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University Daily Kansan, February 2, 1984
NATION AND WORLD
Flames roam killing seven in inner D.C.
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Children leap from windows as the worst fire in the nation's capital since 1976 swept three row houses in an impoverished neighborhood yesterday, killing at least seven people and injuring 15 others.
Four of the dead were children, officials said.
"When we arrived, people had started to jump out the windows. We caught children jumping from the stairs and into the street. District of Columbia Fire Department.
"I SAW PEOPLE jump out the window, young and old," said Charles Jenks, a computer operator at a nearby bank. "They tried to stick the ladder up there but they took the ladder back because the smoke was so heavy."
United Press International
Police spokesman Jim Battle said the cause of the fire was not immediately known but that arson had been ruled out. One relative of the victims said the fire was accidental and undergoing electrical work. Another said the family used space heaters.
WASHINGTON — Firefighters respond to a three-alarm fire that spread through three row houses. The fire killed seven and injured 15 yesterday and was described as the worst in Washington since 1976.
Beirut tension heightens with fighting, threats
Bv United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Muslim gunners rained heavy salvys of artillery and rocket fire yesterday on densely populated Christian areas around Beirut, killing four people just hours earlier. A bomb was warned a "decisive battle" was near
The fire by the gunners in the mountains east of the capital, coupled with the threat by Druse leader Walid Jumbliatt, raised new fears of all-out civil war among Lebanon's religious factions.
Offshore, sailors on U.S. 6th Fleet ships off the Lebanon coast said yesterday that extra precautions were being taken to guard against kamikaze
"NEW ANTI-AIRCRAFT missiles have been installed on the skin," said
Green boxes on either side of the decks bear the label "rocket ammunitions with explosive projectiles" to explain, sailors said missiles were inside.
one of the sailors, who declined to be identified, on the Fort Snelling, a 10,500-ton dock landing ship. Navy sailors did not neither confirm nor deny the statement.
The Pentagon has confirmed reports that stinger anti-aircraft missiles portable missiles that can be fired by a helicopter rushed to 6fth Fleet ships off Lebanon.
White House officials have warned of the possibility of suicide attacks with weapons like those used in the attack.
A MONTH AGO SYRIAN Defense Minister Mustapha Tlas said his country had "kamikaze plots and attacks on American citizens themselves," to attacking the American
One shell blew up in a gasoline station in Sin el Fil, igniting a huge fire that lighted up the sky over Christian east Beirut. Explosions thundered across the capital and the Phalange radio said in part it also fired Soviet-made GRAD rockets.
BEIRUT RADIO SAID the artillery fire had hit Sin El Fil, a densely populated neighborhood in Christian Marsh, the outskirts of Kuwait.
A top source in the Lebanese government said earlier that talks with Jumblatt and his backers in Syria were "frozen" and the government was considering a last chance to restore the Lebanese army to impose a security ring around Beirut.
south of Beirut, state-run Beirut radio said.
Attempts to arrange a cease-fire failed, but the shooting began dying down shortly before midnight local time.
The fierce shelling crept about an hour after nightfall, the radio station of the Christian Phalange Party reported. At least four people were killed, including a retired Lebanese army officer, it said.
warships off Lebanon's shore.
The shelling deaths brought the day's death toll to seven. Three Lebanese soldiers were killed earlier by smper fire in Shiite Muslim neighborhoods
"She (Agrawa) has taken me to task for 'holding a grudge against the first family.' She has labeled as 'unfortunate' my statement that I expect no justice while Marcos remains in power."
Agrava, 68, a retired judge, made the comments Jan. 3 in a meeting with Manila-based foreign reporters.
Aquino said she and her family "lived a life of fear, humiliation and loneliness" while her husband was detained under anti-subversion decrems from 1972 to 1980, when he was allowed to go to the United States for heart surgery
"BUT THEY HAVE NOT pardoned me or at least one of them has not. MEMORIAM."
Aquino widow critical of government inquiry
"Why, therefore, is it 'unfortunate' that I do not believe in the possibility of justice under Marces?" she said. "On personal grounds, how can I expect justice from the hand that brought so unjustice and suffering into my life?"
By United Press International
Aquino said she expected the five-member commission to forgive her for being skeptical about any inquiry set up by President Ferdinand Marcos, who kept her husband in detention for 7½ years.
MANILA. Philippines — The widow of slain opposition leader Benigno Aquino yesterday strongly criticized the leader of a commission investigating her husband's assassination
In response to comments about the Aquino family made by Corazon Agrava, chairman of a panel looking into the Aug 21 slaying, Corazon remained "steadfast in my reusal to have anything to do with this commission."
By United Press International
Four other Soviets not stationed in Norway but linked to the scandal were also stripped of their diplomatic rank and gave them away. Strav announced at a news conference.
OSLO, Norway — Norway expelled five Soviet diplomats yesterday in a protest to Moscow stemming from the rejection of a diplomat as a spy for the Soviet KGB.
Stray said the expelled officials "acted contrary to their status in this country and have broken the rules of diplomatic conduct between the two states," which in diplomatic jargon generally means espionage.
Norway expels five Soviets says diplomats were spying
THE NEWS CONFERENCE came after Soviet Ambassador Dimitry Polynsky was summoned to the foreign ministry to receive an official verbal protest
The five Oslo-based diplomats were expelled in the wake of the use by the
SUPERDANCE Committee People Needed (Benefitting Muscular Dystrophy Association)
In a statement last night, the Soviet Embassy said that the expulsions were "unfounded" and "an unjustified attack on the activities of Soviet institutions."
THE STATEMENT WARNED that the Soviet government reserves the right to attack any of its allies.
KGB, the Soviet intelligence agency, of foreign ministry press chief Arne Treholt as a spy. Stray said, Treholt said that shook Norway's officials, scandal that shook Norway's officials.
A meeting for all those interested in serving on a committee or being a committee chairperson will be held Thurs., Feb. 2 at 7 p.m. in the Kansas Union.
He said the incident had undermined "the confidence which is an important prerequisite for the development of relations between two countries."
"The Soviet authorities must bear the full responsibility for the damage that has been done in the relations between the two countries." Strav said.
Committees are: Recruitment, Facilities, publicity, prize entertainment, food, medical, finance and security.
Norwegian security police identified one of the five. Leen Makarov, who left Norway before Treholt was arrested in the current head of the Kildbjerk in the country.
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