University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, August 22, 1990
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Nation/World briefs
Indian army sends reinforcements to disputed Pakistani border region
The Indian army yesterday dispatched tanks and troop reinforcements to the frontier with Pakistan, where soldiers from the two countries have been fighting recently, officials and witnesses said.
Prime Minister V.P. Singh told Parliament that Indian armed forces were "fully prepared to effectively deal with terrorism."
Indian and Pakistani troops clashed in a remote border area in the disputed Kashmir region Monday. Singh, who is also defense minister, said exchange of fire also occurred yesterday.
In Pakistan, a Defense Ministry spokesperson, who cannot be identified under briefing rules, said yesterday that Indian and Pakistani soldiers exchanged artillery fire in the Kel sector along the cease-fire line dividing Kashmir into Pakistani and Indian regions. He said there were no casualties among Pakistani soldiers.
There was no report from India about the reported firing.
Despite the tension, officials from both sides said the incidents did not appear to be serious.
Soviets, Pakistanis disagree on site to try hijackers of Aeroflot flight
Eleven convicts from a Siberian labor camp who hijacked a Soviet jetliner to Pakistan and requested political asylum will go on trial in Pakistan, Pakistani-run television reported yesterday.
However, the Soviet news agency Tass reported that the hitackers would be extradited to the Soviet Union.
There was no explanation for the differing reports. The Soviets surrendered Monday two hours after the Aeroflot Tupolev 154, with 29 passengers and nine crew members, landed in the city of Karachi.
There was no explanation for the differing reports.
Death row feline wins state pardon; eight lives left for reprieved Boogs
A pet cat named Boogs who faced execution in Madison, Wis., as a dangerous animal has won a court reprieve after his plight became the subject of a letter-writing campaign.
A Wisconsin judge lifted the death sentence Monday but ordered Boogs' owner to keep the cat on a leash and muzzled or in a cage when outside his home and to keep the cat's rabies shops up-to-date.
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"I'm bitter, but my bitterness is outweighed by the joy of getting Boogs back," said BoGS' owner D.W. Young. "I'll try to get rid of him."
Several of Boog's supporters applauded after Dane County Circuit Judge Susan Stingess announced her
The 6-year-old gray and white cat had been on death row at the Dane County Animal Shelter for 15 months. City Health Department officials had ordered the cat put to death for growling at neighbors, eating a neighbor cat's food and nipping an animal control officer who picked him up.
Officials also said the cat had menaced and bitten other people.
"Pit bulls can be a danger to life, but not my cat," Wambeth said.
There was no word on Bong's reaction to being released. Wanberg did not answer his telephone yester-
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The six nation army was expected to leave today or tomorrow from Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, which neighbors Liberia, according to African and Western diplomats.
Soldiers, tanks and other weapons boarded the ships after rebel leader Charles Taylor refused to go to a meeting he earlier had agreed to attend to discuss a cease-fire with Gambian leader Sir Dawda Jawaura. Jawaura is characterless of the Ecotone Community of West African States.
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — A West African task force to halt the fighting in Liberia boarded warships yesterday, and diplomats said the hundreds of soldiers were ready to besieged the besieged capital of Monrovia.
Taylor has threatened to attack any foreign troops that intervene in Liberia's bloody 8-month-old war.
African leaders have ordered their soldiers to fight, if necessary, to force a truce in the three-sided conflict.
They said they welcomed the West African intervention and would not fire on the task force.
Soldiers loyal to the two men told a diplomat who ventured into the streets of Montrovia on Monday that they were at risk of being "stayed" any attack by the 'Taylor's men.'
miles east of the cliff-top presidential mansion.
The war began with a Dec. 24 invasion from the northeastern border with Ivory Coast by 200 rebels that Deo of corruption and tribalism.
Johnson and Doe's men have fended off several attacks from Taylor, who last week launched a last-minute attack on the port before the West Africans arrive.
On Monday, President Samuel Doe's soldiers and a rival rebel faction under Prince Johnson, which led by the Monsovia, announced a truce.
Thousands of civilians joined their ranks, seeking vengeance against government soldiers who were unable to hold back the rebels and instead killed thousands of peasants. In February to form a rival faction.
Monrovia has been besieged by the three armies since the end of June, when water supplies, electricity and telephone communications were cut.
Johnson has pledged to hold Monovia's port for the arrival of the M African force, which Doe also has welcomed.
Taylor has the largest army in the country, about 10,000 men, but most are ill-trained peasant recruits and the few who survive have been dieters have kept them at bay four
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