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University Daily Kansan / Monday, February 3, 1992
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NATION/WORLD BRIEFSE belgrade, Yugoslavia
U. N. peacekeepers may visit Croatia
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — Serbian leaders yesterday offered assurances that U.N. peacekeepers can be deployed in Croatia, but a defiant rebel chief did not sign the pact and apparently remains opposed to international intervention.
The Belgrade-based news agency Tanijug reported the accord was reached after 40 hours of debates between ethnic Serbian leaders from Croatia and senior Serbian officials. A declaration said the Yugoslav presidency guarantees the unhindered arrival and activity of U.N. peacekeepers.
But Milan Babic, leader of the Serbian enclave of Krajina in western Croatia, did not attend the final talks. Mile Paspalj, who heads the Krajina parliament, signed on behalf of the region, home to most of Croatia's 600,000 ethnic Serbs.
Algiers, Algeria
Algerian government forces changes
Hundreds of college students demonstrated peacefully against Algeria's military rulers yesterday as the country's new president promised the eventual return of democracy.
Mohamed Boudiaf, the aging heroof Algeria's war of independence who nominally heads the ruling High State Committee, made the pledge during an interview to be broadcast tonight, the official news agency APS reported.
In excerpts made available by APS, Boudiaf said the democratic process would be restored at some point. But he offered no timetable and said nothing about rescheduled parliamentary elections that were canceled last month to block an expected victory by the fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front.
The agency said earlier Boudiaf would appear on television last night. There was no explanation for the change.
Algeria's new rulers have cracked down hard on the Islamic Salvation Front, arresting its leaders and hundreds of its supporters, and using force to rid the nation's 10,000 mosques of fundamentalist influence.
The abortive voting was the first attempt at free elections after 30 years of rule as a Marxist state under the monopoly of the National Liberation Front, which led the fight for independence from France.
Army leaders forced President Chadii Bendjedid to resign Jan. 11, after he indicated he was willing to share power with the fundamentalists. Critics contend the fundamentalists were abusing the fledgling democracy in an effort to install their own brand of one-party rule and create an Islamic state.
Chittagong, Bangladesh
Insurgency bomb explodes, kills 14
A powerful bomb exploded Sunday in a motorboat in an insurgency-torn area of Bangladesh, killing 14 of the 30 passengers, army officials said.
passage. Buddhist insurgents apparently planted the bomb, which also injured 12 people, said an army official in this southeastern city.
It was the worst terrorist action this year by the insurgents, who are fighting for autonomy in the resource-rich hill tracts region, the official said.
The explosion occurred near the village of Mahila as the boat was traveling on Kaptai lake, 35 miles northeast of Chittagong.
The 17-year-old guerrilla war in the hills bordering India and Burma has claimed more than 4,000 lives and sent thousands of local tribepeople fleeing to India.
From The Associated Press
Yeltsin completes first world tour
Yeltsin told reporters on the airport tarmac that the trip was strenuous but had achieved results, particularly in cementing the new friendly relations between the United States and Russia.
MOSCOW — President Boris Yeltsin returned home yesterday, declaring his four-day overseas trip a success and promising an increase in foreign food shipments to Russia.
The Associated Press
"The main thing is that we have reached mutual understanding. Practically not a single question discussed caused contradictions," he said. "From now on we are not potential enemies, but allies, and we shall continue to develop our future relations on this ground."
Yeltsin's trip, his first major world diplomatforay, was heavily and generally favorably covered by Russian media. It is likely to boost his credibility at home, although perhaps not his popularity because he has come under increasing criticism for ordering painful economic reforms. His trip abroad adds a dimension to his image,
Yeltsin began his trip Thursday, stopping in London for talks with Britain's Prime Minister John Major, then continued on to New York for an extraordinary United Nations Security Council session attended by other world leaders. He later spent time at Camp David, Md., with President Bush, and in Ottawa with Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
at Bush's retreat at Camp David, the two presidents signed a declaration outlining a new relationship. Both declared their countries allies after decades of U.S.-Soviet rivalry.
that of international statesman.
During Yelstin's five-hour visit to the Canadian capital, officials signed an agreement for Canada to sell 25 million tons of grain to Russia over five years.
Yeltsin called the talks in Canada very interesting and concrete economically.
He also noted Canada's active role in supporting reforms in Russia.
"This trip definitely won the official support of the leaders for our reforms," he said, adding that the West would be sending increased food aid.
Yeltsin also stressed the importance of his meetings in New York with Japanese and Chinese leaders and expressed Russia's willingness to restore friendly relations with China.
Russian television showed Yeltsin's return and reported approvingly on the role of him as a maина, who made her first film with him.
The report showed her on the overseas trip and noted that she had dressed simply, rather than showing off in furs. Raisa Gorbachev was sometimes criticized at home for her expensive taste in clothing and her high profile, which is unusual for wives of Soviet leaders.
The TV announcer noted that in contrast to her predecessor, Raisa Gorbachev, Naina Yeltsin prefers to stay out of the limelight and concentrate on housework. The evening news showed her buying bread.
Thousands of protestors clash with police violence in former Soviet republic of Georgia
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — About 5,000 people clashed with police yesterday in Tbilisi, the capital of the former Soviet republic of Georgia, while rallying in support of ousted President Zviatgadsakhurdia. One person was reported dead.
In neighboring Armenia, meanwhile, the defense minister vowed to turn the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh into an "impregnable fortress" to prevent its takeover by Azerbaijan, news agencies reported yesterday.
Azerbaijan, Mozambique,
In Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani troops continued their assault on Armenian villages yesterday, burning one to the ground and torching nearly two dozen homes in another, according to the Armenian news agency.
There were conflicting reports on how the shooting began in Georgia, where several previous pro-Gamsakhurdia rallies held in defiance of the ruling Military Council have al
ended in violence.
entered in violence.
More than 100 people have died in a month of fighting in Georgia between Gamsakhurdia supporters and opponents, who accuse him of becoming a dictator. Gamsakhurdia fled Tbilisi on Jan. 6 and has been in seclusion in western Georgia.
The Interfax news agency said police and national guard units fired shots into the air to disperse the demonstrators. The Tass news agency, which now calls itself the Information Telegraph Agency of Russia-Tass, reported that pistol shots were fired from the crowd of Gamsakhurdia supporters.
In the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the Azerbaijani news agency Turan accused former Soviet military forces of airlifting Armenian forces and weapons by helicopter. Soviet military officials have denied accusations of helping either
Moscow radio said dozens of people died in pitched battles
Fridav and Saturdav in Nagorno-Karabakh.
"In the past few days, the sides have made wide use of planes, artillery and rocket launchers," the radio said.
Armenian Defense Minister Vargen Sarkisyan told Armenian television, "Our ultimate goal is to turn Karabakh into an impregnable fortress."
More than 30 Armenian and Azerbaijani fighters died in pitched battles Saturday, the Itar-Tass news agency reported.
The Russian television news program Vesti said that during January, more than 60 Armenians had been killed and more than 90 people wounded. Many victims were old people and children, killed in their houses by rocket fire, the television report said.
Pay-off scandal plagues Japanese politics
The fighting marked a new phase in the nearly 4-year-old battle for Nagorno-Karabash, a mountainous region. Hundreds of people have died in the former Soviet Union's bloodiest ethnic conflict.
Charges that the secretary-general took bribes could hurt Liberal Democratic Party's election hopes
The Associated Press
TOKYO — In a serious blow to Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa, a former close political ally was charged Saturday with accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes.
prosecutors charged Fumio Abe, a former Cabinet minister and former secretary-general of Miyazawa's party faction, with receiving $640,000 in bribes between August 1989 and January 1990 from Kyowa Co., a steel frame maker that now is bankrupt.
During this election year, Miyazawa and his long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party have been plagued with allegations that politicians received millions of dollars from companies.
Japanese politicians rely heavily on corporate larges to advance their careers because the favors they must give to political supporters inside and outside the party can add up to millions of dollars a year.
In a separate allegation embroiling Miyazawa's government, a former top aide to Posts and Telecommunications
Minister Hideo Watanabe claims his ex-boss accepted a total of $840,000 from parents wanting to get their children into good universities.
Hideyuiki Nagasawa wrote in the *Shukan Bunshun* weekly magazine that Watanabe took from $240 to $160,000 in exchange for using his influence to bump students higher on waiting lists after they passed exams.
Watanabe has denied the allegations, and no formal charges have been made. Local media reported the story last week.
In addition to Abe, prosecutors said Saturday they had charged Goro Moriguchi, the 48-year-old former vice president of Kovya, with having bribed Abe.
The $640,00 allegedly paid to Abe is part of more than $4 million that Kyowa reportedly gave Abe between August 1989 and January 1990 while he was in charge of development projects on the northern island of Hokkaido.
Prosecutors charged him with providing information about future projects in exchange for the alleged bribes.
Miyazawa has not been linked personally to the allegations, but the scandal has been a major blow to his administration.
Kyowa, but said he did not provide any favors in return. If he is convicted, he will face a maximum of seven years in prison.
Abe, 69, has acknowledged that he received money from
In New York, where he was visiting for a United Nations summit, he expressed regret and said he would work harder for political reform
"I apologize deeply to the public that such a thing happened," Miyazawa said.
After Abe's arrest last month, Miyazawa began urging his party to adopt new restrictions on political donations. In addition to anti-bribery laws, there now are reporting requirements as well as limits on corporate donations.
Abe has not resigned from Parliament and only recently left the governing party despite pressure from other Liberal Democrats who were afraid the scandal would hurt the party in upper-house parliamentary elections scheduled later this year.
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