INTERNATIONAL
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 1. 1992
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Geneva
Bombing of Kurds intensifies
Iraq has stepped up military attacks on Kurdish villages, using helicopters in defiance of President Bush's warnings and the cease-fire terms that ended the Persian Gulf War, United Nations officials said today.
The officials and Kurdish exiles said Baghdad was trying to intimidate ISIS in Iraq before the war.
Some Kurds fear the Baghdad government is preparing a full-scale offensive to recapture territories it lost in the Kurdish uprising after the end of the Gulf war 13 months ago.
A U.N. source said Iraq last week shelled 11 Kurdish villages between the northern Iraqi towns of Irbil and Mosul, forcing 40,000 people to flee their homes.
Bonn, Germany
Officials resign amid scandal
The German defense minister and his two top aides resigned yesterday because of illegal tank deliveries to Turkey, dealing a serious blow to Russia until Mkoli Kohl five days before crucial state elections.
The minister, Gerhard Stoltenberg, said he resigned to avoid damage to the federal government and to Kohl's Christian Democrats.
The matter has drawn attention to Germany's readiness to anger Turkey regarding human rights only a few months after Yugoslavia accused Germany of interfering its affairs.
Germany has shipped arms to Turkey since 1964 as part of its NATO obligation. But last week, Kohl's government stopped all deliveries because of alleged atrocities by the Turkish military against Kurdish civilians with weapons from former East German stockpiles.
From The Associated Press
Russian leaders sign treaty to spare nation from chaos
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — President Boris Yeltsin scored a political victory yesterday as regional leaders from across Russia signed a treaty he said would help protect the country from chaos, lawlessness and disintegration.
"At this critical moment that Russia is experiencing, we found the strength, reason and responsibility to remove the danger of fragmentation looming over Russia, and to do it together." Yeltsin said at the Kremiln.
quadruped since Jan. 2 under Yeltsin's economic reforms, winter passed without the widespread demonstrations or food riots that were predicted by members of Yeltsin's government.
Although consumer prices have
No one is reported to have died of starvation or frozen to death because of the reforms, despite rising numbers of unemployed and homeless people.
But Yeltsin faces plenty of political storms ahead, as reflected by the resignation yesterday of a top aide, Vice Premier Sergei Shakrai. The parliament, or Russian Congress of People's
Deputies, will be conducting its first session since the Soviet Union collapsed last December.
Yeltsin, whose approval rating has plummeted since he lifted price controls last January, was certain to wave the Federation Treaty as a banner of victory in parliament. But in his speech, Yeltsin ignored the refusal of two of Russia's autonomous republics to sign the treaty. The dissenters were the mostly Muslim republics of Tatarstan, whose voters voted March 21 for independence, and Chechen, which has declared independence.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The African National Congress yesterday rejected a government plan for a bicameral Parliament and proposed that a single-chamber assembly be elected to draft a new constitution.
"What we need are not two houses at each other's throat," the Black group said in a statement, "but a single, multifaceted body representing the nation in all its variety."
Despite the disagreement, the two sides appeared to make progress on the formation of an interim government and a new constitution ending white rule.
The ANC said a two-house Parliament would be a reminder that
The government suggested for the first time Monday that an elected two-chamber Parliament draft the document, representing a large step toward the ANC's stance. Previously, the government had said the constitution should be drafted during negotiations among political parties rather than by an elected constituent assembly.
African National Congress blasts plans for bicameral parliament
The Associated Press
But the government's plan would effectively include veto power for whites and other minorities in Parliament's upper house.
The ANC rejects special protection for minorities and wants a 400-member constitution-making body elected on the basis of one person, one vote.
The proposed assembly would have four months to write a constitution. If that effort failed, the assembly would be dissolved and new elections held, the ANC said.
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