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News Digest 96 injured when train derails in North Egypt 1 CAIRO, Egypt — A train jumped its tracks at a north ern Egyptian station Sunday and careened through people and kiosks on the platform, killing at least 30 people, the interior min istry said. Ninety-six people were injured when the locomotive and the first two passenger cars toppled over and plowed through bystanders, a ministry statement said. Earlier, police reported at least 40 dead and 200 injured, and said that four passenger cars had over turned. Officials attributed those discrepancies to confusion at the scene. Initial reports also said the train had crashed into houses near the railway, but the ministry’s report did not confirm this. Egyptian television showed a crane moving toward one of the overturned train cars as scores of riot police fended off hundreds of wailing people. One train car ap peared to have crashed into small buildings, possibly houses, near the railway. Local residents flocked to the lo cal hospital to give blood, the offi cial Middle East News Agency re ported. Others at the site used their clothes to stanch the bleed ing of the injured, the agency said. The train was traveling from the port of Alexandria to Kafr el-Sheik when it derailed in the station of Kafr el-Dawar, a town about 20 miles southeast of Alexandria, the ministry said. The train went off the rails when the driver changed tracks "at high speed,” the statement said. A senior railway official, Mah moud Marei, said the driver was speeding because free-riding pas sengers had tampered with the brakes system between the cars, the news agency reported. Such trains are usually packed with hundreds of commuters and it is not uncommon for people to hitch a ride on the roof and be tween the cars. Egyptian railways have suffered a series of accidents in the past four years. The most serious was in December 1995 when two trains collided in fog south of Cairo. Convoy may signal Serb redeployment 2 PRISTINA, Yugoslavia — A Serb military' convoy report edly moved out of its barracks in Pristina on Sunday and headed toward the main highway through central Kosovo — a sign that Serb forces may be redeploying despite the continuing threat of NATO airstrikes. A column of tanks, armored personnel carriers and trucks traveled through the Komorane police checkpoint, about 15 miles west of Pristina, the provincial capital, said western sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The exact number of troops was not known, but they report edly came from a brigade normal ly stationed in Pristina. Their ul timate destination also was not known, but the sources said the redeployment may have been in response to recent attacks on Serb police. On Saturday, three Serb po licemen died and three others were badly wounded by a grenade at a police outpost in the town of Orlate, 20 miles south west of Pristina, where police have long complained of fre quent attacks by ethnic Albani ans. The Serb-run Kosovo Media Center in Pristina reported a dozen other attacks occurred around the province, despite an agreement reached last week be tween U.S. envoy Richard Hol brooke and Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic that is in tended to end the bloodshed. Serb officials blamed the stepped-up violence on the eth nic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army, loosely organized bands of guerrillas still operating in many areas of this poor southern province of Serbia. Reno urges expansion of hate crimes laws 3 WASHINGTON — Attorney General Janet Reno urged Congress to expand federal hate crime laws to include offenses based on sexual orientation, say ing on Sunday that the murder of gay Wyoming student Matthew Shepard shows that the govern ment must take a stronger stand. Reno, appearing on CNN’s “Late Edition,” said such nation wide legislation is needed to ad dress “situations where the state cannot or will not take action.” She said a bill introduced al most a year ago — but not passed by the current Congress — sends "a clear message from the federal government, if we can get it passed, that hate crimes will not be tolerated.” The beating death of Shepard, a University of Wyoming freshman, has renewed debate about a more comprehensive hate crimes bill. Existing federal law applies only to crimes motivated by race, color, religion or national origin. The proposed legislation would expand the crimes to cover those based on gender, disability or sex ual orientation, and makes federal prosecution easier. “We take issue with those who say that we don’t need these laws,” said House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt of Mis souri during a Capitol Hill candle light vigil for Shepard last week. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said on “Fox News Sunday” that he planned to hold hearings on the legislation, but was himself of mixed feelings about it. zvevtfo calevtdafi October -/l/ovember Events 1998 at the University of Oregon ]jgUI into fun Campus Events! Pick up your campus Events calendars at Residence Hall Area Desks, EMU, Oregon Hall, UO information Booth, YWCA, UO Bookstore, Tour Guide Booth, Health center, counseling center, and Childcare centers. Monday TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY |19 8 p.m. Ani DiFranco Hult Center 7 30 pm. Chiapas Educational Forum Fir Room, EMU 20 8:15 p.m Judaic Studies Lecture Ballroom, EMU 7:30 p.m Like Never Before Book Reading Browsing Room. Knight Library 21 5-0 p.m MusEvening U0 Museum ol Art 22 10 am -2 am Regular Rec Center Hour*. Check out the Rac Center! Ground Floor. EMU 23 8-10 pm 24 25 Open Mic Every Frit The Bun Cotleehouse, EMU 7 30-11 30 p.m Ballroom Oance 220 Gerlmyer 8pm Film: Painting the Town isoPLC Homecoming * Family Weekend Homecoming Game Auden Stadium 26 8P-m ^uJustlce & Righteousness 129 Grayson Hall. Law Center 7-9 p.m Roundtable on Women’s Health Forum Ballroom, EMU 27 8pm OcTUBMest Concert Beall Concert Hall Oft 5-8 pm 9Q MusEvening ^ UO Museum ot Art 7 30-10 30 p m 8 p m Fall Term India Song Equipment Swap Arena Ttieatre, Ballroom. EMU Vi Hard Hall 12-2p.m ,4-6pm Women’s Health Symposium -fit flam Mill 30 ?pm Film: The Cabinet ot Dr. Callgari ISOPLC 8 pm. World Music Concert Series Beall Concert Hall 31 10 30 p.m Rocky Horror Picture Show Ballroom, EMU l Ensemble ^Concert: Chorall Delights Beall Concert Hall ’ 8p.m Oregon Composers Concert Beall Concert Hall 5-8 p.m MusEvening! UO Museum olArt 11 a m. -4 p.m. Career Fair Ballroom, EMU <: 730p.m The Spirit ol High Places too Willamette Hall 8 pm The Chicago String Quarto! Beall Concert Hall (j 8-10 pm. David Jacob-Strain folk performer The Bus. EMU Volleyball vs. WSU MacArthur Court 8pm Fall 98 Swing Dance Ballroom. EMU 8 p.m. Guys and Dolls Robinson Theatre 8 p.m Faculty Artist Series Concert Beall Concert Hall 10 11 5-8 p.m MusEvening! UO Museum of Art 12 7 30pm Exploring the Sea Cortez 100 Willamette Hall Kwanza: African Celebration Fir Room, EMU 13 730 pm. Film: The Emperor’s Naked Army 180 PLC 7-9 pm Kwanza Dinner Fir Room, EMU 14 8 pm Vanguard Series Concert Beall Concert Hall 15 Sponsored by. emu Rec Center. Cultural Forum, Office of Student life. To add events, please contact the emu Recreation center at 546-3725 or e-mail us at reccntn?dari<wing.uoregon edu. visit our web site at http://www.uoregon.edu/~sti/events/index.htm
