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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, February 12. 1992
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Washington
Court allows refugees to return
The Supreme Court refused to block the force returned of Haitian refugees to their homeland yesterday, but left open the possibility it could take such action later this week.
Only Justice Harry Blackmun voted yesterday to block the forced returns to Haiti pending the administration's response and further court action.
The court gave the Bush administration until Friday to respond to an emergency request, filed Monday by lawyers for the refugees and aimed at halting all reparations.
The request said that returned Haitians faced political persecution at home and alleged that S. officials knew that some already-repatriated Haitians had been tortured, killed or persecuted.
Arthur Helton, director of the Refugee Project of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, said State Department investigations into reports of abuses of returned Haitians were dismissive.
Tokyo
Gunman storms party offices
A right-wing activist armed with a samurai sword and a gun stormed Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa's party office today, firing at least one shot during a seven-hour standoff with police.
There were no injuries. Miyazawa was at home during the incident, and no other officials from his Liberal Democratic Party were in the building because of a national holiday.
The man demanded that the Cabinet resign, that Russia return territories seized at the end of World War II and that Japan's prewar system of emperor worship be revived, the Kyodo News Service and television reports said.
Police identified the intruder as Osamu Aihara, 21, a former member of Aikokuto, or the Patriotic Party, a right-wing fringe group.
Aihara pushed aside police guards and leaped over a steel fence surrounding party headquarters, said a Tokyo Metropolitan Police official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Publication censorship lifted
Caracas, Venezuela
Journalists marched through downtown Caracas yesterday and shouted, "Democracy with censorship is dictatorship!" and demanded immediate reinstatement of constitutional freedoms.
A failed coup attempt last week prompted government censorship of publications. The censorship has been lifted, but a suspension of constitutional guarantees remains in effect
The government reserved the right to censor publications, search private homes and make discretionary arrests.
Newspapers circulated freely yesterday, and returned to newstands with articles criticizing the
Shortly after the failed coup, intelligence police raided most major newspapers and magazines, censoring criticism of the government and banning circulation of several publications.
Editors said Monday that the government agreed to withdraw the censors when news media leaders promised not to contribute to public unrest.
From The Associated Press
Muslim militants storm Indian-held Kashmir
The Associated Press
GHARIDUPATTA, Pakistan—Five bands of Muslim militants tried to storm into the Indian-controlled area of Kashmir yesterday, but Pakistani troops fired tear gas to push them back, government officials said.
No injuries were reported in the militant groups, which ranged in number from 100 to 1,500. And Indian and Pakistani troops held their gunfire on both sides of the 175-mile-long cease-fire line that divides the areas of Kashmir that each nation controls, the officials said.
At the same time, thousands of other Muslim militants began marching toward the cease-fire line. The marchers braved near-freezing temperatures, trudged
through ankle-deep mud across the rugged Himalayan mountains and broke past barricades of rocks and boulders before halting their procession for the night.
"We're flying high today. Nothing can stop us," said militant leader Amanullah Khan. He and 7,000 supporters shouted "Death to India!" during their 35-mile march along a winding road from Muzafarabad, capital of Pakistani-controlled part of Kashmir, to the cease-fire line.
"I'm ready to die," declared Amanullah, who said the marchers were unarmed.
The group he heads, the militant Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front, has vowed to cross the cease-fire line, monitored by U.N. peacekeeping forces, to
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show solidarity with people in Indian-held Kashmir who want to secede from India.
Pakistan, which is mostly Muslim, and India, which is predominantly Hindu, fought wars in 1948 and 1965 over Kashmir.
Iranians renew allegiance
Two million gather to pay homage to former Avatollah
The Associated Press
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Proclaiming "death to America," hundreds of thousands of Iranians demonstrated in their capital yesterday on the 13th anniversary of the Islamic revolution's triumph over Iran's pro-Western monarchy.
President Hashemi Rafsanjani told demonstrators the sight of such large crowds, some of whom walked for hours to get to the rally, brought tears to his eyes.
Iran's official media, monitored in Nicosia, said 2 million people, or the equivalent of one-fifth of Tehran's population, gathered to renew allegiance
Tehran television showed Freedom Square and the surrounding streets packed with crowds that looked to be in the hundreds of thousands. It also showed rows of buses, suggesting many people were brought from outlying areas.
to their revolutionary patriarch, Ayatollah Ruholah Khomeini.
Although the chants and demonstrations were familiar, Iran has changed considerably since Khomeini died of cancer on June 3, 1989.
Rafsanjani has sought to end the Islamic republic's isolation and shed its pariah image by building bridges with the West and Iran's Arab neighbors. He also has called for an end to empty slogans.
However, he has not gone so far as to oppose anti-Western rallies or threats against the United States and Israel. Doing so would play into the hands of his radical opponents, who already accuse Rafsanjiani of betraying Khomeini's legacy.
An Iranian resistance leader yesterday condemned Iran's leadership in a statement sent by facsimile from Paris to The Associated Press in Nicosia.
Red Cross searches Nazi camp records
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Archivists are poring over Nazi death camp records in a new American Red Cross effort to catalog thousands of names and help families of Holocaust victims learn the fate of their loved ones.
The original records — including transport lists, death books and lists of victims of medical experiments — have been accessible to the public through the National Archives for 20 years. But because they are difficult to wade through, they have been of value mostly to historians and scholars.
These documents will now be used for a humanitarian purpose said Elizabeth Dole, president of the Alliance.
"Yellow with age, these documents will bring light to the final days of hundreds of thousands who suffered," she said. "They provide vital information on at least 300,000 individuals, and possibly as many as half a million, who disappeared at the hands of the Nazis."
Yesterday, Dole presented microfilm of the first 7.000 names to the International Committee of the Red Cross to be cross-referenced and integrated into the files of its International Tracing Service in Aroles, Germany.
The documents researched so far include transport lists, death lists, lists of victims of medical experiments and forced labor and concentration camp records mainly from Auschwitz, Buchenwald and many smaller satellite camps, Red Cross officials said.
The international service, which was launched after World War II, has 46 million records on 13 million people, but most of the names from the death camp records the National Archives holds are new, Red Cross officials said.
Thousands of boxes holding the records are stored in a National Archives warehouse in Suitland, Md.
The documents were confiscated by U.S. forces following the collapse of Nazi Germany as evidence in war crimes trials. They were declassified about 20 years ago, National Archive officials said.
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