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Navy stops Soviet ship MANAMA, Bahrain (A1 *) — A Jordan bound Soviet freighter w.is turned htu.lt In tho Rod Sea ovor tho weekend by ti U S. frigate because It reportedly had inilltury cargo dostlnod for Iraq, tho U S Navy said Monday. Tho Akademlk Millinnshokov was in lorcoptnd Sunday by tho USS Truott, one of the allied warships that Is still enforc ing thi! U N trade embargo on Iraq seven months after tho end of tho Gulf war According to tho Nuvy, allied warships have intercepted 11,705 merchant ships since the embargo began on Aug t>, 1900, four days after Iraq invaded Kuwait. Of these, 2..'Mil have been boarded and 11*1 diverted Chief Jim Richeson said the Truott or dered the Akademik Millionshekov to turn around because a hoarding party found “it had military cargo not listed in the manifest " Mo did not say what that cargo was, L but said it originated in tho Soviet port of Nikoloyev and was scheduled to unload at tho Jordan port of Aqaba Jordan was a major transshipment route for goods l>ound to and from Imq before the war Kit heson said another ship, the Kota I’elanl, was intercepted Monday by the Prune h frigate Commandant de I’imodan Student kilted by police COOKSTOWN, Northern Ireland (Al'J Police said Monday they mistakenly shot and killed an unarmed Catholic teen-ager who wandered into a stakeout for Irish Republican Army guerrillas Kevin McCovern. a Id-year-old student at a local agricultural college, was killed while fleeing police who had ordered him and his two friends to halt Sunday night, police said "There is a lot of anger This sort of killing creates distrust," said Aldan Mur phy, u Roman Catholic priest who was among the first on the scene ■"These were three guys who really weren't up to anything." The three youths were walking from a pub to a discotheque when they appar ently wondered into the police-army stakeout at a road junction, police and area residents said. The IRA confirmed that one of its units had been planning an attack on security forces at the junction late Sunday, but called it off after an urea resident spotted their mortar bomb beside the rood and called police. The Royal Ulster Constabulary, a most ly Protestant police force, apologized Monday to McGovern's family, acknowl edging that he was "not engaged in ter rorist activity." Sean McGovern suid in a phono inter view that his son had been studying in hopes of taking over tlinir farm in Kinawley, a County Fermanagh village. TO |0ystore’s mdratn, *nG OgS&SS?*^ N8™ _ I ,K.t boofc ___' .... ,.« sob'"llsu‘\... iuc uu;>\'1 ' Hev« uo .-'Z****™ ___--—«sss?s .... £?--.^.ocvo»km^. [tV.HM "' . a#.* ...» ,il>iw ,<>..»< *• rxcw* i':i„t.v«. H« '-^'k s^’"' •sj'SS*4* ■£?$%*** “c s-Sj^ssjsS1. ‘ syHabu" govenM«t \ program ,\ra<.lUne tu,a' . ggsa<w-; H *, is .i.e «*»for sir,,N(S: -^V,U ^ ^ ■ IM Hi PTS V3 Don't miss a great catch... i Pick up an ODE football program each Friday before home games. Rebel soldiers seize leader in Haitian Coup WORLD VO RT-AU PRINCE, Haiti (Ai’) — Rebel sol diers seized con irol ot the National t'aiaco on Monday and captured Prosi dent Jean-Bertrand Aristide, die foreign minister said. "The president and his staff have been arrested and taken to the army headquarters,” For eign minister Jean-Robort Sabalat said. He told The Asso ciated Press the government was negotiating "to at least save the president’s life." The capture of Aristide, who became Haiti’s first freely elect ed president in February after decades of dictatorship, oc curred nearly 24 hours into an uprising that lx:gan with muti nies at a training camp and a police station. At least 20 peo ple were killed and hundreds wounded. Sabalat said a loyal captain was killed when the rebels, who claimed Aristide was in terfering in army affairs, battled their way into the National Pal ace about 5:30 p.m. ED I’. Late Monday the situation re mained confused and there was no official word on the muti neers’ objectives An adviser to Aristide, who asked not to lie named, said he believed the president had not been harmed The uprising occurred five days after Aristide addressed the United Nations on his first trip to the United States since becoming president of this coup-prone Caribbean nation On Thursday, a day after his address to the U.N. General As sombly, Aristide said his ap pearance before the world txidy iiad marked the end of Haiti’s ilark past of dictatorship. Democracy has won out lor good, the roots arc growing stronger and stronger," he said in an interview. Among those killed when the unrest first flared Sunday night was Sylvio Claude, an evangeli cal preacher and two-time pres idential candidate. By nightfall Monday, a presi dential advisor, overheard on a radio frequency used by the military, government and em bassies, spoke of loyalist sol diers deserting and hostile units moving onto the grounds of the National Palace. A government minister, speaking on condition of ano nymity, said. "We're in serious trouble." Hours after word surfaced in Miami's Little Haiti section of the capture of Aristide, protests broke out on city streets. Demonstrators throw an American flag, furniture, tires and other debris into burning mounds in die street Gasoline was poured on a patrol air and it was set ablaze, Miami police spokesman David Bunks said. Earlier Monday, rebel sol diers opened fire on Aristide's home, and hours later attacked u military convoy taking him and the French ambassador to the Nationul Palaco. Neither Aristide nor the ambassador. Jean-Kafael Dufour, was injured in either episode, according to government sources. ☆ Recycle ^ this ☆ Paper. ^
