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Thursday, September 21, 1995
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WHEN: Tuesday, September 26, 1995 TIME: 4:00 to 5:30 P.M.
You are invited to attend a V.I.P. Leadership Reception to be hosted by The Prudential. The keynote speaker will be Managing Director of the Kansas\Missouri Financial Services Office, Manuel Andrade, JD, CLU, ChFC. Mike Bradley and Krista Peterson will be introducing the Human
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We welcome you to join us and other student leaders!
Russian motorcade attacked by bomb
The Associated Press
GROZNY, Russia — Boris Yeltsin's envoy to Chechnya narrowly escaped a bomb attack yesterday that set off fears of renewed fighting in the breakaway republic.
Oleg Lobov, secretary of Yeltsin's Security Council and the president's representative in Chechnia, was en route to the capital, Grozny, when a bomb ripped through a bridge on the city outskirts and destroyed a car in his motorcade.
accord and efforts to reach political accord in the republic.
Lobov was not injured, but another Russian official and three other members of the party were wounded slightly. The other cars in the motorcade were not damaged.
Veltins condemned the attack. His press service said the perpetrators sought to aggravate the situation in Chechnya and torpedo the implementation of the military
Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin declared that despite the provocations from the Chechen side, the Russian government will not allow the resumption of hostilities.
In a separate incident yesterday an explosion rocked the Grozny oil refinery, touching off a fire and sending a column of black smoke streaming into the air. It was unclear whether the blast was an accident. The fire was extinguished in less than an hour, the ITAR-Tass news agency said.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for either incident.
Chechen officials suggested Russia staged the provocations to resume the war. Sergei Yushenkov, chairman of the defense committee in the lower house of the Russian parliament, suggested the attack on Lobov have been
the work of Russian hard-liners trying to sabotage the peace process.
The bombing and the refinery explosion aggravated already high tensions between the Russians and the rebel Chechens.
Yeltsin appointed Lobov last month to oversee the disarmament of Chechen rebels and to supervise the withdrawal of Russian troops, who entered the southern republic last December to crush its independence drive.
The attack came one day after Russia told Chechen negotiators the pullout of Kremlin troops would be completed only after rebel fighters had turned in all their weapons.
Russia also warned the Chechens that if they fail to comply voluntarily with a disarmament agreement reached July 30, Russian forces will ensure the weapons are handed over.
Alleged rape prompts threats
The Associated Press
TOKYO — U.S. military officials say they are taking seriously threats of violence against Americans following the alleged rape of a Japanese schoolgirl by three U.S. servicemen.
"We have received threats because of recent misconduct, and the alleged rape would be a part of that," Lt. Tania Dutko, a spokeswoman for Kadena Air Base on the island of Okinawa, said yesterday.
Dutko refused to discuss the content of the threats. However, they are known to include at least one anonymous call last week claiming a bomb had been planted on a military school bus. No bomb was found, and no one was hurt.
Two U.S. Marines and a sailor are in military custody for allegedly raping a 12-year-old Okinawan girl on Sept. 4.
The suspects are Marine Pfc.
Rodricio Harp, 21, of Griffin, Ga; Pfc. Kendrick M. Ledet, 20, of Waycross, Ga; and Navy Seaman Marcus D. Gill, 22, of Jasper, Texas.
The case has focused nationwide attention on a bilateral agreement allowing the U.S. military to hold suspects on base until the Japanese authorities file formal charges.
Okinawa media and civic leaders have criticized the continued U.S. custody as insensitive, and the case has strengthened calls for the agreement to be scrapped.
Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama reportedly added his name today to the growing list of politicians urging that the suspects be turned over to local investigators.
"They should be handed over to us first of all," he was quoted as saying by Kyodo News Service. Murayama's government, however, has expressed reluctance about actually amending the treaty.
The military says it will turn the suspects over when the charges are lodged. Formal charges were expected in the next week, police said.
Okinawa is the United States' most important military outpost in the Pacific.
About 20,000 U.S. troops, most of them Marines, are stationed on the small island on Japan's southern fringe. U.S. bases take up roughly one-fifth of the island, and 75 percent of all American bases in Japan are concentrated there.
Hoping to soothe Okinawans' feelings, the U.S. ambassador and the top American military officers in Japan and Okinawa have offered strongly worded apologies over the past week. Japanese police have been given full access to question the suspects.
Tighter discipline and drinking restrictions also have been enforced.