INTERNATIONAL
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, March 24, 1992
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INTERNATIONAL BRIEFSE
Cizre, Turkey
Kurdish offensive overwhelmed At least 45 Kurds were killed in clashes in Cizire and other Kurdish towns in southeast Turkey since Saturday, when guerrillas launched an offensive toward the Kurdish celebration of spring, a holiday called Newroz.
The Kurds were overwhelmed by superior firepower and have political differences as well.
The current round of clashes was provoked by calls by the outlawed Kurdish Labor Party for an uprising and promises of a offensive March 21, the spring holiday.
They agree they want self-determination, but are split over whether that means independence or autonomy within Turkey.
Labor Party guerrillas will war of independence to create a Marxist homeland in Turkey.
United currency name debated
Bonn, Germany
The 12-nation European Community struggled to work out an agreement on creating a united currency and a plan for how it would move. Now there is a problem over its name.
Plans had been for the currency to be called the "ecu" But German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has ridiculed that as ugly, and his finance ministers have taken the new name "the Euro-Mark" or "Europa-Mark."
But a name linked to the current German mark might not sit well with other EC nations worried about Germany's domination of the economic union as the strongest national economy.
Waigel's suggestion, to appear today in a newspaper interview, could be aimed at allaying unease in Germany over conditions for European economic union by the end of the decade, which would mean loss of the stable German mark.
Marple Bridge, England
Thatcher attacked with flowers
A woman who took a swat at Margaret
Thatcher with a bunch of daffodils was arrested
Monday.
The former prime minister was out seeking votes for the Conservative Party in this northern village near Manchester when a woman offered her a bouquet. When Thatcher went to accept it, the woman started flailing at her head with the daffodils. Thatcher turned away and her personal detective stepped between her and the floral assailant.
Greater Manchester police arrested the woman for an alleged breach of the peace.
From The Associated Press
Libyan bomb suspects offered to Arab League
UNITED NATIONS — Libya has offered to缓
tender two men suspected in the bombing of Pan Am
 flight 10130 the Arab League for eventual trial in the
security, the Security Council president said yesterday.
The Associate Press
The offer marked a major Libyan concession as it seeks to avoid U.N. Security Council economic and diplomatic sanctions being pushed by the United States, Britain and France.
London and Washington seek the extinction of the two Libyans for bombing the New York-bound Pan Am plane over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. France seeks four others for the bombing of a French airliner over Africa in 1989. A total of 441 people died in the attacks.
Libyan Ambassador Ali Ahmed Elhouderi announced the plan to turn over the accused to the Arab League while talking with reporters at the United Nations.
Elhoudier said it would be up to the 21-member Arab League to decide the fate of the Lockerbie suspects — whether to turn them over to the United States and Britain, or to a neutral country, or to the
He did not say when they would be surrendered. Libyan representatives previously have denied the country was involved in the bombings and said its citizens were not involved either. The Libyan government offered to hold trials in Libya, but that idea was rejected by the United States and Britain.
United Nations.
It was not clear whether the plan included the four men sought by France — which previously had offered to send a judge to Tripoli, Libya's capital, to observe their trial.
The Security Council president, Ambassador Diego Arria of Venezuela, said he believed the suspects would be unconditionally surrendered to the Arab League and unconditionally surrendered to U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
Arria also said he understood the men most definitely could be handed over for trial to the United States or Britain.
Egypt's foreign minister, Amr Moussa, had said earlier in Cairo that diplomatic efforts were under way to persuade Libya to surrender suspects in the bombings. He said a way was being sought to leave Libya's leader, Col. Moammar Ghadhafi, a facesaving way out of the confrontation.
South African government draws plan to end apartheid
PRETORIA, South Africa — The government outlined plans yesterday for a new system to replace white minority rule, calling for multiracial transitional councils as a first step.
The Associated Press
Top government ministers said the councils would advise on the transition and a new constitution and would help clear the way for elections that would include blacks for the first time.
The African National Congress and other black opposition groups opposed the plan, saying it would leave the white government in control. They have urged an interim government be named to run the country until free elections can be held.
The councils were described as interim executive bodies, but the ministers said they would have no governmental power and could only make proposals to the white government.
"The transitional councils are not an interim government," said Constitutional Development Minister Gerrit Viljoen, the government's chief negotiation
The proposal follows last week's overwhelming support from white voters for President F.W. de Klerk's reforms aimed at ending apartheid.
tor. "They are something preliminary to an interim government."
The government's basic proposals for a future constitution include a two-chamber parliament — one popularly elected, the other reflecting regional and ethnic divisions. It also is pushing for a joint presidency representing various racial groups, a cabinet appointed by the presidency and a charter of fundamental rights.
De Klerk has said black majority rule cannot replace white minority rule, and the interests of ethnic minorities must be protected.
Black opposition groups have opposed some of the points, saying the government wants to maintain white privilege.
His government insisted the transitional councils would play a significant role.
The ANC said the proposal would keep all power with the government, allowing it to be both referee and player in the transition process.
"This is the worst-case scenario for an interim government," said ANC negotiator Thabo Mbeki. "The critical element is that we can't continue with the old government acting as an interim government."
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