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Statesman Journal from Salem, Oregon • Page 5

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Statesman Journali
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Salem, Oregon
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WORLD Page 5A Statesman Journal, Salem, Friday, September 25, 1 992 U.N. unable to restore Sarajevo power Chief of Bulgarian Parliament quits Democratic Forces, which won The Associated Press SOFIA, Bulgaria The chairman of Parliament resigned Thursday to head off a threatened vote of no confidence. Stefan Savov's resignation had been demanded by the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, a predominantly ethnic Turkish party that has been clamoring for changes in the Cabinet of Premier Filip Dimitrov. Savov, 68, is a leading official in Dimitrov's Union of parliamentary elections last October. It has 110 seats in the 240-seat Parliament but can muster a majority only with the backing of the Turkish Movement's 24 members.

The Socialists, with 106 seats, and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms would together have the votes to push through a no-confidence motion. The constitution requires that a new chairman be elected within 14 days. Envoys will investigate reports of Serb intimidation of civilians. The Associated Press SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina Shelling frustrated U.N. soldiers' attempts Thursday to restore electrical power that was knocked out three days earlier to 80 percent of the city.

In neighboring Croatia, the United Nations' chief civilian officer warned Croatian officials not to begin returning refugees to the easternmost of four U.N. protection zones, saying that Serb militias still were menacing civilians. Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen, the envoys leading the ongoing Yugoslav peace conference in Geneva, said they would fly to Banja Luka today to investigate similar reports of intimidation around the Serb stronghold in northern Bosnia. Serb fighters who want to remain tied to Serbia and Montenegro, the remaining republics in six-month siege by Serb forces. About 20 percent of the city of 400,000 residents has had power since Monday night.

The warring parties Muslims, Serbs and Croats signed an agreement last weekend in Geneva not to disrupt basic utility supplies. In neighboring Croatia, authorities have been pressuring the United Nations to begin returning Croats and other ethnic groups forced to flee four zones of the republic that were seized by Serbs last year. Yugoslavia, have captured two-thirds of Bosnia. At least 10,000 people have been killed since Bosnia's Muslims and Croats voted Feb. 29 for independence from Yugoslavia.

Shelling began Wednesday morning as U.N. engineers left headquarters in an armored car for the damaged electricity station north of the city at Ugorsko. They made no progress on repairs. Sarajevo has suffered from irregular electricity and 'water supplies for much of its nearly In Brief Sikh rebels set off explosion; 6 killed NEW DELHI, India Sikh guerrillas set off powerful explosives under a bridge, blowing up a police jeep and killing six policemen, news reports said Thursday. The policemen were on their way to raid a village on Wednesday where Sikh rebels apparently were hiding, the Times of India newspaper reported.

The militants apparently used a re-! mote-controlled device to deto-; nate the explosives, the report quoted police as saying. Bodies of two police constables i were fished from the Gadari River, and a search was on for the remaining bodies, the report said. Sikh rebels are fighting for an i independent homeland in Pun-1 jab, alleging religious and eco-! nomic discrimination by the Hindu-dominated federal govern-; ment. I Environmentalists recruit activists in Norway OSLO, Norway Norwegian environmentalists are recruiting activists for an elite squad of I "green warriors" to be trained like paratroopers in protest tech- niques, public relations and eth- ics. The first three-month course i begins this autumn in the west 1 coast city of Bergen, project or- ganizer Kurt Oddekalv said.

All the participants are Norwegian. The plan has the backing of i the regional branch of the Nor-! wegian Society for the Conserva-tion of Nature, where Oddekalv has worked previously. Traffic accidents leave 13,000 dead in Russia MOSCOW Traffic accidents killed 13,000 people and injured 75,000 in Russia in the first six months of 1992, a newspaper re-! ported Thursday. Drivers were to blame for three-quarters of the accidents, 1 the newspaper Trud reported, quoting figures released by the State Statistics Committee. I The newspaper urged stiffer penalties for traffic violations 1 and called for installation of more traffic lights, pedestrian I underpasses and protective roadside railings.

Report: Mine blast caused by bomb I YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories A blast that killed nine men in a strikebound gold mine last week was caused by a homemade bomb, a newspaper reported. 1 The bomb in the Giant mine probably set off when a rail car carrying the miners rolled over a detonator, The Globe and Mail of Toronto reported Wednesday, citing unidentified mine officials. Mine workers have been on i strike for four months. Those killed included six former strik-; ers who crossed the picket line and three replacement workers. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are investigating the deaths.

I Police said last week that the blast was sabotage, and the deaths were murder Euro Disneyland worker robbed, stabbed to death PARIS A hotel cashier who worked at Euro Disneyland was stabbed to death and robbed of the money he was putting into a safe, police said Thursday. 1 The man, about 40 years old, was killed early Thursday at the I park, about 20 miles east of Paris, police said. Police did not say how much money was taken. 1 Officials did not immediately disclose the victim's name or nationality, although they said he Swas not French. Workers from I several European nations as well as the United States work at the theme park.

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