INTERNATIONAL
University Daily Kansan / Friday, March 27. 1992
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Moscow
Russians chase off submarine
Arepresentative from theformerSoviet navy said yesterday that a foreign submarine had been chased out of Russia's northern waters Wednesday, and Russian media reported officers thought it was a U.S. ship on a spy mission.
The incident comes just six weeks after a collision between Commonwealth of Independent States and U.S. subs in the same area of the Barents Sea.
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said he did not have enough information to respond to the allegations or to say whether a U.S. vessel was involved.
After submarine personnel realized the vessel had been detected, it quickly headed for international waters using the shortest possible a commonwealth navy representative said.
Helsinki, Finland
Nations demand closing of plant
Estonia and Finland demanded yesterday that Russia close a nuclear power plant that leaked radioactive gases into the atmosphere above their countries.
But Russian nuclear officials said yesterday that there were no plans to shut down the plant at Sosnovy Bor. They said radiation levels had returned to normal since a defective tube triggered a leak at the plant.
Estonia was never officially notified of the accident, and Finland was told about 10 hours
The reactor involved in the accident is similar to the one that caught fire at the Chernobyl plant in 1986.
Dublin, Ireland
Abortion-law change proposed
The Irish government yesterday proposed relaxing its laws on abortion by allowing women to obtain information about the availability of abortions in other countries.
Ireland's abortion laws, the most restrictive in Europe, have been under review since a court last month forbade a 14-year-old rape victim from traveling to Britain for an abortion.
Ireland's supreme court overturned the lower-court ruling. The higher court decided an abortion was warranted because the girl had threatened to kill herself.
The government's new proposal came in the form of an amendment to the European Commission.
Abortion is illegal in predominantly Roman Catholic Ireland except when the mother's life is endangered by the pregnancy.
From The Associated Press
Libya to keep suspects out of foreign custody
The Associated Press
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Britain accused Libya yesterday of dodging responsibility for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 by going to the World Court rather than surrender its suspects.
Libya is seeking emergency protection from attack and international sanctions proposed by the United States and Britain to gain custody of the two Libvans suspected of the 1988 bombing.
At the World Court proceedings, Libyan representative Mohamed Al Faitouri denied Libyan responsibility for the bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 270 people.
Speaking before a panel of 16 judges, he accused the U.S. and British governments of using threats to try to blackmail his nation into releasing the suspects.
Britain, in turn, accused Libya of involvement in terrorism and said its application to the court was merely a stalling tactic.
Alan Rodger, Scotland's solicitor general, said that Libya would say anything to postpone accepting the agreement.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi told Arab
 League envoys on Wednesday that he would not give
up the suspects unless ordered to by the World Court,
according to Arab diplomats.
The court is the judicial arm of the United Nations, but it has no enforcement powers.
Britain opened its presentation with a detailed account of its investigation, which linked Libyan intelligence officials to the Lockerbie bombing.
Rodger said the Swiss-made timer used in the bombing had been traced to a shipment of 20 deliveries.
Ian Brownlie, Libya's British lawyer, said "The United States and the United Kingdom have had a carefully maintained policy of threats against Libya."
He cited a Nov. 19 news conference in which President Bush indicated that force had not been ruled out as a means of obtaining custody of the suspects in Flight 103.
U. S. State Department legal adviser Edwin Williamson is scheduled to present Washington's side today.
Libya claims to have complied with international law by investigating the two suspects.
Phone lines to connect Israel Arab countries for first time
The Libyan representative accused Washington and London of a double standard of justice.
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Much of the Arab world suddenly came in reach of Israel dialing fingers for the first time yesterday when the Communications Ministry opened direct phone lines to Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Yemen.
Because Israel and the Arab world are technically at war, Egypt excepted, such telephone links have not existed since the Jewish state came into being in 1948.
Joseph Chen, a Communications Ministry representative, said Israel opened the lines as a show of
"We want to show that we will do everything that is possible to bring peace," he said.
So far it is a one-way service, and Israelis appeared to have jumped the gun, since the establishment of phone links requires both sides' approval. The calls are placed via satellite to Western telephone systems that have lines to Arab countries.
Jordan sharply protested, saying phone links should wait for formal peace. "This is piracy," said Jordan's communications minister, Jamal
Sarayrah, and he ordered phone officials to block the calls.
Chen said Israel probably would comply if the Arabs insisted the lines be disconnected.
"We don't want to force this on anybody," Chen said.
Direct dialing would be a boon to the 2.5 million Palestinians under Israeli rule who have strong family and business ties to the Arab world. They have been using a private Israeli company and must book those calls through an agent.
Israel's telephone company first tried out the dialing in a four-day experiment in December. It was supposed to be secret, but word leaked and Palestinians seized a rare opportunity to phone relatives in Arab countries.
A representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization's headquarters hesitated briefly when an AP reporter said he was calling from Jerusalem, then excitedly asked what other Arab countries were on the list.
But the representative, Bassam Abu Sharif, played down the innovation. "The main thing is ending Israeli occupation of Arab lands," he said.
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