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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, April 16, 1991
World briefs
Sikveren, Turkey
Kurdish refugees leave Iraq
Kursey yesterday began moving thousands of ill and starving Iraqi Kurds from this mountainous border settlement to camps farther inside the country where they would be closer to relief supplies.
Reporterors on Iraq's border with Iran and Turkey said that thousands of refugees continue to flee from the country.
"Iraq is my homeland. I was born there and I want to die there," said Dia Sindi, a 17-year-old Kurd in this tent city of 160,000 refugees. "If they kill Saddam, I will go back."
Iraq, meanwhile, claimed that thousands of the refugees had begun to return home. But a Turkish official said the Kurdish refugees were "unlikely" to reach their destination and that their number could soon reach 700,000.
The European Community agreed yesterday to end sanctions on imports of iron, steel and gold coins from South Africa, the last remaining member state,ading bloc on Pretoria's white-led government
Luxembourg
South African effort rewarded
The EC, however, will continue to observe the U.N. bans on sports events with South Africa as well as U.N. embargoes on arms and crude oil from the country.
The foreign ministers of the 12 Western European nations said President F.W. de Klerk should be rewarded for his efforts to end the country's policy of racial segregation.
In Cape Town, South Africa, de Klerk called the community's action positive and encouraging.
Washington
Railroad unions may strike
President Bush tried to budge deadlocked freight railroads and their unions yesterday, saying a nationwide strike threatened for midnight tonight could severely disrupt the economy. But no progress was reported at the bargaining table.
Also yesterday, as part of the Bush administration's efforts to head off a strike, Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner met with U.S. officials in Washington to dispute over wages, health care and work rules.
Meanwhile, negotiations wore on toward tonight's midnight deadline, when a federally authorized strike by the nation's 235,000 freight line workers are free to follow through on their promise to strike.
From The Associated Press
Iranian letter accuses Iraq of violating cease-fire pact
UNITED NATIONS — Iran yesterday accused an Iraqi brigade of driving nearly two miles into its territory and said violations of the 3-year-old cease-fire between the longtime enemies were becoming more frequent and serious.
The Associated Press
Iranian ambassador Kakal Kharrazi, in a letter to the U.N. Secretary-General, said an Iraqi brigade crossed the international border Sunday and drove into Iranian territory near the town of Ghasr-e-Shirin, about 108 miles northeast of Baghdad.
The letter called for immediate withdrawal of all Iraqi forces and said the Iraqi government was best advised to find a solution other than the use of external enemy to race up with its internal turmoil.
There was no immediate Iraqi comment on the claim. Iraqi troops have pursued Kurdish rebels and refugees into the mountains in the general area mentioned in the Iranian letter.
Iraqi violations of the cease-fire in the eight-year war between Iraq and Iran, which ended in 1988, were becoming increasingly more serious and, in fact, quite dangerous, the Iranian letter said.
In the past three weeks, the Iranian envoy said, Iraq had shelled Iranian territory, concentrated Iraqi soldiers at international borders and extended support and encouragement to certain elements to launch military operations against Iran from Iraqi territory.
Iraq accused Iranian soldiers of abducting nine Iraqi soldiers and shooting at another in the town of Badrah on April 9. Iraq said that the Iranians later withdrew.
Officials criticize student claim of school admissions inequality
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — School officials yesterday criticized a student's published claim that African-Americans enrolled at Georgetown University's law school were less qualified than whites and said a faculty and student panel would review the matter. †
She noted that the author, Timothy Maguire, worked in the admissions office last year under a condition that he would maintain the confidentiality of information he saw there
The article in the Georgetown Law Weekly was "a misleading mix of opinion and data." It has caused considerable pain and anger in this community," law school dean Jidree Hearn wrote.
"Georgetown is striving to achieve Black student representation proportional to their presence in the nation's general population," Maguire wrote. "Since . . . only about 10 percent of its 9,500 students . . . are black, it is unsurprising that accepted Black and white students are also dramatically unequal."
Areen responded in a letter released from her office to the article published last week in the student newspaper by Maguire, a third-year student. He wrote that white students accepted at the school had significantly higher test scores than their African-American counterparts.
Magüire's comments have caused a stir on campus, in part because officials have confirmed that he worked part-time last year in the school's computer access to confidential information about applicants.
Law school representative Adrienne Kuehne
mann said the matter was under review by a panel of faculty and student members, with authority to recommend sanctions against Maguire, whose class is scheduled to graduate this spring.
One university official, who asked not to be named, said the panel had the authority to recommend sanctions including expulsion or delaying Maguire's graduation date.
Magure could not be reached for comment Telephone calls to the Georgetown Law Weekly, which published his article, were not returned
In his article, Maguire said his findings were based on a "random sampling" of student records.
He noted that among Law School Admission Test scores of African-American students who were accepted to the school, most scored below the median of 36 out of 50.
"The average white accepted student's LSAT score was 43. Of the 100 sampled white students accepted to our school's three-year program, none scored less than a 38 on the LSAT." he wrote.
A coalition of Georgetown law students has called for the author's circumcision over the article
called for the author's expulsion over the article. In his article, Maguire wrote, "The biggest problem (facing law schools) is that in every area and at every level of postsecondary education. Black achievements are far inferior to those of whites."
"The student is within his right to express his opinion," wrote Aereen.
"The tone, thrust and content of the letter are contrary to the entire spirit and policy of the law center on admissions," she wrote.
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