Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 31. 1990
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Briefs
Hindus, police clash in dispute about Muslim mosque in India
Thousands of Hindu holy men and their followers broke through police barricades in Ayodhya, India, and stormed toward the temple where they want to replace with a Hindu temple.
Many were beaten back by police, who fired tear gas and lashed out with iron tipped bamboo canes. Dozens were injured, and between 100 and 200 were arrested. Hindu holy men screamed obscenities from rooftops and pelled the police with stones.
About 200 people overran police lines in the arrow lanes, and the halted at the foot of the street were fleeing from them.
The religious dispute has made the name of this Hindu holy town a battle cry in Muslim-Hindu riots that have left more than 100 dead across India in the past week.
American prisoners in Iraq under close guard, French say
Frenchmen returning from captivity in Iraq said yesterday that they were free to move about in their "prison without bars" but that they had been held captive and not allowed to mix with other detainees.
One returning man, who asked to remain anonymous, said that at Baghdad's Rasheed hotel, the Americans "were watched over much more than us."
"They were only allowed to go out two hours a day," he said. "We couldn't count them or approach them. Plainclothes police controlled everything."
Early yesterday, 362 French citizens and 19 other foreigners flew into Paris after their
Memorial to political prisoners is dedicated by Moscow crowd
Thousands of Soviets, many with photos of relatives who died in labor camps, marched to KGB headquarters in Moscow yesterday for the display of a monument to victims of repression.
They held candles against a bitter wind, exchanged stories of loved ones who disappeared and left piles of red and white carnations on the monument outside the Lubavika, the security police headquarters and famed former prison.
"This building is a symbol, a symbol of the history and the history, hisstorian Xan. Atakoyane told the crowd."
The monument is simple but eloquent: a rough piece of rock, about 3 feet wide and 8 feet long, hewn from the harsh Solovetsky Islands in the freezing White Sea.
From The Associated Press
DEA courier may be linked to Lockerbie plane tragedy
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Drug Enforcement Administration said last night that it was looking into the possibility that one of its undercover couriers carried the bomb that blew up Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland 22 months ago, perhaps without knowing it.
Two hundred seventy people aboard the plane and in the village of Lockerbie died in the December 1988 attack, attributed by law enforcement authorities to a terrorist group favored by Iran.
NBC News, which first disclosed the drug agency's new investigation last night, said it had learned that Pan Am's flights from Frankfurt had been used in a Cyprus-based undercover operation to fly informants and suitcases of heroin from the Middle East to Detroit.
The terrorist group put plastic explosives in a tape recorder in baggage that was shipped from Gaza to the United States.
Nair Khalid Jafara, 20, of Detroit, was killed in the bombing, and the network said part of the drug agency review was to determine whether he had been involved in the attack, either he had been tricked into carrying the bomb.
Pan Am's baggage operation in Frankfurt was used to put suitcases of oneron on planes, apparently without the usual security checks, under an arrangement between the drug agency and German authorities, the network said. It cited only an unidentified airline source for that statement.
In a statement read by spokesperson Frank Shults, the Drug Enforcement Administration said it was aware of allegations made to the media that a DEA operation was used in the bombing.
"Although no evidence has surfaced to substantiate such a claim, we are conducting an inquiry into these allegations, including a review of case files and evidence presented in the relevant time period," the statement said.
Answering questions, Shults said, "I don't know exactly when we'd have answers," but that the agency hoped to know where it stands around the end of this week.
The presidential commission on air terrorism last May reported that it found no evidence of any involvement of the Drug Enforcement Administration with the bombing.
Rep. James Traficant, D-Ohio, said last November he had received an insurance investigator's report that convinced him the Central Intelligence Agency had tipped an attack might be made on the plane.
Justices study counseling ban
Clinics have right to discuss abortion, lawyers argue
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court began scrutinizing a ban on abortion counseling at federally subsidized family planning clinics yesterday in arguments punctuated by pointed questions from Justice David H. Souter and fellow justices.
"You are telling us the physician cannot perform, his usual professional responsibility," Souter told Solicitor General Kenneth Starr, the Bush administration's top court lawyer. "You are telling us the secretary (of Health and Human in effect, may preclude professional speech."
Souter voiced doubts about regulations that bar doctors and family planning counselors from discussing abortion even with women whose pregnancies are endangering their health.
Starr, conceding the ban "tilts against abortion," defended its validity. He said the 1988 regulations were sparked by a decision to keep the abortion controversy out of the family planning
Last year, some 4,000 family planning clinics nationwide received about $140 million in federal funds.
The clinics always have been banned from using federal money to perform abortions, but until 1988 the clinic staffs could tell women about the abortion option and make referrals.
Under regulations issued in 1988 by the Reagan administration, a woman who visited a federally financed clinic and asked about abortion would have to be told the clinic staff "does not consider abortion an appropriate method of family planning."
Enforcement of the regulations has been blocked virtually everywhere by legal challenges.
"We depend upon our doctors to tell us the whole truth, no matter who is paying the bill," Tribe said, adding that many doctors believed it would be soundly unethical" to abide by the regulations.
But Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe, representing those who challenged the regulations, said barring doctors from discussing all options as a basic trust between a physician and his patient
Although fueled by the continuing struggle over abortion, the legal dispute over the regulations has not been resolved.
WOMEN: SELF-IMAGE AND SUCCESS
- How important is self-image?
* Do you accept yourself the way you are?
* Does a woman feel she image her success?
* Are these questions for this workshop or are they these issues?
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 7, 1990
7:00-9:00 PM
PINE ROOM, KANSAS UNION
Facilitated by: Dr. Barbara W. Ballard
Associate Dean of Student Life
Director, Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center
Sponsored by the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center 118 Strong Hall.
For further information, contact Katherine Gatcheg at 844-3524.
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