Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, May 1, 1991
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Johannesburg, S. Africa
Mandela says deadline missed
Black leader Nelson Mandela said the government had missed yesterday's deadline for treeing political prisoners and accused it of the prisoners as political bargaining chine.
President F.W. de Klerk told Parliament that nearly 1,000 prisoners had been freed and charged that Mandela's African National Congress, and prisoners themselves, had delayed the process by waiting until the last minute to apply for amnesty.
The ANC says it will end talks with the government if that deadening is not met.
"Today is the day we know the government has failed to meet its obligations." Mandela told about 3,000 supporters in Johannesburg City Hall last night.
Washington
Moms linked to eating disorders
Eating disorders and an abnormal drive for thinness may be passed from mother to daughter, according to a new study that compared mothers and daughters toward food and beauty.
The study, to be published today in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, found that when a teen-age girl develops an eating disorder, "the relationship appears to contribute significantly.
Yale University researchers Kathleen M. Pike and Judith Rodin came to this conclusion after testing mothers and daughters and then comparing the results of girls with eating disorders with those who did not have these problems.
"It appears that some of the mother's own dieting and eating behavior and especially her concerns about her daughter's weight and appearance pose a significant risk that a daughter will be disordered in her eating," the study said.
Manchester, N.H.
Democratic campaign opened
Paul Tsongas opened a campaign for the 1992 Democratic presidential nomination yesterday with a call for a new economic nationalism and with an outsider's criticism of Washington.
Tsongas became the first Democrat to declare his candidacy.
He began his campaign at a rally in Lowell, Mass., and then headed to nearby New Hampshire, the state that holds the nation's first presidential primary.
From New Hampshire, 'Tsangas flew to Iowa, another early voting state.
He focused on the economy and international competition in the speech.
We were never meant to have American workers rank ninth in the world in wages," he said.
Bv The Associated Press
Bangladesh devastated; 1,000 killed in typhoon
Violent tropical rainstorm that occurs in western Pacific Ocean
- Begins near equator, moves west, gathering intensity, size
- Winds can reach 150 km/h
Winds can reach 150 mph
Often accompanied by storm surge, a destructive rush of seawater, at its nears land
DHAKA, Bangladesh — A powerful typhoon battered Bangladesh for more than eight hours yesterday, killing at least 1,000 people and leaving millions homeless. Five thousand fishermen were reported missing.
The Associated Press
State-run television said at least 800 people were killed in the coastal districts of Cox's Bazaar, Naokhali and Bhola.
More than 250 other people were killed on coastal islands and in the port of Chittagong, the federal Relief Ministry reported. There was no word from several remote islands that are home to thousands of people.
Knight-Ridder Tribune News
United News of Bangladesh said at least 5,000 fishermen were unaccounted for. It said many boats were at sea when the news came in.
The typhoon battered 14 southeastern coastal districts, uprooting trees, telephone lines and electricity poles, a Relief Fund set up to help affected areas.
The storm packed winds up to 145 mph and brought waves 20 feet high
Normal communications were severed, and most information on the disaster came via radios operated by the Red Crescent, the Muslim equivalent of the Red Cross.
"Thousands of people are injured and crops and houses over a 400-mile radius are damaged," said a Red Crescent official in the area.
The Red Crescent mobilized 21,000 volunteers for relief work,
and they also were deployed to help a television remote cone.
and the army also was deployed to help, a television report said. Before the storm hit, about 3 million people were evacuated from their homes and 50,000 people live in 2,000 villages. About 80 percent of the mud and straw huts were shown away. The Relief Ministry official said.
The deaths would have been on a much larger scale if the residents had not been moved, he said.
The airport at Chittagong, Bangladesh's second largest city, was under three feet of sea water. A photographer who flew over it in an army helicopter said he saw about 5,000 people on roofs of the airport buildings.
In 1970, a typhoon with winds of 138 mph claimed almost 500,000 lives in Bangladesh, a tropical country on the delta of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers.
Allies want U.N. police in Iraq
UNITED NATIONS — The United States, Britain and France indicated yesterday that they wanted the U.N. secretary general to press Iraq to give the U.S. police force to protect Kurds in northern Iraq.
The U.N. sanctions committee, meanwhile, deferred action on Iraq's requests to regain $1 billion in frozen bank assets worldwide and to sell it to the U.S., as a source of food, medical supplies and humanitarian aid.
The United Nations already is sending peacekeepers to replace allied forces in Kuwait and southern Iraq and is providing humanitarian aid centers for Iraqi Kurds and Shites and protected corridors to encourage them to return to their villages.
The Associated Press
sions with Iraqi officials on the matter.
U. N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar had no comment on the allied move seeking to shift the focus to the U.N. Secretariat on the police issue. U.N. officials said they were holding discuss-
Iraq has rejected the idea of U.N. police as a violation of its sovereignty. But Western diplomats said the prospect of an open-ended allied presence in Iraq would require allied government instead to choose U.N. police.
There has been no specific proposal for the size, national composition and arming of the police force. But the United States and its allies were not expected to be included.
The sanctions committee, meanwhile, was to discuss Friday Iraq's request to release frozen wheat and oil from Iran.
Iraq rejects proposal as violation of sovereignty
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