Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Monday. February 11, 1991
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Nation/World briefs Vilnius. U.S.S.R.
Voters want independence
Lithuania reported no signs of new Soviet troop movements yesterday, a day after voters overwhelmingly endorsed their republic's 11-month-old independence declaration.
According to preliminary results, 90 percent of the voters said they believed become
Lithuanian president Vyatstas Landsbergis called the poll victory the next step on the road to independence from the Soviet Union, and expressed hope that it would embolden nationalists in neighboring Estonia, Latvia and Russia to hold similar votes.
Soviet army officials have told leaders in the Baltics that they plan 10 days of maneuvering around Russia.
Saturday's nonbinding poll asked, "Do you think Lithuania should be an independent, democratic republic?" Voters could answer both answers to register their indecision.
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said last week that the Lithuanian poll was legally invalid.
Beijing
Activist begins hunger strike
A leading democracy activist charged with sedition has gone on a hunger strike in prison in hopes of delaying his trial, Chinese sources said yesterday.
Chen Ziming, 38, started his hunger strike Thursday, according to friends and relatives who spoke on condition of anonymity. He is also wearing clothes as a form of protest, one source said.
Chen's trial is scheduled to begin today, but he wants to post it 15 days because his lawyer has had less than a week to prepare, the sources said.
Under Chinese law, a defendant cannot hire a lawyer until his charge has been lodged with the court. The trial can begin within three days.
Washington
Study criticizes plant cleanups
A congressional study says the government's effort to clean up atomic weapons plants is being hampered by a shortage of resources and a lack of public credibility, describes the Energy Department for understating the health threat posed by the plants.
The highly critical assessment of the government's effort to clean up the weapons facilities comes as the Bush administration acknowledges that America has $4.2 billion for the task next fiscal year.
Overall the job has been estimated to cost more than $150 billion during as long as 30 years.
From The Associated Press
Israelis arrest suspected activists
The Associated Press
Army permits 1,500 Palestinians to leave territories, return to work
BETHELHEM. Occupied West Bank — Soldiers rounded up hundreds of suspected Palestinian uprising activists yesterday in the largest such sweep by the Israeli military.
Meanwhile, about 1,500 Palestinians returned to jobs in Israel as the army permitted Arab workers to leave the occupied territories for the first time since the gulf war.
The army said it captured about 350 guerilla lashed to be affiliated with the Muslim fundamentalist Hamas, or "Zeal," group in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Among those detained were Hamas commanders for the West Bank and Gaza Strip and a man from Gaza City suspected of the stabbing murders of three Israelis in an aluminum factory in Jaffa in December, according to a military statement.
A source in the military government of the occupied territories said the army issued about 6,000 permits for workers to enter Israel, about 5 percent of those who worked in Israel before
But thousands of laborers did not return, apparently because of transport problems, lack of permits and confusion about where curfews were lifted.
the war
In a Dheishe refugee camp, soldiers fatally shot a 12-year-old Palestinian boy while running on curfew violators. Israel radio and Arab news media reported at three other Greek campans.
Palestinians denied reports by army officials the activists were trying to block arab work ffa.
Some Palestinians worried that their jobs had been taken by Israelis or newly arrived Soviet immigrants during the 25 days that they were held by Israeli forces, by a blanket curfew on the occupied lands.
The curfew was the longest since the Palestinian uprising began three years ago. Many residents of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip complained that they were running short
"It is about time we went back to work," said
Maha Jalal, a mechanic from Bethlehem,
"We desperately need the money."
An estimated 110,000 Palestinians were cut off from jobs when the army clamped a curfew on the 1.7 million Palestinian in the territories just hours after the war against Iraq began.
The announcement to allow some Palestinians back to work was made Thursday after appeals from humanitarian groups and Israeli employers dependent on cheap Arab labor.
Predictions of attacks or disruptions by Palestinians in support of Saddam Hussein have not come true, and the army has eased the curfew during daylight.
However, curfews began again yesterday on the Gaza Strip's Shati and refugee camps after anti-Iraeli demonstrations, and on the Askar camp in the West Bank after troops shot three suspected Palestinian activists fleeing arrest.
Palestinians said a 34-year-old shopkeeper accidentally was hit during the gunfire and was in serious condition with a stomach wound.
Police arrest 11,000 in S. Africa
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Police said they arrested 11,000 people for crimes ranging from murder to cattle theft in a weekend sweep. The African National Congress questioned the motives and demanded a racial tally of those held.
“These operations seem to be aimed more at the publicity they generate than actual crime prevention,” an ANC representative said Saturday after the announcement of Operation Thunderbolt. “We are keenly awaiting racial breakdown of those arrested so we can see where the concentration of the operation was detected.” the representative, Sak Macozoma, said.
30,900 members of the police and defense forces fanned out across the country in a surprise sweep. Police said they arrested 11,361 people, including 43 for murder, 92 for robbery and 42 for rape or attempted rape.
From 6 p.m. Friday to 4 a.m. Saturday.
Items seized included 110 stolen cars, 15,000 gallons of illicit liquor, and two carwars worth of uncut diamonds. A total of 428 alleged thieves were arrested, including some for cattle theft,
Meanwhile, rival Black activists fought with spears, knives and guns in a township where anti-apartheid leaders rallied for peace last week, police said yesterday.
At least one man supporting the Inkatha Freedom Party was killed in clashes with backers of the African National Congress in
Bekkersdal, a township outside Johannesburg.
Thursday, leaders of the ANC, Inkatha, the militant Pan Africanist Congress and Azanian people's Organization gathered to urge an end to the violence in Bekkersdal, where at least 14 people have died in unrest in the past two weeks.
ANC leader Nelson Mandela and Inkatha chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi ended decades of estrangement and met in an effort to persuade their followers to stop fighting. They approved a resolution calling for an immediate halt to the violence.
The ANC supports sanctions and mass action, and it envisions a socialist-oriented economy to help redistribute wealth among the Black majority.
Names of live men put on memorial
A computer error causes 14 names to be carved into the Vietnam Memorial
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Fourteen Americans can visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and find their names carved in black granite among those who died in the war.
"It was kind of scary," said Eugene J. Tomi, who lost part of both legs in Vietnam. "It like a wreck."
Toni's name is there because a government clerk typed a wrong number into a computer. All 14 computer records have been corrected. The clerk can never be erased from the polished granite.
the Potomac River from his Virginia home.
There are 58,175 names of dead and missing people carved on the V-shaped wall. The fact that it lists 14 living Army veterans as dead
was buried in computerized Defense Department records at the National Archives. Only three of those errors have been publicly acknowledged before — four years ago.
Twenty years later, the 41-year old former Army sergeant said, "I woke up one day and decided I didn't want to be a double amputee. I was afraid that wasn't what I getting any time off for good behavior."
Standing under a nearly full moon on a mild night last March, he hipped through the paperback directions and pulled back. He turned to the 'S' in a long shot search for an uncle he had never met.
He sought treatment for post-traumatic stress syndrome and part of the treatment program.
Instead, he found his own name.
He and his wife, Nancy, walked down to panel W7 and counted to line 121.
"I showed her the name and then we both looked at each other like we couldn't believe it."
When Toni made his discovery, he told only his psychiatrist and priest, swearing them to secrecy.
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