Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, November 7, 1990
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Briefs
Indians in British Columbia block road in police face-off
Indians piled bushes, furniture and even an old shed across a roadway used by loggers as they prepared yesterday for a showdown with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
The British Columbia Supreme Court on Monday gave police the power to make arrests if necessary to remove the blockade about 85 miles north of Vancouver.
Officers planned to go to the British Columbia site later in the day to force removal of the Indian's 4-month-old blockade. Those not leaving were to be arrested, police said yesterday.
Chief Justice William Esson issued the order in Vancouver after the Indians defied an order he issued last week, giving the provincial government the right to remove the blockade.
Yeltsin, Gorbachev to meet Sunday to discuss differences
In a move toward peace on the eve of the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Boris N. Yeltsin said yesterday he and Mikhail S. bachev had agreed to discuss their difference.
Yeltsin, Russia's president, declined to say who proposed the meeting scheduled for Sunday, but it was the Soviet president who approached Yeltsin to shake his hand after a holiday ceremony in the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses.
The meeting will be the first between the rival politicians since their attempt at reconciliation over economic reform broke down in late summer. The rift put Yellins's Russian Federation, the Soviet Union's largest republic, on a collision course with the central government.
Saudi women ready their cars for battle, drive through city
About 50 Saudi women, saying the kingdom's ban on female drivers would leave them helpless in the event of war, to the streets for an embattled protest yesterday — behind the wheel.
The women, many of them completely veiled except for their eyes, piled into 15 cars and sailed across the lake.
"This has nothing whatsoever to do with politics," one woman said. "If a crisis erupts, we must drive for the sake of our families. We cannot stay immobile like sitting ducks."
From The Associated Press
Iranian earthquake kills 20
The Associated Press
NICOSIA, Cyprus — An earthquake struck a mountainous area of southern Iran last night, killing at least 20 people and heavy damage at least a dozen villages. Its official news agency
The U.S. Geological Survey in Golden, Colo., said initial readings put the quake's magnitude at 7.0 on the Richter scale. Iran's Geophysics Center of Teheran science said it measured 6.6.
An earthquake of that magnitude is capable of widespread, heavy damage. A quake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale struck northern Iran on June 21, killing an estimated 50,000 people.
The Richter scale is a gauge of the energy released by an earthquake, as measured by the ground motion recorded on a seismograph. An increase of one number on the scale means a increase in the amplitude.
Last night's ouke struck at 9.47 p.m. and was
centered in Fars province near the city of Darab about 60 miles southeast of Teheran, the Islamic capital.
IRA said at least 20 people were killed and more than 60 injured. It quoted Darab Gov. Yahya Hashemi as saying at least 12 villages were heavily damaged.
Earlier reports from the region reported 100 casualties one hour after the quake struck, said Alirez Jafarzadeh, the Washington, D.C.-based spokesperson for The People's Mujahdeen of Iran, a group seeking to overthrow the Teheran government.
Jafarzadeh said he had no breakdown of dead and wounded.
The quake, centered 50 miles east of the city of Darab, hit the route that connects Darab with the port city of Bandar-Abbas on the Strait of Hormuz, said Jafarzadeh.
"This is a mountainous area." Jafarzadeh said. The casualties are high because it occurred late in the war.
In the two counties of Forg and Abshour, a total of 20 villages were damaged 50 to 80 percent, he said.
The Associated Press
Pentagon spokesperson Pete Williams said Desert Shield deployments were continued, but he declined to comment on what the additional forces would be.
At the same time the Pentagon announced that more than 230,000 U.S. forces are now in the gulf area as part of Operation Desert Shield. That is more than the previous Pentagon count given Oct. 23.
WASHINGTON — The Marine Corps yesterday called to active duty hundreds of combat forces from reserve units across the country, marking the first time soldiers in combat roles in the Persian Gulf crisis.
The Marine reserve call-up appeared to indicate that Gen. Al Gray, the Marine commander, is preparing the first stage of a troop rotation to relieve the expeditionary force that has been deployed in the gulf since shortly after Iraq invaded Kuwait Aug. 2. About 40,000 Marines are in the gulf area.
Lt. Col. Stuart Wagner, a Pentagon spokesman, said the Marine reserves would be assigned to the 5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade at Camp Pendleton in Arizona. "We are confident whether they eventually would deploy to the gulf."
Gen. John R. Dailey, the deputy commandant,
said in an interview Monday that the Marines had
The call-up of Marine reserves, while not significantly increasing U.S. combat capability in the gulf, marks an important departure for the Pentagon and indicates that a major Army reserve combat units in Desert Shield
arepared about 55,000 regular Marines for possible deployment to the gulf area. He said no decision had been made on whether any or all of those units were required in force in the gulf or to rotate there as replacements.
Combat reserves called to gulf
Williams denied published reports that the Pentagon has decided to activate major Army combat reserve units. He said Defense Secretary Dick Cheney had not yet granted the Army the necessary authority to order combat reserves to active duty.
"That is an option we'll certainly consider, but no decision has been made." Williams said.
Williams suggested for the first time that Cheney was uncertain whether major combat units from the Army reserves are properly prepared for battle in the Persian Gulf.
"It's something of an untested question." Williams said. He indicated that any Army combat reserves called to active duty would be given extra training in desert warfare at the Army's National Training Center at Port Iowan, Calif., and readiness then evaluated before decided to send them to the gulf.
Meet the Business School Dean
Joe Bauman
Tonight-Wednesday
Nov. 7
at 6 pm in
Room 427 Summerfield
Sponsored by Undergranduate Business Council.
Sponsored by Undergraduate Business Council.
RESUME WRITING & INTERVIEWING FOR WOMEN
A workshop designed to help women improve and enhance resume writing techniques and interviewing skills.
Tuesday, Nov. 13, 1990
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Pine Room, Kansas Union
Wednesday, Dec. 5, 1990
2:00:40 p.m.
Pine Room, Kansas (Unior
Pine Room, Kansas Union
SELL IT FAST IN THE DAILY KANSAN
Sponsored by the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, 118 Strong Hall For more information, contact Kishma Gargesh at 864-3529.
Fisher Lectureship in psychology presents:
Irving Biederman
Fesler-Lampert Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science University of Minnesota
"Human Visual Image Understanding"
Wednesday, November 7 8:00 p.m.
Alderson Auditorium
Johnny's everyday Specials
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