Page Z -- Over The Edge -- April 14, 1997

World News In Brief

German Court Faults Iran = A
German court today accused
lran of ordering political
killings in Berlin and indicated
President Akbar Hashemi

* Rafsanjani and religious
ieader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
were involved. The speaker of
the Iranian parliament, Ali
Akbar Nateq-Nouri, dismissed
as “political” the German
court finding, calling it untrue
and demanding evidence. The
Berlin court said that Tehran:
ordered the 1992 killings of
three Kurdish dissidents.

Zaire Rebel Delivers
Ultimatum - Rebel leader
Laurent Kabila, in control of
Zaire’s economic heartland,
gave President Mobutu Sese
Seko three days to start talks
on leaving office or face a
fresh offensive on all fronts. In
Zaire’s second city of
Lubumbashi, a showdown
looms between rebels who
seized the southern mining

capital yesterday and Mobutu

loyalists surrounded and
trapped in the airport four
miles to the northeast.

China Warns US on Rights
Motion - China warned the
United States that relations
could suffer if it continues to
support Denmark's decision to
censure China’s human-rights
record in the United Nations.
The United States says it won’t
back down. In Canberra,
Australia said it -had struck a
deal with China to set up a
formal dialogue on human

rights and would no longer
back the censure motion.

Shots Ring Out on Korean
Frontier - A Seoul military
spokesman says North and
South Korean troops
exchanged warning shots at
their tense border, shortly
before U.S. Defense Secretary
William Cohen visited the area.
U.S. and South Korean
officials say southern troops on
patrol within the Demilitarized
Zone fired 10 shots into the air
after seeing a group of North
Korean soldiers who had
crossed the border line. Later,
Cohen flew by helicopter to the
border village of Panmunjom,
about 60 miles west of the
flashpoint.

India’s Political Crisis
Deepens - India’s political
crisis is -deepening. The
rebellious Congress party has
ordered lawmakers to vote to
topple their former ally, Prime
Minister H.D. Deve Gowda.
Congress issued a notice to
deputies to vote against a
confidence motion that Deve
Gowda is to put before the
lower house of parliament
tomorrow. The party whip order
raises pressure on Deve
Gowda’s center-left ruling
coalition to bow to its rival’s
demand that the prime minister
relinquish power before the
vote.

Yeltsin Vows to Beat
Corruption - Russian
President Boris Yeltsin,

by Jordana Feist

Amongst all the cutbacks
there is advancement. The
University has just launched a
new entrance program for first
year Rural and Aboriginal
students. Called the Northern
Advancement Program the
progam is designed to ease the
transition to university life for
students who are aboriginal or
who are from small rural areas.
The program is set to be
launched in September of
1997.

The program will require
-|students to take two new
courses. These courses are Arts
101 and 102. It is hpoed that
these new courses will provide
a foundation of skills to ease
further study for the student.
Arts 101 and 102 will offer
instruction in the areas of
library skills, research skills,
text reading skills, writing
skills, study skills, public
speaking, group development,
stress management, note taking
skills, assertiveness traing,
career planning, and test taking
skills.

Admission to the program
will be separate from

declaring war on official
corruption, says he’s sure his
government will win the age-
long battle against graft.
Yeltsin has launched several
anti-corruption drives, but
bribery and corruption have
flourished at all levels of
government since the end of
communist rule in 1991. There
has been little evidence of
success and few criminal
convictions.

Applicants will require
completion of an academic
grade 12 program with a
minimum C+ average. This
Kingdom Mobilizes for | average will be calculated from
Pilgrims - Up to two million
Muslims in white robes are
converging on the holy city of
Mecca in Saudi Arabia to
perform the haj pilgrimage, a
centuries-old rite which
reaches its climax April 16.
Officials say 980,000 pilgrims

New Program to Promote
University Skills

admission to the University. -

the students five best grade 12
credits which must include
math, science and english
Mature students will be
accepted only if they meet the
following standards, they are:
resident of B.C., have been ow
of school at least 3 years, anc
are at least 21 years of age a
the date of program start.

Given all the cutbacks how
can such a comprehensive anc
specialized program be startec
up? The program has gone
beyond the regular funding
from the university, N.A.P. ha:
recieved corporate funding
from the Canadian Imperia
Bank of Commerce and ha:
made B.C. Hydro, The Maurice
Young Foundation § anc
Westcoast Energy progran
partners. They have raisec
more than $600,000 it
endowment and operating
funds.

For all students who are
looking for a study skills clas:
keep your eyes open fo:
University 101. It is a new
class that will address the study
skills needs of the rest of the
student body.

For more information fee.
free to contact Dr. Lee
Morrison, Director of Firs.
Nations Programs, UNBC.
(250) 960-5517

have already arrived in Saudi
Arabia by air, land and sea.
Saudi newspapers say planes
carrying pilgrims have been
landing at the rate of one a
minute at Jeddah airport.

Peru Broker: Put Pride Aside

- A mediator in Peru’s hostage
crisis is urging the government
and Marxist rebels to put pride
aside in the search for the safe
telease of 72 captives held in
the Japanese ambassador’s
home in Lima, Vatican
Tepresentative Juan Luis
Cipriani, one of a three-man
crisis mediation team, says the
fact that face-to-face talks
broke down nearly a month ago
doesn’t mean moves to end the
siege have ground to a halt.

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