News ● 5
gairrhydd, Monday 22 October 2001
The Week In Print Sioned Bevan and Eleri Cunningham round up the stories making the news in Britain and Wales.
Air strikes ‘tighten net’ on al’Qaida terrorists surely tighten the net and bring the terrorists to justice.” T h e Americans claim that their search and destroy AIR STRIKES: Taliban air defences and US jets missions are very effective with the Taliban confirming that by Sioned Bevan numerous military targets have HEAVY AIR strikes were last been hit. However, they also claim that week continuing in scores of innocent civilians have Afghanistan. F15 fighter bombers from a been killed in the attacks. The Taliban leader, Mullah base in the Persian Gulf have been deployed for the first time Mohammed Omar and al’Qaida to help destroy targets in the leader Osama bin Laden are capital Kabul and the Taliban both reported to be alive and well. stronghold of Kandahar. President Bush has warned the Afghan forces that the air gan Sioned Bevan strikes were paving the way for ground troops. He said that this MAE AMERICA yn parhau i shift in strategy to closer range ymosod ar Afghanistan. contact would “slowly, but Defnyddiwyd awyrennau
bomio F15 am y tro cyntaf er mwyn taro targedau milwrol yn y brif ddinas, Kabul. Cafodd Kandahar, dinas ble mae gan y Taliban lawer o gefnogaeth, hefyd ei hymosod. Mae’r Arlywydd Bush wedi rhybuddio y bydd milwyr yn cael eu defnyddio cyn hir i geisio ymosod yn uniongyrchol ar y Taliban ac Osama bin Laden. Dywed yr Americanwyr bod eu hymgyrchoedd yn llwyddiannus iawn ond condemnia’r Taliban hwy gan ddweud fod nifer fawr o bobl gyffredin wedi eu lladd. Credir fod arweinydd y Taliban, Mullah Mohammed Omar a phennaeth al’Qaida, Osama bin Laden yn fyw ac iach o hyd. Ni all neb ragweld pryd bydd yr ymosodiadau ar Afghanistan yn peidio. Y mae dyfodol hirdymor y wlad felly mor ansicr ag erioed.
Welsh speakers push for bi courses by Eleri Cunningham ACCORDING TO a recent survey, 75% of Welsh speaking young people who wish to study in a university in Wales, wish to do so bilingually. The Welsh Language Education Development Officer for the University of Wales, Cen Williams sent the questionnaire to year 12 and 13 in Welsh and bilingual schools, to three Further Education colleges and Welsh
speaking students in the 13 Higher Education institutions in Wales. Out of the students who were questioned, 82% were eager to remain in Wales to continue their studies, whilst 44% were following, or about to follow courses through the medium of Welsh. According to the survey, Biology, Chemistry and Mathematics were the most popular subjects for those in years 12 and 13, but surprisingly not one university in Wales offers these subjects in Welsh or bilingually.
Potter movie under threat
by Lydia Kirby
The filming of two of the most expensive films to be made on British soil may be jeopardised by the threat of an actor’s strike. The news comes as a major blow to the British film industry, after securing contracts
to film the new Bond movie and the second of the Harry Potter trilogy in Britain. The strike centres on the residual payments made to actors on DVD and video sales and on television broadcasts of their films. Whereas American actors get a percentage, their British counterparts get only a one-off payment.
Biological killer hits US by Sioned Bevan PANIC IN the US is mounting after fears that the deadly disease anthrax is being used as a biological weapon. Over 30 people working at the Capital Building in Washington DC have been vaccinated against anthrax after a letter addressed to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle was found to have contained anthrax spores. The letter included the message ‘You’ve been exposed to anthrax. You are going to die.’ A baby boy also contracted the skin version of the disease after visiting the NBC TV newsdesk in New York with his mother. The strain of the virus detected in New York has been identified as being the same as that found in the first cases at American Media Inc. headquarters in Florida. The first confirmed case of anthrax outside the United States has also been reported in Kenya. A letter containing anthrax spores had been sent to a Nairobi businessman from Atlanta, Georgia. Another suspect letter has been delivered to the UN office in Nairobi. Exactly who is sending the letters is still unknown. US law enforcement officials are not yet ready to link the attacks to Osama bin Laden. But as more anthrax incidents are b e i n g confirmed, the attacks seem increasingly linked.
THE NEWS IN WALES gan Eleri Cunningham
Pam, John Owen? AR DDYDD Mercher y 10fed o Hydref methodd John Owen ag ymddangos yn yr achos llys yn ei erbyn yn Llys y Goron, Caerdydd. Y diwrnod canlynol darganfuwyd John Owen, awdur y nofelau a’r rhaglen deledu poblogaidd ‘Pam Fi Duw?’ yn farw mewn carafán ym Mhorthcawl. Roedd John Owen yn wynebu cyhuddiadau o ymddwyn yn anweddus a threisio bechgyn ysgol rhwng 1977 a 1992. Bellach mae tri allan o’r pedwar unigolyn a oedd wedi ei gyhuddo o’r troseddau wedi gwneud datganiad drwy eu cyfreithiwr a gynhwysai eu “ymwybyddiaeth o alar ei deulu” ac mai “nid ar chwarae bach yr aethant at Heddlu De Cymru gyda’r cwynion”. Nid yw’r heddlu yn chwilio am unrhyw un arall mewn cysylltiad a’i farwolaeth.
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