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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
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Threat issued by extremist group
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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:
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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.
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and are expected to demandc|
a high assembly impeach Wi-j*^Ornin(
for corruption and incom:-'
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took to the streets, calling fo:
death of his opponents an
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party' members in several tov
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sickles and sticks, burned two
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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.