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Thursday, October 16, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
News Briefs
One Israeli killed, 69 wounded in grenade attack in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM — Two grenades were thrown at Israeli soldiers and their families who were gathered near Jerusalem's Western Wall last night, killing one person and wounding 69 others, police said.
Among the wounded was a U.S. citizen identified only as Gail Klein, who underwent surgery to remove shrapnel from her leg, a spokeswoman at Hadassah Hospital said.
The attack carne as the soldiers were socializing and boarding buses in a parking lot near Dung Gate, the entrance to Judaism's holiest shrine, after an army swearing-in ceremony about 8:40 p.m., police spokesman Rafael Levy said.
Scores of officers immediately sealed off the area and searched it. About 17 people, most of them Arabs from the immediate vicinity, were taken into custody for questioning. Levy said.
Brig. Gen. Yosef Yehudia, police commander for Jerusalem, said investigators believed the explosives used in the attack were Soviet-made grenades. Detectives recovered from the parking lot what they said appeared to be part of a grenade pin.
The explosions felled dozens of people, wounding them with shrapnel, flying glass and other debris.
Troops and Arab shopkeepers ran to the scene and dragged victims onto a sidewalk, where they waited for emergency medical crews.
It was believed to be the worst terrorist attack in Jerusalem since a bomb exploded on a civilian bus Dec. 6, 1983, on the city's Herzl Boulevard. That explosion killed six people and wounded 44 others. In 1984, a bomb on a bus in the port city of Ashdod killed three people and wounded nine. That attack was claimed by Palestinian guerrillas.
U.S. says Soviet 'spies' are gone
rather than wait until Sunday and leave on the next scheduled New York-Moscow flight of Aeroflot, the Soviet airline, the diplomats assigned to the Soviet mission to the United Nations left Tuesday on flights that will take them home by way of Western Europe.
WASHINGTON — The last of the 25 Soviet diplomats expelled from the United States as alleged spies have left the country, the State Department announced yesterday.
A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that among the final five to depart were Valery Savchenko, listed as a counselor and said to be the KGB station chief at the mission and Vladislav Skovtsov, a senior counselor said to be the New York chief of the GRU. Soviet military intelligence.
The State Department declined to comment on Soviet threats to retaliate for the expulsions. Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze, asserting the diplomats' innocence, told a Sept. 30 news conference at the United Nations that retaliation would be "huge and very sensitive," but there was no Soviet follow-up as of yesterday.
The 25 diplomats were ordered expelled Sept. 17. The administration has identified them as members of the KGB, the Soviet intelligence agency, and the GRU, the Soviet military intelligence agency.
Professors given Nobel prizes
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Two U.S. professors and a Canadian won the 1986 Nobel Chemistry Prize yesterday for devising methods to unravel the mysteries of chemical reactions. Three Europeans shared the Physics Prize for revolutionizing microscopes.
The $290,000 chemistry prize went to professors Dudley Herschbach, 54, of Harvard University; Yuan Lee, 49, of the University of California, Berkeley and John Polaniy, 57, of the University of Toronto.
The chemistry research so far has been useful for atmospheric and combustion research and has led to development of a chemical laser used in medicine.
The academy awarded the physics prize to three inventors of high-powered microscopes. Ernst Ruska of West Berlin built the first electron microscopes in the 1920s and 1930s. Gerd Binnig of Frankfurt, West Germany, and Heinrich Rohner of Switzerland, designed a new type of electron microscope called the scanning tunneling microscope.
Ruska, 79, was awarded half of the $290,000 physics prize. Binning, 39, and Rohrer, 53, who work together in a laboratory outside Zurich, Switzerland, will share the other half.
The Nobel prizes for literature and economics will be announced today.
Iragi jets blast Iranian air base
Squadrons of Iraqi jets blasted an air base in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz yesterday, damaging 23 military transport planes on the ground, the official Iraqi news agency INA said.
Tehran radio acknowledged the Shiraz raid, but said the Iraqi jets had hit a civilian Boeing 737, which killed three passengers and wounded several others. The air base is next to the civilian airport.
The raid came shortly after Iraqi warplanes in separate attacks swept across the Iranian frontier to bomb power stations at two large dams near Tehran and Dezful in southwestern Iran, Baghdad radio said.
The Iranian C-130 transport planes were parked in the open at the air base when waves of Iraqi jets attacked, INA said. Diplomats said at least 18 Iraqi jets may have taken part in the raid.
Iraqi jets hit power plants at the Karaj Dam about 20 miles northwest of Tehran, and the Dez Dam, about 16 miles north of Dezful in Khuzestain province, at 1:35 p.m. Baghdad time yesterday, Baghdad radio said.
The power plant at the Karaj Dam supplies power to Tehran and Karaj, about 25 miles west of the Iranian capital. The Dez power station supplies electricity to towns and cities in southwestern Iran, including Dezul and Awhaz.
IAA said Iraqi jails on Tuesday attacked a sugar plant at Haft Tappeh, near Ahwaz. Tehran officials
said 12 civilians died and 65 others were wounded in the attack.
Muscular dystrophy gene found
NEW YORK — Researchers have found the long-sought gene responsible for the most common form of muscular dystrophy, a historic discovery that could lead to the first direct treatment of this now-incurable disease.
"We're extremely encouraged and excited by this historic discovery," said Donald Wood, the association's associate director of research. "It's a very big step forward in our efforts to conquer this disease, but we still have a long way to go to develop treatments."
The Muscular Dystrophy Association, which provided much of the financial support for the research, cautioned that the discovery would not immediately help children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, an illness that affects 20,000 to 50,000 U.S. boys who will not survive beyond their 20s.
The discovery of the gene by Louis Kunkel, Anthony Monaco and colleagues at Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston ends several years of cooperation by scientists around the world.
Election marred in Bangladesh
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh conducted presidential elections yesterday that were marred by violence, vote fraud, a general strike and a boycott call from major opposition groups.
The vote was virtually certain to return President Hossain Mohammad Ershad to office, and he took a commanding lead in the first scattered election returns.
Leaders of the main opposition parties, who had boycotted the election and demanded that martial law be lifted before the vote, said the turnout was sparse. Authorities disputed this contention.
Police in Dhaka said they arrested 116 people for obstructing voting. Small bombs were also thrown in various parts of the capital, witnesses said.
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