INTERNATIONAL
University Daily Kansan / Thursday, April 16, 1992
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Johannesburg, S.A.
Winnie Mandela resigns post
Winnie Mandela yesterday resigned from a top post in the African National Congress amid renewed allegations that she was involved in assaults and murder.
Her resignation as head of the ANC's social welfare department came a day after her husband, ANC President Nelson Mandela, announced the couple would separate after more than three decades of marriage.
News reports and political analysts said other ANC leaders had wanted Winnie Mandela ousted to preserve the organization's reputation as it negotiates a new constitution with the white government.
He said the separation had nothing to do with his wife's political troubles. But the two announcements seemed to signal the end of a long, turbulent political career for Winnie Mandela.
Washington
U. S. rebukes Serbian aggression
The United States issued a sharp warning yesterday to the Yugoslav ambassador that Serbian aggression in Bosnia-Herzegovina is completely outside the bounds of civilized behavior.
In the most concerted U.S. steps yet on the deadly fighting, Secretary of State James Baker also called foreign ministers of key European allies to discuss Bosnia.
In Helsinki, Finland, the U.S. representative to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe urged that the Yugoslav government be kicked out of the conference, a key Western alliance, if acts of aggression have not stopped by April 29.
Previously, U.S. officials have left the lead role in dealing with Yugoslavia to European allies. The United States followed Europe in recognizing Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia-Herzegovina on April 7.
From The Associated Press
U.N. sanctions in effect
TRIPOLI, Libya — Nations barred Libyan jets from their airspace and ordered diplomats to go home yesterday, tightening a noose around the nation to pressure it to turn over suspects in the bombing of Pan AM Flight 103.
The Associated Press
Libya challenges measure by sending jets into skv
The punitive measures were sanctions approved by the United Nations, but a defiant Libya tried to flout them by sending its jets into the sky. They were turned away — in one case by fighter jets.
Libya hinted it might retaliate by expelling diplomats, and announced no Libyan airline tickets would be sold to citizens of nations supporting the sanctions.
Although there is Arab sentiment against the sanctions, nations in the region abided by a U. N resolution passed March 31 banning arms sales to Libya and calling on nations to cut back Libyan diplomatic staffs. Despite the grounding of flights, land and sea links
remained including ferry service to Malta.
At this point, the sanctions could prove more troublesome than crippling. They do not include a boycott of Libya's oil sales, which account for 90 percent of the country's earnings.
Libyan crude is vital to the West, especially Italy, and some oil experts think an embargo could backfire on Western economies.
British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd said that oil sanctions might be next. But this would be a difficult step, because the current sanctions receive only lukewarm support from many Security Council members and are not nearly as tough as those imposed on Iraq when it invaded Kuwait.
on West Africa.
A tightening of the screws on Tripoli also would increase popular pressure on Arab governments, which say they are being asked to enforce sanctions on another Arab state while Israel, subject of numerous U.N. resolutions, goes unpunished.
The Associated Press
Afghan military base falls to Muslim guerrilla forces
KABUL, Afghanistan — Hard-line Muslim guerrillas took control yesterday of the nation's largest military base, raising doubts about the future of a U.N.撑稳plan to end the 13-year-old civil war
Guerrilla groups urged troops loyal to the Communist-style government of President Najibullah to accept a general amnesty and surrender. They denied any plans to overrun the capital, Kabul.
The Russian Embassy, fearing retaliation for the Soviet's 1979 invasion and nine-year occupation, ordered the evacuation of half of its 40-member staff, said Russian diplomats.
the Afghan resistance, called an emergency meeting with guerrilla leaders to urge that they not overthrow the Kabul government, said government and rebel officials.
Under the U.N.-mediated peace plan, Najibullah is to transfer power to a 15-member temporary council and then to a neutral interim government.
The government of Pakistan, the staging arena for
The main backers of the rebels — the United States, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Iran — do not want the guerrillas to overthrow the president because they fear his sudden departure could destroy any chance of restoring peace in Afghanistan.
Foreign nations watch U.S. presidential election
WARSAW, Poland — In China, they want Bush. In Israel, they are not so sure. In Poland, Bush hands down. In Kenya, who cares?
The Associated Press
For most people around the world, the contest for the U.S. presidency reaches them as no more than the din of a distant battle.
Democratic challenger Bill Clinton had the attention of policy-makers around the world when he outlined his foreign policy aims in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations on April 1. He criticized Bush as being too slow on aid to the former Soviet Union, too soft on China and too hard on Israel.
But policy-makers and intellectuals recognize that the election of the leader of the world's only superpower has significance far beyond U.S. borders.
"We are very attentive to this side of the campaign because it is very important for us to know not only the view of the White House but also the Democrats," said Russian Foreign Ministry representative Sergei Yas-
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Israel, which receives more U.S. aid than any country, is focused on its own national elections in June. But some Israeli papers hope for a change in the White House after the dispute with the United States over loan guarantees and Jewish settlements.
"George Bush and James Baker are no friends of Israel's," said the conservative Maariv daily recently.
Mexicans always closely follow elections across the border, and this year's iskeyafter Democratic hopeful
Jerry Brown and Republican challenger Patrick Buchanan attacked the proposed U.S.-Mexican free trade accord.
"We were relieved to see that those who will probably make it to the finals are friends," said presidential representative Jose Carreno.
Japan is another country where the U.S. election is being covered quite heavily. But commentators fear it will take more than a new president to smooth out problems.
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