NATION/WORLD
University Daily Kansan / Friday, May 1, 1992
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Chicago
Driver hits children, kills one
A car jumped the curb and plowed into a crowd of third-graders on a field trip at O'Hare International Airport yesterday, killing a 10-year-old girl and injuring 88 other people, authorities said.
At least seven victims were injured critically.
The 87-year-old man driving the car told police he thought he hit the brakes, but the car accelerated, and he was unable to stop, said Sgt. Thomas Swayne.
The children had just got off two school buses between airport terminals at midday when the car ran onto the sidewalk where they were gathered, witnesses said.
Police said the driver was taken into custody for questioning.
Eighty-eight people were injured, said Mike Cosgrove, a representative for the Chicago Fire Department.
Sarajevo, Bosnia
Masked commandos blew up the last two bridges linking Bosnia-Herzegovina with Croatia, and reports yesterday said that at least 10 people had died in the explosions.
Commandos blast last bridges
The bridges were the only links left to the relatively safe haven of Croatia for thousands of refugees fleeing embattled northeastern Bosnia.
Fighting meanwhile eased in Sarajevo between Serb militias seeking to carve off part of the city and Muslim defenders of the Bosnian capital.
Clashes continued elsewhere between Serb forces opposed to Bosnian independence and Albanian forces.
Three people were killed, and seven were wounded in Mostar, where federal forces shellled the southwestern city, the Belgrade-based Tanjung news agency reported.
Santa Monica, Calif.
Bisexual sex passes AIDS also
Many men who have sex with both men and women don't consider themselves bisexual, so they may not realize that they risk getting AIDS and spreading it to female lovers, according to a Rand Corp. study.
According to the study, AIDS-education messages may be more effective if they are targeted at men who have sex with other men rather than gay and bisexual men.
Thirty-eight percent of men in the study reported having at least one homosexual experience during adolescence; one in eight said they had one homosexual experience during adulthood; one in 22 considered themselves bisexual.
From The Associated Press
New Islamic leaders try to restore order in Kabul
KABUL, Afghanistan — The new Islamic government consolidated its command over Mujahedeen factions yesterday, trying to end looting and restore order in Kabul. The new government drove its rivals from the city and prepared to clean up.
The Associated Press
The rival forces, under fundamental leader leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, still controlled areas around the capital. But they were far outnumbered by various Muaheeda groups loyal to the new government.
President Sigbhatullah Mojaddi's government held its first session at the Council of Ministers building and agreed to centralize the command over the guerrilla groups which overran Kabul Saturday and ejected the remnants of President Najibullah's government.
Ahmed Shad Masood, one of the most powerful guerrilla commanders and now the defense minister, attended the council session in Kabul, but was seen leaving before it ended. Delegates later said the council failed to decide on its position regarding Hekmatvar and would meet again today.
ne attacks, there be a response, "Khan said. Masood and Hekmatyar are bitter enemies from different ethnic groups and disagree on the future Islamic government. Hekmatyar favors strict imposition of Islamic law. Masood and Mojadidi likely would apply it moderately.
Before the council arrived in Kabul on Tuesday, Hekmatyar was elected prime minister of the transitional government, but rejected it, said Gen. Mohammad Khan, a military aid to Mojaddidi.
would apply a rule of thumb.
The new government consists of 20 rebel leaders who fought a succession of Soviet-backed governments for 14 years.
Massood appeared in complete control of Kabul after hard fighting with Hekmatav.
"Additional measures will be taken to provide for the safety and security of Kabul's residents and for foreign diplomats and emissaries," presidential representative Ahmed Ghazharay said.
Looting and indiscriminate shooting have terrorized Kabul*i $1.5 million residents, although life in the capital was slowly returning to normal after three days of internecine fighting in its streets.
"We're not worried now," said 18-year-old Abdul Sabor, manager of a tiny grocery store in the city center. A few stores reopened on the street.
Despite the relative calm, about 20 rockets hit the Kabul airport, about three miles east of downtown Kabul, about 5p.m. Guards said they were fired from Hekmatyar's positions on mountains south and southeast of the city. No injuries were reported.
Navy report says admirals sexually molested women
WASHINGTON — The Navy's inspector general issued a report yesterday that described in graphic detail the sexual molestation of 26 women at a 1991 convention of naval aviators and charged that Navy admirals had approved of such activity for years.
The Associated Press
The Naval Investigative Service said its seven-month investigation showed that the women, more than half of them naval officers, suffered varying degrees of sexual assaults. The alleged misconduct occurred at a convention of Navy and Marine Corps aviators in Las Vegas.
In an interview, Undersecretary of the Navy Dan Howard said no disciplinary action against senior Navy officials was contemplated. The issue, he said, is "to teach our people ... the difference between acceptable and unacceptable behavior."
Navy investigators interviewed women who complained of being subjected to a hotel hallway gantlet, a nightly event that involved up to 200 men. According to one woman, the event involved eight nights involved 40 to 50 women and lasted for two hours.
"The attacks ranged from being patted on the buttocks to having other portions of their anatomy groped
and grabbed," said the report, which included more than 2,000 pages of testimony.
The inspector general, Rear Adm. George Davis, said closing ranks and obfuscation on the part of the officers who supposedly had knowledge of the incidents had made it impossible to know the nature, severity and number of incidents that occurred.
Howard said the senior Navy leadership was "disgusted, very frustrated that we did not receive the full cooperation of everyone in the investigation."
The report said similar activities apparently had taken place at the annual conventions since 1986, all with the knowledge of senior Navy officials.
The report said that when one female officer attempted to report her experience, she was told that she should have expected such activity on the part of drunken aviators and that her career would be ruined for raising a complaint.
One victim was the aide to Rear Adm. Jack Snyder, who was relieved of his command in December by the chief of naval operations, Adm. Frank Kelso.
Noother Naval officers have stepped forward to take responsibility for the incident, which Kelso has called an embarrassment to the Navy.
Attention Business and French Majors! Washburn University is offering
FR 300 French for Business MWF1-2 p.m.
Along with this course, you will have an opportunity to take the Chamber of Commerce of Paris
Examination for Language Expertise Certification
This course and the examination will not be offered at the University of Kansas. This is your only chance to take this relevant and valuable course during the coming academic year. It will be offered this fall (August 1992) at Washburn University in Topeka.
For more information, call Modern Foreign Languages (913) 231-1010, ext. 1508
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