University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, February 26, 1992
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The ROAD to MECCA
By Athol Fuzard
INTERNATIONAL BRIEFS
Nineteen key Black and white groups said yesterday that whites must vote to end apartheid through negotiations or face a full-scaler racial conflict.
U. S. jed coalition forces liberated Kuwait on Feb. 26 last year after seven months of Iraqi occupation. Yesterday also was the 31st anniversary of independence from Britain.
Meanwhile, the pro-apartheid Conservative Party urged whites to reject race reforms in a March 17 referendum and said President F. W. de Klerk was in a hurry to surrender power.
A Shiite militiaman fired shots in the air while U.N. envoy Marrack Goulding was inspecting a damaged south Lebanese village, but he was able to continue the tour, the United Nations said.
The emir announced earlier this month that Kuwait would not mark national and liberation days with festivities out of respect for the families of about 700 Kuwaitis still held prisoner in Iraq.
Key groups urge negotiations
Tyre, Lebanon
According to the U.N. statement from New York, Goulding was visiting the village of Kafra when members of his entourage got in a brief argument with pro-Iranian Hezbollah militia at the village entrance.
Shooting interrupts U.N. tour
Sheik Said al-Abdullah al-Sahab spoke after leading a silent march of about 4,000 Kuwaitis to a waterfront plaza. There he raised the Kuwaiti flag to mark the national and liberation days.
Capetown, South Africa
"The government has no real mandate to do everything it is doing." Conservative leader Andries Treurnicht said of de Klerk's sweeping reforms
De Klerk has called the whites-only ballot to determine whether the 5 million whites support his plans to end apartheid and share political power with South Africa's 30 million blacks.
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From The Associated Press
"When the group was informed of Mr. Goulding's identity and his purpose, he was allowed to proceed, although one member of the group fired some shots into the air," the statement said.
Kuwait's crown prince told thousands of Kuwaitis at a rally yesterday that dialogue could solve the emirate's problems, but he said the monarchy opposed a democracy that destroys.
Kuwaitis remember liberation
Kuwait City
Democracy advocates sentenced in Beijing
Also mentioned were
■ University students Li Minqi and Zhai Weimin.
Both took part in the 1989 movement and continued pro-democracy activities until their arrests in 1990.
■ Wang Guoqing, Wang Zhongxian and Dong Huiming, about whom little is known.
The Associated Press
BEIJING — Seven dissidents were sentenced to prison terms yesterday, including an editor of the Communist Party newspaper and three students who helped lead pro-democracy protests in 1989 and 1990. Chinese sources said.
All seven were convicted of counter-revolutionary propaganda and incitement, the sources said.
b. Morgan
None of China's official media immediately reported the sentencings, which came as the U.S. Congress prepared to resume debate on linking China's low-tariff trade status to its human rights record. Critics of China demand the release of political prisoners as a condition for renewing its most-favored-nation status.
Sources close to the men's families said that Wu Xuecan, a pageeditor at the Communist Party newspaper, the People's Daily, was sentenced to four years in prison and that Beijing University student Peng Rong was given two years. Peng was arrested in May 1990 and will be released this May.
Loss of the status would cost China billions of dollars in trade with the United States.
Also sentenced were:
The sentences apparently were the subject of prolonged internal debate.
Wu, 48. w was arrested in December 1989 after six months in hiding. He helped issue a leaflet in the 1989 democracy movement criticizing official corruption.
Baghdad is seeking target dates for the lifting of sanctions in exchange for its full cooperation with the U.N. Special Commission that is dismantling Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
Hussein said experts from the United Nations and Iraq should work out details for modifying Iraqi industries to make sure they cannot have any future military purposes prohibited by the Security Council.
Senate threatens China relations
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted yesterday to slap new conditions on renewing normal trade relations with China but fell well short of the two-thirds vote necessary to override President Bush's promised veto.
He said the United Nations should then declare "Iraq is in substantial compliance with its obligations" under the Security Council resolutions that ended the gulf war."
The 59-39 vote came after an unusual secret session of the full Senate to review intelligence
The compromise bill would require substantial progress by China in the areas of human rights, trade and weapons proliferation before most-favored-nation trade status could be renewed. That trade status will expire in June.
The House approved the conditional measure 409-21 last November, and it now will go to the White House. The Senate tally was eight votes short of the two-thirds that would be needed to override a veto if all senators voted.
Millions of people joined in national street protests in May and June 1889, demanding more democracy and an end to official corruption. The movement ended when the army fired on protesters in Beijing, killing hundreds and possibly thousands.
Terms of their sentences were not released.
Iraq agrees to inspections
between Iraq's cooperation and the lifting of economic sanctions imposed by the Security Council after Saddam's troops invaded Kuwait in August 1990.
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — Iraq said yesterday that it would cooperate with U.N. weapons inspectors and the dismantling of its military industries if doing so would pave the way for the lifting of economic sanctions.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Ahmed Hussein sent a lengthy letter to the Security Council and the secretary-general responding to the weekend visit of U.N. envoy Rolf Ekeus, who went to Baghdad to secure the complete cooperation of Saddam Hussein's government on the weapons issue.
However, the letter also called for a "balance"
Hussein's letter accepted the inspections of its weapons facilities and said Baghdad would cooperate with the long-term plan to dismantle its military industries, as called for in U.N. resolutions ending the Persian Gulf War.
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