University Daily Kansan / Monday, February 24, 1992
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Moscow
Communists rally in Moscow
In the most violent unrest in Moscow since the Soviet Union's demise, thousands of pro-communist demonstrators rallied yesterday, clashing with police and pelting them with near-worthless kopeck coins. At least 30 people were reported injured.
"Down with the Russian government!' shouted some protesters. Waving red Soviet flags, protesters tried to break through police lines to a bar on the street. A sound of a ban on gatherings in the city center.
Several police officers were knocked down, and demonstrators' faces were bloodied by police with trunches. One protester tried to detemted police officer in the head with a flag pole.
At one point, angry demonstrators pelted police with thousands of kopeck coins to protest hardship they blamed on Russian leader Boris Yeltsin's economic reforms.
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Iraqi opposition leaders convene
Fifteen key Iraqi opposition leaders, reportedly including former army officers, met yesterday to reseek a united front capable of toppling Saddam Hussein.
Until now, all efforts to oust the Iraqi leader have failed because of the disparate agendas of opposition groups, which range from communists to Islamic fundamentalists. They are variously backed by Syria and Iran.
Significantly, the closed-door session at Riyadh's Conference Palace was the first officially sanctioned by Saudi authorities since last year's war.
London
Group accuses armies of poaching
The armies of South Africa and Zimbabwe are involved in the illegal smuggling of ivory and the poaching of endangered elephants, a conservation group charged yesterday.
The Environmental Investigation Agency, a private London-based organization, accused the governments of both nations of ignoring the women's involvement in the slaughter of elephants.
The agency expressed hope that the report would undermine attempts by South Africa and Zimbabwe to overturn the worldwide ban on ivory trading at a meeting in Japan March 2.
The report alleges members of the South African Defense Force ran a major ivory-smuggling operation out of Angola and setup another operation in Darfur. The reports come from elephants shot by Mozambican rebels.
The report also claims soldiers from Zimbabwe's National Army killed elephants in their own country and in Mozambique and murdered several people, including an officer who threatened to expose their activities.
From The Associated Press
Israel, Arabs cease fire; Shiites vow to reattack
BEIRUT — Arabs and Israelis held their fire in southern Lebanon yesterday for the first time in a week, and about 200 Shiite guerrillas left the battle zone as more villagers trickled back to wrecked homes.
The Associated Press
But on the eve of a new round of Middle East peace talks in Washington, Shiite Muslim leaders told 20,000 followers rallying in Beirut that attacks on Israel had to continue.
"The only way to achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East is the return of all the Jewish occupiers to the lands from which they originally came," said Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the new leader of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah movement, which seeks the eradication of Israel and expulsion of Jews.
Nasrallah spoke at a rally called to mourn Hisbab Musawi, the Hezellhail leader whose assassination by Israelis a week ago helped trigger the violence. Children in the crowd held pictures of Musawi and his 5-year-old son, Hassan, who also was killed in the ambush.
Hezbollah fighters sought revenge by firing rockets into northern Israel and the Israeli-occupied security zone in southern Lebanon. Israel retaliated with howitzer barrages and a brief foray through U.N. lines to occupy the two Shiite villages Kafra and Yater just north of the zone. Fighting tapered off on Saturday.
Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, spiritual
mentor of the fundamentalist Hezbollah, told the Beirut crowd that the attacks on Israel steered the Arab nation in the right direction.
In Jerusalem, meanwhile, a pipe bomb exploded at a bus stop and wounded one person, police reported. Army radio said the blast seemingly was a terrorist attack.
Israeli negotiators left yesterday for Washington for the fourth round of peace talks, accompanied by dozens of security guards and reporters.
Hezbollah's calls for violence the day before the resumption of peace talks were at odds with efforts to defuse tensions in southern Lebanon, where the fighting killed six and wounded 37 last week.
Lebanon's Higher Defense Council, made up of senior army and police commanders, said Hezbollah and the other Shiite militia, the Syrian-backed Amal, agreed Saturday to stop rocket attacks against Israel and its security zone.
Some of the 10,000 villagers who fled the fighting trickled back through heavy rains to assess the damage to their homes. The first ventured home Saturday.
Many houses were ruined by shell explosions in Kafra and Yater.
Israel's chief of staff, Ehud Barak, expressed hope Saturday that the confrontation was winding down. But he said the guerrillas would pay a high price if they launched any more rocket attacks.
Mideast peace talks resume
The United Nations' top peacekeeping official, Marrack Goulding, was expected in Beirut today.
Negotiations to continue despite recent fighting in Lebanon
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Putting aside several explosive distractions, Israeli and Arab negotiators were poised yesterday to resume Middle East peace talks under the supervision of a increasingly restless Bush administration.
The fact that Israel, Syria, Palestinian Arabs, Lebanon and Jordan all agreed to send their delegations here indicated a joint commitment to keep it even though their talks have been inexplicable.
Officials of Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, said the Israeli delegation left for Washington on a chartered air force jet yesterday. Even this information was given on the condition of anonymity.
The parties also decided not to be sidelocked by a flare up of fighting in southern Lebanon, a squabble over Israel's detention of two Palestinian negotiators and Israel's difficult negotiations with the Bush administration over its request for help in borrowing $10 billion to absorb refugees.
Yesterday, a small pipe bomb exploded at a bus stop in a Jewish area of Jerusalem, injuring one person. Fifteen Arabs were rounded up for questioning, police representative Anat Granit said.
Shiite Muslim guerrillas withdrew about 200 of their fighters from the tense Israeli border area after halting rocket attacks against Israel and its security zone in south Lebanon. An estimated 800 guerrilla remains in border villages that have been the scene of several days of fighting.
An Israeli army representative said soldiers shot and killed two Palestinians in separate confrontations Saturday in the occupied lands.
Secretary of State James Baker, a low-key monitor, may be ready to play a more assertive role in the round that opens in Washington today provided the Palestinians flesh out their proposal for local self-rule and the Israelis provide a detailed response.
Baker, in a recent message to Faisal Husseini, a senior Palestinian adviser, said he would like to bridge the two sides. But Martin Indyk, executive director of The Washington Institute, a private research group, suggested on Friday that the time was not right.
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