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University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 6, 1992
INTERNATIONAL BRIEFSE
Belgrade. Yugoslavia
Violence escalates in republic
Violence escalated yesterday throughout ethnically tense Bosnia-Hercegovina, where all sides awaited a European Community decision on whether to recognize the republic's independence.
Shooting was reported in several parts of Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital. Snipers fired on thousands of peace demonstrators as they approached parliament. Tanijg, based in Belgrade, Serbia, reported that 10 people were wounded.
The failure of the leaders of Bosnia's Slavic Muslims, Serbians and Croatians to stem the violence heightened fears of all-out war. Bosnian authorities declared a general mobilization of territorial-defense units late Saturday.
Johannesburg, S.A.
Paper says Mandelas may split
A London newspaper reported yesterday that Nelson and Winnie Mandela plan to separate because of new allegations about Winnie Mandela's activities while her husband was in jail.
The Sunday Times of London, quoting unidentified African National Congress sources, reported in a front-page story that the couple's 34-year marriage was over.
In Johannesburg, ANC representative Pallo Jordan said, "I don't think it would be proper for the ANC to comment on these matters. Mr. and Mrs. Mandela are entitled to a private life."
There was no comment from the Mandelas, and attempts to reach them by telephone were unsuccessful.
According to the Sunday Times, the couple will separate but no divorce is planned.
Jerusalem
Shamir persuades Levy to stay
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir defused a crisis in the governing Likud party yesterday by persuading Foreign Minister David Levy not to resign in a feud over sharing power.
The quarrel has threatened to cut Likud's chances in parliamentary elections on June 23.
Shamir bowed to demands to give Levy's supporters more political jobs. The agreement was reached shortly before Levy was to submit a resignation letter at the weekly Cabinet session.
Both leaders claimed victory. But it was unclear whether they had fully resolved Likud's internal squabbles, or ended the tension between Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews that surfaced in the trading of ethnic insults over Levy's stand.
From The Associated Press
Iranian planes strike rebel base inside Iraq
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Iranian warplanes bombed an Iranian rebel base near Baghdad yesterday. It was the first air strike by Iran on Iraqi territory since a 1988 cease-fire halted the eight-year war between the two countries.
The Associated Press
Iraq claimed that its forces shot down one of eight Iranian fighter-bombers and that they captured the two-man crew. State-run Baghdad radio, monitored in Cyprus, said that the raid was unjustified aggression and that it would have grave consequences for Iran.
Rebel supporters in Europe responded by attacking Iranian embassies in at least six countries.
The air raid marked a sharp deterioration in relations between Iran and Iraq. The two nations have not signed a peace treaty to formally end their 1980-81 hostilities, but the United States propaganda campaigns against each other.
Teheran said the air strike was in retaliation for a raid by guerrillas of Mujahedeen Khalq, or People's Holy Warriors, on two villages in western Iran on Saturday. It also blamed the Mujahedeen for recent attacks on Iranian diplomats in Baghdad.
But the raid may have been an attempt by Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanji to shore up support five days before parliamentary elections, in which the government components of moves to improve relations with the West.
The air attack was the most serious clash since March 1991, when units of Iran's Revolutionary Guards crossed the border during Kurdish and Shiite bombings and clashed with Iraqi troops and their allies.
Mujhaedeen Khalq, the largest exiled Iranian opposition force, said one of its fighters was killed and several others wounded when its base near Khalis, 30 miles inside Iraq and 40 miles from Baghad, was showered with cluster bombs on yesterday morning. The group denied attacking the Iranian villages.
Baghdad Radio said Iraq's Foreign Ministry sent a letter of protest to U.N. Secretary-General Boutros
Mujahedeen Khalq issued a statement in France saying that its leader, Massoud Radjavi, sent a telegram to Boutros-Ghali asking that the U.N. Security Council condemn the attack and vote for an oil and arms embargo against Iran.
Yeltsin pledges to fight efforts to curb his power
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Russian President Boris Yeltsin said yesterday that he would fight efforts in Russia's parliament to trim his powers and would use his full authority to press ahead with economic reforms.
"Only one way can exist today — the continuation of radical reforms," he told a gathering of supporters.
His comments came on the eve of a crucial session of the Congress of People's Deputies that will debate a new constitution to replace the political system left by the Communists. Parliament leaders are demanding that Yeltsin relinquish some powers and ease the hardship caused by his market reforms.
Barely four monthsafter presiding over the death of the Soviet Union, Yeltsin could face a political firestorm during the session of the 1.048-member body, which convenes today in the Grand Kremlin Palace.
But a Veltins aide, State Secretary Gennady Burbilus, said pro-reform groups agreed tentatively yesterday to form a parliamentary bloc to defend the president. He said the bloc included a majority of lawmakers, but that could not be confirmed independently.
In return, Yeltsin agreed to consult with the bloc in making government appointments and formulating policy. That is the closest he has come to joining a political organization since quitting the Communist Party in 1990.
Acknowledging criticism from lawmakers, Yeltsin said he would continue to shuffle his Cabinet and to make partial corrections in his reforms, which sent prices soaring. At the same time, farm and factory production has fallen.
Opponents from the right and left are demanding changes in the reforms and the repeal of the special powers Congress granted him to rule by decree.
More than 2,000 Yeltsin critics demonstrated yesterday in Manezh Square next to the Kremlin. One speaker denounced Yeltsin and former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, saying, "All that was possible to sell has been sold; all that was possible to betray has been betrayed."
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