NATION/WORLD
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, September 4, 1992
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NATION/WORLD
African National Congress ends talks on white rule in South Africa
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Despite progress on other issues, the African National Congress refused yesterday to return to talks on ending rule until violence was curbed and political prisoners were freed.
However, the main opposition group said the government had made important concessions on ANC demands for the election of a multiracial body to write a new constitution and indicated the two sides were closer than they had been.
U.N. search team leader says Iraq atomic facilities no longer operable
BAGHDAD, Iraq — The leader of the U.N. weapons search team said yesterday that Iraq no longer had facilities for making atomic bombs.
Maurizio Zifferero, an Italian who works with the International Atomic Energy Agency, told reporters, "There is no longer any nuclear activity in Iraq. They have no facilities where they can carry out this activity."
At the end of the third day of inspections by the 21-member team, Zifferero said the work and cooperation was good.
However, in a statement issued at its headquarters in Vienna, Austria, the U.N. agency said Zifferero was not issuing a clean bill of health for Iraq in the nuclear sphere.
Officials urge Florida residents to leave hurricane-ragged houses
HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Building inspectors and social workers went door-to-door yesterday, trying to coax more people out of their hurricane-ravaged and possibly dangerous homes and into military tent cities.
More rain fell on the area smashed by Hurricane Andrew Aug. 24, making busy roads slippery and weighing down soaked, sagging ceiling materials exposed by the storm. At least four homes collapsed overnight because of the rain. Homestead Police Maj. Chuck Habermelh said. Five tent cities in Homestead and Florida City with room for 3,800 people were up, but only a few hundred people used them Wednesday night.
Italian plane crashes en route to Sarajevo
The Associated Press
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — An Italian transport plane flying in blankets for residents of embattled Sarajevo crashed yesterday, and a search crew of U.S. and other planes found the wreckage near the capital, a U.N. official said.
In Geneva, Fernando del Mundo, representative for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, said there were no signs the four Italian crew members had survived.
He said there was no word on what caused the crash, but that there was no evidence to suggest the aircraft had been shot down.
It was the first plane in the U.N.-organized relief effort to go down, although several had been shot at while coming into Saraievo.
Del Mundo said the G-222, a twin-engine turboprop, was found near Jesensik, a town 21 niles west of Sarajevo, after a search involving U.S. and British helicopters and U.N. armed personnel carriers.
The Pentagon said four U.S. military helicopters from the amphibious assault ship USS Jima in the Adriatic joined the search at the request of the Italian government.
Earlier in the day, the U.N.'s top peacekeeping official arrived in Sarajevo to oversee an agreement to curb ethnic fighting in and around Bosnia's capital by putting heavy weapons under U.N. supervision.
A few hours before the arrival of Marrack Goulding, the U.N. undersecretary-general for
peacekeeping, a U.N. aid convoy carrying 100 tons of food and medicine left the Bosnian capital for the isolated Muslim town of Gorazde, accompanied by Ukrainian peacekeepers.
The developments, especially Goulding's arrival, raised hopes among U.N. officials that peacekeeping measures in war-torn Bosnia-Herzegovina might finally begin to have an
"I was skeptical, but United Nations military observers are saying that both sides appear serious and are committed to putting down their guns — at least for a while," said Fred Eckhardt, the chief representative for the U.N. Protection Force in former Yugoslavia.
Serbian and Bosnian forces clashed yesterday morning to the west of the city. Despite the continuing fighting, the Ministry of Health's latest casualty figure was the lowest in weeks.
Arriving at Sarajevo airport, Goulding had little to say except that he was optimistic about chances for ending the fighting between Sarajevo's mainly Muslim defenders and Serb rebels who wanted to establish their own state.
At least 40 cease-fires have been declared and broken.
More than 8,000 people have been killed — some estimates are as high as 35,000 — and as many as 2 million people have fled their homes since fighting broke out last spring over the decision by the republic's majority Muslims and Crots to break away from Serbian-dominated Yugoslavia.
116 people confirmed dead from tidal wave in Nicaragua
The Associated Press
EL TRANSITO, Nicaragua — Among donations that piled up yesterday were two child-size coffins, an unnecessary reminder that the 800 villagers lost almost as many lives in a tidal wave as all of Florida did in Hurricane Andrew.
The quake-spawned wave that smashed into Nicaragua's southwest coast Tuesday night devastated this little fishing town.
By yesterday morning, 14 bodies had been recovered in El Transito and 10 children remained missing and feared dead, according to federal health officials here.
along the surf, poking delicately at mounds of sand, searching for a daughter stolen by the sea.
Capt. Guillermo Guevara, chief of the Civil Defense Department, told ambassadors in Managua yesterday that 116 people were confirmed dead in this Central American nation, 350 were injured and about 700 houses were destroyed. He said earlier that 150 people were missing.
Yesterday, waves broke upon the beach with a calm, stately rhythm.
Much of the village nestled in a gentle bay 35 miles west of Managua is now a grusome scattering of shattered roofing, broken concrete and splintered wood.
Dozens of people spent the night in the pews of a Catholic church on the hill above the town, sleeping amid bales of clothing and boxes of food donated by Nicaraguan and foreign agencies.
Francisco and Rösibel Avita walked barefoot
Health Ministry nurses stacked medicine atop the altar, Volunteers outside sorted beans from rice, canned juice from canned tuna.
Maria Socorro Sepea said a Health Ministry survey indicated 650 villagers were left homeless. She said 170 were hospitalized, most for a battering suffered under the wave, others for respiratory damage or shock.
The emergency center director, Silvia Areas de Manar, said she feared disease would spread because of destroyed outhouses and scattered dead animals.
"The yardstick against which all other groups are measured" Newsweek Magazine 3:30 p.m. Sunday, September 13, 1992 Crafton-Preyer Theatre/Murphy Hall
Presented by the University of Kansas School of Fine Arts Chamber Music Series
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this performance is partially funded by the Raymond Stuhl Chamber Music Fund at the Kansas University Endowment Association; additional funding is provided by the KU Student Senate Activity Fee, Sawhout Society, and the University of Kansas Endowment Association.
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