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DETAINED: A British navy vessel detained a Spanish trawler Friday off the southwest coast of England on suspicion of illegal fishing, the Ministry of Agriculture said. The naval vessel HMS Shetland, on a routine patrol, arrested the Chimbote southwest of the Isles of Scilly, the ministry said. A ministry spokesman said the Chimbote may have been using undersize nets. The trawler was being escorted to Plymouth on the south coast of England. Fishermen are pressuring the government to withdraw from the European Union's Common Fisheries Policy. They fear that fish stocks are suffering because foreign boats disregard rules on net size to catch smaller fish.
INFILTRATION: A Jordanian sneaked into Israel on Friday and threatened factory workers with a pistol before a security guard opened fire and wounded him, TV reports said. The army said it was checking the incident. Second Channel TV said the infiltrator was a 19-year-old who came from the Jordanian town of Safi and sneaked across the border just south of the Dead Sea. The report said the infiltrator planned to carry out an attack in Israel.
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PROTEST: Student protesters on Friday rejected offers by DePaul University of stepped-up minority recruiting and other measures aimed at ending a 10-day sit-in at the school newspaper. Members of the Coalition for Concerned Black Students said at a Chicago news conference that they would not be satisfied until the campus weekly, The DePaulia, apologized for an article that appeared in February. Eric Wright, a spokesman for protesters, said they will continue to demand dismissal of the paper's editor in chief and an unidentified DePaulia staff writer.
SENTENCED: A father-son team, whose disguises included a Michael Dukakis mask, were sentenced Friday in Chicago to long prison terms for robbing more than a dozen banks in the Midwest. John T. Hunter got 377 years in prison and his son, John T. Hunter Jr., was sentenced to 317 years. Investigators said the 56-year-old father and his 29-year-old son robbed 16 banks, and the father robbed three more on his own over a 10-month period in 1992 and 1993. The son wore a mask of the 1988 Democratic presidential candidate, and his father used a mask of a smiling old man.