Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.news From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Headline Article Date: Mon, 26 Oct 92 14:37:03 EST Message-ID: \SE A;TOP OF THE NEWS;WORLD \BY FROM WIRE DISPATCHES AND STAFF REPORTS S=NEW STORY Lawmaker says some survived Flight 007 SEOUL - A South Korean politician today quoted a CIA report as saying some of the victims of the 1983 downing of a Korean Air Lines jumbo jet may have survived. "We have got a CIA report classified as top secret which says there is a high possibility that some of the victims of the downing of KAL 007 in 1983 are still alive," opposition Democratic Party lawmaker Sonn Se-il told reporters. "The report also shows a lot of evidence to support the possibility," Mr. Sonn said. He did not disclose how he obtained such a report and said the National Assembly would receive details. There were 269 passengers and crew on the Boeing 747 when it was shot down by Soviet fighters in September 1983 on a flight from New York to Seoul. S=NEW STORY Hong Kong reporter arrested in Beijing BEIJING - A Hong Kong journalist was arrested here yesterday on charges of bribing officials to get Communist Party secrets, Xinhua news agency reported. It said Leung Wai Man of the Express newspaper in the British colony had engaged in "activities incompatible with her status." The Express, in an impressive scoop, published a secret draft of the keynote speech to the 14th Communist Party Congress this month by party leader Jiang Zemin. Xinhua did not mention that story, which appeared before the meeting officially opened, embarrassing Beijing. In Hong Kong, the news editor of the Express, Lam Ping Hang, said Mrs. Leung was taken from her hotel room shortly after midnight. Her husband and the newspaper's editor flew to the Chinese capital to try to track her down. S=NEW STORY 3 Russian tourists knifed at Port Said PORT SAID, Egypt - An assailant stabbed three Russian tourists in Port Said yesterday, critically injuring one of the victims, police said. It was the first reported attack here on foreign tourists by Islamic fanatics. Previous assaults on tourists were limited to southern Egypt. Muslim extremists opened fire on a tourist bus in southern Egypt Wednesday, killing a British woman and injuring two British men. It was not known who was behind yesterday's incident. The victims, two women and a man, said a bearded man attacked them at noon as they were taking pictures of a mosque in the Mediterranean port's downtown marketplace. The Russians were identified in Port Said General Hospital records as Viktor Mamontov, 40; his wife, Yelena, 29; and Rosa Akhmedova, 22. A doctor said Mrs. Mamontova was in critical condition. S=NEW STORY Colombian guerrillas slay kidnapped Briton BOGOTA, Colombia - Guerrillas kidnapped and murdered a British businessman working for the Baltime banana export company in northern Colombia, an army spokesman said yesterday. Soldiers pursuing the guerrillas found the body of Peter Arthur Kessler, 65, Saturday by the side of a path leading up to the Sierra Nevada mountain range with a single shot in the throat. The spokesman said he believed the guerrillas, fleeing advancing troops, killed their captive to make their escape easier. Mr. Kessler had been abducted the day before outside his seafront apartment building in the Caribbean coastal city of Santa Marta. S=NEW STORY Sub sold to Iran said in Suez Canal PORT SAID, Egypt - A Russian submarine sold to Iran last month, before Moscow suspended the sale of submarines to Tehran, entered the Suez Canal yesterday on its way to the Persian Gulf. Canal and Russian officials kept the submarine's transit secret and it was not recorded among the convoy passing from the north. But canal officials confirmed that a Russian submarine was going through the waterway, heading for the Persian Gulf via the Red Sea. The Kilo-class, diesel-powered craft was one of two Iran bought in a $750 million deal before Moscow suspended further sales of submarines to Iran. S=NEW STORY Algeria reports death of rebel fighter ALGIERS - A leading Islamic radical has been killed and several were captured as special army units joined the hunt for suspected terrorists, arresting more than 150 people in four days, officials said yesterday. The deputy chief of the Armed Islamic Movement, Leulmi Abdennacer, was killed Saturday in Mascara, western Algeria, after a 10-month search, the official APS news agency reported yesterday. It did not provide details. S=NEW STORY Turkey readies shelter for Bosnian orphans RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi and Turkish businessmen will provide shelter for 10,000 Muslim orphans from Bosnia-Herzegovina, members of the Saudi-Turkish Friendship Society disclose. Society representatives said the plan was recently approved by Turkish Prime Minister Suleiman Demirel. The children will be taken from refugee camps in Germany, Italy and Croatia to Turkey and Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus. The orphans will be housed in special reception centers and will attend school. S=NEW STORY Canada bans vote ads on election eve TORONTO - All referendum advertising was banned yesterday, the last day Canadians had to ponder their vote on constitutional reforms aimed at keeping this country together. Though most polls indicated the referendum will fail in Quebec, British Columbia and probably other Western provinces, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney maintained his surveys show otherwise. Of Canada's 26 million residents, 18,517,983 are eligible to vote. Ballots will be available in French, English, Braille and 19 aboriginal languages when polling stations open at 9 this morning. S=NEW STORY Collor vows trial will vindicate him SAO PAULO, Brazil - Suspended President Fernando Collor de Mello vowed in an interview published yesterday that he will beat a Senate impeachment trial and return as leader of the largest country in South America. "I will return. I will return to complete my mission, that mission whose goals are not mine but that of Brazilian society," Mr. Collor said in the interview with Veja magazine. Mr. Collor's lawyers are to present his pretrial written defense to the Senate today. Last month, the lower house of Congress voted to impeach Mr. Collor, stripping him of power and setting in motion his trial by the Senate on charges he profited from a multimillion-dollar corruption scheme. S=NEW STORY Singapore officials are singing diplomats SINGAPORE - Senior bureaucrats are rushing to enroll in singing lessons in case they are asked for a tune or two while on official trips overseas. Last year, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said he wanted Singaporeans to be socially confident overseas - and able to sing when asked by their hosts. Since December, some 300 civil servants have signed up for a workshop called "When asked to sing, I can." The Sunday Times says the response has been so enthusiastic that similar programs are being considered for other bureaucrats. The pencil pushers learn to belt out popular tunes in English, Mandarin and Malay. The official repertoire includes the Carpenters' "Sing" and "Top of the World" and Henry Mancini's "Moon River." This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM