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 guerillaries Tuesday bolted shut the doors of a speeding train's coach and passengers, news reports said yesterday.
Tuesday night's attack was the most serious violence since Prime Minister V.P. Sing proposed setting up government jobs for low-cause hindrives.
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 pamphlets 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 kidnimmings 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 Hindus. Already, 22.5 percent of the 18 million federal jobs are reserved for tribepeople who unintubates, who form the lowest strata of the Hindi 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-immolation to protest the killing of a死 died 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 prisoners in Jerusalem, killing 10 of them.
"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 harder denunciation and a Security Council investigation 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 Temple Mount in Jerusalem, 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 the administration conceded it marked a shift in policy.
The FLO's allies on the council — Colombia, Cuba, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Malaysia, Yemen and Zaire — have drafted a resolution that would set up a Security Council to 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 veto such a resolution.
Israel already has rejected any
Security Council mission as
an infringement upon Israeli sove-
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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 root on the Temple Mount. It also rejected arguments 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 Sukutton 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 Jordanians and Palestinians 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 killed by soldiers in scattered clashes.
Monday's rotting 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 the president could have used 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
Season kicks off with '50s comedy
Scandal sparks riots in Seoul
By Jamie Elliott
Kansan staff writer
"On the Verge," the first production of the University Theatre's season, showcases language, lady love and fashion in "back to the Future," in reverse.
The comic play chronicles the adventures of three female Victoriana-era explorers as they travel through a time warp from their time period to the "Terra Incognita" of 1955.
As they wander and explore, the time travelers discover the language and artifacts of their future. They wind up in front of an Esso gas station and encounter peculiarities such as huddles like "Like Kel" heaters.
Becky Sherr, Lawrence junior and a fellow explorer in the play, agreed. "It's a play about their travails and
bottles and egg containers
Julie Siefkes, Wichita junior, plays one of the explorers.
"It's about three women who go on a journey," Siekfes said. "But they get more on their journey than they thought they would."
"On the Verge," starring Amy Dorsey, right, and Becky Sherr, left, opens tomorrow.
travels, and what they learn about themselves." Sherr said.
The play, which was written by Eric Overmyer and has been described as a mischievous tribute to a band filled with pins and alliteration
Sierkes said the play contained a lot of difficult language but that it was nice to listen to the sounds that Overmiver used.
The nine-member cast comprises three women and six men. Most of the men play more than one part.
"It's not really unusual," Siekler said. "Originally, there were five parts meant for one man. They are really unusual and challenging for the actors. When they're not playing those characters, they're playing these James Dean type of characters to provide extra conflict for the opera."
Conflict,however,is something the women are strong enough to over come
"They are women off to make their own choices," Sherr said. "They have definitely rebelled from society.
They are strong women off to do their own thing."
Siefkes agreed, saying the play offered a different perspective. "It's kind of a different way to look
"It's kind of a different way to look
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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 11, 1990