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Texas University Campus
Memorial Student Center
serving the general public
Monday - Saturday 8a.m. - 5p.m.
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MSC Jordan Institute for International Awareness
presents:
THE OLYMPICS:
AN INSIDE LOOK
Speaker: Randy Matson,
Executive Director of the
Association of Former Students,
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The
University
Chamber
Series
Opening Concert
Werner Rose, Pianist
“...proved a treasure in interpretation and
dynamic control” - Australia
Monday, Sept. 19
Rudder Theatre, 8:00 pm
Tickets available at the MSC Box Office, 845-1234
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World and Nation
Forest fires can actually
help make strong habitat
CASCADE, Idaho (AP) — While
many lament the fires that have
charred much of Yellowstone Na
tional Park, a wilderness that went
up in smoke just one year ago al
ready displays lush and diverse
greenery that attracts herds of elk.
“The fire created more wildlife
habitat than anything we could have
ever done,” Forest Ranger Morris
Huffman said of the Deadwood
Summit fire in the Frank Church-
River of No Return Wilderness in
the Boise National Forest.
The fire 250 miles west of
Yellowstone burned more than
50,000 acres during the summer of
1987.
“It’s a natural mosaic now, with
open meadows and stands of tim
ber,” said forest spokesman Frank
Carroll. “A forest that was just get
ting older and deader has now been
beautifully revived.”
Federal land managers, rocked by
criticism of their hands-off approach
to dealing with naturally sparked
wildfires in wilderness areas and
parks, point to Deadwood Summit as
an example of a good burn. It’s a
tough sell.
Fires this summer have charred
more than 1.5 million acres in and
around Yellowstone. An early deci
sion to let the flames go unchecked
within prescribed boundaries ig
nited a firestorm of controversy, and
Interior Secretary Donald Hodel has
said a change is likely.
Idaho Gov. Cecil Andrus, a for
mer Interior secretary, and others
have called the “let burn” policy a
prescription for disaster, especially
during the region’s worst drought in
decades.
But while the tourist-dependent
communities surrounding
Yellowstone look with apprehension
at changes nature will take genera
tions to erase, others say Deadwood
Summit is, and Yellowstone will be,
an ecologically healthier place as a
result of being burned.
“When fire goes through an area
and turns those trees into ash, one ot
the things that happens is that the
minerals the tree has captured dur
ing its life are returned to the soil,"
said Tracey Trent, chief of program
coordination for the Idaho Depart
ment of Fish and Game.
As Huffman puts it, “It doesn’t
take long before nature starts doing
its thing.”
The Deadwood Summit fire was
started by lightning on Aug. 1, 1987,
about 25 air miles east of Cascade
and three miles east of the Frank
Church wilderness boundary.
The blaze was doused by rain and
snow three months later, after burn
ing about 40,000 acres inside the wil
derness and 1 1,500 acres elsewhere
inside a 75-mile perimeter.
Swedish election returns
hold unusual implications
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) —
The Social Democrats kept control
of parliament and the upstart
Greens environmental party won
seats for the first time, nationwide
election returns showed Sunday.
The governing party, architects of
Sweden’s welfare state, faced one of
its most serious election challenges
in 50 years in the first national vote
since its leader, Olaf Palme, was as
sassinated on Feb. 28, 1986.
The big losers appeared to be the
three non-socialist parties.
A computer projection carried by
Swedish Television, based on re
turns from 340 of 360 population
centers, indicated that the Moder
ates, Liberals and Center Party
would lose 21 of their 171 seats in
the 349-seat Riksdag, or parliament.
The Social Democrats lost only
one of their 159 seats and the
Greens picked up 20 seats, the tele
vision projections showed. The com
puter projection indicated the Com
munists, which had 19 seats, picked
up two additional seats.
Overall, the Social Democrats
were ^projected to win 43.9 percent
of the total, or 158 seats; the Moder
ates, 17.9 percent, 64 seats; the Lib
erals, 12 percent, or 43 seats; the
Center Party, 11.9 percent, or 43
seats; the Communists, 5.7 percent,
or 21 seats; the Greens, 5.5 percent,
20 seats; and the Christian Demo
crats, 3.1 percent, no seats.
Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson,
leader of the Social Democrats, said
the government will hold the same
course and offered a critique of the
Greens.
“We will stick to the same policy as
before,” he said in a television inter
view. “The interesting thing is that
the environment party entered (par
liament) but are not power brokers. .
. that is good, maybe even for them.
“The problem is that we don’t
know where they stand,” Carlsson
said of the Greens. “We will be able
to judge them by their deeds in the
Riksdag.”
Greens spokeswoman Eva Goes
declined to say whether her party
will lean to the left or right.
“We’ll be dynamic when it comes
to ecology. That’s what this election
is about, the issues of the future, the
1990s . . . and you can ask yourself
whether that is left or right," she said
in a television interview.
Greens members were jubilant
over their victory.
“Great fun," said party s|M>kes-
man Birger Schlaug. “This was an
impossible project, to get a new
party into Sweden’s Riksdag. . . out
existence means parliament will be
greener, and that’s what’s needed."
Political analyst Soren Holmberg
called the showing by the three non-
socialists a “disaster” and “their
worst result in Swedish history.”
The voter turnout was an unusu
ally low 85.8 percent of those eligi
ble, television reported.
Also competing for the attention
of 6.3 million registered voters were
about 100 minor parties. I hev
ranged from the Socialist Workers'
Party, which opposes foreign immi
gration to Sweden, to the Donald
Duck Party, a joke party with no
platform for voters who might
otherwise turn in blank ballots.
Swedes also choose 284 municipal
and 24 county councils and vote on
local issues.
Iran releases
death figures
to
for first time
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has announced casualty figures B an ‘ is aI
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Minister Mohammad Khatami|jtt ( 1 asH
in an interview with Tehran p ausc
momioied m Nicosia, th.ipsweiii In
other military personnel were w *th *' an( .
as missing in at tion. He said];. person an
lieved many of those are prijoiie^B^ < ^ a
war in Iraq. but tlies
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was well below estimates of 3C anc * ta l >
Iranians killed that Westernm whither t
analysis said were considered
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than 800,000 Iranians were s q uare -d;
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Ivsts estimated them earlier tin out
at 600,000 to 700,000. gT
U.S. and other Western
have estimated 120,000 Iraqiil
and 300,000 wounded in tht
flict.
Iran held a 3-1 manpower
over its foe, but for mucnoftb®
the Iraqis fought from heavili
fled defense lines that helped
mi/e their casualties.
Khatami, who is also a d
commander at military heas twodaug
ters, said 11 .m s Revolutioi^B .i!>< m
Guards suffered the worst cat^fl Altei .
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the regular army were kilk
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purges after the monard
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were killed in Iraqi attach oe
nian cities.
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thousand civilians were slaw
seven-week “war of the dues'a
this year when Iraq fired souk
long-range missiles into Tehnu
other cities.
Towns along the border
shelled almost daily by Iraqi anu
and short-range rockets. Tliei
firepower far outweighed wta
Iranians were able to hurl back
Pope urges end
to 12-year civil war
during African trip
MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) —
Pope John Paul II, his shoulders
draped with a leopard skin, on Sun
day urged the Marxist government
and rebels to end their 12-year civil
war and called for international aid
to rebuild the country.
“I felt the heart of the people
bleed,” the pope told Roman Catho
lic bishops, criticized by the govern
ment for advocating negotiations
with the Mozambique National Re
sistance rebels.
During the last full day of a 10-
day trip through southern Africa,
the pope comforted victims whose
limbs were blown off by land mines,
celebrated Mass at a soccer stadium
decked with political banners and
was greeted by a boisterous crowd of
5,000 when he blessed an orphanage
in a slum of reed huts.
He met with anti-apartheid clergy
leaders from neighboring South Af
rica, which Mozambique’s govern
ment has accused of aiding the guer
rilla insurgency. The civil war began
shortly after Mozambique gained in
dependence from Portugal in 1975.
“With violence, nothing can be
built and much is lost,” he said,
urging citizens of this nation on the
Indian Ocean coast of southeastern
Africa to follow “the path of dia
logue and reconciliation which will
stop the spilling of blood among
brothers.”
Addresssing himself to the rebels,
the pope said: “Abandon the paths
of violence and vengeance. Put aside
destructive action and try to save
what’s left.”
The government, he said, “should
make efforts in the sense of build-
ing.”
“This nation needs assistance
from other peoples and from the in
ternational community,” he said.
“Let me stress the urgency of this
solidarity, aimed at a quick, total pac
ification and immediate aid grants to
save a large amount of human lives.”
The government accuses the
guerrillas of massacres and destruc-
“Abandon the paths of vi
olence and vengeance. Put
aside destructive action
and try to save what’s
left. ”
— Pope John Paul
tion of crops. The rebels deny such
charges.
Among the crowd of about 50,000
were the anti-apartheid church lead
ers from South Africa, including the
Rev. Allan Boesak, president of the
World Alliance of Reformed
Churches, and the Rev. Frank
Chikane, general secretary of the
South African Council of Churches.
They are leaders of a civil disobedi
ence campaign challenging emer
gency regulations and apartheid,
South Africa’s system of racial segre
gation.
Banners at Machava Sports Sta
dium bore slogans such as “Apart
heid is the Nazism of our era” and
“One does not negotiate the moth
erland, one defends it.”
During his homily, the pope said
Mozambique should be afforded
“peace from the outside, of an ideo
logical, military and economic na
ture” — an apparent reference to
South Africa, which has been ac
cused of using a variety of tactics to
harrass Mozambique.
The pope wore a leopard skin, a
symbol of power to many Africans.
Most of the crowd at the stadium
joined a 300-strong choir in singing
the hymn “What a Friend We Have
in Jesus’ in the Tsonga language, to
the accompaniment of drums and
hand-clapping.
Gifts of ivory carvings, fruit and a
brass chalice were carried up a red-
carpeted stairway to the altar. Chil
dren released balloons and white
doves, one of which alighted briefly
on the head of a white-robed priest.
World briefs
Helicopter opens fire on fishing boats
JERUSALEM (AP) — An
Egyptian helicopter opened lire
on three fishing boats that
strayed into Egyptian waters Sun
day, wounding two Palestinians
from the Gaza Strip and sinking
one of the boats, Israel radio said.
Also Sunday, 15 Palestinians
were wounded in clashes with Is
raeli troops in the occupied West
Bank and Gaza Strip, according
to Arab reports.
The army said a reserve soldier
was jailed for meeting with Pales
tinians and promising that his
unit would not use force if Arabs
demonstrated peacefully.
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Israel radio said the threefJ
mg boats were intercepted bv: j
helicopter about 12 miles wet' i
the Gaza Strip. One of the boil
was set ablaze in the firing anj
sank, the radio said. The whefcj
bouts of the crew was not knod
it said.
"Two wounded fishernifj
brothers Azzam and Hus
Bakr, were [lulled from the"*:
by crewmen in. another boat anf
taken to Shifa Hospital in Gai
City-
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Bush becomes famous for bloopers
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Blame it on long campaign days
with multiple stops, jet lag, or
whatever. Bloopers are becoming
a standard feature of George
Bush’s stump speeches.
“You ought to vote for me be
cause I knew about Pearl Harbor
three months before it hap
pened,” Bush joked last week,
trying to take the edge off his
mistake about the date of the )ap-
anese attack that led America into
World War II. He had said it was
on Sept. 7 instead of Dec. 7.
Since that loulup, it seems
Bush slips in every speech.
“I hope I stand for anti-
otry, anti-Semitism, anti-racism
Bush said in one. “That is A
drives me.” Later, Bush send®
press secretary out to make sun
reporters knew he did nouitf
to say he stands for anli-Sem
tism.
Tripping over his oft-statf
goal of full employment, the R f
publican presidential nomiit fi
said he wanted to ensure that"?
erybody who has a job wants
iob.”
Jackson outearns Cosby by $5 milliot
NEW YORK (AP) — Michael
Jackson has moonwalked his way
past Bill Cosby to become the
world’s highest-paid entertainer,
raking in an estimated $60 mil
lion this year, Forbes magazine
reports.
Jackson, who was ranked ninth
on last year’s Forbes Top 40 list of
the wealthiest celebrities, is ex
pected to earn a total of $97 mil
lion for 1987 and 1988, Forbes
says in its Oct. 3 edition.
The 30-year-old entertainer
made approximately $40 million
from his recent worldwide tour,
and the rest came from sales of
his album Had, his autobiogra
phy, “Moonwalk,” Pepsi endorse
ments and other music pub
lishing, the magazine says.
Cosby, who held the No. 1^
on last year’s list with 1986-87*
come of $84 million, was No,2*
the current list with $92 million 11
earnings for 1987 and 19^
Forbes says.
The youngest entertainers
the list is 22-year-old heavytveif
boxing champion Mike T-
Tyson’s earnings skyrocket
from $10 million in 1987 toaf
proximately $45 million this)’®
the highest 1988 income beW
Jackson’s, the magazine fl 1 ]
mates.
Two other boxers, Sugar i
Leonard and Michael Spiiq
made the list, with $27 nt®
and $17 million, respectively,
earnings for the two-year period
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