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IFHOfJlPAGEI MONDAY! APRIL 8. 1991 LINCOLN, NE. JOURNAL Suspect will face sex counts countries at Kurdish demonstrators over the weekend. No one was injured Sunday in Stockholm and Saturday in Helsinki At least 50 Kurds attacked the Iraqi Embassy in Stockholm on Sunday with rocks and firebombs, and embassy staff members shot back, police said. As many as 5,000 VS.

troops are leaving the region each day, according to Lt CoL Brian Johnstone, spokesman for the Army's Central Command in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. On Sunday, the U-S. 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment began a two- to three-day withdrawal from southern Iraq, beading back to Germany, Johnstone said. VS. troop strength in the' Persian Gulf region has dropped sharply in recent days to 336,000 from a peak of 540,000.

In his first public address since Iraqi forces were driven from his land, the emir of Kuwait told his people on Sunday that parliamentary elections will be held next year. Sheik Jaber al-Ahmed al-Sabah also suggested that women might be allowed to vote. And he asked that foreign troops stay in Kuwait He said even a beaten Saddam is dangerous. The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine appealed for teams from international human rights groups to be sent to Kuwait to investigate threats to Palestinians. The Syrian-based PLO faction renewed charges that Kuwaitis were torturing and murdering Palestinians in revenge for some Palestinians having aided Iraq after its Aug.

2 invasion of Kuwait The Kuwait government has denied the charge. A Texas firefighting team on Sunday extinguished the first of 500 oil-well fires set by Iraqi troops, and declared a "small victory" that could mark a turning point in the operation. The team from Houston-based Boots Coots, using liquid nitrogen and water, extinguished a relatively small fire on its second attempt Sunday morning. associated press A young Kurdish refugee is handed from one Turkish soldier to another in Cukurca, Turkey, as they assist the refugees in crossing the border between Iraq and Turkey Monday. Tens of thousands of Kurds have sought refuge in Turkey to escape persecution by Iraqi troops.

N. Colorado U. president quits Iraq gents posted in Cyprus, southern Lebanon and the Golan Heights. He did not say when the force would deploy. The Kurds have said that Bush gave them reason to hope they could overthrow Saddam but failed to support their uprising.

Both Bush and national security adviser Brent Scowcroft on Sunday reiterated that the president and US. officials never suggested the United States would support a rebellion against Saddam. They said it would not be in the United States' best interest to intervene in Iraq's civil war. But Bush did say that the problem of Iraqi refugees has become so big that the United Nations should address it Cheney said that the administration might return to secure another Security Council resolution that would direct Iraq to open its borders for humanitarian aid for the refugees. Buffer area U.S.

officials expressed hope Sunday that the Kurdish rebels will coalesce-in areas where the United States began dropping thousands of pounds of food and supplies. The officials said they hope these would become U.N.-guaranteed sanctuaries for the refugees. Ozal, interviewed on the ABC program, said that U.N. troops should be prepared to use force against Iraq, if necessary, to create a buffer area for the Kurdish refugees near the border with his country. Ozal was to meet Monday with Secretary of State James A.

Baker IIL Ozal said that the numbers of Iraqi refugees heading north toward his country may number 1 million, with entire cities being emptied by the Iraqi forces. Soviets, S. Koreans plan railroad network SEOUL, South Korea (AP) Soviet and South Korean officials have proposed construction of a railroad network that would link the two Koreas, China, Mongolia and the Soviet Union, Foreign Ministry officials said Saturday. built, the archaeologist said, while artifacts found around the. ship remains should say much about how the increasingly frail admiral and his crew of "115 men and boys" survived for more than a year and dealt with the natives on this remote and hostile shore.

An that now remains to write a final end to the tale, according to Parrent, is for his crew of about a dozen specialists and archaeology students to fine-tune the high-tech search of St Ann's Bay that they began last summer; Using magnetometers and a one-of-a-kind sonar device called a sub-bottom profiler to detect the wreckage that may be buried under 9 feet of silt, sand, mud and water, Parrent and his team narrowed the search to less than one-quarter square mile of this reef-guarded bay. They located seven suspected shipwreck sites. Likening his quest to a detective story, Parrent said that each of the sites had to be examined and assigned a high or low priority like suspects in a crime hunt Next, along with laboratory samples of the mud and silt' around them, they had to be restudied with fine scientific care before being discarded or deemed worthy of excavation. From Salahadln Nrkuk Kurd Majority T'-vJ IRAQIS iivniii iVii-i Baohdad jNajafj IRAN JORDAN a VMMfa. SAUDI ARABIA 100 miles Zone occupM 100 km by aJted forest KUWAIT 1 APCariFox, "An of northern Iraq is on the move." he said.

Bush administration officials had no comment on Ozal's statement More than L500 Kurds have died en route to Turkey from hunger, exposure and wounds, Turkish officials said. Twenty people, mostly children, are dying of disease each day on the border, according to Turkish news accounts, and refugees have been chopping down trees to build fires to warm Baker to refugee camps Baker visited refugee camps along the Iraqi border Monday and said nothing would be allowed to interfere with getting humanitarian aid to the Kurds and others. Baker publicly warned Iraq not to interfere with an airdrop that is expected to assist about 50,000 refugees, war. Iranian media said Sunday that Iran has accepted 698,000 Iraqi refugees and can admit no more, but about 1.5 million Kurds were still heading for Iran The International Committee of the Red Cross said Sunday that the refugee situation in Iran was "drastically deteriorating" and promised to step up aid efforts. In other Persian Gulf developments: Police in Sweden and Finland tried to determine Monday who fired shots from inside the Iraqi embassies of the two From pagyl Israel million Palestinians live, have been hard hit by strict work rules imposed by Israel after the gulf war to limit the number of Arab workers entering the Jewish state.

The work permit system was instituted as a security measure after a series of stabbing attacks by Arabs against Jews. Under the tighter work rules and travel restrictions, just 70,000 Palestinians now have permission to work in Israel compared with about 120,000 before the war. The statement said further steps were under study, but gave no details. The news reports said Israel also was considering reopening Arab coUeges as a gesture to Baker. Four of the six Palestinian universities in the territories have been shut since the uprising began in December 1987.

But Monday's statement did not mention reopening universities. Baker was to arrive in Israel Monday night for his second Middle East peace-seeking trip in a month. Baker meets Tuesday with Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Foreign Minister David Levy, Defense Minister Moshe Arens and about a dozen Palestinian leaders, and heads Wednesday to Egypt In his talks with Baker, Shamir is expected to continue his policy of resisting U.S. demands for Israel to agree to trade land for peace. House committee to hear federal Brady bill State gun-control debate deferred By Associated Press Robert Dickeson, president of the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley since 1981, is resigning to take a job with an Iowa company, it was announced Monday.

Dickeson was one of four outside finalists for the University of Nebraska presidency last year before University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Martin. Massengale was selected. suggested strong support for a competing bin, supported by the National Rifle Association, that promises an instant background check for handgun purchases. Twenty-four senators, one fewer than a majority, supported that plan and at least one who was absent during the vote said he probably would have supported it Ashford indicated that he currently does not have enough support for his bill. "I would hope that in the next four weeks to bring back the real concerns of Nebraskans," he said.

A House Judiciary Committee subcommittee is expected to hear the Mary Sasaki of UNC told Associated Press that Dickeson would become president and chief executive officer of Noel-Levitz Centers for Institutional Effectiveness and Innovation Inc. in Coral-, ville, Iowa, which is near Iowa City. Noel-Levitz Centers is a 7-year-old private company that helps universities set up programs to keep college students-from dropping out Brady bill Wednesday, said Gwen Fitzgerald of Handgun Control Inc. a Wash-: ington, D.C, group. She predicted the bill easily win be sent to the floor in late April or early May.

If the House passes it, the Senate would need take it up. Fitzgerald said Handgun Control supports LB355 as a reasonable approach, but, she said, it also believes in the Brady bill because it would take effect in 25 states, including Nebraska, that do not require a waiting period for handgun purchases, "Obviously, our top priority is to pass federal legislation because it will impact many states at once," she said. p.m. Downtown YMCA April 10 475-9622 to Register ByEdRusso Journal Statehouse Bureau The Legislature on Monday decided to take a month's break from debating handgun control, in large part to see how a federal proposal fares in the House of Representatives. At the request of the Nebraska bill's sponsor, Sen.

Brad Ashford of Omaha, lawmakers voted 30-0 to delay further debate on LB355 until May 8. Ashford requested the delay so he can talk to Nebraskans about his bin and to see how the federal proposal, the so-called Brady bin, might fare. The Brady bin requires a seven-day waiting period for handgun purchases. LB355 provides for a background check with a waiting period of two days. If Nebraska does not enact a law requiring a waiting period for handgun purchases and the Brady bill is passed by Congress, the Brady bin win take effect in Nebraska.

"There are those who would realize that some form of gun control is corning to our country," Ashford told lawmakers. A vote by the Legislature last week Avanti designer dies MONROE, Mich. (AP) Robert Andrews, self-taught engineer and chief designer of the sporty Studebaker Avanti car, has died at age 68. By Margaret Reist Journal County-City Bureau Darryl J. Harris was expected to be charged Monday afternoon for the alleged Sunday afternoon sexual assault of a -woman at her south Lincoln apartment 'Harris, 29, 1317 St, was expected to be charged in Lancaster County Court with first-degree sexual assault and burglary, said County Attorney Gary Lacey.

Prosecutors planned to request that Harris be held on a $500,000 percentage bond, requiring Harris to pay 10 percent, or $30,000, to be released from jail, Lacey sail A 26-year-old woman told police she had been sunbathing on her apartment patio when she went inside about 3 p.m. to use the bathroom, Lacey said. When she left the bathroom, a man was standing in her apartment and he a saulted her, she told police. The woman told police the assault lasted about two She said her assailant choked and hit her, and threatened to kill her and to cut her with a razor blade, police Lt Al Maxey said. The man also told her he had a knife, Lacey said.

During the struggle, the woman told police, she scratched the man. Prosecutors plan to do conduct DNA "fingerprint" tests on blood and other body fluids found at the scene, Lacey said. Police arrested Harris after a man living in the apartment complex told police he recognized the man who had entered the woman's apartment as someone who frequented another apartment in the complex, Lacey said. Based on that information, police eventually identified Harris as the suspect and arrested him at his residence, Maxey said. From shipwrecked here for a year and five days only "a crossbow shot," as his son phrased it, from a band of increasingly hostile Arawak Indians may be a boon Jo Jamaica and a team of Texas-based marine archaeologists.

They believe they have found the spot where Columbus the fabled finder of America and now controversial historic figure ran the two caravels aground 488 years ago. "We are 98 percent sure they are here," said James M. Parrent of the Institute of Nautical Archeology at Texas ASM University, who, in cooperation with the government of Jamaica, first began looking for the Columbus caravels in 1982. Important site After getting to work in earnest last summer, Parrent said, he hopes soon to unearth the keels and some of the lower hull planking of the caravels Capitana and Santiago de Palos all that could 'be expected to remain after almost five centuries under the bay's bottom for experts' study and eventual display in a Jamaica museum. "We are charged with locating perhaps the most important historic archaeological site in the New said Parrent, notingthat as the quincen-tennial of Columbus' first voyage in 1492 approaches, no other trace has been found of the ships he sailed.

Thus, to Parrent and other marine archaeologists, the prospect of unearthing the caravels is more exciting than finding a gold-laden treasure ship. Not only will they be the oldest European vessels discovered in the Western hemisphere and the only ones actually Commanded by Columbus, he said, but they will solve a simple question that has plagued naval architects and historians for centuries: What did a caravel look like? No drawing The Nina and Pinta mainstays of Columbus's first voyage, the Spanish-underwritten expedition that launched him into much Western lore as the finder of America were fast-sailing caravels that he preferred over the larger, more lumbering Santa Maria. Yet no reliable drawing, painting or naval architect's plan of any of the vessels has ever been found. "The size and shape of these ships is not known," said Ywone Edwards, an archaeologist from Jamaica's National Heritage Trust who is working with Par-rent She said the best guesses of their length range from 70 feet to 90 feet, about the size of a good racing yacht, and speculations concerning their other dimensions and appearance are equally imprecise. Although divers have uncovered remains of other 16th-century vessels thought to be similar to those sailed by Columbus, there remains so much uncertainty that every attempt to construct replicas, including several now under way for quincentennial celebrations, has involved guesswork, Parrent said.

"Neither naval architectural plans nor actual remains of ships known to be caravels have been found," he sail "Important as they were to the discovery of the New World, we do not know how they were constructed." Hope for clues Expert examination of what remains of the vessels should give a clear idea of how the caravels looked when they were Ship Lose Weight And Keep It Off! The "Leaner Weigh" A complete, safe and effective way to lose weight. 12 week program only $79.00 Class meets p.m. Northeast YMCA Starting April 8- and Wednesdays Cw Starting I ymca call mm mm Hi They're also highly visible. They're the people who serve you at every NBC facility. You'll see a hardworking commitment to quality in everything they do.

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