University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 26, 198R
7
Nation/World
Delegate issue impedes talks between Walesa, government
The Associated Press
WARSAW, Poland — Plans for talks between the Polish government and opposition stalled yesterday. Authorities objected to two Solidarity delegates, and Lech Walesa, founder of the outlawed union, refused a meeting to discuss the matter.
Walesa said in a telephone interview he would not accept a demand that he meet today with the interior minister, Gen. Czeslaw Kiszczak, to discuss government objections to members of the Solidarity delegation.
"I will not allow any personnel changes," Walessa said. "It could be a
precedent, a dangerous precedent for the future."
Government spokesman Jerzy Urban said earlier that a fourth preparatory Kaczek was "universal" for the talks to begin.
The government objects to two people proposed by Solidarity to participate and wants clarification on whether the two — Solidarity advisers Jake Lee and Adam Adam — agree to respect Police's constitutional order, Urban said.
Crowds protest segregated election
He said Walesa and Kiszczak should meet today, and if they settled their differences, talks could begin Friday.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Police used tear gas, rubber bullets and clubs yesterday to scatter crowds protesting segregated local elections. Anti-apartheid leaders urged blacks to boycott the vote, but without violence.
The Associated Press
without 7,000 local offices nationwide are at stake in today's elections, the first time people of this racially separated nation will have cast ballots on the same day. The 26 million blacks vote only locally and have no voice in national affairs.
President P.W. Botha's ruling National Party is expected to lose ground in white elections to the
staunchly pro-apartheid Conservative Party, which opposes the government's tentative moves toward reform.
Fewer than 300,000 of the 2.4 million registered blocks are expected to vote, despite an ambitious government promotional campaign.
Low turnouts also are anticipated in townships populated by people of mixed race, officially called "coloreds," and those known as Asians, who are predominantly of Indian descent. A chamber of the national parliament, with little power, was created for each group in 1984.
About 21 percent of the registered black voters cast ballots in the last
black municipal elections in 1983, roughly the same number expected this time.
Critics say figures for blacks will be virtually meaningless because so few are registered, and no local candidates represent major organizations opposed to the official apartheid policy of racial separation.
Most leading opposition groups are banned, and activists generally view black town councils as subservient to South Africa's 5 million whites.
"If we were asked to vote in today's township conditions, we would not do so," the nation's largest daily newspaper, the independent
Star of Johannesburg, said in an editorial. "Whatever statistics are squirreled out to justify the legitimacy of elected black councils, they will have no effect on reality."
Arabishoph Desmond Tutu and other black anti-apartheid leaders have defied rules of $2\frac{1}{2}$-year-old state of emergency in advocating a boycott. Both's government seeks a high turnout among blacks as support for its claim of "broadening democracy."
More than 1,000 people held an anti-voting rally yesterday at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.
Air Force 'Stealth' bomber to be unveiled next month
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Air Force will unveil its B-2 "Stealth" bomber on Nov. 22 at a government-owned aircraft base in Calif., the Pentagon said yesterday.
Defense Department spokesman Dan Howard said he "wouldn't be a bit surprised" if the Air Force limited the guest list for the ceremony.
fied the guest list for the ceremony.
Some aspects of the technology are still highly classified, he said.
set a date for the plane's first flight, but the milestone is expected to be reached soon after the public unveiling.
son highly classified. He said Howard said the Air Force had not
The Air Force and Pentagon have released an artist's drawing of the plane, showing it resembles a huge "flying wing" without a normal fuselage and cockpit. A number of other aircraft like the mockface the fact that its design and materials are intended to keep it from being visible to radar.
News Roundup
PLANE CRASHES IN ANDES: An Aeropiper plane carrying 69 people crashed in the Andes Mountains shortly after takeoff yesterday, killing at least 19 people and injuring 50 other passengers and crew members, authorities reported. Some passengers were believed to be foreign tourists, the officials reported, but they did not release the identities or nationalities of the dead and injured. Lima police said five of the injured were foreigners.
HELICOPTER CRASH KILLS EIGHT: An Army National Guard helicopter on a nighttime anti-drug smuggling mission clipped a power line and smashed into a desert hillside near Ocotillo, Calif., killing the five lawmen and three guardens maboan, officials said yester
ouay. The fiery crash Monday came on the first night of Operation Border Ranger, an anti-drug smuggling program conducted by six Southern California sherif's departments and the federal government, said National Guard Maj. Steve Mensik.
GUERRILLAS KILL 14: Lestist guerrilla blesp up a bus carrying police and election officials in the remote Andes Mountains of northwest Colombia yesterday, killing 13 people and wounding 14, officials reported. The casualties brought the number of people killed in guerrilla attacks to 51 since Sunday night. The Simon Bolivar Front, an umbrella group for all six leftist rebel factions in Colombia, urged President Virgilio Barco to start peace talks with the
ISRAELIS SHOOT PALESTINIAN: Israeli troops opened fire yesterday on stone-throwing Palestinian demonstrators in the occupied Gaza Strip, killing a 14-year-old girl, hospital officials said. The driver of an Israeli oil tanker fired into a crowded Gaza City vegetable market and wounded three Palestinians after his vehicle was hit by a firebomb, Arab witnesses said. The bomb hit a tire, and did not cause serious damage, they said.
guerrillas.
FAULTY REPAIRS CAUSE COLLAPSE: An illegal repair job was blamed yesterday for the collapse of a six-story building in New York, which crumbled like a house of cards, killing one person and injuring about 12 others.
Let Us Frame Your Pictures We Do The Work—Labor Is
FREE
Needlework and shadow boxes excluded.
This ad must be presented at time of ordering.
Not valid with any other coupon. Expires 10-29-88.
15 East 8th (½ block east of Mass.)
HOME • COMMERCIAL AUTO POLISHING &...
WINDOW TINTING
TINT lifetime warranty by insulfilm inc.
BEAT THE WAIT
BEAT SUN & SNOW GLARE
2201- C West 25th Street
910)841-4779
10% OFF WINTER RATES NOW!
"We've got designs on you!" personalized designs by experienced designers
$35 PERM SPECIAL
with our senior stylists
Includes - shampoo, haircut, and blowdry
The Department of English in conjunction with the College Lecture Fund present
1988 Tony Award-winning playwright
DAVID HENRY HWANG
Thursday, October 27. 8:00 p.m.
Woodruff Auditorium
Legal Services for Students
Did you know that your student activity fee funds a law office for students? Most services are available at NO CHARGE!
- Preparation & review of legal docs
- Nataration of legal documents
- Advice on most legal matters
- Preparation & review of legal documents
- Many other services available
- Advice on most legal matters
8:00 to 5:00 Mon. thru Friday
148 Burge Union 864-5665
Call or drop by to make an appointment.
Funded by student activity fee.