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Police Halt Basque Protest

Riot police clash with Basque nationalist supporters in Bilbao, northern Spain. Authorities dispersed an illegal street protest by several thousand supporters of Basque separatist parties in the city, officials said.
Riot police clash with Basque nationalist supporters in Bilbao, northern Spain. Authorities dispersed an illegal street protest by several thousand supporters of Basque separatist parties in the city, officials said. (By Alvaro Barrientos -- Associated Press)

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Ramos-Horta, 58, shared the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize with countryman Bishop Carlos Belo for leading a nonviolent struggle against the Indonesian occupation.

JAPAN

U.S. Marine Arrested In Alleged Rape of Teen

Japanese police have arrested a U.S. Marine accused of raping a 14-year-old girl in southern Japan, authorities said Monday.

Tyrone Luther Hadnott, 38, of Camp Courtney in Okinawa, allegedly raped the girl in a parked car Sunday evening, an Okinawa police official said on condition of anonymity.

Okinawa police took custody of the Marine for investigation, the official said. Hadnott's home town was not immediately available.

U.S. officials in Japan could not immediately confirm the case.

U.S. military bases in Japan have long caused complaints from local residents about crime, noise and accidents; the rape in 1995 of a 12-year-old Okinawa schoolgirl by three U.S. servicemen sparked huge protests.

KENYA

U.N. Official Pessimistic On Return of Displaced

A senior U.N. official warned Sunday that a vast majority of the hundreds of thousands of Kenyans displaced by post-election violence would not be able to return home any time soon because of the possibility of more violence.

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga, who accuses Kibaki of stealing the Dec. 27 presidential election, are under enormous international pressure to resolve the dispute after weeks of ethnic violence.

They are being pressed by an international mediation team to accept a power-sharing agreement so the nation can begin dealing with the more than 300,000 people who have been displaced.

Odinga was involved in a delicate balancing act Sunday, promising not to betray hard-line supporters while assuring mediators he was ready to negotiate.


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