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Monday, August 24, 1992
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Greek ship sinks off Malaysia coast
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The Royal Pacific cruise ship's brochure promised "champagne wishes and caviar dreams," but instead it was a trip of terror.
At least four people were killed, 70 injured and up to 26 missing after the ship collided yesterday with a Taiwanese trawler in the Straits of Malacca and sank about 12 miles south of Port Dickson.
The dead were not immediately identified. Reports on the number missing ranged from eight to 26.
The 405-foot Greek-managed cruise ship had left Singapore on Friday for a two-day "Cruise to Nowhere" along the Malaysia coast with more than 500 people on board, including several Americans.
Baltics remember 2 anniversaries
MOSCOW—Thousands of people gathered in the capitals of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania yesterday to commemorate the anniversaries of two events that marked the beginning and the end of Soviet domination in the Baltics. The first was the secret 1939 Hitler-Stalin pact that led to a half-century of Soviet rule. The other was the defeat of the hard-line Communist coup in Russia a year ago, which led to full Baltic independence
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany divided Eastern Europe into spheres of influence.
Demonstrators demanded the withdrawal of Russian troops from their country, ITAR-Tass said.
Bush might OK Iraqi flight limits
SPRINGFIELD, III. — President Bush is close to announcing that the United States will impose a "no-fly" zone over southern Iraq, warning that Saddam Hussein's warplanes will be shot down if they attempt to attack Shiite Muslims, the White House said yesterday. Presidential press secretary Marlin Fitzwater, asked when a decision would be disclosed, said most of the speculation pointed to tomorrow.
Administration officials have said previously that the United States, France and Britain had decided to impose a no-fly zone but were consulting on how it would be enforced and what territory would be covered.
"We've been working on details on the military command," Fitzwater said. "It will require (Iraqi) aircraft to be sure that they're not flying in that area."
He said there were sufficient U.S. warplanes in the region to enforce the ban.
Residents flee homes as fires rage in West
Firefighters battle blazes with bombs and bulldozers
The Associated Press
McARTHUR, Calif. — Firefighters yesterday used bulldozers to cut lines around a 63,000-acre wildfire that destroyed a town and forced thousands from their homes.
Nearly 1,800 firefighters were working on the Fountain Fire in Northern California's mountainous Shasta County. It was one of several fires burning in the drought-dried West, including a 232,000-acre fire near Boise, Idaho.
Firefighters also battled smaller blazes in Utah, Oregon and Southern California.
By late Saturday, firefighters had put up 10 miles of lines around the Fountain Fire, about one-third of what was needed to encircle it, said California Department of Forestry officer Norm Benson.
"They're building a freeway around that thing now," said Joe Silva, another forestry department officer.
Investigators said they hadn't determined the cause of the fire, which began Thursday and overran the small mountain town of Round Mountain, destroying up to 60 structures and
The fire passed the town of Burney on Friday night, and authorities allowed the town's 3,200 residents to return Saturday night. But 2,000 to 3,000 residents still were forbidden to return to the Round Mountain and Montgomery Creek area.
burning 120 homes and 149 other structures in the surrounding area, the forestry department said.
Elsewhere in Northern California, authorities lifted an evacuation order in Calaveras County, where a fire that scorched 18,000 acres was contained. The blaze destroyed 117 structures, at least 42 of which were homes.
In Idaho, the so-called Foothills Fire sparked by lightning earlier in the week pushed to within six miles of Boise before turning away.
The fire exploded under wind gusts of 40 mph on Friday, jumping the Boise River's south fork. It destroyed at least one building, believed to be an uninhabited house, and forced 100 people to evacuate in the small community of Prairie.
Helicopters dropped chemical-filled balls that ignite on impact on the Boise River's southern bank Saturday in hopes the seven-mile-long backfire would check, at least in one direction, the flames' advance.
Close to 1,000 firefighters moved onto the fire lines to fight flames across a 20-by-12 mile area.
Lebanon holds elections
The Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanon's first parliamentary elections in 20 years began yesterday. But right-wing Christians boycotted the polling, saying it should not have been held with Syrian troops still in Beirut.
The elections were seen as an important milestone, though the boycott cast doubt over their validity. A vote had been impossible during the war that split Lebanon into sectarian camps.
President Elias Hawaii's Syrian-backed government insisted on holding the elections, despite opposition by the Christians who want to seize the power. The first fortnight would influence the voting.
Hundreds of Lebanese troops patrolled the Beka Valley and north Lebanon in armored personnel carriers yesterday. The Syrians have pledged to help the Lebanese troops if necessary.
In the first phase of the three-stage elections, polls opened at 7 a.m. for 10 hours in northern and eastern Lebanon, where Syria maintains the bulk of its 40,000-strong peace-keeping army.
The second stage is to be Sunday in Beirut and in the adjoining Drusen hinterlause. The last is scheduled for Sept. 6 in south Lebanon, where Israel occupies a 440-square-mile enclave.
Most of the warlords, whose brutality was notorious during the civil war, were running for parliament, and seem sure to win.
Hebzoll, the umbrella organization of the former host-holdees, fielded six candidates in the eastern Baeka Valley against dozens of feudal lords and drug-running tribal chiefs.
Shiite Muslims responsible for kidnapping scores of Western hostages in the last decade also are running for the first time. The government hopes their involvement in local politics would tone down their extremism.
Hezbollah candidates campaigned on a platform calling for escalated guerrilla warfare against Israel and rejection of the U.S.-sponsored Arab-Israeli peace talks.
Some other candidates kept their names secret until the last moment, presumably to avoid being assassinated before voting begins.
A total of 633 candidates are running for the new Parliament's 128 seats, which are distributed equally between Muslims and Christians. The Interior Ministry says the number of eligible voters — those 21 or older — is 2,385,465. That is slightly more than half the population.
Parliament, whose current 108 members are supposed to be elected every four years, has been passing bills to extend its own life every two years for the past 20 years.
Right-wing Maronite Christians staged candel light protest parades in mountain resorts north of Beirut overnight and rang church bells in mourning over what they called Lebanon's fallen freedom.
Most Maronites, who have dominated power since Lebanon gained independence from France in 1943, remained in doorsyesterday on the third day of a general-protest strike in the Christian heartland of east Beirut and the surrounding mountains.
The Maronites, whose Western way of life helped make Beirut the most glamorous Arab capital before the civil war, fear a stranglehold by predominantly Muslim Syria would eventually drown them in a sea of 100 million Arab Muslims.
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