University Daily Kansan / Monday, March 7, 1988
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Officials say Iranian boats fired at U.S. helicopters
The Associated Press
AL MANAMAH, Bahrain — U.S. helicopters on a reconnaissance flight escaped heavy machine gun fire yesterday from an oil platform and several boats in the central Persian Gulf, U.S. officials said. Iran was believed to be behind the attack. No casualties were reported.
The attack came about 25 hours after a U.S. warship, on patrol farther north, fired at what were believed to be Iranian speedboats moving toward one of the U.S. Navv's offshore supply barges.
The two encounters shattered one of the longest periods of quiet in the gulf since the gulf's so-called "tanker war" began four years ago. There
have been no reported attacks on shipping by either Iraq or Iran since Feb. 12.
The Navy did not say who fired on the U.S. helicopters yesterday, but there appeared no doubt that it was Iran, which controls many of the oil platforms in the central gulf and uses some as supply and staging bases for the armed boats that patrol the waters and attack neutral shipping.
U. S. aircraft have been fired on from the oil platforms on a few previous occasions but none are known to have been hit. On Feb. 12, Iran claimed its anti-aircraft gunners on Sirri Island, in the south-central Gulf, had driven off several U.S. choppers. The Pentagon denied the incident occurred.
Catholics demand religious freedom
Large Czech crowds signal growing resistance to government
The Associated Press
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia — Thousands of Roman Catholics packed a cavernous cathedral yesterday and hundreds shouted "We want religious freedom!" in a sign of growing religious resistance to the communist government.
The Mass at the St. Vitus Cathedral, across the street from the home of President Gustav Husak, drew an estimated 8,000 people in one of the biggest religious services in the capital since the communist takeover in 1948
Several dozen plainclothes security officers were posted inside and outside the cathedral. Police arrested 13
leading dissidents and religious activists Friday, apparently to prevent them from attending the Mass, and briefly detained seven other dissidents.
After the Mass, about 1,000 people gathered beneath the balcony of the residence of Cardinal Frantisk Tomasek. Several hundred chanted "We want bishops." "We want religion, we want the pope" outside Tomasek's residence which adjoins the castle where Husak lives.
year. The service was the culmination of a pilgrimage by Catholics from the Czech lands of Bohemia and Moravia.
During the service, a message read by Tomasek from Pope John Paul II was greeted with thunderous applause.
The two-hour Mass was celebrated in honor of Blessed Agnes, an 13th-century Czech princess who is to be canonized by the Vatican later this
The chanting crowd afterward appeared to reflect growing discontent among church members at the governments' refusal to agree to Vatican candidates to fill Czechoslovakia's 10 vacant bishop posts. No new bishops have been named since 1973, and the only three are older than 75.
JERUSALEM — Israeli soldiers killed two Arab teenagers yesterday and dragged an injured boy from his sick bed during violent sieges at two hospitals in the occupied territories, officials said.
The Vatican has refused to accept
government proposals to name as bishops members of the state-sponsored Pace In Territory organization, that lists not recognized by the Holy See.
Israelis kill two in siege of hospitals
The simmering discontent culminated in recent weeks in a 31-point petition which demanded more bishops, more priests and separation of church and state as well as the right to question Marxist dogma and to petition authorities without harass.
The document has been signed by more than 300,000 church members, making it the largest such action anywhere in the Soviet bloc since 1945.
The Associated Press
The army said an officer and two soldiers were indicted on charges of aggravated assault in connection with the beating of two bound Arabs last month in the West Bank city of Nabus, Jordan.
Arab protesters hoisted hundreds of outlawed Palestinian flags to mark a PLO-organized "Flag Day." Arab reports said soldiers shot and killed a donkey wearing both Palestinian and Israeli flags.
The beating, which lasted more than 30 minutes, was taped by CBS News and sparked international criticism of the crackdown in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, which Israel occupied after the 1967 Middle East war.
News Roundup
TIBETANS DEMAND INDEPENDENCE: Thousands of rioting Tibetans set bonfires in Lhasa's streets, and several people were killed during more than 12 hours of clashes with police, according to reports that reached Beijing yesterday. The protesters were demanding Tibet's independence from China. The riots came at the time of important Buddhist festival in Tibet's capital.
ROBERTSON UNDECIDED: Republican presidential hopeful Pat Robertson said yesterday that he had not decided whether to pay court costs incurred during his libel suit against a
former congressman, although the payment remains a condition for dismissal of the case. U.S. District Judge Joyce Hens Green agreed Friday to dismiss the $55 million lawsuit Robertson filed against former Rep. Paul N. McCloskey Jr., R-Calf, provided the GOP candidate pay the court costs, estimated to be between $10,000 and $20,000.
SWAGGART RETURNS TO PULPIT: Evangelist Jim Swaggart returned to his television program yesterday and told his followers that he would tell them someday about the unspecified sin to which he confessed two weeks earlier.
Although Swaggart stepped down from his pulpit after a tearful confession Feb. 21, an Assemblies of God spokeswoman said Swaggart has not yet been officially ordered to refrain from preaching as part of his rehabilitation.
ALASKA EARTHQUAKE: Residents of Alaska's southern coastal areas were ordered to evacuate low-lying areas yesterday after a major earthquake, which reportedly measured 7.0 on the Richter scale, rattled much of the state. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries from the quake centered offshore, about 210 miles south of Cape Yakataga.
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My first time tutoring was a night to remember. My student was something called Bone Crusher Reed, a.k.a. Billy Jo, defensive tackle for the football team.
I had the shock of my life when he answered his dorm room door. He was about six foot seven...in diameter. And when he shook my hand, I thought I'd never get it back.
So there I was, face-to-knee with the big man on campus, wondering how I was going to relate American Literature to The Hulk.
But then he pulled out a can of Orange Cappuccino. I was shocked! Could it be that this tough jock liked its delicate taste? And when Bone Crusher brought out the bone china, I was beyond belief.
Reading the expression on my face, he said, "What can I say? I like it. The Cafe Francais is pretty good, too" Well, who's going to argue, I thought. As we sipped our Orange Cappuccino, I discovered that Billy Jo loves reading novels; his only problem was poetry. So I gave him tips on reading Emily Dickinson, and he gave me a copy of Ann Beattie's "Falling in Place."
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