Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Friday, March 30, 1990
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Britons indicted in weapons case
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Five people and two British companies accused of illegally exporting electronic devices to trigger nuclear warheads were acting as agents of Iraq, according to an indictment unsealed yesterday.
The indictment, returned last month by a federal grand jury in San Diego, charged that Euronac Ltd., and Atlas Equipment Ltd.
both based in Great Britain, acted on behalf of the Iraqi government to illegally obtain the devices, by a U.S. defense contractor.
The indictment charges that the companies and the five individual defendants conspired to illegally export warhead detonation capacitors, that the defendants did not seek export licenses from the State Department.
Study denies link between Agent Orange and cancer
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — A long-awaited government study of cancer among Vietnam veterans found no evidence linking the disease with exposure to the herbicide Agent Orange, officials said yesterday.
The study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, which looked only indirectly at Agent忍药, did find veterans at increased risk of a relatively rare cancer called non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
In Washington, Veterans Secretary Edward J. Dervinkski quickly said he would order the Department of Veterans Affairs to pay disability compensation to vets suffering from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
The study was immediately attacked by veterans groups, which complained it failed to sufficiently examine the cancer risks among the soldiers who actually worked with the dangerous herbicide during the war.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — A growing wave of violence is threatening South Africa's fragile stability, and there is fear it will undermine efforts to build a multiracial democracy.
S. African violence threatens progress
By Barry Renfrew Associated Press Writer
The violence, most of it among Black factions, flaired just as the government launched reforms aimed at ending white-minority rule. It is
frightening whites already nervous about government moves toward ending apartheid.
Analysis
Yesterday, hundreds of people were taking refuge in churches and schools after savage fighting broke out between Zulu war bands armed with guns and knives. Authorities said the fighting left at least 25 dead and many injured.
Much of the violence has been between supporters of Nelson Mandela's African National Congress and Mangosuthu Buthelezi's Zulu-based Inkatha party, which are fighting for control of black townships in the Natal province.
Violence between whites and Blacks also has occurred.
In some areas, right-wing whites have formed armed and uniformed groups that have attacked and
beaten Blacks involved in political activities.
Political analysts say the white-Black clashes, relatively minor to this point, represent the most serious threat to peace. They fear a backlash by the five million-strong white minority against anti-apartheid efforts and Black violence.
Unsease among whites is matched by growing militancy among many young Blacks in the townships.
Nation/World briefs
LITHUANIAN AMNESTY: The Soviet army offered amnesty yesterday to Lithuanian deserters who returned to their units. The move appeared to be a first step toward compromise in the crisis concerning Lithuania's drive for independence.
The decision, announced by the Defense Ministry General Staff, came a day after Lithuania offered to suspend a plan to institute its own Soviet accord and told its citizens not to resist Soviet attempts to seize their firearms.
IDAHO ABORTION BILL1 Idaho Gov.
Cecil Andrus yesterday
Both sides seemed to be yielding in the war of wills over Lithuania's declaration of independence March 11, the strongest defiance of Mikhail S. Gorbachev in his five years as Soviet leader.
his first public doubts about signing what would be the most restrictive state abortion law in the United States.
But the Democratic governor quickly cautioned against interpreting his remarks as a decision to veto the bill.
"Don't read anything into it," Andrus said. "My views being pro-life haven't changed. . . But I am concerned about the bill."
Pro-choice forces, meanwhile,
staged another rally on the Capitol
steps, dumping 10,000 potatoes to
show support for a national boycott of
Idaho's biggest cash crop if the bill
becomes law.
MINERS REFUSED AID: The Senate turned back pleas for special aid to coal miners yesterday, rejecting an amendment Senate leaders said
could have jeopardized broader clean air legislation.
The $600 million assistance package was voted down 50 to 49 after five hours of debate. During that time, supporters argued that the miners needed help because they would be adversely affected by tougher airpollution controls.
The government; has estimated that more than 5,000 miners of high-sulfur coal are likely to lose their jobs as Midwest utilities switch to other fuels. Changes in fuel have been initiated to meet pollution requirements under the primary clean-air legislation expected to be approved by the Senate.
The data, collected from through 1988 by the TIROS-N series of weather satellites, proved that the Earth's temperature could be measured accurately by instruments probing the atmosphere from space, two scientists say in a paper to be published today in Science magazine.
GLOBAL WARNING REPUTED: Ten years of weather satellite data show no evidence of global warming from the greenhouse effect, scientists said.
yesterday. They said that it would take at least another decade of measurements to draw a firm conclusion.
SAVAGE NEWS CONFERENCE:
Rep. Gus Savage called a Washington news conference yesterday to deny he's anti-Semitic but ended up on another subject of prejudice, declaring that only whites are racist.
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