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Tuesday October 5 What's for Dinner Tonight? cooking demonstration at 4pm sampling 4:30-6:30m
Thursday October 7 Sampling delicious instant soups from Fantastic Foods. Add a slice of Amazing Grains bread and a glass of fresh cider and you've got a great fall meal!
Big Yellow Building at 9th & Mississippi 843-8544 store hours monday-saturday 8am-9pm sunday 10am-9pm
Celebrate Women's Week!
MONDAY: Lecture by Bobbi Larson in the Kansas Union.
TUESDAY: Women's Fair with information and recruitment in the Kansas Union!!
October 4th--the 8th MAJOR EVENTS
FEATURING: THE STUDENT ASSISTANCE CENTER, PLACEMENT CENTER, WATKINS HEALTH CENTER, EMILY TAYLOR WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER, AND OTHER STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS.
A LECTURE SERIES OF EDUCATIONAL AND GROUP DISCUSSION SESSIONS ON WOMEN'S ISSUES IN THE
KANSAS UNION!!
INCLUDING: AIDS/HIV, LEADERSHIP AND INVOLVEMENT, JOB SEARCH AND OPPORTUNITIES, NUTRITION AND EXERCISE, VOLUNTEERISM, AND MALE/FEMALE COMMUNICATIONS.
WEDNESDAY Women's Fair / Lecture Series Continued!
Lawmakers ordered to end siege of Russian parliament
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The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Isolated lawmakers signaled yesterday they may be ready to negotiate an end to the siege of parliament by thousands of troops and riot police, and the Russian Orthodox Church said it was willing to mediate.
The softening in the hard-liners' defiance came after President Boris Yeltsin's government gave legislators until Monday to surrender their weapons and leave or face "serious consequences."
Outside parliament, riot police and paratroopers tried to keep warm as icy winds and snow flurries buffeted the city. Armored vehicles and bulldozers were deployed overnight around the building.
Legislators have occupied the building known as the White House since Yeltsin dissolved parliament on Sept. 21 and set parliamentary elections for Dec. 12 in a bid to end a power struggle with hard-liners opposed to his political and free-market reforms.
Veniamin Sokolov, a parliament leader, said yesterday that lawmakers would surrender their weapons if the police blockade of the building ends and the government gives "firm guarantees" the hard-liners won't be punished.
Lawmakers said they would negotiate with the government in the Danilovsky Monastery in Moscow if the talks were mediated by Russia's top religious leader, Orthodox Patriarch Alexey II, ITAR-Tass reported.
Alexy said that the church was ready to mediate and that church leaders were discussing ways to end the standoff. He was scheduled to meet Yeltsin yesterday.
"Do not take any moves which could destroy the extremely fragile peace. Do not try to solve political problems with the use of force. Do not indulge in craziness," the patriarch said.
Vice Prime Minister Yuri Yarov said that he favored compromise if lawmakers surrendered their weapons and that the Monday deadline could be pushed back to find such a solution.
Some regional government representatives met in Moscow yesterday to seek ways to end the impasse. They urged both sides to end the confrontation to avoid damaging the country.
Parliament got some support from Siberian lawmakers who threatened to block a major railway, withhold taxes and disrupt deliveries of oil and gas unless the government ended the standoff.
Russian Defense Minister Pavel Grachev, who has thrown the army's support behind Yeltsin, earlier said the conflict was "serious but solvable."
In a sign of a possible split within the hard-line camp, Vice President Alexander Rutskoi told a news conference at the White House on Wednesday that he would not accept any compromise.
Deputy Security Minister Sergei Stepashin told the Trud newspaper militants in parliament had up to 800 firearms, including several machine guns.
But conditions inside parliament were increasingly grim, with electricity, hot water and phones cut off and food supplies running low.
When Yeltsin dissolved parliament, 629 deputies rushed to the White House for an emergency session. About 100 remain.
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For the second straight night Wednesday, police with rubber batons clashed with hundreds of people who tried to demonstrate in support of the besieged lawmakers. Protesters threw bottles at police. A lawyer suffered a concussion and a fractured collarbone during the clash, Russian television reported.
Rebels in Georgia move south, take control of port city
The Abkazian push into Ochamcheria, 33 miles south of Sukhumi, meant that Georgians had relinquished control in Abkazia of all but the small region of Gali, down the coast from Ochamcheria.
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The Associated Press
"Terrible events are taking place," Georgian military spokesman Col. Soso Margishvili said. "There are rapes and murders going on along the highway."
Margiswilli said today that the separatists controlled more than
Thousands of refugees fled to Ochamcheria ahead of the Abkhazian push, hoping to be evacuated by Georgian ships and trains. It was not immediately known if any were picked up before the city fell.
TBILISI, Georgia — Abkazian separatists, building on their capture of Sukhumi, swept southward yesterday along the Black Sea coast and captured the port city of Ochamcheria, Georgian military officials said.
Georgian officials claimed that Abkhazian forces were committing atrocities against the fleeing Georgians.
Sukhumli's airport, held by Georgian fighters after the fall of the city Monday, was abandoned Wednesday night and thousands of soldiers and armed civilian volunteers fled into the nearby mountains.
The reports could not be immediately confirmed.
The whereabouts of Georgia's Defense Minister Georgi Karkaravillh, who stayed with the airport defenders, was not known yesterday. He did not come south with the refugees.
Mingrelia is just south of Abkhazia.
The ultimate goal of the separatists is either independence or annexation to Russia.
At a news conference Tuesday in Mingrelia's regional capital of Zudgidi, Gamsakhurdia demanded immediate elections, threatening "to take the country bit-by-bit" if Shevardnadze did not comply.
More than 3,000 people have been killed and 100,000 made homeless in the Abkazhian conflict, which began when Shevardnadze sent Georgian troops into the province a year ago to root out supporters of Gamsakhurdia.
Shevardnadze, confident that he holds the allegiance of Georgia's 5.5 million people, branded Gamsakhurdia supporters "outlaws" and sarcastically told reporters in Tbilisi that he would be "delighted to hand over my powers to him if my people agree."
Gamsakhurdia, deposed in a bloody coup in January 1992, returned from exile last week and quickly organized a powerful military force in his regional stronghold of Mingrelia in western Georgia. He demanded that Shevardnadze resign and new elections be held.
75 percent of the region on the Black Sea coast, although there were still small pockets of Georgian resistance, including some inside Sukhumi.
The fall of Ochamcheria was the latest blow to Eduard Shevardnadze, the Georgian leader, who also faces a new threat from his arch-rival, former President Zviad Gamsakhurdia.
Libyans will be late extraditing Pan Am bombing suspects
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — Libya said yesterday it would not be able to meet a deadline for staving off tougher sanctions but hoped to complete arrangements for trying two suspects in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in Scotland.
Foreign Minister Omar Mustafa al-Muntasser made the comments after meeting with U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
"The Libyan foreign minister confirmed to the secretary-general the acceptance of his government that the two suspects appear before a Scottish court. The question of timing is still under discussion, Ahmad Fawzi, a representative for Boutros-Ghali, said.
Al-Muntasser said that he hoped to agree in another meeting with Boutros-Ghall on a time and place for the suspects' surrender. It is not clear whether that will be enough to forestall tougher sanctions, which the United States, Britain and France have vowed to push for in the Security Council if today's deadline for the surrender is not met.
Al-Muntasser said his government had received assurances from Britain and the United States that the suspects would receive a fair trial, but he said it would take time to make the arrangements.
"Tomorrow it's impossible," the Libyan envoy said.
The United States and Britain want to try the men, who are charged with carrying out the December 1988 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, in which 270 people were killed. Today's deadline was set by both countries.
Britain's foreign secretary expressed skepticism Wednesday that the two Libyan agents would turn themselves in.
"It's not at all clear to me that the two men will be forthcoming," Douglas Hurd said at the United Nations after the Libyan government urged the two suspects to stand trial in Scotland.
Hurd reiterated that despite the offer, Britain and its allies would press the Security Council to stiffen sanctions against Libya unless the suspects are turned over by today.
The United States agreed.
"We intend to proceed with our efforts to get tougher sanctions if they do not return the two individuals," Secretary of State Warren Christopher said in New York.
The U.N. Security Council imposed an air and arms embargo and diplomatic sanctions on Libya in 1992 to pressure it to turn over the suspects, intelligence agents Abdel Basset Aiil Meghrail and Lamen Khalifa Fihimah.
If today's deadline is not met, the United States, Britain and France plan to push for a tightening of the sanctions to include an embargo on oil equipment purchases and a freeze on Libyan assets abroad.
Libya has refused to surrender the men, arguing it has no extradition treaty with Washington or London, and that a fair trial could not be guaranteed in either country. It has said that it would not object if they gave themselves up voluntarily.
The official Libyan news agency JANA on Wednesday quoted a source at the Foreign Ministry as saying: "We do not object to their standing in front of Scottish justice, and we urge them to accept this."
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