INTERNATIONAL University Daily Kansan / Mondav. March 2. 1992 5 INTERNATIONAL BRIEFS Tokyo Law facilitates gang crackdown About 2,500 police raided offices of Japan's largest underworld syndicate yesterday, the day a wide-ranging anti-gangster law took effect. An official of the Osaka state police said 65 people were arrested during the raids on 109 locations connected with the 30,000-member Yamaguchi-gumi gang. The charges included blackmail, infliction of bodily injury, drug smuggling and violation of weapons-control laws, hesaid. The tough new law is expected to enable police to crackdown harder on the nation's estimated 87,000 gangsters or "vakuz." The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said police seized 1,744 pieces of evidence — including a pistol, drugs and lists of gang members. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Before the law took effect, the yakuza operated openly from well-marked offices and often wore gang insignia. King makes political reforms Saudi Arabia's absoluteruler, King Fahd, took a tentative first step toward sharing power yesterday by announcing the long-promised creation of an advisory body and spelling out a constitution based on Islamic law. The 61-member Majlis al-Shura, or Consultative Council, was set up to make recommendations to the king and the prime minister, although it would have no ability to make laws on its own. Its creation by royal decree was seen as a step toward political pluralism in the Islamic kingdom ruled by the Al-Saud family since 1932. Fahd said in a statement that council members would be Saudi nationals aged 30 or older, apparently to be drawn from the kingdom's oil, religious and academic communities. If so, this would be the first time non-royals were allowed to participate in the kingdom's decision-making. Yesterday's reforms, contained in three decrees, were the most profound in Saudi history. Jerusalem Landslide crushes hillside cafe Arab and Israeli rescue workers dug through mud, gravestones and even skeletons yesterday to pull the last of 23 bodies out of a cafe that collapsed after a hillside cemetery slid onto the Twenty-two Palestinians inside the Paradise Garden Cafe were injured in the Saturday afternoon accident that was described as Jerusalem's worst building disaster in modern times. Police said the mud slide, triggered by near-record winter snows and rains, caused the retaining wall of the cemetery to cave in, toppling the roof and a wall of the popular cafe across from the walled Old City of Jerusalem. About 20 people managed to flee the 45-foot-by-15 foot cafe unharmed. Mayor Teddy Kollek told reporters he not recall a disaster like this ever happening in Jerusalem. The rescue effort was a rare show of Jewish-Arab solidarity in this city torn by decades of the Arab-Israeli conflict. From The Associated Press U.S. military equips for battle with Iraq DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The commander of the 25-ship U.S. Navy fleet stationed in the Persian Gulf said his forces were ready for new orders if military action was taken to enforce U.N. demands that Iran destroy its weapons. The Associated Press "We're not bluffing — we're flying planes up and down the gulf every day to maintain our readiness," said Rear Adm. Rajon Taylor, commander of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command. Taylor, whose command vessel, the USS LaSalle, was on port call in Dubai, said the fleet had no orders against Iraq at the moment, but "we could get them ... at any time." The admiral would not make predictions of allied military action against Iraq in the face of Baghdad's refusal to destroy missile-production facilities. The U.N. Security Council has told Iraq it faces "serious consequences" by refusing to comply. The U.S. naval presence includes the aircraft carrier USS America and her battle group, currently in the Red Sea, and an amphibious force of five vessels on patrol in the gulf. The U.S. warships, supported by France and other members of the coalition that waged the gulf war, still monitor the blockade of Iraq. They are concentrated in the Red Sea near the Jordanian port of Aqaba because goods can be shipped by land from Jordan to Iran. Taylor said a multinational force in the gulf also checks about 300 vessels a month. The admiral said the navy was conducting joint exercises with each guantong to make them more adept at providing support to help them. "Exercise Eager Mace," the navy's fourth joint naval and amphibious exercise with Kuwaiti forces since the end of the war, was to begin yesterday. An amphibious force of at least 1,500 people was going ashore in Kuwait for the 11-day exercises. The joint exercises are the only times sailors and Marines go ashore in Kuwait because of the number of ships. The allied mine sweeping effort recovered and destroyed 1,286 mines after the war. Taylor took command of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command and assumed command of the Middle East Force in February 1991, before the gulf war ended. He is a native of New Bedford, Mass. Yugoslavian republic votes for independence The Associated Press SARAJEVO, Yugoslavia — Citizens of Bosnia-Hercegovina have voted for independence, the republic's foreign minister said yesterday citing unofficial results. Also yesterday, voters in the republic of Montenegro cast ballots on whether to remain in Yugoslavia with Serbia. The tiny republic was expected to approve union with Serbia, Yugoslavia's largest republic. The vote in Bosnia, if borne out in official results, could set the stage for an outbreak of violence. Serbians, who make up about one-third of Bosnia's population, largely boycotted the vote. They generally oppose independence and want to divide the republic along ethnic lines. But Muslims, who account for nearly half, and Croatians, who make up about one-fifth, say Bosnia must be independent, with its borders intact. The European Community and the United States fear fragmentation of Bosnia could throw it into fighting far worse than the six-month civil war over Croatian independence. Croatia and Slovenia seceded from Yugoslavia in June, and a civil war between Croatians and Serbian paramilitary forces and the Serbian-allied federal army cost the lives of at least 2,000 people. In Bosnia, there were three deaths Saturday, the first day of balloting. There was more unrest reported overnight, but no injuries. Bosnian Foreign Minister Haris Silajdjic made his announcement about the results after 51.1 percent of the 3.1 million eligible voters had cast their ballots but before official results of the two-day independence referendum were known. First official results in both ballots are expected today. Silajdzic said the referendum was positive and there was no single obstacle left for international recognition of Bosnia-Hercegovina. He said the EC had promised it would recognize Bosnia if the majority of its population voted for independence. "We expect automatic recognition because the referendum was the only precondition set by the EC." Silaidzic said. He said the EC should recognize Bosnia at once because of dangers from neighboring Serbia and its dreams of forming some greater state. "From now on, we are an independent and free country," Silaidzic said. In Rozaje, a mountain town where 88 percent of the population are Muslims, the turnout by midday was only 3 percent. At Ulcinj, an Adriatic resort near the Albanian border with a 72 percent ethnic Albanian majority, the turnout by 1 p.m. was 10 percent. Before the vote, Montenegro President Momir Bulatovic said he would step down if voters reject unification. Life after the presidency is comfortable yet eye-opening for former lead Gorbachevs learn value of a ruble Life after the presidency is comfortable vet eve-opening for former leader The Associated Press When he was the Soviet president, the Gorbachev had at least three luxurious homes: a very large apartment in Moscow; a presidential dacha, or country house, just outside the capital; and seaside vacation village in the Crimea, where they were held captive during the failed coup last August. MOSCOW - Mikhail and Raisa Gorbache are very comfortable indeed by Russian standards, but there is no question their lifestyle has come down a notch. Now, they have only a three-room apartment in the capital and a smaller dacha southwest of the city. They live mainly at the dacha, which one aide described as "a very nice, brick house where you can live well and feel at It is reportedly the same state-owned Mikhail Gorbachev The Gorbachves also have been allocated a black Zil limousine and a boxy, four-door Volga sedan, plus a contingent of bodyguards. Gorbachev's salary as president of his new think tank, the Gorbachev Institute, is $150 million. dacha where the Gorbachev lived before he became Communist Party chief — and where Russian President Boris Yeltsin later lived for a time. But Russia's television news show "Vesti" estimated last week that Gorbachev's outside income, mainly from books and articles published abroad, could total as much as $10 million a year. A Western publisher said the true figure was probably far less, but easily could reach several hundred thousand dollars. Aides said he continued to donate substantial sums each month to children's hospitals and orphanages — as he did with his cash award from the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize. Still, although Gorbachev's pension of 4,000 rushes is huge by Russian standards, it is worth just $5 at the current exchange rate. Raisa Gorbachev gets only a 340-ruble basic pension — about $3 — each month. apparently shocked to go shopping and find out how far their rushes go. Even though they have other sources of income, the Gorbachevs were "As soon as I started going to the shops, I realized that was 500 rubles gave straight away. What I thinking now is, that's enough. ... It's time I earned some dollars so I can support myfamily." he said. "We receive all the bills ... we pay them ... out go the checks, and last month we calculated we'd spent 3,900 rubles. That's all my pension," the former Soviet president said in a interview broadcast on British TV last week. 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