European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 14, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 b the stars and stripes world sunday february 14.1993cia suspect a millionaire pakistanis say Islamabad Pakistan up pakistani officials said Friday a Man suspected in the shooting deaths of two Cia employees is a millionaire whose family owns hotels and shopping centers in Pakistan. R the officials also said Mir animal Kanji a who was working for a Virginia courier Agency at the time of the shootings a had no apparent links to any political group in Pakistan. Meanwhile a government official in Islamabad said an Fri team had already arrived in the country to search for the suspect. But a . Embassy spokesman in Islamabad said Quot we arc neither confirming nor denying the arrival of the Fri team. In Washington pakistani embassy spokesman Malik Zahoor said his embassy had Given visas to a number of Fri and Cia agents to visit Pakistan to search for Kanji. He said the agents however did not receive permission to transport or carry weapons with them. However Zahoor said he thinks Kanji is no longer in Pakistan. A i have this Hunch that he has slipped into Iran or Afghanistan a he said. Quot if that is the Case we will never find Kanji allegedly killed two Cia employees and wounded three other people in a shooting spree outside the Agency Headquarters on Jan. 25. Investigators recovered from his res ton va., residence an automatic ak-47 Rifle used in the shootings. Pakistani officials1 said Kanji became wealthy when he inherited valuable property upon the 1989 death of his father Abdullah Jan Kanji. He sold his Sharb to family members for millions of dollars and transferred millions into his foreign accounts before he left for the United states officials said. The Kanji tribe of ethnic Pashtoon to which the suspect belongs is wealthy and influential. Kansis family owns hotels shopping centers cinemas and High Rise buildings in most major pakistani cities and is said to own half of Quetta a a City of about 500,000 people and the capital of the Southern Baluchistan province. Pakistani officials said Kanji had been seen in Quetta until wednesday. They said he disappeared after the Story about his alleged involvement in the Cia shootings appeared in local news reports. The Cia is believed to have operated from Quetta during the afghan War when Muslim rebels fought against the soviet occupation from 1979-89. The United states and Pakistan backed the Muslim rebels during the War. A but pakistani officials said Kanji apparently took no part in the afghan War and had no apparent political links. However they said Kanji might have taken Refuge with tribesmen in Afghanistan. Part of the Kanji tribe also lives in Afghanistan and is As wealthy and influential As the Kansis in Pakistan. Witness to a drought a cow s Skull near Santo Aleixo in Southern Portugal attests to the lengthy dry spell that has plagued the nation. The drought is now 2 years old and is considered teen chess Whiz a a a / a takes 5-3 Lead Budapest Hungary apr teen age chess Whiz Judit Polgar the youngest grandmaster Ever beat former world Champion Boris Spassky Friday to Clinch at least a tie in their $200,000,10-game exhibition match. The 16-year-old hungarian the worlds top ranked woman player leads Spassky 5-3. She needs Only a draw in either of the last two games to claim outright Victory Over the 56-year-old native russian and the Winner s share of $110,000. The loser gets $90,000 playing White in. The eighth game Polgar used a Spanish opening As she has at every Opportunity against Spassky. Spassky is ranked in a tie for 96th in world rankings compiled by the world chess federation fide while Polgar is no. 1 in the women a rankings and tied for 53rd in the menus rankings. The match is being staged by yugoslav entrepreneur Jezdimir Vasiljevic chairman of Yugo scandic Bank. He is bidding to sponsor the world championship match later this year Between reigning Champion Garry Kasparov and Nigel Short of Britain. The ninth game is scheduled for today. By some to be the nation s worst in 50 years. As a result of the arid conditions Portugal has experienced a major loss in livestock and vegetation. Saudis expected for massive Cut in wreak havoc in Snake Park new Delhi India up a armed thugs overran a rare International Snake Park in Southern India killing More than 100 species of snakes including a prize King cobra and wreaking widespread devastation the press Trust of India reported Friday. The news Agency quoted police As saying that the attack was rooted in a political rivalry in the area and was directed at a state minister who had founded the Snake Park. The Parussini Kasaku Snake Park which is in the narrow coastal state of Kerala housed rare species of snakes As Well As some Birds and animals. The attackers poured gasoline on the cages of the reptiles Birds and animals and set them ablaze pit said. The King cobra a Large poisonous Snake was beaten to death and its air conditioned Cage reduced to soldering ashes the report said. Wielding axes the thugs also butchered 10 other cobras seven turtles 30 White rats 30 rabbits two peacocks six migratory Birds three vultures a Python and several porcupines in the 3-acre Park the Agency said. A pit said a lion tailed macaque lost one foot in the attack which occurred late wednesday. A number of crocodiles rabbits monkeys and lizards were wounded in the orgy of violence which also left an adjacent herbal Medicine Hospital in ruins the report added. Vienna Austria apr ministers of the organization of Petroleum exporting countries met saturday under pressure for an agreement that would wipe at least 1 million barrels of crude a Day off the flooded Oil Market a and make it hold. The dozen Oil producers opened a strategy session to set pricing and production guidelines for the Spring. Saudi Arabia the Cartel s most influential member was ready to press for a deep Cut of 1 million barrels a Day from the groups current Supply ceiling of 24.6 million barrels a Day. In doing so the kingdom Hopes to punch up crude prices. Quot our goal is to reach a higher Price said a saudi source who spoke on condition of anonymity. Open Secretary general Subroto said the average Price of an open measure was running at $17.62 a barrel compared with its target of $21 for a 42-gallon barrel. The Cartel is currently pumping slightly More than 25 million barrels a Day a about a half million barrels above its w inter ceiling. Saudi arabians Oil minister Hisham Nazer has said production should be chopped across the Board in the Spring with All producers being hit. But Kuwait the tiny emirate recovering from the devastation of the persian Gulf War May balk. A the problem at the moment is Kuwait a said John Lightblau chairman of the Petroleum Industry re to press open in Oil production search foundation in new Kuwait on Board he said a new production Accord Quot will have much less Kuwait has aroused scepticism by claiming recently that its output has shot up by several Hundred thousand barrels a Day to 2 million barrels a Day. That would be Back to its production level before Iraq invaded the country in 1990. Such a dramatic recovery in a relatively Short time would be remarkable analysts said. Kuwaiti officials do not want to reduce much if any because they argue that they need to earn As much As possible from Oil revenues to pay for the $50 billion spent on the Gulf War and reconstruction. By inflating the numbers a nation would have to snip less from its actual output under an agreement. But others would have to make up the Arabia the worlds largest Oil producer is expected to offer to snip its Supply Cap by several Hundred thousand barrels a Day to a total of 8.1 million barrels a Day in the april june Quarter. Iran the groups no. 2 producer also is Likely to go along with a trim of a few Hundred thousand barrels from its quota of 3.5 million barrels a Day. The nations Are under pressure to decrease production because demand for crude normally Falls in Spring when weather warms in the United states and other Oil consuming nations. A
