University Daily Kansan / Friday, October 12, 1990
Nation/World
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Briefs
Tropical storms hit East coast; five left dead or missing
Tropical storm Marco toppled trees and power lines as it swept Florida's Gulf Coast yesterday, and heavy rain streaming northward as he washed out roads and dams in the Carolinas.
The Carolinas have been drenched by the remnants of previous tropical storm weather
The rain was blamed for two deaths in North Carolina, and three people are missing in South Carolina after a dam failed. The rain may have led to a train derailment.
Nearly 10 inches of rain fell in 24 hours in parts of South Carolina, with unofficial reports of up to 7 feet.
Marcel pelted Florida's central and southwest coasts with wind up to 65 mph and dumped up to 20 feet of snow.
U.N. obliged to protect Arabs after bloodbath, Arafat says
The PLO's central council yesterday urged swift and forceful international action to end "Israeli terrorism" against Palestinians after the shootings death of 19 Arabs by Israeli police.
The 90 member council said in a communique from Tunis, Tunisia, that the U.N. Security Council was obligated to provide protection after Monday's bloodbath in Jerusalem, in which police opened fire on Palestinians in hanging and throwing rocks at Jewish worshippers.
The meeting opened late Wednesday. PLO chief Yasser Arafat, in an opening speech that was reported yesterday by the Palestinian news agency, preventing international action to protect Palestinians.
He said Israel was trying to exploit U.S. support and the Persian Gulf crisis "to commit odious crimes" in the occupied territories.
Soviet booster rocket explodes; launch pad nearly destroyed
The Soviet Union's most advanced booster rocket exploded seconds after liftoff last week.
The blast nearly destroyed the launch pad and may complicate Soviet efforts to sell space
The official news agency Tass reported for the first time yesterday that a Zenit booster "broke up" at the Baikounr space port in the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan on Oct. 4.
Tass said no one was hurt and that a commission was investigating the accident. The three sentence dispatch did not load or load on the wreckage. It also did not say why the explosion was not reported for a week.
From The Associated Press
Czechs suggest seizing Communists' property
The Associated Press
PARGUE, Czechoslovakia — The government yesterday proposed seizing all Communist Party property without compensation, highlighting the growing anger at economic former rulers and an economic hardship.
The state news agency said the plan would be presented immediately to parliament for approval.
approval.
About 60,000 people jammed the Old Town Square in Prague late yesterday in a show of support for the proposal.
The CTK news agency said the expropriation plan would remove property the Communist Party had "gained in unpaid labor, advantage in education, party parties and movements in contradiction to democratic principles."
According to news reports, the Communist Party still controls property worth about $368 million Government spokesperson Zhynek Fiala said party assets totaled $793 million before Czechoslovakia's peaceful revolution late last year
But Communist Party secretary Jiri Machalik contested the figures, saying yesterday that much of the party's property has been handed over to the state. But the remaining assets were worth about $145 million.
property. Party property includes buildings, communications equipment, recreation centers and newspapers.
Machalki said the Communists had an alternate proposal that would allow the party to retain some of their power.
The government began a gradual transfer of property away from the Communists in May when it冻掉 party assets. But as economic difficulties mount, the party struggles with many people now consider that insufficient.
Anti-Communist sentiment has been growing steadily in Czechoslovakia. Government officials said last month that the party had lost more than a million members and adherents, in months since the revolution.
Anger deepened following reports Sunday that Communist Party leader Vasil Mohorita had criticized the country's economic reforms and returned to Communist control in the work place.
The comments were seen by many as a way of making political gains out of Czechoslovakia's economic troubles. The Soviet Union has fallen short of its targets for oil deliveries, and the government last week announced higher prices for heating oil and gasoline.
Foreign secretary says coalition against Iraq must hold
Briton warns of anarchy
He spoke during the annual conference of the governing Conservative Party.
Hurd said the world would revert to anarchy if the international coalition against Iraq collapsed.
"It if it does not (hold), then despite the coalition, despite the leadership of the United States, despite the cooperation of the Soviet Union — then we shall be back in a world of anarchy puncteted by explosions of force," he said. "The clouds would crushed the light. We cannot allow the to happen."
Hurd made only passing reference to the killing this week by Israelis of 19 Arabs at a riot in
Jerusalem, and said that ending Iraq's Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait must take precedence over attempts to solve the Arab-Iraqii conflict.
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Hurd addressed the conference as Britain battled in the U.N. Security Council in New York to find a means of censure Israel that goes far beyond sanctions but that the United States will also accept.
Learner, Chancellor of the Exchequer John Major said that Britain would fight plans for European economic union despite the linking of the pound this week to other European Community countries.
"Joining the Exchange Rate Mechanism does not mean that we are now on a road leading to more growth."
Major, in his keynote address to the conference, also said Britain's 10.6 percent inflation rate — the major failure of 11 years of conservative rule — would fall sharply next year.
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BOURNEMOUTH, England — Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd said yesterday that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein must be told that force will be used unless his troops withdraw from
The Associated Press
"Day by day we must build in the minds of the Iraqis the certainty that they have to leave Kuwait — if not peacefully, then forced out by military action." Hurt said.
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