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Mondav. December 8. 1986 / University Daily Kansan
News Briefs
House and Senate urge Reagan to quickly disclose Iran details
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers from both parties yesterday welcomed President Reagan's concession that mistakes were made in carrying out his policy of arms sales to Iran, but they urged him to move further and faster in disclosing details of the transactions.
"The right strategy is, No. 1, to come up front," said Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C. "The president is moving in that direction. He said yesterday that he thought some mistakes had been made. That's quite a concession."
Hollings, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is investigating the matter, said on ABC's "This Week with David Brinkley," that 12 arm shiroments were made to Iran, totaling 5,000 tons.
More information may come to light this week as the Senate committee continues its investigation and other panels begin their own. Secretary of State George Shultz is scheduled to testify today before the House Foreign Affairs Committee and tomorrow before the House Intelligence Committee open hearings.
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, who last week urged Reagan to summon a special session of Congress to appoint a Watergate-style investigating committee, called the president's speech "a big step in the direction" and predicted "a turnaround" in the political mood.
Union leaders join Paris students
PARIS — Student protests against a university reform bill grew into a challenge of the conservative government yesterday as union leaders joined students in calling for nationwide demonstrations this week.
Premier Jacques Chirac appealed for peace. His interior minister, Charles Pasqua, promised an investigation into the death Saturday of a 22-year-old student after what witnesses said was a beating by student
Dozens of people clashed with about 500 police in the Latin Quarter student district. At least 68 people, including 58 police, were injured, and 28 people were arrested. Student students denounced the violence.
Protests against the reform bill began three weeks ago but escalated in the last few days. The government said the measure would make universities more competitive, but students charged that it would make higher education elitist.
The students' national coordinating committee called for national demonstrations Wednesday and invited unions and other organizations to join in opposing the reform bill and police "repression."
The Communist-led General Confederation of Labor, France's largest union federation, urged its membership yesterday to join "a powerful day of strikes on Wednesday, Dec. 10, and to participate en masse in the demonstrations."
Soldiers shoot Palestinian youth
BETHLEHEM, Occupied West Bank — Israeli troops shot and wounded a Palestinian youth yesterday as protesters pelted soldiers with rocks in a dozen towns and refugee camps, military and Palestinian sources said.
Violence spread yesterday to four Israeli university campuses, where hundreds of Jewish and Arab students protested in solidarity with Palestinians of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. The largest protest was at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, where soldiers used tear gas to quell the demonstration.
in the fourth consecutive day of violent unrest, soldiers fired into the air to disperse a handful of Palestinian protesters, marring Christmas preparations at Manger square in Bethlehem.
The violence spread yesterday to within 100 yards of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, the scene of
The violence began Thursday with a protest at Bir Zeit University against army roadblocks on the access road to the campus. Two students were killed and more than 20 were wounded Thursday.
annual Christmas Eve celebrations
Friday, soldiers killed a 14-year-old Palestinian boy at the Balata refugee camp near Nabulus, the West Bank's largest city.
Gas explosion shakes Ft. Worth
FORT WORTH, Texas — An early morning natural gas explosion yesterday demolished half a block of downtown shops, causing an estimated $2 million in damage to 20 buildings, officials said.
One person suffered minor cuts from flying glass but no one else was hurt, said Butch Hall, fire department
The explosion demolished half of a block-long one-story building that housed eight retail stores and the hotel.
The explosion also shifted 3 inches of the ballroom floor at the Worthington Hotel and shattered windows.
Hall said a pocket of natural gas had accumulated in either a barbecue restaurant or sandwich shop, which are adiacent to each other.
Hall said about 20 businesses suffered at least minor damage, and he estimated the loss at $2 million.
About 30 guests at the 12-story Worthington had to be moved because of shattered windows.
About 200 guests at the Worthington were awakened by the explosion.
Windows were broken out at the nearby downtown Dillard's Department store.
S. African mineworkers killed
Anglo American Corporation spokesman John
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Ten black mineworkers were killed Saturday in a second night of factional fighting at a gold mine near Johannesburg, company officials said yesterday.
Kingsley-Jones said "no reasons have been given" for the fights at the Vaal Reefs mine, 84 miles southwest of Johannesburg.
Ten other workers died in unexplained battles Friday night at hostels housing thousands of black miners, company officials said.
Mine security officers broke up the fights and have kept the opposing groups apart at the 10-shaft mine that employs some 45,000 people.
Twelve workers died at the mine Nov. 23 in factional clashes sparked by radical labor unionists, attempts to overthrow the government.
Pearl Harbor attack remembered
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — Four F-4 Phantom jets flew overhead yesterday, and one veered off to create the symbolic missing man formation, ending a minute of silence on the 45th anniversary of the Japanese attack that brought the United States into World War II.
Military officers, representatives of veterans' and patriotic groups and local dignitaries gathered on the USS Arizona Memorial for a ceremony to observe the anniversary of the sneak attack.
The tribute to the 2,403 Americans killed in the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor and other military installations on the island of Oahu included a warning that the United States must never again allow itself to be caught off-guard.
On that morning 45 years ago, more than 100 Japanese planes were launched from six aircraft carriers in a naval task force that had made its way undetected to a position 240 miles north of Oahu.
In less than two hours, the U.S. Pacific Fleet was devastated with 18 warships either sunk or seriously damaged.
From Kansan wires
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