University Daily Kansan / Monday, November 21, 1988
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Train car ruptures
Officials evacuate town after acid spill
The Associated Press
GARDEN CITY, Ala. — Authories evacuated more than 500 people Saturday after a train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed in north lababama, and one car began leaking ulphuric acid.
Officials built a sand levee to try to prevent the acid from flowing into a early creek, said Lee Helms, director of operations for the Alabama emergency Management Agency. "Some of it leaked into a swamp rea that has leaked into a creek," helms said. "We were able to dam it
Hels明 said the creek fed the Mulberry Fork River, and officials wanted to make sure that the acid did not contaminate area water supplies.
up pretty well, but some of it did get into the creek."
"The river is quite a ways downstream, and not enough of the acid has leaked into the creek to have an impact," he said.
Mulroney leading polls in Canada
The CSX train derailed for undetermined reasons about 5:30 p.m. near Garden City, about 35 miles north of Birmingham.
TORONTO — Supporters and opponents of the U.S.Canada free trade agreement combined last-minute electioneering yesterday with a final advertising blitz on the eye of national elections.
The Associated Press
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, buoyed by recent pollss that showed his Progressive Conservative Party back in the lead, toured his native Quebec while his leading rival, Liberal Party leader John Turner, campaigned in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Both have focused on the trade deal - the major issue in today's race.
Mulroney said Saturday at a news conference in Quebec that he would call Parliament back into session quickly to proceed with final passage of the pact, which Turner has vowed to reject.
In an interview with this week's Maclean's magazine, Mulroney was quoted as saying that he would try to pursue the trade agreement even if his party can only form a minority government.
"The trade deal is a must for Canada's future," he said. "It's a visionary instrument of job creation and new wealth and it is clearly something that is on the right side of history."
But Turner has received his campaign by saying the pact threatened to make Canada a U.S. colony,
Speaking at a campaign rally Saturday, Turner repeated his call to "keep Canada Canadian for Canadians" and cancel the pact with a vote for his party.
In this week's Maclean's, Turner was quoted as saying the pact "would radically change the direction of our country. It yields the economic
levers of sovereignty: our energy, our investment policy, our capital markets, supply-management of agriculture."
The socialist New Democratic Party also opposes the agreement that President Reagan and Mulonney signed in January, so only a majority of the government ensures that it will proceed as scheduled.
The 10-year agreement would start phasing out all remaining tariffs between Canada and the United States on Jan. 1. It has passed the U.S. Congress but still needs Canadian parliamentary approval.
Mulroney spent the campaign's last weekend in his native Quebec, where he is counting on support for the free trade agreement to come through with a solid showing for the province's 75 seats.
Christina Onassis, 37, dies
he Associated Press
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — several dozen friends of billion-dollar airress Christina Onassis attended a private Greek Orthodox funeral last for her yesterday.
The 37-year-old daughter of Greek
kipping tycoon Aristole Onassis
ed Saturday of an apparent heart
tack at the home of friends. There
as no word on whether results of an
itis would be released.
in Piraeus, Greece, a spokesman in the family's Springfield Shipping company. Miss Omasa will be buried on her home in Corpios, off northwest Greece by the
end of the week.
The spokesman said that the Onaiss fortune had been left to the daughter born in 1985 to Miss Onassis and her four husband, Thierry Roussel and Red Roussel in March 1984 and divorced eight months later.
Miss Onassis was the stepdaughter of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, the widow of President John F. Kennedy, who married Aristotle Onassis.
Miss Oasisa was visiting the country home of longtime friend Marina Djokovic, 25 miles outside of this South American capital when she was stricken.
News Roundup
'SKINHEADS' CHARGED: Three men belonging to the 'skinhead' gang were charged in connection with the beating death of an Ethiopian immigrant in Portland, Ore. a week ago, police said yesterday. Police said it was a bomb and unprovoked attack on Muluga Terasel, 27
SNIERS PILL TOURIST: At least two snipers, firing from Mexican cliffs along the Rio Grande, opened fire on three rafters in Big Bend during a drug war, leading to the other two, authorities said yesterday.
The river guide walked through thick brush after Saturday's attack in southwestern Texas, and was seen by a farmer when he reached a highway yesterday morning. A woman who was shot hid in brush overnight. A spokesman said it
was the second time this year that U.S. tourists in the area have reported being shot at from Mexican bluffs.
HOSTAGE REPORTEDLY BEATEN: Alann Steen, one of nine American hostages being held in Lebanon, was caught and beaten when he tried to escape his terrorist captors, according to a published report. Fellow hostage Mithileshwar Singh, who was freed in October, told U.S. officials that Steen managed to get away from his captors but he was spotted and turned in by neighbors in the Beirut suburb where he was beld last year.
U. S. URGES OPEC ACTION: Representatives of the United States' energy-producing states urged OPEC yesterday to reach a new produc-
tardic accord so crude oil prices could rise and help their states' ailing economies. Ministers of the organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries tried in a third day of closed-door talks to resolve a dispute between Iraq and Iran that has been delaying work on a new production agreement. The accord would limit the amount of oil of the 13 OPEC countries could produce in an attempt to limit breakneck production that has caused a glut and sent prices downward.
ESTONIA PRESSURES LEGISLATORS: Estonian activists press up pressure on their legislators and resorted to threats to win approval for a challenge to the Kremlin's authority over their Baltic republic, an Estonian lawmaker was quoted as saying yesterday.
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