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The Billings Gazette 2A Sunday, August 2. 1 992 Werner vou ir lows Sup repaifriion of Hcaiticiris Today's People discourage Haitians from taking unseaworthy vessels to the United States." I i Lucas Guttentag, attorney for the Haitians, said he is confident that when the case is heard, "the court will find that the president's order violates the most fundamental principles of U.S and international obligations." The lawyers representing the Haitians will ask the court on Monday to hear the case on an accelerated basis, Guttentag said. "My only hope is that either Congress does something or elections sweep out President Bush," said another lawyer for the Haitians, Michael Ratner. Thousands of Haitians have been intercepted at sea and returned to their country since the president's order of last spring, said Ratner. And thousands of Haitians have sought asylum at the U.S.

Embassy in Port-au-Prince in the last few months. A Justice Department statement issued a few days ago encouraged the asylum requests. To date, less than 100 have been granted admission to the United States. About 30,000 Haitians fled their country after a military coup deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide last fall v', WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court on Saturday permitted the Bush administration to continue returning Haitians intercepted at sea to their Caribbean homeland. The action sought by the Justice Department temporarily blocks a federal appeals court ruling Wednesday which voided President Bush's 2-month-old executive order that Haitians fleeing by boat be escorted back to Haiti In a 7-2 vote, the Supreme Court gave the government until Aug.

24 to ask the high court to consider the merits of the case. Justices Harry Blackmun and John Paul Stevens dissented, saying that the fleeing Haitians face "the real and immediate prospect of persecution, terror and possibly even death at the hands of those to whom they are being forcibly returned." Lawyers for the Haitians say they are entitled to immigration hearings to determine whether they should be classified as refugees eligible to come to this country. The Bush administration has said concern for the safety of the Haitians was a major consideration for its actions. Deputy press secretary Judy Smith said the White House was pleased that the stay "will continue to I v. i mi-' I Chess legend ends seclusion BELGRADE, Yugoslavia U.S.

chess master Bobby Fischer has been in seclusion for 20 years and now that he's ready to play Boris Spassky he says the United Nations isn't going to stop him. Fischer, 49, said Friday that he wasnt concerned about the political implications of the chess match in Yugoslavia, which is under U.N. sanctions for its role in the fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina. It was announced last week that Fischer would play a rematch of his 1972 championship game with Russian Boris Spassky. The match, scheduled to begin Sept 2, was organized by Jezdimir Vasfljevic, a Serbian bank owner.

Fischer was Interviewed by Vasiljevic on Yugoslav television Friday. When asked whether playing the match in a country under sanctions was a political event, Fischer said: "I don't know much about that I came here to play chess and that's what -interests me." Lawbreakers get help PORTLAND, Ore. Football legend and former film star Jim Brown is trying out a new career social worker. i His Amer-I-Can program, which aims to teach Associated Press Abdi Mohamed, 4, was still alive last week but Communications trouble thwarts satellite release i I probably ism now. Hunger kills thousands in Somalia gang members and convicts to lead productive lives, began in Portland this past week.

Maj. Dean Renfrow, who oversees the Oregon State Police Youth Gang Strike Force, says Brown's program teaches people to rely on themselves to get jobs. That doesnt mean some wont go afoul of the system," he said. "But if they need assistance, they have social support, someone to contact." Eckart Graf, a program manager for the European Space Agency, which owns Eureca. There are two other stations, located in the Canary Islands and Australia.

The Eureca project is managed from Darmstadt, Germany. "We're still optimistic," said NASA flight director Phil Engelauf. Sunday was the last chance for Eureca. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the satellite would be bundled back into the cargo bay and brought back to Earth if the problem could not be re solved in time for a Sunday release, and the rest of the mission would proceed as planned. The main event of Atlantis' mission testing an Italian satellite on 12 miles of electricity-generating cord was delayed one day as a result of the Eureca problem.

That 30-hour experiment is now set for Tuesday and Wednesday. NASA was considering extending the flight by one day. Atlantis was supposed to land Friday at Kennedy Space Center after seven days in space. BROWN Last year, California's motivator Department of Corrections paid Brown $250,000 to teach the course to 2,100 gang inmates. A salute to Old Farmer NASHVILLE, Tenn.

Willard Scott is the host of a cable television salute to a longtime friend, "The Old Farmer's Almanac." "I've been reading The Old Farmer's Almanac' for about 42 years," he said. "My grandfather relied on it and I still plant my garden by it" The 'Today" show weatherman will be the host Aug. 10 of a 60-minute special on The Nashville Network. The show, taped in Nashville, will include music, comedy and trivia. Country singers Louise Mandrel, T.

Graham Brown and Mike Snider will appear. Free Glasses or Contacts CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) A communications problem prevented Atlantis' astronauts from releasing a European science satellite from the shuttle Saturday and threatened a second, and final, attempt on Sunday. The Eureca satellite, with its load of crystals, brine shrimp eggs and fungi spores, remained locked on the end of Atlantis' crane, while engineers for the European Space Agency worked frantically on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean to resolve the data-relay problem. The trouble struck early Saturday, less than a day into Atlantis' flight The satellite could not commu-' nicate properly with ground stations, most notably when the data were relayed through Atlantis.

Lapses occurred in the flow of information, of ficials said. Ground controllers switched to a backup data processor on Eureca, but they found that when the satellite's positioning system was turned on, it the flow of information to the ground, just like before. Mission Control sent the astronauts a work schedule that "still shoots for deploy" on Sunday morning. But Mission' Control cautioned that, "right now, no decision's still been made on deploy or bringing back Eureca." The future of the 428 million Eureca project hinged on a midnight test Eureca managers said they would try to establish a direct link between the satellite and a station in French Guiana and base their decision on those results. "When we really know that we can communicate with our ground stations in a trouble-free manner we are go for the mission," said BAIDAO, Somalia (AP) Huge eyes stared blankly from the wizened faces of the doomed, the very young and very old who would die this day or the next of starvation and illness.

"That one there, and that one. They will die. It's too late to save them." The words came unemotionally from Anita Ennis, 33, an Irish nurse, as she pointed at two tiny victims of war and drought at a feeding center in Baidoa, central Somalia. Ennis has seen a lotof death, and steels herself againstit But there is anger in her, anger at what she sees as a tardy, inadequate response by the rest of the world to the tragedy engulf ing Somalia. By U.N.

estimate, 1.5 million people are in imminent risk of dying of hunger in Somalia and 4.5 million more are near the edge of starvation. That means virtually everyone in this largely desert nation in the Horn of Africa has fallen victim to a disaster predicted by U.N. and other experts as long as 10 months ago. Yet only on July 27 did the U.N. Security.COuncuVau thorize massive relief, and it will take weeks for the aid to start flowing.

The Security Council acted only after Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali chastized it for focusing too much on "a rich man's war" in Yugoslavia. Nobody can say how many people have died in Somalia, but Peter Stacker of the International Committee of the Red Cross puts the number in the hundreds of thousands. Total deaths in Yugoslavia are reported to be at least 17,500, possibly up to three or four times that Stocker, U.N. officials and others say they cannot give a precise figure for Somalia, or even a good rough estimate, because clan warfare has kept them out of large parts of the stricken country. All agree, however, that the tragedy is approaching the scale of the famine that killed more than 1 million people in Ethiopia in 1984-85.

It already is proportionately bigger. Ethiopia has a population of about 50 million, many times that of Somalia. The difference here is that we dont have any rock stars singing about it," said Mohamed Sahnoun, the U.N. special envoy to Somalia. He referred to a globally televised concert that helped focus international attention on the Ethiopian crisis and brought an outpouring of donations.

If the full scope of Somalia's tragedy cannot be known, it can be seen in Baidoa, once an agricultural center of 60,000, now peopled mostly by the displaced and hungry. Dr. Siad Musa Aden, 38, a native of Baidoa who works for the U.N. Children's Fund, said 300 to 500 people were dying daily in and around the town, most of them children and the elderly. This is not the Baidoa I knew," Aden said.

"It is a city of graves and refugees." Most permanent residents fled when former President Mohammed Siad Barre and the remnants of his army occupied the city a year ago. Barre and his men were chased out of Mogadishu, the capital, by rebels of the United Somali Congress in January 199L but continued a hit-and-run war in the central, southern and western regions of the country. Rebel soldiers caught up with Siad Barre in April, forced him out of Baidoa and pushed him and his men westward toward Kenya. The former dictator finally fled across the border and took sanctuary briefly in Nairobi before being granted political asylum in Nigeria. The Red Cross began flying food to Baidoa two months ago, but hardly enough.

Hundreds of new people walk, stagger or crawl to the city every day. About 40,000 have arrived since Siad Barre fled. Free Glasses From Our Selection With Eyeglass Purchase Unlike other optical stores that' offer free frames from a limited selection, we offer you free frames from out stock of the latest names like Liz Claiborne, Gant, Jordache, and many others! Buy any glasses at regular price and get a free pair of single-vision glasses with plastic lenses and frames of equal or less value, up to $100. Or if you prefer contacts, you can select a free pair of Neo-flex (thin) soft contact lenses, with eyeglass purchase! ONE-HOUR SERVICE ON MOST PRESCRIPTIONS Eye exam arranged through independent Doctor of Optometry. Free glasses must be of same prescription.

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