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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL. 101, No. 119
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1991
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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 Tikrit to attack on the northern oil city of Kirkuk when it fell.
HIRKU, which was seized by the insurgents. 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 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-
made warplanes, a MIG-21 fighter and a Soviet-made Sukhoi bomber.
The rebels also said they seized a government camp at Faardiya, on the road from Dohuk to Mosul.
They said the two installations were among
that host that government forces controlled
part of the area.
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, Dokhar, Kalar and Tuz Khormatu.
The Kurds said they feared a new threat starvation. The only supply route now open is around the northern town.
In southern Iraq, where Saddam's forces largely have succeeded in putting down rebellions by Shiite Muslims, hunger was a key factor in the deaths of refugees fleeing into allied controlled areas.
In the Iraqi border town of Safan, food is broken up yesterday as Saudi Arabian food vendors begin to sell it.
"We tried to be organized, but the people are just too hungry," said Maju. Youssef Ali Albourd of the Saudi military "They see the food, and they go crazy."
No serious injuries were reported in the
At the United Nations, a new Security Council resolution would hold Iraq liable for the environmental havoc caused by tactics such as dumping millions of gallons of oil in the Persian Gulf and setting Kuwait's oil wells alight.
rioting.
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 assets.
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 plenary audience of a central government ban.
A dozen police rush crowd of 75 demonstrator pushed them down the street. Kremlin. At least six detained.
The scuffle occurred shortly the Russian republic's parliament convened at the Kremkin for a session at which Yeltsin, Pre Mihalik Gorbachev's chief rife decided to face a no-coffee vote.
His followers planned to o three-week ban on street demitions imposed by Gorbat cabinet Monday and demon- tize the new law later in the day with a huge r adjacent Mesh Square.
Before they were dispersed the demonstrators chanted "Y
However, authorities said sands of police and Interior M troops, armed with rubber bands, would block the mar path.
Fears of a bloody confront gripped Moscow yesterday, when armor cles were sighted at at three miles from the city cent
New enros simplifies
By Jonathan Plummer Kansan staff writer
Starting this fall, one check all.
When enrolling at the end semester, students may ord passes, all sports tickets or a tickets and then pay for them fall with the same check or card they use for their tuition.
David Hardy, director of Org
ations and Activities, said the c
was part of a program that e
ally would make it possible f
dents to pay for all KU servi
one time.
Watkins pla
However, students are not rec to buy tickets or bus passes on day of their enrollment appoint he said. Those who do not sign up may have to spend a spirin to go to individual offices fall to buy them, he said.
The options table will be Strong Hall rotunda for the enrollment period, Hardy said.
"This is a project that we been working on for the past f six years," he said.
Yeltsin," and held aloft the white, blue and red flag of independent Russia as well as signs that read, "We are the Russians" and "Communist."
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