Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Monday. December 3. 1990
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Briefs
Iraq sends warning to Soviets urging them to send no troops
Iraq issued a message to the Soviet Union, yesterday, warning it not to send troops to the Persian Gulf region to help the multinational force in place in Saudi Arabia.
The message to Moscow came from the Foreign Ministry, the Iraqi News Agency said. It said the message was a response to Soviet officials that Guard Shevardnadze's statement Thursday that Israelists would not hesitate to use force to protect the estimated 3,000 Soviet citizens still in Iraq.
An unidentified Iraqi Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Shevardnadze seemed to be preparing for a pretext to send troops to the region. He said Kremlin should go no further than it had so far.
The statement made no overt threat against the Soviets in Iraq and said they enjoyed full control.
Chadian rebel enters capital;
president killed near Sudan
Rebel leader Iriss Dress entered N'djamana, the capital of Chad, in triumph yesterday, and news reports said Chad's deposed president, Omar Abdul-Hameid, had been killed near the Sudanese border.
Deby arrived in N'djamena in a black Mercedes, escorted by all-terrain vehicles. He refused to recognize the remnants of Habre's government as the country's legitimate authority but declared that his Patriotic Salvation Movement would institute a democracy.
Bangladeshi protesters riot over emergency rules decreed
More anti-government protesters poured into the streets yesterday in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, and an opposition leader said dozens of people were killed and thousands wounded since emergency rules were decreed five days earlier.
The new protests broke out when the government of President Hussey Muhammad Ershad relaxed a curfew for 12 hours. About 500 university teachers announced they were quitting their jobs to protest the emergency orders suspending civil liberties.
From The Associated Press
Sunday a 'day of escalation'
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Three Palestinians boarded a bus outside Tel Aviv yesterday and stabbed four Israelis, one of them fatally, police said. A police officer then shot to death one of the attackers and the others were captured.
Palestinians attack bus
Shouting "Allah Akbar!" (God is Great), the Palestinians rose from their seats and began slashing with knives as the bus passed through a shopping district between the suburban cities of Bnei Brak and Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv police spokesperson Etti Greenberg said.
In a leaflet issued during the weekend, leaders of the three-year Palestinian uprising in the occupied territories had declared Sunday a "day of escalation" against Israel.
When the knifing began, the driver stopped and pulled out a pistol, and the passengers fled the bus, she said.
Then, a paramilitary border policeman driving behind the bus climbed aboard and opened fire with an Uzi submachine gun on one of the assailants, killing him.
The Palestinians had boarded the bus beheaded for 9:30 a.m. (1:00 a.m. CST) Greenberg said.
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The four injured Israelis were taken by the Beilinson Hospital, where one of the victims, a 24-year-old man, died of stab wounds to the heart and lungs.
Greenberg said two of the assailants were injured but she did not know how they were injured. Israel army radio said one was shot in the hand, and the other was beaten by angry Israeli.
A man who was crossing the street when he saw the attack said on army radio: "I saw a big commotion on the bus, as though everyone was beating each other up."
"Then people came out, and they were all bloodied. Some looked very seriously injured, so we stopped a taxi and put them in." There was a woman with a large dog in it," said the witness, whose name was not given.
Passenger Ilana Bardash said she had boarded the bus outside her bank and shortly afterward, "I heard the shouts of Allah Akbar."
"I saw three people were injured. The door was stuck. We just pushed it open and ran outside, and just started shouting for police." Bardash said.
Yaacow Raz, commander of police in the Tel Aviv area, praised the driver for his "good, speedy action" in taking control of the bus and preventing more stabbed.
The blue-and white bus was taken to the Ramat Gan police station with the dead attacker lying in the aisle.
U.S. aid package reaches Soviets
MOSCOW — "To the Soviet people from the people of the United States — with love," read the banners on 40 tons of donated food and medical supplies that arrived in Moscow yesterday.
The Associated Press
It was the first of many shipments planned by the Connecticut-based aid organization, AmeriCare to help relieve Soviet citizens faced with barren lands and severe shortages of "sorted medicines."
Vasily Drozdy, head of the Republican Children's Clinic, said the medicine, for children under the age of three, arrived at his hospital late yesterday.
The Soviet Union's chronic shortages of food and medicine have worsened dramatically this fall. Consumers must wait in long lines — often for as long as three hours — for basics such as butter. Sometimes pushing and shoving breaks out over a scarce item.
The shortages are caused in part by the country's transition from a centralized planning system to a free market, which has not yet taken hold. The centralized distribution system is breaking down in anticipation of changes.
A shortage of foreign currency that forced a cut in imports earlier this year has also caused businesses to president Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who promised millions of dollars of new credits and from abroad.
In addition, the country doesn't have enough rail cars or refrigerated trucks to transport food from factories to markets. Nor are there sufficient storage facilities; shelt and diversion to the black market is rampant.
Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov gave a televised address after the evening news yesterday, calling on people to work together to overcome the food crisis.
"Everyone is pulling in different directions," he said, referring to individual republics and regions that are refusing to sell their food to other districts.
Soviet television said AmeriCares planned to send 450 tons of food and medicine.
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