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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, June 18, 1997
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Iran adds new missile to air-weapons supply
China projectile flies below radar
The Associated Press
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Iran has started test firing a cruise missile designed to strike ships, Defense Secretary William Cohen said yesterday, citing the action as evidence of a sinister intent in Iran's military buildup.
At a news conference in Bahrain, Cohen said Iran was testing a Chinese-made anti-ship missile that can be launched from aircraft. Iran already has cruise missiles based on shore and aboard ships.
Cohen's disclosure fit with the message he has delivered on his five-nation Persian Gulf tour: Iran poses a danger to its weaker neighbors and should not be accepted as a normal member of the world community.
Hormuz," he said.
William Cohen
"Iran continues to sponsor terrorism. In addition, it is developing weapons of mass destruction, improving missiles that can strike neighboring nations, and boasting of its ability to close the Straits of
His sharp rhetoric contrasted to the m o r e restrained tone adopted by President Clinton after Iranianists elected a moderate cleric. Mohammad Khatami, president last month.
Clinton had called the election a hopeful sign but added that Iran must change its operations abroad and stop attempts to develop mass destruction weapons.
Khatami takes office in August.
Rahmat takes office in August. Cohen's disclosure comes as the Clinton administration is pushing for extending normalized trade relations with Beijing.
Though pledging to continue to press China on its weapons exports to Iran and other countries, the administration has argued that revoking normalized trade relations would undermine its ability to work with China.
Cohen did not address the China trade issue but focused on Iran's
new missile capabilities
Cruise missiles are difficult to detect on radar because the missiles fly low.
new missile capabilities.
"Iran's words and actions suggest that it wants to be able to intimidate its neighbors and to interrupt commerce in the Gulf," Cohen said. "The United States will not allow this to happen." U.S. allies in the Gulf are urging a
U. S. allies in the Gulf are urging a more accommodation approach
to Iran. Cohen said he had found the Gulf states united with the United States' approach.
Iran considers the Gulf as its major commerce artery. Militant elements favor exporting Iran's revolutionary Islamic ideology and have sought to undermine weaker states in the Gulf.
A senior U.S. military officer said that Iran had tested an air-launched missile on June 3. A second test launch three days later used a live warhead fired at a barge in the Gulf, the officer said.
Radar aboard U.S. ships in the Gulf is capable of detecting, identifying and tracking any cruise missiles in Iran's arsenal, the officer said. The U.S. fleet is equipped with missiles that can shoot down cruise missiles.
The U.S. Air Force plans to release colony that helped America into space
The Associated Press
Research chimps need home
ARLINGTON, Va. — They were stuck, poked, probed and kept in cages in the interest of science. Some may have AIDS or hepatitis.
Now the Air Force is looking for someone to care for and feed 144 chimpanzees once used in research.
But they cautioned that bidders must demonstrate the ability to care for animals that could live well into the next century.
At a public meeting, Air Force officials said they would accept bids to take the animals and the buildings at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., where the chimps are housed.
Acting under a law passed last year, the Air Force yesterday formally opened a process to divest itself of a colony of chimpanzees formed 30 years ago to help put America into space.
Animal-rights groups say they want all the chimps,but acknowledge that finding homes for them will be hard.
"Thousands of people are looking for homes for these animals that will not subject them to research," Elliot M. Katz told Air Force officials. "They (the chimps) have been in prison on your base all their lives, and now we want to put them into a place with a good quality of life."
"Thousands of people are looking for homes for these animals that will not subject
them to research."
Elliot M. Katz Animal activist
The Air Force got into the chimp business as part of the nation's space effort, but none of the 144 animals now alive took part in space research, said Air Force Col. Jack Blackhurst.
Instead, the monkeys were leased out as subjects for medical research.
Of the 144 animals, 103 have
been used in AIDS and hepatitis studies, said Lt. Col. Denver Marlow, a veterinarian in charge of the animals. About 40 have been injected with live viruses. They would have to be housed at special sites to protect others from possible infection.
Thirty-four of the chimps were captured in the wild and brought to the United States for research. These animals, now 30 to 40 years old, may live another 10 to 15 years.
The rest were bred in captivity and born at Holloman. The youngest animal is 4.
Katz said his group and others would like to create sanctuaries where the chimps could retire and not be used in research. But he said it will be difficult to find the money, the people and the buildings to take on the entire colony.
Chimps, cute and cuddly when young, become aggressive and difficult to manage with age, Landau said.
"Nobody wants them any more," said Virginia I. Landau of the Jane Goodall Institute in Tucson.
Also, it costs $15 to $45 a day to care for chimps. "Nobody can keep them in their homes," said Katz. "They need special places."
Because of the length and nature of their captivity, none of the animals could be returned to the wild, he said.
New, faster adoption program finds more homes for children
Larger staff decreases time to visit homes
The Associated Press
nent homes.
NEW YORK — In the world's fastest city parenthood also has been sped up, thanks to the new Adoption Fast Track program.
Adoptions that sometimes took years can now be completed in two months or less under a program that aims to move children more quickly out of foster care and into perma-
Tens of thousands of children are in foster care in New York City. Judge Michael Gage said those adopted in Family Court often were neglected or abused, which makes the timeliness of an adoption important.
The adoption process itself remains unchanged. The idea is to speed up the paperwork and move the bureaucracy along faster.
More city resources and staff are being used to perform mandatory
child abuse screenings, home investigations and fingerprint checks, according to David Bookstaver, representative for Family Court.
Gage said, "We feel confident we're getting better information — as well as quicker."
For example, home investigations of prospective parents are more thorough because more workers have been assigned to do them, she said.
In the past, fingerprint checks were done only if a question was
raised about a possible criminal record. Now, everyone who adopts is fingerprinted, Gage said.
Yesterday, at the courthouse in lower Manhattan, Helen Salters beamed as she emerged as the adoptive mother of her 9-year-old grandson, Eric. She said things had moved much faster in the past few months.
New York's attempt to speed adoptions was part of an initiative announced several months ago by President Clinton. Other states in the forefront of the movement are
Illinois and Washington, said Charlotte Vick of the North American Council on Adoptable Children, a nonprofit organization in St. Paul, Minn.
The goal in New York City is to complete at least 1,700 adoptions between April 1 and June 30. As of yesterday, 2,000 had been finished, some in just two months.
During the same period last year, only 805 adoptions were completed by the city's Family Court system. Many had taken years to process.
"We feel confident we're getting better information—as well as quicker."
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