INTERNATIONAL
University Daily Kansan / Friday, April 24, 1992
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Beijing
Gadhafi suggests trial in Egypt
Col. Moammar Gadhafi says two Libyans wanted in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 are free to surrender to U.S. or British courts if they wish, but he suggests a trial in Egypt instead, China's official news agency said today.
Xinhua News Agency quoted Gadhafi as saying that he made the proposal for a trial in Egypt at a meeting Tuesday with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Gadhafi said Mubarak was ready to help resolve the issue, Xinhua reported. But in Cairo yesterday, a senior government official said Egypt opposed the idea.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official said Egypt was willing to act only as an intermediary in trying to find a solution to the confrontation, which led to the imposition of U.N. sanctions against Libya last week.
Rome
62-year-old woman is pregnant
A 62-year-old woman has become pregnant after a test-tube conception, her doctor said yesterday, and she apparently would be the oldest person to give birth if she delivers successfully
Concetta Ditessa, a housewife from a Calabrian village in southern Italy, is due to give birth to a boy in August and has had no complications. Raffaele Magli, her physician, said in a telephone interview from his office in Naples.
Magli said Ditessa was impregnated with an egg from a 30-year-old woman that was fertilized with sperm in Ditessa's husband.
The Guinness Book of World Records says the last date for a birth that medical authorities recognize is March 23, 1980.
Pisa, Italy
Leaning Tower will get support
The prognosis is dire: Shore up the Leaning Tower of Pisa or risk the monument's collapse at any moment.
The prescription; a steel girdle.
the pierce protrusion, it's steep due.
It has been more than two years since the bell tower and its 294 dizzying steps were closed because of possible danger. An international panel of experts has been debating how to halt or at least slow its relentless tilting.
On Wednesday, the committee issued its most alarming warning so far and agreed on a plan to steady the 819-year-old tower.
Its first tier will be ringed with five rings of thin steel cable, much like the bands that circle a wine barrel, for extra support. Work will begin in a few days, and the rings will stay in place until a permanent repair can be made.
From The Associated Press
Guadalajara's mayor orders citizens to leave
The Associated Press
GUADALAJARA, Mexico - Fearing more explosions, the mayor of Guadalajara yesterday ordered the evacuation of a Guadalajara neighborhood near the district wrecked by sewer-line explosions a day earlier. The death toll from the explosions has risen above 200, according to government estimates.
As investigators searched for the cause of the blasts, the governor of Jalisco state, Guillermo Cosio Vidaurri, said that at least three officials would face criminal negligence charges for failing to evacuate the area where Wednesday's explosions occurred after residents reported a strong gas smell.
Weeping survivors throughed the streets of Guadalajara's La Reforma district, where the explosions destroyed 20 to 25 square city blocks, hurled cars and trucks into the air and blew up adobe houses. At least 600 people were hurt and more than 15,000 others were left homeless, officials said.
State representative Armando Morquecho said damage was estimated at $300 million.
At a makeshift morgue built in a sports stadium, relatives wailed as they looked at a list of names of the dead identified so far. Every few minutes, an announcement telling the bereaved that the government would pay for the funerals blared from a loud speaker.
With the grief came anger. Residents demanded to know why the government had failed to act promptly on reports of the fumes, and what had caused the buildup of volatile gas in the sewer system.
"If authorities knew about this why did they tell us?" said Ramon Guerra, 22, who helped pull the bodies of his sister and his 6-year-old nephew from the ruins of their home.
Officials said the explosions might have been caused by either an industrial chemical used by a cooking-oil company or by a gasoline spill into the sewer system. The state oil monopoly Pemex denied any responsibility for the blasts, as did the cooking-oil company La Central.
Yesterday, Guadalajara Mayor Enrique Dau Flores ordered the evacuation of about four square blocks in the Alamo district of the city, south of the blast area, after residents said they smelled fumes. The area is surrounded by about 40 factories, including a Pemex plant.
Firemen removed manhole covers to disperse any gas in the sewers, and a Pemex truck checked gaslines.
Following fighting in Sarajevo, Bosnian factions agree to truce
The Associated Press
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Leaders of Bosnia's three warring ethnic groups and the federal army signed a truce yesterday and agreed to resume talks on the republic's future.
The truce, negotiated by European Community envoy Lord Carrington and Portuguese Foreign Office foie de舟 Beinphein, came after the fiercest fight between seven of warfare across the republic.
Fighting in Bosnia has claimed more than 200 lives since the republic's majority of Muslims and Croatians voted for independence on Feb. 29. Serbians, who make up about a third of Bosnia's 4.4 million people, fiercely oppose independence, saying it will make them a minority in an Islamic state.
The fighting ebbed yesterday as leaders of Bosnia's Muslim, Croatian and Serbian factions, as well as the Serbian-dominated federal army, gathered at Sarajevo's airport.
But sniper fire resumed as the signing commenced, forcing reporters and U.N. observers to take cover under parked cars. The shooting, from a predominantly Muslim district, appeared to be
aimed at disrupting the signing.
Bosnia's president, Alija Izetbegovic, made an emotional appeal for peace as he signed the agreement on behalf of the republic's Moslems.
"I will do my best to see that the people respect the cease-fire", Izetbegovic said. "It is my plea and my order."
In the agreement, the leaders pledged to respect an April 12 cease-fire that has been repeatedly violated, said Pinheiro, who currently holds the EC's rotating presidency.
Serbian leader Radovan Karadzic told reporters after meeting with Carrington that Bosnia's Serbs were "ready to sit down even in hell to get peace for this country." Karadzic has said he wants to form a separate state from Bosnia's Serbian-populated areas.
Carrington, who left for Belgrade, Serbia's capital, after meeting with Bosnia's leaders, was cautious in assessing the chances for peace.
"I think they were all really rather scared by the level of violence," he said prior to a meeting with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic. "I hope the cease-fire takes effect, but of course it remains to be seen if they can make it effective."
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