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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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Grand jury to look into
Oklahoma bombing
4 OKLAHOMA CITY—A grand
jury was chosen Monday to in
vestigate allegations that the Ok
lahoma City bombing was the
work of a larger conspiracy and
that federal authorities had prior
knowledge of the plot.
The county grand jury was em
paneled after a petition drive
mounted by State Rep. Charles
Key and Glenn Wilburn, an ac
countant who lost two grandsons
in the April 19,1995, blast.
Although the federal indict
ment of Timothy McVeigh and
Terry Nichols alleged they acted
with “others unknown,” federal
authorities now doubt there was a
larger conspiracy. And they vehe
mently deny any prior knowledge
of the attack.
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.
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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.
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