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U.S. plane fired on in Somalia
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Single bullet strikes aircraft carrying food
The Associated Press
MOGADISHU, Somalia — A U.S. plane delivering food to starving people in the central town of Badaoa was struck by a bullet on Sunday, and the United States suspended its airlift.
A U.S. representative said workers did not know who had fired on the cargo plane.
Relief agencies are caring for an estimated 80,000 people in Baidan, which is among the towns hardest hit by Somalia's famine. However, relief officials say the situation has improved with increased deliveries of food and the daily death toll has dropped from a high of about 350 to 70.
Drought and war have killed more than 100,000 people in Somalia this year, and 2 million others are on the
verge of starvation.
Clan warfare and banditry have periodically forced the suspension of international food airlifts, underscoring the difficulties that relief workers face. As much as half of the nearly 200,000 tons of relief supplies delivered to Somalia this year has been looted.
It was the second time a U.S. plane was hit by gunfire since the United States began its emergency airlift of food on Aug. 21. Another C-130 was hit by a stray bullet on Sept. 18 in the western town of Beetel Huen, causing a two-week suspension of U.S. flights to that town.
In the past week, a German relief plane was hit by a bullet at Mogadishu's airport, and on Saturday two planes for the International Committee of the Red Cross were fired on in the southern port of Kismavu.
In yesterday's incident, the U.S. plane was making the second of 12 flights planned for Baidaa, said army Lt. Col. Robert Donnelly, representative for the U.S. operation, based in Kenya's coastal city of Mombasa.
Donnelly said the military C-130 Hercules was shot as it approached
Baidoa's airstrip early yesterday.
"One bullet hit the aircraft," Donnelley said. "We don't know how many shots were fired or where the bullet was fired from."
He said that the bullet hit the right external fuel tank and that it was only discovered when a crew member looked out a window and saw fuel leaking. No one was hurt, and the plane returned to Mombasa.
"But one thing that characterizes all of the places we fly into is volatility," he said. "One minute it can be calm, minutes later it can be a firelight."
The remaining 10 flights were suspended, with some diverted to Hodgetown.
Donnelly said there was no noticeable increase in tensions in Baidao, which has been a center of relief work and efforts stepped up three months ago.
Since starting their airlift, the United States has delivered close to 11,000
In addition to the United States, other nations running airlifts to the hungry are Canada, Germany, France and Belgium.
Meanwhile, the United Nations has begun helping some Somalians leave refugee-clogged towns in Kenya and resume farming in their nearly deserted villages, an official said.
About 800 Somalis have returned in the past week, and 5,000 more have indicated an interest in going, Panos Mountzis, representative for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, said in Nairobi, Kenya.
The numbers are small considering the number living in the settlements — as many as 60,000 in Mandera and 18,000 in El Wak. More than 400,000 Somali have fled to Kenya in the past 18 months.
Mountzis said the expatriates were given transportation back to their villages and provided with food and seeds for planting. The United Nations also will try to restore health clinics and water systems.
"In the long run, we hope that by getting food in, many refugees might decide voluntarily to go back," he said. But he said the most important consideration for the refugees was security, which is impossible to guarantee in Somalia.
Experiments keep shuttle crew busy
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CAPE CANAVERA. Fla.
Columbia's astronauts measured ozone in Earth's upper atmosphere and tested a new toilet as the space shuttle whizzed around the world for a fourth day Sunday.
Canadian astronaut Steven MacLean was floating on air in more ways than one.
"By the way, there are celebrations in the streets of Toronto," Mission Control informed the astronauts shortly after they were awakened. "Steve's going to collect on a few bets today."
"All right!" MacLean said.
MacLean had bet his U.S. crewmates that the Toronto Blue Jay would win the World Series. They did.
"I can't understand why the others were so quiet," NASA flight director Bob Castle said, referring to the five U.S. astronauts aboard Columbia. At least two of them were rooting for the Atlanta Braves.
The astronauts spent much of yesterday working on Canadian experiments, including atmospheric measurements. They aimed monitors at the rising and setting sun to gauge the concentrations of ozone, oxygen and nitrogen compounds and aerosols in the stratosphere.
"It's incredible how many different people are doing different things up here," said shuttle commander James Wetherbee.
Astronaut Tamara Jernigan completed more tests on heat pipes that were spun to simulate the motion of revolving satellites. Unlike traditional spacecraft radiators, these pipes have no mechanical parts and instead rely on fluid evaporation to dispel excess heat.
In an experiment involving other innovative equipment, the crew tested a new toilet intended to replace the much-maligned bathroom — waste collection system, or WCS, in NASA jargon — currently on the shuttle.
"We've taken all the lessons we've learned from the previous design and we've made improvements," Brasseaux said.
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — In final maneuvers before Charles H. Keating Jr.'s federal fraud trial, his lawyer will urge a judge today to rule that Keating's previous legal troubles cannot be used as evidence.
Jury selection begins Wednesday.
Keating's lawyer, Stephen C. Neal, maintains his client will be found not guilty if the jury focuses on relevant evidence alone. He and his prosecutors would do their best to detail their details Neal says are irrelevant.
The issue is whether jurors objectively judge a man whose risky investments, political connections, lofty pay and heady corporate repels have made his name a synonym for the SLS crisis.
The failure of Keating's Lincoln Savings cost taxpayers an estimated $2.6 billion. The government claims he looted the S&L through its parent company, American Continental Corp.
Prosecutors want to exclude evidence of misconduct and faulty administration by state and federal regulators. Keating said the regulators were so vindictive that they hounded him to ruin.
Keating was convicted of 17 state counts of misleading small investors about the safety of the American Continental junk bonds. Many Lincoln depositors traded their insured accounts for these bonds which became worthless when his empire fell in April 1989.
Some investors said they were told the bonds were insured.
Keating faces 73 counts of conspiracy, racketing, bankruptcy fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud, interstate transportation of stolen property and misapplication of federally insured funds.
That state conviction, which brought a 10-year sentence, is among the events from Keating's ruling in the raid inadmissible as evidence.
The maximum penalty Keating faces is 525 years in prison and $17 million in fines.
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