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Thursday, August 28, 1986 / University Daily Kansan
News Briefs
Aid reaches Cameroon refugees as experts investigate Lake Nios
YAOUNDE, Cameroon — Food and medicine reached refugees yesterday who fled the mountains of northwest Cameroon as scientists investigated the muddy lake that spewed a cloud of toxic fumes.
International relief supplies began arriving in Cameroon, a tropical West African country, to help survivors of the natural disaster that killed more than 1,500 people.
Officials said almost all of the dead had been buried, most of them near where they were found. The biggest remaining concern is burying thousands of dead animals, which are decomposing in the stifling heat, they said.
Army troops evacuated about 3,000 survivors of the gas explosion, but had trouble sealing off the area from people who wanted to return to their homes. About 2,000 soliders have closed off the area, which is about 200 miles northwest of Yaounde.
Scientists think a volcanic tremor under Lake Nios released a bubble of deadly gas that rose to the surface and spread over the area Aug. 21.
Scientists began analyzing the water of Lake Nios, which the eruption turned from a blue to a murky redish brown.
"I sent a team yesterday to take samples of the water," said Bienvenu Fouda, secretary-general of the Ministry of Mines. "They will report and make proposals."
problem.
Iva Yenwo, aid to Cameroon President Paul Biya,
said residents of the disaster area had been warned not
to drink local water. He said the army had provided
tanks of purified water and bottled water was an
urgent need.
13 dead, 70 injured in S. Africa
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Raging street battles between police and Soweto residents left 13 blacks dead and 70 other people injured in the worst outbreak of violence since emergency rule was imposed in June, authorities said yesterday.
Church officials and dissidents said there were indications that the casualty toll was higher than the government had reported after Tuesday night's fighting. Black activist Winnie Mandela, a Soweto resident and wife of jailed African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, said she thought at least 20 people died.
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Residents said the violence began as a protest against eviction of people defaulting on rent payments in South Africa's largest black township, 10 miles southwest of Johannesburg. The government denied any evictions.
any evictions. The rent boycott in Soweto began 11 weeks ago to protest poor housing conditions and the government's racial segregation policies known as apartheid.
Authorities in Pretoria said protests over the evictions escalated into running battles between police firing guns and protesters hurling rocks and gasoline bombs at patrols and private cars.
Frontier may seek bankruptcy
DENVER — People Express Inc. said yesterday that it intended to seek bankruptcy protection for Frontier Airlines, prompting hundreds of Frontier workers to apply for unemployment benefits.
While the bankruptcy filing was expected, the fate of the 40-year-old Frontier remained uncertain. People Express had promised that the Denver-based airline would be liquidated unless it could be sold to United Airlines.
"Intended to file' or 'was expected to file' would be better than 'People Express said it would file for bankruptcy for Frontier,'" said People Express spokesman Russell Marchetta.
When it shut down Frontier on Sunday, People Express promised a bankruptcy filing Monday if there were no action on a sale. The company promised action soon but closed Monday and Tuesday with no filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court.
Even though Marchetta said negotiations with United Airlines for Frontier apparently had not succeeded, United spokesman Charles Novak said the deal still was possible.
There were unconfirmed reports late yesterday that representatives from Frontier, United and People Express still were negotiating.
Nancy Reagan's maid indicted
NORFOLK, Va. — Nancy Reagan's personal maid and three other people were indicted yesterday in an alleged scheme to smuggle small-arms ammunition from the United States to Paraguay.
In a seven-count indictment, the U.S. District Court grand jury charged the maid, Anita Castelo, 45, of Takoma Park, Md., with one count of conspiring to export 22-caliber ammunition to Paraguay without a license and one count of the willful exportation of 70 cases of ammunition.
Also named in the indictments were Julio Cesar Baez-Acosta, Hernan Duarte and Eugenio Silva.
Authorities said the plot began in November and ended with the seizure of a Paraguayan freighter in Richmond on Aug. 4. It had 350,000 rounds of ammunition aboard.
There has been no indication for whom the ammunition was intended.
Duarte, Baez-Acosta and Silva were all charged with illegal ammunition exports, while Silva also was indicted for three additional counts of dealing in firearm ammunitions without a license.
Castelo, Silva and Baez-Acosta were arrested after agents boarded and searched the Mariscal Jose Felix Estigarrisha while it was docked at Deepwater Terminal on the James River in Richmond.
NASA to return mementos
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA will return mentos carried into space by the Challenger crew to their owners, officials said yesterday.
Air Force Col. Edward O'Connor, who directed the search for shuttle wreckage, told United Press International he proposed to National Aeronautics and Space Administration management that Challenger's remains be stored in one or two 90-foot-deep abandoned Minuteman silos at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station near the Kennedy Space Center.
Thomas Utsman, acting director of the Kennedy Space Center, said the plan would accomplish two objectives: the security would keep the shuttle pieces on the base and engineers would retain access to the debris if necessary.
Among the mementos were various flags and patches, a soccer ball, a football, various pennants, a diploma, copies of the Constitution and a variety of emblems and patches.
NASA said personal items carried by the crew members would be returned to family members.
NASA said the personal items carried by the astronauts included a baby shoe, a cross, a Girl Scout pin, a family photograph, a variety of pieces of gold jewelry, a meteorite. Naval aviation wings, a sand dollar, a stuffed animal, a Virginia Military Academy ring, and 14 gold and 53 silver medallions commemorating the mission. The agency declined to say which items had been recovered.
Law protects diplomats abroad
LOS ANGELES — President Reagan signed legislation yesterday authorizing a $2.4 billion program to protect U.S. embassies and diplomas abroad
The bill signed by Reagan authorizes $2.1 billion over five years for the construction and reconstruction of more secure U.S. outposts around the world.
The construction program, $000 million less than the amount requested by the administration, was the outgrowth of a bipartisan panel.
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