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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, May 2, 1991
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As many as 25,000 people may have died in a devastating cyclone that rampaged across the southeastern coast of this impoverished nation, a news agency reported yesterday.
The government said it knew of only about 3,000 deaths in Tuesday's eight-hour storm, but it acknowledged its reports were incomplete due to a lack of air quality data. The affected islands were still covered by water.
At least 500 people were driven from their homes as state police initially said toxic ammonia had leaked. A plant representative later questioned that report.
Thousands killed in cyclone
An explosion devastated a large fertilizer plant yesterday, killing two people, leaving at least seven missing and injuring 100, officials said. It shoook buildings eight miles away, a witness said, and it prompted evacuation of an entire town.
United News of Bangladesh, quoting radio reports received in Dhaka, said 25,000 people died, mostly on the coastal islands of Kutubdia, Maheshbali, Sandwip and Chakori, which are islands of farmers and fishermen. Tens of thousands of people were missing, the news agency said.
A hospital across the street from the plant was among buildings evacuated. Other residents of this northeast Louisiana town of 1,200 already have been escapedcape flooding from heavy rains in recent days.
House passes intelligence bill
To the grumbling of some Democrats, the House yesterday approved a version of the 1991 intelligence bill stripped of oversight provisions prompted a veto last year from President Bush
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A cyclone that struck the same area in 1970 claimed about 500.00 lives.
Sterlington, La. Explosion at plant kills two
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The bill, authorizing spending for intelligence activities in a fiscal year already more than half over, was approved on a voice vote and sent to the Senate for further action.
Bush vetoed an earlier version Nov. 30. He contended that it would have hampered U.S. diplomacy by restricting other countries in bringing out covert operations for the United States.
The provision grew out of the Iran-contra affair, in which third parties were enlisted in what turned into an arms-for-hostages swap.
From The Associated Press
Allied security area grows in effort to ensure safety
EAST OF AMADIYAH, Iraq — Allied military forces will expand their security zone in northern Iraq today, pushing 25 miles eastward to secure an air base and for returning I Kurdish refugees, officials said.
The Associated Press
Only a small indigenous police force will be allowed to remain in Adamaydi, said an allied military statement issued yesterday U.S. officials. The governor has encompassed Saddam Hussein's summer palace.
"This is a careful movement by the combined task force to provide the refugees the necessary sense of security to leave the mountains and either enter the second temporary community or return home," said U.S. Lt. Gen. John Shaliksavli, the commander of the allied forces, in the statement.
"While we do not expect any interference, we are prepared to take the steps necessary to account for this."
Saddam's palace is just west of Amadiyah. The house itself will not be occupied by allied troops, P
Meanwhile, elite U.S. recommission forces probed even deeper into Iraq territory in missions involving Iran.
Allied forces told Iraqi representatives yesterday to withdraw their security forces from the area near Amadiyah and Suriya, and by nightfall they were able to evacuate. They said military representative Lt. Col. Bob Flocke
"We will allow the Iraqis to retain a palace guard. But we will search it (the palace and surrounding building complex) for heavy weapons," he said.
Yesterday, accompanied by an Associated Press reporter, U.S. Marines scouted the mountains and valleys even farther east, near Iran. Army soldiers are entering the security zone, outside the provincial capital of Dohuk.
The zone has been established as a safe haven for the 800,000 Kurdish refugees who fled to the mountains between Iraq and Turkey in March, escaping Saddam's crackdown on their rebellion.
Dozens of similar missions have been launched into other remote areas by highly trained Marine, Navy and Army personnel, according to U.S. military history, who runs the reconnaissance operations.
In recent months, Yeltsin has demanded Gorbachev's resignation, accusing the president of betraying the cause of reform to placate hard liners.
By midday yesterday, about 9,000 refugees had left their ramshackle mountain camps, where hundreds of people have died of hunger and exposure. They were going either to the allied-run camp in the Iraqi border town of Zakho or returning to their homes.
Gorbachev ally will go against Yeltsin for Russian presidency
"If I am accorded this great honor and nominated for the post of president, then I am prepared to enter the election campaign," the daily Komsomlskaya Pravda quoted him as saving.
At the head of the pack of candidates is Yeltsin, 60, the parliament's chairperson. Numerous opinion polls have showed him to be among the most popular politicians, usually ranked ahead of Gorbachev.
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Former Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov, a friend and ally of Mikhail Gorbachev, plans to challenge Boris Yeltsin for the presidency on Monday. June elections, Soviet media reported yesterday.
Ryzhko served as prime minister from 1985 until December, when he suffered a heart attack amid mounting calls for his resignation by refor-mentation blamed him for the country's failing economy.
Yeltsin was once a protote of Gorbachev, but after a falling-out in 1987, he was removed as chief of the Moscow City Communist Party organization dropped from the party's ruling Politburo in 1988.
There are at least seven candidates for the presidency of the giant Russian federation. The Russian parliament created the new post after 77 days and elects the electorate voted for the idea in a Feb. 17 referendum.
Ryzhkov, 61, has been so closely tied to Gorbachev that he may be viewed as a proxy for the Soviet president in the campaign against Yeltsin, Gorbachev's bitter antagonist.
In a newspaper interview published yesterday, Ryzhik said representatives of large enterprises and delegates to last week's meeting of the State Committee had urged him to run in the June 12 vote.
But Yelstin signed an accord with Gorbache and the leaders of eight other republics April 23, urging an end to strikes and a new Union Treaty to hold the country together.
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