Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 12, 1989
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News Briefs
FRENCH PRISONERS PROTEST:
FRENCH PRISONERS PROTEST:
Approximately 200 prison inmates took eight guards hostage yesterday, but released them at the end of the day and returned quietly to their cells, authorities said.
Officials assured the inmates no force would be used against them and granted their demand that a prison court review the case of an inmate who was put in an isolation cell Monday, said Jean-Pierre Dintihac, director of administration at Poissy prison in France.
the inmates, who were not armed, took six guards hostage at noon, and two more guards voluntarily joined their colleagues. Six guards were freed unharmed at night, and the other two an hour later.
Prison officials, four inmates and representatives of the Justice Ministry negotiated through the afternoon and evening.
About five hours into the revolt, riot police took up positions around the main buildings of the prison, which is 23 miles west of Paris and holds about 450 long-term prisoners.
In November, 250 inmates at Poissy occupied the central hall for a protest "bad conditions of detention" returned peacefully to their cells.
TUNISIAN CABINET CHANGES:
President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali shook up his Cabinet yesterday, nine days after he won 99 percent in the country's first presidential elections in 14 years.
Ben Ali installed five new ministers and reappointed 11 others to help him fulfill his pledge to make Tunisia more democratic.
The president legalized opposition parties shortly after taking power in a palace court in Novem-
ber 2015, paving the way for gusting leader Habib Bourguiba.
Ben Ali appointed Abdullah Kallal as defense minister, a post formerly held by Ben Ali himself.
FROGS ATTEMPT ESCAPE: Eight frogts that were to be sent into space last week escaped before the rocket launch, delaying theiment, the Swedish national news agency TT reported yesterday.
The female frogs climbed out of their aquarium and eluded searchers for several days in a building on the campus of Northern northern city of Kiruna. TT said.
Researcher Uif Hogman told TT the frogs were part of a biological project to study mating and various other functions.
Soviet navy plans to retrieve sub
MOSCOW — The Soviet navy said yesterday that it planned to retrieve a nuclear submarine that sank off Norway to learn what caused the accident that killed 42 sailors.
The Associated Press
"We consider that we must raise it." Vice Adm. sergei Vaughan, " Virgin said on the nightly television news program 'The Voice'."
Vargin, who is with the Soviet Baltic Fleet, said details of how to bring the submarine up from nearly 5,000 feet below the surface had not been worked out.
"The experts will deal with it," he said, adding that the hull was believed to be cracked but intact. The sub caught fire and sank Friday in the Norwegian sea.
Vargin repeated the Soviet position that there was no danger of radiation leakage. He said the reactors were shut down before the crew evacuated, and then he fired a nuclear-tipped torpedoes was armed for combat.
short circuit probably caused the fire.
Izvestia, the government newspaper, said a
In Oslo, Norwegian officials said tests on water samples at the sub's level showed no radiation, but Norway would not declare the zone clean until after a more extensive examination late this week.
Soviet media reports yesterday said the sub commander, Capt. Veygvin Vanin, pulled a sailor through a smoke-filled hatch then died trying to reach other survivors.
"He had spent all his energy saving sailors, and he perished in front of his crew. Lt. Andrei Zelenko was killed during the attack."
hospital bed in Murmansk
Another crew member, Capt. B. Kolyada, said the first thing the crew did when the fire started was secure the nuclear reactor and nuclear-tipped torpedoes.
Several of the 27 survivors were shown on television greeting their families and praising the soldiers.
One crewman, not identified, said, "We were in the water for an hour and a half, but we never knew how long."
Official media praised the bravery of the 69 crew killed. Officials say only bodies have been recovered.
Tass said the commander was the last person to leave the submarine when it started to sink and lift off. The submarine is one of four.
North says false letter was not a fraud
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Oliver North defended his efforts for the Nicaraguan contras yesterday, testifying on his trial that he knew that a pivotal letter his boss sent Congress on was "a political problem," not a fraud
immoral to have put a force in the field, to have fed it, armed it, equipped it and then leave it in the lurch.” North said.
"Did any moral bells go off in your head?" asked prosecutor John Koker
"I thought it was extraordinarily
Teke accused our told of "telling a flat-out, 100 percent, old-fashioned, All-American lie" when he was instrumental in getting President Reagan to thank you notes to her user and a major donor to the contests.
ter sent by National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane on Sept. 5, 1985, to Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., then the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. That letter, denying news accounts that the National Security Council staff was soliciting donations and offering tactical advice to the commission on the lying of several charges concerning lying to or obstructing Congress.
Other questioning concerned a let-
I had gone to some lengths since 1984 to get his approval for and keep him appressed of what I was doing." North said of the letter.
The prosecutor asked North if he had seen the letter as a fraud on Congress.
"I recognized it to be false because
"To me a fraud means to break the law. I did not recognize it as breaking law. I recognized it more as an increasing political problem, "North replied.
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