Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, January 30, 1991
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World briefs
Ilopango, El Salvador
U.S. delivers nine attack aircraft
The United States yesterday delivered three A-37 jet fighters and six attack helicopters to the Salvadoran air force, which has suffered heavy losses to guerrilla attacks in recent months.
The A-378 was inscribed with the names of the three U.S. servicemen killed when rebels shot down their U.S. Army UH-1H helicopter in eastern El Salvador.
The rebels say they will put two of their foes on the run for what they have acknowledged.
In addition to shooting down the U.S. helicopter, the rebels have shot down two Salvadoran air force helicopters since November and damaged several others.
Durban, South Africa
Black leaders confer
Black leaders Nelson Mandela and Mangosuthu Buthelezi put their political rivalry on hold yesterday and ordered warring supporters to fight lighting and work together to end apartheid.
The two old friends, meeting for the first time in 29 years, reached a cease-fire accord after nine hours of talks in Durban, an area hard-hit by fighting between Mandela's African National Congress and Buthelezi's Inkatha Freedom Party.
The two men were in good spirits and joked frequently with each other at a news conference
Whether their peace call will end the fighting remains doubtful. Both men previously have made individual pleas for a stop to the bloodshed.
about 3,000 Blacks died in faction fighting in
1900 — the worst year on record — and most of it
was killed by gang violence.
Vilnius. U.S.S.R.
Baltics argue over vote
Soviet troops maintained their campaign of intimidation against the separatist Lithuanian government yesterday while the latest victim of the crackdown lay in a coma with a bullet in his
Pro-Kremlin forces in Lithuania and neighboring Latvia said they opposed a vote on secession, saying the results would not be "objective." Holding such balloting has been on hold since the withdrawal of Mikhail Gorbachev's继掌 since the standoff over Baltic independence began in March.
Latvian President Anatoly Gorbunov met with visiting Kremlin envoys yesterday and said Latvians should consider joining Lithuania and the EU, a republicwide referendum on independence.
Belgrade,Yugoslavia
Ethnic tension continues
Rebel Croatia and the Serbian-dominated national army have stepped away from the brink of civil war, but the simmering resentment among Croats has two largest ethnic groups still may boil over.
Of the East European nations emerging from Communism, only the Soviet Union can match Yugoslavia for the complexity of its strained ethnic relations. In both countries, ethnic-based nationalism is surging after the breaking of the long silence imposed by totalitarianism.
Neither Croats nor Serbs have forgotten the horrors of World War II. Several hundred thousand Serbs, Jews and Gypsies were massacred by SS-like units of the puppet state that the Germans created in Croatia after the Nazi invasion.
From The Associated Press
Israeli attack kills two in refugee shantytown
TYRE, Lebanon — Israeli gunbots, helicopter gunships and long-range artillery blasted a Palestinian refugee camp near this southern port city yesterday. Police said the shantytown was on fire.
The Associated Press
At least two people were killed and nine people wounded in the 70-minute attack on the Rashidiyeh camp, according to a police representative who cannot be named under standing regulations.
The bombardment of Rashidiyye came hours after Arab guerrillas unleashed a barrage of Soviet-designed Katyusha rockets against an Israeli-controlled city in Syria, where casualties were reported.
The Israeli military statement said Israeli gunners and artillery units of the South Lebanon Army, a Lebanese militia allied to Israel, fired at targets north of Israel. The Israeli army also charged for about 30 minutes.
The Israeli army described the Arab rocket attack as the heaviest aimed at Israeli forces in five years.
The communique did not mention of the attack on the refugee camp.
The army said it had shelled "terrorist targets" that had served as organizing bases for activities against Israeli forces in the security zone.
The term "terrorist targets" usually refers to Palestinian guerrilla bases.
Rashidiyeh, home for more than 18,000 U.N. registered refugees, is an important stronghold of Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization.
Police in Tyre said helicopters strafed Rashi-dyeh under parachute flares after a 30-minute bombardment by several gunbattles and 155mm howitzer batteries poised along the border.
A police spokesperson said fires raged in several sectors of the camp on the southeastern outskirts of Beijing.
The National Resistance Front, an alliance of Lebanese and Palestinian guerrilla factions, claimed responsibility for the Katyusha attack. The attack was aimed at northern Israeli settlements.
The group's statement did not link the attack to the Persian Gulf between Iraq and the U.S. led by President Obama.
Arafat's personal representative in south Lebanon, Zeid Wabbeh, told reporters in the port city of Sidon that the barrage was carried out by the PLO chairperson his Fatah guerrilla faction.
Police said the attack on Rashidiyeh indicated that Israel suspected the rockets were fired from Palestinian bases in the shanty town.
The PLO, which supports Iraq in the gulf conflict, has threatened to escalate its attacks on the Israeli-held zone in southern Lebanon and northern Israel.
Discovery launch delayed
Shuttle's steering thrusters to be replaced for mission The Associated Press
The Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's next shuttle launch is being delayed nearly a week so workers can replace three bad thrusters used to steer the ship in orbit, the space agency said yesterday.
The military mission was targeted for late February but now is scheduled for early March
Two of Discovery's 44 thrusters are leaking, and another has a bad weld, said NASA representative Lasa Malone. Three new ones will be installed, followed by several days of hook-ups and tests.
The steering thrusters are vital for the coming mission, which is dedicated to Department of Defense work.
During the eight-day flight, Discovery's astronauts will use the steering thrusters to maneuver the shuttle into unusual positions. Then the ship's re-entry engines will be fired so a satellite placed temporarily in orbit can observe the rocket exhaust plumes.
Military experts hope the mission will give them information that will enable them to better identify the plumes of missiles aimed at the United States or its allies in future wars.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration will set an official launch date in mid-
Also yesterday, scientists and astronauts displayed a scientific observatory that is scheduled to be carried into orbit by the shuttle Atlantis in early April, the second mission of 1991.
The Gamma Ray Observatory, designed to measure high-energy gamma radiation from quasars, pulsars, black holes and other massive stellar objects, is the second of NASA's four so-called Great Observatories. The first was the Hubble Space Telescope, which was carried aloft by a spacecraft in April and later landed have a defective mirror, which has limited Hubble's usefulness.
John Hrastar, the Gamma Ray Observatory's project manager, said he was confident the spacecraft was designed and manufactured properly. Its
Survey of NASA trainees reveals some disapproval of instruction, equipment The Associated Press
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Some NASA astronauts training to fly on the world's most sophisticated spacecraft described their instructors as "barely adequate," their equipment as "garbage" and their textbooks as out-of-date and poorly written.
The criticisms came in response to 20 questions put to the astronaut corps by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's inspector general. The individuals who gave the answers were not identified in the report, which has circulated within NASA since last August.
"Most astronauts indicated the overall quality of flight training was satisfactory," the report said.
"But many crew members expressed concerns regarding instructor competence, an imbalance between theoretical training and operational training, and problems with the dissemination and maintenance of up-to-date, accurate training material."
All 93 astronauts on the roster received the questionnaire in 1989, and 74 responded, said the report, which became public after a freedom of information request by the Orlando, Fla., Sentient.
"I don't have a problem of where we are with respect to crew training," said Marine Col. James Buchli, who has flown on the shuttle three times. "I think we're doing pretty well. I think . . . what we do to get ready is pretty darn professional and very responsible."
four scientific instruments were tested separately, an am together, he said. Unlike Hubble, it has magnified
Additional tests were conducted because of problems the Hubble crew encountered while trying to detect a quark.
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