University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, March 30, 1988 7 NationWorld Iraq accuses Iran of using poison gas in latest offensive The Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus — Iraq yesterday accused Iran of using poison gas in its Kurdistan offensive and threatened to attack Iranian cities with chemical weapons. Iran accused Iraq of using chemical bombs in the area last week. Iran said that Iraq dropped chemical bombs March 16-17 on Halabja, Dojaila and Khalmal, three Kurdish towns in Iraq captured by Iranian troops in an offensive that began March 16. Iran said 5,000 people were killed and 5,000 wounded. Most of Iraq's 3.5 million Kurds live in the northeast. Kurdish separatist guerrillas, now backed by Iran, have been fighting Iraqi governments for decades. Two dozen Kurds burned on their faces, backs and hands from reported Iraqi poison gas attacks countries yesterday for treatment. Swiss Red Cross President Felix Christ said the Iranian government was paying for the medical treatment. The Kurds were taken from an Iran Air ambulance plane that touched down in Austria, Switzerland, West Germany and Britain. Gerhard Freilinger, department head of Vienna's University Clinic for plastic surgery, said that the patients he talked to appeared to have been injured by mustard gas that might have been mixed with nerve gas. Appeals court rules on Murdoch case WASHINGTON — Congress unconstitutionally singled out publisher Rupert Murdoch by prohibiting his continued ownership of newspapers and television stations in the same city, an appeals court ruled yesterday. The Associated Press A recently enacted provision barring the Federal Communications Commission from extending temporary waivers from its cross-ownership rule is unconstitutional because it strikes solely at Murdoch without a legitimate purpose, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington ruled in a 2-1 opinion. The law violates the Constitution's equal protection clause as well as the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of the press, the court said. The decision means that Murdoch might petition the FCC to extend past June 30 the waiver that allows his News America Publishing Inc. to own both the Boston Herald and that city's WFXT-TV. Meese's No.1 deputy resigns WASHINGTON — In a move that reportedly shocked Attorney General Edwin Meeze III, the Justice Department's No. 2 official and the head of the department's criminal division abruptly resigned yesterday amid a nearly year-old criminal investigation of Meeze. Deputy Attorney General Arnold Burns said in a letter to President Reagan, "Unfortunately, I have regretfully concluded that I must return to private life at this time." The Associated Press William Weld, who as an assistant attorney general oversaw all federal criminal investigations, resigned effective the close of the business day yesterday despite a personal plea from other department officials for him to stay on for several weeks. He did not elaborate. Weld told his aides that the continuing investigation involving the attorney general and "Wallach" was casting a "cloud" that was having a negative impact on the Justice Department, according to department sources who spoke on condition of anonymity. events leading to the resignations said the precipitating factor at this time was an internal fight over the successor to Stephen Trott as associate attorney general, the department's No. 3 post. E. Robert Wallach is a San Francisco attorney who is at the center of the criminal investigation with Meese. Weld, who publicly declined to discuss his reasons for resigning, said he wasn't quitting because he might be upset over possible new legislation uncovered by an independent counsel that has been investigating Meese. Another source familiar with Burns unsuccessfully supported Weld for this post, according to this source. Weld was willing to stay on if he got the job but was unwilling to do so when he lost it, in part because his two predecessors as criminal division chiefs both had won the same promotion. DUKAKIS WINS CONNECTICUT: Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis defeated Jesse Jackson in the Connecticut presidential primary last night and bid for a victory strong enough to reassure party leaders about his Democratic candidacy. News Roundup or his television show for at least a year while he is rehabilitated from "moral failure" that reportedly included a prostitute to pose nude. MURDER SUSPECT CHARGED: A Lumbee Indian was charged yesterday in Lumberton, N.C., with killing an Indian judicial candidate Saturday, and an accused accomplice committed suicide. Local authorities said the murder was not political. Racial tensions had erupted last month in Lumberton when two Lumbees took hostages at a newspaper. SWAGGART SUSPENDED: Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart was ordered yesterday by the Assemblies of God not to preach from the pulpit PRISON LAW STRUCK DOWN: The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that states trying to cope with rising prison costs may not seize Social Security benefits received by inmates. The court unanimously struck down an Arkansas law that permitted authorities to use an inmate's Social Security benefits for state purposes. PLO LIFTS BAN: The Palestine Liberation Organization lifted its ban on meetings between Arabs from the occupied territories and U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, a Palestinian said yesterday. 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