions on Goldman's blue jeans could have been made by the swiping motion of victim's own shirt, which itself was drenched by the blood from multiple stab wounds. The FBI analyst also told Clark he was aware that Lee testified he reached his conclusions without preparing any test patterns of his own. When Clark inquired what Deedrick thought of that analysis, he replied that it was "inad- equate." However, in a biting and detailed cross-examination, defense attorney Barry Scheck forced Deedrick to con- cede that his own analysis of the mate- rial had been brief, and that he is neither "an expert in blood pattern analysis" nor in crime-scene reconstruction. In fact, the agent testified, he has visited only 20-25 homicide sites and never when the victim's body was present. In his testimony, Bodziak, the FBI's leading authority on shoe-imprint evi- dence, flatly contradicted Lee's sug- gestions that the bloodstain imprints he examined had been left by a shoe. Dur- ing an examination whose deliberate pace clearly troubled Judge Lance A. Ito, Bodziak and Clark used oversize photo blowups of the stains to lead jurors through the steps the agent used to reach his conclusions. Clark had not completed her direct examination when the judge recessed for the day. Hurncane Mary damages Babds, Martinique homes FORT-DE-FRANCE, Martinique- The fourth hurricane to hit the Carib- bean in as many weeks - this one named Marilyn -raced westward yes- terday, menacing islands from Barba- dos to Puerto Rico. Marilyn threatened to brush past St. Martin, the Dutch-French island devas- tated by Hurricane Luis last week. This year's hurricane season is one of the busiest on record, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Mi- ami. There were 14 named tropical storms and hurricanes by Sept. 14 in 1936 and 1993; this year has seen 13. With 2 1/2 months to go, the season that began June 1 seems set to maintain the frantic pace set by Hurricane Erin, followed by Hurricane Felix, Tropical Storm Iris and Hurricane Luis. The sea- son runs until Nov. 30. Heavy seas and rain squalls hit Martinique's north coast yesterday, and the airport, schools and some businesses were closed as Marilyn passed just northeast of the French island. Winds up to 80 mph bent coconut trees and ripped off their palm fronds, littering the streets of Fort-de-France, the capital. Scattered power outages were re- ported. Some residents in low-lying areas were evacuated to shelters. Next in line was Dominica, which lost 90 percent of its vital banana crop to Hurricane Luis last week. Fish spawns lottery winners in Colombia BOGOTA, Colombia-The discov- ery of a fish with a numberpainted on its scales reportedly inspired about 300 people to play the lottery - and win $1.1 million. A street vendor cleaning a fish in the Caribbean port of Turbo on Tuesday found "1 124" written on its side, Radio Caracol said yesterday. No one knows how the number got there. Hundreds of poor people, thinking the number was good luck, used it in a national lottery game called "chance," in which players try to guess the last three numbers of any regional lottery. The winning number in the Cundinamarca region, home to the capi- tal Bogota, was 1124 on Tuesday night. But when about 300 fishermen, street vendors and others in Turbo went to collect their prizes, officials did not have enough money to pay all the win- ners. Police had to escort the office manager past the angry crowd. Lottery officials said they would pay up, but will investigate for fraud. --From Daily wire services OlIN THE. OI /c) RESERVE OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS Rel Ious Services AVAVAVVA GRACE BIBLE CHURCH 1300 South Maple Rd. Studying God's Word Worshipping with God's People Living out God's Mission .30 a.m. Sunday school-prayer, bible study. 10:45 a.m. Morning service-worship, praise and prayer, Scripture exposition. STUDENT WELCOME WEEKEND The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745.967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscriptions for fall term, starting in September, via U.S. mail are $90. 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