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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1998
Page
4
Cambodia's deposed co premier Prince Norodom Ranariddh was convicted in absentia on weapons smuggling charges by a Hun Sen controlled court. He received a five year sentence after a six hour trial critics call a legal farce while exiled since 1997.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu named two new Mossad leaders to stabilize the agency after failed missions. Efraim Halevy, former deputy director and EU ambassador, was proposed as head, replacing Danny Yatom who resigned after a bungled assassination attempt in Jordan. As deputy director, Amiram Levine, a veteran major general, will command troops in southern Lebanon.
Thousands of banner waving students demanded President Suharto's removal in Yogyakarta as Indonesia faces its worst economic crisis. The demonstrations, under police watch, coincide with foreign pressure on reforms seen as crucial to stabilizing the economy and potentially eroding Suharto's power.
The State Duma backed Yeltsin's budget 252 to 129 after a turbulent session. Communist defiance gave way to broad support for cuts and spending, as Zyuganov criticized the government as inept while analysts called the measure only marginally better than the prior year.
Berlin German authorities announced the arrest of Alfons Goetzfried a 78 year old former Gestapo officer accused as an accessory to the killings of more than 70000 people in Ukraine and Poland He allegedly participated in Operation Harvest Festival at Majdanek in 1943 and confessed to personally shooting 500 people during a two day spree while in Nazi custody and after decades of denial.
In Karachi a mixed Mohajir Pathan marriage triggered riots leaving two dead and a man named Kanwar Ahson critically wounded at court while facing extramarital sex charges. Afridi, the bride Rif Fat Afridi, and her family face accusations. Pathan elders issued a death sentence for Afridi amid ethnic clashes and police encircled the courthouse as gunmen waited above.
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