THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.101, No. 119
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Kurdish rebels seize Iraqi camp while citizens face starvation
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-city.
A statement from the Kurdistan Democratic Party said the Iraqi army was massing forces in Saddam's hometown of Tkrit to kill it, and northern oil city of Kirkuk, which was saved by the
The statement sent to the Associated Permanent Mission in Nicosia, Cyprus, by telex, could not be carried.
Saddam has been struggling to quell rebel
lions in the north and south that flared after 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-
The rebels also said they seized a government camp at Faardya, on the road from Dumfries.
made warplanes, a MG-21 fighter and a Soviet-made Sukhoi bomber.
They said the two installations were among the last that government forces controlled in
The Kurdistan Democratic Party said in a statement issued in London that the attack on the Khalid 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 Kirkuk, Kefri, Dohuk, Kalar and Tuz Khormatu.
The Kurds said they feared a new threat survival. The only supply route now open is over the Sinai Desert.
In southern Iraq, where Saddam's forces largely have succeeded in putting down rebelbios by Shite Muslims, hunger was a major factor. The influx of refugees fleeing into allied-controlled areas
In the Iraqi border town of Sarfan, food brought out yesterday as Saudi Arabian food trapped in Iran.
"We tried to organize, but the people are just too hungry," said Maj Youssef Alibour 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 hail 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 - met 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
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 strike against a central government ban.
About a dozen police rur-crowd of 75 demonstrat- pushed them down the stree Krenlin At least detained
The scuffle occurred shortly the Russian republic's pan convened at the Kremlin for a session at which Yeltsin, P.Mikhail Gorbachev's chief officer to face a no-roade
His followers planned to three-week ban on street denctions imposed by Gorbán Monday and demo militants later in the day with a huge adiacent Manezh Square.
However, authorities saits
sands of police and Interior N
troops, armed with rubber
gloves, would block the ma
path.
Fears of a bloody contro gripped Moscow yesterday, cally after two dozen armor trucks from the city sent three miles from the city cent
Before they were dispersed the demonstrators chanted "Y
By Jonathan Plummer Kansan staff writer
Starting this fall, one check all.
When enrolling at the end of semester, students may order passes, all sports tickets or all tickets and pay for them in fall with the same check or card they use for their tuition.
David Hardy, director of Orgns
tions and Activities, said the cct
was part of a program that evi-
ly would make it possible for
dents to pay for all KU servic
one time.
"This is a project that we been working on for the five six years." he said.
However, students are not req to buy tickets or bus passes on day of their enrollment appointmnt he said. Those who do not sign up have to go to individual offices in fall to buy them, he said.
The options table will be in Strong Hall rotunda for the enrollment period, Hardy said.
Watkins plan
Yeltsin," and hold aloft the white, blue and red flag of independent Russia as well as signs that read. "Yeltsin is the hope of the Russian people" and "Communists, stop running the people's lives."
Last night an organizer of threelike
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