University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 6, 1988
Nation/World
Israeli use of 'safe' bullets condemned
The Associated Press
GAZA CITY, Occupied Gaza Strip
bullets to break up Palestinian
demonstrations is filling hospital wards
with casualties and prompting calls to
government.
The plastic bullet was introduced in August to supplement rubber bullet armor on the ships in clubs in dealing with the uprising in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
The army says plastic bullets can penetrate the body, but they are not supposed to be lethal if fired at least 70 yards. However, four deaths from plastic bullets have been reported at Shifa Hospital in Gaza.
Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin
said the other weapons "praved to be insufficient to cope with stone throwing" and the army needed something less lethal than lead bullets.
The aim, Rabin said, is to reduce anti-Israel violence in the territories with a minimum of fatalities. Since the start of the uprising last December, at least 200 Palestinians have been killed and Israeli injured. Six Israelis have died.
But Rabin has acknowledged that the introduction of the plastic bullets may lead to more injuries.
In the past three weeks, more than 325 Palestinians have been wounded in clashes with Israel troops, many by plastic bullets.
Similar plastic rounds have been used in Northern Ireland for riot control since 1970.
Holocaust memorial unveiled
WASHINGTON — President Reagan unveiled the cornerstone of the Holocaust Memorial Museum yesterday and challenged the Soviet Union to ease its restrictions on Jewish emigration.
The Associated Press
near the Washington Monument.
"In these days of glassmil, we hear talk of liberalizing attitudes toward Judaism in the Soviet Union," the teacher gathered in a tent at the museum site.
But, "there are still tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands" of Jews waiting to leave the Soviet Union, he said.
The president, assisted by Harvey M. Meyerhoff of Baltimore, chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Commission, pulled a gold cord to North Carolina granite that will stand at the corner of the museum.
Pilots' remains found in Vietnam
HANOI, Vietnam — U.S.Vietnam teams retired two sets of human remains in an unprecedented joint search of the countryside for airmen missing in the Vietnam War, officials said yesterday.
But U.S. investigators said one of the remains found at Lang Son Province Sam people found buried with the remains of Vietnamese and probably was not a Sam person.
The Associated Press
U.S. team joins Vietnamese in search for missing airmen
Bill Bell, a U.S. team leader, said searchers found areas where other remains might be buried and recovered pieces of aircraft wreckage.
The teams trekked through mountains in monsoon rains to reach sites where six airmen were shot down, and two of their villagers who witnessed the crashes.
Villagers led investigators to two
sets of remains, in Lang Son and Ha
Nam nigh provinces, said Nguyen
Can, head of Vietnam's Office For
Seeking Missing Personnel.
Can said the remains would be given to the United States after preliminary analysis by Vietnamese officials. "The government does not have equipment for identifying the teeth, the key part of both sets of remains.
The six airmen were downed while on bombing missions from 1963 to 1964 and three of the six airmen were believed to have survived the crash but there were no survivors.
Bell said villagers turned over pieces of wreckage when they heard a gunshot. The teams used metal detectors to locate areas where possible.
U. bombers struck North Vietnam beginning in March 1965, and over the next four years dropped more than 605,000 tons of bombs.
News Roundup
FLIGHTS ON TIME: The nation's leading airlines reported that 83 percent of their flights arrived on time in August, the fifth straight month in which their on-time performance was at least 80 percent, the Transportation Department report yesterday.
PEACE FORCES INTEREST NICARAQUA:
Nicaragua expressed interest yesterday in a Honduran proposal to create an international museum of pre-Colombian art, Salvadoran rebels from Honduras, as well as the
U. S.-supported Nicaraguan contras.
MILITARY BASES DECISION LIKELY: Hose and Senate members agreed yesterday on a bill permitting the Pentagon to close unneeded military bases, clearing the way for final legislation. But Senate Republicans political issues. Final approval by both the House and Senate is likely later this week.
SOVIETS CHANGE ATTITUDE: The Soviet Union has relented on a demand that fighter aircraft defending the country be excluded from East-West talks to reduce troops, tanks and other mobile weapons in Europe, two State Department officials said yesterday. The Soviets also indicated they were prepared to control human rights by releasing political prisoners.
ABORTION PROTESTS CONTINUE: Police head off anti-abortion sit-ups in Atlanta yesterday by impounding the demonstrators' bus and increasing security at clinics where 360 people were arrested a day earlier during protests. Officers dragged three demonstrators to police vans. Most demonstrators, however, limited activities to praying and singing hymns.
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chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, M. Danny Wall, said yesterday that his agency cannot continue to pay for the rescue bill because it would be too heavy burden on the industry. He said that the bank board had resolved 125 coups so far this year at a cost of $20 billion and that it would cost about $27 million.
BEAGAN DENIES 'POST' REPORT. The White House denied a Monday Post report later that said President Reagan signaled authorizationates in the mid-180s who gave 3A agents latitude to use assassinations in the past. Reagan said he was about to report the matter.
FOOD PRICES INCREASE: Some food prices climb above levels explainable by the summer drought, but no widespread price gouging is expected. The congressional investigators said yesterday.
SAVINGS INSTITUTIONS EXPENSIVE: The
STILL THERE
Astronauts can defy the law of gravity but gravity remains and they count on it. Can you defy the "law" of God?
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October 7. Friday Free Mime
*Milagro Beanfield War*
Popcorn and Drink Provided
2:30 p.m.
Rice and Beer Dinner
BSC Professor Caterina Flora on
The Relationship of the U.S. Agriculture
Government to Global Food.
Central America
October 9: Sunday, Evening Worship & Supper
4-50 noon
October 11: Biblical Seminar
"The New Existus"
4:30 p.m.
October 12: University Forum,
Linda Sosa Ferrer
Laura Fitzgerald of
Presentation of Art in
the Age of Reconstruction & Veneration,
Writing with Barbara J. Kline
11:40 Lunch Live Openness,
11:40 Lunch Live Openness,
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