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Wednesday, July 15, 1987
Kansan Summer Weekly
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Central Karachi rocked by bombs; hospital appeals for blood donors
KARACHI, Pakistan — Four explosions struck central Karachi last night, and doctors said at least 49 people were killed and 300 were injured.
The blasts occurred at two bus stands, a restaurant and an old building, which were within 200 yards of each other. Witnesses reported four buildings ablaze, including the restaurant. They also said vehicles and vending carts were shattered.
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"The situation is very bad," said Abdul Karim, head physician at Jinnhn Medical Post-Graduate Hospital. "We have declared a state of emergency in the hospital, and we don't know what the toll will be."
Civil Hospital reported 11 deaths and another 150 injured.
Police said the four explosions apparently were caused by bombs. No group has claimed responsibility for the bombing.
Karim said his hospital had received 38 bodies and 150 injured people, 30 of them in critical condition.
More than 1,000 people assembled outside the Jinnah hospital, where a public address system appealed for blood donors.
Columns of smoke could be seen rising over the city of 7 million, Pakistan's largest. Fire trucks and ambulances rushed to the city center while police cordoned off the blast area.
Paris celebrates Bastille Day with a parade
After threats in June of terrorist attacks, security at the parade was tight.
PARIS — Jet fighters swooped low over the Arc de Triomphe yesterday while thousands of soldiers marched down the tree-lined Champs Elysees as France celebrated Bastille Day.
President Francois Mitterrand rode in a black limousine down the boulevard to the Concorde where he was welcomed by Premier Jacques Chirac and Defense Minister Andre Giraud.
Anyone there could see the jets overhead, the first ones trailing red, white and blue smoke trails, the colors of the French flag. They were followed by Mirage and Jaguar jetfighters, Transall transport planes, Super-Frelong helicopters and other planes flying in graceful formation.
All branches of the military passed in review. Various branches of French police marched in the parade as did the Paris fire brigade, a favorite of first lady Danielle Mitterrand, who did not applaud the military forces.
Military hardware also was displayed, including Pluton and Hawk nuclear missiles, the foundation of France's nuclear arsenal.
The loudest applause was reserved for the French Foreign Legion, which moved down the boulevard more slowly than other military troops and were honored by the president, who rose as they marched by.
On July 14, 1789, a Parisian mob stormed the Bastille prison, a despised symbol of the oppressive reign of King Louis XVI. The event marked the start of the French Revolution and eventually led to the downfall of Louis XVI and his queen Marie Antoinette.
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North's testimony to be marketed on video
very historic."
CHICAGO - A home video company said yesterday that it planned to sell a videotape of LL Col. Oliver North's appearance at the Iran-contra hearings to people who were unable to follow the 30-plus hours of testimony on television.
The tape is about 90 minutes long and the suggested retail price is $19.95, Ali said. Tapes will be shipped to stores beginning July 30.
"You can't get an in-depth look at Oliver North in 90 seconds on the news each night," said Jaffi Alarie, vice president of sales at MPI Home Video. "Oilier North has really captivated the hearts, minds and souls of the public, and we think that these hearings are
"While focusing specifically upon the testimony of North, the program will additionally draw upon the hearing testimony of other witnesses to the Select Committee, previous testimony by North, and background material about key figures and events," MPI said in a prepared statement.
Legislation aimed at airline improvement
WASHINGTON — A Senate committee completed work yesterday on a bill that would prod the nation's airlines to improve service, while a Senate claused over a House-passed measure banning smoking on most domestic flights.
The government, in turn, would be required to issue monthly reports, which Senate aides said were likely to appear in the government's Federal Register and be distributed in news releases to reporters.
Legislation sent to the full Senate would require the nation's airlines to provide monthly reports to the government of their on-time records, canceled flights, lost luggage and burned passengers.
It also would require the Transportation Department to establish a toll-free phone number to handle complaints from the rapidly growing ranks of unhappy airline travelers.
The bill, approved by the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, is opposed by the Air Transport Association, which represents U.S. airlines.
Thirteen U.S. carriers have asked the Transportation Department to compose a similar reporting system, although participation would be voluntary.
In a letter released yesterday to members of the Senate commerce panel, Transportation Secretary Michael R. O'Reilly gave opposition to the Senate measure.
She said that her agency was considering consumer protection regulations and argued that the bill "will rule out potentially better approaches to airline consumer protection" because it would not leave enough time for analysis
Consumer legislation has been moving through Congress this year in response to growing commercial customers about poor service.
On another front, battle lines in the Senate began forming over a measure the House approved late Monday that would prohibit cigarette smoking on airline flights of two hours or less.
The measure is an amendment to the transportation appropriations bill for fiscal 1988 that the House approved.
Cleveland clinic plans egg donor program
The donor and recipient would be matched according to physical characteristics but would remain unknown to each other, a clinic official said. The donor would supply the egg that the recipient was unable to provide.
CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Clinic announced yesterday that it would recruit women to donate eggs for couples unable to have children.
This may be the first program in the nation to use a pool of anonymous donors.
"I think the proper way of using donor eggs is the way that most programs use donor sperm — appropriately screened, appropriately matched but anonymous donors," said Martin M. Quigley, director of the clinic's In Vitro Fertilization and Embryo Replacement Program.
The clinic planned to use the test tube baby technique to fertilize the donor eggs. The eggs would be surgically removed from the donor and fertilized in a laboratory by the sperm of the recipient's husband.
Quigley estimated there were more than 100,000 women in the United States who were unable to have children because their ovaries did not produce eggs, they didn't have ovaries, or their eggs were defective or carried an inherited disease.
Under the clinic's guidelines, the donor must be 18 to 35, and if married, she must have her husband's consent.
The recipient couple must be married. The woman must have a healthy uterus, and the man must have a sufficient sperm count for fertilization.
Ukrainian premier, 8 officials ousted
MOSCOW (AP) — The premier of the Ukraine has been ousted along with at least eight other top officials in recent weeks, reported to the area's economic problems.
Not directly affected by the changes is Ukrainian Communist Party Chief Vladimir V. Scherbitsky, but the departure of several of his key aides suggests his power base may have eroded.
Scherbitsky is one of the last of the Soviet old guards to retain his influential seat on the country's 14-member national ruling body, the Politburo. The Ukraine is the Soviet Union's most populous republic after the Russian Federation.
Soviet last week. Ukrainian newspaper reports gave no reasons for the shake-up. It appeared, however, to be another step in Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev's effort to restructure the Soviet economy.
The reshuffle was made during a meeting of the Ukrainian Supreme
At last year's Communist Party Congress, the Ukraine's economic performance came under harsh criticism, indicating that Shcherbitsky was in political trouble. The veteran party leader has survived national party Central Committee meetings since then, but his political status remains unclear.
Saturday's issue of Pravda Ukrainy, the republic's party newspaper, said the 69-year-old Schcheri ordered the session that ordered the changes.
The government department chiefs responsible for finance, planning and crucial consumer industries were among those removed, indicating the shake-up was prompted by Gorbachev's effort to restructure the economy.
Those ousted, however, were mostly long-time party and government officials seen as the backbone of Shcherbitsky's power.
Pravda Ukraine said republic Premier Alexander P. Lyashko, 71, was retired after 15 years on the post and replaced by the Ukraine's planning chief, Vitaly A. Masol.
Among those retiring was KGB chief Stepan N. Mukha, who, the newspaper said, was removed "in connection with his discharge from active military service." As with many of the changes announced, it was not clear whether his departure was voluntary.
Sunday's issue of the newspaper listed eight other republic officials removed from the Council of Ministers.
Those replaced in the Cabinet and their successors included Oleg Y. Kasyanenko, minister of light industry, succeeded by Grigory G. Kasyanenko, minister of rail safety and mining supervision, succeeded by Anatoly D. Fydua, Vasily P. Kozerki, finance K. Shamkerson, chief of the Department K. Shamkerson, chief of the Department succeeded by Dimitri M. Nedashkovsky, Nikolai P. Shulgin, minister of road construction and forestry, succeeded by Valery I. Samsikovsky, Gutu Vasiliy B. Dataila, wood products minister succeeded by Valery I. Samsikovsky, KBG chief Makka succeeded by Nikolai M. Golushko, and forestry I. Sinchenko, succeeded by Anatoly Y. Gul
Iraqi warplanes attack Iranian oil fields
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — Iraq attacked offshore Iranian oil fields yesterday in the Persian Gulf war, which appeared to be intensifying before the arrival in the next four or five days of reflagged Kuwaiti tankers and their U.S. Navy escorts.
A communique issued in Baghdad said Iraqi warplanes struck Iran's Rakhsh oilfields east of Qatar, in the southern gulf, and the targets were "engulfed in fire."
Other jets bombed Farsiyah island and attacked Iran's main oil export
Kharg is a regular target of Iraq's campaign to cut off oil exports so the Iranians cannot finance the nearly 7-year-old war. Units of Revolutionary Guards are based on Farisiyah and use fast gunboats to attack ships, particularly those serving or belonging to Kuwait.
terminal on Kharg Island in the northern gulf for the fourth time since June 20.
The raids followed air strikes Monday on Iranian oil targets, in which Iraq said its planes hit a tanker and
bombed the tanker anchorage off Kharg Island.
Iraqi aircraft also raided Farisiyah on Monday, hours after a French freighter that had called at Kuwait was attacked off Saudi Arabia by Iranian gunboats firing rockets and machine guns.
Kuwait borders Iraq, whose Persian Gulf ports have been closed since soon after the war began in September 1980.
Maritime salvage executives based in the gulf said Iraqi planes
inflicted heavy damage on Kharg. They said the terminal was damaged and one of its two loading berths destroyed.
United States' reflagging of 11 of Kuwait's 21 tankers, putting them under protection of U.S. warships, is due to begin with a ceremony on the weekend or Monday.
The U.S. flag will fly on a supertanker and a liquid gas carrier anchored off the United Arab Emirates just outside the Strait of Hormuz.
Math test's content blamed for low scores
TOPEKA — The state's minimum competency exam for math for 10th graders doesn't test them on what they study and could be responsible for recent low scores, a state Board of Education member and an education official said yesterday.
Marion Stevens, a Wichita Republican, criticized the test, saying it was more of a reading test than a math test because of an emphasis on consumer math questions. Only 66.4 percent of the high school sophomores tested passed it this year, compared with 69 percent in 1985.
"I think I know now the reason," Stevens said, during the board's monthly two-day meeting. "I think it's the test itself."
David McDonald, assistant to the commissioner of education who directs the program, said Stevens criticisms are valid. McDonald said the test covered mostly consumer math when most sophomores studied algebra or geometry.
However, McDonald and other board members said guidelines for the content of the tests were set by state law.
"I think the real problem is what the law says," said Richard Robl, a Hutchinson Republican.
The comments came during a review of a report on the tests by the University of Kansas Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation, which conducted them. The board voted to extend its contract for tests in the coming school year, at a cost of $216,000.
The report studied attitudes toward the test among parents, teachers and students. Of the students who took the 10th grade math test, 39
percent said the test was difficult.
Only 7 percent of those taking the 10th grade reading test said it was difficult, and 89.9 percent passed.
Although teachers responding in the study generally said their students had an opportunity to learn what was included in the tests, Stevens said he received complaints from math teachers that the test contained too much reading.
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"I think this test should not be labeled a math test," Stevens, a former math teacher, said.
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