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University Daily Kansan/Tuesday, October 8, 1991
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Athens, Greece
Two gunmen slay Turkish Embassy press attache
Two men gunned down the Turkish Embassy press attache as he left his apartment yesterday. Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis said the killing was intended to complicate relations between the two countries on the eve of his visit to Turkey.
The assailants fired four shots before fleeing suburban Pangrati, said regional police chief Simon Papadiotorgos.
The victim, press attachee Cetin Gurgin, 28, was shot as he left his apartment complex. "They waited for him, and they shot him as he got into the room," the officer told CNN.
An unidentified witness told the Mega television channel that the men, with pistols drawn, approached Gorgerius's Mercedes. Bene as he got into the car.
They then fled in a car without license plates, the witness said. Polly said she escaped on foot.
"After they shot him, they waited to see if he was alive, if he was moving," the witness said.
The reason for the differing reports was not immediately clear. Mitsotakis, who was to visit Istanbul today, condemned the murder. "It is clear that the criminals are targeting the religious emotions of the people," he said in a statement.
Jerusalem
Israelis kill Palestinian man in occupied territories
Israeli security forces opened fire yesterday on suspected Arab uprising activists in the occupied territories, killing a Palestinian man, Arab and Israeli reports said.
It was the third fatality in the West Bank related to the Palestinian uniprising since Sunday and came as police closed, Jerusalem to Arab residents of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip to prevent violence on the eve of the anniversary of the Temple Mount killing.
City police representative Anat Grant said the ban was in effect through Tuesday, the anniversary of the day 17 Arabs were shot to death on September 4.
The clash at the holy site known to Muslims as Haram es-Sharif was the single bloodiest incident since Israel captured east Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war. The mount is Islam's third holiest shrine, and Jews revere it as the site of their ancient temple.
Never have such a situation. In the occupied lands today, school or commercial strikes were staged in the West Bank city of Nablus and parts of the Gaza Strip to protest two unrising protests Sunday, Arab reports said.
yesterday's shooting death occurred in the village of Burkin near the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
Abrams pleads guilty to Iran-contra misdemeanors
Washington
Former Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams pleaded guilty yesterday to two misdemeanors in the Iran-contra scandal and agreed to cooperate in the continuing investigation of top officials from the Reagan administration.
Abrams, 43, appeared in U.S. District Court, where he admitted he withdied information from the Senate Federal Relations Committee on Oct. 10, 1986. He concealed Oliver North's involvement with a secret network to supply the Nicaraguan contra rebels with guns, he admitted.
Abrams thought that disclosure of North's activities in the resupply of the contras would jeopardize final enactment of a $100 million congressional appropriation for the contras. Iran-contra prosecutors said in an eight-page statement of facts filed in U.S. District Court.
Abrams could be given up to a year in jail and $10,000 in fines or each of two counts. Sentencing is set for Nov. 15.
Middle East conflicts continue
The Associated Press
Iraqi shelling of two Kurdish rebel-held towns kills 26 civilians, four fighters
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Iraq shelter two towns in Kurdish rebel-held territory during the weekend, killing 26 civilians and four fighters, a rebel statement said yesterday.
As many as 15,000 people fled the towns when the barrage began Saturday, the London office of the Kurdish Democratic Party said in a statement sent by facsimile to The Associated Press in Nicosia.
The reported attacks, which could not be confirmed independently, came
despite an unofficial five-month-old cease-fire to facilitate talks between the rebels and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's government.
The attacks would be the first serious violation of the cease-fire since fighting last month between Iraqi troops and Kurdish guerrillas in the towns of Kirkuk and Suleimanavih.
"This development will force us to reconsider the situation." Sherwan Dezaie, a Kurdish representative in London, said by telephone.
Talks on Kurdish autonomy stalled in June after Saddam reneged on
promises to establish a democratic government in Iraq. The talks were begun after Saddam's troops crushed a Kurdish uprising that occurred after Iraq's defeat in the Persian Gulf war.
A multinational allied force was sent to northern Iraq to protect the Kurds but was withdrawn on July 15. Its role was taken over by U.S. military forces in Iraq. The region to monitor developments from the Incrilik air base in Turkey.
"The killing of civilians cannot be tolerated," the Kurdish Democratic Party statement said. "We call on the
The statement said the Iraqi army began shelving the town of Kifri, 9 miles north of Baghdad, on Saturday afternoon. The shelling continued into the evening and was extended to the adiacent town of Kalar.
United States to warn the Iraqi government that these unwarranted actions violate peace and order in the country."
Iraiq helicopter gunships attacked fleeing refugees along the Kifri-Sergala gate the next day, the Kurdish statement added.
Yugoslav air force jets bomb presidential palace in Croatia
The Associated Press
ZAGREB, Yugoslavia — Yugoslav air force jets bombed the presidential palace in the capital of secessionist Croatia yesterday, narrowly missing the republic's leaders and the federal premier.
The precision onlaught came hours before a deadline set by the European Community for the parties to cease hostilities or face economic sanctions. It also came dangerously deep from the moment Mikhail Gorbachev not to escalate the civil war.
Many residents of Zagreb fled to shelters last night. Phosphorous flares illuminated the sky, and explosions could be heard. TV programming went off the air, and streets were empty because of a nightime curfew.
"It was by sheer miracle that we stayed alive."
"It was by sheer miracle that we stayed alive," Premier Ante Markovic, a resident of Croatia and leader of the Yugoslav federal government, told his office in Belgrade by recording to the Tanjun news agency.
Although no injuries were reported, Tudjman had not been seen in public. He was taken to the hospital.
Markovic said he was meeting with Stipe Mice, the Croatian head of the federal presidency, and Croatian President Franjo Tudjman in the summer when we were in war by a rocket from an air force plane, 'Tanjug said.
Premier Ante Markovic
Yugoslavian government leade
ing the palace.
Markovic blamed Gen. Veljko Kadijevic, federal minister of defense, for "the attempted murder" of Croatia's leaders. He said he would not return to Belgrade, the federal capital, until Kadijievic was fired.
The Croatian Defense Ministry said the bombs and rockets were fired by a federal air force jet. But the federal military denied ordering the bombing of Zagreb and said it was possible that Croatian leadership staged the attack.
The military also said it was possible a federal jet had acted unilaterally in the attack.
The European Community broken a hold, which expired at midnight yesterday, on Croatia's June 25 independence declaration.
The deadline apparently triggered an all-out assault on Croatia by the Serb-dominated army. Army anger rose over Croatia's attacks on army
garrisons.
Croatian officials put their republic on a state of alert.
Several grenades hatch and apparently set fire to a large oil refinery in Sisak, southeast of Zagreb, Croatian radio said.
At least 600 people have died since Croatia declared independence. Some estimates put the toll at 2,500. Many of the 600,000 ethnic Serbs in Croatia are Croatians, the war on Croatia Croatians blame the war on Sebian expansionism.
Brano Kostic, vice president of the federal presidency and a Serbian ally, told parlement in his home republic of Montenegro that the Yugoslav army could no longer tolerate Croatian blockades affecting 25,000 soldiers.
"We have decided to liberate them by force." Tanjug quoted Kostic as saying, "This is no longer a military (question). It's a moral question."
Gen. Andrija Raseta, deputy army commander in Croatia, said before yesterday's air raid that he had advised his superiors that negotiations were no longer possible. He said the Croatians ignored an agreement to hold their fire while the army removed its dead and wounded.
"The time has come not to believe anyone." Raseta said.
The European Community reported that its observers in Croatia were unable to do their work yesterday because of the fierce fighting.
Iran releases U.S. prisoner held five years
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - In what could be another sign of diminished hostility toward the United States, yesterday Iran freed U.S. engineer who was imprisoned for five years on spy charges.
Jon Pattis, 54, was said by officials to have been heading for the United States via Europe. Officials declined further comment because he was released on the promise that publicity be kept at a minimum.
Pattis worked for Cosmos Engineers of Bethesda, Md., at Iran's main satellite ground station at Assadabad. He was arrested after the facility was bombed by Iraqi jets during the Iran-Iran war in 1986.
He was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 1987 by a revolutionary court on espoion charge.
Pattis, of Aiken, S.C., reportedly confessed to spying for the CIA. He was quoted in a television interview in 1986 as saying he had worked in Iran on various projects since 1969.
The State Department denied in 1886 that Pattis had been working for the U.S. government.
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