University Daily Kansan / Monday, November 13, 1989
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Seventeen killed in Salvadorian rebel attack
The Associated Press
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Troops battled rebels in the capital yesterday after a massive guerrilla offensive that included an attack on the home of President Alfredo Cristiani, the military said. A U.S. teacher among the at least 17 people reported killed.
More than 40 people were wounded, and there were reports of fighting in four of the country's 14 provinces including the northern section of San Salvador.
Gunfire, explosions and sirens rang out throughout San Salvador when the guerrillas
launched the offensive Saturday night, and the sounds of fighting could be heard yesterday.
Cristian's private home and his official residence were attacked, military officials said. He was at his private home and was unhurt, they said.
The international airport was closed after the military installations there were attacked by mortar fire.
Speaking over nationwide radio and television, Cristiani said that he called a meeting of the Council of Ministers to consider declaring a state of siege.
"The terrorists must know that there are
judicial tools to fight these irrational attacks." Cristiani said.
"You must heed the call to not go out in the streets, to stay in your houses or where you are right now." he told citizens.
He said that seven civilians were killed and 41 injured during the two-day offensive. Hospital officials speaking on condition of anonymity described how four wavers were killed in the fighting.
A teacher at the American High School in San Salvador was among those killed Saturday night in the attacks, said U.S. Embassy spokesman Barry Jacobs. Jacobs would give no details and said the victim's name was
The leftist Farabundo Mari Liberation Front has been fighting a succession of U.S.-backed governments in El Salvador for 10 years.
being withheld pending notification of family members.
In a broadcast over their clandestine rebel Radio Venceremes, guerrillas announced the offensive part of a national maneuver that he "Remove the fascists, Fbe Elizabeth lives."
This offensive is named after union leader Febe Elizabeth Velazquez, who died in an Oct. 31 explosion at the National Federation of Salvadoran Workers. The rebels accuse
the military of being behind the attack that killed 10 people and injured more than 30.
"Today we are fighting against misery, against those who stay in power through savagery aimed at churches, universities, opposition political parties, guilds, unions and dissident sectors..." the broadcast said.
Rebels attacked Cristian's residence Saturday night and other official buildings, and they occupied several sectors of the northern part of San Salvador.
Cristiani, who belongs to the rightist Nationalist Republican Alliance, popularly known as Arena, came to power June 1.
Oat craze increases imports
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Health-conscious U.S. citizens are on an oat kick and farmers aren't keeping up with the demand.
Oat bran has become "a buzz word," says Agriculture Department nutritionist Ruth H. Matthews. "Everybody's got to have oat bran. You've got to have oat bran and popcorn, and chips with oat bran, and popcorn and everything else."
U. S. oat production rebounded this year from a drought-level 1988 output of 219 million bushels — the lowest since the Agriculture Department began keeping records in 1866 — to 371 million bushels this year.
But that won't be enough, and the nited States will wind up importing around 55 million bushels of oats in 1989-90. Last year, when drought shriveled yields, imports jumped to 68 million bushels.
Even before the craze, the United States was importing oats from Canada, Sweden, Finland and Argentina.
It was only a few years ago that medical researchers found health benefits in foods rich in fiber
oats, long-recognized as a nutritious food, gained
further dietary fame as researchers found that certain kinds of fiber — those that are soluble in water — are even more effective.
"If you cook oatmeal in a pan, you know how sticky it is and how difficult it is to clean." Mrs. Matthews said. "Well, that sticky product is the soluble fiber."
Oat bran, which is extracted from the oat seed, is even more concentrated in fiber content.
When farms were powered mostly by horses and mules — a record of 25 million in the U.S. Inventory in the early 1920s — farmers grew more than 40 million acres of oats each year.
As recently as 1954, oats were harvested from 40.6 million acres. But by the mid-1980s the crop was down to less than 20 million acres, and in the late 1970s dropped to below 10 million.
Last year's drought cut the harvest to 5.6 million acres. This year's rosehose to more than 6.8 million acres, primarily a result of improved weather in some key areas and relatively high market prices.
A major reason for the slide in oat production, however, has been the federal crop program that makes barley and other grains more profitable to produce.
World Briefs
ONE KILLED IN NAVY ACCIDENT: A U.S. Navy destroyer and a 428-foot merchant ship were limping toward Singapore today after a collision from Malaysia killed one Navy crewman and injured four others, a Navy spokesman said.
It was the latest of a series of fatal accidents involving Navy ships in the past two weeks.
The USS Kinkaid was bound from the Indian Ocean to Singapore for a visit early yesterday when it collided with the 428-foot Singaporean tanker Koter Petani in the Malacca Straight, 240 miles northwest of Singapore, said Lt. Cmdr. Bob Anderson, a spokesman for the Pacific Fleet headquarters at Pearl Harbor.
The predawn collision tore a 15-by-56 hole above the waterline on the right side of the 563-foot destroyer,
WALESA TO VIST U.8.5. Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa comes to the United States holding his head high and his hand out, accepting praise for forgiving the first non-Communist government in the Soviet bloc while seeking money for its survival.
"We are building an America of the East," but that requires billions of dollars from the West, Walesa said in an interview before leaving Poland for his U.S. visit.
Walesa's trip will provide a chance for President Bush and Congress to endorse in words and dollars the changes that are swearing the Soviet bloc.
The stocky, mustachioed electrician, who rocketed to world fame in August 1980 by clamming over the Gdansk shipyard wall and leading the strike that created Solidarity, can expect warm words and warmer hospitality, from the White House ceremony where he receives the presidential medal of freedom today, to his speech to members of the House and Senate on Wednesday.
SHERIFF INSURES DOO: The life of an employee of the Cherokee County Sheriff's Department might be in danger, so officials in the southeast Kansas county office have a policy on the worker — a 4-year-old German shepherd.
The dog, named Stein, can sniff out illegal drugs, opened containers of alcohol, explosives and gunpowder in unfired shells. And Sherif Chuck Sharp said he would that drug dealers in the county want the dog dead.
The insurance policy, which would pay off no matter how the dog died, costs about $875 a year through Lloyds' of London, Sharp said.
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