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THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1994 A3 Korea backs off sanctions proposal FBI aids Danish probe of 3 linked to trade center blast North Korea has refused to let inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency see a plant suspected of making plutonium. which can be used to make nuclear weapons. North Korea denies it is making nuclear weapons. Pyongyang has threatened military action if the Security Council votes for international sanctions. The North's official Korean Central News Agency said Sunday that the dispatch of Patriot missiles to Seoul and the renewal of U.S.

-South Korean military exercises "are driving the situation to the brink of war." The agency, monitored in Tokyo, said, "If the U.S. imperialists think they can frighten us with military threat, it is, indeed, a foolish dream." Seoul decides to back China's request to U.N. for nonbinding statement to end nuclear standoff. By Ju-yeon Kim ASSOCIATED PRESS Seoul, South Korea South Korea, trying to end the crisis over the nuclear program of archenemy North Korea, is backing a proposal made by China, the North's most important ally. South Korea's foreign minister said Sunday the U.N.

Security Council should take China's suggestion for a milder measure than the widely suggested international sanctions against North Korea. Friday, China urged the Securi posed a draft resolution Friday calling on the reclusive, communist country to permit new inspections within a month. The resolution does not call for sanctions, apparently to avoid a veto by China. But it says the Security Council will "consider further action if necessary" a reference to possible sanctions. As a permanent member of the Security Council, China can veto any resolution, and as the main remaining ally of North Korea, it probably would veto one that provides for sanctions.

Han suggested that if North Korea did not accept inspections after the nonbinding statement, then China would have to agree to support a resolution. ty Council to issue a nonbinding statement, which would be adopted by consensus, urging North Korea to cooperate with international nuclear Inspectors. The alternative is a resolution, which would be legally binding and adopted by a vote. "Before resolutions are adopted, China's suggestion of a statement may be effective," South Korean Foreign Minister Han Sung-joo said at a news conference before leaving for Beijing to join President Kim Young-sam. Kim arrived in Beijing Sunday.

His talks with Chinese leaders begin today. Following North Korea's refusal to open all its nuclear facilities to inspections, the United States pro publication of the men's names. Two of the men, ages 30 and 36, arrived in Denmark in November 1992 and sought political asylum because they were wanted in Egypt, Sorensen said. He said he could not tell where the men were before they came to Denmark or If they had been to the United States. The third Egyptian, a 41 -year-old man with dual Danish and Egyptian citizenship, has been living in Denmark since the late 1980s, Sorensen said.

He refused to comment on a report in Sunday's edition of the Aarhus Stlftstidende newspaper that Danish police had found about 2.2 pounds of mercury. U.S. investigators believe mercury was among chemicals used to make the explosives that crippled the trade center. Last November, the three Egyptians were arrested in the western Denmark city of Aarhus and charged with setting a Jordanian national's home on fire. No one was injured In the blaze.

Investigators also found in one of the men's apartment a list of chemicals used to make explosives and marked maps of Copenhagen and Aarhus. Associated Press Copenhagen. Denmark The FBI has cooperated with Danish police in an investigation of three Egyptians who may be linked to the World Trade Center bombing, a police spokesman said Sunday. Danish police found the name, address and phone number of "one of the four convicted in the World Trade Center case" in the home of one of the Egyptians, the spokesman told The Associated Press. He didn't name the bomber.

Four Muslim extremists were convicted March 4 in New York for plotting and carrying out the Feb. 26, 1993, bombing, in which six people died and some 1 ,000 were injured. The FBI came to Denmark two weeks ago, staying for two days, "to help us," said ViUy Soren-sen. deputy police chief in Aar-hus, where the Egyptians lived. Sorensen said two of the Egyptians have been members of the al-Gamaa al lslamtya, or Islamic Group, which has been waging a terror campaign in Egypt including attacks on foreigners.

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According to Ambassador to Japan Walter F. Mondale, the case "had a very definite impact on passage of the Brady bill," which requires a five-day waiting period before purchase of a handgun. The initial reaction here to the Los Angeles case was much the same as to the Baton Rouge case: a mixture of amazement, terror and anger at U.S. society. "We had talked about the danger," Ito's mother told NHK.

"He promised me he would not walk down the street to go shopping; he would always use his car." On Friday night at about 11 p.m., Ito and Matsura, both freshmen at Marymount College in Los Angeles, drove to a 24-hour grocery store in the generally peaceful suburb of San Pedro. According to police, a gunman approached the two as their car stopped in the parking lot. Both students were shot in the head and left bleeding in the lot. The assailant evidently drove off in the car, a 1994 Honda Civic. mand "freeze!" A jury acquitted the assailant, who said he was trying to protect his family.

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Japan, with a population almost half that of the United States, has one-fourth as many police and one-20th as many prison cells. America has more murders each month than Japan does all year. The U.S. robbery rate is about 130 times higher. As a result, the Japanese are shocked by crimes that have be By T.R.

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