University Daily Kansan / Monday, November 28, 1988
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Nation/World
Thailand drenched
Mud slides hit villages, kill hundreds
The Associated Press
BANGKOK, Thailand — Soldiers yesterday unearthed villages buried in mud slides after a week of heavy rains that caused Thailand's worst natural disaster in recent decades, officials said.
Soldiers found 370 bodies, but at least 800 people are thought dead from the floods that hit southen provinces, said Col. Bunchorn Chavarsni, spokesman for the Fourth Army region.
Chavarni said 689 people were missing and thousands were homeless.
About 14,000 people remain in emergency relief centers, down from the 60,000 people at the height of the floods, he said.
Ten helicopters and 12 boats transported the troops and rescue teams yesterday to villages in the southern Nakhon Sri Thammarat province. The team was sent by He said planes dropped food and supplies to isolated villages.
Drug use at weapons labs reviewed
The dead deaths were in Nakhon Sri Thammarat the Phipon district, where mud and logs charged down the road, and the residents into homes and crushing people.
WASHINGTON - A congressional panel has expanded its investigation of security and personnel problems to include the Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory after a senior computer operator there was arrested on marijuana charges, a House aide said yesterday.
The Associated Press
As part of the investigation, Rep John Dingell, D-Mich., has asked for the cooperation of Energy Secretary John S. Herrington, whose department oversees the energy industry, and Livermore, Calif. Both are being scrutinized.
The department also has been plagued by problems that have shut down production at two major nuclear weapons materials laboratories,
the Savannah River Plant in Aiken, S.C., and the Feed Materials Production Center in Fernald, Ohio. Production has stopped on two key weapons materials, tritium and plutonium.
Dingell, chairman of the Energy and Commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigations, has asked why the management at Lawrence Livermore abruptly halted an undercover investigation that turned up the names of 127 employees suspected of using or dealing drugs.
The investigation was expanded to Los Alamos after the arrest on Oct. 12 of a senior computer operator allegedly carrying 205 pounds of marijuana in his truck, said Jeffrey Hodges, a Dingell aide.
The New York Times, which reported the expanded investigation yesterday, identified the computer operator as David Blossom, 36, and quoted an Energy Department spokesman as saying that Blossom held a high-level security clearance.
Energy Department spokesmen could not be reached by telephone in Washington, or at regional offices in San Francisco or Albuquerque. N.M.
Authorities also are investigating the failure of Livermore managers to investigate the disappearance of a chemist, Ronald K. Stump Hodges said when he was employed there had been embuzzing from Livermore Lawrence.
Mexican protests erupt
The Associated Press
MEXICO CITY — Opposition party supporters seized city halls throughout the state of Michaocan and demanded the resignation of the governor, who is a member of the ruling party, officials said yesterday.
Democratic Front supporters occupied 19 city halls Saturday afternoon to force the ouster of Gov. Luis Martinez Villicana, according to a
state government statement. Villicana is a member of the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party.
The government newspaper El Nacional quoted Marciano Razo Amecuzia, leader of the Democratic Front in Michaacan, as saying that the state had "unfettered treasury" and "fomented political hatred" in the southwestern state.
News Roundup
BLACK LEADERS RELEASED: The release of two elderly black leaders capped a week of South African government moves that earned international praise. But domestic critics said yesterday that the goodwill gestures must be followed with a dismantling of apartheid. The government, citing "medical-humanitarian reasons," on Saturday freed two seriously ill leaders who were colleagues of jailed African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela.
ARABS, ISRAELI CLASH: Islamic fundamentalists called yesterday for strikes to mark the first year of the Palestinian uprising, and hospital officials said 25 Arabes were shot and
wounded in clashes with Israeli soldiers. A 20-year-old man was seriously injured when a tear-gas grenade hit him in the chest in Gaza's Jabaliya refugee camp, hospital officials said. An army spokesman said he had reports of only five men being shot and wounded in the Gaza Strip.
ARAFAT DECISION PROTESTED: Several European and Middle East nations blasted the United States yesterday for refusing to allow PLO Chairman Yassir Arafat to address the United Nations, France, Norway and Sweden urged the United States to reconsider the decision to deny Arafat a visa, while Italy
summoned a senior American diplomat and demanded an explanation. Jordan announced yesterday that it will work with Egypt to move this week's General Assembly session out of
DEFICIT CONCERNS CANADA: Economists predict that Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, just like President-elect George Bush, will have a short honeymoon unless his new government can bring down the budget deficit. Concern about the deficit is troubling forecasters in both countries despite the Canadian economists' general optimism produced by the favorable election outcome for the Canada-U.S. free trade agreement.
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