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More soldiers leave Somalia
The Associated Press
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Hundreds of Bangladeshi sailed off singing from Somalia yesterday to end a frustrating tour of duty in a country so riven by clan warfare that the international community has given up.
The departure of 903 Bangladeshi U.N. peacekeepers under the guard of American and Italian troops around Mogadishu's airport and seaport means 1,500 Pakistani peacekeepers remain in Somalia — and that's only until tomorrow.
The prospect that Somalis will be left to fend for themselves in a nation no closer to democracy than when international peacekeepers first came here 26 months ago to help deliver humanitarian aid to the hungry did not hearten the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff.
"All of us hoped against hope the Somali would get their house in order" by now, Gen. John Shakikashvili told reporters in Washington, adding, "They're on their own."
The Bangladeshis who left yesterday had been guarding the seaport until two companies of U.S. Marines arrived in landing craft to relieve them before dawn. Eight hours later, the Bangladeshis sailed away in two ocean-going ferries.
The ferries will take the Bangladeshi troops down Africa's east coast to Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, where they will board chartered jets for the flight home across the Indian Ocean.
"They were all singing and having a good time when they left," said Eddie Jones of Baltimore, who has been managing the seaport for the United Nations.
The Pakistanis, who have been holding the airport, will begin pulling back through American and Italian lines today and depart tomorrow, also aboard ferries for Dar Es Salaam.
The U.S. commander who took tactical control of the entire operation yesterday said the withdrawal is going well, without any of the feared violence or other hitches.
"If I had to give you a sports analogy, we've finished the first half," Marine Lt. Gen. Anthony C. Zinni said. "I think this has been a textbook operation to this point."
The airport sits right on the seaside in southern Mogadishu. The Pakistanis have been holding positions around the airport and at strategic locations in the city.
Most of the 1,500 American Marines and the 329 Italian troops dug into high sand dunes a few hundred yards from the sea, establishing a narrow corridor behind the dunes to the seaport three miles to the north.
The Pakistani will pass through the American and Italian perimeter into the corridor and head for the port in an exercise expected to take three hours early today.
After the Pakistanis leave, Zinnni said the Americans and Italians will go back to their ships the same way they came ashore, on landing craft, Hovercraft and amphibious armored vehicles. Cobra helicopters, Harrier fighter jets and AC-130 aerial gunships will cover the final phase of the withdrawal.
Brig. Gen. Aboo Samak, the Malaysian who has been in command of U.N. military forces in Somalia, handed over command to Zinni in a brief symbolic ceremony yesterday morning on the airport tarmac.
Then Aboo and the U.N. special envoy to Somalia, James Victor Gbeho, boarded an executive jet and flew to Nairobi, Kenya, where Gbeho will continue to work until the U.N. mandate in Somalia expires March 31.
The Americans and Italians who first came ashore Monday are part of a 14,000-strong force assembled by the United States to provide rear guard for the retreating U.N. peacekeepers.
More than half the troops are Americans, including about 2,700 Marines and 5,000 sailors aboard five warships. Italy provided a battalion of Marines and two destroyers.
The United Nations is leaving Somalia after falling in its mandate to establish a new government.
American Marines first came to Somalia on Dec. 8, 1992, as the advance team of a U.S.-led multinational force sent to save the Horn of Africa nation from the ravages of war and famine.
An estimated 350,000 Somali already had died and the United Nations warned even more more perish unless food was delivered to the hungry instead of being held up by the warring clans.
The U.S.-led coalition handed over the humanitarian mission to the United Nations in March 1993.
The United States withdrew from the mission in March 1994, five months after 18 soldiers were killed in a street battle in Mogadishu with the militia of Gen. Mohamed Farrah Aidid, the country's principal warlord.
In total, the multinational effort cost $1.66 billion and the lives of more than 100 peacekeepers.
What remains is a country that has been without a functional government since former dictator Mohamed Siad Barre was overthrown in January 1992.
Once the U.N. withdrawal is complete, Somalia's clans are preparing to battle for the city's spoils — the air and sea ports the Americans and Italians are now guarding.
Unemployment rate rises due to fewer openings
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Kansas' unemployment rate rose moderately in January, the result of fewer jobs being available, the Department of Human Resources reported yesterday.
The agency said the state's jobless rate climbed from 4.9 percent in December to 5.3 percent in January. It was 5.9 percent in January 1994.
There were 1,270,161 people working in the state in January, with 71,114 looking for work. Those figures compared with 1,264,016 working and 64,883 seeking jobs in December and 1,234,896 at work and 77,612 unemployed in January 1994.
Department statistics showed there were 23,500 fewer jobs available in January than the prior month, with 4,500 fewer jobs in construction, 6,800 in wholesale and retail trade, 3,900 in services and 6,900 in government.
Human Resources Secretary Wayne Franklin said many of the job losses were seasonal and temporary.
In the major metropolitan statistical areas, Wichita's jobless rate went up from 5.2 percent in December to 5.6 percent in January; Topeka went from 4.8 percent to 5.3 percent; Kansas City from 4.0 percent to 4.6 percent and Lawrence was unchanged at 5.1 percent.
Among larger cities, the January unemployment rates included Emporia, 5.5 percent; Hutchinson, 6.2 percent; Kansas City, 8.4 percent; Lawrence, 5.6 percent; Leavenworth, 7.6 percent; Lenexa, 2.9 percent; Manhattan, 4.4 percent; Olathe, 3.5 percent; Overland Park, 2.8 percent; Salina, 4.9 percent; Shawnee, 3.6 percent; Topeka, 6.1 percent; and Wichita, 6.2 percent.
Among counties, the January jobless rates included: Allen County, 9.0 percent; Atchison, 7.4 percent; Barton, 5.8 percent.
Witness was coached in first interview, prosecutors say
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — O.J. Simpson's alibi witness essentially was "coached" during her first interview with a defense investigator, a prosecutor charged yesterday after hearing a tape of the session.
Rosa Lopez, a maid who used to work next door to Simpson, answered "yes" to a number of leading questions from investigator William Pavelic during an interview last July, said Deputy District Attorney Marcia Clark.
The tape contains a 15-minute interview with Lopez conducted July 29.
"I find this unbelievable," said Clark. "She was handed a script and Mr. Pavellic got on the tape and spoke almost nonstop ... getting her to affirm, 'Yes, yes, yes, yes.'
Clark asked for the rest of the day to transcribe and review the tape before cross-examining Lopez. The judge ordered Clark to return after two hours to report on her progress.
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Defense attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. blasted the request for a delay and said the tape was not damaging to Lopez, who has claimed she saw Simpson's Bronco parked outside his house about the time prosecutors say he was committing murder.
"The tape will speak for itself as to whether this witness is consistent." Cochran said. "We think she is entirely consistent."
Lopez, then working as a housekeeper for Simpson's neighbors, reportedly made no mention July 29 that — as she later claimed — she had seen Simpson's Ford Bronco parked in the street outside his estate on the night of June 12. She testified that she saw the Bronco at the hour prosecutors said he was at his ex-wife's condominium committing murder.
But Clark said Lopez was goaded into giving a statement.
"I have never heard a witness basically coached and told what to say through every bend and turn," Clark
The day's court session was delayed while the tape was being duplicated for prosecutors. The attorneys also listened to the tape.
There was no tape of a follow-up interview in August and all written notes from both interviews were destroyed, Paveli told the court.
Asking for more time to review the tape, Clark said it was defense misconduct, in falling to turn over the tape earlier, that made the request necessary. California law requires both sides in a criminal case to share information.
"Don't look at us, your honor. We
didn't put the court in this position." Clark said.
Lopez waited through the morning in a witness room for her videotaped testimony to resume. The judge agreed to have her testimony tapered for possible playback to the jury later, during the defense phase of the trial, because of the possibility she would leave the country before the court is ready for her to testify in person.
On Monday, Lopez had just finished giving Simpson an alibi when the prosecution sprung its latest surprise, one rivaling its quick courtroom phone work last week that caught the domestic worker in a lie.
"Your honor," prosecutor Christopher Darden said, "I have here Sylvia Guerra."
Standing in the courtroom, in full view of Lopez, was the woman who, the prosecution claims, can undercut part of Lopez's videotaped testimony by showing that Lopez lied about her actions the night of the murders.
rections the right of the murder. The prosecution accused the
Then it was time for another blow to the defense, this one self-inflicted: Pavelic's confirmation that he had the July 29 tape-recorded interview with Lopez.
witnesses, prosecutors have placed the time of murder by the howl of Ms. Simpson's white Akita.
defense of trying desperately to hide Guerra, another maid in Simpson's neighborhood.
Defense attorney Carl Douglas — who took the blame for an earlier failure to turn over witness statements — said the July statement wasn't disclosed because of an innocent oversight. He said Guerra wasn't mentioned later because she was an illegal alien and Lopez didn't want to get her involved in the case.
Under questioning by Cochran, Lopez meticulously detailed her activities the night of June 12. Her employers were in Europe, she said, and her main task was to walk their golden retriever periodically. She took the dog out about 8:15 p.m., she said, and saw a white Bronco parked in the street "a little bit crooked."
The developments cast a cloud over what would have been the most important day of testimony so far for Simpson. Lopez was the first witness to provide him with an alibi for the night Ronald Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were killed.
Prosecutors content that Simpson drove the Bronco to Ms. Simpson's home and committed the murders about 10.15 p.m. with no known eye-
When she took the dog out again just after 10 p.m., she said, the Bronco still was parked in the same position.
Lopez said she wasn't wearing a watch, but checked a clock every time she left her room.
Lopez's credibility was damaged significantly Friday when prosecutors caught her in lies concerning her plans to flee to El Salvador over the weekend. After calling the airline, prosecutors revealed she had no one-way ticket. They later said she had earlier reserved a round-trip ticket for March.
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