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Page 6 WORLD Tuesday, May 29,2C(i THE BATTALION South China Sea Gunmen fled by boat with about 20 hostages including 3 American tourists 0 200 km PHILIPPINES Luzon ©Manila Threat issued by extremist group Philippine Sea I ■ /V MALAYSIA .JM 1 ' AP MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Muslim extremist group on Monday is sued a veiled threat to harm 20 kid napped tourists — including three Americans — while the Philippines president said she would use everything in her power to “crush” the insurgents. One of the leaders of the Abu Sayyaf rebel group that kidnapped the tourists claimed responsibility in a satellite telephone call to a local radio station Monday. The rebel, named Abu Sabaya, allowed American Mar tin Burnham and another hostage to speak too. “We are safe and we are appealing for a peaceful negotiations,” Burnham said. “They are treating us well.” President Gloria Macapagal Ar royo said she would not give in to any ransom demands and instead offered $2 million in rewards for the capture of rebel leaders. “I am ready to do everything to crush the bandits, to allow the hostages to safely return to their fam ilies and to bring back peace,” Arroyo said on national television. “To the bandits ... listen closely. I will finish what you have started — force against force, weapons against weapons. They will only stop hunting you when you’re all wiped out or all of you surrender,” she said. The group kidnapped three Amer icans and 17 Filipinos from the up scale Dos Palmas Island Resort in Palawan province on Sunday. The same group seized 10 foreign tourists 13 months ago from a Malaysian resort. Most were released for large ransoms, reportedly paid by Libya. The story was in the headlines for months, hurting the tourism in dustry and undercutting investor confidence. Claiming he led Sunday’s dawn raid, Sabaya issued a veiled threat against the hostages, particularly the Americans. He told radio RMN that Jeffrey Schilling, an Oakland, Calif., man whom the military freed from the Abu Sayyaf in an April raid after eight months of captivity, was not seriously harmed because he was a Muslim convert. Burnham and his wife, Gracia, who went to the resort to celebrate their 18th wedding anniversary, are both Protestant missionaries who haveliv in the Philippines since 1986. Thi are originally from Wichita, Kan. The third American was idendfii as Guillermo Sobero, of Corona, “What 1 can say is we should compare Jeffrey because Jeffrey Muslim, so we hesitated to hurt Now, we have three Americans, hard for us to be shamed,” Sabaya si; Sabaya made no specific demaa but said he was willing to talktoti government: “Ifyou want to negoti: uper ummer r i' 1 tigs $ 5 OFF BODY PIERCING Single Needle Use • Autoclave Sterilization • Privacy Available • Female Body Piercer - Class of '98 Licensed by The Texas Department of Flealth 317 DOMINIK DR. College Station Limit (1) coupon per person. Not valid with any other special. Expires 07/28/01. » a****® » * ***** « '****« « ~ 764-8898 PRO-NAILS <sutd 'Tteul &vie NOW ACCEPTING AGGIE BUCKS! OFFER GOOD AT THIS LOCATION ONLY. We Carry OP! 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B/londay aftei • Police se< • ■'Qht f° r du* President orderC ■is death is I lide this yeai I Thecarfrc Is said Ct 7 . 1 . .Bumped be Parliament expected to impeaab* was ,o £ * Af«partment i Indonesia’s leader when it nteerniegrlmZ law maintained JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s embattled president ordered security forces Monday to take tough action to maintain law and order just two days be fore Parliament is due to meet to demand his impeachment. President Abdurrahman Wahid’s decree, however, ap peared to fall short of a declara tion of a state of emergency, which he had threatened to call if impeachment effort went ahead. That threat had raised fears he would take military ac tion to prevent his ouster. Wahid supporters, angered by attempts to remove the presi dent, rioted Monday and at tacked rival party offices in his home province. Wahid said Monday he issued his decree to prevent clashes between his backers and opponents if Parlia ment pushes ahead with its cam paign to remove him. “I have ordered the security minister to take actions and special steps to coordinate the functions of all the security forces to overcome the crisis and uphold order, security and law immediately,” Wahid said in a statement read out by an aide on national television. Wahid, 60, is nearly blind. Wahid has repeatedly warned that attempts to oust him could trigger massive rioting and bloodshed and ultimately the disintegration of Indonesia, a country of 210 million people. Student Lawmakers meet Wednec and are expected to demandc| a high assembly impeach Wi-j*^Ornin( for corruption and incom:-' tence by August. ‘lomestude. Security minister Susilok j urec j Tuesd hang Yudhoyono said the: (L/o trucks nouncement did not constir|smashed int a state of emergency or mar bus, authori Wahid has threatened! lays if the ini pea Mok law. in recent ment drive continued. Defense Minister mad Mahfud said no arre would be made under diet measures, details of which not immediately announced Eight stu ported to he ■f those ap jtired, accoi ■ounty She E One true ed for mino The Soi dent Scho I School woman Nai a'truck beh had stoppei did not. The truck — wh I This is school for I lours before the address bus had st broadcast, pro-Wahid mobs red lights f his home province of East, some stude took to the streets, calling fo: death of his opponents an tacking homes and offices ofr party' members in several tov A crowd in the town of P man, armed with sharpe sickles and sticks, burned two fices of the party headed l)U students. President Megawati Sukair _ utri, Wahid’s chief rival power struggle. Other house in a pa T the town about 400 miles east Jakarta were also set on fire. MIDI Ah There were no immediate: boy c I r ports of injuries, but police fir-■*[! a P artrT ^ 1 . / . ’ h c a rnmq pool warning shots in nearby Ndft pg SCu e r jo when a pro-Wahid r R am j re2 f r threw rocks at an opposit: p 00 | v party member’s home. Oner v ive him. leading to the country’s seco: Witness largest city, Surabaya, Reporter- 7 blocked by burning tires, that Rudy for him f< • had been DecriminalizatioGr! of weed looked a w " ne y by drug committe TORONTO (AP) — The Friendly Stranger used to be up a narrow stairway in a back room, a crowded little shop of fering water pipes, T-shirts and other products of the cannabis — or marijuana — culture. Now proprietor Robin Ellins has a prominent storefront on busy Queen Street and plenty of room to display everything from hempseed oil and chips to a full line of hemp clothing and elab orate smoking accessories. The transformation from hidden emporium to thriving commercial venture is part of Canada’s slow but clear shift to ward decriminalizing marijuana. Justice Minister Anne McLel- lan says the issue should be stud ied, and a new Parliament com mittee on drug matters will look at decriminalization. Conserva tive Party leader Joe Clark is urg ing the elimination of criminal penalties for possessing a small amount of pot. “It’s unjust to see someone, because of one decision one night in their youth, carry the stigma — to be barred from studying medicine, law, archi tecture or other fields where a criminal record could present an les said s ■lough t:< ■ewent: Of the p>< Gonzales obstacle,” Clark said lastweidrom th e: The government has p' r 4suscitat posed expanding medicinal- of marijuana, and the Canal Medical Association Journal| cently supported full decri nalization. Canada’s Supr* Court will consider a casef year that contends crin charges for the personal * marijuana violate constituti rights. Making possession andi small amounts of marijuaj civil offense — akin to a i fine— instead of a criminal lation would move Cana<| policy closer to attitudes ini Netherlands and away from 1 ! United States, its neighbor biggest trade partner. That worries U.S. anti-' activists like RobertMaginni>| the Family Research Cou “It will have a residual elfe this country of depressing?!* and making marijuana available,” he said. He also knows a shift j Canada would boost the i ments of American advocates! easing U.S. drug laws. “We» our allies are piling up onud making it more difficult” toft drug use, Maginnis said.