University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 5, 1988
Nation/World
Russian railway crash kills four, injures 280
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Runaway rail cars filled with explosives crashed into a coal train in central Russia yesterday, causing an explosion that killed four people, injured 280 and left homeless. Soviet media said.
Reports said the accident blew a hole 30 feet deep and 180 feet wide in the ground.
The government newspaper Ivzima said the blast at 4:30 a.m. in a switching yard at Serdovlk send a column of flames shootting into the
sky over the city. Sverdlovsk is 850 miles east of Moscow.
The explosion caused tanks of oil and gas to catch fire and blanketed the city with smoke, Izvesta said.
Izvestia said two workers died at the scene and two more people died later at a hospital.
Twelve dwellings were destroyed and 14 buildings were damaged, the newspaper said. It did not say how big the dwellings were, but it was likely they were apartment buildings of people who were left homeless of people were left homeless.
250 arrested in Atlanta at anti-abortion protest
The Associated Press
ALTANTA — Police carried or roughly dragged about 250 anti-abortion demonstrators at three clinics to bail-bound beds.
Some of the sit-in protesters screamed or cried as they were hauled off and left in piles by jail buses to be carried aboard by other officers. They also staged the arrests sobbed or prayed quietly. Others sang hymns or songs.
Police asked the demonstrators if
they would walk to the buses and dragged them there when they refused to do so.
Since last summer, hundreds of anti-abortion protesters in Atlanta have identified themselves upon a protest by Jace Dane. Since authorities will not release people on bond without identification, those arrested have crowded jail. Three summer demobilization camps, one for more than 70 days.
WASHINGTON — President Reagan yesterday signed emergency congressional legislation that extends by six months a federal program providing costly medicine for indictment victims of AIDS.
$15 million allotted for AIDS drug
The Associated Press
The White House said in a brief statement that Reagan had approved the bill, which authorizes appropriations for the drug AXT to such victims through March 31. The program would have expired at midnight last Friday, but the house passed the bill and sent it to the White House.
The legislation avoids an interru-
ture in the federal program providing ADR,
the patient's right to receive treat-
ment, which can cost more than $500 a month. AZI is the only drug administered to patients with ADR.
The bill doesn't provide money specifically for AFT, but authorizes federal spending of $15 million for the next six months.
Administration for use in combating AIDS.
Health and Human Services Secretary Ohs Bowen has indicated he and money in existing programs, as well as the act, and the only supplier of the drug. Burroughs Welcome Co., has said it will donate $5 million of the drug at no cost.
A year ago, the average cost of AZT for an AIDS victim was $850 to $900 a month. The price dropped from $1200 to $750. The drug, which is taken by 5,000 to 5,000 indigenet AIDS sufferers, is often not used. Because the AIDS virus from multiviraling
Representative's brother-in-law tests negative for AIDS virus
The Associated Press
"I had a feeling I was strong and healthy," said Douglas Richard
LOS ANGELES — The brother in-law of Rep. Robert K. Dornan has taken an AIDS test and is now disproving a statement by his sister that he was dying of AIDS, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.
inside a cell.
Hansen, 51, a landscape architect from San Diego, who said he hasn't spoken to his sister for several years.
AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, is a contagious disease that attacks the body's immune system, rendering it incapable.
Hansen, who had maintained since his name was first brought into the public eye, offered to take an AIDS test to end the controversy. The test, arranged by the newspaper's medical division of the infection by the AIDS virus.
able of resisting other diseases and infections. The virus most often is spread through close contact with infected persons or semen from infected persons.
News Roundup
HOSTAGE REUNITED WITH WIFE: Indian professor Mithilaswher Sing, a 68-year-old resident alien of the United States held as a wife of former U.S. president reunithed with his wife in Damascus, Syria yesterday. His release Monday leaves nine U.S. hostages and seven other foreigners still in the hands of extremist Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon. Held longest is Terry A. Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent of The Press, who was abducted March 16, 1983.
DISCOVERY IN GOOD SHAPE: After nearly 65 Earth orbit, Discovery's post-flight condition was as good or better than any space shuttle, although debris gouged six heat-shield tiles, apparently during liftoff, a Russian defector said. "Ding" to others' tires, but no damage to the orbiter's brakes, landing gear or tires, the official said.
years, and his opponents predicted the decision and was in favor of Cardinal M. Interior Ministry, under which the president expressed by the political opposition and Roman Catholics church officials of violence by the government supported him.
CANADIAN BUYS PTL*, PTL, announced its assets for $115 million to a Canadian business month after PTL founder Jinker failed in his efforts to return to the helm of his company.
CHILEANS VOTE TODAY: Chilean voters will declare whether they want Gen. Juan Carlos to become president.
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October 7, 1988
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