NATION/WORLD
University Daily Kansan / Monday, February 10. 1992
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Moscow
Yeltsin demonstrations compete
In a raucous demonstration of the tensions brought by painful economic reforms, tens of thousands of people rallied against President Boris Yeltsin yesterday, but more than 10,000 others gathered in support.
The competing demonstrations, less than two months after the collapse of the Soviet Union, were being watched as a barometer of Yellin's popularity as prices rise dramatically and living standards fall.
The demonstrations were generally peaceful, and police kept the two camps apart. One television report suggested that if the rallies had turned violent, there was a contingency plan to impose a state of emergency.
Algiers, Algeria
Officials declare state of emergency
The government yesterday declared a 12-month state of emergency to quell spreading Muslim fundamentalist unrest and moved to ban the Islamic Salvation Front.
The moves came hours after police seized Salvation Front headquarters and after clashes between fundamentalists and security forces left about 40 dead and hundreds injured this past week.
Yesterday's decree was issued by the armybacked High State Committee and announced on national TV.
Johannesburg, S. Africa
Factional fighting leaves 14 dead
Black factional violence killed 14 people across South Africa, including a regional official of the African National Congress, police said yesterday.
The ANC official, Sikhumbuzo Ngwenya, was shot to death late Saturday as he left a restaurant in Pietermaritzburg, police and ANC representatives said. Ngwenya was an ANC leader in the black township of Imbali outside the city and was a member of the group's regional executive committee.
From The Associated Press
French plane crashes in Senegal, killing 30
The Associated Press
PARIS—A chartered airliner carrying French tourists to a Club Med resort crashed into a marsh yesterday in Senegal, killing 30 of the 56 people on board, authorities said.
The crash occurred before dawn, in good weather. Investigators were sent from the West African nation's capital, Dakar, to open an inquiry. Reports said that the pilot was American.
Survivors told Senegalese and French radio that the plane crashed landed almost immediately and that the wreck would land in five minutes.
Club Mediterranee chartered the plane for a 45-minute domestic flight from Dakar to its Atlantic Coast resort at Cap Skir
ring, said a company representative. The representative said at least a third of the survivors were embalmed and one in seven enegileal said three were in coma.
Aviation officials in Dakar said it was possible the pilot was disoriented and thought he had
reached the Cap Skirring airfield, about 30 miles south of the crash site.
Paris-based Club Med representatives said the plane carried 50 passengers. All were French except for a Belgian couple and six crew members. The company said four of the crew members were among the 30 killed.
A U.S. Embassy representative in Dakar said the embassy was sending a representative to the scene to investigate statements by Senegalese aviation officials that the pilot and copilot were Americans.
The aviation officials said the other crew members were two Gambians and two Britons. It was not immediately disclosed which crew members survived.
Romanians begin free voting
The Associated Press
BUCHAREST, Romania — A united democratic opposition tested its strength to unseat remaining Communist officeholders yesterday when Romanians voted in local elections.
More than 140,000 candidates were competing for 2,951 mayoral posts and almost 40,000 city and county council slots in the first free local elections in more than 50 years.
Central Election Committee President Gheorghe Ugilan said about 65 percent of the 16.6 million registered voters had turned out by early evening.
Results were not expected until today.
Observers in most places said the elections appeared to be proceeding without irregularities.
President Ion Iliescu, waiting in line to vote in Bucharest, predicted that the grip of the governing National Salvation Front would be weakened.
"The political balance will surely change because we have had two years of difficult governing," he said.
For the first time in decades, Romania's politics are not dominated by one party. Communists ruled for 44 years after World War II. The Salvation Front took power in the bloody December 1898 revolution and swept elections six months later.
But the Democratic Convention, including much of the formerly fractured opposition, is expected to unseat government-appointed incumbents in many cities, including Bucharest.
Romanian nationalist and ethnic minority parties also are predicted to do well.
The Salvation Front allowed hundreds of mayors who served under Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu to stay on after the revolution, fueling suspicions that it is aligned with the former ruling elite.
The Salvation Front also has lost support because of the hardships of economic reform.
Races in which less than half of the electorate votes or in which no candidate wins more than 50 percent will go to a second round, which must be held within two weeks.
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