NATION/WORLD
University Daily Kansan / Friday, April 10, 1992
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INTERNATIONAL BRIEF'S
Lima, Peru
Leader slashes Supreme Court
President Alberto Fujimori has carried his political crackdown to the judicial system, firing 13 of Peru's 23 Supreme Court justices and dozens of other judges linked to the main opposition party, reports said yesterday.
Meanwhile, lawmakers said they were meeting to discuss retaliation against the closure of PPL.
The president, who suspended the constitution and dissolved Congress on Sunday, also fired nine members of a federal constitution-building with numerous other government officials.
"It's hard because our phones are tapped, and there are spies everywhere," said Rep. Pedro Cateriano, a moderate liberal.
Abuja, Nigeria
De Klerk pays a friendly visit
President F.W. de Klerk of South Africa arrived yesterday on a state visit that marks a breakthrough in his efforts to end political isolation in Africa.
De Klerk is the first South African leader to visit Nigeria, which led continental opposition to apartheid and shunned the white-minority government for more than 40 years.
De Klerk's visit to oil-rich Nigeria is a milestone. Nigeria is the most powerful Black African nation, and Nigeria's president, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, is head of the Organization of African Unity, the African political and trading bloc.
De Klek, who hopes to join the OAU, is seeking Babangida's help in encouraging other African nations to establish relations with South Africa. OAU membership could provide South Africa with trading prospects that it needs to boost its economy after years of widely observed sanctions.
From The Associated Press
Conservative Party wins United Kingdom elections
LONDON — Prime Minister John Major, who waged a come-from-behind, soapbox campaign to extend 13 years of Conservative Party government, announced this morning after a nerve-racking election count.
The Associated Press
"We've wont tonight a magnificent victory, a victory that many people thought was beyond our grasp." Major told cheering supporters at party headquarters.
With 613 of the 615 districts counted, the Conservatives had won 321 seats — five short of a majority — compared to 269 seats for the Labor Party and 16 for the Liberal Democrats.
Although Labor had yet to concede, computer analysis based on exit polls conducted in closely-contested districts by the British Broadcasting Corp. and Independent Television News showed the Conservatives were assured of a majority.
"I'm very pleased. Everything we have done in the last 13 years will now be conserved and built on in the future," former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said.
Labor's share of the vote was up about five points from 1987, but its gains came almost entirely at the expense of the Liberal Democrats. Though Labor did not dent the Conservative popular vote, it did erode the Conservative majority in the House of Commons. Labor Party officials announced dead.
"I simply don't know how the British mind and the British psyche work to produce these results," said Roy Hattersley, deputy to Labor leader Neil Kinnock, as it became clear that the Conservatives had achieved a fourth term.
Brown denies guests used drugs calls story by ABC News bizarre
WASHINGTON — Jerry Brown, while governor of California, threw parties at his Los Angeles home where marijuana and cocaine were used by partygoers, ABC News reported yesterday.
The Associated Press
"I never saw it," he told reporters in Pittsburgh.
"It's not true."
Brown denied the allegations
The network's report did not allege that Brown used any drugs.
Police officers who were on Brown's security detail in the late 1970s told the network they patrolled through the home after the parties and found evidence throughout the house that marijuana and cocaine had been used. The officers requested anonymity.
the report "bizare, defamatory, and unsubstantiated. ... I categorically deny these charges. ... ABC's anonymous accusers have waited 15 years to tell these lies for the first time. One can only speculate as to who put them up to it."
In a televised candidates' appearance last month, Democratic rival Bill Clinton admitted he had tried marijuana while at Oxford University. Brown also was asked if he had broken state, federal or international drug laws
Brown also issued a statement in which he called
"No, no, no, and I agree with Clinton," he said. "Why don't you lay off the stuff. What we did 10 or 20 years ago is not relevant."
Since 1970, California law has said that to be charged with tolerating drug use in one's home, a person must know about the drug use and must have aided and abetted the use.
Egyptian queen's tomb reopens for study
The Associated Press
LUXOR, Egypt — Nefertari's stomb,
an unmatched nether world of splendor,
is reopening after being closed to
the public for a half-century, but officials
are unsure how wide to open its
portal.
ile.
The 3,200-year-old tomb of the woman renowned for her beauty, boldness and kindness is among the most fabulous of Egypt's archaeological treasures but also one of its most frag-
A painstaking restoration project astaining six years and costing $4 million is complete and Prime Minister Atef omb open.
For the immediate future — and in
schools and science, that means open to
scholars and scientists.
Tourists, however benign their intent, can be harmful to a tomb. Even if they heed the "don't touch" instructions, they still sweat; that raises the
humidity in the tomb and speeds the peeling of ancient paint.
When restoration of Nefertari's tomb began in 1986, some 20 percent of its wall paintings had disappeared and another 20 percent hung precariously or had fallen onto dirt floors.
Some thought the monument,closed since 1940, was doomed.
Marina del Rey, Calif., and the Egyptian Antiquities Organization. They used satellite technology, scientific expertise from four continents and the fingertips of two renowned conservators.
The challenge of reversing the decline joined the expertise of the J. Paul Getty Conservation Institute of
Saving Nefertari's tomb, of about 400 along a five-mile stretch of the Nile River 450 miles south of Cairo, has been an elusive dream since Italian excavator Ernesto Schiaparelli discovered it in 1904.