University Daily Kansan, April 16, 1984
NATION AND WORLD
Page 10
Vietnamese bomb Thai camp
By United Press International
BANGKOK, Thailand — Vietnamese forces in Cambodia yesterday shot down a Thai spotter plane and shelled a refugee camp just inside Thailand, forcing tens of thousands of refugees to flee the country, a major offensive, military sources said.
At least 85 civilians, mostly women and children, were reported killed or
In a separate incident yesterday, a Royal Thai Air Force A-37 jet fighter was shot down by communist guerrillas in an Iranian border. Thai military sources said
The sources said that the American-built A-73 jet's two-man crew died when the aircraft exploded while taking off from Malaysia's anti-injury operations.
IN THAILAND, National Security Chief Prasong Soosniir said Vietnamese anti-aircraft fire shot down the Thai L-19 reconnaissance plane as it flew over Sankha District of Surin Bengok. There are 300 miles northeast of Bangkok.
He said that the plane was hit shortly after dawn while on patrol in the border area where Vietnamese forces are engaged in fighting to meet Hanoi's troops in Cambodia.
Military sources said that three Thai army officers aboard the L-19 were seen parachuting from the craft, but that it was doubtful they survived because the plane was hit at low altitude over a mountainous region.
Heavy shelling by Vietnamese artillery batteries reportedly sent about 7,000 civilians fleeing into Thailand's capital, Saigon, and swelling the number of new arrivals
tneer to more than 50,000 in Hanoi's biggest border offensive of the dry season.
Vietnam, which drove Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge from Phnom Penh in January 1979, began the latest offensive several weeks ago and reportedly is coordinating the drive on three different fronts along the Thai border.
AT LEAST 85 Cambodian civilians, mostly women and children, were killed or wounded in the artillery attacks. Thai military sources said.
Vietnamese forces yesterday also shelter a sprawling refugee encampment in Thailand at Ampil, 25 miles northeast of the major Thai-Cambodian border town of Anaranvayrathe, the sources said.
The military sources said that a heavy barrage by 130mm artillery batteries early yesterday forced nearly all the camp's 42,000 soldiers to flee.
Terrorists burn buildings in India
By United Press International
NEW DELHI, India — Sikh terrorists set fire to 37 railway stations and a post office in coordinated attacks across the violence-torn Punjab state.
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi held an emergency meeting of her cabinet to review the latest incidents in the country, which will not release details of the discussions.
Tension prevailed in the holy city of Amritsar after the Saturday assassination of Surinder Singh Sodhi, described by police as a Sikh terrorist. Singh, wanted for the slaying of a Hindu political leader, was shot to death by a
woman and a man as he sipped tea in a shop, police said.
Four bystanders were wounded in the gunfire. The couple fled into the nearby Golden Temple, the Sikh's holiest shrine.
A spokesman for Jarnail Singh Bhindranwal, bailed by many Indian politicians for the recent wave of terrorist killings, yesterday charged a Sikh Akali party leader with plotting to kill him.
The Sikhs are demanding political autonomy and religious recognition from the Hindu-dominated government.
Gurehanah Singh, secretary of the moderate Akali party which claims to represent most of India's 12 million Sikhs, said that Bhindranwale's allegation was "character assassination." He did not elaborate.
Four deaths in Punjab since Friday brought the death toll in Sikh clashes with police and terrorism to at least 139.
In addition, police found a body in Amritsar yesterday near the Golden Temple. The victim was not identified and the cause of death was unknown.
The Sikhs, some of them armed,
gagged and bound railway staff, used
kerosene to start fires in record rooms
and fled into the night, the officials said.
SYDNEY, Australia — More than 125,000 chanting and singing Australians marched in Sydney to protest the nuclear arms race. Another 125,000 gathered in rallies across the continent yesterday.
Israel aims to cease terrorism
By United Press International
JERUSALEM — The Israeli Cabinet threatened yesterday to react accordingly to a recent rash of Palestinian terrorist attacks in Israel.
Defense Minister Moshe Arens urged Western nations to join Israel in an "uncompromising battle against terrorism."
Cabinet Secretary Dan Meridor said that Israel was watching Arab nations it thought helped Palestinians stage assaults inside the Jewish state.
He spoke at the funeral of a female Israeli soldier killed Thursday when four Palestinian guerrillas hijacked a civilian bus and held 35 people hostage for nearly 10 hours.
The hijackers and the soldier, Irit Portugez, 19, one of the 35 passengers held hostage, were killed early Friday when Israeli troops stormed the bus. Seven other passengers were injured and four remain hospitalized.
Families of the hijackers, who live in villages south in the occupied Gaza strip, and yesterday that they were shot by Israeli troops on their soars later in the day for burial.
The homes of the four hijackers were bulldozed Saturday by Israeli forces in revenge for their attack.
Israeli sources said that the bus hijacking probably was coordinated by Arafat's second-in-command, Khali Wazir, who is in Jordan.
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