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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, September 1, 1994
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More troops ready for Haiti
WASHINGTON — The Clinton administration is hopeful of winning the support of three more nations for a possible invasion of Haiti if economic and diplomatic sanctions fail to remove the rulling military junta.
Foreign ministers and military commanders from the Bahamas, Antigua and Guyana withheld a commitment at a Tuesday meeting in Kingston, Jamaica. However, Jamaica, Trinidad, Tobago, Barbados and Belize agreed to contribute troops.
The United States would provide the troops for the first wave with the other countries intervening soon afterward, administration officials said. They are less confident of Guyana joining than they are of the Bahamas and Antigua, but the officials said they were hopeful all three
would be part of the coalition.
Meanwhile, an administration official confirmed that the U.S. Coast Guard had provided information to Haiti's military on refugees preparing to board boats for the United States.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the information was provided once, several months ago, and that there were no further exchanges. "We do not cooperate with the Haitian military," he said.
The administration has been urging Haitians that have been seeking refuge in the United States to apply within the country instead of taking to sea in an unsafe craft. The Coast Guard usually patrols Haiti's shores.
In criticizing the administration for not carrying out the invasion now, Randall Robinson, executive director of TransAfrica, cited a Time magazine "Online" news service report that the
U. S. military had provided the junta with satellite photographs of Haitians preparing to flee the country.
He called it "an example of an administration not in control of all of its parts."
Despite repeated U.S. warnings, Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras and his cohorts "don't believe for a moment this is a serious contemplation," Robinson said at a news conference.
He said it was the only U.S. military intervention in the hemisphere he had ever backed. But Robinson, whose organization lobbies on Latin American and African issues, said the plight of the Haitian people was desperate, with unemployment at 80 percent and food and water so scarce that people were drinking out of sewage pipes.
"We must not allow democracy to be hijacked by a bunch of drug-running thugs." Robinson said.
Crisis forces evacuation in Cuba
Dependents, civilians leave U.S. naval base
The Associated Press
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Tears streamed down Ensign Carmen Booth's cheeks as she waved goodbye to her husband and their two small children yesterday during the base's first evacuation of military dependents since the Cuban missile crisis in 1962.
Booth and her husband are in the Navy and must remain on duty at the base at Cuba's southern tip. But their children — 3-year-old Brian and 7-year-old Laura — were among the first military dependents evacuated from the base to make room for more Cuban refugees.
Chief Petty Officer Patrick Booth accompanied the couple's children on the ferry and charter flight that took 280 people to Norfolk, Va. They will then move on to St. Louis, where they will stay with relatives while Booth returns to his post in Guantanamo.
"What can you say?" Booth said
"Our kids are leaving us for a year."
Military spouses and children, school teachers and some other civilian workers and their dependents are among roughly 2,200 people being moved out from the base throughout the next week.
The 41-square-mile base, known among military personnel for its friendly, small-town atmosphere, has been transformed by the Cuban refugee crisis. Parts of the base, nicknamed "Gitmo," have been turned into small, teeming tent cities with thousands of Cuban and Haitian refugees.
The evacuation was spurred by fears that there could be escapes or riots at the growing refugee camps as well as the need to relieve the strains the new residents have placed on the small base's infrastructure.
Many of the evacuees were bitter.
As they prepared to board the charter flight for Norfolk, three sisters whose parents are in the Navy wore protest T-shirts that read: "American refugee from Cuba" and "I am a dislocated, relocated, evacuated, unemployed Gitmo resident."
Sawyers said she had to give up a civil service job at the base and was only one semester from earning an associate degree in business. All the base schools have been closed because of the evacuations.
"it's hard. All of the sudden you have to leave," said Kia Sawyers, "20. It's
"It gets me all mad because I'm not going to see my friends. We can't see our parents for a long time," said her 9-year-old sister, Desirea Shropshire.
She and her other sister, Danika Shropshire, 13, are going to Atlanta to stay with an aunt they haven't seen in years. They will have to attend new schools and adjust to big-city life after three years at the once-tranquil base.
There are usually about 7,000 residents at the base. They have been joined by nearly 30,000 Cuban and Haitian refugees; 1,500 more Cubans were on the way after being picked up Tuesday by the Coast Guard.
An additional 3,500 military personnel have been sent to the base to deal with the burgeoning exodus of refugees from Cuba. The flood began when Fidel Castro responded to Aug. 5 riots in Havana by suggesting he would no longer stop those trying to flee.
Suicide-scorched scent lingers on horror books
LOS ANGELES—Some horror novels nowadays are enough to turn your stomach. With three copies of "Drawing Blood," you don't even have to turn the pages.
The three books, copies of a $50 limited edition of the novel by Poppy Z. Brite, were marked up to $600 because they smelled of burned human flesh.
The Associated Press
Two sold less than a week after the plastic-wrapped offerings were advertised in rare book dealer Barv R. Levin's catalog.
"Some books sort of sell themselves," Levin said. "Books take on a life of their own. They go through life and meet famous or infamous people, they are involved in famous or infamous events."
The three copies of "Drawing Blood" took on a death of their own.
On Dec. 24 a man walked into Westwood Mail Services with a container of gasoline and set himself and the business aflae. He died a few days later.
The man's motive was unknown.
The fire gutted the lobby of the delivery business, but didn't harm most mail awaiting delivery.
including a package for Barry R. Levin Science Fiction & Fantasy Literature.
"We found the books were just fine," said Levin. "Except for this smell..."
Brite, who works in New Orleans, said she wasn't happy about the fire but isn't at all squalish about the aromatic enhancement.
"I like that sort of thing," she said. "It's very appropriate for the book in question."
She described "Drawing Blood" as a "haunted house love story, with underground comics, computer hackers, family murder, personal hells ... No one actually burns to death in the course of it, but there's a lot of death in the story, a lot of pain."
Levin is giving the special edition profits to Westwood Mail Services to ease the cost of the fire.
"It seemed only fair somehow," he said. "It's a mom-and-pop operation. They're not wealthy people, and they've got everything wrapped up in this business."
Brite has a caveat for collectors:
"The only problem with this is ... if anybody reads it, the smell will dissipate, unless they rewrap it in plastic or keep the book in the fridge."
ACLU files traffic suit
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — After hundreds of motorist complaints, the American Civil Liberties Union finally had proof that the Illinois State Police illegally stopped Black and Hispanic drivers for drug searches.
State police spokesman John Pastovic denied that troopers unfairly target minorities.
The Illinois ACLU filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday based on an incident involving an undercover Hispanic investigator.
through the county when troopers gave him a ticket for not signalling a lane change, the lawsuit said.
Pose Chave of Santa Fe, N.M., was ured to drive through Bureau County in Interstate 80 to test arrest practices. Chavez was on his third pass
When Chavez refused troopers' request to search his car, they brought in a search dog that did not find anything suspicious.
But a state police official said troopers are trained to use all their senses to detect people who are carrying drugs. He said troopers do not use a certain profile to determine whether drivers should be pulled over and their automobiles searched.
The lawsuit claims the stops violate the constitutional guarantee of freedom from unreasonable search and seizure and the nondiscrimination provision of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Celestial 'fast blob' could provide clues to galaxy mysteries
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — A group of astronomers believe they have found the first example in our galaxy of an object moving faster than light. But don't chuck those physics textbooks vet.
It's just an illusion, and the blob of matter is really poking along at only about 92 percent of the speed of light. That's still a record for the galaxy.
The faster-than-light illusion had been spotted several times before outside the Milky Way. But because it's closer than previous ones, further study might help scientists confirm their understanding of the illusion, researchers said.
The discovery is reported in today's issue of the journal "Nature" by Felix Mirabel of the Saclay Center for Studies in Gif-sur-Yvette, France, and Luis Rodriguez of the National Autonomous University in Mexico City. They did the work at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, N.M.
They observed two blobs of matter blasting away in opposite directions from an object that appears to be a black hole or an ultra-dense neutron star. One of the blobs appeared to be moving 25 percent faster than the speed of light, which is 186,000 miles per second.
But it's an illusion created by the blob's very high speed and its moving closer to Earth while angling well away from a direct path to Earth.
The object launching the blobs is about 40,000 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Aquila, or Eagle. A light-year is the distance light travels in one year, about 5.88 trillion miles.
The "fast blob" is the fastest-moving bulk of matter ever detected in the galaxy, said Galen Gisler, an astrophysicist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Individual particles have been known to move faster, he said.
Gisler said further study of the object that ejected the blobs might help scientists understand much more distant objects that pour out large amounts of energy, like quasars.
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