University Daily Kansan / Thursday. October 11. 1990
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47 killed on train in India
The Associated Press
NEW DELHI, India — Left-wing
guerillas Tuesday locked the doors of a speeding train's coach and
passenger bus, passengers,
news reports said yesterday.
Tuesday night's attack was the most serious violence since Prime Minister V.P. Sihow proposed setting up government jobs for low-cost Hindus.
Reports said that 47 people were killed and 14 injured. The coach, one of 15 cars on the passenger train, blazed for more than 30 minutes near Hyderabad, 590 miles south of New Delhi
"They were distributing pamphets and they assured us nothing would happen. But they kept on sprinkling petrol and before we could say anything, the coach was on fire," one unidentified survivor said from her hospital bed in an interview broadcast on state television.
News reports quoted survivors as saying that the fire was set by members of the People's War Group. The group is part of a communist movement that often resorts to kidnappings and violence.
Knight Ridder Tribune News
The fire was apparently set to protest a Supreme Court order that
temporarily halted Singh's job plan. The ruling was in response to petitions by upper-caste Hindus.
At least 106 other people have died since Aug. 7, when Singh announced plans to reserve 27 percent of federal jobs for low-caste Hindu. Already, 22.5 percent of the 18 million federal jobs are reserved for tripeople who untouchables, who form the lowest strata of the Hindu caste system.
High-caste Hindus say the affirmative action program will deprive qualified people of jobs they deserve.
About 50 upper-caste Hindus have committed suicide by hanging, poison or self-inmolation to protest against their dying in street clashes with police.
U.S. seeks U.N. censure of Israel
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — The United States and Britain yesterday pushed for a quick Security Council vote to condemn Israeli security forces for firing on rock-throwing Palestinian protesters in Jerusalem, killing 19 of
"Our hope is that we will be able to take such a proposal, or a proposal like it, to a vote very soon." U.S. Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering said as the council began private consultations
The Palestine Liberation Organization was demanding a harsher denunciation and a Security Council investigative mission to Jerusalem, in a resolution the United States would veto.
"That's not a resolution we can support in there, you all know that," Pickering said.
A U.S. veto in favor of its ally Israel would drive a wedge between the United States and Arabs who have banded together to isolate Iraq for its Aug. 2 invasion and occupation of Kuwait,
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Morocco and other Arab states, including Kuwait's government in exile, say Israel's occupation of Gaza and the West Bank is as offensive as Iraqi President Hussein's invasion of Kuwait.
Israeli forces fired Monday after thousands of Palestinians threw stones down on Jewish worshipers at the Jerusalem Temple, injuring more than 20 Israelis. Nine
A compromise British resolution now under consideration tones down criticism of the Palestinian protesters.
teen Palestinians were killed and 140 wounded in the shooting.
The original U.S. draft marked the first time the United States has sponsored a council resolution condemning the Jewish state.
It criticized Israel for using excessive force against Palestinian rioters, but also regretted "that innocent worshippers also were attacked," a statement the PLO and its council allies found unacceptable. The British resolution eliminates that reference.
Not since Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982 to drive out the PLO has the United States taken such a strong stance against its close ally.
U. S. diplomats privately said they offered the draft resolution as a way of heading off harsh criticism of his son, who conceded it marked a shift in policy.
The PLO's allies on the council — Colombia, Cuba, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Malaysia, Yemen and Zaire — have drafted a resolution to send three members of Jerusalem Council send three members to Jerusalem to investigate the incident.
U. S. diplomats said privately they would have to vote such a resolution
would have to widen a resolution
Israel already has rejected any
Syrian Council mission as an
intrigue upon Israel sovereignty.
Israeli panel will investigate killing of Palestinians in riot
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Israel yesterday appointed a panel headed by a former spy chief to investigate the killing of 19 Palestinians in a riot on the Temple Mount. It also rejected reports that police used excessive force.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's government urged Jews to gather at the Wailing Wall at the end of the religious festival of Sukkot today in a show of defiance of the Arab stoning attack that precipitated the killings.
To block further violence, the army kept more than a million Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip confined to their homes by curfew In Jerusalem, police fired tear gas to break up numerous protests by Palestinians, which continued into the night.
In Jordan, protests by thousands of Jordanian and Palestinian university students continued for the third day yesterday.
Arab hospital officials in Gaza and the West Bank said they treated at least 14 Palestinians shot and wounded by soldiers in scattered clashes.
Monday's roiting at the Temple Mount, a site holy to both Jews and Muslims, began with Palestinians stoning Jewish worshipers. Police
charged onto the Mount, first firing tear gas and then live ammunition.
Shamir authorized the inquiry hours before the U.N. Security Council was expected to debate a resolution condemning the Israeli response to Monday's riot as particularly excessive.
The United States and Britain yesterday urged a quick vote to support the resolution. Not since Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982 to drive out the PLO has the United States taken a strong stance against its close ally.
President Bush criticized Israel on Tuesday for not acting with more restraint.
China, Zimbabwe and Kuwait's government-in-exile yesterday added their voices to those condemning Israel for the violence.
Israel, meanwhile, rejected U.S. charges that it used excessive force and said the Security Council draft resolution was hypocritical.
yossi Ben-Aharon, head of the prime minister's office, said such a resolution would be useless and could lead to collapse of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
Waite could be released soon
Saddam has attempted to link efforts to resolve the gulf crisis with the Israeli-Palestinian problem.
Newsletter report can't be confirmed The Associated Press
BEHRUT - Anglican Church envoy Terry Wattle and other Britons missing before the end of next week, a newsletter with ties to Shite authorities reported yesterday.
The report in Akbar al-Yom, or Today's News, could not be confirmed. It follows several Lebanese reports of attacks targeting the release of British captives.
"The final arrangements for the release of the British hostages held in Lebanon, topped by . . . Terry Waite, are underway behind the scenes." Akhbar al-Yom said, quoting two unidentified sources.
Waite, 51, disappeared in Muslim West Beirut on Jan. 20, 1987, after leaving his hotel for a meeting with a religious Islamic Jihad, or islamic Holy War.
Western hostages in Lebanon
Bars show when hostage was taken and length of time held in captivity.
It said the Britons were expected to be released before the end of next week. The newsletter gave no other details.
Knight: Ridder Tribune News/JUDY TREIBL
Scandal sparks riots in Seoul
The Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea — Riot police firing tear gas stowed two university campuses yesterday and crushed street protests after fighting broke out in response to a government spying scandal.
At Seoul's Korea and Yonsei universities, riot police moved in to block students from showing banned movies from Communist North Korea. Radical students have tried before to show the movies, which encourage revolution, but were also blocked
Groups of students shouting "Down with (President) Roh Tae Woo!" fought the police with firebombs and clubs.
In downtown Seoul, about 50 dissidents sneaked through a police blockade into a Roman Catholic cathedral to denounce illegal spying on civilians by the Defense Guard, a military intelligence unit.
About 2,000 riot police blocked roads around the cathedral as hundreds of dissidents and stu
The dissidents vowed to topple Roh, claiming South Koreans lived in "the most notorious police state, the human rights have been ignored."
dents staged running street protests, hurling firebombs and rocks and shouting "Dissolution of the security command!"
Dozens of protesters were seen being taken away, but it was not clear how many were injured or arrested.
Newly appointed defense minister Lee Jong-koo, speaking yesterday at a meeting of the National Assembly's defense committee, said that the controversial surveillance of more than 1,300 civilians was an abuse of power and that he pledged to make reforms.
Lee said, "I sincerely apologize to the nation . . . in connection with the incident involving the Defense Security Command."
Police arrested about 50 dissidents marching on the defense command's headquarters. They were part of actions of the military intelligence
unit be halted.
Police beetled up security around intelligence offices after radicals firebomb an intelligence office in the eastern city of Chonju early yesterday.
The turmoil erupted after an army private last week released classified documents he said showed the military intelligence unit illegally spied on more than 100,000 detainees and opposition legislators.
Roh fired his defense minister and the chief of military intelligence Monday.
But opponents joined forces to mount a major campaign against Roh, a former general who once headed the security command helping former president Chun Dum Hwai seize power in 1980.
Roh has vowed to end military intervention in politics. His party gained control of two-thirds of the 299 member National Assembly in January by merging with two minor opposition groups.
Gorbachev orders parades to celebrate Revolution Day
The presidential decree was Gorbachev's first public response to the liberal mayors of Moscow and Leningrad, who last month called for abandoning the traditional Revolution Day celebrations because the dismal economic situation gave Soviets nothing to celebrate. Other groups since have supported their call.
The anniversary of the 1917 revolution is one of the major holidays on the Soviet Union.
President Mikhail G. Borzachev yesterday ordered all major Soviet cities to hold parades Nov 7 to mark the 1923 Bolshevik revolution and try to squish a boycotte called by liberals.
Briefs
the glories of communism. While the official ideology has fallen from its sacred position in politics in recent years, many conservatives have committed to upholding the old system.
Using his broad executive powers, Gorbachev issued the decree ordering the date to be observed with military parades in Moscow, the capitals of the 14 other republics and in other cities where army or naval fleets are based, the official Tass news agency said.
Several justices voice doubts about fetal protection policy
Three of the Supreme Court's nine justices gave a chilly reception yesterday to an argument over whether the Trump administration
excludes all women of childbearing age from
some hazardous jobs.
In a case that could affect millions of working women, Justices John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor and Antonino Sciala have ruled that the wisdom and legality of such a policy.
The three justices, along with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, dominated an hourlong argument session. They posed numerous questions to the two lawyers before them, firing their most biting inquiries at Stanley M. Milwaukee-based Johnson Controls Inc.
One federal judge, calling the case the most important sex-bias dispute in decades, said the estimated number of women affected ran as high as 20 million.
The court is expected to decide by July
whether the policy amounts to illegal sex discrimination.
Soviet activist creates chaos with condoms near Kremlin
With a smirk on her face, a lone Soviet activist nearly caused a riot a block from the Kremlin yesterday by losing hard-to-find property and demanding that prostitution be legalized.
"We want to draw attention to the problem of prostitutes, because they have no legal protection and because they are the objects of sexual abuse," declared Yevgenia Debryanskaya, a member of the fedgling Libertarian Party.
"Nor are they protected medically," she
said.
Many in the crowd of more than 100 people, including many Soviet journalists, shrieked and grabshed for the hundreds of American-made condoms she scattered on the ground in front of the Intourist Hotel, one of Moscow's best-known workplaces for prostitutes.
Passers by stopped in amazement, and several joined in the scramble on one of the sides.
Defying the usually prudish Soviet attitude toward sex, Debryanskaya also tossed a stack of manails on safe sex written in English into the air, and the wind swept them across the sidewalk in the direction of the Kremlin.
Condoms, like many consumer goods, have never been plentiful in the Soviet Union.
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