Unified Korea
proposed at
UN meeting
By PETER JAMES SPIELMANN
Associated Press Writer
UNITED NATIONS North Korea
proposed yesterday the creation of a
neutral Korean nation in which the
socialist north and capitalist south
would peacefully co-exist in a confed
eration.
Meanwhile, South Korean Presi
dent Roh Tae-woo pledged yesterday
to pursue better relations with China,
the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
to help free North Korea from its
international isolation.
North Korea's deputy foreign min
ister, Kang Sok Ju, told the 43rd
U.N.General Assembly that the new
nation his country was proposing
would "realize national reunification
leaving the two social systems in the
North and the South as they are."
"There is no hidden attempt to
insinuate 'unification through Com
munization' and no intention to im
pose our ideas and system on the
other side," Kang said.
South Korea's U.N.Mission did not
directly respond to the proposal. It
said in a statement, "Our president
(Roh Tae-woo) yesterday suggested
all those proposals of North and South
Korea be discussed at the summit
talks between the two parts of Ko
rea."
Speaking before the General As
sembly on Tuesday, Roh said that
before reunification could occur, mu
tual trust between the nations must
be established.
Roh also proposed the two Koreas
meet with United States, Soviet
Union, China and Japan to prepare
the groundwork for peace and securi
ty measures throughout northeast
Asia.
In prepared remarks for a speech
to the Council on Foreign Relations
and the Asia Society, said yesterday
in New York, "We do not seek to
isolate North Korea. We hope that the
improvement and expansion of our
relations with socialist countries will
stimulate North Korea into opening
itself up to the outside world and
responding positively to our call for
reconciliation and cooperation."
The new Korea, which Kang called
Yugoslavian Politburo members resign
By ALISON SMALE
Associated Press Writer
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia Four Politburo
members resigned yesterday rather than face a
confidence vote in the Communist Party's Central
Committee, which ended its three-day meeting
without a crisis solution in sight.
Another member, Dusan Ckrebic from the Ser
bian republic, offered to quit after losing a confi
dence vote, the first time that has happened since
the Communists took power in 1945.
The nation is torn by ethnic, political and eco
nomic problems, but Stipe Suvar, the Communist
Party chief, declared, "Yugoslavia will not fall
apart." He told a news conference there was
"virtual consensus (among the leaders) for pro
found changes" and insisted the meeting had
made "a step forward" in solving its woes.
The Central Committee accepted a proposal
Assembly supports revamping TA program
By DEBRA YUHASZ
Collegain Staff Writer
The Undergraduate Student Government's Aca
demic Assembly voted last night to support a
Faculty Senate Undergraduate Instruction Com
mittee proposal to re-organize and improve areas
in the current teaching assistant program.
Jerry Covert, assembly advisor and member of
the senate committee, presented the assembly
with the proposal two weeks ago to allow the group
to respond in favor or suggest changes for the
draft.
The proposal outlines five recommendations for
improving the TA program which include:
■The re-affirmation of the Faculty Senate's
commitment to teaching instruction and English
language testing, aS mandated by senate legis
lation passed in 1981.
■ The reporting of results of departmental
training activities and English language tests to
the Instructional Development Program, which
"the Democratic Confederal Repub
lic of Koryo," would have a supreme
national assembly with an equal
number of representives from north
and south. However, he did not pro
vide details of how two such different
social systems might be melded suc
cessfully into one nation.
Kang said the proposal was first
suggested by North Korea's Presi
dent Kim Il Sung in 1980 and reiter
ated last September.
Koryo was one of three nations on
the Korean peninsula 600 years ago.
The passenger manifest said the
victims included two Japanese, three
Germans and an industrialist from
Bahrain. The United News of India
news agency said at least 11 foreign
ers were aboard but did not identify
the other five.
The Fokker Friendship crashed
into a 1,400-foot hill near Guwahati
airport, about 960 miles east of New
Delhi. It was nearing the end of a
flight from Silchar, about 112 miles to
the southeast.
The plane, made in 1958, reported
zero visibility, then lost contact with
the Guwahati control tower two min
utes before the 8:55 a.m. (11:25 p.m.
EDT Tuesday), said C.Das, the top
civil administrator for Guwahati dis
trict.
All 31 passengers and three crew
members were feared dead, he said.
The crash site, in a dense forest,
could not be reached because of rain.
The government owns Indian Air
lines, Vayadoot and Air-India, which
operates only on international routes.
On June 19, the pilot of an Indian
Airlines plane forgot to lower the
landing gear and slid to a stop in New
Delhi. None of the passengers were
hurt.
The latest edition of India Today
newsmagazine said the airline ne
glects maintenance and fails to prop
erly supervise pilots. It quoted an
unidentified civil aviation official as
saying pilots rarely attend weather
briefings.
An Indian Airlines Boeing 737 made
a crash-landing in Calcutta in Feb
ruary 1985 after the pilot and co-pilot
failed to lower the landing gear.
from Suvar to replace one-third of its 165 members
over the next six weeks. If this goes ahead, it
would be the single biggest sweep through the
ruling elite since 1948, when Stalinists were purged
after Josip Broz Tito broke with Moscow.
But Yugoslav leaders remained deeply divided,
and popular criticism of the hierarchy seemed
unlikely to abate.
Ckrebic's defeat in the confidence vote was seen
as a blow to Serbian Communist Party leader
Slobodan Milosevic, whose insistence on more
Serbian control over the autonomous provinces of
Vojvodina and Kosovo has deepened Yugoslavia's
political and ethnic rifts.
Crkebic, an oldtime Communist in his 60s, was
seen as a Milosevic ally.
Ten of the 23 members of the Presidium, or
Politburo, were up for the vote and had been
expected to resign. Nine obtained more than the
simple majority of 83 required from the full
will provide additional information concerning the
programs to the colleges' associate deans.
M The certification by IDP, assuring that the
graduate student is prepared to be a TA, based
upon successful completion of the English test and
participation in instructional activities.
■The development of a subcommittee of the
Undergraduate Instructuion Committee to devel
op criteria to assess departmental programs and
aid IDP in certifying these programs.
11l The evaluation and review by the Undergrad
uate Instructional subcommittee of IDP's activ
ities in addressing the instructional needs of
teaching assistants.
Covert said, in addition to the assembly, he
asked for input from other organizations including
Graduate Student Association, Administrative
Council on Undergraduate Education and the
University Student Advisory Board. All of these
groups supported the proposal, he added.
It was referred to the Undergraduate Instruc
tion committee last Tuesday and is awaiting
approval, he said.
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Death toll raised to
By JAGDISH RATTANANI
Associated Press Writer
AHMADABAD, India A Boeing
737 jetliner and another Indian pas
senger plane crashed in bad weather
within two hours of each other yester
day, and authorities said the death
toll may be as high as 164.
The Indian Airlines jet was trying
to land in heavy fog at the western
city of Ahmadabad when it slammed
into a tree, hit a power line and
crashed. All but five of the 135 people
aboard were killed, and three of the
survivors were in serious condition
with burns and broken bones.
About 1 hour and fiftenn minutes
later, a 30-year-old Fokker
Friendship propeller plane leased by
Indian Airlines to the domestic car
rier Vayudoot hit the side of a hill in
eastern India during a severe rain
storm, and all 34 people aboard were
feared dead, officials said.
Indian Airlines Flight 131 was fly
ing from Bombay with 129 passengers
and six crewmembers when it
crashed at 7:40 a.m. yesterday (10:10
p.m. EDT Tuesday) on its final ap
proach to Ahmadabad airport, about
500 miles southwest of New Delhi.
Federal Aviation Minister Shiv Raj
Patil said the death toll of 130 was the
worst in the carrier's 26-year history.
It was the airline's 16th major acci
dent.
The government-run airline, which
flies to 73 airports in India and to nine
other countries, has come under fire
recently for allegedly failing to main
tain pre-flight safety procedures.
The cause of yesterday's crash was
not immediately known, but one air
line official who spoke on condition of
anonymity said the airline suspects a
technical malfunction complicated
by bad weather.
Patil said he did not rule out sab
otage and ordered an investigation
Central Committee membership of 165, but Ckreb
ic mustered only 68 votes.
The resignations of another four members
Kolj Siroka, Bosko Krunic, Milanko Renovica and
Franc Setinc were unanimously accepted by the
Central Committee. Nine, including Milosevic,
were exempt because they hold seats as party
chiefs of Yugoslavia's six republics, two provinces
and the armed forces.
"Please accept immediately my resignation,"
Ckrebic said after losing the confidence vote in a
secret ballot.
Milosevic demanded that Ckrebic's offer not be
considered immediately and Suvar later told re
porters the resignation will be discussed at a
regular meeting of the Presidium in 10 days.
The economic problems have led to increasing
strikes and worker unrest, adding to the ethnic
tensions in a country of more than 20 ethnic
groups.
The proposal should recieve final Faculty Sen
ate approval in December so it can be imple
mented in January, he added.
In other business, the assembly unanimously
approved the appointment of Kevin Lee as a USG
Supreme Court Justice.
Lee received USG senate approval last week,
and presented the assembly with his qualifications
for the position last night.
After receiving an executive appointment and
approval from USG senate, a person seeking a
justice position must finally be approved by the
assembly, said Stephanie Bozym, assembly vice
president.
Lee (junior—administration of justice) is also
the executive chairman of the commonwealth
campus committee for the Black Caucus.
While attending the Ogontz commonwealth cam
pus, Lee's activities included Black Student Union
president and vice president, freshman orienta
tion advisor, Liberal Arts career day coordinator
and member of the Cross Culture Committee, he
said.
164 in India crash
headed by a high court judge.
A recording between the pilot and
the Ahmadabad control tower gave
no indication of trouble. Rescue work
ers found the flight data and cockpit
voice recorders in smoldering wreck
age and blood-stained debris.
Survivor Paag Vasavda, 28, said
the pilot told passengers he was hav
ing trouble landing in the fog. Vasav
da said he heard two explosions.
"Afterward, the plane broke
apart," said Vasavda, who was
thrown from the plane while still
strapped in his seat.
Pratap G.Thakore, a farmer whose
fields are near the airport, said, "I
saw flames coming from the plane
while it was in the air. As it was
coming down, it hit a tree and then an
electricity line and then crashed."
Press Trust of India news agency
quoted survivor Vindo Tripathy as
saying he ran from the plane after it
hit the ground.
Faculty Senate: study
areas are inadequate
By DEBRA YUHASZ
Collegian Staff Writer
You've got your nose in a book.
But do you have enough elbow
room?
A University Faculty Senate
subcommittee composed of the
committees on Student Life and
Libraries is preparing a report
which deems University study
space insufficient for some stu
dents' needs, said subcommittee
chairman Tom Smyth.
The subcommittee's research
was conducted in conjunction with
Tone Meringolo, chief of the Uni
versity libraries; humanities and
social sciences division.
In addition, a survey conducted
last spring by the Undergraduate
Student Government's Academic
Assembly determined that the
University does not offer enough
study space.
Whereas the 1982 seating capaci
ty of University Park libraries
provided for B.2percent of the en-
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"I can, even at the age of 57, run
like a hare," Tripathy said. "Death
and misery were everywhere."
Tripathy, who later lost conscious
ness, suffered severe burns and broke
both legs and hands.
tire student body, the University
lost 180 of these seats between 1982
and 1987 because of space allotted
to excess library materials, said
Assembly President Maria Witm
er. Seating capacity as of 1987 was
placed at 7.3 percent, she said.
Over the next three years, li
brary officials estimate the seat
ing capacity will be lowered to
6.7 percent as a result of losing
another 216 seats to new texts, she
added.
These percentages are critically
low when compared to librarians'
suggested national standards
which set seating capacity at 20 to
30percent of the student body,
Witmer said.
Although Smyth terms the na
tional standards "generous per
centages," the lack of study space
at the University is problematic
for some University students, said
Smyth, an entomology professor.
Also, students using library
space to study occupy seats which
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