Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!enterpoop.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, 23 Nov 92 15:07:21 EST Message-ID: Lines: 191 \SE A;TOP OF THE NEWS;WORLD \BY FROM WIRE DISPATCHES AND STAFF REPORTS S=NEW STORY Chile reopens probe in Briton's murder SANTIAGO, Chile - The Court of Appeals has ordered a judge to reopen an investigation into the mysterious March 1990 death of a British journalist, newspapers reported yesterday. At the time of his death, police said Jonathan Moyle, 30, committed suicide by hanging himself in his hotel room. Later, Judge Alejandro Solis found that Mr. Moyle had been assassinated. But Judge Solis closed his investigation for lack of evidence and no one was charged. Mr. Moyle was in Chile for the British publication Helicopter Defense World, covering a weapons fair organized by Chile's air force. Chilean and British newspapers have speculated he was killed after uncovering illegal sales of military helicopters to Iraq. S=NEW STORY Solo sailor's sloop found overturned in sea PLYMOUTH, England - The yacht of a missing American round-the-world sailor was found capsized and abandoned in the Atlantic yesterday, British rescue officials said. The Royal Air Force rescue coordination center at Plymouth said a U.S. Coast Guard plane spotted the racing sloop S.V. Coyote, sailed by solo yachtsman Michael Plant, 405 miles north of the Azores. The sails were fully rigged and a dinghy was missing from the vessel, an official at the center said. A radar-equipped British Nimrod plane was searching for the dinghy in the hope that Mr. Plant, 41, had succeeded in launching it before his boat capsized. Three U.S. Coast Guard planes were also flying to Shannon, Ireland, to join the hunt today. S=NEW STORY Salvadoran prelate demands death probe SAN SALVADOR - El Salvador's top churchman denounced yesterday the murder of six people by death squads opposed to the country's faltering peace effort. "We can not remain silent over the discovery of six corpses in the sugar-cane fields of Apopa [outside the capital]," Roman Catholic Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas said in his Sunday homily. Archbishop Rivera said all six were tortured or badly beaten and called for a thorough investigation. Army-backed death squads murdered thousands of suspected leftists during El Salvador's 12-year civil war, which ended with U.N.-brokered peace accords in January. A formal end to the war, with the full disarmament of Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front guerrillas, is set for Dec. 15. S=NEW STORY Sabotage blacks out snow-cloaked Kabul KABUL, Afghanistan - Rebels cut electricity to Kabul as the first snow of the season settled on the battle-weary capital, Defense Ministry officials said yesterday. It was not known how quickly power could be restored. The head of Afghanistan's electrical system, Rajeb Ali Faziri, blamed the action on Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's fundamentalist Hezb-e-Islami guerrillas. He said the rebels barricaded the power station near Sarobi, 30 miles east of Kabul, and would not let workers inspect damage to power lines. S=NEW STORY More Dominicans fleeing than Cubans SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Thousands of people have made a perilous journey to Puerto Rican shores from the Dominican Republic this year, and their numbers are growing. So is the death toll. Dominicans fleeing harsh economic conditions use rickety sailboats to cross the 90-mile stretch of Caribbean waters between their nation and this U.S. commonwealth. Many die in the Mona Passage, where sudden squalls can whip up 20-foot waves. Last week, the U.S. Coast Guard rescued 120 from two sinking boats, bringing to 2,870 the number picked up trying to enter Puerto Rico this year. This tops the 2,300-plus Cubans rescued in the Florida Straits in the same period - the highest number since the 1980 Mariel boatlift. S=NEW STORY Pollution watchdogs find poisoned village MIYAZAKI, Japan - A private group in this southern prefecture, where an entire village was being poisoned by arsenic pollution 21 years ago, has found a similar situation near a tin mine in Thailand, Kyodo News Service reports. Six members of the Japanese group that helps arsenic poisoning victims found in a survey that about 30 residents in Ronpibool, Thailand, suffer from skin cancer, they announced yesterday. According to their survey, arsenic from waste ore from tin mining has gotten into ground water, and a village well contains 24 times the maximum amount of arsenic deemed safe by the World Health Organization. The group will provide information on arsenic poisoning to Thailand and offer help to the victims. S=NEW STORY British intercept big marijuana shipment HULL, England - British customs officers said yesterday they had seized a record 20 tons of marijuana with a street value of $90 million when they boarded a British-registered ship in the North Sea. Six sailors were charged and will appear in court today. The seizure Friday after a helicopter lowered officers onto an oil rig support ship was the first time British customs used new international laws allowing them to board British vessels in international waters. "If you think that in the whole of last year we seized 25 tons [of marijuana], you see the size of this," a customs spokesman said. S=NEW STORY 61 Chinese arrested sneaking into Japan TOBA, Japan - Police arrested two more Chinese men yesterday on a mountain in Shima, Mie Prefecture, bringing to 61 the number of illegal immigrants from a boat that left China's Fujian Province on Nov. 11. The Chinese landed last week aboard a 20-ton wooden fishing boat and were spotted by residents who alerted police. One of the boat people told police a broker arranged the trip and that he had paid about $4,000 to go to Japan. Police said they are trying to identify the broker. Some of the arrested men carried notes with addresses and telephone numbers of places in the Kanto region around Tokyo. One of the arrested Chinese told police Saturday he came to Japan to work and had not expected to be arrested so soon. S=NEW STORY Pope beatifies Mexican martyrs VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II yesterday beatified 25 Mexican martyrs killed during anti-clerical persecutions early in this century. Maria De Jesus Sacramentado Venegas, a Mexican nun who devoted her life to nursing the sick, was also declared "blessed" - one step short of sainthood. All but two of the 25 martyrs were killed between 1926 and 1928 as the Mexican government crushed the church-backed "Cristeros" rebellion in a brutal campaign in which churches were burned and priests hanged in public. Mother Venegas, who lived from 1868 to 1959, founded a religious order that serves the sick. S=NEW STORY Russian nobility hopes for new czar MOSCOW - The first congress of Russian nobility since the 1917 revolution ended yesterday with participants declaring their hope for the restoration of an "enlightened monarchy," Itar-Tass news agency reported. The All-Russia Nobility Congress, presided over by Prince Andrei Golitsyn, drew representatives from about 30 regional nobility clubs, Tass said. Among other business, the congress heard reports on plans to observe next year's 75th anniversary of the death of Czar Nicholas II. 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