NATO shuts down Kosovo mine, quashing protest
UN calls complex a hazard; Serbs allege repression
(By Alison Mutler, Associated Press, 8/15/2000)
ZVECAN, Yugoslavia - Hundreds of NATO-led peacekeeping troops wearing surgical masks against toxic smoke swept into a Serb-run metal smelting complex in Kosovo yesterday and shut it down, then used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse protesters.
Kidnap delays, but doesn't stop, US biologist's quest in Colombia
(By Andrew Selsky, Associated Press, 8/15/2000)
BOGOTA - American biologist John Lynch emerged from captivity at the hands of leftist rebels with one regret: he did not find a caecilian, a giant, wormlike creature he has been hunting for years in Colombia.
Poet's jailing escalates repression in China
Tiny, Boston-based journal nettles regime
(By Charles A. Radin, Globe Staff, 8/15/2000)
Tendency Quarterly, the literary magazine whose contents apparently landed the Boston-based poet Bei Ling in a Chinese prison last weekend, has never managed to come out quarterly, or to push its circulation above 3,000.
Painting fad from 1950s wins place in Smithsonian
(By Lynn Van Matre Chicago Tribune, 8/15/2000)
CHICAGO - For decades, a vintage paint-by-numbers abstract depicting a dish of fruit and an off-kilter pitcher has occupied shelf space in a suburban townhouse basement. Now the artwork is headed for the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington, while artist and paint-by-numbers guru Dan Robbins is preparing for another brush with fame.
Texas, Mexico bracing as Beryl chugs to coast
Residents board windows, seek higher ground
(By Megan K. Stack, Associated Press, 8/15/2000)
BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Hurricane warnings were posted along 230 miles of coastline in Texas and Mexico and thousands of people were urged to head for higher ground yesterday as Tropical Storm Beryl formed in the Gulf of Mexico.
India guards Kashmiiri city
(By Neelesh Misra, Associated Press, 8/15/2000)
SRINAGAR, India - Security forces turned Srinagar into a garrison town yesterday, the eve of India's independence celebration, as they sought to prevent further rebel attacks like the car bombing that killed 14 people last week.
India guards Kashmiri city against rebels
(By Sharat Pradhan, Reuters, 8/15/2000)
LUCKNOW, India - At least seven people were killed and about 70 wounded when a bomb ripped through the last carriage of a night train in northern India yesterday, police and rail authorities said today.
Bomb blast on India train kills 7, hurts dozens
(By Sharat Pradhan, Reuters, 8/15/2000)
LUCKNOW, India - At least seven people were killed and more than 70 wounded when a bomb ripped through the last carriage of a night train in northern India yesterday, police and rail authorities said today.
Russian church canonizes Czar Nicholas II as martyr
(By Andrew Kramer, Associated Press, 8/15/2000)
MOSCOW - Ending a decades-long debate, the Russian Orthodox Church yesterday canonized Russia's last czar, Nicholas II, saying the haughty and cruel ruler died as a martyr to faith when he was executed 82 years ago.
Israel says new peace summit possible next month
(By Luke Baker, Reuters, 8/15/2000)
ROME - Israel's acting foreign minister, Shlomo Ben-Ami, said yesterday he could foresee a second, conclusive Middle East peace summit with the Palestinians next month to resolve the toughest issues of their 52-year-old conflict.
Shas leader triggers Holocaust controversy
(By Karin Laub, Associated Press, 8/15/2000)
JERUSALEM - Israel's founding fathers did not lift a finger to help religious Jews in Eastern Europe escape the Holocaust, a prominent ultra-Orthodox politician said yesterday, triggering the second bitter debate in a week about assigning blame in the Nazi genocide.
WORLD BRIEFS
UN votes to set up human rights court
(By Globe Staff and Wire Reports, 8/15/2000)
Sierra Leone - The UN Security Council voted unanimously yesterday to create a special court aimed at prosecuting rebel leaders in Sierra Leone for killing and maiming tens of thousands of civilians. ''We hope that those people who have constantly violated all the rules of national and international behavior, who have committed such gross violations of human rights, will understand that the noose continues to tighten around them,'' US Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke said. Sierra Leone's UN ambassador, Ibrahim Kamara, called the council's action ''a very, very bold step ... forward in bringing sanity'' to the country. The resolution authorizes UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to negotiate an agreement with the Sierra Leonean government to create an independent special court to prosecute crimes against humanity, war crimes and other serious violations of both international humanitarian and Sierra Leonean laws. (AP)
Africa summit focuses on Congo civil war
(By Mildred Mulenga, Associated Press, 8/15/2000)
LUSAKA, Zambia - Ten African presidents gathered yesterday in Zambia in an urgent push to salvage the crumbling Congo peace accord and to pave the way for the deployment of UN peacekeepers in the war-wracked country.
Fire surges near Yellowstone in Montana
(By Susan Gallagher, Associated Press, 8/15/2000)
HELENA - A new wildfire that burst across forests near Yellowstone National Park during the weekend was rapidly expanding in a Montana mountain range bordered by dude ranches and popular backpacking trails.
Judge orders firm to pay $11m in ValuJet crash penalties
(By Catherine Wilson, Associated Press, 8/15/2000)
MIAMI - A defunct jet repair company was ordered to pay $11 million in penalties yesterday for mishandling the oxygen canisters that were blamed for the 1996 ValuJet crash in the Everglades that killed 110 people.
Soda makers use caffeine to boost sales, study says
(By Reuters, 8/15/2000)
CHICAGO - Caffeine in soft drinks, which Americans drink more of than water, is added to addict consumers, not to enhance flavor as soft drink manufacturers claim, researchers said yesterday.
NATIONAL BRIEFS
Bush set to pardon inmate serving life
(By Globe Staff and Wire Reports, 8/15/2000)
CONROE, Texas- Governor George W. Bush yesterday said he will pardon Roy Wayne Criner, 35, who has served 10 years of a life sentence for rape, after DNA evidence suggested he didn't commit the crime. Following recommendations from the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, Bush said he would sign a pardon for Criner, and for Ronnie Mark Gariepy, 41, in an unrelated sexual assault case. (AP)
Quick thinking may have saved life of abducted girl
(By Ron Harris, Associated Press, 8/15/2000)
VALLEJO, Calif. - After spending two nights shackled to the front seat of a kidnapper's car, 8-year-old Midsi Sanchez finally saw her chance to make a dash for freedom and took it - a move that police say may have saved her life.
Rescue may be possible, retired US sub captain says
(By David L. Chandler, Globe Staff, 8/15/2000)
If the crew of the crippled Russian submarine can maintain enough oxygen to survive for a few days, rescue vehicles from the United States or other nations may be capable of saving them from their deep inprisonment, a retired US Navy submarine captain said yesterday.
CAMPAIGN 2000
Demonstrators, police officers clash
(By Lynda Gorov and Cindy Rodriguez, Globe Staff, 8/15/2000)
LOS ANGELES - In the first tense confrontation of Democratic National Convention week, police fired pepper spray and rubber bullets at unruly protesters last night, with officers on horseback sweeping through the crowd to force it to disperse.
CAMPAIGN NOTEBOOK
Kerry soldiers on
(By Globe Staff, 8/15/2000)
A hush, and applause, for senator's recollection
LA dares Democrats to let their hair down
(By Sam Allis, Globe Staff, 8/15/2000)
LOS ANGELES - Philadelphia greeted the Republicans two weeks ago with the Liberty Bell and cheese steak. LA welcomes the Democrats with a lot of cleavage.
CAMPAIGN 2000
A thank-you speech and a call to arms
(By Mary Leonard, Globe Staff, 8/15/2000)
LOS ANGELES - Hillary Rodham Clinton last night delivered both a soulful message - thanking the American people for ''your faith and support in good times and in bad'' - and a spirited call to extend the Clinton era by electing Al Gore and Democratic candidates like her.
CAMPAIGN 2000
Governor rebuts Democratic message
(By Tina Cassidy, Globe Staff, 8/15/2000)
LOS ANGELES - Governor Paul Cellucci, darting around town yesterday with a Bush pin on his lapel, wanted to make a few things perfectly clear: The Republican Governors Association paid for his trip out here, not taxpayers. And Massachusetts is his primary focus, not the prospect of a job in a GOP administration.
CAMPAIGN 2000
Excepts from President Clinton's speech
(By Globe Staff, 8/15/2000)
Excerpts from President Clinton's speech l ast night at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles:
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