NATION/WORLD
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 11, 1992
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Government censors newspaper
Caracas, Venezuela
Federal police prevented El Nacional, a leading Venezuelan newspaper, from publishing yesterday after it persisted in printing accounts that accused the government of corruption, the newspaper's publisher said.
Later yesterday, President Carlos Andres Perez promised to lift the rigid press restrictions imposed Thursday, and police withdrew from the *EI Nacional* newspaper, which had been surrounded for about 12 hours.
All Venezuelan papers were censored yesterday. No action has been taken against foreign correspondents.
The government of Perez has been sensitive to what it perceives as anti-government remarks in the aftermath of an attempted military coup Feb. 4.
Iraq blasts U.N. sanctions, Bush
Manama, Bahrain
The official Iraqi News Agency accused U.N. weapons inspectors of trying to provoke a conspiracy against the group.
Iraq stepped up its campaign against U.N. trade sanctions and took an angry swipe at President Bush, telling him to concentrate on "his new job as a car salesman" instead of interfering in Iraqi affairs.
The series of statements late Saturday and Sunday reflected mounting hostility in President Saddam Hussein's government about the trade sanctions and Western calls for his ouster.
The trade embargo, imposed after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, has been causing increasing hardship for Iraq's 17 million people.
Kafountine, Senegal
Lack of phone added to tragedy
Rescuers, who helped victims from a chartered Club Med plane crash that killed 31 people, said yesterday that the crash's survival rate would have been higher if they had been able to telephone for help faster.
The U.S. pilot and co-pilot, and 26 French vacationers were among those who died when the twin-engine plane crashed into a mangrove swamp early Sunday at this West African seaside resort. Senegalese officials said. Twenty-four people survived.
"It was complete human error," said Olivier Perret, one surviving passenger. "He (the pilot) said we were going to land at Cap Skirring, and then we landed in the brush."
From The Associated Press
The Associated Press
Pakistan, India prepare to stop Muslims' march
Militants support Kashmiris who want to secede
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani soldiers set off landslides yesterday to block mountain roads and stop Muslim militants from marching into Indian-held Kashmir. Both countries feared the march could touch off a military confrontation.
The Pakistani army also said it would use force if necessary to stop the march, which was called for today to support Kashmiris fighting to secede from predominantly Hindu India. Troops set off landslides, put up barricades and dismantled bridges trying to close routes to the frontier.
India's army said it would shoot any marcher crossing the U.N.-monitored cease-fire line between the Pakistani- and Indian-controlled halves of Kashmir. It said land mines were planted along the frontier during the weekend.
The situation strained what already are normally tense relations between India and Pakistan. The two nations fought wars in 1948 and 1965 over Kashmir.
which was divided by departing British rulers in the 1947 partition of the subcontinent.
Troops periodically clash along the frontier, and political parties across the spectrum in Pakistan urged that the march be canceled, calling it a publicity stunt that might trigger war.
At least eight people were hurt and 40 arrested in scuffles yesterday when Pakistani police stopped caravans of buses and cars heading to the frontier area. Signs on the vehicles proclaimed, "We will spill our blood for freedom."
The Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front, the leading Kashmirri rebel group, called the march to commemorate the Feb. 11, 1980, hanging of its founder, Makkbool Butt, by India for a hacking.
The front said thousands of unarmed supporters planned to cross into Kashmir. Its chief, Amanullah Khan, threatened to launch a secessionist movement in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir if his supporters were stopped.
Algerian diehards kill police
Six officers gunned down during ambush in Casbah
The Associated Press
ALGIERS, Algeria — Islamic fundamentalists killed eight police officers yesterday, six of them in an ambush in the Casbah, the ancient quarter of the capital that was a haven for Algerian revolutionaries in past decades.
The assaults on police were the most deadly since the military took power a month ago, and indicated a hardening of the fundamentalists' response to an escalating government crackdown.
Sunday, the government banned the Islamic Salvation Front, the nation's largest political party, and declared a state of emergency giving authorities broad powers to make arrests, ban demonstrations and dissolve local councils.
The actions came after a week of unrest that left more than 40 people dead and 300 injured.
The capital was calm yesterday, state radio reported, and schools, businesses and government offices operated normally. Security forces withdrew from many strategic sites during the day, but witnesses said soldiers were moving into the fundamentalist slum of Bab el-Oued at nightfall.
The Salvation Front was on the verge of winning control of parliament last month in the second round of Algeria's first free elections since gaining independence from France in 1962.
But the military forced President Chadli Bendjid to resign after it became apparent he was planning to share power with the fundamentalists, and the new military-backed government called off the elections.
Two other officers were slain yesterday by companions of a fundamentalist who they were trying to arrest in Bordj Menaiel, 40 miles east of the capital, police said. One attacker was shot and killed by police; the others escaped.
In yesterday's violence, police said six officers died when their cars were riddled with gunfire. The attackers reportedly took refuge in the Casbah after the predawn shootings.
A police officer also was killed Saturday in the Cas bah.
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