INTERNATIONAL
University Daily Kansan / Thursday, April 30, 1992
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Taipei, Taiwan
McDonald's closes restaurants
McDonald's closed its 57 restaurants in Taiwan after a bomb went off in one of the fast-food outlets yesterday, the third explosion linked to an extortion campaign.
Police and the chain together offered $880,000 in rewards for clues leading to the capture of those responsible for the bombings.
In the Taipei suburb of Yungho, a McDonald's manager was hospitalized in critical condition after a bomb he was inspecting blew up. The bomb had been discovered by a worker on the ceiling in the restaurant's men's room. Flying glass from the explosion also hurt two children, police said.
Two hours later, police were called to a bomb at a McDonald's in downtown Tulsa.
On Tuesday, a policeman was killed when he tried to defuse a bomb inside the men's room of a McDonald's restaurant, and another bomb exploded in a telephone booth across from the McDonald's in Koahsuing, southern Taiwan.
France
Harsher harassment law
The Cabinet yesterday approved a bill that would make sexual harassment in the workplace a crime punishable by prison. Backers said it would be the toughest such measure in western Europe.
Widely supported by labor unions, management and women's groups, the proposed law would punish offenders with fines of $360 to $3,600 and imprisonment of up to one year.
Secretary of Women's Rights Veronique Neiertz, who submitted the bill, said it would increase public awareness that sexual harassment is a crime.
"In the public sector, I can assure you that the victims are discouraged from filing suit," Neiertz said.
The legislation would require that employers reinstate employees fired for resisting sexual harassment and outlaw salary cuts, demotions or transfers of people for sexual reasons.
The bill strengthens existing labor laws and is expected to be passed by Parliament. It applies to both physical and verbal forms of sexual harassment.
According to a recent survey, 21 percent of France's male and female working population faced sexual harassment at some point in their careers.
From The Associated Press
Violence in Bosnia continues U.N. cuts back peacekeeping efforts amid fighting
The Associated Press
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — Heavy mortar fire rocked a strategic town in Bosnia-Herzegovina and U.N. officials scaled back peacekeeping operations yesterday amid renewed ethnic violence.
The Yugoslavian federal army commander for Bosnia, Gen. Milutin Kukanjac, reiterated his defiance of an order from the Bosnian presidency to withdraw from the latest republic to break with Yugoslavia.
The Serb-led army and Serbian paramilitaries have backed the Bosnian Serbians' battle against the Croatians and Muslims who fought and won independence. In response, the United States and western Europe have threatened diplomatic and economic sanctions against Serbia.
Mostar, in southwestern Bosnia, came under
heavy mortar fire shortly before midnight Tuesday, Associated Press reporter Slobodan Lekic said from the city.
Eight people were killed and 19 injured in the bombardment, the Tanjug news agency said. At least 18 have died and 161 been wounded in Mostar since early April.
Reports said yesterday that 12 Serbians were killed in northern Bosnia and four Croatians were wounded just across the border in Croatia by Serbian shells.
Shells rained down on the historic Ottoman town — 40 percent Muslim, 40 percent Croatian and 20 percent Serbian — from federal army positions on a hill
Mostar's center shook every few seconds with a fresh blast early yesterday, Lekic said. Minarets of the city's old mosque and church spires were silhouetted black against the orange flare of explosions.
U.S. drags feet on emissions limits
"It's the cap they're against. They're not against the idea of reducing," he said.
The so-called greenhouse effect is caused by the build-up of gases that can trap the sun's heat, threatening to raise the Earth's temperatures. Carbon dioxide formed by the burning of fossil fuels is one of the most important greenhouse gases.
Negotiations will resume today in New York and continue until May 8, in hope of reaching an agreement that can be signed at the U.N. Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in June. The last round of negotiations was held at the United Nations in February.
An analysis prepared by government agencies shows that environmental regulations and energy conservation measures already under way in the United States will bring America close to the proposed limits without excessive costs. Eileen Claussen of the Environmental Protection Agency said last week.
UNITED NATIONS — The United States is standing firm against a proposed U.N. treaty to set limits on greenhouse gas emissions, even though its own analysis shows it can easily meet the limits, officials said yesterday.
U. S. opposition to specific targets and timetables for reducing greenhouse gases could do more than doom the global warming agreement, Brooks Yeager of the National Audubon Society in Washington said in a telephone interview.
Michael Zammit Cutajar, secretary of the United Nations negotiating committee, said in a news briefing that the United States had shown some willingness to compromise but that it still rejected a European proposal to reduce emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000.
Average temperatures have risen worldwide, and the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased markedly over the past 100 years.
Heating up
The Associated Press
Carbon dioxide concentration
Parts per million
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