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Nation/World briefs Brussels, Belgium
Food aid for Soviets restored
The 12-member European Community agreed in principle yesterday to restore more than $1 billion in food aid to the Soviet Union. The aid was supposed after a bloody crackdown in the rebellion.
"There are no more political obstacles in the way for the help," German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher told reporters after a meeting of the EC foreign ministers.
The ministers issued a statement expressing satisfaction that Soviet authorities had not interfered with referendums conducted Sunday in Latvia and Estonia. Latvians and Estonians voted overwhelmingly for independence in the non-binding referendums.
"These results cannot be ignored," the ministers said. "We urge an early opening of a serious and constructive dialogue between the two sides in the U.S.S.R. and the elected Baltic authorities."
Jerusalem
Israel to release 12 prisoners
Israel this week will release 12 foreign prisoners who have been kept in Israeli prisons long after completing their sentences, a Prison Authority representative said today.
Officials refused to disclose the identity of the prisoners, but the daily Haaretz said they included members of the mainstream Fataf faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization and two Jordanian soldiers who infiltrated into Israel.
Haeretz said the 12 were among 40 foreigners held up to two years beyond their prison sentences in Israeli prisons. It said most were not housed and the others were from unspecified countries.
Haaretz said Police Minister Roni Milo had explained the delayed release of the prisoners was because of the Red Cross' inability to find a country willing to accept them. But the newspaper said the Red Cross had denied this allegation.
Grand Rapids, Minn.
Oil spill is one of state's worst
Crews worked yesterday to contain and remove an estimated 630,000 gallons of crude oil that leaked from a ruptured pipeline into a field and the Prairie River.
The break in the pipeline, which carries crude from Edmonton, Alberta, to superior, Wis., occurred near Grand Rapids, a town of about 7,200 people about 100 miles northwest of Duluth.
Kevin Faus of the Minnesota Pollution Control Authority and it was one of the five worst oil spills in Minnesota.
Another agency representative, Dave Plante,
said 630,000 gallons was a conservative estimate.
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, March 5, 1991
"Even if we get it back in the tankers, we're not sure we've got all of it." he said.
Roger Argument, general manager of Lakehead Pipeline Co. the company that owns the pipeline, said the spill was mostly contained. He estimated all the free-flowing oil would be cleaned up within three days.
From The Associated Press
Court refuses appeal of AIDS-related Navy case
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court today turned down the appeal of a Naval reservist removed from active duty because of his AIDS virus infection.
The Associated Press
The court, without comment, let stand rulings that the reservist, identified in court papers by the fictitious name John Doe, cannot sue Navy officials over the allegedly unlawful discrimination
Lower courts ruled that members of the armed services have no right to sue over employment or other wrongdoing.
Doe sued the Navy in 1868 after he was released from active duty and returned to inactive reserve ship.
By that time, he had a long history of military service dating back to his enlisting in the Navy in 1972. Doe served in the Navy until 1977 and enlisted in the Naval Reserve in 1981.
In 1985, Doe was made a temporary active duty petty officer based in Jacksonville, Fla., and had been employed by the
In July 1986, he was admitted to the naval hospital in Portsmouth, Va., because he had tested positive as a carrier of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). A physical examination confirmed the presence of HIV antibodies but showed Doe was otherwise in good health.
Someone who tests positive for HIV antibodies has been exposed to the AIDS virus but does not test positive.
Tests determine whether a person was infected with the virus one time or if it a person still is infected with AIDS.
A month after his hospital stay began, Doe was returned to active duty. But a month later, he was told his active duty would be ended because of his
In his appeal to the Supreme Court, Doe said there was no evidence Congress intended to exclude military members from the protections offered in the 1973 anti-bias law.
infection
The Bush administration urged the justices to reject Doe's appeal.
Supreme Court refuses to limit punitive damages The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court yesterday refused to place limits on skyrocketing punitive damage awards as it uphold a $1 million penalty for an Alabama woman victimized by insurance fraud.
Business groups, the American Medical Association, the pharmaceutical industry and major news media companies urged the court to restrict or ban painful damages, saying mega-awards not only punish defendants unfairly but also international competitiveness for U.S. businesses.
By refusing to place limits on punitive damage judgments, yesterday's decision leaves matters where they have been — in the hands of state legislators, judges and juries.
Consumer advocates and lawyers' groups defended big punitive awards, arguing that the judgments helped keep dangerous products off the market and protected the public against corporate greed.
Peace in the gulf overshadows, doesn't resolve, other conflicts
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The end of the Persian Gulf War hardly means the world is at peace. There are more than two dozen conflicts occurring now, from Afghanistan to Mozambique to the lackless Kurds still fighting for a country of their own in the Middle East.
Conflicts come in varying degrees, ranging from the Soviet republics 'secessionist' efforts to all-out confrontations, such as the U.S. led coalition's against Iraq after that nation's invasion of Kuwait.
Groups of people on four continents are still trying to kill each other — or arguing vehemently over religious and ethnic differences, for power or justice. They are not simply because war has become a way of life.
The Soviet Union, more at peace with the capitalist world than ever before, is embroiled in
A major armed conflict is defined by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute as a prolonged combat between the military forces of two or more governments or of one government and organized armed opposition forces, involving terrorist groups or in response to increasing battle-related deaths of at least 1,000 persons.
ethnic conflicts that have cost hundreds of lives in the southern and central Asian republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Uzbekistan. There has been violence, too, as the Kremlin cracked down on separatist movements in Lithuania and Latvia.
Another conflict of ethnic origin involves the Kurds, a stateless people who have been fighting for independent status in areas of Iraq. Iran and Turkey for decades. In 1980, Saddam Hussein was killed by an American helicopter. The Kurdish population on suspicion that they had supported Iran in the war, which ended that year.
In Afghanistan, where U.S. supplied rebels are warring against the Soviet supplied government, the superpowers have agreed in principle to stop the flow of weapons. The country has had 12 years of war and a million deaths, and the devastation has left five million homeless.
In Angola, the fighting is between the U.S. backed UNITA rebels and a leftist government. Talks to end the 16-year civil war are at an impasse.
In Northern Ireland, the Irish Republican Army struggle to end British rule continues, with the army now using an increasingly unsteady hand.
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