Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 15, 1991
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World briefs
Amsterdam, Netherlands
20 Van Goghs taken, recovered
Two armed robbers stole 20 paintings by Vincent van Gogh yesterday in the Netherlands' pricest art theft, but police quickly recovered the works in an abandoned getaway car, author-
Klaas Wiltling, police representative, said the haul from the Vincent van Gogh National Museum was worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The museum's head van Gogh's masterpiece "The Potato Eaters."
"Still Life With Sunflowers" and "Still Life With Iris," which are part of a series van Gogh did on flowers, were also taken. Other paintings in the series have broken art auction records.
POLICE said they did not know why the robbers abandoned the works less than an hour after fleeing. Police found the paintings in two garment bags in the getaway car, parked at the Amstel railway station about $1\frac{1}{2}$ miles away. There were no arrests.
Ronald van Leeuwen, director of the museum, said three of the paintings were seriously ripped.
London
Activists release park animals
Intruders entered a wildlife park in Scotland early yesterday and released owls, foxes and badgers. A radical animal rights group claimed responsibility.
A man from the Animal Liberation Front told Britain's domestic news agency, Press Association, that his group cut holes in cages at the Highland Wildlife Park to free the animals.
The park is in Aviemore, Scotland, near Inverness.
Aviomere's chief police inspector, Hugh MacKay, said that two cages and enclosures had been opened, but that no dangerous animals had been freed. The wildlife park also has bears and wolves.
The Animal Liberation Front claimed responsibility Friday for a spate of recent attacks in New York City.
At least a dozen shops, including furriers, butchers and fish markets, have been vandalized recently, and the group says there will be more attacks.
From the Associated Press
Tanker sinks in Italy, workers begin cleanup
The Associated Press
GENOA, Italy — Rocked by one last explosion, a fire-fraught tanker tanking millions of gallons of oil sank yesterday off the Italian Riviera, and another tanker an ecological catastrophe in the Mediterranean.
The Crypti-registered tanker Haven appeared to have remained intact on the sandy sea bottom 1½ miles off the shore, and it was thought that the vessel's crude remains inside, officials said.
The tanker was carrying nearly 42 million gallons of Iranian crude when it first caught fire Thursday. A Genoa port authority official, giving evidence, said the tanker had said 15 million gallons of oil might have burned.
A few hours after the tanker sank, some oil came to the surface, but experts thought it was released as the tanker settled on the bottom, said Eugenio Fresi, an Environmental Ministry marine ecology expert. It was not immediately determined how much oil leaked.
Patches of oil have ashore on several stretches of beach along a 15-mile stretch of the coast.
Video pictures taken by underwater robots showed the tanker settled flat against the bottom.
At least six sailors were killed when the Haven exploded Thursday. Twenty-nine crew members were hospitalized with burns and smoke inhalation, 11 of them in critical condition.
Officials have theorized that sparks from cleaning equipment may have ignited gas pockets in the tanker Thursday. Black, thick smoke spewed from the fires for four days.
Three more explosions rocked the tanker Saturday, and the final blast came yesterday morning, 4½ hours before the Haven sank.
The tanker went down in waters about 240 feet of the resort town of Arenzano, 16 miles west of Gaderno.
Greenpeace, the international environmental organization, surveyed the area with a helicopter and said oil from the ship could be seen in spots in a 40-square-mile area.
Some English and German tourists summed on the beach just a few yards from the globs of thick oil. Motorists gawked at slicks visible from the scenic highways along the Riviera.
Allies try to help refugees
But the plight of the Kurds remains hungry, tenuous
The Associated Press
ANKARA, Turkey — U.S., British and French aircraft yesterday dropped tons of supplies to Iraqi refugees on the Turkish and Iranian borders, and provided a remote refugee camp to aid the relief effort.
About 500,000 refugees, mostly Kurds, have fled northern Iraq to the rugged, mountainous Turkish border, and another 900,000 have sought refuge in Iran, officials in both countries say.
The Kurds fear the wrath of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein following their failed rebellion, which began after his arrest in War. In the mountains, the refugees have faced hunger, disease and death.
Saddam has insisted that innocent civilians have nothing to fear from his troops and that Kurds will be the target.
In southern Iraq, remaining U.S. forces began
pailing back yesterday to a newly established
army in the city of Kirkuk.
the U.S. Central Command announced.
Despite the pullback, secretary of defense Dick Cheney restated the U.S. commitment to help the refugees stranded on Iraq's northern and southern borders.
In an interview on NBC-TV, Cheney said that for at least the next several days the United States would maintain responsibility for providing food and water for the refugees in the north and south of Iraq. The United States then plans to turn the situation over to international relief organizations.
At Uzumlu, a refugee mountain camp, reporters said Turkish soldiers were allowing refugees to drive about 20 miles into Turkey with trucks and buses. An official said that is a departure from previous Turkish practice.
The airdrops are crucial for inaccessible moutainous areas, but the falling packages, which weigh more than a ton, are a threat to the refugees below.
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