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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, March 25, 1992
INTERNATIONAL BRIEFS
Istanbul, Turkey
Kurdish groups stage protests
Kurdish separatists held violent protests in Germany, Britain and the Netherlands yesterday, and four people were killed and 28 wounded in attacks inside Turkey.
It was the fourth straight day of deadly confrontation between Kurdish guerrillas and security forces in southeastern Turkey. More than 50 people have died.
Most of Turkey's 15 million Kurds live in the region, the center of the rebels' struggle for an independent state. But the violence lately also has spilled beyond the region and Turkey.
Johannesburg, S.A.
Miners hold hostages 12 hours
Striking Black miners held 15 white mine officials hostage for 12 hours yesterday before releasing them unharmed, the South Africa Press Association reported.
The miners took the hostages as they began their strike in the morning in the underground mine near Dannhausen, about 180 miles southeast of Johannesburg, according to the SAPA report. The hostages were freed after talks between the strikers and mine officials
Iscor, the mining company, said talks would continue today concerning the grievances.
Amman. Jordan
Hotel fire kills one, wounds 22
Fire broke out last night at a Ramadan banquet at the Jordan Intercontinental Hotel, killing one person. At least 22 other people suffered casualties and 60 others were stranded on hotel balconies for hours.
Officials said the blaze broke out at 7:30 p.m. in a tent set up for the banquet in a basement room, where dozens of people go each evening during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan to break their dawn-to-dusk fasts. Ramadan began this year on March 3.
From The Associated Press
U.N. inspection team makes visit to Saddam's hometown
MANAMA, Bahrain — A team of U.N. weapons experts made a surprise inspection in Saddam Hussein's hometown yesterday, and another team returned from Iraq after beginning the task of destroying Iraq's arsenal of chemical arms.
The Associated Press
Derek Boothby, head of a ballistic missile inspection unit, said from Bagdad that his team visited a large military establishment in Takrit, Saddam's hometown.
"We just did one of these warehouse-by-warehouse and bunker-by-bunker searches and didn't discover any illicit items," Boothby told The Associated Press by satellite telephone.
The missile inspectors are part of the United Nations effort to destroy all of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction under terms of the Persian Gulf War cease-fire 13 months ago.
That effort took a new twist last week when Baghdad — after months of spotty compliance with the U.N. rules — promised full compliance, saying it had destroyed many Scud missiles and buried the remains.
The other U.N. team, made up of chemical weapons experts, returned to Bahrain yesterday after blowing up 463 dangerous, leaking nerve gas drones when bombed by coalition forces during the guar war.
The team was the first to undertake the task of destroying Iraq's vast arsenal of chemical weapons under provisions of the Security Council resolution that ended the war more than a year ago.
Destroying the arsenal, which consists mainly of some 40,000 loaded missiles, artillery shells and bombs at the Muthana weapons facility near Baghdad, is a process that could take until 1983, the experts say.
Conservative ruling party loses South Korean general elections
The Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea — President Roh Tae-woo's conservative party acknowledged yesterday that it suffered a surprise defeat in South Korea's general elections and failed to retain majority control of parliament.
The election reflected strains in the government's traditional alliance with big business, which has been resisting efforts to increase public control over one of the world's fastest-growing economies.
Although the voting comes during negotiations with Communist North Korea on nuclear weapons
"We watched the election results with shock and disappointment, but we will humily accept the people's will," said Kim Yoon-yoh, secretary general of the rulin Democratic Liberal Party.
expected to affect South Korea's approach to the talks.
But the voting could lead to more pressure on the government to speed up political reforms. The results represented a complete defeat for the government, opposition leader Kim Dae-jung told jubilant supporters.
With more than 90 percent of the votes counted for National Assembly elections, the Democratic Liberals led in 113 of the 237 single member districts, six seats short of a majority. KBS Television said.
Candidates of the main opposition group led in 77 districts, and a month-old party founded by maverick millionaire Chung Ju-yung had 24 winners, KBS said. Independent candidates led in 22 districts, and a candidate from a minor political party won one seat.
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