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AlwATAN dAIlY
6 world monDAY, februArY 15, 2010
NEWS IN BRIEF
Hundreds protest violence
Accused Alabama
professor shot and killed brother in 1986
in Mexican border city
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico: Hundreds
of people marched Saturday against the
drug gang violence besieging mexican
border city of Ciudad Juarez, gathering at
a bridge where they simulated the massa- HUNTSVILLE, Alabama: more than 23 years before a col-
cre of a group of teenagers last month. Po- lege professor was accused of shooting six of her colleagues, her
lice, meanwhile, found the bullet-ridden teenage brother died from the blast of a shotgun she held in the
bodies of five men in a town in the south- kitchen of her family’s home in massachusetts.
western corner of Chihuahua state. And The 1986 shooting was ruled accidental and no charges were
a decapitated body was found dumped filed against Amy bishop. The case could get a closer look as au-
beside the highway leading into the Pa- thorities try to explain why they believe the Harvard-educated
cific resort city of Acapulco. The protest-
ers marched to a border bridge in Ciudad neurobiologist opened fire friday, killing three.
Juarez, where they dropped to the ground bishop, a rare woman suspected of a workplace shooting,
as masked people dressed in black arrived had just months left teaching at the university of Alabama in
at the scene, pretending to be the gunmen Huntsville because she was denied tenure.
who killed 15 people in a working-class Some, including the husband of one victim and one of her
neighborhood on Jan. 30. many of those students, have said she was upset after being denied the job-for-
killed were teenagers with no known ties life security afforded tenured academics.
to drug gangs. Police have arrested two Authorities have refused to discuss a motive, and school
suspects who told authorities they were spokesman ray Garner said the faculty meeting wasn’t called
targeting members of a rival cartel, but in- to discuss tenure.
vestigators say the killers may have been It appeared the violent episode in bishop’s past wasn’t known
acting on mistaken information. -AP to her colleagues in Huntsville.
bishop shot her brother, Seth, an 18-year-old accomplished
Burundi violence may violinist, in the chest in 1986, said Paul frazier, the police chief
in braintree, mass., where the shooting occurred.
escalate in run up to polls both William Setzer, chairman of chemistry department at
uAH, and university police Chief Chuck Gailes said they had
BUJUMBURA: Tensions are rising ahead not heard about the massachusetts incident until being asked by
of elections in burundi, a small central reporters Saturday.
African country still struggling to emerge The norfolk County District Attorney’s office released a
from 13 years of civil war, according to 1987 report with details of their investigation, based on inter-
the International Crisis Group. Such ten-
views with Amy bishop and her parents conducted by a state Amy Bishop is detained by Huntsville, Ala. police, Feb 12, on the University of Alabama in Huntsville campus in Huntsville,
sions “could escalate dangerously in com-
ing months, ruining the electoral process’s trooper after the shooting. The report concluded Seth bishop Alabama. (AP)
credibility and endangering a fragile de- was killed by an “accidental discharge of a firearm.”
mocracy and, ultimately, many gains of Amy bishop told investigators she was trying to learn how to brought it downstairs to the kitchen for help unloading it. She then ran out of the house with the weapon. When she
the peace process,” the ICG said in a re- use a shotgun that her father had purchased for protection in the She said she was raising it when “someone said something to talked to investigators 11 days after the shooting, she told them
port released late friday. between may home after a break-in. her and she turned and the gun went off” while her brother was she could only remember hearing her mother scream and she
and September burundi will organize a She said she did not know how to use the weapon and walking across the kitchen, according to the report. didn’t know the gunshot struck her brother until later. -AP
series of elections, including presidential
and legislative polls. “Given President
(Pierre) nkurunziza’s popularity in rural
Spanish government struggles with crisis message
areas and the financial and logistical ad-
vantages it derives from control of state
institutions, the CnDD-fDD is in a strong
position to retain the presidency,” the
ICG said in its report entitled “burundi:
ensuring credible elections”. -AfP
MADRID: Could Spain be the next Greece? to bail their banking systems out. has spooked markets and lenders. insurance against default.
Ivory Coast opposition The government bristles at the very thought, Still, Spain has tried to spend its way out of Spanish sovereign debt has come under Spain’s economy is much larger than that
and points out its debt burden isn’t nearly as recession with costly job-creation and stimulus pressure, with creditors demanding a steeper of Greece, so it’s a far bigger problem for the
urges massive protests heavy. measures, running up a budget shortfall that interest rate to buy it and rates also rising for european union and the euro if markets begin
It’s a stinging comparison nonetheless for to doubt Spain’s ability to pay.
ABIDJAN: Ivory Coast’s main opposi- a country that only a few years ago had bur- If there is an eu country next in line for
tion Saturday urged massive protests and
denounced President Laurent Gbagbo’s geoning growth but is now lumped with other troubles with financing itself, it is Spain, even if
sacking of the government and dismissal deficit-laden countries on a watch list for a the likelihood of this is low for now, said Javier
of the election panel as a coup d’etat ahead Greek-style crisis. Diaz-Jimenez, an economist at madrid-based
of long-delayed polls. Gbagbo’s shock an- The collapse of a real estate- and consumer- IeSe business School.
nouncements on friday is “undemocratic fueled boom has left Spain with a euro-zone “Spanish public finances are under severe
and unconstitutional,” a grouping of the high jobless rate of nearly 20 percent, and stress. nobody in their sane mind can deny
two main opposition parties said, adding the government ran up a deficit that in 2009 that,” he said.
that it did not “recognize Laurent Gbagbo equaled 11.4 percent of GDP. Spain’s Socialist government rejects sugges-
as the head of Ivory Coast.” Claiming more That is way over the eurozone limit of 3 tions that the euro-zone’s fourth-largest econ-
than 429,000 names were fraudulently percent and earned Spain a place as the letter omy, which had posted budget surpluses and
inscribed on the electoral list, Gbagbo “S” in the inelegant PIGS acronym coined by robust growth as recently as 2007 but has suf-
also sacked the head of the Independent analysts (the others are Portugal, Ireland, and fered dearly following the collapse of a real es-
electoral Commission (CeI) robert beu- Greece). tate bubble, has a debt mess similar to Greece’s,
gre mambe, blaming him for the alleged Spanish officials argue they are better off which has driven down the euro and shaken the
fraud. “Just as we thought we had com- in several respects. national debt as a propor- european union.
pleted our efforts to have clean elections, tion of GDP - 66 percent this year and peaking but Spain did see fit to dispatch a team led
we see that in reality the peace process...
is taken hostage by political parties,” the at 74 percent in 2012 - is well below the eu by finance minister elena Salgado to London
president said. He called on Prime min- average and far under Greece’s 113.4 percent and Paris last week to meet with ratings agen-
ister Guillaume Soro, head of the former for 2009. cies and investors in an effort to explain Spain’s
rebel new forces (fn), to form a new gov- It does not have credibility problems like deficit-reduction plans and restore its credibil-
ernment by monday and propose a new Greece, which is accused of fudging its debt ity.
“format” for a “credible” electoral com- numbers, and its banking system is relatively Spain’s Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero is seen during a plenary session at the And at times the government has looked on
mission by next friday. -AfP sound compared with other countries that had Spanish Senate in Madrid, Feb. 9. (AP) the defensive. -AP
Tymoshenko to contest ‘falsified’ Ukraine poll Detained Americans
KIEV: Defeated candidate Yulia Tymoshen- moshenko. servers, who included the oSCe, had given the
seek distance from adviser
ko on Saturday vowed to contest in court the The comments were Tymoshenko’s first on election a clean bill of health.
results of ukraine’s presidential elections won the outcome of the election, which interna- Western leaders, including uS President PORT-AU-PRINCE: relatives of a group arrested on Jan. 29. They thought Puello, who is
by Viktor Yanukovych, raising the prospect of a tional observers and Western states had hailed barack obama and french President nicolas of jailed uS missionaries thought a man who Jewish and from the Dominican republic, was a
crippling political crisis. as fair and a milestone for democracy in the Sarkozy have already congratulated Yanuk- volunteered legal assistance - but who may be good Samaritan and had no reason to doubt his
Tymoshenko defiantly refused to recognise former Soviet union. ovych on his election win. wanted for human trafficking in el Salvador - intentions, said Lankford.
the triumphant Yanukovych as president and According to preliminary results, Yanu- but Tymoshenko said: “Yanukovych is not was a good Samaritan, a family member said. “He helped us find the lawyer we have now.
said the february 7 presidential polls had been kovych won by a slim margin of some 3.5 our president. He will never become a legiti- Jorge Puello was not known to the mission- He helped us gather evidence. before him, we
marred by mass falsifications affecting over percent or just under 890,000 votes, a much mately-elected president of ukraine under any aries’ church group before their arrest for trying really were having a hard time finding anyone
one million votes. narrower difference than expected by most circumstances.” to take 33 children out of Haiti, and members at all” to represent the missionaries in neigh-
“The election in ukraine was falsified,” pundits. final results are expected in the next Tymoshenko vowed she would not organ- failed to check his background, Sean Lankford, boring Haiti, said Lankford.
Tymoshenko, who is ukraine’s prime minister, days. ise a repeat of the mass protests seen in the the relative who dealt most closely with him, Puello never asked for money for himself
said in a televised address to the nation. Tymoshenko said that some observers from 2004 orange revolution on Kiev’s Indepen- said Saturday. Lawyers for the missionaries said but “was going to help us to pay the other at-
“Have no doubt - we won.” the trans-Atlantic security group the oSCe dence Square, known locally as the maidan, in Puello, who had been a high-profile advocate torneys. He was the guy who was going to hand
“I have taken the only decision possible, had said they were prepared to declare in the which she played a leading role. for the jailed baptists, deceived their clients and money to lawyers,” Lankford added in a phone
which is to contest the result of the vote in courts that there had been “systematic fraud” “I will not organize a maidan and will not that his legal predicament should have no bear- interview Saturday. “He even took a small
court. I will defend our state and your choice in the election. allow clashes... ukraine needs stability and ing on whether the missionaries are released plane into Haiti at one point and he didn’t want
with the support of legal arguments,” said Ty- However the report of international ob- calm more than ever.” -AP provisionally, as a judge has recommended. to be reimbursed at all,” Lankford said.
“The Puello case has no relation to this He would not say how much relatives paid
one,” said Aviol fleurant, who was hired last Puello. He said it was his understanding that
week to represent nine of the 10 Americans. Puello had no relation to any of the mission-
“If Puello is wanted in el Salvador, that’s an- aries before they were arrested. The Americans
UK, India sign civil nuclear accord, paves way for conference other case.” Lankford, whose wife and daugh-
ter are among the detained, told The Associated
Press that Puello first contacted relatives of the
said they were on a humanitarian mission, res-
cuing desperate victims of Haiti’s catastrophic
Jan. 12 earthquake. They had leased a hotel in
Americans by calling their church, Central Val- the Dominican beach resort of Cabarate where
LONDON: britain has signed an agree- to be expanding our own civil nuclear power inghouse electric Co, a subsidiary of Japan’s ley baptist in meridian, Idaho, after they were they were setting up an orphanage. -AP
ment on nuclear energy cooperation with In- source in the coming years, getting that supply Toshiba Corp.
dia, paving the way for an international confer- chain right not only for our own purposes but but with delays in implementation of the
ence, the government said on Saturday. for the purposes of export is a major opportu- deal, uS firms have lagged in a competitive
At least 20 killed
The declaration, signed in new Delhi, will nity for british industry.” scramble with russian and french firms whose
help british companies collaborate with Indian Among the delegates will be representa- governments guarantee their liability in case of
partners in civil nuclear technology and help tives from the nuclear Power Cooperation of an industrial accident.
both countries achieve energy security and India. britain is planning to build a new genera-
by electrocution in Nigeria
low carbon growth, business minister Pat mc- mcfadden said there was significant Indian tion of nuclear powers plants at home, but will
fadden told reuters in a telephone call. expertise in this field, and both countries could need french help to do so.
The agreement will result in India attending learn from each other. “It’s a long time since we built a nuclear
a nuclear new build Conference in London britain was a market leader in the sector, power station, we’ve still got good engineer-
between march 1-3, along with nuclear busi- with british-based industry earning 700 mil- ing capacity but I think it’s fair to say that we PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria: At least vincial capital of Port Harcourt. Another 10
ness and political leaders from 15 countries, lion pounds (1.11 billion uS dollars) in over- want to strengthen our supply chain capacity, 20 bus passengers were killed in nigeria on people were seen being treated for gashes
including the united Arab emirates. seas business each year and employing 80,000 with a view to both our own expansion in civil Saturday when a cable fell onto the bus and and burns.
mcfadden said the declaration was in line people, a spokeswoman for uK Trade & In- nuclear power and the export opportunities in electrocuted people inside, police said. most of the dead had been passengers
with “our strong non-proliferation commit- vestment, the british government’s trade arm, other countries who are doing so for much the Police confirmed 20 deaths, but spokes- aboard the bus, though some had been
ments”. said. same reasons that we are...” woman rita Abbey said the toll could climb passing nearby when the cable came tum-
“The agreement really opens the door to a India and the united States signed a civil- In a separate announcement, mcfadden further. bling down during heavy rains that have
discussion that can begin between some of the ian nuclear deal in 2008, ending India’s nu- said britain and India had agreed a 10 million An Associated Press cameraman saw pummeled southern nigeria. Police could
best uK-based engineering companies and the clear isolation since it tested a nuclear device pound three-year research program to develop more than 10 bodies, some charred beyond not say exactly how many had been aboard
nuclear authorities in India. in 1974 and opening up its atomic market for cost-effective and efficient solar energy solu- recognition, at a local hospital in the pro- the bus or how many had survived. -AP
“Given that we in the uK are also going firms such as General electric Co and West- tions. -reuters
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