NATION/WORLD
University Daily Kansan / Monday. April 27, 1992
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INTERNATIONAL BRIEFS
Le Mans, France
Spectators killed at cycle race
Nine spectators here to watch the 24-hour Le Mans Motorcycle race were killed late Saturday in three separate accidents.
One French official blamed "hooliganism," and officials said alcohol apparently played a
A chartered plane crashed south of Tehran and two people were aboard were believed killed. Iranian
The accidents, which killed seven French, one British and one German motorcyclist, all took place outside the competition, each year draws thousands of motorcycle aficionados.
The Dutch-made twin turboprop Fokker Friendship crashed just after noon, possibly in unstable weather, the official Islamic Republic News Agency said. It did not elaborate on the weather conditions.
The 15th running of the race, which started Saturday afternoon and ended yesterday, drew about 50,000 motorcycle spectators. In last race, 60 people were injured in 40 accidents.
It crashed nine miles east of the town of Saveh, which is 80 miles south of the capital, the news agency and state-run Iranian radio said in reports monitored in Cyprus.
Besides the nine deaths on Saturday, 50 people were injured in the accidents, 14 of them seriously, officials said.
Nicosia, Cyprus
The plane, operated by the airline Saha, was under charter by Iran's state-run petrochemical company en route from Mah Shahr in the southern Khuzestan province to Tehran.
Plane crash leaves 39 missing
Rescue workers and a team of aviation experts went to the crash site, the agency reported.
From The Associated Press
Mexico's attorney general faults officials for disaster
GUADALAJARA, Mexico — Mexico's attorney general yesterday blamed the sewer blasts that killed at least 189 people last week on city leaders and the Pemex state oil monopoly.
The Associated Press
He said several officials faced criminal charges for not evacuating the area after residents in a working-class neighborhood reported strong gasoline fumes coming from the sewers.
Pemex had denied responsibility for Wednesday's explosions. It said a broken gasoline pipeline had not caused the disaster but rather was ruptured by the blasts.
No Pemex representatives were available for immediate comment yesterday.
The attorney general, Ignacio Morales Lechuga,
said nine public officials, Pemex leaders and two private
citizens he did not identify would face charges
Mexicans, who repeatedly have suffered environmental and natural disasters in recent years, have harshly criticized officials for the disaster and blamed both Pemex and lax government precautions.
including negligent homicide, injuries to 1,470 people and property damage.
Morales Lechuga said the leaked gasoline mixed with other volatile chemicals in the sewers, especially the strong industrial chemical hexane, causing the disaster. He said three cooking-oil companies that use hexane in the manufacturing process would be investigated to determine whether they were the source of the hexane.
The attorney general said the blasts damaged 1,422 homes, 450 businesses and 600 vehicles and gouged trenches in five miles of streets. State officials said half of those killed were children, many of whom were at home during the two-week Easter school holiday.
Seven nations agree on proposal for former Soviet Union aid plan
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Top finance officials from the world's seven richest industrial nations voiced general agreement yesterday on the outlines of a $24 billion assistance package for Russia. The agreement paves the way for aid that ultimately could rival the Marshall Plan in its scope.
The officials from the world's seven wealthiest countries let it be known that Western aid would be contingent on Russia not faltering in its reform effort.
Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan met for dinner Saturday night at the Blair House and continued discussions yesterday at the Treasury Department with finance officials from Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Canada.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, the chief architect of his country's economic reforms, met with finance officials yesterday afternoon and
faced probing questions about whether Russia remained committed to reforms in the face of stiff political opposition.
Although there were plenty of questions for Gaidar officials who had seen a draft of a final communique said that it endorsed the outlines of the aid program
"Our message must be help for self-help," said German Finance Minister Theo Waigel. "We want to signal to them that we want to help, but the major responsibility must be theirs."
Russia and the other 14 republics are expected to win approval today for full membership in the International Monetary Fund and its sister lending organization, the World Bank.
A new world celebrates Orthodox Easter
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Joyous Muscovites crowded into candle-lit churches yesterday to celebrate Russian Orthodox Easter, and for the first time in 74 years, Kremlin bells pealed in Red Square in honor of the holy day
Many Albanian Orthodox believers also celebrated Easter freely for the first time, but bloodshed in Bosnia-Herzegovina kept many people home.
The patriarch of the Orthodox believers worldwide, Batholomeles I, led a two-hour service in Istanbul, Turkey, where the church's patriarchate is located.
The patriarch, in gold ceremonial robes and a crown, wished the crowd at St. George Church a happy Easter and blessed them.
The overwhelming majority of Greeks belong to the Orthodox Church, and many who stayed home celebrated with midnight services, then followed the Easter custom of going to the countryside to eat lamb roasted on a spit. Police reported that nearly half the residents of the burning Pireus were in their own homes, and did not return.
— 4 million people — had left town for the day
He carried only a Coca-Cola bottle filled with raki, a local Balkan brew, and a wad of Albanian leks he hoped to change for Yugoslav dinars to buy shoes.
Tens of thousands of Albanians flooded into neighboring Macedonia Saturday after the border was opened for 32 hours in a goodwill gesture for Orthodox Easter.
Religion was banned in the former Soviet Union and Albania during the long communist era. But it has begun to flourish in eastern Europe with the fall of Maryist states.
"It's my first time to go abroad," said Nesti Cabani, a 43-year-old peasant脱出 in a suit.
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At midnight Saturday, Easter bells rang out from Ivan the Great's befy in the Kremlin for the first time since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, and bells at Orthodox churches across the city chimed in.
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