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T E 8:3{)o8 8:3{)o6 9-6 12·5 _ ____________________________ ~------------__ ----_:~~--------~------=_~=_----~------------------~Th:e~D=a:i1y~lo=w:an~-~I~owa~C~i~~,~'ow::a~-~F:ri~ ~y.~Ja:n~u~a~~21~ ,~1~99~4~-~9~A .. '. International Notebook Mississippi Baptists crash in Honduras, one killed TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) - A flatbed truck carrying Southern Baptist missionaries from the United States crashed on a rural road, killing a Missis- sippi man and injuring 23 others, authorities said Wednesday: The accident occurred Tuesday night on the unpaved road between Tela and La Ceiba on Hon- duras' north coast, about 120 miles north of Teguci- h~I~~Nerved to avoid an oncoming car and a shoulder, rolling several times, a statement released by the Southern Baptist For- Mission Board in Richmond, Va. it said 18-year-old Bradley Boatner of Brandon, died in the accident. Mississippi Gov. Kirk Fordice said most of those the truck were from the state and were on a to provide medical and dental services to The Mississippians belonged to the Pearl Baptist Brotherhood, he said. Glenna Stamps, a Southern Baptist missionary in uras, told the Associated Press that there were 7 people in the miSSion, but it was not known how were on the truck. The group also induded individuals from Alabama, and Florida. I:cuaOIJr police nab large U.S.-bound 'J.1V'·", ;n,A shipment GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) - Police have seized more than half a ton of cocaine that was destined to be shipped to Miami . Police found the drugs in a port ware- house after months of investigation, Gen. Efrain Galarza said at a news conference Wednesday. He said three Colombians and four Ecuadoreans IlJspectE~d of links to Colombian drug cartels had arrested. Galarza didn't specify when police seized the valued at $10 million . said the cocaine was brought by road from r"lr.mhi:> to Guayaquil, a port city 170 miles south- of Quito. Colombian drug traffickers are increasingly using as a shipment point for cocaine destined for United States and Europe. criticizes captain of tanker that nded in Shetland LONDON (AP) - The captain of an oil tanker that ran aground in the Shetland Islands last year was blamed Thursday for "a serious dereliction of duty.~ The tanker Braer, carrying more than million gallons of oil, lost power and ran aground in a hurricane on Jan . 5, 1993. it caused the world 's 12th largest oil spill. A final report released by the Department of Trans- port's Marine Accident Investigation Branch for the first time officially found fault with the tanker 's Greek captain, Alexandros Gelis. It also faulted aspects of the tanker's design and criticized the coast guard for not responding immediately to the captain's distress calls. Gelis failed to take action to secure or cast off four spare steel p~pes that broke loose aboard the Braer, the report said. The rolling pipes fractured the ship's air pipes, allOWing sea water to seep into storage tanks and contaminate the tanker 's fuel supply. Eventually, both the main engine and the generator failed, and the crew abandoned ship. The spill was more than twice the size of the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska, the worst oil tanker accident in U.S . history. Oil from the spill killed at least ' ,5 49 birds, coated crops and livestock, contam- inated some salmon farms, and temporarily dosed fishing grounds. German police raid rightists' hangouts BONN, Germany (AP) - Police seized piles of propaganda and mail Thursday in predawn raids on neo-Nazi hangouts across the country. The raids, intended to gather evidence that can be used to ban the neo-Nazi group Direct Action-Central Germany, were ordered by Federal interior Minister Manfred Kanther. More than 7,000 neo-Nazi pamphlets were confiscated at one location. Scores of right-wing extremist groups emerged fol- Are you prepared? Weare. - SMALL CLASSES GROUPED BY TEST-TAKING ABILITY - GUARANTEED SCORE IMPROVEMENTS - VALUABLE TEST-TAKING TECHNIQUES COMBINED WITH A THOROUGH REVIEW OF THE CONCEPTS TIESTED ON THE MeAT , . BEGIN PREPARING NOW!! Register TODAY and get FREE MeAT Review software. I~~~ are forming now for the April exam. THE PRINCETON REVIEW lowing Germany's reunification in '990, and authori- ties say the groups appear to be trying to form a unit- ed front. At least 30 people have died in neo-Nazi ~iole.nce in the past three years, including many Immigrants. Hundreds of police officers entered the homes of Direct Action members in Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania in eastern Germany, and Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia in western Germany, Kanther said. Police carried out 43 raids alone in Brandenburg, where the group is strongest. Direct Action has about 100 members and is an offshoot of the Nationalistic Front, a neo-Nazi organi- zation banned in November 1992. Kanther said the raids show Germany "is firmly resolved to use all legal measures to combat extrem- ism.~ No soccer in Hamburg on Hitler's birthday FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - Criti- cism is being leveled at the decision to call off a soccer match between Eng- land and Germany because of fears that right-wing hooligans would stir up trouble to mark Hitler's birthday. Representatives of the two countries' national soc- cer federations and Hamburg city officials announced Wednesday that the long-planned April 20 exhibition game would not take place. . The match was called off because Hamburg offi- Cials feared that German and English right-wing row- di~s w,ere plotting to celebrate Hitler's 105th birthday With Violence at the Hamburg stadium. Ignatz Bubis, the head of Germany's Jewish com- munity, said Thursday it was unwise in the first place , to choose a game date that is "historically burdened ." But Bubis said the state was "falling on its knees " I o/,. to radical rightists by canceling the game . '.: While there was support for the move, there were r~ complaints that authorities had been pressured by the ' : threats from the right. • "; · We can't fight them by capitulating to them, " said ••• ! Hans Hansen, president of the Alliance of German ' II. Sports Federations. German Soccer Federation chief Egidius Braun ': ' said his country's image - already tarnished by neo- .... I{ Nazi violence - could be further hurt with the appearance that officials weren't standing up to soc- cer hooligans. "Germany could lose its reputation as a depend- able host for international events," Braun said. South Africa invited to rejoin Commonwealth after 33 years LONDON (AP) - South Africa has been invited to rejoin the Common- wealth. . . ., ~ " I- • ' \0 , ... ' - 1 · • I fl.; 1,. , .,'- .' -:. ,- oil.. South Africa quit the 50-nation organi- • zation of Britain and its former colonies of in 1961 over the country's then- apartheid policy of racial separation. o , ; Commonwealth leaders at a summit in Cyprus in Decem~r announced they were prepared to accept ',0 ::' South Africa back, saying change there is now irre- " ... , ,,' .' versible . The Commonwealth lifted most of its sanc- tions against South Africa in September. Chief Emeka Anyaoku, secretary-general of the Commonwealth secretariat, in a speech Thursday at London's South Africa Club said: "The Common- wealth's 50 member-countries drawn from all the continents and regions of the world will provide the new South Africa with a ready gateway to the wider world .~ South Africa will hold its first democratic elections on April 27 with all races able to vote after its Parlia- ment approved an interim constitution leading to black majority rule. Militants kill two policemen; captured suspects give details CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Suspected Mus- lim militants killed two police officers in southern Egypt Thursday, seriously wounded a third, and escaped with the policemen's weapons and radio equip- ment, security officials said. In Cairo, two men captured in a police sweep on Wednesday reportedly provided details of extremist operations, weapons purchases and assassination plots targeting high-ranking figures. 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