ALMATY, June 28
(THE GLOBE)
The court process against people accused for attempts upon the President Karimov�s life has been completed in the Supreme Court of Uzbekistan, the radio �Liberty� announced on June 28.
According to the radio, six of the guilty persons were sentenced to death, eight of them were sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment, one � to 11 years, and eight � to 10 to 18 years of imprisonment.
At the same time the process was seriously criticised by the legal organisations.
According to the evaluations of independent observers, the process was held with numerous infringements
The sentence may be appealed against in the Olyi-Mazhlis (Parliament) of Uzbekistan within 10 days.
PODGORICA, Yugoslavia
June 28 (AFP)
Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia arrived in Montenegro Monday for a three-day visit, airport officials in the coastal town Tivat told AFP.
Arriving shortly after 11 a.m. (0900 GMT), Alexander, accompanied by his wife Princess Catherine, left immediately for the coastal village of Podlastva Grbaljska for a religious service at a local monastery.
Despite the prince�s announcement that his visit was at the request of Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic, there was no official reception at the airport.
Prince Alexander told AFP on Sunday that he would meet Djukanovic and other Montenegrin officials as well as representatives of the Serbian Orthodox church.
It is the first time the prince, pretender to the Yugoslav throne, had visited the republic, which is part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) along with Serbia.
Alexander is the son of Peter II Karadjordjevic, who briefly ruled Yugoslavia following the March 1941 coup that ousted Prince Paul. Peter fled to London in April after Germany invaded Yugoslavia.
The royal family was deprived of its titles and property, and members were banned from returning to Yugoslavia by the regime of former Yugoslav communist leader Josip Broz Tito.
The ban was never officially lifted, but since the early 90s, several members of the Karadjordjevic family, including Alexander, have visited the FRY.
Prince Alexander, who was born in Britain in 1945, told AFP he hopes to do �everything possible to help democracy.�
BRUSSELS, June 28 (AFP)
Belgium convened a series of crisis unit meetings Monday after Algeria�s Armed Islamic Group (GIA) threatened to unleash a �bloodbath� unless the authorities release several of its leaders jailed last month.
The crisis units, drawn from Interior Ministry departments, police and gendarme services and other groups, were meeting through the day to decide on a plan of action to counter the GIA threat.
�There are no signs that this is a hoax,� Interior Minister Luc Van Den Bossche said on television late Sunday.
The units included a top anti-terrorist police unit called Interforce, set up after terrorist attacks in the 1980s by the Fighting Communist Cells (CCC), a group of militant Belgian communists now in prison.
Belgian officials said contacts would also be stepped up with police forces abroad, especially in France.
A Gendarmerie spokesman said the units would �assess the threat and decide whether it should be taken seriously.�
In the latest terrorist threat, the GIA gave Belgium �20 days to reverse its actions against the Mujahedeen (holy warriors).�
ALMATY, June 28
(THE GLOBE)
Wonderful warm summer is in full swing in Almaty.
The Almaty picturesque mountains attract numerous locals and guests of Kazakhstan�s southern capital. Many of them are not aware of the great danger of ticks and so expose themselves to their bites thus running a danger to catch encephalitis.
It is very important to remind that the only means which is capable to prevent the disease is the vaccine against encephalitis that should be injected just after the bite of a tick.
The situation concerning the availability of this medicine is desperate in Almaty, said one of our readers who was unlucky to be bitten by a tick on June 25.
Despite his desperate attempts to get help from a doctor of the central hospital in Almaty, the needed vaccine was not injected. The doctor explained to him that he did not have this medicine of emergency aid care. Our reader only has got an advice to take his temperature from time to time and so was doomed to lose time.
THE GLOBE tried to make phone call to the officials in charge of the problem but they were not available. We got excuses and explanations that the aforementioned officials were absent and participated at some conference, may be, at the conference on ticks, we suppose. THE GLOBE promises to return to this theme soon.
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