Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Monday, February 27, 1989
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The Associated Press
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — The Sandinistas will hand over power if they lose the 1990 presidential election. A state constitution was quoted as saying yesterday.
President Daniel Ortega will "abandon power immediately" if he loses the February 1990 election, Interior Minister Tomas Borge told a unified war veterans, the pro-government El Nuevo Diario said.
Earlier Saturday, Borge told a group of foreign correspondents that the Sandistas would win the election. He "also said the party hadn't discussed who its candidate would be.
Though Ortega has not made his candidacy official, he has spoken publicly about running for re-election. Party faithfully greeted him at a
political rally near Managua Saturday with placars calling for him to run in 1980.
Ortega said earlier this month at a Central American summit meeting in El Salvador that Nicaragua would hold the first conference in 1980 instead of in November.
He said opposition parties would have an opportunity to participate in the electoral process and international monitors were welcome to observe every phase of the campaign and the voting.
The leftist Sandinistas, who have been in power since overthrowing dictator Anastasia Somoza in a 1979 revolution, have been conducting talks with the opposition about electoral reforms and media access.
The United States supports the rebels known as contras seeking to overthrow the Sandinista regime.
Funeral goers end visits Leaders ask Japan for increase in foreign aid
TOKYO - World leaders yesterday wrapped up their visits and asked Japan to take a larger role in Middle East peace efforts and spread more of its wealth to developing nations.
The Associated Press
The funeral of Emperor Hirohito, which drew representatives from 163 nations, provided an unusual chance for leaders to meet in Tokyo without some of the constraints of diplomatic protocol.
President Bush met with 20 world leaders before leaving Saturday for China and South Korea. Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takekita met with almost 40 world leaders, including Obama, Sosuke Uno, conducted talks with about 90 officials.
important because of worsening relations between Western countries and Iran because of the controversy about the book "The Satanic Verses," Kyodo News Service reported.
But Uni said that Japan had no plan to follow European nations 'land and withdraw its ambassador from Iran in return.'
In a meeting yesterday with Mostafa Mir Salim, the vice president of Iran, Uuno said that he hoped Iran would rescind its "intolerable" death threat against author Salman Rushdie, a ministry official said.
U. N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar yesterday asked Japan to play a larger role in U.N. sponsored peace talks between Iran and Iraq, news reports said.
"What we want to do is first of all raise the awareness of students that there is the growing problem in the United States with the homeless and also give them a little bit of an experience of what it must be like — even to a tiny extent — to be homeless." "Sister Bramble said."
In a separate meeting with Taha Muhi Dim Maruf, the vice president of Iraq, Uwo pledged to help Iraq rebuild after a peace settlement is achieved with Iran, Kyodo reported.
She said the program, which is scheduled to begin Thursday, is also designed to encourage students to lobby for more affordable housing.
In talks with Israeli President Chaim Herzog, Takeshita said that Japan hoped for an international peace conference on the Middle East that would include the Palestine Liberation Organization.
DAYTON, Ohio — A group of university students plans to get a firsthand look at life through the eyes of the homeless, spending a night on campus streets and queuing up in soup kitchen lines for bread and
Ohio students prepare to live life of homeless
The program is the brainstyle of Sister Nancy Bramlage, coordinator of the University of Dayton's Office of Peace and Community Outreach.
Students in the program will be encouraged not to return to their houses or residence halls for 24 hours
The Associated Press
Perez de Cuellar told Takeshita that Japan's help was
and to sleep on the campus plaza. The next day, they will be expected to take their belongings with them to classes.
BreakFall will consist of coffee and stale bread. The lunch soup line will offer bread, vegetable soup and water.
The alternative to sleeping on the plaza will be attendance at hourly prayer vigils in the chapel all night, she said.
Jet's door may have blown off
Sister Bramlage said she came up with the idea after students showed a strong interest in the hunger issue.
William Faith, director of the Ohio Coalition for the Homeless, said that he thought the cause was noble, but that the students needed to understand that they were sleeping outside out of choice.
“It’s not terribly different than winter camping,” Faith said. “People that are out there on the streets are out there because they have no choice. They are doing their own choice. And they’re doing it night after night after night.”
The Associated Press
HONOLULU — A failed lock might have caused a United Airlines jumbo jet's cargo door to pop open at 22,000 feet, ripping a huge hole in the side of the plane and sending nine passengers, death, federal investigators say.
Damage to the plane is consistent with the cargo door being popped open by the pressurized atmosphere in the cabin as the jet gained altitude and atmospheric pressure outside the aircraft dropped. National Transit Airlines conducted an investigation Lee Dickinson said at a news conference late Saturday.
Coast Guard cutters and aircraft continued their search yesterday 100 miles south of here for more debris from the plane as more than 70 people, including 16 from the NTSB, investigated the cause of the accident.
But Coast Guard Lt. Brad Nelson said the search was hampered by high seas and probably would be called off after sunset yesterday. The search team said "There's probably not a lot more that can be picked up."
United Flight 811, carrying 354 people, had taken off Friday for New Zealand and was about 100 miles
The pilot lost power in one of the four engines and shut down another when a fire indicator light went on, allowing able to return the plane to Honolulu.
from Honolulu when the fuselage ripened over the Pacific Ocean. Nine passengers were sucked out and are presumed dead.
Two cutters returned to port yesterday morning with items recovered, including part of an overhead cover and a section of fuselage and two seats.
Also found were safety instruction cards and personal items, including shoes and a teddy bear.
Honduran air crash claims 10
The Associated Press
The DC-6 crashed about 2:30 p.m. Saturday near La Tigra, a village seven miles northeast of Gętaguicla, said Capt. Francisco Aguilera, head of operations for Civil Aviation.
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — A plane returning from a supply run to the U.S.-backed contra rebels slammed into a hillside, killing all 10 people on board, aviation officials said yesterday.
Officials did not release any information on the crash until yesterday. They said the victims were all employees of a local firm that had a contract to deliver supplies to the rebels camps.
"Our company rents planes to the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) to transport supplies to the contrasts," said Antonio Molina, one of the proprietors of Circle G Aviation Co.
He said the plane had delivered more than 15 tons of clothes, food and medicine to Bocay, a town near the contra camps in north Jorduras, and was on its way back from Jorduras. It is about 250 miles from the capital
Molina and Agulera spoke to The Associated Press in telephone interviews.
Aguilera said high winds and turbulence might have been a factor in the crash.
News Briefs
RIOT ANNIVERSARY REMEMBERED:Tearful Armenians laid flowers before pictures of their dead brethren yesterday to mark the anniversary of three days of ethnic rioting that killed at least 32 people a year ago and galvanized a nationalist movement.
Authorities sanctioned the gathering to commemorate rioting on Feb. 28-29 and March 1 last week in Tampa.
Soviet officials say 26 Armenians and but Armennians insists the told was much higher.
Photocopies of pictures of victims and their
death certificates were displayed on a wall of the brick church. Armenians placed lilies, carnations and tulips before the pictures and raised candles as funeral music played.
A resolution called for authorities to recognize the rioting as an act of genocide, to construct a monument to the victims in Moscow and to remember members of the activist Karabakh Committee.
RAIL ROUTES PROTESTED: More than 10,000 demonstrators marched through central London yesterday to protest Brunin Rail's proposed
high-speed rail routes linking London with the Channel Tunnel, organizers and police said.
Residents representing almost every southeast England town and village that could be affected by the project joined the mass protest, which was met by at least all four of British Rail's proposed routes.
People who live near the proposed routes say the rail link will hurt the environment, be a barrier to connectivity and cost.
British Rail is expected to announce in early March which route it prefers for the trains, which are based on routes.
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