University Daily Kansan / Thursday, December 1, 1988
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Blaze on USS Nimitz kills one, injures one
The Associated Press
MANAMA, Bahrain — A jet fighter's gun fired by mistake yesterday, setting six planes ablaze on the USS Nimitz flight deck and killing a ship that's armed distracted by dousing the flames quickly, U.S. officials said.
A second crewman was severely burned in the fire, which was brought under control in about 20 minutes. Navy spokesmen reported. They said a cannon on an A-7 Corsair was fired accidentally during "troubleshooting maintenance" aboard the carrier in the Arabian Sea.
that eventually spread to six aircraft, A-6 Intruders and A-7s that suffered "minor to major damage," according to the reports.
The 20mm shell exploded against another parked plane, starting a fire
In Washington, Navy officials identified the dead sailor as Aviation Structural Mechanic 2nd Class Douglas Scott Dimberg, 23, of Redfield, S.D. The injured man was identified as Airman Apprentice Chadwick Raymond Henderson, 19, of Rockford, Ill.
One of the damaged aircraft was a KA 6 Intruder tanker, fitted for air-to-air refuelling, but the officials said they did not know whether it was the one hit by the shell.
U.N. censures U.S. by 151-2 vote
UNITED NATIONS — The General Assembly yesterday censured the United States by a vote of 151:2 and gave it 24 hours to reverse itself and grant a visa to PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat so he can speak here.
The Associated Press
DHAKA, Bangladesh — A powerful cyclone lashed low-lying coastal areas of Bangladesh and eastern India, killing at least 317 people and destroying crops ready for harvest, officials and news reports said yesterday.
The world body, spurred on by the Arab nations, will ask for an extraordinary protest session in Geneva in mid-December to hear the Palestine Liberation Organization leader if the organization persists in its renal, as expected.
At least 275 fishermen were reported missing in Bangladesh from
Tuesday's storm that packed 140 mph winds, heavy rain and whipped tidal waves up to 15 feet.
The Associated Press
Several hundred mud huts used as homes by fishermen were destroyed, and the casualty toll was expected to rise when reports came in from hundreds of tiny islands in the Bay of Bengal, officials in the capital of Dhaka said.
terday.
Unidentified officials told an Indian news agency that the death toll could be as high as 870.
A second resolution to this effect is expected to be voted upon tomorrow, or early next week. The reconvened
The United States and Israel were alone yesterday in voting against the resolution.
Sources at a southern Chittagong port said a Singapore-registered vessel Pamir sank in the cyclone.
Britain abstained, saying the criticism of its U.S. ally was too harsh. But all other U.S. allies voted against Washington's position.
Bangladesh cyclone kills 317
session in Geneva would be held Dec. 12-16.
The resolution asked Secretary- General Javier Perez de Cuellar to inform the General Assembly today of the U.S. response. The United States says it will defy the resolution.
oeparture from the standard electronic voting.
The vote in the 159-member assembly was conducted in a rare roll call ballot requested by Jordan, a
state.
SOUTH ATTICA
The State Department denied a visa to Arafat last Saturday on grounds he condones and encourages terrorism. Arafat addressed the world body in 1974.
Washington says it does not oppose a move to the Swiss city and would participate in the debate there. Some diplomats sy shifting the position could set an unfavorable precedent, alienate the States and赁n赁arge it to deny visas to other U.S. visitors it considers dangerous or offensive.
if she were
Absent was Dominica, Grenada.
St. Kitts and Nevis, Paraguay and
South Africa.
Arab diplomats said they will swiftly introduce a new resolution shifting to Geneva the assembly meeting on the Palestine problem and the Middle East. Arafat would explain there the recent PLO declaration of an independent Palestinian
"I feel very pained to see that the United States is the odd couple with Israel in the United Nations," said Clovis Maksus, ambassador of the Arab League, which sponsored the resolution displacing the U.S. action
News Roundup
MEXICAN PRESIDENT FACES ECONOMIC
MEXICAN PRESIDENT FACES EOEconomic REVAMING: Carlos Salinas de Gortari, a Mexican nationalist with U.S. academic training, will become Mexico's president today and immediately begins a race against time to restructure his country economically, politically and psychologically. Six years of economic crisis and austerity have fed discontent and political opposition, and Salinas himself has said that the "future of the system" — a system that has served Mexico for almost 60 years — is at stake.
killed 11 people, including a Moslem mullah, raising the death toll in more than a week of violence to at least 18, official media reported yesterday.
ETHNIC CLASH CLAIMS 18 LIVES: Ethnic clashes between Azerbaijani and Armenians
WHITE HOUSE AGAINST IRAN-CONTRA RELEASE: The White House has told the chief Iran-contra prosecutor that it opposes releasing certain classified information during Oliver L. North's trial because of national security concerns, a senior Reagan administration official said yesterday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that this, in effect, was President Reagan's response to U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gellou's recent challenge.
to spell out the president's position on secrets that might be disclosed if the case goes to trial. possibly in late January.
WALEAS MAKES TV APPEARANCE: Solidarity leader Leech Wailea suspended on television last night in an unprecedented live debate with official union chief Alfred Miodwicz on the subject of trade unions in Poland. The 40-minute debate, which began after the main evening news, was the first time in five years that Wales had any chance to defend his banned union on state-controlled television. It was his most extensive appearance ever on Polish TV
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