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The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, April 19, 2000
World
U.S. limits arms sales with Taiwan
The Associated Press
BEIJING — China called on the United States to end all arms sales to the rival Taiwanese government yesterday, a day after Washington went part way in meeting China's demands by deciding not to sell Taiwan advanced Aegis destroyers.
Word that President Clinton will forge the Aegis sale disappointed Taiwanese leaders, but it brought hope for a cooling of tensions with China. In Washington, it sparked worries of a fight with Congress over support for the island.
In Beijing, which has been trying to isolate Taiwan to pressure it into unifying with the mainland after 51 years of separation, Clinton's move was seen as insufficient.
While denying Taiwan the Aegis-equipped warships, U.S. officials said they would sell the island long-range radar to detect missile launches as well as provide training and technical help. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Sun Yuxi reminded Washington to abide by an 18-year-old agreement to limit arm sales to Taiwan. He said Beijing had taken note of reports on
Washington's decision on Aegis.
Washington's decision to withhold Aegis marked the first of two successes for Chinese diplomatic pressure this week. Rallying developing nations, Beijing also prevailed yesterday in blocking the U.N. Human Rights Commission in Geneva from discussing a U.S. motion to censure China for human rights abuses.
As part of its pressure campaign against Taiwan, Beijing recently stepped up threats to attack the island if it moved toward outright independence.
In Taiwan, Washington's reluc
tance to sell the warships was seen as a possible lift to strained relations between China and the island.
"I think this is a win-win situation for Taiwan and China," said Andrew Yang, a Taipei-based senior military analyst at the Council of Advanced Policy Studies.
A representative for Sen. Jesse Helms, the conservative North Carolina Republican who heads the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, suggested yesterday that the administration may have violated a U.S. law requiring Washington help Taiwan maintain an adequate defense.
Zimbabwe violence ends with man's death
The Associated Press
HARARE, Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's president named white farmers as enemies of Zimbabwe yesterday, hours after dozens of gunmen besieged a farm and killed a white rancher during the worst spasm of violence in two months of land occupations.
On the country's 20th anniversary of independence from white rule, President Robert Mugabe accused the farmers of mobilizing and coercing their workers against his rule and wanting to turn the clock back to the colonial era.
Yesterday's violence on several farms and Mugabe's stepped-up rhetoric escalated the standoff that began in February when landless blacks started occupying white-owned land. Squatters now occupy more than 900 farms.
Mugabe has backed the squatters, saying they are veterans of Zimbabwe's independence war protecting against inequitable land distribution in a country where 4,000 white farmers own a third of the productive farmland.
But many of the squatters, who have begun wearing ruling party T-shirts in recent days, are far too young to have fought in the war.
Opposition politicians say the occupations are an effort by Mugabe
"Violence and intimidation are being orchestrated by Mugabe and his party hierarchy."
David Coltart Party official
to scare white farmers and their workers into abandoning the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, which could pose a major challenge to Mugabe's 20-year rule in parliamentary elections expected to be called next month.
"Violence and intimidation are being orchestrated by Mugabe and his party hierarchy," David Coltart, a party official, said. They are going for the MDC support base in rural areas, he said.
The president accused white farmers of working to defeat a failed constitutional referendum that aimed to speed up the seizure of white farms for distribution to landless blacks.
Zimbabwe is suffering from its worst economic crisis since independence with more than 50 percent unemployment and 70 percent inflation.
Cyber-anchor to make debut on the Internet
The Associated Press
LONDON — She has green hair, big eyes, slightly jerky movements and a vague American accent. She says she is the face of the future.
Her developers hope she's a gold mine.
Ananova — billed as the world's first virtual newscaster — will make her debut today on the Internet. With a click of a mouse, computer users around the world can have breaking news bulletins read to them by the glamorous cyber-anchor, programmed to exude a range of human emotions.
Her creators promise that is just the beginning.
"She's a lot more than a talking head that reads the news," Mark Hird, publishing director at Ananova Ltd., said. "She's a computer with a face in front of it, not a face with nothing much behind it. It's a phenomenal information resource."
interest them, from sports scores to stock alerts. Just as with a host of other Web sites, they also can browse entertainment listings, buy tickets and make use of Ananova's dedicated search engine.
Ananova has a definite glamour factor: She bears more than a passing resemblance to Posh Spice, a.k.a. Victoria Beckham, and several designers reportedly have expressed interest in fashioning her wardrobe.
In addition to the virtual newscasts, which are delivered TV-style by a head-and-shoulders Ananova and come complete with a commercial break, users can arrange to receive tailored email bulletins on subjects that
Ananova was developed by Britain's Press Association news agency, which has gone so far as to rename its new media division Ananova Ltd.
The company will not reveal how much its anchor cost to develop or how much it hopes to bring in when Ananova Ltd. is sold in the next few months, though a sale figure of $400 million has been reported. Robert Simpson, Ananova's chief executive officer, said the firm was talking with bidders and expected to announce a sale in the next month or two.
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