University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, November 16, 1988
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Nation/World
Ex-police officer kills three injures 10 in South Africa
The Associated Press
PRETORIA, South Africa — A former police officer, who belonged to a neo-Nazi group, opened fire on a group of blacks yesterday in downtown Pretoria, killing three and wounding 10 before he was arrested, police said.
The white gunman was identified as Barend Strydom, 23, who resigned from the police force in February after an inquiry found him guilty of
improper behavior, including "possession of radical right-wing documents," police said.
Strydom, dressed in a police camouflage jacket and armed with a pistol, opened fire on a group of black street vendors, witnesses said.
As panicked pedestrians fled, the gunman ran along a sidewalk and opened fire a second time before police arrested him near the State Theater in Pretoria, said witnesses.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The rate of occupational injuries and disease is on the rise again, with more than 6 million cases reported last year. There were 351,000 more injuries and 53,000 more illnesses reported in 1987 than in 1986, a government agency reported yesterday.
A 5 percent jump in the incidence of job-related illnesses and injuries, from 79 of every 1,000 workers in 1886 to 83 of 1,000 workers in 1887 was the first increase since 1984, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.
Job-related injuries up last year
Statistics reported. The AFL-CIO blamed the increase on a "lack of enforcement" by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration of federal safety standards
and regular training. However, Labor Statistics Commissioner Janet L. Norwood said that the increase in the job injury and illness rates may be due to better record-keeping resulting from new government guidelines and intensive efforts to improve the statistics.
and regulations.
For example, the BLS last year trained some 14,000 representatives from companies employing a total of 20 million people on keeping accurate injury and illness records.
Companies that under-report job accidents to the government can face severe penalties.
Job-related fatalities in surveyed private businesses with 11 or more employees dropped from 3,610 in 1986 to 3,400 in 1987, a decrease that BLS
officials called "statistically insignificant."
A total of 5,843,100 on-the-job injuries were reported last year, compared with 5,492,000 in 1986.
Nearly half of the injuries were serious enough to cost a full day or more of work, and the number of workdays lost totaled 48.8 million, compared with 45.4 million workdays lost to injuries in 1966.
Another 190,000 workers - a 28 percent increase over 1986 - suffered a job-related illnesses, most of them noise-related hearing losses, skin diseases and repetitive motion ailments.
The bureau stated that chronic and long-term latent cases which are often difficult to recognize or relate to the workplace are included in the illness statistics "but are clearly understated."
Agency will mail thousands of past due letters to farmers
WASHINGTON — The Farmers Home Administration yesterday began mailing thousands of notice to farmers who were past due on loans. Members of Congress vowed to close the post-election timing of the move.
The Associated Press
FmHA spokesman Marlin Aycock said about 8,350 people would be mailed through Nov. 25.
The collection comes under rules implementing new credit legislation.
Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, accused the FmHA of holding the letters back until after the Nov. 8 presidential election for "political reasons," although the agency had the letters in hand "well before the election."
"That is no way to administer a program that is so important to our nation's farmers, and it is no way to treat the 6,500 or so Texans who are giving the letters," said Bentsen, who was the Democratic nominee for vice president.
News Roundup
OFFICIALS INVESTIGATE COMPUTER:
Federal safety officials yesterday said that
AIR TRAFFIC REVIEW: Federal investigators yesterday for an immediate review of air traffic control procedures in the Northeast after finding that a string of errors allowed a commuter plane to fly alarmingly close to Air Force One last month. The incident, previously reported without detail, occurred Oct. 12 when Air Force One, with President Reagan aboard, and a Bar Harbor Airlines commuter plane flew within 500 feet vertically and 1.5 miles horizontally. Both planes were preparing to descend to Newark, N.J.
General Assembly of the Organization of American States. Peace in Central America is among the topics being discussed during the weeklong meeting of delegates from 31 nations.
they had begun investigating allegations that a defective computer on 1987 and 1988-model Plymouth Sundance and Dodge Shadow automobiles caused the throttle to stick. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it had received 89 unconfirmed complaints about the problem, including reports of four accidents, one of which caused an injury.
ESTONIA TO CONSIDER PROCLAIMATION:
Estonia's parliament today will consider a "declaration of sovereignty" that proclaims the Baltic republic's independence from the Soviet Union in all areas except defense and foreign policy. Its members also will weigh a related amendment to the Estonian constitution that would bar enforcement of any new Soviet law unless it has been ratified by the Estonian parliament.
one of SAWDS MARCH FOR PEACE: About 20,000 students, students and workers marched through San Salvador. El Saivador, yesterday to demand that the U.S.-backed government negotiate with leftist rebels to end the 9-year-old civil war. The march coincided with a meeting of the
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