INTERNATIONAL
University Daily Kansan / Monday, February 17. 1992
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Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney's visit to Brazil this week coincides with growing tensions between U.S. and Latin American military establishments.
Defense secretary to visit Brazil
Cheney arrives Wednesday for talks with President Fernando Collar de Mello and ranking Brazilian military officials, after first traveling to Guatemala and Panama. He also plans to visit Argentina and Chile during a 10-day swing through the region.
Poland's new center-right government has decided on an economic program that backs away from the shock therapy of the past two years in favor of pumping up battered state industries.
Poland studies economic policy
For years, the United States backed repressive military dictatorships in Latin America, arguing they were needed to control the spread of communism. By 1990, civilians were back in power throughout the region, but in many countries the armed forces remain powerful behind-the-scenes actors.
Prime Minister Jan Olszewski and his Cabinet approved the policy Friday, and it was to be formally announced at a news conference today. The state news agency PAP released a brief outline late Saturday.
Now, with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the communist regimes of eastern Europe, U.S. officials are pushing for further retrenchment of armed forces in Latin America. Last November, Cheney urged deep cuts in Latin military budgets.
It is the longest trip to the region by a U.S. defense secretary in years and comes as the United States seeks to restructure ties with Latin militant organizations following the end of the Cold War.
Warsaw. Poland
The program amounts to an admission that radical economic reforms adopted in January 1990 under then-Finance Minister Leszek Bacerowicz have failed to win social approval despite lowering inflation and restoring goods to shops.
However, the plan stresses that the fight against inflation will not be abandoned and that the government deficit will be kept within reasonable limits in part through new taxes.
roland now will shift away from fiscal austerity and tight money policies designed to fight inflation toward government investment and easier credit to overcome recession.
The Balcerowicz program, worked out with Western advisers and endorsed by the International Monetary Fund, was considered the most radical in Eastern Europe.
From The Associated Press
Zaire forces squelch pro-democracy march
The Associated Press
BRAZZAVILLE, Congo — Security forces in Zaire fired on pro-democracy demonstrators yesterday during a church-led march. Government representatives said the march was an illegal attempt by subversive priests to bring down President Mobutu Seine Seko.
The television transmission monitored across the Congo River
A television reporter called the march illegal and said demonstrators had faced the full rigor of the law.
There were conflicting reports on the number of casualties. Radio France International quoted Zaire's communications minister as saying 13 people were killed.
Zaire's state-operated television reported two deaths, describing them as demonstrators killed when they attacked police with knives. A representative of the opposition Christian Democrats said at least six demonstrators were killed and the party's leader, Joseph Ieo, was beaten up.
in the capital of neighboring Congo, said two Belgian priests had been arrested during the march and would be expelled.
Marchers called for the reopening of the country's national conference on democracy, suspended by Mobutu in January after opposition delegates appeared to have won control of it. National conferences have been used in some other African nations to wrest control of power from authoritarian leaders like Mobutu.
The television reporter reading the statement said it was issued by the Interior Ministry. The statement ended: "This demonstration is the result of the action of some priests longing for political activities and subversion."
Many workers in key government-controlled sectors of the
economy have gone on strike in support of a resumption of the conference.
Mobutu's prime minister, Ngua Karl-I-Bond, suspended the conference on grounds it was costing too much and was getting out of control. Opposition and church leaders said the conference was suspended because opposition delegates had won control of it.
Human rights group reports on political prisoners in China
The report was done by Asia Watch, an international human rights group based in New York, and the Tibet Information Network, which has headquarters in London.
BEIJING - China has detained many more political prisoners than it has acknowledged, according to a human rights report released today.
The groups said that their report documented 360 cases of Tibetan political prisoners and that it was released to coincide with a meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Commission on violations in Tibet. Beijing authorities have acknowledged only about half that many cases.
Two-thirds of the prisoners named in the report were under 25; the youngest was a 13-year-old girl. One-third were women, most of them nuns. Their sentences ranged from one year to life imprisonment.
When added to those previously identified by the two human rights groups, the number of known Tibetan political prisoners is 680, the report said.
The Xinhua report said that conditions at the Tibetan Autonomous Region Jail were so good that "if the regulations of the jail were not on the wall, people might not regard it as a jail."
Since 1987, Tibetans repeatedly have demonstrated for independence, and the Chinese have sent security forces to crush the opposition. Lhasa, Tibet's capital, has been under martial law for more than a year, but there still are periodic reports of anti-Chinese activities.
The official Chinese news agency, Xinhua,
released late yesterday its own report, in which it
said that maltreatment of criminals was banned and
was put into place. The report was provided
with clean culls, nourishing food and books.
The Xinhua report did not mention Tibetans detained for political offences.
Chinese troops occupied Tibet in 1959. China claims that Tibet has been an inalienable part of its territory for 700 years.
The 66-page human rights report details 360 such cases, nearly twice the number that Chinese authorities have acknowledged. All are identified by name, age, birth place and incarceration site.
The Associated Press
The report was based on three lists compiled by inmates and former inmates, some of whom had access to official records, according to the report.
The report said the vast majority were "non-violent protesters, detained for exercising their internationally recognized rights to freedom of expression and association."
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