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xrrrr NationWorld as News Herald, Port Clinton, Ohio, Wednesday, June 21, 2000 Police trace doomed journey of Chinese migrants tized by their struggle to escape as their companions collapsed. "To have 60 young people in the back of a truck, there would have to have been some organization to get these people over from China," Kent county police Detective Superintendent Dennis Mc-Gookin said in Dover. "In liaising with the Chinese police hopefully we will know more on this soon." The disaster has focused international attention on the racketeers and on the desperate risks illegal immigrants take to flee oppression or poverty. and Puurs, about 15 miles south of Antwerp, on April 16. "From their papers, it was obviously the case of illegal said police spokesman Frank van den Bulck.

He said the migrants were ordered to leave the country and placed unescorted on a train to Antwerp. The 58 victims found in Dover, along with two survivors, were discovered late Sunday stowed with a cargo of tomatoes after a five-hour ferry ride from the Belgian port of Zeebrugge. They had died of respiratory failure, police British Broadcasting which said their numbers matched the 56 men and four women found in the truck in the English port of Dover. Even if they are not the same group, the incident suggests the huge numbers of migrants moving illegally and more often than not undetected through Europe. If they are the same, it raises questions about how they were allowed to disappear again.

Belgian police said they detained several groups of Chinese found in the villages of Bornem set up the firm, Van der Spek Transporten. In Dover, Dutch and British police interrogated the truck driver who brought the young stowaways, most in their 20s, on the disastrous final leg of their journey from southern China's Fu-jian province. Fujian is notorious for immigrant-smuggling gangs, known as "snake heads" who charge up to $60,000 per person for perilous, illegal passages the West. The two survivors, vital to tracing the smugglers, remained under police guard trauma said. Kent police said there was nothing to indicate that the truck was the same one in the BBC film.

Meanwhile, Dutch police were questioning a man they arrested during raids on three houses in Rotterdam. They refused to say whether the suspect was a 24-year-old Dutch engineer who last week registered a company that leased the truck. Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper reported Wednesday that Rotterdam police had confirmed the arrested man was Arie Van der Spek, who Associated Press LONDON The deaths of 58 migrants during a painful, four-month odyssey from southern China to England has brought home the scale of the global trade in smuggled humans and the gaps in international borders that let illegal immigrants slip through. A group of Chinese migrants fitting the description of the victims was detained in Belgium two months ago, Belgian police confirmed Tuesday. Film footage of the group smiling and waving was shown by the Los Alamos Sentenced Case of missing hard drives at lab gets murkier At Jcfi-' I- tee.

The failure of the laboratory to require basic logout and login procedures for the devices is expected to be among the issues troubling committee members. Energy Department and lab officials have said no such tracking was required under a relaxed policy instituted in the early 1990s for material classified as "secret" as opposed to "top secret." The FBI was still electronically examining the two drives, which suddenly reappeared behind a copying machine last Friday not far from the vault where they were supposed to be kept. The area, where access was limited to people with high security clearances, had been searched several times, raising the possibility someone might have misplaced and then returned them. But when were they last taken from the vault and by whom? Initially, Air Force Gen. Eugene Habiger, the Energy Department's new top security officer, and Los Alamos Lab Director John Browne said in congressional testimony that a scientist had reported seeing the two devices in the vault on April 7, a month before they were found missing and seven weeks before senior lab officials were notified.

Sources familiar with the investigation said Tuesday that this account, although not entirely dismissed, has come under suspicion because of "conflicting statements" made during interviews and polygraph tests. Associated Press Fugitive financier Martin Frankel, center, formerly of Toledo, takes a seat today in the state court in Hamburg, northern Germany. The state court convicted eccentric Frankel of failing to pay custom taxes on smuggled diamonds and carrying falsified passports. He was sentenced to three years in jail. I CONTAINERS AVAILABLE I wSS jfsm, FOR DEMOLITION 1 fef lfM(IRi7Jl CONTAINERS AVAILABLE FOR DEMOLITION INDUSTRIAL SITES 8 lost SV it lvfC Viol I UUri IMcW Ulr I bnUrft I 18063 W.

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ik (kssrqs fiftH) to Associated Press WASHINGTON -They may have contained highly classified nuclear secrets, but two computer drives causing all the ruckus at the Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory left virtually no paper trail while they were missing. After interviewing dozens of people and conducting a string of polygraph tests, investigators are stymied in trying to determine even in general terms when the two hard drives vanished from a highly secured vault at the federal laboratory in New Mexico. It may have been as long as six months ago, government officials fear. "The last actual inventory that gives us a degree of certainty took place as part of the Y2K inventory," Rep. Porter Goss, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said in an interview Tuesday.

That was a few days after New Year's. "That screams at me and says we've got a procedure problem," added Goss, a former CIA officer who has kept in close touch with the FBI and Energy Department investigation into the disappearance and then reappearance of the two hard drives, which contain information about how to dismantle nuclear warheads. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson was to make his first appearance on Capitol Hill Wednesday on the Los Alamos case as he testifies before the Senate Armed Services Commit Microsoft appeal in high court Associated Press WASHINGTON The judge who ordered Microsoft Corp. broken up delayed implementing business restrictions against the computer software maker and sent the landmark antitrust case directly to the Supreme Court, where the nine justices are just days from finishing their current term. With his action, U.S.

District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson bypassed the federal appellate court where Microsoft wants the case to be considered first. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit favored the company in a past, related case. Immediate Supreme Court consideration was in the "general public importance in the administration of justice," Jackson wrote in his widely expected order Tuesday. But in a surprise twist, the judge delayed implementing various conduct restrictions he imposed in a June 7 decision that also ordered Microsoft to be split into two companies.

While Jackson at that time had stayed the actual breakup until all appeals were exhausted, the business restraints he ordered would have gone into effect Sept. 5. Both Microsoft and the Justice Department applauded Jackson's action, albeit for opposite reasons. "This decision affirms the de-i partment's position that a quick and effective remedy is necessary to resolve this significant case," the department said in a written statement. Microsoft spokesman Mark Murray said: "We're obviously very pleased that the District Court rejected the government's arguments and stayed the entire judgment." It was uncertain just how quickly the case could be resolved.

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