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,
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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.
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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.
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