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2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, September 11, 1996

NATION/WORLD

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Kurds flee Iraqi-held territory

Los Angeles Tunes
ISTANBUL, Turkey - Although
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and his
allies offered them the olive branch of
an amnesty, thousands of Kurds yester-
day began fleeing areas that have col-
--apsed into the control of a Baghdad-
lacked Kurdish faction.
Estimates varied greatly about the
numbers of refugees streaming from the
eastern cities of Sulaymaniyah and
Dukan, captured Monday by the Iraqi-
supported Democratic Party of
Kurdistan (KDP) run by leader Masoud
Barzani.
Neighboring Iran appealed yesterday
for international assistance in handling
as many as 200,000 people.
Most U.N. sources, though, spoke of
50,00p Kurds and others pouring out of
Sulaymaniyah, which once had been a
guerrilla stronghold of the rival
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and
its leader, Jalal Talabani.
Only about 10,000 people actually
had reached the Iraqi-Iranian border,
where they were camping in minefields
without proper food or sanitation,
observers said yesterday.
"And they noted that, when it became
clear that frontier was closed and that

Iraqi troops were taking no direct part
in the KDP advance on Sulaymaniyah,
many of the refugees began to return to
northern Iraq.
In Sulaymaniyah, there were
reports that a carnival atmosphere
prevailed as Barzani and his forces
exulted in their apparent victory,
which gave them seemingly undisput-
ed mastery over the 3.5 million Iraqi
Kurds living under guerrilla rule in
northern Iraq.
Barzani's forces were reported to
have conducted an impromptu parade,
with fighters carrying AK-47 rifles
riding through the city streets in pick-
up trucks.
By nightfall, Sulaymaniyah's popula-
tion of 750,000 seemed to be swelling
with returning Kurds, who were travel-
ing home by truck, taxi and on foot.
Shops had reopened and residents had
swapped flying their green PUK flags
for the yellow color of the victorious
PDK. Merchants were plastering their
businesses with photocopied pictures of
Barzani.
Outside the city, about 20 miles
northeast at the PUK headquarters,
KDP fighters 'looted everything they
could carry.

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More than half of teens risk diseases
CHICAGO - More than half the adoles.cents in a national survey had two
or more risk factors that can lead to chronic disease, such as eating fatty foods
and not getting enough exercise, government researchers say.
The survey by researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention was published today in the Journal of the American Med4
Association.
The study was based on a 1992-93 survey of 6,321 adolescents ages 12
through 17. There are more than 20 million Americans in that age group.
The study listed five risk factors for chronic diseases such as heart disease
and cancer: smoking; a sedentary lifestyle; eating too few fruits and vegeta-
bles; eating too many high-fat foods; and heavy drinking, defined as five o
more drinks in a row at least once during the preceding 30 days.
More than six of 10 adolescents reported two or more of the risk factors; one
in 13 reported at least four of the risk factors.
The highest number of risk factors were found among youngsters who had
poor, less-educated parents.
The researchers called on family doctors to counsel adolescents and t
families about healthy habits and disease prevention.

AP PHOTO
Fighters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party celebrate yesterday as they drive
through Sulaymanlyah, Iraq. The victory gave Saddam Hussein control over
Northem Iraq for the first time since the 1991 Gulf War.

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At Talabani's nearby two-story villa,
looters filled trucks with furniture not
completely destroyed in a fire. KDP
soldiers claimed Talabani ordered the
blaze set when it was certain that the
town would be overrun.
In Sairan Ban, one of at least four
border crossings where U.N. officials
had expected up to 75,000 Kurds to
gather after the KDP takeover of north-
ern Iraq, there were expressions among
the thousands there of fear about the
Iraqi regime.
Such mistrust, analysts said, seemed
warranted among those Kurds who
recalled that Hussein just eight years
earlier had poison-gassed Kurdish vil-
lagers.
Those who trudged to the crossing
at Sairan Ban found it shut already,
leaving thousands backed up, hanging
from cars that jammed a hot; dusty

road from Penjwin, 18 miles away.
Tractors pulled wagons piled with
belongings.
Apparently to avert this sort of an
exodus, the Iraqi government and its
PDK allies spoke in extremes of
amnesty for their Kurdish opposition.
Baghdad broadcast a promise to
end the five-year-old Iraqi govern-
ment embargo on Kurdish areas and
talked of re-integrating Iraq by
reviving 1970s negotiations on
autonomy for an area known as Iraqi
Kurdistan.
As for Barzani, while relishing his
faction's triumphs, he announced his
own amnesty for all members of
Talabani's group.
Irbil, the Iraqi Kurdish capital, fell to
Barzani's forces Aug. 31 with the sup-
port of Iraqi army artillery and armored
support.

Postal service aims
for 3 years of profits
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Postal1
Service, which soon will report its sec-
ond annual profit of more than $1 bil-
lion, yesterday set its sights on a record
three years in the black.
This year's profit, estimated at $1.2
billion, was a major accomplishment
for Postmaster General Marvin
Runyon, who last year ordered a strict
cost-cutting program to hold off any
increase in stamp prices. The agency
reported a record $1.7 billion profit in
fiscal 1995.
The agency's newly approved 1997
budget, which calls for a modest $55
million profit, again will test
Runyon's management skills - and,
no doubt, the cooperation of the
agency's big labor unions. Runyon
already has cut costs by trimming
overtime and eliminating programs
he found unproductive. To save more,
he has said he wants the agency to
contract out some operations to pri-
vate industry, a proposal that has

infuriated postal unions.
Since the Postal Service became an
independent agency 25 years ago, it has
never shown a profit three years ina
row. Instead it typically has run a th
year cycle: showing a profit the firs
year of a rate increase, breaking
the second year and losing mon'ey
third. Stamp prices were last raised o
Jan. 1, 1995.
Children to receive
new vaccinations
Parents preparing to take their chil
dren to the doctor for routine vaccina
tions have more options, includin
recently approved whooping-co
vaccine for babies and new recofamen
dations from experts on which young
sters should be immunized againstbvar
ious diseases.
The new vaccine against whoopin
cough, the bacterial infection that i
also known as pertussis, was approve
by the Food and Drug Administration i
July for use in infants less than a yea
old.

MARRIAGE
Continued from Page 1
bill, eight Republicans, including three
who are not seeking re-election this year,
voted for it while five Democrats, all but
one from the South, voted against it.
A Clinton administration statement
said the president, who courted the
gay vote four years ago, will sign the
same-sex marriage bill because he
"has long opposed same-sex mar-
riage."
The statement stressed Clinton's
opposition to "discrimination against
any group of Americans, including
gay. and lesbian individuals." Clinton
endorsed barring job discrimination
on the basis of sexual orientation in
the 1992 campaign and Vice
President Al Gore was ready to return
to Washington from campaign stops
in Pennsylvania to break a tie. ,
That was not necessaryas Sen. David
Pryor (D-Ark.) missed yesterday's
votes because his 33-year-old son had
12-hour cancer surgery in Little Rock
Monday, his spokesperson said. Pryor
was committed to vote for the bill,
according to supporters.
Even if the Senate had approved the

measure, House leaders were unlikely
to schedule a vote on it before quitting
for the year in the next few weeks.
The same-sex marriage measure,
which supporters call the "Defense of
Marriage Act," says no state would have
to recognize a same-sex marriage
granted by another state.
The bill also for the first time defines
marriage in federal law as the "legal
union between one man and one
woman" and defines "spouse" as "a
person of the opposite sex who is a hus-
band or a wife."
As a result, even if a state were to
recognize gay marriages, those partners
would not be eligible for benefits as
spouses under such federal programs as
Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid or
veterans' programs.
Conservative activists said yester-
day's votes - eight weeks to the day
before Election Day - would boost the
chances of GOP nominee Bob Dole.
"This is a huge string of victories for
the pro-family movement," said Ralph
Reed, executive director of the Christian
Coalition.
"These are the bricks in the wall that
allow you to build the turnout of reli-
gious conservatives."
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has stated repeatedly that Colombia official.
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Believing that Yeshua is
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