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The Daily Gazette
Swarthmore College
Wednesday, October 1, 1997
Volume 2, Number 23
NEWS IN BRIEF
1) World news roundup
SPORTS IN BRIEF
1) Women’s soccer loses to nationally ranked Gettysburg
2) Today’s and tomorrow’s contests
WEATHER FORECAST
Today: Partly cloudy, still fairly windy. High around 60.
It’s going to feel a lot cooler than 60, so wear that jacket.
Tonight: A few clouds. Low close to 40.
Coldest night of the semester so far — party at Goundie’s!!
Thursday: Mostly sunny, still cool. High near 65.
NEWS REPORT
1) World news roundup
15 KILLED, 20 WOUNDED AFTER PAKISTANI TROOPS FIRE ACROSS INDIAN BORDER
Pakistani forces opened artillery fire across the border with India’s Jammu
and Kashmir state on Tuesday, killing 15 civilians and wounding 20, Indian
officials told news organizations. The officials said that at least 100
shells were fired at the town of Kargil and that one destroyed a mosque.
About two dozen people died in August fighting along the disputed border in
the Himalayas, but the attacks had tapered off, and Pakistan offered Sept.
22 to negotiate a non-aggression treaty with India.
SOUTH AFRICAN ‘TRUTH COMMISSION’ ORDERS EX-PRESIDENT TO TESTIFY
South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Tuesday subpoenaed
P.W. Botha, the country’s next-to-last apartheid-era president, to testify
on his government’s efforts to put down resistance. The commission, set up
to investigate abuses under the white supremacist regime, is offering
pardons to those who confess fully. Botha said he could not attend his
hearing, set for Oct. 14, for health reasons; the commission’s chairman,
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, planned to find another date. Former President
F.W. de Klerk, who ended apartheid and shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize
with resistance leader Nelson Mandela, may also be called to testify.
IN OTHER NEWS …
About 15,000 Ugandan students marched Tuesday through the streets of
Kampala, the nation’s capital, in a show of support for 19 classmates held
hostage since last year by rebels in the northern part of the country. …
A freshman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who was found
unconscious Friday amid vomit and empty liquor bottles in a fraternity
house died late Monday of alcohol poisoning. … Don Staples, a broadcast
and film professor at the University of North Texas, was suspended with pay
after he told a campus forum that he thinks minority students have poor
attendance habits. … Stanford University’s student newspaper fired
columnist Jesse Oxfeld after he wrote about Chelsea Clinton, violating the
publication’s policy against covering the president’s daughter, a Stanford
first-year.
*****
SPORTS UPDATE
1) Women’s soccer loses to nationally ranked Gettysburg
The women’s soccer team lost a tough home game Tuesday against Gettysburg’s
nationally ranked squad. After going into overtime with a 1-1 tie,
Gettysburg scored another point for the victory. Swarthmore’s goal was
scored by Diana Hunt ’99. Sarah Jaquette ’98 had the assist.
*****
2) Today’s and tomorrow’s contests
TODAY
There are no contests scheduled for today.
TOMORROW
Men’s tennis hosts the first day of the Eastern Rolex tournament.
Volleyball hits the road again to play Johns Hopkins.
*****
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