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French police arrest suspects in bombings
The Associated Press
PARIS — Three men arrested yesterday in connection with a string of bombings were caught as they put the finishing touches on a 29-pound bomb they intended to explode at a market later this week, police said.
The men, arrested near the northern city of Lille, were among 10 suspects rounded up yesterday, five of whom were later released.
One of the five still being held is a man believed to be a key figure in bombings that have killed seven people and injured 160 since midsummer.
Boualen Bensaid, 28, an Algerian who arrived in France several months ago, was arrested at a Paris phone booth.
He had been followed by police for several days. Justice Minister Jacques Toubon said Bensaid had been giving orders to the three men arrested near Lille.
Convinced of the imminence of a serious attack, police decided to act, said Interior Minister Jean-Louis Debre.
The three men were caught while they were preparing a bomb that was to explode in a Lille market later this week. Toubon said.
The 29-pound bomb is similar to the ones used in previous bombings. It consisted of a gas canister filled with explosive substances and pieces of metal.
Police discovered the bomb in an apartment in Villeneuve-d'Aqs near Lille. The apartment recently had been leased and was being used as a
meeting place for Islamic militants.
Two submachine guns, grenades and pistols were seized in raids.
Police suspect Bensaid is an intermediary between various terrorist groups operating in France with ties to Algeria's Armed Islamic Groum.
The arrests show the international ramifications of this network installed in France with regard to its logistical and financial support, Debre said.
The previous key suspect, Khacek kelkal, was killed in a gun battle with police in a suburb of Lyon, in eastern France. The fifth man still in custody after the roundup yesterday was arrested in Lyon.
Kelkal's fingerprints were found on a bomb that failed to explode along high-speed train tracks near Lyon, and police believe Bensaid was in contact with Kelkal's group, among others.
He did not elaborate, but police blame Islamic extremists fighting the army-backed regime in Algeria for the bombings. Muslim radicals accuse Paris of backing the Algerian government.
Those arrested yesterday were of Algerian origin with police records for small offenses — profiles similar to Kelkal's group.
Investigators have suspected the bombers were Islamic sympathizers recruited in the troubled French suburbs.
Since the attacks began, the government has launched a massive security operation, putting 35,000 police and soldiers on the streets of major cities.
The Associated Press
Justice prevails for South African
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—White clubs clubbed Phillip Basson's father to death 36 years ago for sitting in the whites-only section of a streetcar. Basson got political justice yesterday when he became one of South Africa's first elected non-white town councillors.
In the races for about 700 local councils throughout the country, early results showed the ANC winning majority control of 54 compared to 11 for the National Party. Independent groups such as local taxpayer associations also won several councils.
"My father died as a result of apartheid," Basson, 60, said. "I try to forget, but it always comes back. After he died, my determination to change the system became much more hard."
African National Congress candidates like Basson won by an apparent landslide in Wednesday's first all-race local elections. Results still were trickling in, and a final tally wasn't expected until today. But Basson knew at dawn that he had won Ward 16 in greater Johannesburg.
With the ANC doing well even in regions where the National Party had dominated in last year's elections, the trend favoring Mandela's
The elections swept away the last vestiges of white-minority rule, which was eliminated on the national level in April 1994 when Nelson Mandela and the ANC won the nation's first democratic vote.
party was expected to continue.
For Basson, the victory marked a triumph against the racial hatred that killed his father.
That means many territories that were controlled by whites would be governed by councils led by African Americans and people of mixed racial ancestry.
Martin Basson was a 47-year-old head waiter in 1959 when he boarded a streetcar heading toward his home in the mixed-race neighborhood of Coronationville.
Only whites could sit in the preferred aisle seats, leaving nonwhites to cram onto two benches or stand. Often, only one white would sit in a seat designed for two but refuse to share.
"Once in a while, they'd wave you over, and you could sit down," Basson recalled. "That's what happened to my father. Then they attacked him. They cracked his skull with a blunt instrument."
Martin Basson went into a coma and died. No one was arrested.
Phillip was already a union activist in the leather industry and dabbed in anti-parapartheid politics. After his father's death, Phillip began attending ANC meetings presided by Mandela.
Phillip Basson rose to become regional secretary of the National Union of Leather Workers. When Mandela was freed from 27 years of imprisonment and the ANC was legalized in 1990, Basson formed a local party branch in his neighborhood, Riverlea.
U.S. company to build Vietnam beach resort
The Associated Press
HANOI, Vietnam American and Vietnamese partners are preparing to break ground next month for a resort near China Beach, the U.S. military's famous rest and recreation site, officials said yesterday.
The $243 million resort in Da Nang is the largest U.S. investment in postwar Vietnam.
A ceremony was held Wednesday to mark the resort location following a government decision to award the project rights to use 536 acres of beach-front land, said Tran Viet Son.
planning manager for the Quang Nam-Da Nang Tourist Department
The land belongs to the state, and developers can only lease land-use rights.
The Non Nuoc Seaside Resort is to include five hotels, a conference center and a golf course. The main investor is BBI Investment Group Chartered of Chevy Chase, Md., which has 67 percent. Non Nuoc Tourist Co. is the local partner.
Local officials call the site China Beach, but U.S. veterans and locals say the original China Beach was several miles to the north.