Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Monday, October 8, 1990
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Shuttle astronauts experiment with fire on Discovery flight
The space shuttle Discovery's astronauts, their primary job behind them, started a small fire aboard the shuttle yesterday as part of an experiment to study the spread of flames in
The carefully controlled fire, the first test fire aboard a shuttle, burned about 70 seconds within a sealed aluminum container as cameras recorded the event so it could be studied later.
The astronauts started it by activating an igniter wire woven into one end of a piece of ashell filter paper, about an inch wide and 44 inches long. The cylinder was filled with equal amounts of nitrogen and nitrogen. The amount of gases will vary when the experiment is repeated on future flights.
Passengers and crew disarm hijacker of flight to Sweden
The crew and passengers of an Aeroflot plane overpowered a man who tried to hijack it yesterday to Sweden in the latest of a series of hijacking attempts in the Soviet Union, Tass
The man threatened to blow up the An 24 turboprop plane if it was not diverted to Stockholm, the Soviet news agency stated. The plane was flying from Perm, a city in central Russia 840 miles east of Moscow, to Arkhangelsk, in the northwestern part of the country.
As the plane was preparing to land in the city of Kotlin, about halfway to Arkhangelsk, the crew "decided to take the risk, and with the help of the passengers, disarmed the hijacker." Tass report says.
The man, identified only as Gavlowr, a 26 year-old unidentified resident of Perth, had nen
Tass did not provide any other details about the incident, including how many people were aboard the plane and how the man was overpowered. An An-24 seats about 45 people.
De Klerk and Mandela plan to discuss township violence
*resident W. f. De Klek and African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela have set a meeting for today to discuss recent Black factional news, newspapers reported.
The ANC called last week for a meeting with de Klerk on the violence, which has killed about 800 people since erupting Aug. 12, in Black townships around Johannesburg.
News reports yesterday said Mandela would present de Klerk with affidavits today backing his claims of security-force involvement in the violence.
Scattered incidents of violence were reported yesterday in Johannesburg area townships
From The Associated Press
Protesters in Moscow rally against the draft
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Scores of radical activists, grewing mothers and leather-clad youths rallied side by side at the gates of the Defense Ministry yesterdays, giving alternatives to compulsory military service.
Several hundred people watched and often applauded as speakers from the fledgling Radical Party, which organized the rally, criticized the United States and the Soviet Union for the arms buildups that the group said made the drafts necessary.
"There is no reason for a universal military draft," said Alexander Kalinina, a Radical Party member and deputy on the Moscow City Council. "We don't want to our own heaping stockade that is threatening us."
The rally on Constitution Day, which marks the adoption of the Soviet Constitution in 1977, was conducted without official permission. But there were no confrontations with the dozens of police-men posted at each entrance to the white-marble Defense Ministry building.
"Those who don't want to serve according to their own consciences should be allowed to serve in the army."
Every Soviet male 18 years or older must serve in the military and can be called up during wartime.
Soviet officials have admitted that thousands of youths have been ignoring draft orders during the
past year. Many refuse to serve outside their home republics because, among other things, they fear the vicious hazing process that often is ethnically motivated.
Beatings and harassment of minorities are so rampant that several republics refused to allow their youths to be drafted this year. One report cited in a lawsuit against the department says years in murder, suicides and training accidents.
Kalimina said many of the 3,800 soldiers killed already this year had died of injuries from
"The mass media have led a campaign against hazings, but it has not been very enthusiastic," he
Six women, representing an increasingly active mothers group that seeks more information about their sons who died while in service, staked out an area at the center of the rally. Each of the women held a photo of a soldier and a hand lettered sign in his birth, place of service and date of death.
At one point, an elderly woman charged to the front of the group, pulled an olive green officer's hat from a bag and flailed it in the air, wailing and chatting for her son killed in Afghanistan. The speaker hesitated slightly while the woman sobbed and retreated into the crowd.
"We Don't Want To Kill. We Don't Want To Fight," stated one sighed carried by several youths around the block.
Israelis anticipate attacks
Possibility of war sets in as army distributes gas masks
The Associated Press
YOQNEAM, Israel — Israelis began trickling to schools yesterday to pick up their gas masks in response to an army decision to protect the public against an Iraqi chemical attack
Classrooms, festooned with the handwork of junior school pupils, were turned into instruction centers where soldiers showed civilians how to put on gas masks and inject themselves with antidotes
"It's colorful and pretty so the child should not get afraid," said a female instructor, holding up one of the cameras.
"I't troubling," said Aliza Artzi, after putting a ten-year old daughter through a plastic anti-gas bag.
"I think so," she replied.
Little Tali seemed unphased by the experience but her mother looked tense. She hoped the kit would never be needed, but believed otherwise.
several weeks
Voypeam, 40 miles north of Tel Aviv, was one of a small town selected to the launch of a national television channel.
The campaign comes a week after the government decided to hand out the masks during an escalation of tensions in the 2-month-old Persian camp, where many had repeated chemical attack threats from Iraq.
Distribution to the 30,000 people in Yoqoeman,
Oakim and Mar Yoma is expected to late late into
the year.
Yoopmean, a hilltop town of 7,000, happens to overlook the Plain of Armageddon, where the Bible says the battle of Judgment Day will be wagged. But it has more pressing problems and has become a microcosm of Israel's setbacks and successes.
An immigrant town, it was a showcase of the Jewish melting pot, a thriving community of Moroccan, Russians, Kurds, Romanians, Iraqis, Bulgarians and native-born Sabras. But this summapless employer, the Solana munitions plant, collapsed and the work force has fallen from 4,500 to 150.
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