Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 3, 1989
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Clashes rage in Namibia as it gains independence
The Associated Press
WINDHOKE, Namibia — Territorial police reported killing more than 40 guerrillas yesterday in widespread fighting that shattered a ceasefire and threatened to derail the war effort and to independence from South Africa.
South Africa accused the rebel South-West African People's Organization of infiltrating from neighboring Angola, but SWAPO said its guerrillas were defending themselves.
Since late Friday, the eve of the truce, more than 80 guerrillas and
four policemen have been killed, according to South African officials. South Africa agreed to give up control of Namibia through a United Nations-monitored process that began Saturday.
NASA to be headed by astronaut
Namibian police said that there were more than 30 confrontations during the day and that the fighting continued last evening. No details about the clashes were released. A police officer said the 44 guerrillas were killed yesterday and that the toll probably had risen past 50.
WASHINGTON — President Bush is expected to name Navy Adm. Richard H. Truly to head the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, government sources said yesterday. He would be the first astronaut to head the space agency.
The Associated Press
Truly is associate administrator for space flight at NASA
His nomination is expected to be announced this week, the officials said.
week, the other said.
He would succeed James Fletcher, who retired from the post after having it for just more than two years.
Truly has flown twice in the space shuttle. He was pilot of the second space shuttle flight, a dayday mission in 1981, and commander of the eighth first night launch and landing mission, in 1983.
Before that, he was pilot for one of the two-man crews that conducted landing tests with the Enterprise when it was hauled aloft on the back of a 747 tumbo let.
Truly was the first commander of the Naval Space Command when it was established Oct. 1, 1983, and was summoned from that job to restore the space program after the Challenger disaster Jan. 28, 1986.
He took over the program on Feb. 20 that year and was given credit for an important role in returning the United States to manned space flight, a task that required a major restructuring of space agency management, redesigning, testing and remanufacturing the shuttle's solid rocket boosters, and extensive modifications on the orbiters themselves.
returned from space last October, Truly balked at a question which implied that the trauma of the ship's explosion had been overcome.
When the first post-Challenger shuttle flight
"Even when we've flown a few flights, we are not going to forget the Challenger accident." Truly said at the time. "For the people who work in the program, that's going to be on their minds a long
Truly has a bachelor of aeronautical engineering degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology and was commissioned an ensign in the U.S. Navy in 1980 and made more than 300 carrier landings.
He was first a student and later an instructor at the Air Force's test pilot school at Edwards Air Force Base in California and was among the initial students of the USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory program.
Arafat elected leader of self-proclaimed state
The Associated Press
TUNIS, Tunisia — PLO leader Yasser Arafat yesterday was elected president of the self-proclaimed Palestinian state by the organization's central committee, an official of the group announced.
The committee voted unanimously for Arafat, who was unopposed in his bid for president of the provisional government, said. The council of the Palestine National Council, the PLO's parliament-in-exile.
Essayeh did not specify how many of the 70 committee members were present for the vote.
Despite the fact that there is no land under Palestinian control, the council proclaimed an independent state at a meeting Nov. 15. It left it up to the central committee to establish a government in exile.
The central committee resumed meeting yesterday afternoon and elected Farouk Kaddouri foreign minister of the Palestinian state,
PLO official Abu Iyad told the French news agency Agence France-Presse.
Iyad is a member of a small executive committee that runs day-to-day affairs and is also a top official in Arafat's Fatah, the largest group in the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Kaddoumi has long served as the equivalent of foreign minister for the PLO.
PLO spokesman Bassam Abu Sharif as saying those voting for Arafat included members of the hard-line factions Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. They have expressed reservations about Arafat's policies.
The Kuwait News Agency quoted
Arafat will simultaneously fill the functions of president of the executive committee, commander-in-chief of Palestinian armed forces and president of the self-proclaimed independent state of Palestine.
Teen-agers create show to replace advertising void
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — While the Channel One news show for teenagers took its Spring Break during the past two weeks, Bailerica Memorial High School will now be finally imminent. TY news program to fill the void.
There was little chance that of the 1,000 students in the school near Boston would confuse BMHS Morning News with the Channel One program.
The local show had no videoedtap clips to illustrate the top national and international headlines. There were no jazzy graphics or maps. And there were none of the paid pitches for jeans, candy or deodorant that have generated ferocious attacks on Channel One.
But Channel One's developers point to the effort as more evidence of the educational value of their project, which has put $50,000 worth of video equipment in each of six test schools that are
running their show and its ads.
Fitting them above, the other schools are in Kansas City, Kan.
Cincinnati, Detroit, Cerritos, Calif., and Knoxville,
Tenn.
Run-off candidates focusing on Yeltsin
The critics aren't giving up, however.
The critics aren't giving up, however. They said they knew the schools would benefit from having dozens of television monitors and the video recording equipment, but that it was shameful to subject students to four 30-second commercials in return.
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Several candidates campaigning in a run-off election for the new Soviet parliament are trying to capitalize on the popularity of Boris N. Yeltsin, whose writition of Party privilege helped win him
The run-off will be conducted April 9 for candidates in 76 of the nation's 1,500 electoral districts who did not vote in the first round of the election.
One of the run-off candidates is Yuri D. Chernichenkoff, a 60-year-old agriculture expert who writes for several Soviet newspapers and magazines and is a television commentator.
Chernichenko and several other candidates are focusing their campaigns on Yeltsin, former Moscow Communist Party chief and fallen protege of President Mikhail Gorbachev. Yeltsin won by a landslide in
the March 26 election.
"We have already won at this level because Yeltsin is already there. Everyone fought for him." Chernichko said at an outdoor rally yesterday in Moscow's Olympic Village, a housing complex built for the 1980 Olympics. The crowd of about 300 people applauded.
A poster displayed at the rally, which was conducted in a driving snowstorm, listed Chernichenko and three other candidates who supported Yeltsin urging voters to support them in the run-offs.
Chernichenko mentioned similar themes at the rally.
At the rally, Chernichenko said the Soviet Union must take immediate steps to end food shortages.
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