University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, October 24, 1989
Nation/World
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SOVIETS BATTLE NARCOTICS
Soviet police and military units in the Kazakh republic carried out a seven-day narcotics operation and netted 352 pounds of marijuana, Tass said yesterday.
World Briefs
The operation was carried out in the Chu valley, the main narcotics producing area in Kirkigiya, Kazakh, 1,600 miles southeast of Moscow, according to the official news agency.
Tass said the entire valley was sealed off, and special military units formed to fight organized crime took part in the operation. WHALE COURTS FERRY! A killer whale has been swimming alongside a Norwegian ferry for the past week in what the captain said yesterday looked like a case of whale courtship.
“It’s hard to say who fell in love with whom,” said Aloc Mundal, captain of the crew at Kangerlussuaq and are as lively with the black and white whale as
the whale is, with the black and white ship.
Mundial said by radio telephone that the whale seldom leaves the ferry's side and the ship sails a 12-tonne steer through a fjord near Aalwand.
The 13-foot whale whugh the ship's hull, sometimes gently bumps against it, and often sprays passengers with water.
Mundal said the whale has not disappeared for more than a few hours at a time. It may have adopted the ship after straying from a killer whale flock seen three weeks ago.
TENUTA ON TOUR! It's hard to get a straight answer on any subject from comedian Judy Tenuta, who calls herself the Empress of Elvis Impersonators, and the best-selling Goddess and Self-Appreciated Love Goddess.
Asked where she lives, the woman who is on the road 37 weeks a year wielding an accordion and
"I'm usually on seat 13-A of Air Turkey. I don't have a pad yet. What I'm hoping to do is buy a $7 billion mansion in Malibu, knock it down and build a little house."
sarcasm replied:
Tenuta said she was working on a book for Harper & Row, "The Power of Judism."
"It's a lifestyle and exercise book," she said. "I have exercises for people that are globes — really obese people — and an exercise called the weeping widow work-out."
GERALDO TALKS TOPLESS:
Television, personality Geraldo Rivera brought his controversial talk show to Colorado to tape a program at the state's only topless doughnut show.
Billed as "Topless USA," the show scheduled to air Nov. 2 attempted to create dialogue between topless women inside the "Debbie Duz Donuts" shop and protesters outside.
East Germans form workers' union
BERLIN — Several hundred employees of an East German factory have formed an independent union, a worker spokesman said yesterday, stirring memories of Solidarity's challenge nine years ago to an equally stern Polish regime.
Workers at the Wilhelm Pieck electronics factory in Tettow, a suburb of East Berlin, call their union Reform.
The Associated Press
It is the first independent labor union in the communist nation, as Solidarity runs the first in the Soviet
bloc, and includes the right to strike among its demands. There was no comment from the government.
ZDF television in West Germany quoted a Reform spokesman as saying that workers in entire sections of the plant had resigned from the state Freie Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund and Federal government reported that workers had appealed to colleagues in other factories to join the new union.
A crowd, estimated at 300,000 by supporters and "more than 100,000" by the official news agency ADN, marched down downtown Leipzig.
East Germany, demanding a more democratic society. For the first time, a Roman Catholic church was made available to activists for the demonstration and rally.
In East Berlin, 3,000 pro-democracy activists held a vigil in the Gethsemane Lutheran Church to support their colleagues in Leipzig. ADN reported that about 40,000 people rallied in Schwerin, a northwestern city, in an event sponsored by the Communist Party to encourage dialogue between citizens and the leadership.
'We can start over again'
Mayor urges damage repair to Santa Cruz
The Associated Press
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Mayor Mardi Wormhoudt had planned a party this fall in the heart of her city. But now is not the time for revelry — rubble and ruin surround her.
The downtown of this coastal community is littered with caved-in buildings, flattened windows and walls, brick walls, dirt chimney to 15 degrees of nature's fury.
One week ago, the San Francisco earthquake struck Santa Cruz, but if the shock is over, the painful reality is just settling in for the mayor.
"It's really hard and gets harder each time I see it," she said as she surveyed the ravaged Pacific Garland, the downtown business district.
"This week people are really taking care of each other," she said. "Next week, we're not the media's favorite, their 15-second sound bite. We don't go away. And we'll settle in the long haul putting it back together."
Rebuilding is a far cry from what this community of 50,000 had planned for this fall. In a few weeks, Santa Cruz was supposed to be celebrating the 20th anniversary of the mall, several blocks of shops and offices in renovated wood and stucco buildings.
"This was a dying downtown, this was a downtown that had lost its
SOURCES: San Jose Mercury News and Santa Cruz Office of Emergency Services
vitality," the mayor said. "People had creativity and vision," rebuilding and renovating, adding greenery and pedestrian-only areas, benches and outdoor cafes.
Knight-Ridder Tribute News / JENNY ANDERSON
Instead of celebrating, the city is mourning the three people who died here a week ago and trying to assess
the damage. Thirty percent of the stores may be lost in the business district, part of which is cordoned off with yellow police tape.
That's just part of the devastation. Total quake damage in Santa Cruz has been estimated at $160 million.
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