NATION/WORLD
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, October 22, 1991
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Jerusalem
Israelis bomb pro-Iranian base
Israeli air force jets bombed a guerrilla base of the pro-Iranian Hebbolah yesterday and destroyed their target, the military command said.
It said the target was in Jibchit, about nine miles north of Dhahrat and southwest of Nabahur town of Nabahur.
it was Israel's 16th air raid in Lebanon this year. The last was July 24 when it bombed a Palestinian guerrilla boat in the area of Damur, just south of Beirut.
"All our planes returned safely to base," the command's communique said, adding only that the target destroyed was used by the Hezbollah organization as a command post.
Miami
Drug search begins in plant stores
Drug Enforcement Administration agents working on Operation Green Merchant have told dozens of garden-supply houses to give them the names of anyone who has bought so much as a fluorescent lamp or a box of plant food, the Miami Herald reported.
Federal drug agents in search of indoor marijuana farmers are demanding that garden centers turn in lists of their best customers, and some merchants are taking the matter to court, a newspaper reported yesterday.
The DEA hopes to use information from garden suppliers to get search warrants in some cases.
Philadelphia
Former California Gov. Jerry Brown burst into the 1992 Democratic presidential race yesterday with a vitriolic attack on a political system that he described as "corrupted by the powerful forces of greed."
Also, Milwaukee-born actor Tom Laughlin, 60, who played the establishment-bucking, karate-chopping lead character in the 1970s "Billy Jack" films, announced Sunday that he would seek the Democratic presidential nomination.
-From The Associated Press
Firefighters contain blaze that killed 10 in Bay area
The Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. — An armada of fire trucks swarmed on the hills above Oakland yesterday as firefighters contained a deadly $1.5 billion blaze that at least 400 hillside houses in smoldering ruins.
The massive fire, one of the worst in U.S. history, raced through affluent districts overlooking San Francisco Bay on Sunday and killed at least 10 people, injured nearly 150 and chased 5,000 out of their homes, according to city and state officials.
Ten people were reported missing, and at least 200 non-residential buildings were destroyed.
Dawn brought an eerie sight: banks of gray smoke swirling behind a soft winds shingling through streets as quiet as a ghost town.
"You could see terrible devastation." Gov. Pete Wilson said
after surveying the area by helicopter. "What showed up as burning hot spots in that black of night, this morning were clearly the charred ruins of hundreds of homes."
Fires also raged in several Western states, including Colorado, Oregon and Washington. The largest fires were in Montana, where wind of up to 70 mph was expected to fan flames that already had consumed 200,000 acres.
Morning commuter traffic was a disaster. The fire forced the closure of two highways that connect suburban Contra County to Oakland Bay Area Rapid Transit
In Oakland, Fire Chief Phillip Lamont Ewell said that the fire was contained at dawn and that it had been trapped under control by nightfall.
trains also shut down.
The blaze roared out of the tinder-dry hills above Oakland and Berkeley about midday Sunday, racing through fashionable neighborhoods tucked between woods and canyons, many with sweeping views of the bay.
Early damage estimates were $1.5 billion, according to figures given by city officials. The fire burned about 1,700 acres.
Destruction depended on the capricious of the wind. At the Chabot Canyon Racquet Club, only a few twisted metal girders of the main building remained. But next to the building, tennis nets still stood over pristine green courts.
The cause of the fire was not immediately known.
Thousands, including 1,000 students evacuated from a dormitory at the University of California, Berkeley, spent the night in shelters.
1,700 acres have burned in Oakland and Berkeley, Calif.; more than 350 homes were burned. The damage totaled $1.5 billion, and 10 people were killed.
Western fires
SOURCE: Boise Interagency Fire Center,
Agriculture Department.
Research by WENDY GOVIER
Knight-Ridder Tribune News
Arafat pledges active PLO involvement in talks
The Associated Press
He said the Palestinians attending the talks in a joint delegation with Jordan would work closely with PLO officials and would in effect represent the organization.
CAIRO, Egypt — Yasser Arafat said yesterday the Palestine Liberation Organization would play an active role at the Middle East peace conference next week despite being barred from the Palestinian delegation at Israel's insistence.
Asked if the conference was pushing the PLO to the sidelines, Arafat said publicly for the first
"Each and every person among the Palestinian people represents the PLO," Arafat said.
ume that he had appointed the main Palestinian negotiator in talks with Secretary of State James Baker III that set the ground rules for the conference, provided for Oct. 30 in Madrid, Spain.
Arafat also confirmed that the leader of the Palestinian delegation to the conference is Haider Abdul-Shafi, a physician from the occupied Gaza Strip. But he said the PLO did not pick the Palestinians representatives to the talks.
His comments seemed aimed at Israel, which refuses to participate in talks attended by known PLO leaders, and consider the PLO a terrorist group.
after Israel's Cabinet approved participating in the conference.
Arafat met with reporters a day
The conference also drew support from oil-rich Arab nations in the Persian Gulf region that previously financed Palestinian opposition to Israel. Much of that aid was cut off after the PLO supported Iraq in the guar war.
The Israeli decision drew praise yesterday from Soviet Foreign Minister Boris Pankin, whose country is sponsoring the talks, along with the United States. He said it showed that Israel would take a serious position during the peace talks.
Bahrain's prime minister, Sheik
Khalfa bin Salman al Khalifa, said
the conference was a historic
opportunity to reach just and durable solutions.
Abdulda Bishara, the secretary-general of the Gulf Cooperation Council, which groups Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman, confirmed he would attend the conference.
In Teheran, Iranian officials and leaders of Palestinian factions opposed to negotiations attacked the talks as a threat to Palestinian rights. Iranian Foreign Minister Alik Abar Leyvatil said the only solution for the Palestine issue was the elimination of Israel, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
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