INTERNATIONAL
University Daily Kansan / Thursday, March 26. 1992
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Program helping poor migrants
Jose Silva de Oliveira arrived on a bus from Brazil's northeastern backwoods with a dream of prosperity and not much else; no money, no job, no home for his wife and 8-month-old son.
Now Rio is sending Oliveira and hundreds like him home, with money in his pocket.
Unable to find work, Oliveira turned to begging. His family slept on the street or in a fathter, in a small town.
Return to the Homeland is a city program to help down-and-out migrants who bet the farm on a chance at a better life in Rio, and lose.
The first group of 45 went home in February, and 72 were to return in March. The city hopes to host a reunion next year.
The program is a response to an exodus from the countryside that has burdened cities and changed the face of Brazil.
U. N. to vote on punishing Libya
United Nations
The U.N. Security Council, angered about Libya's reversal on its pledge to turn over suspects in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, will vote tomorrow on adopting punishings sanctions, diplomats said yesterday.
The diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the Security Council was united in its dismay and that passage of the sanctions resolution was assured..
Thedraft resolution, sponsored by the United States, Britain and France, would sever air links with Libya, impose a weapons embargo and require expulsion of most Libyan diplomats.
Moscow
Gorbachev awaits questioning
A Russian prosecutor trying to trace millions of dollars once controlled by the Communist Party has requested an interview with Mikhail Gorbachev, news agencies reported yesterday.
The prosecutor asked that Gorbachev remain in Moscow the first 10 days of April for questioning, the news agency said.
The Communist Party is suspected of funneling millions of dollars overseas in the last decade, mainly to other Communist parties.
Gorbachev, who now runs a Moscow think tank and recently returned from a well-received visit to Germany, had planned to travel to Japan in April and to the United States in May.
Interfax said most members of the Politburo, the top Communist Party body that once ran the country, had been questioned in connection with the party's finances.
From The Associated Press
U.N. agency orders Iraq to destroy arms factory
VIENNA, Austria — The International Atomic Energy Agency said yesterday it would require Iraq to destroy parts of a large industrial complex used by the Iraqi to develop nuclear weapons.
The Associated Press
Iraqi officials had no immediate reaction to the announcement. They previously insisted the affected facilities at Al Atheer southwest of Baghdad housed only civilian industry.
Iraq denied after the war that it was trying to produce nuclear weapons, but U.N. officials say they have uncovered evidence of an extensive program that was close to developing a warhead.
Al Atheer, which reportedly includes about 100 buildings, survived allied bombing attacks during the Persian Gulf War virtually intact.
The U.N. nuclear agency is acting under the authority of the gulf war cease-fire accords, which order the destruction of Iraq's nuclear weapons program, its chemical and biological arms, and its long-range missiles. Most of the actual destruction is carried out by Iraqi, but U.N. experts supervise the process.
A U.N. team is in Iraq now to wreck missile manufacturing equipment and verify Baghdad's claims to have destroyed many long-range missiles last June.
The agency said destruction of nuclear-related equipment and facilities at Al Atewer would begin next month in a visit by the 11th team of U.N. nuclear inspectors to go to Iraq since the end of the gulf war.
No representatives for the nuclear agency were immediately available to discuss details on how the destruction would proceed or whether Saddam Hussein's government had agreed to cooperate.
Iraq recently backed down from a confrontation with the U.N. Security Council by dropping its refusal to allow U.N. experts to destroy equipment for building and repairing long-runcd Scud missiles. The Iraqi had argued they should be allowed to convert the machinery to civilian uses.
The nuclear agency's announcement about Al AItheer came after 17 hours of talks since Friday with a seven-man Iraqi delegation that included at least one senior official from the Iraqi nuclear program. Iraq requested the talks to present its case that Al AItheer is devoted to civilian purposes.
Former Soviet-era cosmonaut lands in a new political world
ARKALYK, Kazakhstan — Cosmonaut Sergei Krikala needed smelling salts after returning to Earth yesterday, and it's no wonder. Not only were his legs wobbly from his 10-month space mission, but he had to cope with the dizzying political upheaval in his homeland.
The Associated Press
Krikalev and fellow Russian Alexander Volkov — the Soviet Union's last cosmonauts — landed along with a German passenger on the snowy plains of Kazakhtan after they were replaced aboard the orbiting Mir space station by a new Russian crew.
Ground workers lifted Krikalev, Volkov and German test pilot Klaus-Dietrich Flade from their Soyuz TM-13 capsule, placed them in chairs, wrapped furled coats around them and gave them hot broth to drink. The ground workers wiped the cosmonaut's brows and took their blood pressure, and the cosmonauts smiled and waved at photographers.
Krikalev, whose uniform sleeve still bore the letters "U.S.S.R." and the red Soviet flag, emerged last from the capsule.
He was given smelling salts and appeared a bit dizzy as he adjusted to gravity after 313 days in space, although a television report later said he was feeling marvelous.
When the 34-year-old Krikalev blasted off May 18,
1991, the Soviet Union had not yet collapsed. Mikhail Gorbachev still was president, the hammer and sickle still flew proudly over the Kremlin and the Communist Party still held power. And Krikalev's hometown was still Lenigrad — it has since renamed itself St. Petersburg.
Yesterday's Nezavisimaya Gazeta, or The Independent Newspaper, stated that Krikalev had made a voyage through time.
"Krikalev's return after almost one year's absence is like a favorite story out of Soviet science fiction, in which cosmonauts who have spent a short time in space return to Earth, where ages have gone by and everything — everything — has changed," Russian television announcers said.
Krikalev originally was scheduled to return in October. Then, in order to be allowed to keep using the Baikonur Space Center in now independent Kazakhstan, Russia struck a deal with that country. Russia agreed to send up an inexperienced Kazakh cosmonaut in October, meaning that veteran Krikalev could not come home until this month.
Volkov also went up on that October launch in a space shuffle designed to keep the Mir operating with a crew of veterans. Flade spent just eight days on Mir, going up with the first Russian space mission since the demise of the Soviet Union.
Ladies & Gentlemen Get ready to
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Don't miss the First Annual Sigma Phi Epsilon & Delta Delta Delta
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Come watch the KU men battle it out in the ring. Friday, March 27 & Saturday, March 28 At the Natl. Guard Armory at 2nd & Iowa. Tickets are $3.00 on Fri. & $5.00 on Sat. Fights start at 7:00 on both nights.
It's gonna be a blow out!!!
A K.U. graduate has written the most explosive book of the year.
Neesbah Nexsab (K.U.I Class of 74) has been investigating the Chronic Fatigue 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 Fatigue 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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