University Daily Kansan / Thursday, November 21. 1991 7 NATION/WORLD Kervorkian's license suspended The Associated Press Lansing, Mich. The Michigan Board of Medicine yesterday suspended the medical license of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who has helped three women kill themselves in the last two years. "It is clear that suicide is not a medically accepted and approved practice," D. Amanda Pruitt said. The board voted 8-0 to suspend Kevorkian's license even though the retired pathologist, Dr. "Death," has said repeatedly that the wounded people commit suicide even if he lost his license. "Dr. Kevorkian can do anything that any unlicensed human being can do if asked for advice," he said. Michael Schwartz, one of Kevorkian's attorneys, said Kevorkian still could help people kill them. Nashville. Tenn. Nine-year-old Galen Brown spent yesterday at work with his mother after a flu outbreak forced the closing of Nashville's schools for the rest of the week. Schools close after flu outbreak The Associated Press The 67,400-student school system shut down beginning Tuesday, forcing parents to scramble to make arrangements for their youngsters. In Knoxville, 175 miles east, officials decided yesterday to shut down the 50,000-pupil Knox County school system for the rest of the week. And fifty miles west of Nashville, officials in Humprev County have done the same. Health officials said the shutdown should be enough time for the virus, a strain called Type A Parents brought three children to work with them Tuesday at Sony-Tree Publishing Co. Los Angeles Policemen seek dismissal of trial The Associated Press Four police officers charged with assault in the videotaped beating of a black motorist will seek dismissal of the case on grounds they were denied a speedy trial, a defense lawyer said yesterday. Attorney John Barnett said he would base his motion on the prolonged legal fight conducted by Superior Court Judge Bernard Kamins. Kamins was removed from the case by an appeals court in August for giving the appearance of bias. He sought reconsideration, but the court reaffirmed its decision. Kamins then appealed to the California Supreme Court, which this week refused to review the matter. Syria: U.S. threat against Libya jeopardizes Mideast peace talks The Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria — Syrian representatives said yesterday that any U.S. military action against Libya because of its alleged involvement in the bombing of a Pan Am jetliner could jeopardize Arab-Iraeli peace talks. The official Syrian Arab News Agency said Syrian Foreign Minister Frouk al-Sarhaa "cautioned Washington over the seriousness of the attacks against Syria and hoped to achieve peace and stability in the region." Sharara's comments were made after he met with Libyan Ambassador Hamed Jalloud. The ambassador voiced concern that the United States had sent a surrender two intelligence agents charged by U.S. and Scottish authorities with involvement in the 1988 bombing of a Boeing 747 over Locker- bie, Scotland. Washington has not ruled out military action against Libya. Libya has denied involvement in the bombing, which killed 270 people. Before the alleged Libyan connection surfaced, Western investigators had named the Syria-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command as the prime suspect. That group denied responsibility. Sharaa did not directly threaten a Syrian withdrawal from the peace talks, which began Oct. 30 in Madrid, Spain, if Libya was attacked. His link of the bombing and the peace talks came from the same. Washington is striving to arrange bilateral negotiations between Israel and Arab nations. Syria is a key player in the peace talks, and its withdrawal from the negotiations could mean the collapse of the most serious effort to end the 43-year-old Arab-Iraeli conflict. U. S. and Scottish authorities said last week that Libyans Abdel Bassil Abei al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fihmah had plotted the bombing and demanded their extradition. The United States, Britain and France said they were considering economic sanctions against Libya if it did not surrender the suspects. France has issued arrest warrants for four other Libyans for the September 1989 bombing of a UTA airliner in Niger in which 170 people were killed. U. S. warplanes bombed Tripoli and Benga hazi, Libya's two main cities, in April 1986 in retaliation for alleged Libyan involvement in a bombing that killed U.S. servicemen at a Berlin bar. Group of Seven nations announces plan to help Soviet Union escape large debt The Associated Press MOSCOW — The Group of Seven industrial nations want almost half the Soviet Union's gold reserves as collateral for a multibillion-dollar debt relief package, a representative for the republic of Bylorovia said yesterday. Officials also said the wealthiest democracies threatened sanctions against republics that refused to sign an agreement accepting the new constitution, and some officials have put at more than $100 billion. One day after announcing it would defer Soviet debt payments, the Group of Seven set down the terms and pressed the 12 Soviet republics to adhere to their international commitments. Viktor Danilenko, the Byelorussian government representative in Moscow, said the Group of Seven had proposed deferring $3.6 billion in debt payments due over the next year. An Italian lender took anonymously on Tuesday, indicated the doubt amount would be more than $6 billion. The G-7 members: the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Italy and Canada, also offered the disintegrating superpower a $1 billion for short-term debt obligations, Danielen soid. The package would free up cash for the Soviet effort to move to a market system from the wrecked economy left by the former Communist regime. The Soviet Union has only 240 metric tons of gold, said Grigory Yavlinsky, the top Sovietetepe. The Russians say they have no control over it. In exchange, the Group of Seven wants 104 metric tons of gold as collateral, Danilenko said. That is worth about $1 billion at yesterday's prices. Bank reports that the country has 374.5 metric tons of gold. DaniLenko spoke outside a closed-door meeting between Group of Sever financial experts and officals from the eight republics that agreed Tuesday to accept responsibility for the total foreign debt. Four republics: the Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Georgia, refused to make an immediate commitment to repaying a share of the debt. In response, the Group of Seventh threatened with serious economic sanctions, Yavlinsky said. Uzbekistan's Vice President Shukurulmi Mirsaidov said the threat was voiced by the United States and Britain. It was also delivered to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev when he met the G-7 delegation yesterday, the Interfax news agency said. Mikhail Gorbachev Gorbachev backed his request with gloomy economic projections. He said Soviet industrial production had fallen 7 percent this year and that agricultural output was down 9 percent. Gorbachek asked the Soviet parliament yesterday to approve an emergency budget calling for a big deficit to keep the central government afloat until Jan. 1. refused to go along with Gorbachev's budget. He said that the deficit would lead to a hemorrhage of rubles and delay the creation of a hard currency. But Boris Yeltsin's Russian Federation Without Russia's cooperation, the budget stands little chance of success, and Gorbachev's government could find itself without cash. That was the day that Russia, the largest and richest republic, cut off funds to most central government ministries and took control of most foreign trade. China, learning exports, such as gold, oil and diamonds, Yeltsin, however, said his powerful republic might be willing to assume the burden of repaying the debt taken on by the Soviet republics through Nov. 15. Radio Russia reported. Umbaskirken's Mirsaidov said a representative of the Soviet foreign trade bank told the G-7 officials the foreign debt now tops $100 billion. The previous government estimate was $81 billion. Mirsaidov said his Central Asian republic was willing to repay its share of the Soviet debt but refused to accept responsibility for other republics. "We shouldn't pay for the sins of others," he said. 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