Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Thursday, April 18, 1991
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Nation/World briefs
United Nations
Iraq agrees to Kurd shelters
Iraq is willing to let the United Nations set up sheltered camps throughout the country for Kurds and Shilites who fear for their safety, officials said today.
U. N. representative Nadia Younes said an announcement was imminent concerning the establishment of the reception centers for the refugees. The representative said U.N. Secretary-General Javier De Cuellar, in Paris, said the Iraqis were interested in this U.N. action.
"We shall continue to work in order to find a solution to the problems of the Kurds and also of the Shites, who feel at the present time threatened," she quoted him as saying.
London
Iraq may have received parts
The United States allowed Jordan to receive military spare parts until just before the Persian Gulf War despite intelligence reports that said they were on them to Iraq, a newspaper said today.
The U.S. shipments included diesel engine components for armored vehicles and electronic testing equipment, reported the Financial Times, which present U.S. government officials as its sources.
In Washington, White House representative
represents the department's dispute in delegation
telling reporters. "It didn't help."
Jordan sided with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in the war launched by the United States and its allies in January to drive Iraq occupying forces from Kuwait, which Saddam invaded Aug. 2.
Washington
Oregon AIDS scare disputed
The Red Cross in Portland, Ore., inadvertently distributed blood that tested positive for AIDS and hepatitis B, according to a federal report on yesterday but switched disputed by state officials.
Shortly after the report was released by members of Congress, Red Cross officials in Oregon issued a statement assuring the public that there was no risk of any patient infection.
Dave Fleming, deputy state epidemiologist for the Oregon Health Division, said the Food and Drug Administration had reached an erroneous conclusion in interpreting a Red Cross report.
However, Wendy Horwitz, representative for one of the companies she released the report, said that there were "less than 100 people."
She has done many of these inspections," said Horwitz, press secretary for Rep. Ron Wyden, D-Ore "This blood wasn't retested, and it was released."
From The Associated Press
House passes '92 budget, ignoring Bush slash plan
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The House yesterday approved a Democratic-written $1.46 trillion 1992 budget that rejects President Bush's plan to slash Medicare and other benefit programs.
By a vote of 261-163, the lawmakers adopted a spending plan that shifts billions of dollars Bush wanted to spend for science and law enforcement to education and other social programs. It also ignores the president's renewed call for a cut in the capital-gains tax rate.
Across Capitol Hill, the Senate Budget Committee voted 11-10 to adopt a similar plan drafted largely by panel chairperson James Sasser, D-Teen.
Just one Democrat, Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota, joined the committee's nine Republicans to oppose the blueprint. Conrad said the nearly $290 billion deficit the plan contained was too high.
Many of the Republicans opposed the plan
because they said it could ease the way for future
insurance in the Social Security payroll tax.
Minutes before approving the Democratic budget, the House voted 335-89 to reject the president's proposal. Only 89 Republicans voted for Bush's budget, while 74 GOP members joined the 609 voting Democrats in opposing it. The lone Democrat in the 2018 Sanders' of Vermont, also opposed Bush's budget.
Democrats said that despite similarities between
thems and their allies, the thers helped to the nation's press.
The House Democratic budget and the plan Bush unveiled in February are more alike than differ-
Bound by last fall's deficit-reduction agreement, they both hold domestic spending, excluding benefit programs such as Medicare, to $211 billion in the first year and $831 billion of that total, mostly to social programs.
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Five years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the Soviet Union has identified more than 500,000 people contaminated by radiiation and treated medical care to 300,000 a year, officials said recently.
Disagreement over death tolls marks Chernobyl anniversary
But officials continued to insist that only 32 people had died as a direct result of the explosion.
Many Soviet and Western researchers dispute the official death toll, which has not changed in three years. They assert that at least 500 people, including 234 cancer and other illnesses caused by the accident.
The officials also contended there was no danger of further radiation leaking from the plant, although they conceived the cement-and-steel sarugis encasing the reactor needed strengthening.
Despite the international skepticism, high-ranking Soviet health and energy officials stuck to the official number yesterday at a news conference in Moscow on the anniversary of the world's worst nuclear accident.
Angelina Guskova, a Chemokin specialist at the Health Ministry's institute of Biophysics, said two people died immediately in the explosion, one from radiation and the other from injuries. An addition to that list is the death of another radiation within three months of the accident, and two more have died in the past five years, she said.
Guskova has the casual toll from radiation at 21 and the total number of Chernobyl deaths at 29.
Guskoslav put the casualty Ion iron radiation at 31 and the total number of Cnemobyl deaths at 32. Vladimir Chermusenko, scientific director of the 20-mile evacuation zone around the plant, charged in a recent British television interview that the disaster had claimed more than 7,000 lives.
Knight-Ridder Tribune News
Guskova said 7,000 was a reasonable estimate of the total number of people in the stricken areas who had died of all causes in the past five years. The same number would have been expected to die regardless of the accident, she said.
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