INTERNATIONAL
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, March 17. 1992
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Washington
White House denies sabotage
President Bush's representative today denied that the United States was trying to harm Israel's image through leaks alleging improper Israeli sales of U.S. weapon technology.
"No, that's not true, we want good relations with Israel," said Marlin Fitzwater when asked about the speculations.
"We've worked long and hard for good relations. We've got a difficult situation now with respect to the loan guarantees but our overriding interest is the peace process," Fitwater said as the president left for a day's campaigning in the Midwest.
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens, departing the Pentagon after an hour-long session with Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, will send a solid patriot rossiers or technology to China.
Belgrade. Yugoslavia
Unrest continues despite troops
Hundreds of U.N. troops fanned out Monday to begin peacekeeping mission but their presence did little to prevent violence in Croatia.
Serbian television reported that heavy shelling and fire fighting welcomed the advance 350-man U.N. team that is laying the ground-wind in eastern and western parts of Croatia for next month's arrival of a 14,000-member U.N. peacekeeping force.
Slavic Muslims, Serbs and Croatians in the central republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina, meanwhile, resumed European Community-sponsored talks aimed at averting fighting. The republic has been shaken by violence in recent weeks as leaders of the three ethnic groups seek agreement on its political future.
Bonn, Germany
Germany rebuts weapons study
Disputing a reported Pentagon study that hypothesizes Germany could become a nuclear threat, Chancellor Helmut Kohl's government said Monday it has no intention of acquiring such weaponry.
The statement followed a report by Der Spiegel magazine that Kohl's government was angered by the study, which was revealed a week ago by The New York Times, because it suggests Germany could become an unreliable ally.
Dieter Vogel, Kohl's spokesman, sought to give the impression the German government is not ready to end war.
"This paper is apparently a formulation within the Pentagon that does not have approval of the (U.S.) defense secretary or of the American president. Therefore the federal (German) government need not deal with this working hypothesis," Vogel said.
From The Associated Press
Palestinian delegation savs talks are in danger
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — The head of the Palestinian delegation to Middle East peace talks said Monday that the negotiations were in jeopardy because each side was rejecting the other's position.
Dr. Haidar Abdul-Shafai said the Palestinians were re-evaluating their role in the U.S. backed talks to Israel.
"We are still interested in continuing the process but not at the loss of Palestinian basic rights," the Gaza Strip physician told reporters in east Jerusalem.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir repeated his position Monday that the Jewish state was unwilling to trade land for peace with its Arab neighbors.
"We are evaluating the whole negotiating process, and you will hear later the Palestinian decision on how to continue." Abdul-Shafi said.
"To my regret," said Shamir, "there are friends and foe who are trying to conclude that the key to peace is based on one-sided concessions even at the expense of the wholeness of the land of Israel and our future security.
terribly mistaken." Shamir said.
"They are terribly mistaken, Shamir said. Abdul-Shafi told reporters that the peace process is being conducted on the basis of U.N. Resolution 242, which calls for Israel to relinquish land captured
from Jordan, Syria and Egypt in the 1967 Middle East war.
Asked why he characterized the talks as in trouble, Abdul-Shafi said: "When I say that we are in trouble, I mean that both sides are rejecting each other's proposals."
Ehud Gol, Shamir's media adviser, dismissed this, saying progress had been made at the last round of talks this month in Washington. The talks began in October in Spain.
"Weefel we moved forward. We know that you cannot solve the problems in three or four meetings, but each meeting brings us closer to an understanding," Gol said by telephone.
At the last round, Israel said the Palestinians' plan was a model for a Palestinian state. The Palestinians had urged election of a legislative assembly to govern the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip and the withdrawal of Israeli troops.
The Palestinians rejected the Israeli proposal as outdated. While Israel offered some self-rule, it proposed keeping in place the military regulations under which the territories are ruled and allowing more Jewish settlements.
Abdul-Shafif also said reports that the Palestinians were considering confederation with Jordan before gaining statehood were premature.
Jahanshah Ahshadi, chief representative at the border of the U.N. High Commission for Refugees, said the visit would help build confidence among the 370,000 refugees who fled Cambodia's 13-year-old civil war. U.N. officials said they expected about 10,000 Cambodians to be returned in April.
Meanwhile, 11 Cambodians left refuge camps in Thailand to observe conditions in western Cambodia in preparation for U.N.-supervised repatriations set to begin at the end of March.
Leaders of the four Cambodian factions and the U.N. Transitional Authority in Cambodia met to formally convene the Supreme National Council, the reconciliation body that is to administer the country until elections in 1993.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Cambodia welcomed the start of the United Nations peacekeeping operation with a parade and speeches yesterday, and Prince Norodom Sihanouk said his country could start convalescing from two decades of war.
Marching bands, scores of diplomats, Cambodian leaders and U.N. military contingents from 13 countries gathered outside the palace to greet Akashi.
"You have arrived today in an impoverished land," Sihanouk said. "The Cambodian people who have suffered so unjustly over two decades today begin their convalescence."
Most of Cambodia's 8 million people have never known peace. The overthrow of Sihanouk in a military coup in 1970 ushered in 21 years of conflict and turmoil in which hundreds of thousands died. Many people fled the country.
Sihanouk, chairman of the reconciliation council set up under the peace accord signed by Cambodia's four warring factions, spoke at ceremonies for U.N. envoy Yasuhi Akashi of Japan, who arrived Sunday to begin formally the U.N. mission.
Akashi said the U.N. mission was to help Cambodia build a society based on political freedom and multiparty democracy.
The U.N.-mediated peace accord was signed in Paris in October by leaders of three guerrilla groups and the Vietnamese-installed government that have fought since 1978. Advance teams of U.N. officials and military officers began arriving in November to plan for the peacekeeping operation.
The accord gives the United Nations unprecedented powers to control key functions of the state until the U.N.-conducted elections are held and a new constitution is adopted. The U.N. force also is to disarm and supervise the dispersal of more than 250,000 fighters from the four factions.
The peacekeeping operation, the largest in U.N. history, is expected to cost nearly $3 billion. Officials from 23 countries and some 22,000 U.N. soldiers are expected to arrive by May.
Cambodia welcomes U.N.
The Associated Press
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