University Daily Kansan / Friday, April 27, 1990
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Colombian candidate killed on jet
The Associated Press
BOGOTA, Colombia — A man on a suicide mission pulled out a submachine gun on a crowded jetliner yesterday and shot to death a presidential candidate before the politician's bodyguards killed the assailant.
bodyguards knelt the assamn. Passengers on the jet, which had just left Bogota's airport, screamed and ducked in their seats as shots were fired, witnesses said. The
politician, former leftist guerrilla Carlos Pizaro, was the fourth Colombian presidential candidate assassinated in less than three years.
canadian group known as The Extraditables, which works for drug barons, claimed responsibility for the assassination, the radio network Caracol reported.
reports on the attack. Avance Beoting 727 was bound for the coastal city of Barringtonia, where Pizzarri 38,
The gunman, 25-year-old Alvaro Rodriguez,
apparently retrieved the submachine gun from
a bathroom on the airplane, said Capt. Fabio
Munerev, the pilot.
planned to campaign.
Leasing over a passenger in the row in front of him, Rodriguez pointed the gun at Pizarro's head, about a foot away, and opened fire. Police said no one on either the plane was wounded.
Economy grows faster than analysts expected
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Unexpected strength in the U.S. economy has led many analysts to double their estimate of growth for the first part of the year, some pengging it as high as 3 percent rather than the 1 percent they thought earlier.
But some economists, noting that continued high interest rates as well as the warm weather and other special factors have been pushing growth so far this year, say the pace cannot be sustained.
cannot be cannibalized And inflation, running hotter than expected, is also a worry.
Floods cause evacuations of Texas towns
The Associated Press
At least three people drowned in Texas and two were missing as a result of the storms, which were photographed by astronauts aboard the space shuttle Discovery orbiting 380 miles above Earth.
DALLAS — Flooding caused two towns in Texas to be evacuated and campers were forced to the roofs of their vehicles yesterday after more than 24 hours of thunderstorms.
Flooding in nearby south-central Oklahoma also forced evacuations and closed highways.
and close tiger holes.
The National Weather Service reported up to 15 inches of rain overnight in some areas of Texas as storms carrying at least six tornadoes moved across the state.
The Texas National Guard sent 35 people and 20 trucks to help evacuate people from Brownwood, Texas, southeast of Abilene, and Weatherford, Texas, just west of Fort Worth.
Nation/World briefs
Flash flooding in Texas and Oklahoma. Thunderstorms brought heavy rains and high winds to Texas and Oklahoma, and at least six tornadoes ripped across both states.
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POLLISH RETURNS TO U.S.』Freed hostage Robbie Polhill returned to U.S. sail yesterday, offering a broad smile and a thumbs-up salute but no word about his 39 months in captivity.
Pohill, 55, stepped off a military jet minutes after landing at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington.
He pointed to his throat at one point when pressed to speak and mouthed the words, "I can't."
His reception was low-key, with a State Department protocol official and Army and Air Force officers on hand to welcome the New Yorker and his Lebanese wife, Feryal.
U. S.-SOVIET AGREEMENT: The United States and the Soviet Union reached basic agreement yesterday on an economic pact that would normalize trade relations between the two superpowers for the first time in nearly a half century, a senior U.S. negotiator announced.
U. S. Deputy Trade Representative Julius Katz said he expected the agreement would be ready for signing at the May 30-June 3 summit
between President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
The agreement would clear the way for the Soviet Union to obtain significantly lower tariffs on its products sold in the United States and Canada, so companies for US companies to do business in the Soviet Union.
LAFONTAINIE IMPROVING: A mental disturbed woman told prosecutors she tried to kill German opposition politician Oslaf Lafontaine because she wanted to get in touch with an enforcement official said yesterday.
Lafontaine, a Social Democrat an Chancellor Helmut Kohl's leading challenger in the December election, was in satisfactory condition at a Cologne hospital. He was stabbed in the neck with a butcher knife at a campaign rally Wednesday.
Hans Jochen-Vogel, the Social Democratic Party chairmn, said Lafontaine intends to remain the chancellor candidate.
CHAMORRO'S FIRST CRISIS: President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro
encountered a political crisis in her first full day in office yesterday for allowing the Sandinistas to retain temporary control of the army and security forces.
Her decision to be her own defense minister but to allow Gen. Humberto Ortega to stay on as army chief drew fire from rebel leaders and split her coalition in the national legislature
Ortega is the brother of former Sandinista President Daniel Ortega.
GHAIRM TO FORM GOVERNMENT:
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, leader of the right-wing Likulib bloc, was chosen yesterday to form a new government after the Labor Party leader failed in his attempt to forge what he called a peace coalition.
A snamiried government could spell trouble for U.S. efforts to arrange a Palestinian-Israeli dialogue.
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