University Daily Kansan, April 9, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
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NEWS BRIEFES
Iraq accused of chemical war
BEIRUT, Lebanon — UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar mediated peace talks yesterday in Baghdad, Iraq, and Iran accused Iraq of using deadly chemical weapons on their southern border, causing "a number" of injuries.
In Baghdad, the official Iraqi News Agency said Iraqi President Saddam Hussein told Perez de Cuellar he is willing to negotiate an end to the war with Iran, but that the Iranians do not want peace. Iranian officials told Perez de Cuellar Sunday that they won't seek peace as long as the Hussein regime reigns.
Liberian colonel executed
MONROVIA, Liberia — A firing squad yesterday executed the deputy commander of the presidential guard for attempting to assassinate Liberian leader Gen.
Senators cancel Moscow trip
According to Doe, the attempt on his life took place April 1 when Col. Moses Flanzamaton opened fire on a jeep driven by the West African leader. The shooting took place at the gates of Doe's mansion, the Liberian State House, where Flanzamaton was the deputy commander of the guard battalion.
WASHINGTON — Four senators canceled a trip to Moscow yesterday because the Kremlin denied a visa for John Ritch, an aide who last year wrote a critical report on the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
Sen. William Cohen, R-Maine, said the senators canceled the trip "as a matter of principle."
Cohen and Sens. Joseph Bidron Jr., D.C., Carl Levin, D.Mich., and Warren Rudman. R.N.H., were to leave yesterday for the U.S. House of Congress members of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
Dog's best friend auctioned
LOS ANGELES — A stray German shepherd, whose stubborn loyalty to an injured Doberman pal captured the hearts of animal lovers, was auctioned for $1,000 yesterday to a retired car salesman who凹id two dozen people.
Animal control officers found the unnamed shepherd last month standing guard over an injured female Doberman pincher that had been hit by a car and was lying injured in the gutter of a busy street.
Despite the shepherd's attention, the Doberman was too badly injured to be saved and shelter officials had to destroy her.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Europeans protest U.S. missiles
By United Press International
More than 100,000 anti-nuclear protesters demonstrated yesterday across West Germany and at military bases in England and Italy against the deployment of U.S. nuclear missiles in Europe.
At least 84 people were arrested, police said.
Two bombs exploded near protest sites in West Germany, causing some damage but no injuries. Police said they were un certain that the blasts were connected to the protests.
One bomb damaged equipment in a 15-foot shaft of a NATO油 pipeline near the Mutilangen U.S. Army Pershing 2 missile base. The other exploded at a firm in Hamburg that conducts technical naval research
About 90,000 protesters held demonstrations in cities across West Germany, while
about 20,000 demonstrators in England held hands and placed flowers in a fence surrounding a future U.S. cruise missile site.
IN COMISO, SIGLIY, police arrested three anti-nuclear demonstrators who tried to block the entrance to a NATO base where the American forces were stationed. His commander an Easter cake, police said.
The deployment, begun in late 1983, is part of a 1979 NATO plan that calls for 572 Pershing 2 and cruise missiles to be stationed at Nato bases to counter the deployment of Soviet SS-20s.
The largest demonstration in West Germany was near Hellbronn, 50 miles north of Stuttgart, where about 30,000 protesters massed at the U.S. Pershing 2 nuclear missile base.
Chanting "rockets out" the protesters (Americans) on and off, Work / not, Perishings
They joined hands, formed a circle around the base's half-mile perimeter and released
hundreds of blue balloons bearing the silhouette of a white dove into the air.
eight people who climbed over one of the base's two security fences were arrested but no serious incidents were reported.
The protesters later walked into Heilbronn for a rally at which West German Trade Union Confederation official Siegfried Pommerenkew called those proposing to put weapons in space "madmen."
"Weapons are not produced to achieve peace but to make war," he said. "And now these madmen are getting ready to militarize space. All this is done in the name of balance. We heard the same thing before World War I and World War II."
Other rallies were held in Cologne, Dortmund, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Munich, Nuremberg and West Berlin.
Sudanese government halts labor strike
By United Press International
KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudan's new military government, threatening wholesale arrests for high treason, forced labor leaders yesterday to ebonand a general strike that led to the downfall of President Jaafar Numeiry.
In a related matter, the U.S. State Department said yesterday that Sudan's new military government will receive the $67 million aid released to Nuriemy before the coup.
"Our diplomatic relationship with the government of Sudan continues without
interruption," said spokesman Bernard Kalb.
The strike threat presented the new military regime with its first challenge since taking over the government Saturday.
promised to return to civilian rule after an unspecified "interim period."
The unions had threatened to continue the week-old strike — initially called during Numeiry's reign to protest increased food prices — unless the government met demands for an immediate return to civilian rule, the dismantling of the State Security Police and better working conditions and pay for workers.
The junta, which comprises nine military officers and three civilians and is headed by Gen. Abdul Rahman Swar al-Dahab, issued a statement warning that the advocating continued strikes would face dire consequences.
The new government has already disbanded the State Security Police and has
Diplomats said small-scale counter-demonstrations by the unions quickly fizzled, with fewer than 500 people taking part. No violence was reported.
Gen. al-Dahab met with U.S.
Charge d'Affairs David Shinn to reassure
the United States that Sudan intends to retain its
current pro-Western policies.
Trench to help stop North Carolina fire
By United Press International
Hundreds of firefighters dug a monster trench yesterday to stop the inferno that was 10 miles wide and blazing up the North Bank. They used 90,000 pounds of businesses and 90,000 acres of woodlands.
The wildfire raged for 42 hours and forced hundreds of people to flee along its 25-mile path of destruction before the gusting winds helped turn the blaze back on itself yesterday.
About 400 firefighters with buildoizers and shovels stopped the fire's march up the coast by digging trenches and pumping water from nearby lakes into the ditches. Four helicopters dumped buckets of water battled the
fire in places where it threatened to break free.
"The fire is contained but it's not under control," said Chrystal Stowe, a state safety spokeswoman. "We're pumping water into these monster trenches and keeping it from spreading. We expect the fire to take several weeks to burn itself out.
Officials said firefighters would have to keep watch over the blaze for as long as two months because of flammable peat bogs on the coast.
Washington County deputy sheriff Johnny Barnes said, "The fire just raced through there. The wind shifted and we just had enough time to get the people out."
The coastal blaze was the biggest this spring in the drought-plagued Southeast, where wildfires have burned more than 500,000 acres of forest.
In North Carolina, fires have consumed 135,000 acres, gutted 77 homes and businesses and injured 30 people, including firefighters felled by smoke and two people, who suffered mild heart attacks as fires whipped toward their homes.
One fireman was killed in South Carolina, where three fires burned yesterday over 6,300 acres, but no homes or buildings were threatened and officials said the fires were contained.
India files federal suit for victims
By United Press International
NEW YORK - India filed a federal suit yesterday asking an unspecified amount of damages from Union Carbide Corp. for the deaths of 1,700 persons and injuries to 200,000 others in the gas leak at its Bhopal plant, the world's worst industrial acci-
The suit said the damages could be so huge it could not immediately be determined the dollar amount India should get from the chemical company.
Deadly methyl isocyanate spewed from an underground storage tank at Union Carbide's pesticide plant in the central Indian city Dec. 3.
The Indian government filed the suit as the representative of all the victims of the Bhopal disaster. The suit cited the Indian Constitution, which makes the government guardian of its citizens' health and welfare.
Tom Failla, spokesman for Union Carbide, said the firm would have no comment "until we have time to study the suit."
The Indian government sought damages specifically for 1,700 persons killed and 200,000 injured in the gas leak, including "future generations of victims."
Other sources have put the death toll from the deadly leak at more than 2,500 persons and said the Indian government failed in its various estimates to take into account deaths among a shifting population of beggars affected by the leak.
The action was filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. The suit said the U.S. court system was the "most appropriate forum" for a resolution of the claims.
The suit alleged that Union Carbide was absolutely liable for the disaster because it knew the gas was "one of the most dangerous substances known to man" and posed "unacceptable risks" to the people of Bhopal.
In addition, the suit said Union Carbide was responsible because it designed the Bhopal plant, trained technical personnel in Institute, W. Va., and supervised those personnel from its U.S. offices. . . . 1991
It also alleged that Union Carbide failed in its duty as a multinational corporation to promote safety throughout its organization. The suit said that Union Carbide recommended storing gas in large quantities and failed to provide information about what to do in case of a gas leak.
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