INTERNATIONAL
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 25, 1992
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Nicosia, Cyprus
Newspaper warns of terrorism
A hard-line Iranian newspaper said yesterday that Israel's killing of a Shiite Muslim leader proved the release of Western hostages last year was a mistake and raised the prospect of a renewed round of kidnapping.
It was difficult to assess how much of a threat meant for the estimated 3,000 U.S. citizens and businessmen.
The warning in the daily newspaper Salam, founded by a political leader of the U.S. Embassy hostage siege, cited recent infighting that has forced the Governing Mafias led by President Hashemi Rafsanjani.
The Tehran Times, yesterday said that the taking of hostages in Lebanon was undesirable, and that it would give the Israelis a justification for their crimes.
Guerrillas hiding by Israeli zone
In Beirut, a U.N. envoy arrived today for talks with officials on rising Arab Israeli tensions and bloodshed, including last week's bombings in the city and Hebbolah rocket attacks on northern Israel.
Hundreds of Muslim guerrillas in southern Lebanon have put on civilian clothes and hidden their weapons in an apparent effort to remain close to Israel's self-proclaimed security zone, police said today.
Beirut
About 1,000 guerrillas raced south last week to confront the Israeli incursion in the villages of Hagar and Nabi Yehud.
About 800 guerrillas appear to be making plans to stay in the area and blend in with the population, said police, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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The opposition Democratic Convention won mayoral races in Bucharest and other major cities, election officials said yesterday.
Bucharest, Romania
Democrats win mayoral races
The Democratic Convention, a union of 14 formerly fractured opposition parties, has long charged that the ruling National Salvation Union is a Communist elite and is not committed to democracy.
The Front's popularity was harmed by economic hardships that have persisted since the fall of communism in 1989. In two years, prices have risen fivefold, leaving wages far behind, and 350,000 Romanians have lost their jobs.
Sunday's balloting was the second round of voting in Romania's first free local elections in five decades.
From The Associated Press
Baker issues ultimatum on Israeli settlements
WASHINGTON—Secretary of State James Baker said yesterday he had given Israel a choice: stop settlements in occupied Arab land or forfeit $10 billion in loan guarantees. The ultimatum raised Arab hopes and Israeli nerviness as a fourth round of Mideast peace talks began.
The Associated Press
Baker testified on Capitol Hill as separate sets of talks began across town at the State Department between Israel and a Palestinian-Jordanian team, between Israel and Syria and between Israel and Lebanon.
one issue of the guarantees, which Israel needs so it can borrow money to absorb 350,000 Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union, has overshadowed the peace talks since they were launched in October under U.S. aupies.
Israel objects to links between the guarantees, which it regards as aiding a humanitarian cause, and Jewish settlements in the predominantly Arab West Bank and Gaza Strip. The United States, however, views the guarantees as leverage for stopping the settlements which if deems harmful to prospects for an Arab-Israeli peace.
Hanan Ashrawi, Palestinian representative at the peace talks, said Bakery's remarks constituted a
glimmer of hope that the United States understands the severity of the continued Jewish settlements.
However, Israeli negotiator Yosef Ben-Aharon, a senior aide to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, said Israel would not capitulate on the settlements and would not write off the loan guarantees.
Baker said he had offered up to $2 billion a year in guarantees over five years if Israel would halt settlement work in lands it occupied by the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
Housing Minister Ariel Sharon said Israel had begun 2,000 housing units this year and would soon start another 1,000. And Shamir told Jewish settlers he would defy Washington rather than stop settlement construction even for a day, an Israeli newspaper reported.
Baker said the United States had offered to allow completion of housing units under construction on Jan. 1, 1992, but with a penalty reducing the guarantees by any amount spent on completing those units.
If it determined new settlement work was going on after the guarantees go forward, the United States should have the right to terminate any provision for absorption assistance at that point, he said.
But the United States probably would not seek to reclaim money already loaned as a result of earlier guarantees, he added.
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WASHINGTON - A human rights group said yesterday that witness interviews, documents and exhultations of victims' bodies show evidence that Iraq was guilty of mass killings of Iraqi Kurds. Kurdish leaders have said the executions number 180,000.
Aryeh Neier, executive director of Human Rights Watch, said his group had access to tons of official documents captured from Iraqis in a Kurdish uprising after the Gulf War in March, 1991.
Middle East Watch, a division of Human Rights Watch, based its conclusions on a report by a team of observers, including two forensic anthropologists specializing in uncovering atrocities, who visited Iraqi Kurdistan in December.
The U.N. special human-rights investigator for Iraq, former Dutch Foreign Minister Max Van Der Stoel, who was in Iraq after the Middle East Watch team, issued a report in Geneva last week saying Iraqi human rights violations were without parallel since the Nazi atrocities of World War II.
Human rights organization says Iraq tortured and killed Kurds
"If our findings in only one small area of the region hold true for other areas, then substantial evidence exists to support the proposition that Iraq has committed crimes against humanity in Kurdistan," the report said. That charge was used in the Nuremberg Tribunal after World War II to convict Germans of war crimes.
Neier said the documents captured from intelligence offices and offices of the ruling Baath Party showed the Iraqis kept voluminous records of their treatment of the Kurds including execution lists, and videotapes of torture sessions.
The Associated Press
"The international community, and particularly the United Nations, has a moral responsibility to help
He said he assumed the incriminating records were kept by officials as a means of advancement within the Iraqi bureaucracy.
Neier said that after the Iran-Iraq war ended in 1988, the Iraqis "turned their attention with a vengeance against the Kurds" who had been fighting for autonomy in Iraq for 50 years.
He said that in addition to the thousands of documented executions, 4,000 villages were razed, some villages were attacked with poisonous gas and "many tens of thousands" of Kurds were forcibly relocated from their homes and are missing.
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