THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL. 101, No. 119
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1991
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Kurdish rebels seize Iraqi camp while citizens face starvation
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The Associated Press
ZAKHO, Iraq — Kurdish rebels yesterday claimed they had seized a government-held air base and camp in northern Iraq but said there were signs Saddam Hussein's forces were preparing for an assault on a key rebel-held city.
A statement from the Kurdistan Democratic Party said the Iraqi army was massing forces in Saddam's hometown of Tkrit to launch an attack on the northern oil city of Qaysu, near Kirkuk.
The statement, sent to The Associated Press in Nicosia, Cyprus, by telex, could not be confirmed independently.
Saddam has been struggling to quell rebellions in the north and south that flared into his defeat by the allies in the Persian Gulf War. The fighting halted with a cease-fire a month ago.
President Bush said yesterday that it was unlikely that Saddam would remain in power for long because the Iraqi people were fed up with him.
"There's enough dissent and disorder, but it appears the Iraqi citizens are trying to do something about this," he told reporters in Bethesda, Md.
Kurdish leaders reported gains in northern Iraq — but also heavy casualties. They said guerrillas overran an Iraqi air base near Kirkuk on Tuesday and captured two Soviet-
made warplanes, a MIG-21 fighter and a Soviet-made Sukhoi bomber.
The rebels also said they seized a government comp at Faardya, on the road from Damascus.
They said the two installations were among the government forces controlled in the area.
The Kurdistan Democratic Party said in a statement issued in London that the attack on the Khalil military air base was launched to stop the bombing of rebel held areas.
The statement said that more than 1,000 people were killed in the past week in air attacks on the northern cities of Kirkus, Kefri, Kohur, Kalar and Tuz Khormatu.
The Kurds said they feared a new threat starvation. The only supply route now open is on the western side of the city.
In southern Iraq, where Saddam's forces largely have succeeded in putting down rebellions by Shite Muslims, hunger was a major factor in the rebellion, and refugees fleeing into allied controlled areas.
In the Iraq border town of Saifan, food
rats broke out yesterday as Saudi Arabia
banned them.
"We tried to be organized, but the people are just too hungry," said Major Youssef Ali Albourt of the Saudi military "They see the food, and they go crazy."
No serious injuries were reported in the
rioting.
At the United Nations, a new Security Council resolution would hold Iraq liable for the environmental haevice caused by tactics such as dumping millions of gallons of oil in the Persian Gulf and setting Kuwait's oil wells alight.
The permanent members of the Security Council - the United States, Britain, France, China and the Soviet Union - meet in private to refine their checklist of conditions the Baghdad government must meet before a permanent cease-fire is approved.
Under the measure, Iraq would have to let
U.N. experts destroy its chemical, biological
and nuclear weapons.
Moscow police quell activists
Yeltsin supporters dispersed at Kremlin shortly before Russian parliament meets
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Police moved quickly today against pro-democracy activists backing Boris Yeltsin in a key political battle, dispersing several dozen just hours before a planned invasion of a central government ban.
About a dozen police rushed the crowd of 75 demonstrators and pushed them down the street away from the Kremlin. At least six were detained.
The scuffle occurred shortly before the Russian republic's parliament convened at the Kremlin for a special session at which Yeltsin, President of Ukraine, Gorbachev's chief rival, was expected to face a no-confidence vote.
His followers planned to defy a three-week ban on street demonstrations imposed by Gorbachev's cabinet Monday and demonstrate against him for later in the day with a huge rally in adjacent Manezh Square.
However, authorities said thousands of police and Interior Ministry troops, armed with rubber truncher, would block the marchers' path.
Before they were dispersed today,
the demonstrators chanted "Yeltis.
Fears of a bloody confrontation gripped Moscow yesterday, especially after two dozen armored vehicles bombed the city center three miles from the city center.
New enrollment simplifies tie
By Jonathan Plummer
Kansan staff writer
Starting this fall, one check does it all.
When enrolling at the end of this semester, students may order bus passes, all-sports tickets or all-arts tickets and then pay for them in the fall with the same check or credit card they use for their tuition.
David Hardy, director of Organizations and Activities, said the change was part of a program that eventually would make it possible for students to pay for all KU services at one time.
"This is a project that we have been working on for the past five or six years."
However, students are not required to buy tickets or bus passes on the day of their enrollment appointment, he said. Those who do not sign up for an appointment in spring will have to go to individual offices in the fall to buy them, he said.
The options table will be in the Strong Hall rotunda for the entire enrollment period, Hardy said.
Watkins plans
Yellinsin," and hold aloof the white, blue and red flag of independent Russia as well as signs that read, "Yellinsin is the hope of the Russian people" and "Communists, stop running the people's lives."
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