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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, October 4, 1995
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Car bomb injures Macedonian president
The Associated Press
SKOPJE, Macedonia — A remote-controlled car bomb exploded yesterday as the president of Macedonia, the former Yugoslav republic, drove by the car loaded with explosives. The explosion ripped apart the president's armored Mercedes and seriously injured him.
President Kiro Gligorov's driver was killed, and his security officer and five pedestrians were injured in the assassination attempt, police said. One of the pedestrians was in critical condition.
Doctors said they operated on the 78-year-old Gligorov for head injuries, and Saso Ordanoski, director of Macedonian TV, said that the president lost his right eve.
Police said the president's life was not in danger. Doctors have not specified Gligorov's injuries, saying only that any head injury was serious for a man his age. A
French medical team has arrived to help care for the president, officials said.
Police said two suspects in their mid-20s were arrested, but their identities were not known. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blast.
About 45 pounds of explosives, packed into the trunk of an old Citroen, blew up as Gligorov's armored Mercedes passed by.
The bomb ripped open the armored car's right front door, and the right rear door where Gligorov sat was closed but penetrated by metal shards.
The bomb exploded about 100 yards from Gligorov's offices in Skopje, the Macedonian capital. The president's route to his office is well-known, and the car often slows at the point where the bomb exploded because of heavy traffic. A small car in front of the presidential limousine was reported to have deliberately slowed down before the blast.
Windows, as high as the ninth floor, on
nearly buildings were shattered when the bomb exploded near the Bristol Hotel.
Macedonia is a southern Balkan republic of two million people that seceded peacefully as the old Yugoslav federation broke up. But independence has aggravated the volatility in the republic, which has a large ethnic Albanian minority, and historically has had uneasy relations with neighboring Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece and Albania.
Local media speculated the bomb might be the work of Macedonian nationalists who would oppose compromises with the republic's neighbors.
About 1,000 U.S. soldiers are stationed on Macedonia's northern border with Serbia in the United Nations' first precautionary peacekeeping mission.
Gligorov was a leading Communist official in the former Yugoslavia. He was elected Macedonia's president in 1992.
grade on Monday, where he talked with President Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia about mutual recognition. Serbia has not recognized Macedonia because of border disputes and out of solidarity with Greece, which claims Macedonia has territorial designs on its province bearing the same name.
Diplomats from the two nations met, as scheduled yesterday, in Athens and began talks designed to normalize their relations.
On Sept. 13, Greece and Macedonia signed a U.S.-brokered agreement whereby Greece would lift its 1994 embargo on Macedonia after the Macedonian government changes its flag to delete an ancient Greek symbol and declares that its constitution does not imply claims on Greek territory.
Greece condemned the attack on Gligorov. Spokesman Telemachos Hytiris expressed the government's abhorrence and condemnation of the attack and hoped that stability in the region would not be shaken.
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Simpson trial echoes internationally
The Associated Press
Italy's trial of the century won't be on live television — because of the O.J. Simpson trial. Jamaican lawyers said the Simpson trial had proven that the United States was prejudiced against Blacks. And French-speaking Canadians see the Simpson trial as one more reason that Quebec should secede.
Around the world, the trial of Simpson in the slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman has influenced courtroom procedure and fueled negative impressions of the United States as a racist and violent country.
Quebec's Culture and Communications Minister Louise Beaudoin said that the province needed independence to keep Simpson off the airwaves and save TV-happy residents from themselves.
"Once we are a sovereign state with control over our communications, people here might be less interested in that sort of thing," she said.
She might have been referring to people like self-confessed O.J. junkie Boyd Tilley
of Halifax. "I don't know what I'm going to do when it's over," Tilley said. "I'll have withdrawal symptoms."
In Palermo, Italy, seven-time premier Giulio Andreotti stands accused of collaborating with the Mafia. When the judge had to decide whether to allow live television coverage of the trial, he looked to the Simpson case and decided to ban cameras.
Simpson's trial had the opposite effect in Puerto Rico, where journalists insisted the trial proved it was time to open the curtain that until now has kept what transpires in the courtroom a secret. A judge agreed and allowed live television coverage when a politician was sentenced for corruption.
In Jamaica, the trial was televised daily and was a frequent topic of radio talk shows. A handful of Jamaican lawyers argued that the Simpson trial proved that the United States was hostile to Blacks and that their Black clients should not be extradited to the United States for trial. No judge agreed.
While the details of Simpson's trial filled newspapers around the world, many stories emphasized race.
In Barbados, where 90 percent of residents are Black, the Sunday Sun asked readers to phone in their verdicts. The unofficial poll found most of the 100 people who answered thought Simpson wouldn't be convicted because of tainted evidence.
An editorial in the London Evening Standard called the trial a sick, dire joke.
A Brazilian TV station's editorial said, "What's really on trial here is racism in the United States."
"Clearly a 'not guilty' verdict will not erase the stains of shame and guilt," the editorial said. "It is at times like these we wonder if the United States is a class act anymore."
In Spain, the El Pais said, "Last Tuesday, when an agreement was reached in New York that could lead to peace in Bosnia, Peter Jennings' prestigious newscast on ABC led with the O.J. Simpson trial."
Newspapers in India put their Simpson report on the sports pages.
In Switzerland, the media reported the case sporadically to gently poke fun at how the trial obsessed the United States.
The Russian media ignored the trial.
Man who shot two vandals convicted on weapons charge
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — A man who shot two graffiti vandals and killed one in a late-night confrontation was convicted on weapons charges.
After a two-hour non-jury trial, Judge Lloyd Nash found William Masters guilty Monday of one count of carrying a concealed firearm in a public place and one count of carrying a loaded firearm in a public place.
Sentencing was scheduled for Nov. 8, Masters, 35, faces a maximum 18-month sentence and a $2,000 fine.
"I'm hopeful that it sends a message that we are not in the Wild West days, where everyone is allowed to carry a weapon to administer justice," said Deputy City Attorney George Schell, who prosecuted the case.
Masters' lawyer, Chuck Michel, said he would appeal on grounds that California's laws on concealed weapons are unconstitutional.
Masters said that he was on a late-night walk Jan. 31 when he saw Cesar Arce, 18, and David Hillo, 20, spray painting graffiti on a San Fernando Valley freeway overpass. After he wrote down their car's license plate number, they threatened him with a screwdriver, and he fired his handgun, he said.
Arce was killed and Hillo was wounded.
Hispanic activists argued that Masters should have been tried for murder, while some crime-weary residents applauded the killing. Prosecutors decided to charge Masters with misdemeanors after accepting his self-defense story.
Masters waived his right to a jury trial after his lawyer fought unsuccessfully to have the charges dismissed on grounds that the city for years has refused to issue concealed weapons permits, leaving Masters no alternative for defending himself.
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