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FRIDAY NIGHT BEER BONANZA ‘2.50 PITCHERS *1 BAR DRINKS ALL NIGHT Page 12 •Thursday, October 28, 1999 WORLD Tltlj Yemen tribesmen nab 3 Americans i, e Battalion Israeli publisher state accused of plottin| )N SANA, Yemen (AP) — Three Americans traveling in Yemen were kidnapped by tribesmen demanding the release of 25 sus pects detained in an attack on an oil pipeline, a security official said yesterday. The Americans — a teacher based in the Yemeni capital and her visiting parents — were ab ducted by gunmen as they re turned to San‘a from a trip to the south Tliesday, the official said. He spoke on condition of anonymity. The teacher, Marta R. Colburn, works for the American Institute for Yemeni Studies in San‘a, said an institute employee who also spoke on condition of anonymity. Colburn is from Portland, Ore., where she was formerly deputy director of Middle East studies at Portland State University. Grant Farr, Colburn’s former boss at the university, identified Colburn’s parents as Don and Gladys Colburn. In Washington, the State De partment said it was working with the Yemeni government to try to secure their release. “We remain hopeful because in these tribal kidnappings in the past, we have been able to secure the re lease of Americans and Yemen has been able to secure the release of other foreign nationals,” spokesper son James P. Rubin said. The government ordered troops and tanks to encircle the suspected hideout of the kidnap pers, who belong to the Bani Jabr tribe of the Habab Valley in Marib province, east of San’a, the official said. The security official said the kidnappers were demanding the release of 25 fellow tribesmen who were detained in connec tion with the blowing up an oil pipeline on Oct. 21. The abductions came nine days after the government execut ed Zein Al-Abidine al-Mihdar, an Islamic leader who was convicted of abducting 16 Western tourists, four of whom died in a botched rescue attempt in December. Yemeni tribesmen often kidnap foreigners to pressure the govern ment into providing money or bet ter services, such as new roads, for their impoverished areas. The kidnappers usually release the hostages unharmed. Colburn, who was fluent in Arabic, was not very political, preferring to learn about people and their culture instead, said Farr, chair of the university’s so ciology department and former director of its Middle East stud ies program said. She liked to ex plore remote parts of cities. "You could see how she could end up in a situation where she could be in danger,” he said. competitors’ death iodem JERUSALEM (AP) - An ugly feud among Israel’s newspaper dynasties took a bizarre and sin ister twist yesterday, with news that a publishing magnate stands accused of plotting to kill his two main competitors. Ofer Nimrodi, publisher of the Maariv daily until he suspended himself last week, already has served time for wiretapping a rival’s phones. He called the new allega tions — made by a former wiretap ping accomplice —"wicked lies,” and part of an attempt to extort mil lions of dollars fromhim. A gag order on the police inves tigation was lifted ai dawn, and Is raelis awoke to headlines — in cluding Maariv’s - screaming out the latest news in the scandal. They learned that Rafi Pridan, a private investiganr serving four years in prison forpianting bugs for Nimrodi, has accused his former boss of plottingco kill publishers Amos Schocket of Haaretz and Arnon Mozes c Yediot Ahronoi, the nation’s topselling paper. The third taget allegedly was Pridan’s formf partner, Yaakov Tzur, who beome a prosecution witness in thi wiretapping case, the media reprts said. Nimrodi ha served four months of an eight-mnth sentence for or dering Yediot’phones bugged. His father, an arms dealer, wasi in an illegal arms tradewiill the 1980’s. Yaakov Niit placed his son as Maariv’spl er last week. Ofer Nimrodi emerj day from his villa ini Tel Aviv suburb olSavyoi, firming for the first timeli] was being accused of murder. Maintaining his cence, Nimrodi said Prife spun a “terrible weboffe was wrecking his “I’m in a state of shock,’fe The newsstand ties heated up in 1 Maariv switched to a mat to compete wilt 1994, police arrested staffers of both papersanJ tioned them about wires isingtoeatth their rivals’ phones. Nimrodi, Pridan andYefe tor Moshe Vardi were conra wiretapping charges. Vardre ^fortunately, college stud goes home the weeken his mother wi ies him with a ]y baked pun She slices a la |e for her son, the warm pie a whopping dd whipped c |he son has a i the pie or po een living ot ast two mon to refuse the ;or just told h he needs to 1 s the warning is to blame? group of rese don willpow of an interact vioral condit ces on geneti door on takin Assailants open fire on Armenia’s parliament Arenian Parliament complex U Embassy Parliament Building Marshal Bagramjan St er cleared by a higher turned to his post The latest allegationsgififtr actions.® of the wiretapping case. r. James C. R Joshua Stein, oneofMirAhology at the four lawyers, insisted that? t.said in a N made up the murder plots tot the freedom millions of dollars froraNi:: a useful ficti the price for refraining from < j s no m ing a tabric ot lies that wot! h willpower tl stray the publisher’srepiitam Hd e nature ” 1 ) the last few pinted genes tin behaviors 'ity, infidelity exuality. 4.* ^ MRosen’s stat< try to S(]U2Sl nfair expe Chinese pol YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Gunmen seized Armenia’s parlia ment in a torrent of automatic weapons fire yesterday, killing the prime minister and at least six other people before holing up in the build ing with dozens of hostages. With the bodies of some of their victims still on the podium, the attackers, whose motives re mained unclear, demanded to see the president. “They said it was a coup and called on the journalists to inform people about it. They said they were going to punish the authori ties for what they did to the na tion,” said one reporter who was in the chamber. Armenian television broadcast footage of the stunning attack, showing at least two men in long coats firing automatic weapons in the parliament chamber. Some lawmakers dove under their desks, others fled into the streets. One of the attackers ap proached Prime Minister Vazgen Sarkisian and said: “Enough of drinking our blood,” according to reporters present during the at tack. The premier calmly re sponded, “Everything is being done for you and the future of your children.” The attacker — identified by reporters as Nairi Unanian, an ex treme nationalist and former jour nalist — opened fire. The other gunmen included Unanian’s brother and uncle, the reporters said. The attack was likely to plunge Armenia into a major political crisis. The country, which became inde pendent following the 1991 Soviet collapse, has been plagued by polit ical and economic turmoil for the past decade. President Clinton said he was shocked and saddened by the attack. “I condemn the senseless act against individuals actively en gaged in building democracy in their country,” Clinton said in a statement. “The victims and their families are in our thoughts and prayers.” Hundreds of police and soldiers ringed the parliament building in central Yerevan. Two armored per sonnel carriers took up positions in the grounds and President Robert Kocharian was personally directing security operations. The gunmen were demanding talks with Kocharian, the coun try’s top leader, but officials did not say if any other demands had been made. Police said up to five gunmen held dozens of hostages in the main chamber of the par liament building. A TV cameraperson, Gagik Saratikian, who was allowed in side the chamber after the attack, said the gunmen appeared calm, directing him to film scenes in the wrecked hall. “We’re not terrorists, be calm,” he said one of assailant told him. His footage showed the bodies of Sarkisian and Parliament Speak er Karen Demirchian sprawled on 1 pera House Martiroiiarjan St. Moskovjan St. British Embassy Yerevan Historic Museum Blue Mosque .5 miles Republic Square third dayolj protest Chandsjan St. Be f\ cp w i ? |years ^ tub Be .5 km GEOR'A MENIA AZERBAIJAN 0-1 Yerevan TUREY 50 rrs 50 l< AZERBAIJAN IRAN thpodium, where they had been gmed down. The motive for the attack was n clear, although speculation otered on the Armenian enclave cNagorno-Karabakh, which has •minated Armenian politics for e past decade. The enclave was under the mtrol of the neighboring Soviet ^public of Azerbaijan, whose ter- itory surrounded it. The enclave leclared independence in early 1988 and drove Azerbaijani troops out with Armenia’s help. BEUING (AP) - Chinese| again hustled suspected t of the banned Falun Gongsp| movement off Tiananmen and into vans yesterday,) government called for restti dealing with practitioners! nounce the group. Police stepped up surveillance of the vastsiji Beijing’s heart in an effort top end to three days of protests. For at least a seconJ| police in uniforms clothes questioned people! ently at random and those they suspected of beingi) Gong practitioners in vans. At least a dozen people,! ly middle-aged and youngerj and women, were driven) Plainclothes officers pushed! eign reporters and told I leave the square. While the governmentisp ing to try the group’s leaders,!? called on yesterday for resit)? dealing with followers whoo with the movement. 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