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Snowfall stifles rescue efforts
snowfall stifles rescue efforts after 6.2 quake hits China
Rescue workers have found only one fatality from a powerful earthquake that hit northwest China, but heavy snowfall hampered their evacuation. The Bureau of Seismology Bureau in Beijing said yesterday.
"At the moment, we have one dead and two injured, but I believe there will be more," said Jill Brennan, a security officer.
The temblor, measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale, hit central Gansu province Saturday afternoon. Another Gansu measuring 5.1 struck 32 minutes later.
Thirty percent of the buildings in the area collapsed, and nearly all the others sustained damage making them too dangerous to live in, Li said.
University Daily Kansan / Monday. October 22.1990
Bush avoids veto of rights act,
offers compromise suggestions
President Bush on Saturday decided to stave off his promised veto of significant civil rights legislation, instead sending Congress compromising the issue, making the bill acceptable to him, officials said.
Bush has stealthily vowed he wove vetro the 1990 Civil Rights Act, which was passed by Congress last week and sent to the White House on Saturday, because he believes it would lead employers to impose quotas for hiring of minorities and open the door to massive workplace
But facing the prospect of election-year embarrassment stemming from a veto, Bush on Saturday made a last-ditch effort to Get Comma in an acceptable changes that would enable him to sign.
Rumors fly that martial law might be used to oust Bhutto
Bemirz Bhutto's opponents in Islamabad Pakistan, might bar her from office even if she brought her to the country.
economists say Pakistan is in for hard times because of a large debt, dwindling reserves, higher oil prices and a sharp decline in exports. Whether Bhutto will be permitted to resume office has been a nagging question since she was ousted Aug. 6.
President Ghalam Ishaq Khan used his constitutional power to dismiss Hatto's 20-month-old government on charges of corruption and abuse of power. He called for elections three years later.
Suspicion has grown that martial law will be declared to keep Hutto out of power, although it is possible.
After 11 weeks of name-calling and nearly a dozen unresolved court cases, 50 million voters will be eligible to deliver their verdict Wednesday.
From The Associated Press
Arab laborer on rampage fatally stabs three Israelis
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — An Arab laborer shouting "God is Great!" stabbed three Israelis to death yesterday as he rampaged through a Jewish neighbor's home in revenge for the Temple Mount killings, police said.
One victim managed to shoot and wound the attacker, who was then seized by furious residents, ending the rampage in the Baka area of southern Jerusalem, police said.
The attack inflamed tensions in the capital and brought in a stream of police reinforcements as well.
Police spokesperson Aharon Eichanyi said his forces would drag Arabs from Burial into Jerusalem.
Two Palestinian factions claimed responsibility for yesterday's attack, but police said they thought the assailant acted alone. The suspect was identified as Omar Abu Sirhan, a 19-year-old Arab laborer from the village of Ubbadyeh in the occupied West Bank.
P police said his motive apparently was revenge for the Oct. 8 riot on the Temple Mount, in which Israeli police fired at stone-throwing Palestinians, killing at least 19 of them.
Avi Cohen, the officer leading the interrogation, said the attacker seemed to have chosen his victims at random. He said that Abu Sirhan had no known criminal background.
Israel television showed scenes of Abd AlSirah being led down a corridor by police. He wore a bloodstained hospital smock, his head and leg were bandaged and his wounds were chained.
Shouting "Allah Akbar," Arabic for "God is God," the attacker killed an 18-year-old woman soldier, a 43-year-old garden nursery owner and a nurse, who died of an elite police anti-terrorism unit, police said.
The off-duty police officer managed to shoot the assailant as he was being attacked.
Angry Israeli youths stoned Arab-owned cars on a Jerusalem highway.
Defense Minister Moshe Arens voiced fears that Arab-Jewish communal violence was reducing prospects of a Middle east peace settlement. He told his audience that he feared "a chasm is opening."
Some Israeli politicians demanded broader powers for troops and police to fire on attackers. They also said the off-duty policeman should have immediately shot the assailant dead. Instead, the officer fired his pistol in the air, then shot the attacker in the legs.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's senior adviser, Avi Pazner, said the U.N. Security Council's condemnation of Israel for the Temple Mount clash created "an atmosphere that incites extremist actions against innocent Jewish civilians."
After the killings on the Temple Mount, known in Arabic as "Haram es Sharif," leaflets distributed by leaders of the 34-month-old Islamic uprising and the evangeline in these "bloody days of total escalation."
According to police accounts, the rampage began when the Arab plunged his 16-inch blade into the tank. He was shot in the back.
Congress close on clean air bill
Legislation would affect Midwest industrial plants most
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Congressional negotiators reached a tentative agreement yesterday on the last major section of clean air legislation, requiring controls on acetone, and set the stage for the final bill.
Agreement on cutting about 10 million tons of sulfur dioxide annually by electric utilities came after House and Senate staff members met until nearly dawn to work out a compromise. The measure will hit the hardest in the industrial Midwest where plants are the dirtiest.
The massive 700-page clean air bill, the first revision of federal air pollution laws in 13 years, is aimed at dramatically curtailing urban smog, toxic chemical releases from factories and businesses and pollution from coal-burning electric power plants that cause acid rain.
Its cost to the economy has been estimated at between $21 billion and $25 billion a year when all
Working under a deadline to finish the bill by the
weekend, the discussions behind closed doors turned to a handful of remaining issues later yesterday.
The most controversial issues were whether to provide job assistance to people thrown out of work by the tougher pollution controls and whether to expand our air over federal parks such as the Grand Canyon.
Congressional sources involved in the bargaining predicted agreement on the remaining issues although perhaps not until early today. Several participants expressed hope that a completed bill could be formally approved by members of the Senate-House conference committee within a day in time for final passage before Congress' expected adjournment Friday.
The tentative compromise on acid rain retains the general pollution control requirements on more than 100 coal-burning electric power plants approved by both the House and Senate earlier this
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