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Wednesday, August 25, 1993
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Special troops to go to Somalia
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — An elite force of 400 army soldiers trained to strike sensitive targets with unconventional means will head for Somalia this week. But the Pentagon said the Rangers' mission is not to nab warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid.
Even so, the Rangers' special training gives them the kinds of skills in unconventional warfare that would be required to flush out Aidin, who has been waging a hit-and-run战军 with United Nations forces for months. The U.N. called for Aidin's arrest in June after an ambush blamed on Aidin's miltia killed 24 Pakistani U.N. peace keepers, but the warlord has managed to elude capture.
"This is not an effort to go after one man," Kathleen deLaski, a Pentagon spokesperson, said. "It's overall situation in Mogadishu."
Somaliian attacks against troops also led to the injury of six Americans Sunday when their truck hit a remote-controlled bomb on one of the busiest roads in Mogadishu. Four Americans were killed in a similar attack Aug 8.
Dellasi sked the Rangers from Fort Benning, GA., will be equipped with personal weapons such as M-60 machine guns and M-16 rifles, as well as 60mm mortars and antitank rifles.
The decision to send the troops has drawn criticism from some Congress members.
Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., said Tuesday that when Congress returns from its August recess, lawmakers would have questions about the deployment.
"What is our purpose? What is the cost? And how long do we stay?" Dole said at a Capitol Hill news conference. He said he wanted to be supportive of the humanitarian effort but had doubts about rebuilding Somalia.
House Speaker Tom Foley, D-Wash., said he supported the deployment of the Rangers because they would help protect the U.N. and American troops from Somali attacks.
U. S. Marines landed in Mogadishu last December and now make up 4,000 members of a 25,000 person U.N. peacekeeping force. The U.N. assumed military command last May.
Bad loans may cause loss of aid
900 U.S. schools could lose loans
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The government identified more than 900 colleges and trade schools yesterday that stand to lose their participation in the federal student loan program because their students too frequently default.
Among states, Alaska had the worst repayment rate. The Department of Education said more than 40 percent of the student loans in that state on which payments came due in 1991 were in default, Vermont, with a 5.1 percent rate, had the best record, followed by North Dakota's 6.9 percent rate.
The national average was 17.5 percent.
A 1980 law designed to drive down the number of defaults has allowed the Education Department to drop schools with default rates of at least 30 percent for three consecutive years. The current figures represent defaults in 1980, 1990 and 1991.
Those with default rates greater than 40 percent can be cut off from all federal aid programs, including the Pell Grant program.
Under federal law, schools included on the list automatically will be barred from participating in the loan program unless they appeal either to
the department of Education or to the courts.
Coffeyville Community College is the only school in Kansas in danger of losing its federal financial aid. In 1901, the latest year for which figures are available, Coffeyville had a default rate of 31.3 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
The federal department said Coefville could lose its eligibility for the Federal Family Education Loan Program, formerly known as the guaranteed student loan program, because default rates were more than 30 percent for three straight years among its students who received federal loans.
In 1901, taxpayers lost an estimated $1.6 billion on bad student loans.
Default rates
Here's a list of Board of
Regents schools and their students' default rates on federal loans. The percentages represent defaults in 1989, 1990 and 1991.
Pittsburg State University: 10.4
Emporia State University: 7.6
Wichita State University: 7.3
Fort Hays State University: 6.6
University of Kansas: 4.6
Kansas State University: 4.3
Croats agree to let convoy into Mostar
Source: The Associated Press
The Associated Press
MEDUGORJIE, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Bosnian Croats agreed yesterday after days of delaying to allow U.N. aid into Mostar to help 55,000 starving Muslims. The Croats also agreed to a truce in the besieged city U.N. officials said.
Cedric Thornberry, the United Nations civil affairs chief in former Yugoslavia, told reporters the U.N. convoy was to enter the city by today.
Muslims had rejected the cease-fire. But there was no such indication from the Muslims.
Gen. Slobodan Praljak, deputy head of the Bosniian Croat army, said that he "had information" the
Fierce fighting between Muslims and Croats was reported in Mostar earlier today. But there were no reports of clashes after the cease-fire took effect at 11:30 a.m. CDT.
The Croats have backtracked for days on promes es to let the convoy into Mostar, where 55,000 Muslims are trapped in the city's Muslim sector. Thornberry said the convoy carried 200 tons of food for the Muslims.
That would be the first substantial amount of aid to reach the Muslims since the Croat siege of the city began two months ago. Another 50 tons is earmarked for the Croat sector, across the river from the Muslims.
Also yesterday, the United States said it would include Mostar in its six-month-old program of air dropping food and supplies into besieged Bosnian areas.
The convoy had been stuck for most of the day in this Bosnian Croat stronghold, 12 miles south of Mostar.
U. N. peacekeepers said residents were on the verge of starvation and hospital conditions were desperate.
Some operations were being performed without anesthesia, more than two-thirds of the residents were displaced, and 60 percent of the buildings were uninhabitable, they said.
Croats and Muslims — each some 42 percent of Mosstar's pre-war population of 130,000 — saw their anti-Serb alliance disintegrate a few months ago as plans for an ethnic division of Bosnia emerged.
Released CIA documents reveal little new data on JFK assassination
The Associated Press
under a 1992 federal law.
WASHINGTON — The dog-eared, yellow manila envelope bearing a "Top Secret" stamp was tied with a faded string bow. Inside were newly released CIA documents on Lee Harvey Oswald, former President John F. Kennedy's assassin.
When it was opened to the public Monday, the envelope's contents turned out to be anything but secret. There were more than a dozen articles inside about Oswald — from magazines like The New Yorker to The Economist.
The envelope was part of approximately 90,000 CIA documents gathered on the assassination that the National Archives released
An initial review of the documents showed that anyone looking for proof of a conspiracy that led to the Nov. 22, 1963, shooting in Dallas — whether the CIA, FBI or organized crime were involved — would be disappointed.
But the CIA withheld about 10,000 other documents, citing national security concerns. Among the documents that were logged but not released:
—A March 6, 1967, three-page memo from then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach described only as "Re CA Mafia connections."
—Excerpts from the files of then-CIA Direc
A May 22, 1961, report in CIA files on "CIA Cuba, and Mafia."
tor John McCone covering a period from November 1961 through December 1964 that include "references to Cuba assassinations, Warren Commission matters," and
— A 28-page, 1975 internal CIA report prepared for "Review of Selected Items in the Lee Harvey Oswald File Regarding Allegations of the Castro Cuban Involvement in the John F. Kennedy Assassination."
The new Oswald materials include little that students of the assassination don't already know. Besides his repeated trips to the Soviet and Cuban embassies in search of a visa to Russia, one key point emerges:
— Although one station officer wrote that Oswald became "a person of great interest to us" in his quest for a visa, the CIA never passed
The files also detail efforts by the Warren Commission, which investigated the killing and found Oswald to be the lone assassin, as well as the follow-up Rockefeller Commission in 1975 and the FBI.
on its concerns to the FBI until the hours following Kennedy's assassination.
For instance, 15 years after the assassination, an FBI agent interviewed a Russian emigrant who recalled nearly verbatim a conversation with a friend, Pavel Golovachev, who had spoken with Oswald in Russia in 1962.
Oswald, a former Marine, defected to the Soviet Union for a period and then returned to Germany.
The Sept. 19, 1977, classified memo to then FBI Director Clarence Kelley said the emi-
grant's friend had worked with Oswald at a radio factory in Minsk and had heard Oswald boast "he would have lots of money in America."
"For example, I will kill the president," the memo quotes the emigrant as saying, recounting Golovachev's recollection of Oswald's words.
According to the memo, Golovachev, who assumed Oswald was joking, also pointed out that he would be arrested and asked what he expected to be paid.
The memo said, "Oswald responded. You don't know America. If I manage this, my wife will become rich." He said this quietly, but with an angry expression, and sounded serious."