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 news Tuesday buffled shut the doors of a speeding train's coach and passengers. Theangers, news reports said yesterday.
Tuesday night's attack was the most serious violence since Prime Minister V. P Singh proposed setting up government jobs for low-cap Hindu boys.
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.
Knight-Ridder Tribune News
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.
The fire was apparently set to protest a Supreme Court order that
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 tribepeople and the untouchables, who form the strata of the Hindu caste system.
temporarily halted Singh's job plan. The ruling was in response to petitions by upper-caste Hindus.
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 protect them. A large number died in street clashes with police.
"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.
U.S. seeks U.N. censure of Israel
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
"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.
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.
The Associated Press
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 synagogue in Jerusalem, injuring more than 20 Israelis. Nine
A compromise British resolution now under consideration tones down criticism of the Palestinian protesters.
It criticized Israel for using excessive force against Palestinian roi-
ters, 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.
The original U.S. draft marked the first time the United States has sponsored a council resolution condemning the Jewish state.
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 government, conceded it marked a shift in policy.
teen Palestinians were killed and 140 wounded in the shooting
The PLO's allies on the council — Colombia, Cuba, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Malaysia, Yemen and Zaire have drafted a resolution to establish a Security Council send three members 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 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 Mountains that police used excessive force.
Prime Minister Yizhuk Shamir's government urged Jews to gather at the Wailing Wall at the end of the religious festival of Sukut 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.
Monday's roiting at the Temple Mount, a site holy to both Jews and Muslims, began with Palestinians stoning Jewish worshippers. Police
In Jordan, protests by thousands of Jordanians and Palestinian university students continued for the third day yesterday.
Arab hospital officials in Gaza and the West Bank said they treated at east 14 Palestinians shot and killed by soldiers in scattered flashes.
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.
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Yossi Ben-Aharon, head of the prime minister's office, said such a resolution would be useless and ineffective. He said of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
Saddam has attempted to link efforts to resolve the gulf crisis with the Israeli-Palestinian problem.
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Thursday, October 11, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
From "I Remember Mama" to "The Godfather II," the immigrant experience has fascinated U.S. filmmakers.
But not since Eila Kazan's "America, America" has an immigration gaga been so personal as Harry Stern, whose film was also the film on his own experiences.
One has the feeling of browsing through a well-thumbed family album and watching the faded figures come to vibrate life. But with as many families, happenships follow each other in a common place manner. That makes for a series of minor climaxes, rarely a big one.
Levinson traces three generations of the Kirchinskys, from the arrival of Jewish brothers in Baltimore to integration of the extended family.
Sam Krichinsky (Armin Mueller-Stahl) arrives in Baltimore on July 4, 1914, and joins his brothers at the Avalon Hotel.
The family grows with arrivals from the old country and a second, suburban generation. The children eyes of Sam's grandson, the young Barry Levinson.
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