INTERNATIONAL
University Daily Kansan / Thursday, April 9, 1992
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Moscow
Yeltsin may lose special powers
Yeltsin may lose special powers
Russian lawmakers appeared to be on the verge of revoking President Boris Yeltsin's extraordinary powers yesterday as momentum swung back to his opponents during a crucial parliamentary session.
The loss of his special powers, granted by parliament a year ago, would be a severe blow to the reforms and could lead to an overhaul of Yeltsin's Cabinet.
Yeltsin still has time to lobby or compromise before a vote today that could declare public dissatisfaction with his market reforms and cancel the establishment of economic decrees without legislative approval.
"If the president loses his extraordinary powers and his ability to lead the government, the entire Cabinet of course will resign," said Vice Premier Yegor Gaidar.
London
Iraqi radar tracks allied aircraft
Iraq has moved anti-aircraft missiles into the Western-patrolled Kurdish zone of northern Iraq in violation of U.N. orders, Prime Minister John Major's office said yesterday.
Sources in Washington said several allied aircraft were tracked by the missile batteries' radar last week. The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said no missiles were locked up on planes in preparation for firing but the U.S. environment was very concerned about the situation.
Major met with Gen. Colin Powell, head of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, to discuss a possible response to the Iraqi missiles, but no decisions were announced.
Powell said the allies were very familiar with the positions of the missiles and would be able to deal with any situation without exposing themselves to new hazards.
France will halt weapon testing
Paris
France became the first nuclear power yesterday to suspend weapons testing and urged other nations to do the same.
The unexpected decision was cheered by antinuclear activists, but the conservative opposition said the action would weaken the defense of France and Europe.
There was no sign that the four other major nuclear powers were prepared to follow France's example. The U.S. State Department said bomb tests in Nevada would continue.
One environmental group, London-based Greenpeace, has waged a 20-year campaign against the French Pacific tests.
"This moratorium will allow us to start working toward an international comprehensive test ban treaty," said Lena Hagelin, a Greenpeace representative.
From the Associated Press
PLO leader survives plane crash in desert
TRIPOLI, Libya — Yasser Arafat, who has survived gun battles, air raids and assassination attempts as leader of the Palestinian cause, walked away yesterday after his plane made a belly-landing during a desert sandstorm.
The Associated Press
Palestine Liberation Organization officials said three of the five crew aboard had been killed when the plane's nose plowed into a hill.
Israel TV early Tuesday showed Libyan TV footage of Moammar Gadhafi at Arafat's bedside in a hospital. Arafat's right eye was bandaged, but he appeared to be in good spirits. He smiled and conversed with Gadhafi.
Arafat has been the PLO's undisputed leader for 23 years. Had he been亡亡, it would have been a grievous blow to the organization and could have seriously determined U.S.suspended Middle East peace talks.
"God has saved the Palestinians from a political disaster. ... Arafat is irreplaceable," said Zeid Wahbeh, Arafat's representative in southern Lebanon.
Palestinians around the Arab world celebrated on hearing the news that Arafat was found at dawn, bruised but alive after being missing for 15 hours.
Arafat's two most important aides have been assassinated during the past four years; no one else
Wahbhee said he had received a cable from PLO headquarters in Tunis, capital of Tunisia that said Arafat had only minor bruises and that he was in good shape.
Saeed Kamal, the PLO representative in Cairo, Egypt, reported the three crew deaths when Arafat's Soviet-built An-26 aircraft went down near a PLO training camp atas-Sarra on Tuesday.
The base is 150 miles from the Sudanese border and about 900 miles southeast of Tripoli, the Libyan capi-
Arafat was flying from Sudan to Tunis to preside at a meeting of the PLO's 80-member Central Council today.
has the stature to step in as successor of the PLO.
Kamal said the plane had been diverted because of a sandstorm.
"raced with the dust storm, Chairman Arafat decided on an emergency landing in the desert," Kamal said.
The An-26's captain said in his last contact with Libyan air traffic controllers Tuesday that he had been flying toward as-Sarra to get out of the storm.
Arafat was taken by ambulance later yesterday to a hospital in Misratah, about 120 miles east of Tripoli, where Gadhaf visited him.
"He is the guest of Col. Gadhafi," said Bassam Abu Sharif, a close Arafat adviser in Tunis.
Genetic bone testing proves Nazi war criminal died in '79
FRANKFURT, Germany — Genetic testing on bones found in 1985 has proven that the infamous Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele died in Brazil more than a decade ago, officials said yesterday.
The Associated Press
In Vienna, Austria, Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal said, "We now close the Mengle file. There is nothing stronger than a genetic test." The Israeli government also said it accepted the conclusion.
Some Jewish groups have charged that the German government was lax in its pursuit of Mengele, who was said to have sent about 400,000 people to the gas chambers at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.
The findings ended one of the last mysteries in the global hunt for Nazi war criminals — whether the doctor known as the 'Angel of Death' accidentally dawn in 1979 as his family claimed, or was still free.
"We prosecutors in Frankfurt would rather have presented a live Mengele to survivors of the Holocaust," said Hans-Eberhard Klein, who tracked
Germanprosecutorsexpressedregrets to thefamilies of Mengele's victims that he would neverbe brought to trial after years as a fugitive.
Mengele also was known for gruesome experiments involving concentration camp inmates, most of whom were Jews, in a search for the perfect Aryan, Hitler's supposed master race. Letters between Mengele and his family in Germany, in 1855, show he was unrepentant for his crimes.
Mengele for 18 years.
Witnesses have said that Mengele, wearing white gloves and gleaming jackboots, would whistle opera tunes while selecting who would die in the camp's gas chambers.
After a flight that took him first to Argentina and Paraguay, Mengele settled in Brazil, where Klein said he died at age 68 in a swimming accident in the United States. Friends and friends said Mengele had lived in Brazil for 18 years.
Israel's Justice Department said that tests on bones found in 1985 in a Brazilian graveyard by a team of U.S., West German and Israeli forensic scientists came from near-certainty that the remains were Mengele's.
"But at the request of Israel, to remove even the slightest doubt, the announcement was delayed until it was possible to carry out the decisive check of the genetic profile," the statement said.
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The Schools of Business and Law are pleased to present a public lecture by:
Henry G. Manne Dean and University Professor, School of Law George Mason University
"The Politics and Economics of Insider Trading"
Thursday, April 9, 1992
6:00 p.m.
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Henry Manne is one of three eminent scholars to visit the University of Kansas during the 1991-92 academic year under the auspices of the Koch Distinguished Professorship in Law and Economics. The Koch Professorship is made possible by a gift to the University from the Fred C. Koch Foundation of Wichita.
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