University Daily Kansan / Friday, February 19, 1988
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Soviets beat demonstrators after service, dissidents say
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Dissidents reported yesterday that police and soldiers beat hundreds of Lithuanians with rubber sticks as they gathered to mark the anniversary of their republic's brief independence. A Soviet spokesman denied the reports.
The clash occurred Tuesday in Vilnius after foreign correspondents had left the Lithuanian capital, the dissidents said. The Soviet Foreign Ministry took Moscow-based reporters to Vilnius on Sunday on an organized trip, but they returned Tuesday.
There was no way to verify the reports of the Moscow-based dissidents because telephone lines of Lithuanian activists had been cut.
Vadim Perfilyev, a Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman, was asked whether the incidents in Lithuania, which is a republic of the Soviet Union, occurred.
"Discussing when something
which didn't take place took place, it's very difficult," Perfilyev said at a regular briefing.
The Moscow-based dissidents, Alexander Ogorodnikov and Alexander Podrabinek, said that they received their information from Nijole Sadunaite, a Roman Catholic activist who lives in Vilnius.
The dissidents said that after the church services on Tuesday, the 70th anniversary of Lithuania's declaration of independence on Feb. 16, 1918, worshipers tried to march to a square beside the city's former Roman Catholic cathedral.
Worshipers intended to put flowers and wreathes on monuments to Lithuanian nationalist figures, but police and soldiers beat many of them with rubber sticks as they walked, according to Ogorodnikov and Podrabinek. Police detained hundreds of the demonstrators, including some who were later driven outside the city and left in remote areas, they said.
HELICOPTERS LEAVING GULF: U.S. minesweeping helicopters yesterday ended a six-month Persian Gulf tour of duty that senior U.S. officers said proved frustrating for the pilots but fulfilled the mission. Four RH-53D Sea Stallions, all that remained of eight sent out in August, were aboard the helicopter assault carrier Okinawu as it sailed down the port, escorted by a frigate and bound for home port in San Diego
AIDS DATA INSUFFICIENT: Final testing of any AIDS vaccine might have to be done in Africa rather than the United States because the U.S. AIDS infection rate is not high enough to determine whether a vaccine is working, a government researcher said yesterday. Even among homosexual men, the rate of new infections is no longer high enough to provide sufficient data on a vaccine's effectiveness.
ARABS DEMAND U.N. SESSION: The Arab League yesterday demanded an emergency session of the 159-nation U.N. General Assembly to discuss U.S. plans to close the Palestine Liberation Organization mission. The 21-nation
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league wants the assembly to shield the PLO's observer mission to the United Nations, said a league spokesman, Clovis Maksoud.
KENNEDY JOINS COURT: Anthony McLeod Kennedy took his place yesterday as the 104th Supreme Court justice in U.S. history, restoring the court to full strength for the first time in eight months and inheriting a pivotal vote on key issues.
SANDINISTAS, CONTRAS FLEXIBLE: Nicaragua's Sandinista government and the contras yesterday pledged to be flexible at their second round of direct peace talks, but both sides said they hadn't budged on the major issues that separate them. The discussions are due to continue through Saturday.
STROKE RATE DECREASING: The death rate from strokes is falling at about 6 percent annually, but the disease still will cost Americans nearly $13 billion this year, according to a medical report released yesterday in San Diego. Despite its declining mortality rate, stroke remains the
third leading cause of death in the United States after heart disease and cancer.
RADIOACTIVE DEVICE RECALLED: Federal registers yesterday ordered an immediate suspension of the use of an industrial device that has leaked tiny particles of radioactive polonium at plants around the country. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission also ordered the 3M Corp. to recall for inspection all 45,000 of the suspect devices, ionizing air guns used to control static electricity and remove dust from product containers.
COMPUTER WHIZ CHARGED: In San Jose, Calif., a computer whiz who authorities said went on a shooting rampage at his former company when his fantasies of romance with a co-worker unraveled was charged yesterday with seven counts of murder. The 39-year-old San Jose man, a software development engineer who was fired two years ago from ESL Inc., was ordered held without bail. He is scheduled to enter a plea March 4.
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