University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, April 12, 1988
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West worried about water as summer drought nears
The Associated Press
PORTLAND. Ore. — Farmers, utilities and fish and game officials will be fighting over limited water supplies this summer as a serious drought parches the West.
The Bonneville Power Administration quit selling power to California last fall to make up for a drop in electricity prices in dams on the Columbia River system.
But the big victims of the drought will be farmers, ranchers and fish, said Wally Gibson of the Northwest Power Planning Council.
The problem is severe on the fish and irrigation side, not the power side.
In California, San Joaquin County
already has declared a drought after noting that snowpack and reservoir levels were approaching lows that preceded the drought of 1976-77.
"We've had a critical premature die-off of range land, and lots of water districts are cutting back on farm water allotments," said Ron Baldwin, coordinator of the San Joaquin County Office of Emergency Services.
The West isn't alone. In the Southeast, Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina are facing their fourth serious drought in eight years.
The snowpack in California averages 35 percent of normal, forcing some ranchers to sell cattle and to appeal for federal grain subsidies as pastures dry up.
Honduran soldiers pulled out of cities
The Associated Press
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — The government withdrew thousands of soldiers from the streets of the capital yesterday and businesses reopened for the first time since violent anti-U.S. demonstrations erupted last week.
Restrictions imposed on two cities under a temporary state of emergency remained in effect, but the government said that the restrictions might be lifted later this week if no further trouble was reported.
Friday gave authorities the power to ban public demonstrations and restrict freedom of movement in the capital of Tegucigalpa and in the city of San Pedro Sula, 125 miles to the north. These cities are the largest in Honduras.
The state of emergency imposed
Protesters attacked and burned the U.S. Consulate Thursday night after a Honduran man suspected of drug trafficking was arrested and flown to the United States. The Honduran Constitution prohibits the extradition of Honduran citizens. Five Hondurans were killed in the violence.
SEATTLE — Boeing Co. declined yesterday to comment on allegations that four major airlines had reported defects in the aerospace company's 747 and 767 widebody jets.
Boeing silent on charges of jet defects
The problems reportedly ranged to
the extent that, incorrectly,
installed lighting systems
to hold a news conference today
The Associated Press
T. Craig Martin, a spokesman for Boeing's commercial airplane division, deflected questions about the reports, saying the company planned
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported that Boeing had received complaints of defects from American Airlines, Japan Air Lines, All Nippon Airways and British Airways.
The newspaper reported yesterday that All Nippon, a Japanese domestic carrier, disclosed it told Boeing of several instances of poor workmanship in 747 and 767 airliners, mostly on newly delivered planes.
Arab terrorists kill second hostage Hijackers continue to hold 50, demand that jet be refueled
The Associated Press
LARNACA, Cyprus — Arab hijackers killed a second hostage yesterday, tossed his bloody body from a commandeered Kuwaiti jet and threatened to kill nearly 50 other captives if the plane was not refueled.
The gunmen said the dead man was a Kuwitai officer. He was the second of three Kuwitai military men that the hijackers have slain during the weeklong ordeal aboard the Kuwit airwaves iet.
Saturday, the hijackers killed their victim a 24-year-old Kuwaiti herder.
The hijackers have demanded that Kuwait release 17 pro-Iranian terrorists convicted in 1984 for bombings at
the U.S. and French embassies
But sources close to the negotiations said the hijackers demanded freedom yesterday only for the three men among the 17 who have been sentenced to death. Kuwait has rejected all of the demands.
In Kuwait, Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah said his country is prepared to lose more rather than give in to the terrorists.
"We will try our utmost to protect our dear ones aboard the plane, but we will not surrender to any black-mail, even if we lose more of them," he said in a news conference. "This is not the decision of Kuwait's government. It is a decision of the people."
There are 52 people aboard the Boeing 747, including three members
of Kuwait's extensive royal family and the hijackers, who are wearing blue hoods and armed with grenades and handguns.
Sabah said there are at least eight hijackers, all of them Arabs, carrying forged passports from Bahrain, Iraq and Colombia.
He deflected questions about a possible attack on the jet.
"The decision to storm is not ours." Sabah said. "It lies with the Cypriot government, on whose land the plane stands."
The man killed yesterday was pushed from the blue-and-white plane at 7:07 a.m., CST, after Cypriot forces two deadheads to refuel the jet.
Doctors at the Larnaca morgue
dares the man suffered injuries to the
"We have executed a Kuwaiti officer," a hijacker told the control tower. "We also reconfirm that the craft must be refused immediately, immediately, before we take more dangerous steps."
At dusk, the hijackers put one of the passengers, identified as Fadi Marzouk el-Oteibi, on the radio.
side of his face, apparently from a beating. They said he had been shot twice in the head at close range before his body, hands bound behind his back, was thrown onto the tarmac at Larnaca Airport.
Speaking in Arabic, he told the control tower: "The hijackers say that if you don't give us fuel they will kill all the passengers. Please listen to this and greetings to my family."
Peace pact dictates Afghanistan troop removal
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Reagan yesterday directed Secretary of State George P. Shultz to go to Geneva to sign historic accords by which the United States and Soviet Union would guarantee a peace agreement dictating the removal of all Red Army troops from Afghanistan.
removing 50 percent of the forces over a three-month period. All remaining Soviet forces are to be out by Feb. 15, 1989.
Reagan called the pact a triumph for the U.S.-backed insurgents after a bloody, eight-year war with the Soviet-supported Kabul regime. He said the rebels could count on their continued support.
On May 15, the Soviet Union is to begin withdrawing its 115,000 troops.
The rebelse have rejected the peace
pact and have vowed to continue
fighting. Under a compromise with Moscow, the United States will continue sending weapons to the rebels, while the Kremlin continues providing arms to the Marxist government.
Later, at a White House press briefing, Shultz said, "This is the first time in the history of the Soviet Union that they have moved by aggression into another country and then had to withdraw."
between Pakistan and Afghanistan under the auspices of the United Nations, is to be signed Thursday.
Shultz acknowledged that the removal of Soviet troops would not necessarily mean an end to the fighting. Once the Red Army is withdrawn, Shultz said, "then the people of Afghanistan have got to work things out. That's their right and their problem. Perhaps we can get to a period of at least relative stability."
The peace settlement, negotiated
News Roundup
DANAMANIAN TEACHERS DEMONSTRATE:
PANAMANIAN TEACHERS DEMONSTRATE:
Hundreds of teachers demonstrated yesterday against Panamanian strongman Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega as Panama slid further toward chaos in the sevent week of an economic and political crisis.
ment and faculty and give blacks equal opportunity. In the fall, Penn State failed to reach a court-mandated goal of 5 percent minority enrollment.
ISRAEL EXPELS PALESTINIANS: Israel yesterday expelled eight Palestinians from the occupied lands, accusing them of inciting the four months of violence there.
PENN STATE STUDENTS HOPEFUL: Black students at Penn State University, who were arrested after a 15-hour sit-in, gathered yesterday at a local church and said they still hoped to meet with the university president. Student leaders at the university in State College, Pa., have said that Penn State has failed to live up to promises to adequately increase black enrollment.
STUDENT DRUG TESTING BEGINS: Eight University of Maryland students who were caught using illegal drugs must submit to random urine tests for three semesters in the school's first use of its drug-testing policy. The policy, implemented in late January, is believed to be the first at a major university to require random urine testing for students found using drugs.
WALLACH'S STATUS WAS UNKNOWN: Attorney General Edwin Meese III asked his long-time friend, E. Robert Wallach, if he was interested in taking a key Justice Department post a week or so before being notified formally that Wallach was under criminal investigation in the Wedtech scandal, a lawyer for Meese said yesterday.
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