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Wednesday, April 22, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Around the World
Sri Lanka death toll rises to 300 after bomb explodes in terminal
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — A car bomb at rush hour created an inferno at the main bus terminal yesterday that officials said killed about 150 people, bringing the death toll from terrorism in five days to nearly 300.
A Health Ministry official said that about 200 people were injured and that some might die of burns or other wounds.
Many of the victims burned to death or were killed by smoke inhalation in six parked buses that were engulfed in flames, police and witnesses said.
The bombing was the third attack since Friday on this island south of India, where Tamil insurgents have waged a four-year war against the majority Sinhalese for an independent nation. Tamils killed at least 142 people in northeastern Sri Lanka Friday and Monday.
Although no one claimed responsibility for the bomb, the government issued a statement blaming Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Eelam Revolutionary Organization of Students.
Witnesses said many of the injured at the bus terminal had severe burns. Rescue work was hampered by heavy rain. Police took over private vehicles to carry victims to hospitals.
U.S. returns Karl Linnas to Soviet Union
MOSCOW — Karl Linnas, who lost his eight-year battle against deportation from the United States, was delivered to the Soviet Union yesterday where he may face a firing squad on charges of killing thousands of prisoners in a Nazi death camp.
The 67-year-old Linnas was flown from New York to Czechoslovakia and handed over to the Soviets. The official Soviet news agency Tass said he was put on a flight and taken to Tallinn, capital of his native Estonia.
Linnas, handcuffed, struggled with U.S. officials Monday night when he was put aboard a Czechoslovak airliner at Kennedy International Airport.
Linnas directed a Nazi concentration camp in the Estonian city of Tartu during the early years of World War II and is accused of killing thousands of people, mostly Jewish women and children.
Tass said more than 12,000 people died at Tartu.
Argentine soldiers rebel, seek amnesty
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- About 250 soldiers rebellied yesterday in the northern city of Salita and hundreds of civilians gathered outside the army base to protest the uprising, officials reported.
It was the third army revolt in a week. The restive soldiers oppose the army's leadership and demand amnesty for officers accused of torture and killing during the "dirty war" against leftists. The war was conducted by military governments in the late 1970s.
The government said yesterday that 19 top officers had quit or been fired since revolts at two other army camps, but President Raul Alfonsin denied that the purge was part of a deal with the rebels.
Gov. Roberto Romero of Salta province told the Rivadavia radio network that 250 officers and men of engineer company C5 were rebelling against the amnesty issue and the civilian president's choice of Gen. Jose Dante Caridi as new army commander.
Across the Country
Japanese emissary seeks end to tariffs
WASHINGTON — A high-level Japanese emissary asked President Reagan yesterday to lift trade sanctions against Japan, but Reagan's chief spokesman said action was unlikely before Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone's visit next week.
the semiconductor sanctions should be lifted as quickly as possible.
Nakasone is due in Washington on April 29 and 30 for meetings with the president and other officials.
Former Japanese Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe said that during a 20-minute meeting with the president, he emphasized that
The administration Friday imposed a 100 percent tariff on some Japanese-manufactured lap-top and desk-top computers.
NSC approves sale of computer to Iran
WASHINGTON — The National Security Council has approved the sale of a $900,000 computer system to Iran, industry and administration officials said yesterday.
retly selling arms to Iran.
The sale would be the first large U.S. transaction involving Iran since disclosures in late 1986 that the administration had been see-
Analysts suggested that the move underscored a growing sensitivity of the Reagan administration to problems faced by U.S. manufacturers of high-technology goods as they try to compete in overseas markets.
From Kansan wires.
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Today, partly sunny skies will keep the high temperature the same as yesterday at 65 degrees and winds at 5-15 mph from the northeast. Tonight, skies should clear and the low will be 47 degrees. Tomorrow
Today partly sunny skies will keep the high
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