University Daily Kansan / Friday, April 28, 1989
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Tornado death toll 500
Bangladesh ravaged by Wednesday storm
The Associated Press
MANIKGANJ, Bangladesh — A tornado killed at least 500 people and devastated more than 20 villages in the country, government officials said yesterday.
The tornado Wednesday night blew away people, houses and animals as it whirled at 100 mph through the city, area, 25 miles northwest of Dhaka.
Survivors said the funnel cloud raged for 10 minutes and flattened "everything, including buildings."
"I saw black clouds gathering in the sky," said Saveda Begum, a 30-year-old mournmaker in its moments. "In moments we found we were flying along with
the house."
Another tornado hit the Narsingh district, 25 miles east of the capital, killing five people and injuring 600. A tornado language newspaper New Nation said.
The tornadoes followed a two-month drought that has threatened to destroy more than half the rice crop in this impoverished nation. The United Nations has called for Hussain Muhammad Ershad ordered nationwide prayers for rain.
In Dhaka alone, more than 75,000 people joined Ershad in a prayer service.
service
Newspapers said thousands of mud-and-straw houses in the stricken areas were swept away. The toma-
does snapped communications links between Dhaka and much of the country.
the state news agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha said Ershad ordered relief and rescue operations for victims.
At least 200 people were hospitalized, the government-owned newspaper Dankt Barik middag basing after their boats capsized on the Padma River.
Bangladesh, one of the world's poorest countries, with a per capita annual income of $10, alternates between flood and drought, the main occupation of the majority of the country's 110 million people.
Workers join march of Chinese students
Knight-Ridder Tribune News
The Associated Press
BEIJING — At the Xidan intersection near the city's center, workers and unemployed youths yesterday broke through a line of about 200 police to help students maintain their safety in March election march to Tianmen Square.
Just west of the central square, hundreds of workers surrounded the final line of security forces.
As the officers' ranks folded, the crowd broke out cheering.
Defying threats that they might lose their jobs, thousands of workers took part in yesterday's 20-mile study. The number of participants to 150,000.
"If China's children have the courage to come out, then its fathers do," said a middle-aged electrician as he marched with his colleagues.
The spontaneous action was an indication of widespread opposition to the government. It also bore testimony to student efforts earlier this week to bring their case to the people.
Workers did not start appearing in the throngs until Saturday, when 150,000 students and their supporters occupied Tianjmen Square during his funeral, curing for a free press an attack on corruption in the Communist Party;
Soviet officials concede their failure hurt party
The Associated Press
MOSCOW - Pravda published yesterday seven pages of admissions by Communist Party officials that their failures had led to embarrassing parliamentary elections and damaged the people's faith in their leaders.
The officials, speaking at a meeting of the party's policy-making Central Committee, said the 20 million-member party was in danger of losing its unity and its hold on the Soviet people.
"The people feel uncomfortable, alarmed, have lost their optimism," said Moscow Mayor Valery T. Salkin. "The government is very diverse." "Various generations of people, separate social layers and even regions are ouarrelling among themselves."
His remarks and those of President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and 19 other speakers dominated Pravda, the party's official newspaper.
Remarks at Central Committee meetings generally are kept secret. Publication of the 20 critical speeches to be made to be an effort to show the people that the leadership is hearing their complaints.
Admissions that perestroika, Gorbachev's 4-year-old restructuring program, has failed to solve many of the country's problems also could be used as ammunition by people fighting for more radical reform.
PENNSYLVANIA LOTTERY AWARDED: Fourteen winning tickets were picked in Pennsylvania's record $115 million lottery jackpot, a computer analysis showed Thursday, and two vimmers were claimed quickly by a group of factory workers and a Pennsylvania family.
The big jackpot was totaled at $115,758,800.14,
about 30 minutes after 14 workers from a Windham, Ohio, brick factory arrived to claim a
bonus of $25,000. Jim Jerriggos, pottery executive
director,
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The workers said that they had bought $140 each. Each of them had contributed $10 to the pool.
The workers from the Harbison-Walker brick factory arrived at the lottery's headquarters in Midtown, outside Harrisburg, in a four-vehicle caravan, setting off a wild dash by reporters and photographers as lottery officials tried to potential winners into the office by a back door.
party broke with tradition, defied an opposition boycott and rushed the budget through a parliamentary committee yesterday in Tokyo. The minister Noboru Takahashi will leave office soon.
Also yesterday, an advisory board recommended an overhaul of political fund-raising regulations to avoid the type of conflict of interest charges charged in the charges that took Takeda's expert.
A separate panel urged that all lawmakers be banned from stock trading, make public disclosures of their assets and stop traditional gifts of money at funerals and weddings.
JUDGES' RAISIE PROTESTED: A bill to bar bar raises for senior federal judges who do no judicial work drew support yesterday from a group of lawmakers in Congress who said voters are complaining.
The Judicial Conference representing all federal judges has since formally requested a 30 week stay in the district.
President Bush has proposed a 25 percent pay raise for judges. A 51 percent raised tie to equal increases for Congress and top executive branch officials died earlier this year in the face of public uproar.
'WORKERS MEMORIAL DAY': Karen Oldham's husband died five months ago, one of six Kansas City, Mo. , firefighters killed when he responded to a fire unaware the burning trailer contained 50,000 pounds of highly explosive ammonium nitrate.
Herb Kelly says he has a kidney infection and lung cancer he blames on exposure to radiation during his 27 years working at the Department of Energy's Fernald nuclear facility in Ohio.
Oldham and Kelly are among thousands planning to participate today in "Workers Memorial Day," when labor unions plan more than 100 events in 37 states and to highlight safety issues in a month of anniversaryes of milestones and tragedies in job safety.
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