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: Sun, 1 Nov 92 20:06:09 EST Message-ID: \SE A;WORLD;AROUND THE WORLD S=NEW STORY Russian commandos flown to N. Ossetia MOSCOW - The Kremlin flew about 3,000 police commandos to the Russian region of North Ossetia in the Transcaucasus yesterday after local authorities requested help, the Russian news agency RIA said. Dozens of people have been killed or wounded in battles between Ingush militants, North Ossetians and local militia around the regional capital Vladikavkaz since Friday. The fighting involved armored vehicles, artillery and grenade launchers, Itar-Tass news agency reported. S=NEW STORY Sarajevo shudders under bombardment SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina - Serbian rebels subjected the Bosnian capital yesterday to its heaviest bombardment in weeks, sending at least one shell crashing into the city every second. Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, meanwhile, proposed that the republic be divided into five ethnic cantons. Under his plan, Muslims - the largest group - would get little more than three cities and Serbs and Croats would divide the rest. S=NEW STORY War grave found of Kipling's son LONDON - The World War I grave of writer Rudyard Kipling's only son has been discovered in northeastern France, a government commission said yesterday. The writer, who supported the call to arms, was distraught over the death in 1915 of his 18-year-old son, John, and searched in vain for the place he was buried. The grave was discovered at St. Mary's Advanced Dressing Station Cemetery at Haisnes, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission said in its annual report. Haisnes is 110 miles north of Paris near the Belgian border. The commission said it has identified 23 graves in the past year. A new headstone giving John Kipling's name, regiment and date of death has been erected. He was last seen alive on Sept. 27, 1915, during the Battle of Loos. S=NEW STORY Cuban activist draws nearly 5 years in jail HAVANA - Sebastian Arcos Bergnes, a leading Cuban human rights activist, has been sentenced to four years and eight months in prison after a court found him guilty of "enemy propaganda." The Cuban news agency Prensa Latina said yesterday that the trial of Mr. Arcos, held Oct. 5, demonstrated his "intentions to destabilize the existing order of the country." The sentence was less than the six years sought by prosecutors. Mr. Arcos, 61, was vice president of the Cuban Committee for Human Rights, a dissident human rights group not recognized by Cuba's Communist authorities. S=NEW STORY Beijing releases Hong Kong reporter BEIJING - A Hong Kong reporter who was detained for a week and accused of stealing state secrets has been ordered to leave China, the official Xinhua News Agency said yesterday. Leung Wai Man, 32, a reporter for the Chinese-language Express, confessed to buying a "most confidential" document from two people, including a government employee, Xinhua said. She was barred from returning to mainland China for two years, the government news agency said. S=NEW STORY 5 Kurdish soldiers killed at border post TATVAN, Turkey - At least five Turkish soldiers were killed and nine wounded yesterday when rebel Kurds raided an outpost on the border with Iran, local reporters said. They quoted military sources as saying a large group of Kurdish Workers Party guerrillas entered Turkey from Iran and attacked the Mezargedigi outpost near the town of Semdinli before dawn. The semiofficial Anatolia news agency said the rebels hit the border post with rockets and automatic-rifle fire. Reporters said Turkish warplanes took off after sunrise and attacked the fleeing guerrillas. There was no information on rebel casualties. S=NEW STORY Bizarre rites suspected in house of skulls PANAMA CITY - Several coffins and at least nine human skulls have been found at a house in Panama's capital that may have been the site of bizarre rituals, authorities say. Authorities found the skulls and other human bones in a new coffin buried in the basement but other empty coffins were strewn about the house, said municipal director Milciades Cedemo. The remains were taken to coroner Humberto Mas, who said it would take time to unravel the mystery. "Given the circumstances, these bodies may have been used in some sort of fetish," Mr. Mas said. Two upstairs rooms were occupied by families who said they knew nothing about the macabre find. 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