INTERNATIONAL
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 15, 1992
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Nicosia, Cyprus
Saddam shuffles his command
Saddam Hussein has moved several trusted generals into key positions in a command shuffle that reflects his constant efforts to forestall a coup, informed travelers from Iraq say.
The sources, who include Baghdad-based Western diplomats and knowledgeable Iraqis, said there was no sign that Saddam's regime was in any immediate danger.
The sources spoke on condition of anonymity.
But the feeling is that these changes in the hierarchy, the latest in a long line of shuffles in the past 18 months, reflect Saddam's insecurity more than a year after his Persian Gulf War defeat.
Moscow
Russian spies get layoff notices
Russia is recalling spies from Europe because they do not have enough work, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported yesterday.
"We have already begun reducing our intelligence network in Germany and other countries," Russian Foreign Intelligence representative Tatyana Samolis said.
ITAR-Tass did not specify which countries would see their Russian svv community cut.
The announcement came after Saturday's expulsion from Belgium of four Russian diplomats accused of spying. Belgian officials said they had uncovered a spy set up by the KGB, which continued after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Russian Foreign Ministry representative Sergei Yastrtemsbhy called the KGB actions a repetition of the old times which are becoming a thing of the past.
From The Associated Press
Sanctions begin today
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Libya received no help from the World Court yesterday in trying to stave off U.S. and British sanctions for refusing to turn over two men sought for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.
The court said the matter was properly before the U.N. Security Council, which has voted to impose arms sales and air-travel embargoes today unless Libya surrenders the suspects.
Diplomats also said it was unlikely that a last-minute compromise offered by Libya would deter the council from imposing the sanctions as scheduled.
Libya offered through the Arab League on Monday to have the two Libyans tried in Malta, a Mediterranean and nation with close ties to Tripoli. But the
United States and France, which joined with Britain in sponsoring the sanctions before the Security Council, rejected that idea today.
There was no immediate reaction from Libya, which cut itself off from the world for 24 hours yesterday to mark the anniversary of U.S. air raids on Libya in 1986. The U.S. attack was staged in retaliation for a terrorist attack on a Berlin night spot frequented by U.S. military.
Libya's Belgian lawyer, Jean Salim, called the World Court's decision a very sad ruling. The Libyan ambassador to Belgium, Mohamed Al Faiourt, Great Hall of Justice and would not answer questions.
In Washington, White House representative Maria Filipina praised the reflection of Llava's case.
"We believe Libya must comply with our request for the Pan Am 103 perpetrators." Fitzwater said.
U.S. gives Japan food for thought
The Associated Press
TOKYO — Hundreds of Japanese food industry executives munched on U.S. specialties ranging from beef to blueberries yesterday, but one item was for eves only: rice.
The U.S.-grown rice on display at the Great American Food Show was exhibited solely for "informational purposes", to avoid conflict with laws that forbid sale of foreign rice.
Last year, U. S. rice growers were forced to remove an unauthorized display at a food fair north of Tokyo.
This time, the growers secured the approval of Japan's agriculture ministry by promising that the exhibit was not intended to sell U.S. rice.
It was the first time that such approval had been given for foreign rice, and Japanese news photographers crowded around for shots of a miniature U.S.
flag atop a display of varieties of rice.
Suggesting that Japanese rice could find a market in the United States for use in special dishes such as sushi, Sakamoto said, "If we export and import rice back and forth, maybe Japan-U.S. relations would get better."
better. Japan has said that the import ban is intended to maintain self-sufficiency in its staple food. The powerful farm lobby also has argued that farmers' livelihoods would suffer if they had to compete with cheaper foreign rice.
Proposals at world free trade talks would require Japan to lift its rice ban, but Japan has rejected the idea. The talks are bogged down regarding various agricultural trade issues.
Despite the rice ban, Japan is the No.1 importer of U.S. agricultural products.
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Russia's parliament averts crisis, supports Yeltsin's reforms
MOSCOW — Russia's Communist-dominated parliament backed down yesterday from a week-long clash with President Boris Yeltsin and passed a declaration that will allow him to continue his free-market reforms.
The declaration preserves Yeltsin's power to rule by decree and directs the government to continue the painful reforms that the lawmakers, who are mostly former Communists, oppose.
It seemingly averted one of Russia's most serious political crises since the collapse of the Soviet Union last
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On Monday, Yeltsin's Cabinet threatened to resign, claiming parliament's attempts to trim the president's powers would cripple reforms, raise inflation and block Russia's entry into the world marketplace.
After the 530-236 vote by the Congress of People's Deputies, Yeltsin's ministers happily clapped each other's shoulders, and his parliamentary supporters burst into applause. Yeltsin was not present for the vote.
"This eliminates the need for our resignation," said State Secretary Gennady Burbulis.
Yeltsin been at an impasse with the Congress since the legislative body opened April 6 in the Grand Kremlin Palace, where a huge sculpture of Lenin in the chamber now is hidden behind a white, blue and red Russian flag.
Still, lawmakers will have a chance to change their minds and amend the document today.
The declaration, a lopsided compromise worked out behind closed doors, was approved without debate at the climax of a second day of raucous cheering, bitter name-calling and sudden walkouts in the Kremlin.
The declaration tempers a resolution that the Congress passed last Saturday demanding the government lower taxes and raise wages to ease the pain of the reforms.
The margin of victory was extremely narrow, just six votes more than the 524 needed for a majority of the 1,046 lawmakers.
Passage of the declaration came after U.S. Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady told reporters in Moscow the Congress was jeopardizing a $2 billion aid package by taking steps backwards in world confidence.
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