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University Daily Kansan / Monday, December 12, 1988
Nation/World
Afghan radio says Pakistanis shot jet
The Associated Press
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Afghanistan's official radio reported yesterday that a Pakistani warplane shot down a commercial jet飞ying inside Afghanistan and that all 25 people aboard died.
Radio Kabul said the Pakistan fighter plane downed the Soviet-made Antonov-26 commercial airliner about 8 p.m. saturday as it was flying from the eastern district of Khost to Kabul, the Afghan capital
The radio broadcast, which was monitored in Islamabad, said three
children and a woman were among the dead. The report contained no other details.
Spokesmen at the Foreign Ministry have denied charges by the Soviet-backed Afghan government that an Iranian fighters entered Airbase aisla-
Afghanistan and Pakistan, which signed a U.N. accord in April providing for the withdrawal of more than 100,000 Soviet troops from Afghanistan, have often charged each other with mounting air and missile attacks.
Mexico fireworks explosion kills 51
MEXICO CITY — Illegal fireworks exploded in a crowded market yesterday, starting a chain reaction and fire that spread to five buildings, killing at least 51 people and injuring 45.
The Associated Press
"We'll be searching all night. They're still finding bodies," said Salvador Padillo, the Red Cross commander at the scene.
At least 51 people were killed, said Jose Bora Gonzalez, physician at the city medical services. He was marking and counting the bodies of the dead as they were brought out of the buildings.
"They can't get inside the storerooms, but they are full of bodies. Did Tortoise Castanion Romo, Mona Lisa and David Roettero die?"
At least 11 of the dead were children, officials said.
Padillo said at least 45 people were injured, but an official on duty at Red Cross headquarters put the number at 83.
Fire spread to a two-story building of candy and fireworks shoos.
The first explosion apparently was in a market stall set up in a narrow street leading to the popular Merced market and jammed with Christian leaders, said Red Cross worker Jorge Torres San Juan.
After the explosions began, an estimated 500 people streamed from the building screaming, "Get out, get out," said Fernando Dominguez, who works in a shoe store less than 100 feet away.
"At first it sounded like bullets. Then there were more and more and then the explosion," Dominguez said.
ine narrow street was crowded with people buying fireworks for today's celebration of the Day of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
For years, the Merced was the main market in this city of 18 million, supplying dozens of other markets and individual customers.
Windows shattered throughout the block. Spent Chinese firecrackers, charred wood and comic books, twisted metal and tangles of high tension wires littered the street.
Distraught relatives searched for missing relatives while vendors and residents anger at Mayor Manuel Camacho Solis, who believed they had been burned metal, canvas street stalls, and scattered merchandise.
"Many children died here, Mr. Mayor," said one man.
Mine wounds soldiers
JERUSALEM — Three Norwegian soldiers serving with U.N. peacekeeping forces in southern Lebanon were wounded yesterday when their armored personnel carrier hit a land mine, a U.N. spokesman said.
The Associated Press
The blast occurred at about 3 p.m. as the soldiers were patrolling the village of Zabqine, five miles north of the Israeli-Labianese border, said
Timor Goksel, spokesman for the U.N. peacekeeping forces.
News Roundup
He said one soldier suffered moderated injuries and the other two were slightly wounded. A policeman in N.-run hospital in Nauru near the Israeli border.
The nine-nation, 5,800-man United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon was deployed in 1979 and since then all of the fighters have been killed and 230 wounded.
HEALTH CARE UNDER SCRUTINY: The outgoing health and Human Services secretary says the Bush administration will have to "walk a very tight line" to avoid cutting the quality of health care in trying to curb soaring Medicare expenses. Otis Bowen said that with a federal budget out of balance, Medicare cannot escape close scrutiny because it is one of the nation's largest budget items and one of the fastest growing, particularly the 15 percent annual inflation rate in physician payments. Bowen declined to discuss specifics of the final budget the Reagan administration will submit next month.
DEMONSTRATORS MARCH IN ATHENS: More than 5,000 leftist demonstrators marched through Athens yesterday calling for the removal of U.S. military bases in Greece. The demonstration, organized by the Panhellenic Movement for the Removal of the Bases, came at the end of a two-day conference on foreign military bases in the Mediterranean region.
SPAIN'S UNIONS STRIKE: Spain's major trade unions, unhappy about the economic austerity of Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez's government, are taking the streets to demand a bigger share in the country's new prosperity. A broad spectrum of society — including autoworkers,
actresses, soccer players and sportswriters — say they will support Wednesday's general strike called by the socialist General Workers Commission or communist-dominated Workers Commission.
REBELS TO RETRIEVE BODIES: The Polisario rebel movement said yesterday that it was retrieving the bodies of five Americans killed when its desert fighters shot down a locust-spraying DC-7 in the belief it was a Moroccan military plane.
PALESTINIANS, ISRAELIS CLASH Seventeen Palestinians were wounded yesterday in clashes with Israeli troops in the occupied lands.
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