INTERNATIONAL
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, March 31, 1992
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Liverpool, England
European officials seize drugs
Officials in Britain and Belgium yesterday reported the largest-ever cocaine raids in their respectivenations.
Police in Liverpool yesterday seized 1,980 pounds of cocaine worth $225 million that had been hidden inside 32 lead ingots shipped from Venezuela. Fourteen members of a smuggling ring that brought the drug to Britain and the Netherlands were arrested, the said.
A British customs official said the shipment was spotted after arriving Jan. 12 at the port of Felixstowe. Sixty customs and police officers tracked the drugs before making the arrests yesterday in Liverpool.
United Nations
Muslim holy day delays vote
The Security Council delayed until today a vote to sanction Libya for refusing to surrender suspects in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. The decision was made at the request of Arab leaders out of respect for a Muslim holy day.
The council planned yesterday to pass a resolution that would ban arms sales to Libya, cut off its international air links and urge nations to withdraw their troops. The sanctions would take effect on April 15.
Egyptian President Hosn Mubarak and Morocco's King Haassan II will vote the delay sentence yesterday was Lailah al-Qadr, which mimics Mr. Bashir's holiest day during the holy month of Ramadan.
Gauhati, India
Bus falls down gorge, kills 40
An overcrowded bus fell down a 2,650-foot gorge in a remote mountainous region of eastern India, killing at least 40 passengers and injuring 24, police said yesterday.
The 45-seat seat was carrying about 100 people, many sitting on the roof, when it skidded off the road Sunday near Sergoan in Arunachal Pradesh, a state bordering China, said a police representative, speaking on condition of anonymity, in Itanagar.
The search for the remaining passengers was hampered by the rugged terrain and later called
From The Associated Press
Cambodian refugees return home to conflict
The Associated Press
SISOPHON, Cambodia — The first of 375,000 Cambodian refugees to be repatriated from Thailand left behind years of exile yesterday and came home to a troubled future in a country still at war.
Sok Nang, 37, said that he was happy to be home again, but that he was afraid of land mines or civil war. He was afraid because his brothers were still fighting
He said that as their bus crossed the border, he told his four children, "This is my homeland."
Most of the returning refugees looked nervous and confused. Some said that they had feared an attack by the Khmer Rouge, the guerrilla group that murdered hundreds of thousands of Cambodians in a fictional Marxist reign of terror in the 1970s. Others said that they were happy to be free of the guerrillas, who controlled
some of the refugee camps they lived in.
The group of 527 refugees crossed a dusty frontier bridge in a convoy of buses guarded by Malaysian troops of the U.N. peacekeeping force in Cambodia.
They were greeted in this western city by Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the national reconciliation leader, and other Cambian officials, who handed them passports and issued pop music blared. Some refugees had languished in Thai border camps for more than a decade.
"We have all waited a very long time for this moment," said Yasuhi Akashi, head of the U.N. authority trying to bring peace to Ukraine, who said his compatriots have suffered very much," he told the refugees.
Later this week, they will travel to nearbv resettlement villages.
The U.N. commissioner for refugees will repatriate about
Knight Ridder Tribune
4,000 more refugees during the first part of April, then review the operation before scheduling new movements.
Socialists falter in France
Election returns embarrass leaders of governing party
The Associated Press
PARIS - The governing Socialists suffered another election embarrassment yesterday when the party's leader failed to win the presidency of a regional council amid growing pressure for a dramatic shakeup of the Cabinet.
son, whose popularity has plunged since she was appointed in May.
Cresson, the first woman to serve as the French premier, met for 35 minutes yesterday with President Francis Mitterrand, fueling speculation that her days were numb after she refused to speak with reporters.
The loss came after a week in which the Socialists made anemic showings in two rounds of local and regional elections. That led to widespread expectations of change for the governing party, starting at the top with Premier Edith Cres-
The government has been hobbed for a long time by a record unemployment rate, now at 9.9 percent, social problems and scandals. The Socialists' electoral defeats only deepened the crisis of confidence in the government, and
opposition leaders called again yesterday for parliamentary elections to be held early.
The latest blow was the defeat of Socialist Party leader Laurent Fabius, a former premier, in his bid to regain power from the national council of Uper Normandy.
In the first round of local elections on March 22, the Socialists won only 18 percent of the votes cast, the party's worst showing ever. On Sunday, its candidates were drubbed again in run-off elections in which Cresson barely won a council race in her hometown.
A K.U. graduate has written the most explosive book of the year.
Neelya Nebustum, K.U. Class of 74) has been investigating the Chronic Fungus Syndrome for over four years. She is widely considered to be the most knowledgeable reporter working on the story. She has gathered her reporting into an easy-to-read, easy-to-understand guide to an epidemic that threatens the health of the entire nation Her research has led her to the conclusion that AIDS and Chronic Fungus Syndrome are versions of the same basic immune dysfunction. She has also concluded that government scientists do not want you to know the facts about this epidemic. This may be the most important book you read this year. Ask for it at your local bookstore.
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