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Tuesday, October 10, 1995
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Police suspect terrorism in crash
Passenger finds note blasting feds for roles at Waco, Ruby Ridge
The Associated Press
HYDER, Ariz. — An Amtrak train carrying 268 people drenailed in the rugged Arizona desert early yesterday, and the sheriff said domestic terrorists may have sabotaged the tracks. One person was killed, and about 100 were injured when four cars plunged 30 feet into a dry streamed. Amtrak said the dead person was believed to be a crew member.
Notes found outside the derailed
train were signed "Sons of the Gestapo," Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Paiao said.
Amtrak's Sunset Limited was bound for Los Angeles from Miami when it derailed sometime between 1 a.m. and 1:30 a.m.
The track had been tampered with, and a red wire connecting two rails apparently disabled an alarm system that lets the crew know of damage to the track. Arpaio said.
Deputies found a one- or two-page message signed "Sons of the Gestapo," at the scene, the sheriff said. The note referred to the government sieges at Waco, Texas, and Ruby Ridge, Idaho. Both sieges are frequent rallying points for anti-government groups.
"That's what leads me to believe this is a terrorist attack," Arpaio
said.
Investigators found that in a 19-foot section of track, 29 of the spikes that hold the rails to the wooden crossties had been pulled out, according to a source familiar with the investigation who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Separately, an Amtrak employee being treated in a Phoenix hospital said he turned over an anti-government manifesto of some sort to sheriff's deputies.
The electrical cord bridged gaps created in the rails so that computer equipment would not sense the gaps and warn the crew, the source said.
Roberto Concepción, 48, who worked as a bartender on the train, said that while he was helping people after the crash, a passenger came up to him and gave him a single piece of typewritten paper the passenger said he found on the tracks.
Concepcion said he gave the paper to someone from the sheriff's department without reading it. Arpaio wouldn't comment on Concepción's story.
"He said it was an unsigned, typewritten, anti-government manifesto. It was anti-ATF, anti-FBI and antigovernment," Concepción said. ATF is the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
The Phoenix FBI office was closed for Columbus Day, and calls were referred to a representative at the scene who wasn't immediately available. FBI agents were on the scene, along with investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board and other agencies.
Bosnian cease-fire delayed after attacks
The Associated Press
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Bosnia's latest cease-fire was delayed yesterday after Serb shelling, NATO air strikes and the failure to restore utilities to Sarajevo — a key provision of last week's U.S.-brokered accord.
"It will not happen because the conditions have not been met yet," said Hasan Muratovic, the Bosnian government's minister in charge of relations with the United Nations. Both sides pledged to honor the truce when it takes effect.
Earlier yesterday, NATO warplanes attacked Serb targets in northeastern Bosnia after Serb shelling Sunday and yesterday killed at least 16 people. U.N. officials suggested that the killing of a Norwegian peacekeeper in yesterday's shelling led the United Nations to request the strike.
Six U.S. aircraft dropped laser-guided bombs on a Serb command and control bunker near the government-held city of Tuzla, NATO representative Capt. Mark Van Dyke said in Naples, Italy. The target was believed destroyed.
The cease-fire, the latest of many attempts to end 3 1/2 years of bloodshed in Bosnia, had been scheduled for one minute after midnight yesterday.
Muratovic said the government and the Bosnian Serbs had done as much as they could to restore electricity and natural gas service to Sarajevo. He said the truce would take effect as soon as that work was completed.
Col. Ferid Buljubasic, representative for the Bosnian army, said government forces absolutely would respect the accord
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, speaking in the northern Serb stronghold of Bania Luka, said his side wouldn't take any offensive actions that were excluded from the cease-fire agreement.
"And it's up to the international community to secure the same from the Muslim side," Karadzic said.
The Serb official in charge of relations with the United Nations, Maksim Stanisic, said his side was doing everything possible to ensure the repairs were made.
Bosnian President Aliza Izetbegovic said Sunday that although the utility work might delay the start of the cease-fire, fighting would not.
Even so, he was angered by Serb shelling of civilians and urged a vigorous response by the United Nations and NATO.
Two Americans win Nobel science prize
The Associated Press
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Two Americans and a German won the Nobel Prize in medicine yesterday for gene studies that help to explain birth defects and miscarriages.
They were chosen for discoveries about how genes control early embryonic development, said the medicine prize committee at Sweden's Karolinska Institute.
The winners are Edward B. Lewis, 77, of California Institute of Technology; Eric F. Wieschaus, 48, of Princeton University; and Christiane Nuesslein-Volhard, 52, at the Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tuebingen, Germany.
Nuesslein-Volhard is the first German woman to win a Nobel science prize.
The scientists used fruit flies as the
basis for their experiments. Nusslein-Vollhard and Wieschaus identified a number of genes that are key in determining the body plan and formation of body segments. Lewis, who worked independently, investigated how genes control the development of individual body segments into specialized organs.
In people, flaws in such genes probably are responsible for some early miscarriages and some of the roughly 40 percent of birth defects for which no cause is known.
Their work has helped give scientists and doctors a better understanding of how and why the body aborts embryos — a common occurrence for first-time mothers, said Bjorn Vennstrom, award committee member. Only about six of 20 fertilizations lead to children. The abundance of miscarriages long has been an enigma, Vennstrom said.
Quake rocks Mexico
The Associated Press
MEXICO CITY — A strong earthquake shook Mexico's Pacific Coast yesterday morning, killing at least 31 people and injuring dozens in southern Jalisco state. High-rise buildings swayed crazily in Mexico City, frightening people into the streets.
The quake, with a preliminary magnitude of 7.5, was the second most powerful tremor to hit Mexico in a month. It was felt as far north as Dallas and Oklahoma City.
Jalisco state representative Claudio Villalobos told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that 14 were reported dead and at least 80 injured in the two small towns of Tenamaxtlan and Ameca, near the Pacific Coast. Both towns were isolated by rockslides and collapsed bridges, and telephone service and power were out.
Eight people died in the small town of Cihuatlan, about 18 miles from Manzanillo, Colima state representative Mario Cardenas said in a telephone interview.
Manzanillo's 12-story Hotel Real collapsed, and witnesses and officials said an unknown number of people were trapped and rescue workers were digging through the rubble. They found three unidentified bodies by early afternoon.
"You can see houses destroyed. The injured are everywhere," Manzanillo resident Livas de la Garza, who owns a textile shop in town, said in a telephone interview. Many stores and patios were turned into makeshift first-aid centers, he said.
The epicenter was located three miles off the Pacific Coast between the states of Colima and Jalisco, the National Seismological Service said.
The quake, which gave the capital a severe shaking, also was felt strongly in Michoacan, Jalisco and Puebla states. It struck at 9:37 a.m. (11:37 a.m. EDT), lasted about two minutes and was followed by two smaller aftershocks.
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