INTERNATIONAL
University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 20, 1992
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INTERNATIONAL BRIEF
Lima, Peru
One-man rule meets opposition
Vice President Maximo San Roman said yesterday he would form a rival government to oppose President Alberto Fujimori, who imposed military-backed one-man rule two weeks ago.
San Roman, who returned late Saturday from the United States, told reporters he would set up his own Cabinet because Fujimori's decision to close Congress and the courts was unconstitutional.
Fujimori is expected this week to announce a timetable to reform Congress and the judiciary, both of which he closed April 5 because, he said, corruption shackled his reforms aimed at fighting drug trafficking and left guerrillas.
The 46-year-old San Roman, once a close ally of Fujimori, has repeatedly condemned Fujimori's power grab and claims to have the support of high-ranking military officials.
Zafferana Etna, Sicily
Italy attempts to divert lava flow
High winds yesterday grounded U.S. heli-copters carrying huge concrete slabs up Mount Etna in attempts to divert the lava which is threatening this village.
About 100 Marines and Navy officers are helping Italians build an inclined metal platform to slide the slabs into an opening of the volcano. Etna has been spewing lava since December.
A few blocks have been ferried up the volcano, but state TV reported that attempts to transport the rest of the blocks were canceled because of the winds.
Italian soldiers built an earthen wall to try to contain lava flowing from a new fissure that opened Saturday. Authorities were also considering setting off more explosives to try to collapse channels carrying lava toward the village.
Halberstadt, Germany
Holocaust memorial desecrated
Vandals desecrated a new memorial to Holocaust victims by painting it with Nazi swastikas, police representatives said yesterday.
The memorial outside a Christian church in
Birmingham, the city of
Madeleine. Madeleine first attended a week.
The desecration occurred Saturday night, police representatives said. Vandals painted swastikas on monuments that bear the names of Jews sent to a Nazi concentration camp.
From The Associated Press
Former Soviet Union to get Western attention
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Finance officials from around the world gather this week for what is likely to be a tumultuous conference devoted to the question of how the West can keep economic reform efforts in the former Soviet Union on track
President Bush and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl made separate announcements this month outlining a multibillion-dollar Western assistance package for Russia.
But those statements provided only sketchy details on such key questions as just how much individual countries and international lending agencies will be expected to contribute, what form the aid will take and how fast it will flow.
Those questions are expected to be vigorously debated at the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
In addition to those sessions, the preliminaries of which begin Wednesday, finance officials of the world's seven richest countries — the United States, Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Canada and Italy — will meet to try to come up with a coordinated
Officials from Japan, a country the United States is counting on for a heavy commitment of money, already have complained they weren't adequately consulted before Bush's plan was unveiled.
response to the deteriorating economic situation in the former Soviet Union.
Officials from other donor nations have said they're puzzled over just what the administration included to provide grants.
Michel Camdessus, IMF managing director, added to the confusion last week when he said that in addition to the $24 billion being earmarked for Russia, the West would be expected to pony up another $20 billion this year to help the other 14 former Soviet republics.
Japanese officials said they had no idea how Carmeddusus had arrived at the $20 billion figure.
A senior IMF official who briefed reporters dismissed the complaints and said the $2 billion estimate was based on the same calculations Bush used to develop the $2 billion package for Russia.
"We have to remind the world that it is time to make decisions," said the IMF official, who spoke on condition his name not be used. "We are confronting a major challenge."
EC may suspend peace mission in raging Bosnia-Herzegovina
SARAJEVO Bosnia-Herzegovina — Fighting raged at both ends of Bosnia-Herzegovina yesterday, and a European Community official said he would recommend the EC suspend its peace mission in the former Yugoslav republic.
The Associated Press
The development came a day after Portuguese representatives said the 12-nation community was considering reimposing economic sanctions on Serbia.
The EC and the United States have grown increasingly critical of Serbia, accusing it and the Serbian-dominated federal army of causing violence in Bosnia. Several hundred people have died since a referendum approved independence for the republic on Feb. 29.
Bosnia has three major ethnic groups — Serbians, Croatians and Muslims. Serbians want their areas to remain part of Yugoslavia, while the Muslims and Christians desire independence, oppose breaking up the republic.
Fighting among the ethnic groups was reported yesterday at Mostar and Neum in the south and at Bosanski Brod in the north. At Mostar, the Serbian-federal army reportedly shelled the historic city, demanding the release of three Yugoslavian pilots
allegedly captured by Croatians.
There were no reports to casualties.
Sarajevo, the capital, was quiet but wary as Roman Catholic Croatians, who account for about one-sixth of city's 600,000 people, celebrated Easter.
Hundreds jammed the city's Gothic cathedral to hear an appeal for peace by the Rev. Vink Puljic, head of the Catholic church in Bosnia. Armed civilians stood guard outside.
"I call for everyone to give us a peaceful Easter,"
Public said, "we need someone to help."
There were no reports of casualties.
Zdenka Kusic, a Croatian housewife, echoed the wish
"The people should stop killing each other," she said as she left the church.
Air-raid alarms disrupted an open-aire Mass in Medugorje, a predominantly Croatian town just south of Mostar where Catholics from across the world congregated in peacetime to pray to the Virgin Mary. Worshipers scurried to shelters and listened to a pipe-in sermon until the all-clear sounded.
Disheartened by the continuing fighting, ECenvoy Colin Doyle said in Sarajevo that he would recommend to his superiors that the ECHalt the peace talks it had sponsored among Bosnia's three main ethnic groups.
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