Bombs found on Zairian airplane
Target may have been Rwandan army leader
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KIGALI, Rwanda — The former commander of Rwanda's army, accused of instigating the massacre of 500,000 Rwandans last year, may have been the target of three bombs planted on a Zairian airline, U.N. officials said yesterday.
Rwanda's government denied any involvement in the attempted bombing of the plane carrying Maj. Gen. Augustin Bizimungu, former chief of Rwanda's deposed Hutu-led army. The army has been blamed for the massacre of 500,000 Rwandans, mostly minority Tutsis.
Zairian television said packages containing three bombs were discovered Sunday before the aircraft left Goma, a city near the Rwandan border, to carry Bizimungu and the Zairian army chief of staff to Kinshasa.
The packages belonged to a Tutsi woman who works for a regional development bank, the report said. The woman returned to Rwanda.
Adm. Mavua Madima, the Zairian defense minister, on Tuesday accused Rwanda of planting the three bombs and planning "terrorist acts and insecurity" in eastern Zaire.
U. N. sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a number of Rwandan Tutis had been arrested for involvement in the bombing attempt. Zairian officials were not immediately available for comment.
involvement with the bombs and reiterating its desire to bring refugees home.
Rwanda's government issued a statement yesterday denying any
Zairian officials have previously said that the Zairian army chief of staff, who had gone to Goma to discuss plans to repatriate Rwandan refugees, was the target of the bombs.
There are more than 700,000 refugees in eastern Zaire who fleed Rwanda last year when Tutsi-led rebels ousted the Hutu-led government. The refugees have refused to return to Rwanda, fearing they would be killed in retaliation for the massacres.
Rwanda's government considers Bizimungu an instigator of the genocide. He still commands a large number of former government soldiers and militiamen exiled in other African countries, especially Zaire.
Cornell investigates offensive e-mail
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ITHACA, N.Y. — Cornell University is investigating four freshmen in connection with an e-mail message joking about rape and listing 75 reasons why women should not have freedom of speech, school officials said yesterday.
The message was sent last month to 20 of the students' friends, who then passed it along to countless Internet e-mail addresses, prompting angry responses from across the country.
The message included lines such as "If she can't speak, she can't cry
rape, and "Of course, if she can't speak, she can't say 'no'," said Barbara Krause, the University's judicial administrator.
Cornell is investigating the students for possible sexual harassment and misuse of computer resources, Krause said. If charged and found guilty by the school discipline system, the four could be made to perform community service, she said.
"The First Amendment is involved here. Their offense seems to be bad taste at this point, offensive bad taste — and stupid," said University spokeswoman Jacquie Powers.
However, school officials said although the e-mail was inflammatory, they were not sure yet if action could be taken against the students.
In a letter to the Cornell student newspaper, The Cornell Daily, the four freshmen expressed deep remorse but said most of the material in their e-mail could be found on television, the Internet and elsewhere.
"We are not trying to blame anything on society; we just wish to convey that we never meant any of the things we wrote," the students wrote.
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DENVER — A woman arrested on prostitution charges spent 15 hours in the men's jail and had sex with two prisoners before deputies discovered she was no man.
was just a pat search for weapons.
The officer who arrested Jimmie Joe McGee thought she was a man, and so did jail guards, said sheriff's Capt. Carlos Jackson. McGee, 5-foot-7 and 145 pounds, was frisked by a deputy, but he said it
"We've had very effeminate-looking males come into the jail ... including transsexuals and transvestites," Jackson said. "Those are things that contributed to the mistake."
McGee, 38, spent Friday night in a individual cell at the jail, which had 60 male prisoners. She told guards she willingly had sex with two prisoners, one of whom was a friend, in an empty cell during a half-hour when the prisoners were
released into a common room to await court hearings. There was no indication that the men paid for the encounter.
The mix-up wasn't discovered until other prisoners tipped the deputies Saturday, Jackson said. Her attitude toward being locked up with the men was "nonchalant," Jackson said.
No disciplinary action is planned. "There was absolutely no indication in this that the staff behaved improperly," Jackson said.
Budget face-off continues
WASHINGTON — With a partial shutdown stretching through a second, disruptive day, Republicans crafted legislation Wednesday to reopen government on the condition President Clinton agrees to balance the budget in seven years.
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The White House rejected before lawmakers could pass it.
"The president's made clear he will not accept the Republican budget that cuts Medicare, environmental protection, (and) education and raises taxes on working families as the price for reopening government," said White House spokesman Mike McCurry.
That left the impasse without any clear end in sight, and with the two sides scrambling for political position on an issue that has divided them all year.
"We're going to give him a chance to sign up for a balanced budget," said Gingrich, R-Ga. Both he and Dole said Clinton had repeatedly expressed support for such a plan. The measure would also reopen government through Dec. 5.
"It's time for him to put up or shut up" on balancing the budget, Mississippi Rep. Mike Parker, who switched from Democrat to Republican last week, said of Clinton.
In a retreat for Republicans, the bill would be stripped of a hike in Medicare premiums that Clinton cited in vetting an earlier bill.
McCurry said that was tantamount to accepting
Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., meanwhile, accused House Speaker Newt Gingrich of provoking the budget crunch, imposing a nightmare on the nation. "He wants chaos. He wants collapse of the government, and now he's got it."
Newt Gingrich
House Speaker, on President Clinton
Gingrich and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole unveiled their legislation shortly before the evening newscasts.
the GOP balanced-budget bill, which would squeeze Medicare, Medicaid and other social programs while financing a tax cut. "By endorsing the seven-year balanced budget, you have to endorse their Medicare cuts. You have to endorse their whole budget," McCurry said. Earlier, Gingrich had said lawmakers would begin work on legislation to reopen targeted agencies, such as Social Security and passport offices.
The Republican proposal was the latest twist in a high-stakes drama that has hundreds of thousands of federal bureaucrats off the job and prompted
Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin earlier in the day to resort to unusual financial footwork to avert a federal default.
With the government's borrowing authority curtailed, Rubin executed a bookkeeping maneuver that gives the government greater flexibility. In effect, he replaced securities in two trust funds with $61.3 billion in IOUs that do not count against the debt limit.
Judge fines Fred Phelps $1,000
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TOPEKA — The Rev. Fred W. Phelps Sr. was fined $1,000 for abusive language allegedly heaped on members of a birthday party at a west Topeka restaurant on July 7, 1994.
Earlier Tuesday, Phelps' grandson, Benjamin Phelps, 20, was given the option of either writing a thesis about legally acceptable language or sitting 10 days in jail. The former honor student chose the essay, which is due in 20 days.
On Aug. 11, a Lyon County District Court jury convicted Fred Phelps Sr. of two counts of disorderly conduct. Benjamin Phelps, accused of spitting on Topeka lawyer Jerry Berger outside The Vintage restaurant, was convicted of misdemeanor battery on July 27.
The Phelps were tried in Lyon County because it was determined impartial juries couldn't be selected in Shawnee County.
The offenses were linked to the Westboro Baptist Church's anti-homosexual picketing. Phelps is pastor of the church.
Shawnee County District Judge Michael Barbara gave Phelps Sr.:
Two concurrent 30-day jail sentences, then suspended them.
A $ 600 fine for each count, a total of $1,000, due 30 days from Tuesday.
An order to pay court costs.
■ An order to pay a witness's air fare from the East Coast and $131 in mileage, meals and highway tolls.
12 months of supervised probation, ordering him not to have contact with the five members of the birthday party who live in Topeka.
Barbara told the younger Phelps that his thesis could disagree with the judge.
The Phelpses have 10 days to file a notice that they intend to appeal their convictions.
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