University Daily Kansan / Thursday, November 3, 1988
Nation/World
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Party hopes to form government
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Leaders of the right-wing Likud blie expressed confidence that they could form a government and began coalition talks for four ultra Orthodox religious parties who will decide who will govern the nation.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's Likud and its allies won 46 of the 120 seats in Tuesday's election. Labor and sympathetic left-wing parties won 49, so either major party could form a government with support
from the religious factions, which won a total of 18 seats
Two parties on the extreme left won the other seven seats.
Although Likud generally is more sympathetic to the Orthodox view, one of the main religious parties said a coalition remained possible with Labor, led by Foreign Minister Shimon Limon.
Demands by the religious parties include strict rules on observing the Sabbath and changes in the policy that extends automatic citizenship to
all Jews, including converts.
Shamir said early yesterday the outcome "commanded" Likud to form a government and expressed willingness to negotiate on any demands of the religious parties. Likud and Labor have been in a fragile coalition since the indecisive election of July 1984.
Yossi Ahimire, spokesman for Shamir, said religious leaders told the prime minister "Likud has natural sympathy to religious demands, and all would prefer a coalition with
After meeting with Peres, however, spokesman Moshe Perez of the Torah Guardians Party said, "We know that it does not rule out talks with any party."
Most religious legislators are closer to Shamir's viewpoint on the Palestinian issue. He vows to keep all the occupied territories, which some Orthodox consider part of biblical Israel, but Peres has expressed willingness to exchange some territory for peace.
Newspaper reports dolphin abuse by Navy
The Associated Press
SEATTLE A Navy program to train dolphins as underwater security guards is in disarray, with four of the animals dead and others blinded or killed as handlers, a newspaper reported yesterday.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer quoted unidentified sources, including two former trainers who asked that their names be withheld, as saying that the officers who dozen dolphins have died in the past 18 months.
The former trainers said some of the dolphins had been blinded or have suffered crippling injuries as a result of poor training procedures.
The program, which trains dolphins to hunt for mines and enemy frogmen, leaves the animals vulnerable to infection or illness by moving them from water and subjects them to other stress, they said.
In Washington, navy spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Craig Quigley yesterday denied that animals had been killed.
"We simply do not use negative techniques and browse these mammals into doing what we want to do," Quigley said. "Even the environmental methods are better than our training methods as better than the industry."
upon a close relationship between the trainer and animal. Ultimately in the training, you have to go to the open ocean. If we were mistreatting these animals, why would they return to their trainers?"
A trainer, Rick Trout, who has worked at the Navy project in San Diego since 1985, told a convention of the International Marine Animal Trainers Association in San Antonio, Texas, this year to specific incidents of abuse, weight loss, corpulent physical and damage to animals after transport."
"We use positive reinforcement and we depend
Trainers use "very negative methods, including food deprivation, corporal punishment."
News Roundup
SOVIETS LEGALIZE HEBREW:
After meeting with Soviet leaders, an official of the World Jewish Congress said yesterday that the teaching of Hebrew, once punished in the Soviet Union as a crime, will be allowed again Soviet officials also will allow Soviet Jews to participate in the World Jewish Congress.
REMAINS TO BE RETURNED: A Viennaese official said his nation would turn over to the United States today 23 sets of remains that may be those of U.S. soldiers missing from the Vietnam War. A U.S. Embassy official confirmed yesterday that remains would be sent back but put the number at 21. Sources said Vietnam has given the United States a list of at least nine names associated with the remains.
SALVADORAN REBELS ATTACK! Leftist guerrillas in El Salvador killed six troops when they attacked soldiers guarding a sugar refinery and a bridge early yesterday, hours after a rebel stormed the headquarters guard headquarters left four dead and 37 wounded. On a radio broadcast, the rebels said they were stepping up the urban war in an offensive called "Death to Reagan's Policy, Yankees Out of EI
Salvador.'
IRIANAN EXECUTIONS
REPORTED: A United Nations report on human rights in Iran says a wave of executions of Iranian political dissidents began about the time the government accepted a cease-fire in its war with Iraq. The report didn't say why, but mentioned death, but mentioned groups of executions reported by the media from July through September that included 1,140 political executions
COURT HEARS DRUG CASE: For the first time, the Supreme Court heard arguments addressing drug testing in the U.S. workplace. The court also heard a case questioning the constitutionality of suits against government social agencies if case workers fail to act to protect someone they know is in peril.
SMOKELESS CIGARETTES QUESTIONED: The American Medical Association yesterday sought to halt distribution of a smokeless cigarette by filing legal petitions with state health authorities in Arizona and Missouri where the product is being test marketed, saying it should be removed from shelves until it is judged safe for human consumption.
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