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King calls for peaceful end to tribal fighting in S. Africa
The king of the Zulus urged thousands of armed supporters yesterday to curb the factional fighting that has caused almost 800 deaths in small townships near Johannesburg, South Africa.
"Everybody must lay down their arms and take their brother's hand in friendship." Zulu Goodwin Zwilaiti told fellow tribesmen that Tokta, two townships hard hit by the fighting.
Zweilithi shared the stage at the peace rallies with President Tutor Ndamase of the Transkei, the tribal homeland of the Xhosas. The Xhosas have joined fellow African National Congress supporters in clashes against Zulus loyal to the conservative Inkatha movement.
Tanker explodes, hurts 18;
fuel spills into Saginaw River
A tanker carrying about 1 million gallons of gasoline exploded and burned Sunday in Bay City, Mich., on the Saginaw River, injuring most 18 people aboard and spilling fuel in the water.
The fire was too hot for firefighters to doouse, and officials waited for it to burn itself out, said Cain.
One person from the ship was missing, said Coast Petty Officer Gerald Backus.
The fire was reported at 8:45 a.m., while the tanker was unloading at the Total Refinery Dock Facility, and was still burning at mid-afternoon.
Authorities warned spectators to clear the area in case of multiple explosions.
"A few people blew right off the boat and shamrocked," said Bay City police officer Khaled Akadin.
State police found bloodstained gloves and a 38-caliber handgun in the home of a suspect in the stabbing deaths of five college students in the Nashville, Fla., a newspaper reported yesterday.
Gun and bloodstained gloves discovered in suspect's home
But Edward Lewis Humphrey's grandmother said the blood and gloves found in a search of her home in Indialantic on Sept. 6 were hers. But she has not been said the pistol has been in the house for years.
University Daily Kansan / Monday, September 17, 1990
Humphrey has not been charged in the slayings. He is being held in lieu of $1 million bond in the Brevard County Jail in Sharpes on charges he assaulted his 79-year-old grandmother on Aug. 30, shortly after he had returned from a visit there. he was a University of Florida freshman.
Humphrey's grandmother, Elina Hilahay, said the gloves found during the police search were stained with her blood when she fell and cut her head.
From The Associated Press
Troops have new task
The 82nd Airborne is ill-equipped to fight the strong Iraqi army. But because of its readiness for swift deployment, it was the first U.S. Army unit to hit Saudi soil under Operation Desert Shield.
82nd Airborne may parachute into Iraq if needed
CHAMPION CITY, Saudi Arabia — The first U.S. ground forces to reach Saudi Arabia have been given a new mission that would take them from the front lines but put them even closer to any combat.
The 82nd Airborne, some members of which spent last Christmas in Panama, began arriving within a day of President Bush's Aug. 8 decision to attack ISIS from Muqaddad kingdom from possible attack by Iraqi forces.
The Associated Press
"In those early days we were as much a political statement about the United States position as a deterent force," one 82nd officer said. "For some reasons, there was no way then they were telling the folks back home."
Now, as heavier tank-fighting hardware arrives, the military wants the paratroopers to get ready for another job, perhaps parachuting into Iraq or Kuwait if necessary, too officers said.
With Vietnam-era M51 Sheridan light tanks, the 82nd would have been no match for Iraqi forces had the Iraqis decided to continue south from Kuwait with their heavy Soviet tanks.
Another 82nd member, who, like his senior officer, spoke on condition of anonymity, said he was confined to base at Fort Bragg, N.C., waiting to be sent to Saudi Arabia when he read in the
paper that his unit already was en route
The 82nd was deployed in northeast Saudi Arabia to secure airstrips and port facilities for arriving U.S. forces. It also formed a thin defensive line on the coast with expression about 150 miles from the Kuwait border
As other troops began to arrive, the 82nd conducted desert exercises to get used to the searing heat, and last week underwent drills with the 16th Army's light enough to be dropped by air into battle.
Now, with heavy armored divisions from the Army and Marines taking up positions much further south, they have
That new mission, according to sources who agreed to discuss it on grounds that specific details and locations not disclosed, is more in line with what the Army calls its premier forced entry unit.
"Paratroopers don't fight tanks," a senior Army officer said. "It's time we get the 2B4 into action."
If orders come to take part in an offensive against Iraq, top officers in the 82nd think the unit could be called on to drop into Kuwait or southern Iraq through air forces and attempt to cut off their supply lines.
The unit recently ordered a parachute shipment from home.
Rules prohibit how many members of the zind are in Saudi Arabia, but most of the 15,000
Iraqi troops open border; refugees flee from Kuwait
The Associated Press
Scores of newly arrived Kuwaitis were lined up early yesterday to be processed at a Saudi government office in this border town. They also received phones to call relatives who had fled Kuwait earlier.
KHAFJ,SI, Saudi Arabia — Almost 1,000 refugees from Kuwait streamed into Saudi Arabia on Saturday after Iraqi border guards opened at least one frontier crossing.
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said most government officials had been instructed to say publicly that there had been no abnormal activity at the crossing point.
A Saudi government source, who had spoken to an official at the border, said he was told that about 1,000 Kuwaitis had crossed into Khafji and was being registered by the Saudi government.
Several of the Kuwaiti refugees said the border had been abruptly opened Friday, but most of them still were.
A Kuwait City lawver, Shaheen, said that he did
not know why the frontier had been opened but that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was asking the Kuwaitis to leave Kuwait and go out across the border.
He said that during the past three days about 25 Kuwitai, rang in age from 15 to 25, had been taken away by Iraqi soldiers for unknown reasons. Shabeen added that he had heard rumors of several Americans and other Westerners hiding in Kuwait.
"If you help a Westerner in your home you will be hanged, but some people are still hiding them," he said, referring to Iraqi threats that people sheltering Westerners would be put to death.
A group of 11 Kuwaiti families, 88 people in all, arrived Saturday night in Dahran, 200 miles south of the border, and told of traveling in a convoy of cars from Kuwait City.
They said they made the trip because Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had said two days ago that all vehicles with Kuwaiti registry would be permitted to cross into Saudi Arabia.
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