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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, February 27, 1992
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Treaty renews fear of Nazism
A Czech-German treaty to be signed today has revived fears rooted in Germany's Nazi past and its growing power in Europe.
The governments of German Chancellor Helm Kohl and President Vacla Havel see the treaty as a blueprint for a positive future relationship, but some Czechs grumble that it will only encourage what they see as unwelcome German involvement.
Seemingly arcane points of the treaty text have sparked angry debate over Nazi aggression against Czechoslovakia and the post-World War II expulsion of about 3 million Germans from the Sudetenland territory of Czechoslovakia.
The Czech left is angry that the treaty fails to officially nullify the 1988 Munich Pact. Rightist Germans are unhappy that it fails to redress wrongs done to the expelled Germans.
Moscow
Three soldiers die in riot fires
Hundreds of construction troops rioted at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan after complaining of inhumane treatment by their superiors, news services said yesterday. Three soldiers were reported burned to death.
The rioters commandered 17 trucks, set fire to four barracks and stole 35,000 rubles from a cashier's office, the Interfax news agency and the police. The victims were found inside one barracks.
Police forces and regular army troops were called in to try to stop the mutineers from marching on the nearby city of Leninsk, where space center officials live. But the hungry and unwashed soldiers reached the city to present their grievances, the TV said. They dispersed after authorities gave them food and their allowances and met some of their demands.
Dhaka, Bangladesh
An 18-year-old U.S woman was arrested with nine pounds of heroin hidden under her dress, police said Wednesday. She could be sentenced to death if tried and convicted of drug trafficking.
U.S. woman arrested with drugs
The woman, who identified herself as Eliadah McCord, of Houston, Texas, was arrested Tuesday at Zia International airport.
A police official said a customs official found the heroin hidden under McCord's long flowing dress when she reported for boarding a flight to London. The street value of the heroin would be above $1 million, officials said.
McCord, who said she was a model, claimed her boyfriend, whom she did not name, had paid for her trip to Dhaka earlier in the month.
From The Associated Press
Irish court allows girl,14, to get abortion elsewhere
The Associated Press
DUBLIN, Ireland — The Irish Supreme Court cleared the way yesterday for a 14-year-old girl to have an abortion in another country, leaving divisive legal and political issues for another day.
The ruling overturned the first attempt to prevent an Irish woman from seeking a legal abortion in another country. The case attracted international attention and reopened the debate over abortion, which is banned in Ireland by a constitutional amendment that won overwhelming support in a 1983 referendum.
"From a humanitarian point of view I welcome the decision. It has been a sad and distressful case and I am glad that everything is over," Prime Minister Albert Revnoels said.
The five Supreme Court justices overturned a High Court order that had prevented the girl, who says she was raped and has threatened to kill herself, from having an abortion or leaving the country
Opposition leaders, pro-choice groups and even the Roman Catholic Church welcomed the decision. But supporters of the right to an abortion stressed the
court's written decision would indicate whether they would seek a new constitutional referendum or legislation.
Chief Justice Thomas Finley said that the written judgment would be issued in a few days.
"No girl or woman who is the victim of rape should ever again find herself and her family put on trial in such circumstances and suffer such barbaric treatment at the hands of the state," said Alan Shatter, justice representative for the main opposition party, Fine Gael.
Shatter said that the government should not assume that the decision relieved it of its political responsibilities.
Reynolds said that he wanted to see the written decision before commenting on implications for future cases.
Reynolds previously said that he hoped to avoid another hitter fight over a referendum on abortion.
It was not known whether the Supreme Court had decided that the High Court had overstepped Irish law or had acted contrary to Ireland's commitments under European Community treaties calling for freedom of movement of citizens.
Drug summit is ambitious
Countries hope to cut U.S. demand and foreign supply
The Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO — President Bush yesterday joined Latin American leaders for a second drug summit and promised to redouble their efforts to choke off both U.S. demand and foreign supply. Peru's president said that those efforts must include the infusion of more U.S. money.
"We're going to get maximum cooperation," Bush said as he opened a meeting with President Alberto Fujimori of Peru, the nation with the most limited progress in the war against drugs.
Who's at the drug summit
But even as they and five other leaders gathered, Bush faced criticism at home that his multibillion-dollar drug-fighting strategy has been ineffective, with U.S. cities still flooded with ample, cheap supplies.
President Bush meets in San Antonio, Texas, with leaders of six Latin American countries to discuss the war on drugs.
Bush said that they were going to build on the Cartagena meeting, referring to the first drug summit two years ago. "We're going to redouble our efforts on the demand side and on the supply side," he said.
Summit nations' drug woes Extent of cocaine production, processing and money laundering 1988 vs. 1991
Latin American cocaine seizures (in metric tons)
203. 4
U. S. anti-drug funding (in billions of dollars)
SOURCE House Judiciary Committee R.L.REBACH and JUDY TREIBLE Knight-Ridder Tribune
'89 '90 '91 '92 '93
SOURCE: White House
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