INTERNATIONAL
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday April 14, 1992
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INTERNATIONAL BRIEFSE
United Nations
Government offers deal to U.N.
In a late bid to forestall sanctions, Libya has proposed turning two suspects in the Pan Am flight 103 bombing over to Malta. But the Security Council is unlikely to approve, U.N. diplomats said yesterday.
"But I don't think it will fly," he said, describing the offer made through the Arab League.
"The latest proposal is to turn them over to Malta, to postpone sanctions and hold negotiations," Venezuelan Ambassador Diego Arria said.
He said Malta was not truly a neutral country because of reports that a suitcase bomb intended for the Pan Am flight reportedly was loaded in Malta.
There was no word whether Malta would accept the proposal and take custody of the two men. The United States and Britain are demanding that they be handed over for trial in the West, but have said they do not object to intermediaries taking initial custody.
Zafferana Etna, Sicily
U.S. Marines help delay lava
Military experts blasted a lava stream on Mount Etna with explosives yesterday and U.S. Marine helicopters dropped huge concrete blocks into the stream to slow its advance on this mountainside village.
Crews hope the steaming black lava will cool and solidify if it's slowed. Earthen barriers on the edge of Zafferanna Etne have so far failed to contain the 7,000 lavas of 7,000 Lava reached the edge of town Sunday.
Demolition specialists have used more than 1,300 pounds of TNT and other explosives to blast away a tunnel of hardened lava that has been carved into the ground. It is village, about 100 miles southeast of Palermo.
The helicopters dropped five 10,000-pound concrete blocks into the lava stream near the volcano's snow-covered top, aiming to split the lava into smaller rivulets that can cool and harden.
Meanwhile, earth-moving equipment strengthened a 40-foot-high barrier about a half-mile from the village.
From The Associated Press
Labor leader resigns
Britain's Kinnock quits after party loses election
The Associated Press
LONDON — Neil Knockn yesterday announced his resignation as leader of the Labor Party and ended a nine-year term in which he rebuilt the party but failed to regain control of the government.
Kinnock called his decision an essential act of leadership after the party's form, non-consecutive election.
The loss was a shattering blow to both Labor and Kinnock, who took the party from disarray to a credible challenge to Prime Minister John Major's Conservatives.
"He took our party from almost political oblivion and put it on the brink of victory," said Labor finance representative John Smith, 53, a Scottish lawyer who was the successor at a special party convention in June.
Kinnock, 50, looked tense and drawn as he read a prepared statement in an office at the House of Comes entirely from my desire to see that the Labor Party will gain further strength, he said.
"It is not to do with any personal sensitivity. It arises entirely from my desire to see that the Labor Party will gain further strength, he said.
But the leadership shuffle threatens even more problems for Labor by renewing conflicts between
Under Kinnock, the party dropped a raft of vote-losing leftist policies: unilateral nuclear disarmament, widespread nationalization of industries, withdraw from the European Community and curbs on private schools.
Kinnock, a Welsh coal miner's son, and his deputy Roy Hattersley, who also will quit, will remain as caretakers until June. Both will stay in politics as rank-and-file members of Parliament.
Left-wingers, publicly silenced by Kinnock during the election campaign, complained the leadership contest was being rushed to head off a challenge from the left.
"I am appalled by the way we are being bounced into this," said Ken Livingstone, a left-wing London legislator.
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CALLAO, Peru - Avan loaded with dynamite exploded near the city's main police station before dawn yesterday, ripping the front off an adjacent apartment building and killing four people and wounding 14, police said.
The bombing in Callao, Lima's port, is believed to have been carried out by Shining Path guerrillas. It was one of the most destructive bombings in the Maoist group's 12-year-old insurgency, in which more than 25,000 people have died.
It was the third significant terrorist attack in the capital area since President Alberto Fujimi shut down Congress and took sole power with the endorse-
Police said the bomb killed three people who were asleep in the apartment building and a policemen who was standing guard outside the station. The injured included four police officers and 10 people in their apartments.
Witnesses said the van was parked about 30 feet from the station when it exploded at about 3 a.m., littering the street with jagged chunks of brick and plaster and the wreckage of a dozen cars. Windows were shattered up to a half-mile away.
Knight-Ridder Tribune
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FORCE
Yeltsin's entire Cabinet offers to resign
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — The entire Cabinet of President Boris Yeltsin submitted its resignation yesterday and told parliament that abandoning free market reforms could heighten inflation and block Russia's entry into the world marketplace.
Yeltsin asked his ministers to continue working until the end of the parliament session when he would decide how to amend the constitution. Deputy Premier Yeqen Gadjar said.
The Cabinet's departure could create the worst governmental crisis since the
Soviet collapse in December. The ministers had threatened to quit in protest of parliament's recent vote demanding changes in Yeltsin's economic reforms. Parliament's demands included increased salaries for government workers and lower taxes.
Several legislators said they thought the resignations were a bluff, and Parliament Speaker Ruslan Khasibulov addressed the ministers with such derision that they walked out of the 1,046-member Congress of People's Deputies.
The Congress of People's Deputies is dominated by former Communists and
other Yeltsin critics, including many who want to revoke his decree-making powers and push him to soften the transition to a market economy.
Khsabulatov said to the resigning ministers, "Don't try to blackmail us. We are not afraid of anyone or anything."
Gennady Burbilus, Yeltsin's top aide,
later told reporters. "We will not allow anyone to insult the Russian government."
A pro-reform bloc, Democratic Rossiya, announced a petition to remove Khasbulatov as chairman, the
Interfax news agency said.
Khasbulatov appeared on Russian television to apologize and voice his support for Yeltsin.
On Saturday, lawmakers passed a resolution that left Yeltsin's powers intact but directed him to nominate a new prime minister within three months.
When Gaidar, the architect of the reforms, announced the Cabinet's resignation, he said that parliament's demands were financially irresponsible.
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