NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, November 5, 1993
7
19
THE NEWS in brief
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Rightists call strike protest government holding of gasoline
Pro-military rightists demonstrated their clout yesterday on the eve of a meeting aimed at solving the political stand-off, calling a strike that brought the capital to a near-stand-still.
Most businesses were closed and traffic was reduced to a trickle.
Traffic had been light anyway because of a worsening gasoline shortage caused by a U.N. oil and arms embargo imposed Oct. 19 to pressure the military to allow the return of exiled President Jean-Bertard Aristide.
U. N. and Haitian officials said they would meet today, with or without the military, to search for a solution to the country's political standoff.
The two-day strike was called by the pro-military Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti, or FRAPH, to protest the government's refusal to order that gasoline stored on the island be released for distribution.
A Haitian civil court was to have ruled yesterday on a lawsuit by gasoline dealers against Shell, Texaco and Esso, Haiti's three gasoline distributors, to free the supplies. But the court, like other public buildings, was closed by the strike.
"It is a crying shame that we have to go along with a strike called by such a group as the FRAPH, but they are the only ones protesting the U.N. gasoline embargo," said Jean-Claude Roy, a conservative businessman and political commentator.
A similar strike was called last week by FRAPH and an independent drivers' union. In the past, the organization had used intimidation to force businesses to comply with strikes, so most stores and offices do not even try to open. No violent incidents were reported yesterday.
The army has not said whether it will take part in today's talks. U.N. special envoy Dante Caputo said Aristide and the president of Haiti's Senate had agreed to participate.
Yesterday, the head of the Chamber of Deputies, Antoine Joseph, said he would attend the talks only if all other parties, including the military, did so.
BONN, Germany Protests target Turkish properties
Kurdish militants unleashed an assault on Turkish property in dozens of European cities today, hurling firebombs and smashing windows and office equipment, police said.
The attacks against consulates, travel bureaus, airlines and banks in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Britain
apparently were to protest the Turkish army's operations against Kurds in southeastern Turkey.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, many of which occurred simultaneously at 4:30 a.m. CDT. Police said they found a leaflet protesting Turkish genocide at the site of a firebombing outside Bonn.
In the worst attack, at Wiesbaden, west of Frankfurt, one person died when a Turkish restaurant was firebombed, police said. Eight people were injured, one of them seriously, a spokesman said.
Many of the attacks hit installations in downtown areas. After assailants smashed windows at two banks and the Turkish Airlines office in Frankfurt, police with automatic rifles patrolled the central train station checking identification papers.
In Stuttgart, the capital of Baden-Wuerttemberg state, masked men ran through the downtown pedestrian zone, hurling firebombs into the Turkish consulate and the office of the Turkish Airlines.
The Kurds, the world's largest ethnic group without a state, live mostly in Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria. Many of the 400,000 Kurds living in Germany are Turkish citizens who say they fled their homeland to escape persecution.
Hundreds of people have died during a Turkish counterinsurgency operation in southeast Turkey against the Kurdish Workers' Party, a Marxist guerrilla group.
WASHINGTON
Study savs bad moods common
Feel depressed? Lonely? Restless? Bored? Upset? You're not alone.
Almost 40 million American adults frequently fall into such negative moods, government health researchers reported yesterday.
Those susceptible to foul moods were more likely to be smokers, and the moodiest men also tended to be heavy drinkers, said Charlotte A. Schoenborn and John Horm of the National Center for Health Statistics.
"These findings suggest that emotional well-being may play a role in cigarette smoking and heavy drinking," their study said.
They defined heavy drinking as three or more drinks a day for men and two, or more for women.
Some 43,782 adults were asked in an extensive 1991 health survey if they had felt such negative moods in the previous two weeks.
Overall, the survey indicated that 22.5 million women and 17 million men often experienced at least one of these negative moods during the two weeks before being interviewed.
More than eight million had frequent bouts of three or more of the bad feelings.
Because of the large size of the survey, its standard margin of error was just one to two percentage points.
Low Cost Early Abortion Services Wichita Women's Center BC/BS Mastercard Visa Toll Free Dial "1" & then...800 467 4340
-ABORTION ASSISTANCE
The University of Kansas
School of Fine Arts
Department of
Music and Dance
University Symphony Orchestra Brian Priestman, Conductor
3:30 p.m.
Sunday, November 7, 1993
Lied Center
Compiled from The Associated Press.
Overture to Don Giovanni Mozart
Presents the
Petite Suite Gounod
Holberg Suite Grieg
Symphony No. 6 Tchaikovsky
For general admission tickets, call the box office (Murphy) 913/864-3982. Lied: 913/864-ARTS);
public $6, students $3, senior citizens $5; VISA/
MasterCard accepted for phone orders.
814 Massachusetts • 843-BIRD
Tonight Blue Dixie Monterey Jack Saturday Caribe
Sunday Afghan Whigs Love Jones 18 & Over Adv Tix
Monday OpenMic
Tuesday
SaltyIguanas Unplugged 25¢ Draws
This home game weekend specials:
30%OFFALL Champion Garments
Help Cheer the Hawks to victory with these great values and more at
UNIVERSITY BOOK SHOP
1116 West 23rd Street 913/749-5206
STREETSIDE RECORDS
The AFGHAN WHIGS GENTLEMEN
In Specially Concert Priced Nov. 7 at The Bottle Neck
Sale ends 11/15/93
1403 W.23rd·842-7173 Stay Streetsmart Shop Streetside
Looking for that special gift? Gift coins available for any occasion.