European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 18, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 b the stars and stripes saturday january 10, 1992 outlaws Bones possibly found Paul Newman left and Robert Bedford starred in the highly romanticized a Butch Cassidy and the Sundance by the new York times a team of forensic experts and historians has exhumed a pair of skeletons in Bolivia that May be those of two famous american outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid. One of the expeditions members Dan Buck of Washington said a Trail of documentary clues discovered in various parts of South America led the group last month to a cemetery in san Vicente Bolivia a Remote mining Village where the outlaws supposedly died in a 1907 gun Battle. The scientific Leader of the expedition or. Clyde Collins Snow has taken the skeletons to his Laboratory in Norman okla., where he plans to subject them to the same analytical techniques that he and other scientists used in identifying the Skull of the nazi concentration Camp doctor Josef Menicle the lives of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid were romantically portrayed in a movie starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford. But the real careers of the outlaws arc shrouded in mystery. The two bandits whose real names were Robert Leroy Parker and Harry Longbaugh carried out so Many Success ii Bank and Railroad robberies in the late 1800s that Large rewards were offered for their capture. Hotly pursued by Pinkerton agents they fled the United states in 1901 with Longbaugh a mistress Etta place. After arriving in Buenos Aires the three began robbing Banks and trains All across South America. But at some Point their documented histories faded away into romantic legend. According to one theory they returned to the United states and lived happily Ever after. But other evidence suggests that Parker and Longbaugh fought a final Battle in 1907 with bolivian police at san Vicente near Tupiza and were buried in unmarked Graves in a mining cemetery the one visited last month by Snow and his colleagues. The historians of the group Dan Buck and his wife Anne Meadows combed through documents of an old mining company consulates and police departments in Bolivia Chile and other countries. The clues pointed to the cemetery in san Vicente Buck said. Buck who is administrative assistant to rep. Patricia Schroeder d-colo., formerly served with the peace corps in Bolivia where he began to gather information about the outlaws. In Bolivia Buck said that witnesses to the 1907 gun Battle had died but that the son of one of them was Able to identify not Only the House where the two americans died but also the Graves where they were buried. The team dug 9 feet deep at the first of these Sites and found a coffin containing the remains of the larger Man a Man Snow believes to be the Sundance kid. To avoid disturbing Graves at shallower Depths the group then tunnelled at the 9-foot depth in several directions and found the other set of Bones. Both skeletons Snow has determined Are those of caucasians not indians. The cemetery contains mostly the bodies of Indian Silver and Lead mine workers with a few european mine administrators interred among them. Snow has determined that one of the skulls has entry and exit holes from a Bullet that passed through the temples and the other has a smashed forehead consistent with the head on Impact of a projectile. This evidence he said would tally with an account that both outlaws were badly wounded in a shootout after their robbery of the mine payroll and that realizing they were lost Cassidy shot the kid and committed suicide. Members of the expedition said in interviews that positive identification of the bodies if at All possible would take months. Snow and his colleagues Hope to extract Dan from the san Vicente Bones for comparison with possible remnants of hair or other material from the bandits. A we can to yet be sure what we be got a a he said a but i really believe we be got Butch and the criticizes Canada for treatment of eskimos Ottawa a Canada should apologize for the Way it bundled Eskimo families off to new settlements in the Remote stretches of the High Arctic in the 1950s, a Federal human rights commission report says. The report released wednesday concluded that the government violated its special position of Trust obliging it to protect interests of natives. However the author of the report Law professor Daniel Soberman did not endorse Eskimo claims of up to about $8.5 million compensation. He urged instead that free air fares be provided for those remaining in the far North who want to visit family members Back in traditional Homes elsewhere. He said the government should thank the natives who Are also known As the inuit for helping to support Canadian sovereignty in the High Arctic through the founding of the settlements there nearly four decades ago. Between 1953 and 1958, 87 people from 17 Eskimo families were moved to new settlements at Grise fiord on Ellesmere Island and Resolute Bay on Cornwallis Island in the Northwest territories. Most came from Inu Juak then called port Harrison on Hudson Bay in Northern Quebec. The move meant a dramatic change in climate and lifestyle. Survivors say they faced fierce Winters on the Barren islands went hungry and weren to paid properly for furs they trapped. Some women complained of sexual abuse by Royal Canadian mounted police supervisors. Ottawa has said it wanted Only to in Rove living conditions for natives. The Skimos say it was part of a Federal plan to assert sovereignty Over the far North. Soberman agreed the eskimos suffered Quot unnecessary hardship because housing schooling and medical and other services were inadequate. Officials also failed to Honor a Promise to move the eskimos Back within three years if they did no to like their new tries to Calm concerned military officers Moscow apr occident Boris n. Yeltsin warned anxious military officers Friday that Russia would form its own army if other former soviet republics did the same and said he had agreed to Divide the Black sea and Caspian sea fleets. Yeltsin appealed for Calm in an address to More than 5,000 former soviet officers in the Kremlin who Are demanding a unified military in the Wake of political upheaval that dissolved their nation. He said it was still possible to maintain close ties among the former soviet republics. �?o1, russians president elected by the people Appeal to your Honor As officers to your dignity preserve civic Calm a he told the officers. A it is easy to Start a fire but it will be immeasurably More difficult to put it How to Divide the 3.7 million member military of the former soviet Union has emerged As the biggest obstacle facing the new Commonwealth of Independent states with Ukraine Azerbaijan Moldova and Belarus stating they want to form their own armies. Yeltsin a address came the Day after most of the 11-member Commonwealth leaders met to discuss military issues. In the speech Yeltsin tried to reassure the serv ice members about their concerns but he could not pre Bush to hold talks with Yeltsin Washington apr president Bush and russian president Boris Yeltsin will hold talks at the White House on feb. 1, the White House said thursday. Their one on one meeting will come the Day after they join other Heads of state at a Summit in new York for leaders of the 15 countries on the . Security Council. It will be the fourth meeting Between Bush and Yeltsin including two previous visits by the russian Leader to the White House. National Security adviser Brent scowcroft who revealed the plans for a Bush Yeltsin meeting said Yeltsin is facing a a very very difficult situation inside rus Sia and the new Commonwealth of Independent states the successor to the shattered soviet Union. Yeltsin now draws the criticism that plagued former soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev when he was in charge in Moscow scowcroft said. A this is a very very Tough time Quot said scowcroft. The United states must help Quot nourish the threads of democracy Quot and help them grow he said a because whenever you have the kind of chaos turbulence and so on that you have inside there now there a always a tendency to go to More draconian ways to solve tend that serious divisions had already occurred. Ukraine has claimed part of the former soviet Navy a mighty Black sea Fleet and Azerbaijan has made similar claims on the Caspian sea Fleet. A units of the Black sea Fleet and warship units of the Caspian flotilla will not have their Fate decided by separate agreements Between Russia and Ukraine Russia and Azerbaijan a Yeltsin said. Commonwealth representatives decided thursday to form commissions made up of officials from the three former republics to decide on How to Divide the fleets next month. A military cooperation Between states a and world experience confirms this a does not infringe upon Independence but on the contrary strengthens it and Steps up the states potential in ensuring its own Security a Yeltsin said. In addition to concerns about housing salaries pensions and other social issues troops had been worried that they would be forced to swear allegiance to differ ent former soviet republics where they served. Ukraine and Russia have demanded that troops on their soil take such oaths. Yeltsin said new conscripts would have to swear allegiance to the newly Independent states. He said current officers would not have to take any new oaths. He also promised to give plots of land to members of the armed forces and said that for the first time a portion of the military budget would be earmarked for social Protection of troops
