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your quick guide to news from around the world Lithuanians accused offering arms for sale 1 MIAMI — Two Lithuanians were accused Monday of try ing to sell Soviet-era nuclear weapons to federal agents posing as arms brokers for drug smug glers. No weapons changed hands, but the pair were caught on audio and video tape negotiating the sale of Bulgarian-made tactical nuclear weapons and nonnuclear surface-to-air missiles, investiga tors said. “The significance shows there are people out there who have the ability to move weapons — strate gic weapons — around the world,” said Dennis Fagan, agent of charge of the Customs Service in Miami. Alexander Porgrebeshski, 28, and Alexander Darichev, 36, both Lithuanian nationals, were arrest ed Friday after they reached a $1.3 million deal for 40 anti-air craft missiles and transportation to Puerto Rico. The nuclear weapons deal was to follow. The defendants appeared in federal court Monday on conspir acy charges and were held with out bail. Thai scientists make fast food for elephants 2 BANGKOK, Thailand — Dig in, Jumbo. Six Thai elephants gave a big trunks-up to Thailand’s first ele phant chow, a huge tablet devel oped to replace the rapidly disap pearing plants elephants usually eat. The elephants at Bangkok’s Dusit Zoo all ate with gusto when fed for several months with chewable tablets made of concen trated sugar cane, com, molasses, vitamins and minerals, zoo direc tor Alongkorn Mahannop said Monday. The one-pound tablets, devel oped by researchers at Bangkok’s Kasetsart University and the Dusit Zoo, will be tested in other zoos and in the country’s north ern jungles, he said. Excessive logging and develop ment have left Thailand severely deforested, virtually wiping out the elephants’ natural habitat. In response, many mahouts — elephant owners — have taken their animals to Bangkok and oth er cities, where the pachyderms walk the roads begging for food or serve as tourist attractions. Sever al have been hit by cars. The concentrated food must still pass final tests, but Alongko m said after that Kasetsart may of fer the tablets cheaply to elephant owners. Climbing class swept 1,000 ft. off mountain 3 ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Members of a mountain climbing class for beginners slipped in the snow, tumbled into their fellow students and dragged all of them 1,000 feet down a mountainside strewn with rocks. Two people were killed and 12 injured. The accident took place Sun day evening as students in the Mountaineering I class at the Uni versity of Alaska-Anchorage made their way down from the summit of 5,000-foot Ptarmigan (pronounced TAR-mih-gan) Peak while roped together in groups of twos and threes for safety. One team slipped and swept the others down the 60-degree slope to a field of boulders. “The top group lost it,” said climber Mona Eben, 43, of An chorage. “They kept sliding and eventually they slid into me and we all got tangled in each other’s ropes.” Eben suffered a broken leg and bruises. Those killed were students Mary E. Fogarty, 40, of Anchor age and Steven M. Brown, 23, who had recently moved to An chorage from Royal Oak, Mich. One climber was in serious condition Monday, and 10 more were in fair condition. The class was for students with little or no climbing experience. It had met since June 10 to learn rock and snow climbing. The class had spent Saturday practicing techniques for ascend ing and descending in snow be fore starting for the summit of the rugged mountain Sunday morn ing. The peak is 16 miles south east of downtown Anchorage. 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McVeigh awaits execution for bombing the Alfred P. Murrah federal building, and Terry Nichols faces a federal trial begin ning Sept. 29. Oklahoma County District At torney Robert Macy has already said he will file state murder charges against McVeigh and Nichols, regardless of the grand jury’s actions. The 12 grand jurors were select ed in open court in less than three hours. Four prospective jurors who said they knew people killed or injured in the bombing were cho sen, while a fifth woman who knew someone killed in the blast was dismissed. Key and Wilburn’s petition names seven witnesses who have said they saw at least one other person with McVeigh in Okla homa City on the day of the bomb ing, which killed 168 people and injured hundreds more. No Frills Just Great Bikes ft Service! FUJI • MONGOOSE • KHS Cousteau honored in Notre Dame memorial 5 PARIS — In one of France’s largest memorial services in decades, nearly a thousand peo ple gathered Monday to honor Jacques Cousteau as a man who led the curious on a voyage of discovery through the world’s oceans. President Jacques Chirac joined Cousteau’s family, gov ernment officials and average cit izens at Notre Dame Cathedral to praise Cousteau’s underwater ex ploits. The entire mass was broadcast live on French national televi sion. Since Cousteau’s death last week, French TV has shown and reshown his films and documen taries, and French magazines have devoted special sections to his life and work. Cousteau, who died Wednes day at age 87, was famous throughout the world for his popular television series “The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau.” Cousteau’s widow and his children wept quietly in the front row of Notre Dame cathe dral, as solemn hymns echoed among the vaulted ceilings. A misty aqua light cast by the stained glass windows added a deep melancholy to the service, which was attended by about 1,000 people, including diplo mats and former members of Cousteau’s exploration team. Several thousand other mourners lined the square in front of Notre Dame and nearby streets. Many tourists who had come to visit the famous Paris cathedral waited patiently until the service was over to enter. ~(>8 Hast 1 3th • 345-1651 1 Block from Campus Cash for books Everyday. Always buying texts, paperbacks, cliff notes, current magazines . . . 1 o ▼EMERALD The Oregon DaHy Emeralds published daily Monday through Friday during the school year and Tuesday and Thursday during the summer by the Oregon Daily Emerald Publishing Co. Inc, at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. The EmeraW ope rates Independently of the University with offices at Suite 300 of the Erb Memorial Union. The Emerald is private property. 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