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NATION/WORLD
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, August 19, 1992
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NATION/WORLD BRIEFS Four die in apparent robbery
TULSA, Okla. — Four restaurant employees were found fatally wounded in an apparent robbery, authorities said.
A friend of one of the victims found them in a walk-in refrigerator Monday night at Lee's Famous Recipe Country Chicken restaurant on the city's east side. All had been shot in the head.
The victims, three men and a woman, ranged in age from 17 to 26, police said. The youngest had begun working at the restaurant just three days ago; the oldest was the mother of three, including a 15-month-old toddler.
One of the four was still alive but died early this morning, police spokesman Dennis Larsen said. Police said they were seeking four suspects.
Larsen identified the dead as Sendy Lara, 26, Tulsa; Joseph Gooch, 17, Tulsa; Theodore Kindley, 19, Tulsa; and a 24-year-old Tulan whose name was not released pending notification of relatives out of state.
Women, children leave Sarajevo
SARAJEVO. Bosnia-Herzegovina — Nearly 1,000 women and children escaped Sarajevo and the terrors of war yesterday as the international airlift of food and medicine again was threatened.
A convoy carrying the women and children left for Belgrade, the Serbian and Yugoslav capital. The United Nations provided two armored cars as escorts.
Bosnian Serb officials in Pale, the Serb forces' headquarters 12 miles east of Sarajevo, said the 17-bus convoy had arrived and there was not expected to reach Belgrade before midnight. It had been guaranteed safe passage to militias and was unlikely to encounter trouble in the Serb-held territory.
The convoy of mothers and children was the second to leave Sarajevo under an agreement among warring factions.
Back in Sarajevo, hundreds of people began moving back into a refugee hotel that was hit by four mortar rounds late Monday and set ablaze. Bosnian radio said at least five people died.
Also, radar from unidentified forces locked onto a British Hercules C-130 aid plane as it was leaving the airport, U.N. officials at the airport and the British Defense Ministry said. However, there was no confirmation that the plane was fired on.
The airport was closed indefinitely to relief airlifts but not to flights of peacekeeping troops, U.N. spokeswoman Nadia Younes said in New York.
Sick rabbits stolen from lab
MOSCOW—Doctors in Latvia are warning people not to buy rabbits at local markets because 42 rabbits infected with hepatitis and carcinogens were stolen from a research center, it was reported yesterday.
A television campaign was launched Monday informing residents of the Latvian capital of Riga of the possible peril, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.
The economic situation in the former Soviet Union remains unstable, and reports of people stealing zoo, circus and research animals for food, fur and profit are not uncommon.
In April, a student was found by zoo keepers in a polar bear's cage, stabbing the animal with a kitchen knife.
Georgia sends troops, tanks to quell rebellion in region
The Associated Press
SKUHIM, Georgia — Georgian troops backed by tanks seized control of this Black Sea capital in breakaway Abkhazia yesterday, and a military council was appointed to rule the rebellious region.
Georgia's defense minister, whose troops hoisted a Georgian flag over the Abkhazian parliament building, said the region forced Georgia to act by declaring its independence last month.
"Every Georgia loves his nation will support this step," Geor-
giian Defense Minister Tengiz Kitovani said.
Civil war in Georgia
Tanks and armored vehicles rolled into the coastal city in western Georgia, according to the Interfax news agency and Russian television. Explosions could be heard over telephone lines, and there were reports of sporadic shooting.
There was no immediate word on casualties in yesterday's assault.
The Georgian government sent 3,000 troops to Abkhazia last week to pursue supporters of former Georgian President Zviad Gamsak肃urhida ousted in a civil war in January. The leaders of Abkhazia denounced Georgia's move as an act of aggression and accused Georgia of trying to repress a growing independent movement.
At least 50 people were reported killed in four days of fighting between the Georgian troops and Abkhazian police in Sukhumi. That fighting threatened to involve Russian troops based and vacationing in Abkhazia, and Moscow sent paratroopers to speed an evacuation of Russians.
Anna Broide, a Russian journalist reached by telephone inside the Abkhazian Council of Ministers' building, said Georgian troops had fired on the government headquarters and set the parliament building on fire. A duty officer at the government building said the attack left several buildings on fire, and explosions could be heard over the telenhone line.
However, an Associated Press correspondent who arrived in Sukhum several hours later did not see any fires.
Georgian military officials said today its troops and Interior Ministry forces were in control of all major positions in Sukhumi, including the airport. The ITAR-Tass news agency said Georgian troops controlled the television tower, the port and other key sites.
Georgian sources quoted by the news service of the Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper said Abkazhian troops had fled Sukhimi. Broide reported most of the Abkazhian leadership had left the city.
Broide said Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Bagapsh remained in his office at government headquarters. Troops entered the office but retreated after Bagapsh telephoned Georgian leader Eduard Shevardnadze to complain, she said.
Abkhazia's parliament voted in July to restore the 1925 constitution of independent Abkhazia. Ethnic Abkhaizans total about 90,000 among the area's 500,000 people, but they enjoy the support of other ethnic groups in the Caucasus Mountains.
"The restoration by the Abkhazian parliament on July 27, 1992, of its 1925 constitution is tantamount to a self-annulment of its autonomy," the Georgian State Council said in a memoir released today, ITAR-Tass reported.
We certainly must attend the resignation of Abkazian parliamentary speaker Vladislav Ardzinba, Nezavisimaya Gazeta reported. He said Georgian troops reserved the right to launch combat operations if Ardzinba refused to step down.
Kitovani met with Abkhazian lead-
Interfax reported that Georgian armored vehicles entered Sukhumi about 11 a.m. yesterday "to stop the robbeds and marauding" in the city.
The Georgian State Council and leaders of the Georgia troops decided to set up a temporary council to maintain a state of emergency in Abkhazia, the Nezavisimaya Gazeta news service reported.
Georgia's Acting Prime Minister Tengil Siga said a Georgian commission had been set up to ensure the safe transportation of all Russian vacationers from the popular resort area.
Shevardnadze, a former Soviet foreign minister, sent troops to Abkhazia after Gamsakhurda supporters kidnapped several Georgian government officials. Four reportedly remained hostage today.
On Monday, Russian military transport planes evacuated about 3,000 Russians from Abkhazia. About 2,000 others have left by ship.
U.N. inspectors avoid confrontation
The Associated Press
reporters at the end of his team's 10-day mission.
MANAMA, Bahrain — The leader of a U.N. weapons inspection team returned from Iraq yesterday saying he takes no orders from Washington and had ignored U.S. newspaper reports that he would provoke a confrontation with Saddam Hussein.
Russian Nikita Smidovich confirmed that his 22-member team did not visit Iraqi ministries. He said the Iraqis did not say government ministries were off-limits to inspectors.
"Only the Special Commission decides where and when the inspection teams go," Smidtov told
The New York Times reported Sunday that on Monday, Smidovich's last inspection day, he would attempt to inspect an Iraqi ministry. The paper said the visit would be designed to provoke a confrontation and a U.S.-led military strike.
When Smidovich did not go to a ministry Monday, the Times and U.S. television networks said the inspectors changed their mind so as not to appear to be under the orders of the United States.
Smidovich said he was aware of the U.S. newspaper reports but that they had no impact on his meetings with Iraq officials.
Smidovich, who secured what commission spokesman Tim Trevan called important information on Iraq's ballistic missile programs, refused to say whether the Iraqis had grown more cooperative.
"This question was not discussed at all." he said.
"We received from Iraq good information on their programs. Of course, only the analysis can tell us whether it is the full information," he said.
Smidovich said they were provided with information and were not obstructive.
Last month, a team of U.N. weapons inspectors was barred from the Agriculture Ministry for 21 days in the worst contestation between Iraq and the Security Council since the Persian Gulf war.
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