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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 24, 2000
Page
2
Tribal chiefs expressed sympathy with gunmen while backing Fiji's president who condemned the captors and called for the release of hostages. The Great Council met as gunmen held Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry and about 20 cabinet members inside the parliamentary complex in Suva.
A Chilean court secretly voted on Pinochet immunity with a ruling due in two weeks. Reports say 12-10 to lift immunity circulated, but officials refused comment. If true, the decision can be appealed to the Supreme Court amid ongoing protests surrounding previous hearings.
Government troops and Sri Lankan air force jets targeted six Tamil Tiger rebel positions on the Jaffna peninsula amid ongoing fighting. In Kantale, two suspected rebels aiming to assassinate former lawmaker M K Gundawatte were slain or disarmed as guards neutralized one attacker and the other detonated a grenade. Lloyds of London canceled plans to search the Swissair crash site for 200 million dollars in diamonds amid a dispute over the wreckage.
Archaeologists led by Zahi Hawass uncovered the 2,500 year old tomb of Bahariya’s mayor, once painted as a pharaohly figure, inside two nested sarcophagi. The discovery unfolds on live TV with Fox in an episode about the Tombs of the Golden Mummies. Dozens of mummies in nearby Valley of the Golden Mummies are being unearthed, with X-ray analysis suggesting deaths from kidney and liver disease.
United Nations investigators in Rogberi Junction Sierra Leone tried to identify corpses believed to be peacekeepers found buried in foxholes by Zambian UN troops. Soldiers said eight bodies were interred amid advanced decay and dismemberment, with three in Zambian UN uniforms. authorities fear victims may be peacekeepers, amid ongoing civil war casualties and recent RUF violence.
Ethiopian troops opened a new front Tuesday seizing mountain heights and outflanking Eritrea in what officials call a pivotal stage in Africa's bloodiest conflict. Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin said peace and war are not exclusive options and hinted dialogue alongside continued fighting to force Eritrea to the negotiating table. The war has driven humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa with hundreds of thousands displaced and fears of starvation rising. EU and African envoys pressed for a settlement as casualties and resource losses mount. The latest clashes occurred near Zalambessa as tens of thousands of soldiers brace in difficult terrain, described as heavy and enormous by a government spokeswoman.
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