University Daily Kansan / Friday, March 31, 1989
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Arabs support Palestinian uprising
20 arrested during peaceful 'Land Day' protest
The Associated Press
DEIR AL HANANA, Israel — Israel's Arabs staged a general strike and rallies Thursday in support of the Palestinian uprising in the occupied territories, where three Palestinians were killed during 'Land Dav' protests.
Arab reports said that 31 Palestinians were wounded in the occupied West Bank, but the army put the figure at 24.
Despite heavy security and a curfew that confined all 650,000 Gaza
Strip residents to their homes, violent clashes erupted in towns and refugee camps throughout the territories to mark the 15th anniversary of a bloody clash over Israeli confiscation of Arab land.
The army sealed off the West Bank and Gaza Strip, barring Palestinians from entering Israel, and posted thousands of troops in the occupied
Rallies in northern Israel by thousands of Israeli Arabs in support of the Palestinian revolt generally proceeded peacefully, but police arrested 20 Arabs for possessing pro-uprising leaflets believed to incite violence.
Abra Affairs Minister Ehud Olmert praised Israeli Arabs for refraining from violence. "No doubt there's a large measure of responsibility here. They restrained themselves," he or the Israeli's Arabic television broadcast.
Israeli Arabs number about one-fifth of Israel's 4.2 million population, and their participation in demostra-
"Land Day" marks the March 30, 1976 deaths of six Arabs in an incident at Deir Al Hanna triggered by an attack on Arab land for an army tiring range.
tions raised fears about the uprising spreading to Israel itself.
In the West Bank village of Shweike, troops shot and killed a 20-year-old Palestinian carrying a large stone as he was about to ambush an army officer in a narrow alleyway, a military spokesman said.
Palestinian residents identified the dead man as Akram Saif Al Din Khowaved.
A military spokesman said that a
Palestinian from the village of Al Jib near Ramallah also died and that the army was investigating. Arab doctors identified him as Mohammed Mansour Abed Rabo, 22, and said he was shot in the chest.
Abd doctors in the occupied Gaza Strip said Nasr Khaled Nawar, 24, was killed by a plastic bullet to the heart of a young girl. He says youths in the Jabaliya refuge camp.
The army said it was checking the report and added that 24 Palestinians were wounded in the West Bank.
The deaths brought to 415 the number of Palestinians killed in the 15-month-old revolt.
Survey on sexual activity the subject of controversy
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The federal government wants to ask 2,300 Americans when they last had sex. The partner was a man or a woman
That's not all. Scientists want to know other intimate details of respondents' sexual lives, such as: How often do they have sex? Do they use a condom? How often do they masturbate?
Scientists and public health experts recognize that these are sensitive matters, but they say that the information that they would gain would paint a comprehensive picture of Americans' suffering. They fight against AIDS, the lethal disease spread by sexual contact
Critics say the whole idea is Orwellian.
"It's none of the government's business what Americans are doing in their bedrooms," said Paul Mero, spokesman for Rep. William Dannenmeyer's, R-Calif. "Mom and Pop America just aren't going to answer these questions."
Charles Turner, the director of the AIDS research committee at
the National Research Council, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, defended the need for the survey.
"To understand the course of the AIDS epidemic, you have to understand the patterns of sexual behavior in the population." He believed that the basic information that's essential for understanding those behaviors."
The proposed $2.1 million survey, a precursor to one of 20,000 people expected to cost $15 million, will focus on economic and public health communities.
The survey attempts to gather information on virtually all aspects of sexual behavior, including how people chose their sexual partners and practices, such as anal sex, a high-risk activity for AIDS transmission, and oral sex, one of the most common ways in which other sexually transmitted diseases are spread.
The information would be gathered confidentially. Those asked to participate would be chosen randomly from selected communities that were not identified.
Fast-rising play receives Pulitzer; board announces newspaper prizes
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Wendy Wasserstein's play "The Hei
Chronicles," which moved from off-Broadway to Broadway three weeks ago, received one more boost yesterday: the Pulitzer Prize for drama.
"Breathing Lessons," a novel by Anne Tyler, won the award for fiction. The award for general non-fiction went to "A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam," by Neil Sheehl.
Two history prizes were awarded, to "Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1964-65," by Taylor Branch, and to "Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era," by James M. McPherson.
The biography prize was won by the late Richard Ellmann for "Oscar Wilde." Richard Wilbur's 'New and Collected Poems' won the poetry prize, and Roger Reynolds's "Whisners Out of Time" won for music.
In the journalism categories, the Anchorage Daily News won the public service award for its reports about alcoholism and suicide among native Alaskans.
Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele of the Philadelphia Inquirer won the national reporting prize for their 15-month investigation of provisions in the Tax Reform package, which he thinks to politically connected individuals and businesses.
The Inquiner's David Zucchino won the feature writing prize for his series "Being Black in South Africa."
The Chicago Tribune's winners were Clarence Page in the commentary category for his columns on local and national issues, and Terry Hobson in
The Courier-Journal's coverage of the bus crash was not one of the finalists recommended by the jury to the board. The board asked for the report, and then he wrote a journal story from that group, according to Robert Christopher, board secretary.
The Louisville Courier-Journal was awarded the prize for general news for coverage of a bus crash that claimed 27 lives and the newspaper's examination of the accident's cause.
Bill Dedman of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution won the Pulitzer for investigative reporting in publishing institutions.
The Pulitzer for explanatory journalism went to reporter David Hanners, photographer William Snyder and artist Karen Blessen of the Dallas Morning News for their report on a 1985 plane crash and its implications for
Edward Humes of the Orange County (Calif.) Register won the prize for specialized reporting for his coverage of the military establishment in southern California.
The Pulitzer Board awarded two prizes in the category of international reporting. One went to Glenn Frankel of the Washington Post for reporting from Israel and the Middle East; the other went to Robert K. New of the New York Times for the Soviet Union.
In photography, free-lancer Ron Olshwanger won for a spot news picture in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch of a firefighter giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a child pulled from a burning building.
Jack Higgins of the Chicago Sun-Times won for his editorial cartoons.
The Pulitzer for feature photography was awarded to Manny Cristosmo of the Detroit Free Press for a series of photographs depicting student life at Southwestern High School.
Each of the Pulitzers carries a $3,000 prize, except for public service, which is recognized with a gold medal.
Midwest has a reputation for safe sperm
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY. Mo. Long considered a bastion of stability and morality, the Midwest is gaining a reputation for something else: safe sperm.
In Kansas City, Nebraska and Iowa, bank arm directors report increased calls from doctors on both sides of the city for surgery for serpens from the heartland
The reason is that the Midwest is perceived to be a clean, wholesome and healthy place.
In the last two years, frozen semen, used for artificial insemination, has been shipped out of the Midwest like never before.
"We've had requests from as far away as New York," said Elwyn Grimes, director of the Midwest Fertility Foundation and Laboratory Inc. in Kansas City. "There could be a perception that there are more high risk individuals in some of the larger metropolitan areas.
Samples that are properly tested, screened and quarantined are no safer from the Midwest than from inner-city New York, doctors said.
But people still believe otherwise.
But people still believe otherwise. The bank sends about 60 percent of its samples out of the state and 30 percent out of the Midwest. More than 500 have been sent to the coasts in the last two years.
Sperm banks pay donors for samples, but some reject up to seven of eight samples given. Doctors probe sperm banks, bound, medical history, even lifestyle.
Potential donors are screened for acquired immune deficiency syndrome and other sexually transmissible diseases through blood tests taken during the course of several months.
A sperm bank official in Kansas City says he is convinced that Midwestern sperm is wanted for its quality, not just its quantity.
"It a Bible Belt tell," said Bill Dawson, supervisor of the Midwest Fertility Foundation. "People are here where there is moral and upstanding."