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A2HE17S ROUHDUP Desert Sun news services THE DESERT SUN Pda Spring CaHf-Saturtay Novwnbar 5 1861 Reagan ends genocide-law fight President signsanb-ADS package IVOGRttEas TOWNSHIP ia the two dwnbeis iwjllffa Reagaa on FTifencesinseparAWbfllsttaj signed an oauribos AIDS Mil tkatwtad passed outer ta theyear provides op to forftewprognunmosOfifor However the final version 4ML research and adscattoati not include proriaiona guarantee Tha measure was painad tr Jag the confidentiality of Alt roles vote of both homes of Coof test results and outlawing fma onOct after several crimlnation agataat people whq wgela of negotiate between Itartpoaitlvhfortlwvlm: to attend The Prozmire Act defines cide as an action taken with a intent to destroy in whole or in substantial part a national ethnic racial or religious It would apply to activities ih which members of those groupk were killed seriously Injured or permanently impaired through the use of drugs torture or or were subjected to conditions aimed at earning physical destruction of the Aaaodated Praaa BILL BECOMES LAW: President Reagan signs a bill ensuring US participation in a United Nations treaty against genocide Whale of a baby death camps that claimed millions of Jews Slavs Gypsies and others and said similar strodties have since taken place is Cambodia the Ukraine and Ethiopia These events renew our rage and righteous fury and make this moment all the more significant tar me and an Reagan said Proxmire was not present at the signing ceremony White House spokesmen Marita Fitzwater said he had been invited but was not able week with a Mojave postmark demanded hundred! of thousands of dollars and contained information particular to each recipient San Diego asks help to solve crime SAN DIEGO A task force investigating a sates of at least 10 murders in San Diego is asking the help in a esse involving an attack on a prostitute who escaped her assailant The attack occurred at 6:30 pm last Sunday in the area of 25th Street and Imperial Avenue and was reported to authorities by a sheriffs Sgt Liz Foster said Friday The informant raid the woman hasn't come forward because she fears arrest Collins ex-husband told to settle case LOS ANGELES star Joan Collins and her ex-hus-band were ordered Friday to aid eight months of bickering over a divorce settlement by exchanging money and the titles to a French villa The exchange ordered by Superior Court Judge Abby Soven is to take place by Monday through an honor the long crusade of the senator who is closing out a 31-year Senate career The treaty was drafted after World War Hub response to the Nasi Holocaust that killed millions of Jews and other ethnic minorities It was approved by the United Nations at the end of 1948 and submitted to the Senate early the next year by President Tni- By the time the Senate acted two years ago 95 other nations had ratified the treaty The Soviet Union frequently embarrassed American diplomats by claiming that the US failure to ratify the pact as evidence the United States lacked a complete commitment to human rights Reagan signed the genocide Mil at a ceremony at Chicago's International Airport saying he was to fulfill the promise made by Harry Truman to all the peoples of the world and especially the Jewish The president recalled the Nazi STATE Shooting victim gaining strength LOS ANGELES A 16-year-oid girl shot repeatedly and left for dead after her boyfriend killed a reputed gang member allegedly trying to rob his family was recovering from her wounds Friday authorities said Krishna Hubbard a trade school student shot five times and left for dead after the Thursday morning attack was in fair condition Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center said hospital spokeswoman Paula Correia Newspaper offers extortion reward LANCASTER The Antelope Valley Press newspaper offered a 810000 reward Friday for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever mailed some 200 threatening extortion lettot to imminent Antelope Valley dti-zens The computer-generated mass mailing has targeted doctors lawyers businessmen and other prominent people in the Mojave Desert community of 80000 residents as well as neighboring Palmdale and unincorporated areas The letters which arrived this 1 989 NATION Pentagon audit shows unsatisfactory parts WASHINGTON An Air Force logistics colter in Georgia paid an estimated $104 million for spare parts that did not meet contract specifications amounting to 89 percent of Its inventory according to a Pentagon audit A spokesman for Air Force Logistics Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton Ohio took sharp issue with the draft report which was obtained from the Pentagon and distributed by the Project on Military Procurement a private watchdog group in Washington figure la very said Air Force spokesman Ken Per-rotte Judge bolsters ban on random drug tests SAN FRANCISCO A federal Judge on Friday strengthened his ban on random drug testing of about 1000 government weather forecasters UB District Judge Robert Schnacke who had issued an injunction Aug 12 prohibiting the Reagan administration from beginning the testing program two weeks later made a final ruling in favor of WORLD Kandu a killer whale gives birth to a female calf at Sea World theme park near Orlando Fla Friday Park officials said this was only the third time a killer whale haa given birth in captivity a labor union that had filed suit against the tests Spaniards will ship smuggler back to US WASHINGTON A Virginia photographer Jailed in Spain on cocaine trafficking charges that US officials say stemmed from his set np by drug smugglers will be transferred to the US on Monday The Associated Press WASHINGTON President signature Friday on legislation giving a treaty banning genocide the force of American law marks the end of a 40-year struggle and represents the final feather in the political cap of retiring Sen William Proxmire D-Wls Proxmire delivered more than 3300 daily speeches over 19 years before the Saute voted on Feb 11 1986 to ratify the treaty That act turned back four decades of opposi- tion by conservatives who contended it would undermine rights of Americans under the Constitution and infringe US sovereignty But it took another two-year struggle to win congressional passage of the legislation needed to implement the treaty by making genocide the deliberate destruction of a specific population punishable under UJS law and setting stern penalties for violators The Saute version of the genocide Implementation bill is officially called Proxmire to AaaocMed Praaa Helga Soto spokeswoman for the Spanish Embassy said Conan Owen of nearby Annandale Va would be released from a Barcelona prison and turned over to US authorities A US official who spoke on the condition of anonymity told The Associated Press on Friday that Monday is the ezpected date of transfer for Owen to the United States Associated Praas laration was and more extreme than expected The PLO debate over the declaration of a Palestinian state in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip has intensified since King Hussein of Jordan severed his ties with the areas Three civilians hurt in guerrilla attack SAN SALVADOR El Salvador -Leftist guerrillas attacked army positions the City Hall and civil defense headquarters in a village northeast of San Salvador Friday wounding three civilians the military reported Also Friday about 3000 leftist trade unionists politicians and students inarched through San Salvador and held a vigil In front of the US Embassy to protest the Reagan policies in Central America Radicals on rampage escrow agent in the French town of Port Grimaud The ex-husband Peter Holm gets 8180000 Miss Collins gets full title to one of two homes the couple owned in the south of France Suspect arrested in 16firebomblngs SAN BERNARDINO Yucaipa man was arrested Friday in connection with 16 firebombtags in Riverside and San Bernardino counties last month Most of the fires which were! caused by chemical Incendiary: bombs were set in brushy rural areas near Yucaipa and Timothy Wayne S3: was arrested for investigation of arson without incident at his hone following a short chase as author-' ities attempted to intercept him on a nearby road a California Department of Forestry spokeswoman-said i Antinucd an unemployed con' struction worker was booked into the San Bernardino County JaiL The investigation that culminated in arrest began in series of firebombtags from Oct 7 through Oct 1 The fires -were described as minor and losses Were-minimal BUICK fyH PONTIAC 346-2345 BUICK CENTURY New for 19891 Equipped with auto trans power steering power brakes air cond tilt steering wheal door locks recHners cruise control am-fm stereo cassette and styled wheels Stock 49058 WAS $1466200 NOW ONLY BUICK SKY HAWK WAGON Stk 48132 NOW ONLY Indian navy surrounds invaders of Maldives COLOMBO Sri Lanka Indian navy ships Friday night surrounded boat filled with foreign mercenaries who seized about 20 hostages including a Cabinet minister and his family and fled the Maldives after trying to overthrow its government according to reports from the archipelago A doctor and a pharmacist contacted by telephone in Male the capital said Maldives television reported the Indians were trying to negotiate on the high seas for the release The mercenaries thought to be Tamils from nearby Sri Lanka fled early Friday after Indian paratroopers landed to help President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and his lightly armed security forces Shamir presses for parliament coalition JERUSALEM Final election results issued Friday gave Yitzhak Likud bloc 40 parliament seats and the prime minister pressed ahead to form a majority coalition with rightist and religious parties His aides brushed aside calls for a new version of the 4-year-old coalition with the center-left Labor Party of Foreign Minister Shimon Peres which won 39 of the 120 Knesset seats The fractious Likud-Labor arrange-mentwas made after the 'indecisive 1984 election How to make peace with the Arabs and end the 11 -month-old rebellion among the 15 million Palestinians of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip were the focus of election in which the conservative religions parties gained strength De Cuellar calls Iran Iraq talks GENEVA UN Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar on Friday met separately with the foreign ministers of Iran and Iraq for UN-mediated peace talks and said they were useful The separate meetings follow a face-to-face session of technical Students demanding the arrest of former President Chun Doo-hwan occupy a tax administration office in Seoul South Korea on Friday They firebombed other government buildings and a US military facility GREAT SELECTION TO CHOOSE FROM tEE US FIRST! 189 PONTIAC LEMANS 0 experts of both countries Thursday Peres de Cuellar did not elaborate on his talks with All Akbar Velayati and Tariq Aziz nor on the work of the experts The talks still are bogged down ova the question of the two common border PLO reportedly will avow independence JERUSALEM An AraMc-ian-guage newspaper on Friday published what it said was a Palestinian of that will be issued by the Palestine Liberation Organization this month The declaration named Jerusalem as the capital of an independent Palestinian state but made no mention of its borders or recognition of Israel An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman jAIon Liel said the dec frown Include factory rebate If applicable and are plus aalMttx Scene and doc faaa AS car are aubiact to prior Explraa 11-22-88 1 Hwy Ill at Washington La Quinta Ph i.