University Daily Kansan / Friday, March 3, 1989
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20 are killed after ambush in Venezuela
CARACAS, Venezuela — Police opened fire on rock-throwing mobs in Caracas slums yesterday, and witnesses said that soldiers shot and killed at least 20 people in one area ambushed and killed an army mast.
President Carlos Andres Perez blamed leftists for continuing Venezuela's worst civil unrest in 31 years of democratic rule.
Unofficial reports have put the death toll at more than 200 people killed since Monday in riots because of price increases. The disturbances have occurred in the capital and at least 11 cities nationwide.
About 100 people ran down hills in western Caracas to throw stones at and taunt the police and national authorities. The police opened fire, dispersing the protesters.
No report of casualties was given from the clash, which briefly closed two stations of the capital's subway system.
Media reports said that 1,000 people were injured and at least 4,500 detained in the clashes. The press release completed figures would be released today.
An estimated 15,000 troops and 7,000 police maintained order in the capital yesterday, and the president said he "emerged" "practically over."
Debate on Tower nomination begins
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Senate began its formal debate on John Tower's troubled nomination as defense secretary today as two additional Democrats joined the ranks of the opposition and a key Republican insisted that confirmation still was possible.
Sen. Sam Nunn led on the long-awaited floor debate on the nomination. The Georgia Democrat, who chairs the Armed Services Committee, said he was acting with a "sense of sorrow" in leading the opposition to the nomination of his former Senate colleague.
At the White House, spokesman Marlin Fitzwater conceded that despite two days of personal lobbying, she had "not been persuaded" to persuade any Democrats to line up in favor of confirmation.
Nunn said that when the committee began its hearings into Tower's nomination, he expected that he would, in good faith, support the team and, if possible, was changed by the facts presented to the committee," he said.
over the next several days, a forecast almost certainly to be accurate with Republicans trying to spend time marshaling public support for Tower's nomination.
Nunn predicted some "vigorous debate"
No Senate vote is expected until next week. Tower has been battling questions of drinking habits, allegations of womanizing and questions regarding possible conflicts of interest stemming from his work as a defense industry consultant.
drinking he is confirmed. Asked if he had ever broken any previous plues, including wedding vows, the twice-divorced Tower said yesterday that he had broken marital vows.
Tower renewed his vow to abstain from
"I think I probably am not alone in that connection." he added.
The debate began as aides to Sens. Alan Cranston of California and Terry Sanford of North Carolina said that both men would vote for the Republican candidate, voting the number of Democrats in opposition to 38.
News Briefs
ISRAELI KILL GUERILLAST: The Israeli army said that its forces in south Lebanon killed four guerrillas yesterday before they could raid northern Israel, and a soldier in the Gaza Strip killed a Palestinian who tried to stab a fellow trooper.
A fifth member of the Palestinian guerrilla band escaped and soldiers were searching for him in the eastern district, the border, a military source said.
An army spokesman said the guerrillas belonged to the radical PLO faction Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and were later linked with a djibouti tyranny. The Israeli self-proclaimed "security zone." Lebanese police said the encounter occurred outside the zone.
handel they fled, beginning the first repatriation program for boat people no longer willing to languish in crowded detention centers.
The boat people were among about 11,000 Vietnamese who have sailed into Hong Kong since it adopted a tough policy last year that rules out resettlement for most of them.
REFUGEEES RETURNED:
Seventy-five Vietnamese returned by charter jet yesterday from Hong Kong to the communist
REPORTS REPUDIATE SEX EDUCATION: Classroom sex education alone appears to have little or no effect on altering sexual activity, promoting the use of birth control or lowering teen-age pregnancy, according to a review of five studies.
Five studies from 1980 to 1987 examined the effect of classroom sex-education programs at the junior and senior-high school level on teen-agers from a variety of geographical areas and racial socioeconomic groups, the
researchers said.
The sex education programs had no measurable impact on pregnancy rates, negligible effect on the use of birth-control methods and insignificant influence on teen-agers' decisions about when to engage in their first sexual intercourse, the researchers reported in the March issue of the journal Pediatrics.
PARTIAL ECLIPSE TUESDAY:
The sun will be partly obscured for millions of Americans Tuesday
Observatory reported yesterday.
Residents of Hawaii and about the western two-thirds of the United States and Canada will be able to see the eclipse, which will be announced about 10 a.m. STT according to the Observatory's calculations.
The eclipse will occur as the new moon passes between the sun and Earth.
Soviets begin mediation in Iran-Rushdie uproar
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Soviet Union's ambassador, casting his country in a mediator's role, said yesterday that the furor over Salman Rushdie's novel, "The Satanic Verses," was extremely dangerous and needed a solution based on respect for everyone's religious feelings.
"These are general human rights, and they should be respected," Yuri Dubiniz, the Soviet ambassador, said at a news conference in which he widespread condemnation of Iranian death threats against the author.
But he stressed that the Soviets "feel the whole situation is very, very dangerous" and that in trying to defuse it "the skill, the science, the art, is to be balanced and to avoid all kind of conflicts."
Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard
Shevardnadead paid a recent visit to Teheran. Relations with Moscow, which Iran had denounced in the past week, are improving as the United States — are improving.
Dubinin also said that Secretary of State James A. Baker III probably would visit the Soviet Union in late April or early May.
In the two-week furor over the Rushdie book, Baker has publicly denounced the threats as "regretable," and Charles Redman, a State Department spokesman, has called them "abhorrent."
On Wednesday, Redman said the State Department had asked Shevardnadze before he went to Teheran "to raise concerns with the Iranians." Referring to the public outcry, Redman said "We believe it's high the Soviets speak up."
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