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The University Daily Kansan
Friday, September 10, 1999
L'SHANA TOVAH TEKATAYVU
To all our KU college youth
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May we all be inscribed and sealed in the Book of Life
Jewish Community.
تكوين طريقة التحكم في الشبكة.
for the year to come.
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Church: Indonesian militias target clergy
The Associated Press
DILI, Indonesia — The Roman Catholic Church has accused pro-Indonesian militiamen of targeting nuns and priests in predominantly Catholic East Timor, where voters overwhelmingly have chosen independence from mostly Muslim Indonesia.
International outrage grew yesterday, with the Pentagon suspending official relations with the Indonesian military and foreign ministers at an Asia-Pacific summit demanding that Indonesian leaders stop the rampaging militias. While some countries advocated an international peacekeeping
"The world is talking, and we're dying," said nun Esmeralda da Araujo to the Vatican's newspaper L'Osservatore Romano.
force, key nations shied away from committing troops absent an invitation from the Indonesian government.
U. N. officials in East Timor's capital, Dili, prepared to evacuate all but a skeleton staff.
Keeping the U.N. compound open is vital to the world body's plans to bring East Timor to full nationhood after its people voted overwhelmingly on Aug. 30 for independence from Indonesia, which invaded in 1975. The result triggered a backlash of looting, burning and killing by anti-independence militias. The Indonesian army had pledged to ensure security.
Fifteen priests and some nuns have been reported killed in Dili and Baucau. Caritas Australia said its East Timor office head, the Rev. Francisco Barreto, and most of his
"The militiamen have launched a targeted action of retaliation against the Timorese church, accused of having backed the cause of independence," Fides said.
staff had been killed.
Refugees in the camps said their neighbors were killed, their bodies dumped and mutilated in the days after the United Nations announced the referendum's results. Many spoke yesterday on condition of anonymity, fearing retribution from militia leaders.
Independent confirmation of the death toll was impossible. Militias have threatened to kill foreign journalists or observers who try to enter East Timor or the refugee camps.
Rebel leader Jose Alexandre "Xanana" Gusmao, widely expected to be the first president of an
independent East Timor, wept when he learned that his father had been killed by militias. The fate of his mother, sister and brother-in-law were uncertain.
"He is a very strong man," said Ana Gomes, Portugal's representative to Indonesia. "He says that he doesn't cry only for his family — he cries first and foremost for his people."
In the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, Foreign Minister Ali Alatas met with a high-level U.N. delegation but again rejected demands for U.N. peacekeepers. He did admit, though, that some units in the army were supporting the militias.
President B.J. Habibie was buffeted by reports that the military had encroached on his powers, sending the stock market and currency into a nose-dive.
At least 23 dead in Moscow apartment explosion
The Associated Press
MOSCOW
MOSCOW — Authorities searched for survivors and clues after a massive explosion tore apart a nine-story apartment building yesterday, killing at least 23 people and leaving dozens more feared dead.
Rescue workers said more than 150 people were hospitalized with serious injuries after being pulled from the wreckage. Up to 100 people could be buried under the mounds of smoking debris, they said.
Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov visited the blast site and said a terrorist act appeared to be the most likely cause of the explosion on the southeast fringes of the capital, near the Moscow River.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin originally pointed to a gas leak as the cause of the blast.
As the day wore on, however, Luzhkov and some other officials said evidence pointed to a bomb.
The nature of the damage and the number of casualties suggested an explosive device was placed in the building, the Federal Security Service, the country's main intelligence agency, said in a statement.
Vladimir Stavitsky, the deputy press chief for the security service, said the blast had been centered in a store on the first floor. He said industrial explosives equivalent to 660-880 pounds of TNT or a great quantity of fireworks had caused the blast.
Sergei Bogdanov, press officer of the Moscow branch of the security
service, said the blast might have been caused by explosives stored in the building.
Jason Williams/KANSAN
An anonymous caller told the
There was no way to determine the authenticity of the claim, and the Federal Security Service said it had not received any claims of responsibility.
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The blast completely collapsed all nine stories in the center section of the block-long building, but it left apartments standing on either side. The building is part of a huge complex of apartment buildings.
Moscow has experienced natural gas explosions in the past because of the city's crumbling infrastructure, including a blast in July 1998 that killed six people.
Interfax news agency that the Moscow explosion and a Saturday night bomb blast in southern Russia were in response to Russia's military campaign against Islamic rebels in the southern territory of Dagestan.
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