Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Monday, August 27, 1990
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Nation/World briefs
Rival chiefs appeal for an end to tribal conflict in South Africa
Rival tribal chiefs blamed the white-led South African government yesterday for the black factional fighting around Johannesburg that has claimed more than 500 lives during the past two
Most of the fighting has involved Zulus loyal to the conservative Inkatha movement against Xhosas and other blacks who support the African National Congress.
A delegation of Zulu and Xhosa chefs toured troubled townships yesterday and pleaded for an end to violence.
The delegation, which included seven Xhosa and six Zulu chiefs, said it did not represent any party. But the chiefs all belong to the Congress Party of South Africa, a group with close ties to the ANC.
California mishap kills 4 boys;
mother escapes oncoming train
The mother, Leoniain Lendes, 32, of Delano,
Calif., "got out of the way right at the last
moment," he says.
Trapped inside the wreckage were her children, ages 1,4,6 and 7.
The engineer told police he saw a woman waving and began to brake one block before impact. The Southern Pacific train, traveling nearly 70 miles, stopped in front of the cars, had no chance to stop in time. Calahan said.
Hurricane, tropical storm churn toward the northeast Caribbean
The newly born Hurricane Gustav spun toward the northeastern Caribbean with 80 mph winds yesterday, tailed in the mid-Atlantic less than 1,000 miles east by the season's newest tropical storm, Hurricane
Officials in Martinique, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Antigua, Barbuda, St. Martin, Maarten and surrounding islands issued a hurricane watch yesterday.
Hurricane warnings were expected for part of the area by early today, said Bob Sheets, director of the National Hurricane Center in suburban Coral Gables, Fla.
At 2 p.m. CDT, Gustav, which reached hurricane strength earlier in the day, was centered near latitude 15.0 north, longitude 65.5 west, or about 310 miles southeast of Guadeloupe.
Yugoslavia mine blast entombs 169 workers
The Associated Press
DOBNRJA, Yugoslavia — An explosion of methane gas or coal dust yesterday trapped 169 coal miners underground, and an official said there was little chance any survived.
Only one man, who was working near the surface, was pulled alive from the Dobrjina-Jug pit of the Krema kine, who Vidan Krsmanovic, technician of the rescue operation 90 miles west of Belgrade.
If the trapped miners died, it would be the worst mining disaster in Yugoslav history.
"The rescue work is proceeding very slowly." Krsanovic told reporters. "Corridors in the mine have caved in, there are high concentrations of toxic gases, and it is very hot inside."
He said that about 90 rescues, with breathing equipment strapped to their backs, were searching for survivors. But he said it was virtually impossible any of the trapped miners survived.
"There is no need to talk about such a possibility." he said.
Krsanovic did not give the number of bodies found. An earlier report by the official Tanugj news agency said that two people were found alive and that eight bodies were recovered.
The Tanjug report had said 170 miners were in the mine when the blast occurred about 1:30 a.m.
There was no immediate indication how far underground the miners were trapped. The blast had not been detected.
Sunday.
The force of the blast ripped out steel supports and ventilation equipment. Tainu reported
Tangled ruins of the conveyor belt that carried coal from the shaft were scattered around the mine mouth. Huge pieces of a concrete archway and large mine entrance were being pulled away by cranes.
Kreka mine, one of the oldest in Yugoslavia, was the site of a weeklong strike for higher pay that ended Friday. Strikers from Kreka demonstrated in Sarajevo, capital of Yugoslavia's central region of Bosnia, throughout the past week. They returned to work Saturday after being promised a 100 percent increase in their $270 average monthly salaries.
Mining experts interviewed by Belgrade radio said high concentrations of the highly inflammable methane gas might have accumulated in the shafts during the strike.
Vladimir Jimire, a mining inspector, told reporters that 178 miners had been in the shaft at the time of the explosion. He said the blast was caused by diesel dust, methane gas, or a combination of the two.
Taiwanese cruise vessel capsizes; at least 21 die
NANTOU, Taiwan — Rescuers yesterday pulled more bodies from a lake where an overloaded tourist boat overturned during a moon-gazing cruise a night earlier. At least 21 people drowned, and 34 were missing and feared dead, police said.
The Associated Press
yesterday, police said. No U.S. citizens were known to be aboard.
Shell Taiwan Ltd., which chartered the boat for a weekend tour, said in a statement that 88 people were on board, including three British men and another company staffers and family members.
About 200 rescuers, including divers, searched the picturesque Sun Moon Lake in one of Taiwan's most popular tourist districts for survivors through Saturday night and
"We are extremely distressed by this great tragedy," said Jonathan D. Crossman, a survivor of the accident and president of Shell Ltd, a subsidiary of the British company.
Crossman and his 7-year-old daughter, Nicola, were救 boat by boats that rushed to the scene, but his wife, Julia, 40, and a son, Joe, were missing, said Shell official Tseng Tung-shin.
Rescuers said a baby was among several rescued from a cabin with windows that could not be opened.
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