INTERNATIONAL
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, March 18, 1992
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INTERNATIONAL BRIEFS
Tel Aviv, Israel
Two slain during Jewish holiday
A Palestinian slashed his way down a crowded street with a makeshift sword yesterday, killing two Israelis and wounding 20, many of them students going to a holiday party. A passing police officer killed the man.
"I thought it was Purim ... and then I thought I was in a Western," Moshe Nurim told Israel armyradio.
The students at first stood by and watched, apparently thinking the assailant was part of a stunt for yesterday's Jewish holiday of Purim, in which children dress up in costumes. The assailant was described as about 61/2 feet tall and 240 pounds. He wore a traditional Arab headaddress.
It was the first fatal stabbing in Israel by an Arab since Feb. 21, when a Soviet immigrant was killed by a Palestinian in Kfar Sabah, north of Tel Aviv.
Stockholm, Sweden
lews, neo-Nazis stage protests
Elderly Jews and young neo-Nazis held counter-demonstrations yesterday during the arrival of a French professor who claims the Holocaust did not take place.
Robert Faurisson was questioned briefly by police at Aviana International Airport before the crash.
Swedish students shouted at neo-Nazis at the airport, and about 200 elderly Jews protested outside Parliament in central Stockholm.
Ahmed Rami, whoheads an Islamic radiostation that has been finned for spreading anti-Semitic propaganda, invited Faurisson to address several meetings in Sweden.
The national news agency, TT, reported that angry demonstrators forced Rami and Fairstion to flee from a suburban center where they had planned to hold a public meeting.
Mexico City
Most polluted city gasps for air
The day began, and gradually the surrounding hills faded from view, swallowed up by another day of daunting pollution.
Welcome to Mexico City, where record-breaking ozone levels on Monday sparked calls for stricter measures in what many say is the most-polluted city in the world.
Monday's reading in some parts of the city peaked at 398, the highest ever here and four times the World Health Organization limit of exposure for one hour, once a year.
A pollution scale reading of 100, which Mexico City reaches most days, can cause mild irritation among more susceptible elements of the population. A reading of 300 can make otherwise-healthy people ill.
From The Associated Press
Bomb rips embassy in Argentina, kills 10
The Associated Press
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — An explosion destroyed the Israeli Embassy downcity Buenos Aires yesterday. At least 10 people were reported dead and more than 105 were injured.
About 30 people were trapped in the rubble, the government news agency Telam quoted police sources as saying. Up to 150 Israelis reportedly were in the building at the time of the explosion.
Among the injured were students from a nearby primary school radio stations reported.
President Carlos Menem blamed the attack on terrorists, although he did not offer evidence or elaborate. An Israeli official in Jerusalem said a car bomb had been used.
The dead included two police officers, three children and two senior citizens, according to Menem and the Telam sagen-gen
cy. Menem did not give details on the other fatalities.
"All indications lead us to believe it's a terrorist attack." Menem said in a nationally televised news conference. He had suggested earlier that Nazis or right-wing military units could have been responsible for the blast.
In Jerusalem, Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy said the explosion was caused by a car bomb. He did not indicate who he thought set the bomb.
Radio Mitre reported that a pro-Palestinian group had claimed responsibility in a telephone call, but the Palestinian Information Office in Argentina denied any role in the explosion and condemned the attack.
In Washington, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Asher called the bombing a terrorist attack by people intending to kill Jews, whether they were in Israel or abroad.
The explosion reduced the central section of the five-story embassy to a pile of cement, wooden beams and debris. Rescue workers picked through the rubble with their hands, prying up boards and tossing chunks of cement from the wreckage.
The 3 p.m. (12 p.m. CST) explosion, heard more than three miles away, also damaged a nearby Roman Catholic Church.
Bush rejects wording of Israel compromise
Leahy heads the Senate Appropriations subcommittee responsible for foreign aid. Asked if there was any further hope of compromise, he said, "I don't
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush yesterday rejected a congressional compromise to provide loan guarantees to Israel, lawmakers said.
"I'm frankly very, very disappointed," Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said after meeting with Bush to discuss the proposed deal. "This language is not acceptable to the president."
Bush met with lawmakers after saying that Israeli settlements in disputed territories were counterproductive to peace. Israel had requested $10 billion in loan guarantees for a five-year period.
know. Frankly, I don't know."
The Bush administration has linked approval of Israel's request for the guarantees to a suspension of settlements in the West Bank and Gaza.
Israel's hard-nosed Likud government has refused to make the concession.
Bush, at a Rose Garden news conference after a St. Patrick's Day ceremony, underscored his objections to the settlements.
In a show of unity, Yitzhak Rabin, the Labor Party's candidate for prime minister, made clear in a Washington speech yesterday that if elected he would maintain at least some of the settlements as part of a military defense even while being open to territorial compromise to attain peace with the Arabs.
"We have a long-standing policy that feels that settlements are counterproductive to peace. This is not a new policy."
Bush said the United States wanted to help but would not change U.S. foreign policy for Israel.
After meeting with Bush, Leahy said, "What bothers me is that there can still be disagreement when there obviously is so much agreement. I agree with the president that the settlements go contrary to what has been stated U.S. policy since 1967.
"I agree with the president that we should not have U.S. tax dollars be used contrary to U.S. policy. And I don't believe in giving a blank check in foreign aid to any country, no matter where it is anywhere in the world."
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