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47 killed on train in India
The Associated Press
NEW DELHI, India — Left-wing guerrillas Tuesday bottled the doors of a speeding train's coach and passengers, news reports said vendor.
Tuesday night's attack was the most serious violence since Prime Minister V.P. Shing proposed settings for low-cause Hinster.
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 kidnappings and violence.
Knight-Bidder 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 tribespeople who form 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-immolation to protest against the death of 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 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. Pickerling said as the council began private consultations.
The Palestine Liberation Organization was demanding a harsher 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 a church 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 rotiers, 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 uplifted the draft resolution as a way of heading off harser criticism of Mr. Obama and 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 three times the Security Council send three months to Jerusalem to investigate the incident.
U. S. diplomats said privately they would have to veto such a resolution. Israel already has rejected any Security Council mission as an infringement upon Israeli sovereignty.
Israeli panel will investigate killing of Palestinians in riot
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Israel yesterro-
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 troops that police use 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.
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 roaring at the Temple Mount, a site holy to both Jews and Muslims, began with Palestinians stoning Jewish worshipers. Police
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.
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 FLO 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 of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
Waite could be released soon
Scandal sparks riots in Seoul
Saddam has attempted to link efforts to resolve the gulf crisis with the Israeli-Palestinian problem.
Newsletter report
The Associated Press dents staged running street pro unit be halted
Grevbounds round the final turn on their way to the finish line. With almost 2 million tickets sold last year, dog racing is the second largest spectator sport in Kansas City.
Dog races: the thrill of the chase
By Jamie Elliott
Kansan staff writer
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — "Heecre comes WOOD!"
The call is followed by a momentary hush as betters and spectators hold their breaths in anticipation of the race's start. They crowd the fence, waiting for the dogs to burst out of the gate.
Woody, a giant bone, passes the starting line, and eight greyhounds explode from the gate, their streamlined bodies stretching in all-out pursuit of the bone racing ahead of them around the course.
"Come on five! Come on five!
Come on!" the betters yell as their
favors fall behind or run ahead.
The audience yells and screams as
speculation that they will silver bet
tips, hoping to catch the big break
After the dogs reach the finish line, the cheers and groans fade as the crowd recedes, moving inside to
collect winsners or to try again. As the races continue, the ground near the track becomes thickly covered with grass and tickets thrown away in frustration.
Woody and the dogs run every night except Tuesdays at the Woodlands ractech in Kansas City, Kan. two miles north of the interstate 435. Last year, in its first season, the dog traked 1.7 million people.
"We are the second largest spectator sport in Kansas City, next to the NFL. We live on lands public relations director." "We get a lot of college kids. It's really popular, especially on Friday or Sunday," she said. "When there's not a lot else to do."
Post time is 7:30 p.m. Mondays,
wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays
and Saturdays with afternoon races
and Sundays with Fridays,
Saturdays and Sundays.
"We run 13 races a night, 15 on
Sunday," Keithley said.
Along with the impressive racing ability of the greyhound, most people enjoy betting at the Woodlands.
To win a trifecta, the bettor must pick the first three finishers in the correct order for a race. To win a superfecta, the top four finishers must be picked in order. Keiththle may choose such as superfectas and trifectas, were more popular than simple bets as win, place or show.
"I only bet on the superfectas and trifectas. If you don't bet the big odds, you won't win back any money."
James Moloney, Broken Arrow,
Okla, sophomore, lost $20 during his last visit.
"It was great," Moloney said. "It was cheaper than a date. Where else can you go and, on a $2 bet, win $7,000?"
Superstition helps some bettors make their picks. They pick dogs
born on their birthdays or use other lucky numbers.
Moloney said he usually bet on the heavier dogs.
"or any dog that has a weight with,
a six in it," he said. "That's my lucky
number. I won $6.80 with that system."
The Woodlands sells programs for $1 that give information — class, finishes, times, weight, birthdate, and tips — on each dog. But bets made on the basis of logic don't always win.
Trent Guess, Lawrence junior, said he usually bet using a tip sheet that told which dog would win and why.
"But it had a 'sure bet of the evening,' one that was sure to win, and it came in dead last," he said.
By betting conservatively, for place or show, Guess said, he once won $25
"But lately, I've been going for the big bucks, and lost a lot of money," he said.
Sean Wilson, Omaha, Neb. junior said he picked dogs randomly.
"I expect to lose. And if I win, it's a bonus," he said. "I've won $15 or $20. But I just $30 once too."
"Losing $10 is just like going to the movies and buying popcorn."
Wilson said he usually bet on $6 box quinhellas. To win a quinella, the better correctly picks the first two finishers in any order. For a box, the better chooses several horses and then likely possible combinations of winners.
"It's a little more risk,but a higher payoff," he said.
Each time he comes to the track,
Savage said he brings only the
amount of money that he plans to
spend on his trip. "My it, it's
a bonus money, free money."
Trees make shade... We don't recycle... You're getting warmer.
General admission tickets are $1.
Reserved seating, inside the building
is $3. Admission to the Kennet
Track is $5. Taking the track is
$5. Parking is $10.
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