UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, March 16, 1994
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THE NEWS in brief
WASHINGTON
United States will send five radars to Bosnia instead of ground troops
The United States is sending five anti-airillery and anti-mortar radars to U.N. forces in Bosnia, to be operated by 60 members of the Jordanian military, the Pentagon announced yesterday.
The radars hone in on artillery and mortar rounds that have been fired and trace the trajectories to the source, allowing the artillery or mortals to be attacked quickly.
The systems are complex and require special operation and maintenance skills. The Jordanians are highly experienced in operating the radars because several are deployed in their nation, said Pentagon representative Kathleen delAski.
The move allows the Clinton administration to bolster the international peacekeeping force in the disputed region without sending any U.S. ground troops to operate the radars.
The radar systems had been requested by U.N. commanders in the region and are formally known as the Q-36 and Q-37 Firefinder Radars.
The Jordanians, who are scheduled to leave for Bosnia today, will have a two-week refresher course before operating the systems. The radars are expected to arrive in Bosnia within two weeks, the representative said.
President Clinton has refused to send ground troops into Bosnia until a peace agreement has been reached among the warring parties.
The radars will be leased for 10 months to the United Nations at a cost of $1.2 million, Five radars will be sent from U.S. bases in Europe, deLaski said.
San Diego
106th element gets a name
The 106th element in the periodic table has been named "seaborgium" in honor of Nobel laureate Glenn T. Seaborg, a University of California chemistry professor.
Seaborg is the co-discoverer of plutonium and nine other transuranium elements, which come after uranium on the periodic table and are artificially created in particle accelerators.
The announcement of the name seaborgium, identified by the chemical symbol Sg, came from the element's codiscoverer, Kenneth Hulet, a retired chemist from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Hulet made the announcement Sunday at the American Chemical Society's annual meeting.
Seaborg is associate director-at-large for the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. For discovering plutonium, Seaborg shared the 1951 Nobel prize for chemistry with former LBL
director Brown Macalester
Seaborg was head of the Atomic Energy Commission,
now the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, from 1961 to
1971.
director Edwin MacMillan.
Seaborgium's discovery was confirmed during the summer.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden Three charged in art burglary
Three men were charged yesterday with stealing works by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque valued at $52 million from Stockholm's Modern Art Museum.
Eight paintings and a sculpture were removed from the museum through a hole the thieves sawed in the wooden roof.
Court officials said Krystian Marczak, 24, a Polish citizen, and Kenneth Vikstrom, 23, a Swede, were charged with grand theft and hiding stolen goods. Marczak's brother Erwin, 23, was charged with being an accomplice to grand theft and receiving stolen goods.
Court officials said they were unsure of Erwin Marczak's citizenship.
"There may be some mindmind that are not of," said District Prosecutor Sven-Erik Alhem, indicating that more people may have been involved in the Nov. 8 burglary. The three men were arrested in December, along with another man and a woman, who were freed after an investigation.
Three of the uninsured art works have been recovered. The world's biggest art theft was in March 1990, when 13 works valued at $300 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
Smokers can cross 3,300 Taco Bells off the list of places where they can still light up.
Taco Bell now smoke free
IRVINE, Calif.
Taco Bell is banning smoking at its company-owned restaurants.
The fast-food chain, a division of PepsiCo Inc., said Monday that it expected about 1,000 of its franchises to follow suit, leaving only about 200 Taco Bells in the nation where smoking was allowed. The ban goes into effect March 28.
Last month, McDonald's banned smoking in its 1,400 company-owned U.S. restaurants and urged its franchisees to do the same. More than 3,600 of McDonald's 9,100 U.S. restaurants are now smoke-free.
Last week, the Defense Department announced a smoking ban for workplaces ranging from Pentagon offices to tanks, a move affecting 3.6 million civilian and military employees.
"In our opinion, going smoke-free is simply the right thing to do," Taco Bell chief executive John E. Martin said in a statement. He said secondhand smoke was a threat to Taco Bell's 80,000 employees and 50 million customers.
Compiled from The Associated Press.
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