NATION/WORLD
University Daily Kansan / Friday, February 14, 1992
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Washington
Newsday reporter keeps quiet
A New York Newsday reporter declined to reveal his sources yesterday to a special Senate counsel questioning him about his articles on Anita Hill's sexual harassment allegations against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Reporter Timothy Phelps, subpoenaed by special counsel Peter Fleming Jr., said he was asked to explain his stories word by word.
Phelps, who was questioned in closed session,
told reporters in a break, "We are not responding,
except to say we wrote what was written."
Phelps' lawyer, Robert Warren, said the reporter objected to revealing sources on constitutional grounds; the First Amendment protects freedom of the press.
New York Newsday, in a legal memorandum, also argued that both houses of Congress had refrained, for more than a century, from forcing journalists to identify confidential sources.
Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Police breakup student protest
Hundreds of student protesters tried to march on the city's business center yesterday, but they were turned back by police who fired tear gas, threw stun grenades and beat them with truncheons.
About 1,000 students were protesting the government's refusal to punish the army commander who ordered a raid on a university campus nine months ago.
Yesterday's protest also came after the government's seizure of copies of two opposition newspapers that compared President Felix Houphouet-Boigny to the brutal former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin.
Houphout-Boigny had refused to punish Gen. Robert Guei for ordering the raid at the University of Ivory Coast on May 17. A government commission investigating the incident recommended that Guel be punished.
Los Angeles
Man convicted of storing guns
A man investigated for allegedly threatening to kill President Bush was convicted of illegally stockpiling weapons.
A jury Wednesday convicted Robert Thomas Ward of possessing 10 unregistered machine guns, two silencers, and other silencers without serial numbers.
Ward, 45, of Oxnard, could get up to 20 years in
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Federal authorities in July said that they had learned that Ward had bragged about scouting out an area near the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library where he could get a clear shot at Bush at the library's dedication Nov. 4.
Authorities found the cache of weapons at a wounded homicide, not charge with threat to the president.
Bush and former Presidents Reagan, Ford, Nixon and Carter attended the dedication.
From The Associated Press
Peace force of 13,000 may go to Yugoslavia
UNITED NATIONS — U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali will recommend quick deployment of up to 13,000 peacekeepers to keep Yugoslavia's war from reigniting and spreading, U.N. sources said yesterday.
The Associated Press
A cease-fire in the Serbian-Croatian conflict has been in place since Jan. 3. But the pact has been frequently breached, and many officials fear fighting will resume – and perhaps spread to other republics
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— unless the peacekeeping force is sent soon.
The U.N. Security Council is expected to authorize the force early next week, and the first peacekeepers could begin arriving within two weeks, U.N. officials said. The cost is broadly estimated at $400 million a
The deployment would be the largest such operation since the U.N. sent 20,000 peacekeepers to the Belgian Congo, now Zaire, in 1960
The war erupted after Croatia and Slovenia
declared independence from Yugoslavia last June 25. After brief fighting in Slovenia, the war shifted to Croatia, where fighting between the Croatians and the Serbians has taken more than 8,000 lives.
U. N. representative Francois Giuliani said that Boutros-Ghali decided to recommend the deployment. Cyrus Vance, his special envoy in the Yugoslav crisis, has called for an 11,500-person force to be sent quickly. A 75-person liaison team is already in Yugoslavia to encourage compliance with the cease-fire.
Croatian President Franjo Tudjman on Wednesday gave fresh assurance that he unconditionally accepted the U.N. plan. But about a third of Croatia has been captured by Serb forces, and some Serb leaders want to hold onto their gains.
Milan Babic, the leader of an ethnic Serbian enclave in western Croatia, rejects the U.N. plan. Babic warned yesterday that there would be large casualties if peacekeepers were sent.
Muslims leave Kashmir border
Militants give up plan to storm, fearing Pakistani attack
The Associated Press
MUZAFFARABAD Pakistan — Muslim militants yesterday gave up their plan to storm a ceasefire line that divided the disputed territory of Kashmir, stepping back from a bloody confrontation that already had left 16 dead and hundreds wounded.
The development underscored the volatility of the situation in Kashmir, where dozens of groups have been fighting to split from India. More than 3,700 people have been killed in fighting in the last two years.
Pakistan and India, traditionally antagonistic neighbors, went to war in 1948 and 1965 over Kashmir, a former monarchy divided by departing British colonial rulers in the 1947 partition.
India frequently accuses Pakistan of arming, training and harboring Kashmiri militants. Pakistan denies the allegations and accuses India of committing atrocities to crush the uprising.
In the latest confrontation, the Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front had vowed to storm the U.N.-monitored cease-fire line and march into Indian-controlled Kashmir to show support for militants who were fighting for an independent state there.
The Pakistani government opposed the march, saying it could lead to another war with India. Kashmiris on both sides of the cease-fire line viewed that opposition as a betrayal — one that could deepen the split between militants who wanted all of Kashmir to be a part of Pakistan and groups like the Liberation Front that wanted an independent nation.
In a dramatic reversal, the front's leader, Amanu-lah Khan, called off the march, saying he had no choice because Pakistani troops were bent on killing him and his supporters.
On Wednesday, 16 militants were shot to death as they tried to storm past barricades along the winding route to the cease-fire line, hospital officials said. 350 other people were hurt, 60 of them seriously, the officials said.
Arafat says anti-Semitic tape was altered
The Associated Press
GENEVA — Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat said yesterday that a tape in which he purportedly described Jews as trash was doctored. But despite his effort to distance himself from the controversy, the allegation still is likely to inflame ill will in both Palestinians and Israelis.
Israeli officials said the tape, broadcast Tuesday on CNN, proved what they had been contending; Palestinian leaders are conciliatory in public but anti-Semitic in private.
Arafat went on the offensive, again accusing Israel of blocking progress in the Middle East peace talks.
At PLO headquarters in Tunis, Tunisia, representative Ahmed Abdel-Rahman accused Israel's secret service agency, the Mossad, of assembling the tape to discredit the Palestinians and harm the peace process.
Arafat was irritated about attention devoted to the tape controversy, saying it undermined his address to the U.N. Human Rights Commission. At a news conference in Nairobi, he brushed aside most questions about the time.
"It is a dubbed tape," Arafat said. "It's a fabricated tape, and I am not concerned with a fabricated tape." CNN said the tape was of a Jan. 30 telephone conversation.
Arafat implied that at least parts of the tape were genuine when he said sections were fabricated. But he refused to say which parts, instead expression negation about his telephone having been bugged.
In his speech, he blamed Israel for stalling the peace process.
"The bilateral negotiations are going round and round in the whirlpool of Israeli obstacles." Arafat said. "They have not taken a single step forward in the direction of the essentials."
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