University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, September 7, 1988
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Illness hits Bangladesh
The Associated Press
RAJBARI. Bangladesh — the nation's three mightiest rivers began receding yesterday, but the most urgent problem grew: how to provide food, shelter and clean water to at-risk people, enable safe people and prevent an epidemic.
"This is the worst food in the history of Bangladesh," President Hussain Mohammed Ershad said to about 300 men, women and children huddled in front of him on a narrow surface surrounded by brown water.
A soldier doloed out scoops of uncooked rice and Ershad told the people more food would be found.
Floods have submerged 75 percent of the country in the past 10 days, and 12 smaller rivers were reported still
rising yesterday, although the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna receded. The flood began in June and resumed last month, then slanted and resumed last month.
At least 421 people have died since June, according to government figures, but that number is considered insufficient. The group of newspapers, including 32 people who drowned when a ferry sank in the Hudson River, contributed to the capital, put the total at 1,154.
Israelis paying to avoid military
Illness from food-polluted water is increasing. The government health department said that diarrhea cases of diarrhea yesterday, bringing the total to 102,000, and said 79 people had died of it. However, those cases still remain, and still can communicate with Dhaka.
JERUSALEM - A scandal involving citizens paying thousands of dollars to avoid military service has shaken Israel, where the army is considered a threat and nationwide administration on their nation are surrounded by Arab enemies.
The Associated Press
The story of Israelis paying up to $10,000 in bribes to avoid serving has been front-page news and dominated radio broadcasts today.
Sweeps wave swept through the IDF (Israeli Defense Force, or army) following the disclosure that a network of army personnel and civilians had been arranging exemptions from military service in return for
bribes," the English-language daily Jerusalem Post said.
Renan Gissin, the deputy spokesman for the army, said the scheme that was revealed Monday with the assistance of Mr. Gissin, a high-ranking officers and doctors.
"It touches on the very essence of the Israeli Defense Fees The sacred principle here is to do military service," he said.
Israel is a nation of 4.1 million residents where both men and women are drafted at age 18, and men do reserve service. There are many job advertisements ask applicants to prove they served in the army.
Avoiding service has long been a social taboo.
There are virtually no conscientious draft resisters in Israel and fewer than 300 people have refused service during the last decade in places such as Lebanon and the occupied territories.
But after the scandal brk Monday, reports surface that about 60 people had paid thousands of dollars to escape the draft or reserve service. Newspapers reported yesterday that hundreds people may be involved.
The army said dozens more arrests were expected.
Gissin said the number of people involved was unprecedented.
"This is just the tip of the iceberg. The last word has not been said." Gissin said.
The scheme, which investigators say started in November, reportedly involved fatal injuries to patients undergoing army computers to show men excused from reserve duty. Those arrested were military majors and an orthopedic surgeon.
Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin described the scheme as an aberration, but said he would order a full investigation of the medical exemption system.
Bakker gets extension on bid
The Associated Press
News Roundup
FORT MILL, S.C. — Former PTL leader Jim Baker was given a two-day extension yesterday to come up with a $3 million down payment as the first step of his $122 million on the television ministry assets.
Bakker and PTL bankruptcy trustee M.C. "Red" Benton said they
were still working out details of a contract for Bakker to buy assets of the ministry he gave up after a sex and money scandal last year.
Bakker said he was about "100,000 short" of the $1 million in cash and letters of credit. Benton said he was convinced Bakker would have the entire amount and gave him until tomorrow to deliver it.
EXPLOSION RIPS TANKER: An explosion that may have been caused by a welder's torch ripped through a Greek oil tanker yesterday, seven people were killed and six injured, officials said.
GROUPS CLAIM LANDS: Following 15 years of negotiations, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney will give two native groups ownership of nearly 4,000 square miles and special rights and land protections.
ACCIDENTS KILL 400 Traffic accidents during the Labor Day weekend on the nation's roads killed more than 400 people, which is slightly lower than the death toll a year ago. By March 31, 2016, that number had recorded 224 deaths since the holiday period began at a p.m. local time Friday.
TUTU'S RESIDENCE SEARCHED* Police came to South Africa Archbishop Desmond Tutu's residence in Johannesburg yesterday and seized a tape of a sermon in which the clergyman defied a government ban and called for an election boycott. Tutu's spokesman said.
POLES PROMISE TAKES: The Polish government said yesterday the promised "round table" talks with workers would begin this month but gave no indication it would grant the job to doctors, signaling Solidarity JUDGE ADVOCATES MARJIUAMA: The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's chief administrative law judge law reckoned recommending drug for the treatment of multiple sclerosis and nausea suffered by cancer patients in chemotherapy.
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