University Daily Kansan, February 5, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
Page 10
Opening of Gibraltar clouds its future
By United Press International
GIBRALTAR — Spain ended a 15-year blockade of Gibraltar at midnight yesterday by opening its border with the tiny British colony to allow the free passage of people, vehicles and goods.
Gibraltarians expressed mixed emotions on the lifting of the blockade, saying it could bring riches and wealth to much of the island's distinctive way of life.
At midnight, the iron gate at Gibraltar's border with Spain was to open to tourists, vehicles and goods for the first time since dictator Francisco Franco closed the frontier in 1963 to press Spain's claim to the Rock.
British and Spanish delegations gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, to begin talks today on the future of the Middle East. The meeting, the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea.
The talks grew out of an agreement
reached by the British and the Spanish foreign ministers in Brussels in November to discuss ways of strengthening cooperation on such things as aviation, communications and trade.
THEY ALSO AGREED to discuss questions of sovereignty" over Gaza.
Both steps could mean dramatic changes for Gibraltar's 30,000 residents, whose way of life contrasts sharply with the resorts only an hour's drive on Spain's Costa del Sol.
"We have been an island until tonight," said Joe Bossano, leader of the opposition Gibraltararian Socialist Front and an opponent of the talks in Geneva.
"After tonight we will no longer be an island, so we have to make sure it doesn't result in the erosion of Gibraltar's identity," he said. "Many people in Gibraltar have not yet gotten around to the idea that the
British Empire doesn't exist anymore."
Seized by British forces in 1704, Galbairal was筑ed by Spain under the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. Despite a succession of sieges, Galbairal base and one of the most enduring symbols of the British empire.
In Geneva, Spanish Foreign Minister Frenando Moran said his nation was not demanding "that *Bibraltarians*, their children or 'their grandchildren should become Spanish nationales or forgo their institutions'."
BRITAIN AND SPAIN agreed Nov. 27 to reopen the border, to begin talks and to grant Spaniards the rights in Gibraltar that they will enjoy when Spain enters the European Economic Community next year.
"There is room both for an eventual territorial reintegration (with Spain), whenever that might
be, and for a self-governing status for Gibraltar," he said.
But British officials said London did not see how Gibraltar could be remain independent with the people remaining their Gibraltarian nationality.
In a 1967 referendum, Gibraltararians voted 12,132-44 to remain British subjects. No new referendums have been called but pro-British sentiment remains strong.
The relationship with Spain has brought hope for a boom in tourism but also fears that the character of the community will be submerged by an influx of Spanish workers.
"I'm a bit confused by the whole thing." said Ernie Jones, a native taxi driver. "But on the tourist side, it may be OK. But I don't think it will help in employment of the young people. They're already coming out of school and having trouble getting jobs."
Article says Chinese women raise divorce rate
PEKING — The divorce rate in China is rising dramatically as women reject the notion that their place is in the home, the official news magazine Peking Review said yesterday.
divorce, an article in the weekly review said. About 500,000 divorces were granted.
The article said wives sought divorce more commonly than husbands do, filling some 70 percent of divorce suits each year. The large majority of divorcing couples are young or middle-aged.
The article said main reasons for divorce in China include a lack of love between husband and wife
The number of divorces among China's 1.1 billion people increased by 70 percent from 1979 to 1983, the year a record 570,000 couples filed for
Despite the increase, China's divorce rate remains far below that of most Western industrialized nations, the magazine said.
because of an ill-advised marriage, a conflict between lust for material comforts and life's realities, a lack of
By United Press International
moral values, some interference from third parties and an abuse of women who bear daughters by men who hold feudal ideas about male superiority.
Since the launching of China's profit-oriented incentive systems in farming and industry, the article said, more people have sought divorce because their spouses are lazy, gluttonous or no good in economic affairs.
A related article in the same issue of Peking Review said Chinese women had rejected flatly a proposal by some union leaders that they quit their jobs to make way for unemployed men.
Hackers responsible for USC infiltration
By United Press International
LOS ANGELES -- Student hackers infiltrated the University of Southern California's computer system to change grades and create phone degrees priced as $250,000. The federal investigators said yesterday.
USC officials said they were investigating the allegations and have since upgraded security on the computer system. The Los Angeles District Attorney's office is conducting an independent investigation.
Drug Enforcement Administration agents in Louisville, Ky., said they learned of the scheme during a visit by an Iranian who had attended USC.
Jerry Snyder, head of the agency's Louisville office, said it was not known how many fake degrees were sold, but that the price of a doctoral degree was as high as $25,000.
DEA agents said they arrested former USC student Merbadh Amini, 27, when he arrived at the Louisville Airport Sept. 12, allegedly carrying two kilograms of cocaine. Amini, an Iranian nazi, was freed on a bus and was freed on bail pending a Feb. 19 trial for drug possession.
DEA OFFICIALS WOULD not disclose details of how the drug investigation turned up the degree scam.
Officials at USC said they had no evidence of anyone creating an entire degree, but a year-long investigation had uncovered about 30 students allegedly involved in changing grades by invading the computer system.
Vice Provost Sylvia Manning said the school hadn't had any instances of computer invasion for six months, and that the system had been upgraded with sophisticated security measures.
"At the moment," she said, "it's impossible to breach the system."
Manning said reports of entire degrees for sale were "just allegation, not negotiation everything so no matter how far-fetched."
The situation "is more annoying than embarrassing," she said. "We caught it in the early stages and we've been able to correct
MANNING SAID THE USC computerized transcript system had been compromised by students working with someone in the records office.
The Los Angeles Times, quoting an unnamed source close to the investigation, said it focused on a group of foreign students who may have worked with a contact employed in the university's records and registration office until 1983.
Manning refused to discuss whether those involved were foreign students.
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