European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 31, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes sunday october 31,1993 haitian rightists remain defiant port a Prince Haiti a on the Day Jean Bertrand Aristide was to re turn to Haiti in. Officials struggled to keep alive plans for restoring democracy and warned the army against trying to appoint a new government. Even so pro army leaders opposed to the exiled president s return made Clear they believed the Accord was dead. More troops than usual patrolled the streets Friday night. Reynold Georges head of the rightist Alliance for the liberation of Haiti said in. A radio interview we will Tell prime minister Robert Malval in Advance that we will have a new government on Malval appointed by Aristide Heads a transition Cabinet that was to prepare for the president s return saturday. Malvas government has been powerless in face of army backed terrorism and assassinations including that of the Justice minister. The political class is More and More in favor of closing off the negotiations for Aristide s return said Hubert de Ronce Ray who Heads another rightist party that advocates new elections. Aristide swept Haiti s first free elections in december 1990, but was ousted by the Mili tary in a bloody coup in september 1991. . Envoy Dante Caputo read a Mes Sage Friday from . Secretary general Boutros Boutros Ghali asking All parties to meet Early this week to work out the unfulfilled conditions of the Accord. The plan had called for army commander i Gen. Raoul Cidras to resign after / a. 4wra i v i a a a " of a if _ j v "%3j a beggar sits on the nearly deserted Rue de miracles in downtown port a Prince Haiti on Friday. A strike called by rightists an transportation unions protesting . Sanctions shut Down most businesses in the capital. Parliament passed a general amnesty and put the police under civilian control. Many lawmakers fearing army terror Haven t turned up to vote on the measures and Cidras has refused to resign until they do. Aristide has refused to return until Eldras and other officers resign. The agreement signed july 3 by Aristide and Cidras remains fully in Force As the Only valid framework for the solution of the crisis in Haiti Boutros Ghali s statement said. In a radio interview broadcast Friday Eldras said the agreement could t be declared valid past saturday without his con sent since he co signed it. He declared it in valid until both he and Aristide decide otherwise. The . Statement warned Sec tors opposed to a democratic transition against trying to form a provisional govern ment. This would be nothing but an attempt to simulate a democratic transition in order to ignore the will of the people of Haiti a expressed in the 1990 elections the statement said. An american warship one of several for eign ships enforcing an Oil and weapons embargo against Haiti sailed into port a Prince Harbor Friday night the first to come that close in three Days. The incidents have infuriated right win haitians who Call them provocations and violation of sovereignty. The embargo which not Only stopped deliveries but locked up fue supplies already on the Island has reduce traffic drastically. A strike called by rightists and a Drivers Union closed most businesses in this Scasta capital Friday. It protested the failure of Mai Val to order gasoline distributors to deliver t service stations. He did release an uns Peci tied amount of diesel from government re serves Friday. Poll on human cloning finds most against idea Washington up a time can poll released saturday showed three quarters of the people in the United states Are generally opposed to human cloning with majorities saying itis morally wrong and against god s will. The poll also showed Large Majori ties opposed to any use of human cloning to produce twins or genetically desirable offspring but somewhat More acceptance of its potential Useto help infertile couples or to screen for inherited abnormalities. Only 3 percent said human cloning should be completely Legal with two groups of 46 percent each saying i should be illegal or Legal but regu the poll was conducted for time Magazine and can television by Yankelovich partners inc. It followed the report last week that two researchers at George washing ton University in Washington d.c.,had successfully cloned several non viable abnormal human embryos. A total of 75 percent of those surveyed for the time can poll an swered no to the question do you think human cloning is a Good thing Only 14 percent said yes. Fifty eight percent agreed that human cloning is morally wrong and 31 percent disagreed and 63 per cent agreed it is against god s will versus 26 percent who disagreed. Nineteen percent said medical re search on human cloning should be Al Lowed to continue 40 percent said it should be temporarily halted and 37 percent said it should be banned. Those surveyed narrowly rejected by a margin of 46 percent to 45 per cent the idea of using human cloning to help infertile couples and by margin of 52 percent to 40 percent opposed the use of human cloning to help scientists screen embryos for inherited abnormalities. They also rejected the use of Clon ing to produce babies whose vital or Gans could be used to save others by margin of 70 percent to 24 percent to make it possible for parents to have twin child at a later Date by a margin of 78 to 17 percent to establish embryo Banks from which prospective parents could select the genetic characteristics of their child by 80 to 16percent and to let society reproduce Large numbers of individuals with genetically desirable traits by 89 to 6 percent. Man admits molesting Young girls in 4 states Bluffton ind. A a trucker awaiting trial on charges of breaking into a Home and molesting a 5-year-old girl has admitted similar crimes in four other states authorities said. David Lee Thompson 40, told investigators details earlier this month about fou previous molestations and two attempts Bluffton detective Scott Gilliam said. He wanted to get it off his Chest Gil Liam said adding that jail visits from missionaries had encouraged him to confess. The aligned molesting took place i Illinois Missouri Massachusetts and new York. Police in each state said Thompson s Story matched unpublished details Gilliam said. Investigators said Thompson followed girls Ages 3 to 8 Home and then waited until night to break in either molesting the child there or in his vehicle. Some times he shared Beer or pornography with the children Gilliam said. Thompson said he kept the children quiet by threatening to Cut off their leg Gilliam said. Gilliam said Thompson confessed t attacks on a 3-year-old in half mooin.y., and an 8-year-old in Palmer mass in May 1991. That october he said molested a 6-year-old in Marshall Iii and a 5-year-old in mount Vernon to. In december 1991, Thompson said i tried to molest girls in St. James mo., a Wagoner okla., but was seen and Chase away. Then he was arrested for burglar after allegedly entering a Waco Tex Home. Thompson spent 11 months in jail and Halfway House before returning to Bluff Cin Northeast Indiana where he allegedly Al ducted a girl May 27 and molested her in car before returning her Home. Thompson was arrested july 1 after plice traced a Call he made from his sister Home to a missing children s hot line. Thompson s attorney Linda Wagoner fort Wayne did not return phone Calls. At least 18 die in turkish bus fire Adana Turkey a at least 18 hydraulically operated doors failed bus passengers were burned to. Death and open More than 20 injured saturday when Lauick moving fire consumed the vehicle the Anatolia news agency1 said. The passengers were trapped when the the fire was caused by a Short circuited Cable it said. The incident occurred near Adan about Iso Miles Southeast of Ankara
