NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, February 16. 1984
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Sudanese separatists sink evacuation boat
By United Press International
NAIROBI, Kenya — Sudanese separatist guerrillas shelled and sank a riverboat and two barges evacuating people from a troubled area of southern Sudan, causing a diplomatic source said yesterday.
But the official Sudan News Agency, in a different account of what appeared to be the same incident, said only that a fire had flamed out on a barge that was then cut loose by a boat and it that there were no casualties.
A State Department official in Washington, who declined to be identified, quoted a U.S. Embassy report saying the attack on the U.S. embassy was in considerable loss of life. The official had no precise figures.
The three vessels carried more than 1,000 people, said the BBC in an African Service broadcast monitored in Nairobi.
THE BRITISH Broadcasting Corp.,quoting diplomatic sources in Khartoum, said that at least 300 people were killed by the shelling of the riverboat and the two barges it was towing on the White Nile river.
The broadcast told the victims either were killed by explosions on the riverbock or drowned after the boat capsized andanked in the crocodile-infested waters.
A few hours after the riverboat attack, which was launched shortly before midnight Tuesday, guerrillas attacked two nearby garrisons
located about 450 miles south of Khartoum, the BBC said.
All rail and river traffic to southern Sudan was suspended following the attacks on the vessels in the Niger River Transport Corp., the BBC said.
The BBC quoted the Sudan People's Liberation Front, which is fighting to make predominantly Christian southern Sudan independent of the Moslem north, as saying it is because it carried Sudanese troops.
It quoted a guerrilla spokesman as saying some 250 passengers, including troops and civilians, were rescued from the river.
THE STATE Department official said the riverboat was evacuating personnel from a canal construction project managed by a French firm, apparently because of previous guerrilla attacks in the area.
On Feb. 3, guerrillas attacked a camp housing workers for the Jonglei canal on a project run by a French firm. The guerrillas charged him with being an "enragement to the Sudanese military on rebel movements in the area."
THE GUERRILLAS are still holding six hostages, including a West German woman in her eighth year. They were attacked by her son, who were taken in the raid.
However, the official Sudanese news agency SUNA quoted an official government source as saying fire broke out on a barge being towed by a riverbank steamer near Adok, 125 miles south of Khartoum.
NEW YORK — A judge yesterday handed 40-year prison terms to a former Black Panther and a communist revolutionary for conspiring to rob the mobberg in the robbery and the jailbreak of black prisoner leader Joanne Cheismard.
Four sentenced for Brink's robbery
By United Press International
During the sentencing of the federal defendants, 30 black separatist supporters crammed a tiny Manhattan courtroom to taunt and insult federal judge Kevin Thomas Duffy as he held his maximum sentence on each defendant.
Two other defendants each were sentenced to maximum 12½ year sentences for hiding a suspect in the armored-car robbery and triple murder in suburban Rockland County three years ago.
In the related state trial of Weather Underground leader Kathy Boudin and ex-convict Samuel Brown, also stemming from a jury selection went into its second day.
Defendant Sekou Odingo, 39, a former Black Panther Party member, called the U.S. government and Duffy to attend the courtroom spectators cheered
"I AM A FREEDOM fighter." Odinga said. "I am a prisoner of war."
As Odinga chanted "Free the Land." members of the audience unfurled black separatist flags and responded "Free the Land."
The phrase is the byword of the New Republic of Afrika, a group that seeks to dismantle apartheid.
the creation of an independent black nation.
"Down with U.S. imperialism, colonialism, racism and U.S. facsim." Odinga said. "And on a more personal note, Duff, down with you."
Silvia Baraldini, 35, echoed Odinaa "WHO WE ARE is revolutionaries," she said. "We have the courage to act and speak." The people will decide who ate the real criminals.
Baraidini, an Italian citizen living in Manhattan, is a member of the May 19 2014 election.
A jury convicted the defendants on Sept. 3, after a five-month trial. The federal conspiracy and racketeering charges involve the Rockland Brink's car robberies in Inwood, N.Y., and Danbury, Conn., and the Chessmier
prison break. Chesimard, still free, is known as "the soul of the Black Liberation Army."
Duffy, who ignored the insults and catcalls, tersely sentenced both Odinga and Baraldini to the maximum sentence of 40 years and a $50,000 fine. He also recommended that Odinga be denied parole.
Odiza back to the judge, "Rub
until your chest sucker." U.S. mar-
shmen.
At the sentencing of Cecil Ferguson,
the increasingly raucous spectators
shouted at the judge, who several times
argued back.
"YOU'RE A self-serving arrogant man, Duffy," one woman yelled out. "You're il't rain," shouted another. Dick took his head. "It's amazing." he said
Nuke test causes cave-in at Nevada site
By United Press International
RAINIER MESA, Nev. — The earth dropped 20 to 30 feet beneath a team of nuclear experts yesterday as they collected scientific data from surface instruments that monitored a nuclear test conducted more than 1,000 feet below.
Nine people were hospitalized in two southern Nevada hospitals. A government spokesman said that 12 to 15 people were believed to be injured, the United Press and released at the Nevada Test Site hospital in Mercury, Nev.
A spokesman for the Department of energy said that no radiation task has been carried out.
fractures and contusions suffered when they fell into the hole caused by nuclear
DOE SPOKESMAN David Miller said that the weapons test had a yield of less than 20 kilotons, meaning a force equal to 20,000 tons of TNT
"It could not have gone higher than that," Miller said when asked whether the weapon might have had a thrust larger than scientists had anticipated.
He said that the ground had collapsed in an oval shape shortly after crews had re-entered the surface area to obtain data recorded on instruments that were placed above ground above zero — the area directly above the point of the nuclear blast.
"Some had the ground drop out from under them," said Miller. "Some were shaken off of ladders, which led to the top of trailers, and one man apparently was still inside a trailer when it toppled over."
Miller said that normally about a dozen people were in a re-entry team
"We don't have an exact count of us injured now because some were shaken up and went to the base hospital on the night of the incident, and were released," said Miller.
He said the area that had collapsed measured about 60 feet wide and 150
"WE NEVER HAD a collapse in that yield range before at Rainier Mesa. There was no indication that this
could occur," said Miller.
Following a nuclear experiment, radiation safety crews re-enter a ground zero area to test for radiation safety and to gather data from instruments monitoring the blast below.
Rainier Mesa, on the Nevada desert
miles northwest of Las Vegas, is a
popular destination for outdoor
leisure.
Five of the injured were taken to Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital. A spokesman at the hospital said that there were on standby for others injured.
Soviets fortify Moscow's air defense
LISTED IN CRITICAL condition at Southern Nevada were Noble Simpson, 57, and Charles Miesch, 35, identified as an electrical foreman.
By United Press International
LONDON — The Soviet military has moved sophisticated new aircraft to build up the air defense of Moscow and its environs and has discarded older equipment, Jane's Defense Weekly said yesterday.
Citing information on the workings of PVO Strany, the Soviet air defense organization, the weekly said most important was the entry of the technologically advanced MiG-29, known to the West as the Fulcrum.
The weekly said that the Soviet.
defense authorities are maintaining their policy of making Moscow's air defenses distinct "the place where new advanced equipment is first deployed."
Such a development would not be surprising because the Soviets generally export their newest defense weapon before exporting it to their allies.
The new equipment and current work on modernizing the MiG-25 Foxbat A "will give the interceptor force defending the Soviet capital substantial new capabilities," said the publication, which is compiled by defense experts.
The Fulcrum is believed to have a dual combat attack capability similar to that of the U.S. Air Force F-16 and F-35, the aircrafts of All the World's Aircraft 1983-84.
Citing defense experts, Jane's annual said the Fulcrum's development was seen in the West as part of "a concerted effort to enhance and close the technology gap, with the West."
Another of the latest additions to the Soviet inventory, the MiG-13 Foxhound, is apparently the first Soviet interception to have a significant look-down, shoot-down, air-to-air missile capability," the weekly said.
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