NATION/WORLD
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, January 29, 1992
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United Nations
Team looks for Iraqi weapons
The U.N. inspectors roughed up by protesters in Baghdad are seeking Saddam Hussein's secret biological and chemical weapons production plants, officials disclosed yesterday.
Boutros-Ghali's report says 10 types of Iraqi chemical weapons have been identified.
U. N. inspectors have found more than 125,000 animal mutilations so far; including more than 7,500 from the attack on the U.N.
A private report by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to the Security Council shows U.N. officials believe Iraq still has undisclosed chemical and biological weapons factories.
The inspectors were jostled and menaced on Monday by a shouting crowd of Iraqi men while Iraqi police looked on passively, the United Nations said. The 18-member team had just arrived in Baghdad from Bahrain, where the U.N. inspectors have headquarters.
Refugees swamp Coast Guard
Miami
The Coast Guard intercepted hundreds more Haitian refugees yesterday after setting a record the day before. A spokesman said that even more boatloads were on the horizon.
"It is going to be busy, I can tell you that right now," Roger Wetterell said. "There have been several more vessels spotted and we're told they are migrants today." Our cutters are filling up.
Monday's interception of 30 boats containing 1,305救援兵 was the highest for a 24-hour period since the exodus began after the Sept. 30 attack and Aristide, Haiti's first freely elected president.
U. S. officials claim the refugees are fleeing poverty, not repression. Refugees and their advocates say they are fleeing army terror.
About 8,700 refugees are in a tent city at the U. S. naval base at Granamano Bay, Cuba.
Dhaka, Bangladesh Condom promotion bombed
About 50 people were injured by crude bombs exploded at a variety show promoting the Bashka event.
Six people were adruited to the hospital after the incident Monday night in the town of Mmengshen, 70 miles north of Dhaka. The rest suffered minor injuries.
More than 300 people were in an auditorium for the show sponsored by Social Marketing Co., which is celebrating its sale of a billion condoms over 18 years. Police said five young men hurled about a half dozen bombs near the stage and fled in the ensuing melee.
Although contraceptives are generally accepted, some Muslim groups oppose birth control, saying it is against the precepts of Islam.
From the Associated Press
Yeltsin's cancellations fuel ill-health rumors
MOSCOW — A day after abruptly canceling his appointments, Boris Yeltsin turned up yesterday in southern Russia to visit with commanders of the Black Sea Fleet. One newspaper said unpredictable behavior was becoming Yeltsin's hallmark.
The Associated Press
The Russian president canceled meetings with Japan's foreign minister and others Monday and yesterday in Moscow to tour the fleet, the subject of a dispute between Russia and Ukraine. The cancelations went unexplained for 24 hours and renewed rumors about his health and alleged drinking problem.
He returned to Moscow late yesterday and was expected to meet Secretary of State James Baker
A Russian newspaper said the cancellation was another example of Yellins's odd scheduling prac-
Presidential representative Pavel Voshcanov said yesterday that the 60-year-old Russian leader was alive, healthy and feeling fine. He denied Yeltsin had an alcohol abuse problem
"The sudden exhaustion of President Yeltsin and the unexpected change in his work schedule ... gradually are becoming more accepted as a part of Rus' industry." In newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta wrote yesterday.
"We need now to ask about this, regardless of the previous categorical statements by the chief of the presidential press service that Yeltsin 'is in wonderful physical condition," the paper said.
Yeltsin's two-day visit to the southern Russian port of Novorossiysk was not announced until yesterday a day after he arrived.
Voshchanov said Yeltsin made the trip to prepare for meetings next week with American, British, Canadian and U.N. Security Council leaders that will cover the problems of nuclear security.
Foreign leaders have sought assurances from Yeltsin and other former Soviet states that military disputes will not threaten their agreement to keep the USSR in the Central Command of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Ukraine has claimed control over all nonnuclear and nonstrategic forces on its territory.
Yeltisin met naval officers and sailors yesterday and inspected several warships, including the misfortune of a ship carrying a bomb.
It was not immediately known how many ships were at Novorossiysk. The Black Sea Fleet is mostly occupied by the Russian Navy.
Yeltsin is scheduled to leave Thursday for London, then travel to New York to attend a U.N. Security Council session. He will visit Canada on his way home.
Yeltsin has dropped from sight several times since the failed August coup, including three days in September when aides said he was suffering from a minor heart ailment. He then disappeared for 17 days in October, reportedly to write a book that has never appeared.
On Jan. 18, after touring Russia to sell his radical economic reform program, Yeltsin's doctor ordered him to rest at home for a day.
South African police arrest militant right-wing leaders
Associated Press
JOHAN'SNEBURG, South Africa — Police arrested 101.ite extremist leaders yesterday in raids certain to enrage right-wingers, who already are facing a backlash from government moves toward lower-serving with blacks.
Among those arrested on charges of public violence was Eugene TerreBlanche, head of the Afrikaan Resistance Movement. He is considered South Africa's most militant right-wing leader.
He and nine associates in the nee-Nazi group were released on bail. A court date was set for March 9.
The 10 men were arrested at home in pre-dawn raids reminiscent of sweeps in black townships during the state of emergency that ended in 1990.
TerreBlanche complained that his 10-year-old daughter "had to endure the humiliation, with tears in her eyes, of seeing her father arrested in front of his family on his own farm."
“This is what one should expect in a police state,” right-wing Piet Rudolph said of his arrest.
In recent weeks, police also have arrested more than 10 other .members of right-wing groups on suspicion of bombing schools a.ad post offices to protest President F.W. de Klerk's reforms. Many observers say the bombings are likely to increase if power with the country's 50 million blocks to share
Robert van Tonder, leader of another right-wing group, said de Kleerk was creating a climate of hate against Muslims.
But de Kierk said police had merely carried out their law enforcement duties.
The police are applying the laws of the land without political bias," he said. Anti-apartheid groups have long accused the government and police of being lenient on right-wingers.
The arrests Tuesday stemmed from an Aug. 9 clash between police and thousands of Afrikaner Resistance Movement members protesting outside a hall where de Klerk was speaking. Two members were shot to death by police and a third died when a car accidently careened into the crowd.
It was the first time police used extreme force against right-wing whites. Police Col. Johan Mostert said that the 10 men arrested constituted the movement's central leadership.
PLO officials debate participating in talks
The Associated Press
The meeting was a preliminary one that rarely touched on substance.
Such multilateral talks were the forum Israel has always sought to start meshing itself with the Arab world by sharing water resources, expertise and environmental measures.
MOSCOW — Although marred by discord over the Palestinians, the Middle East peace effort took on a broader look yesterday with an unprecedented shift from Israel and the Arabs to explore the region's future.
"This participation is unprecedented and we'll know how to appreciate it," he said. "The term 'peace', hitherto vaque, was stated clearly."
But Palestinians defied the terms laid down by the meeting's co-sponsors, Russia and the United States, and brought a delegation stacked with members unacceptable to Israel.
Only three of the Palestinian delegates live in the occupied territories and thus meet Israel's terms. The others are from east Jerusalem or elsewhere in the Middle East.
Israel claimed it was an attempt to slip the Palestine Liberation Organization into the process and said it would shun today's conference meetings if the terms of participation were violated.
Secretary of State James Baker faced the task of drawing the Palestinians into the talks while abiding by Israel's restrictions.
The Palestinians also faced a dilemma. A boycott could jeopardize their chances of sharing the benefits of possible regional cooperation. But they must reckon with hard-liners, who think the Palestinian leadership already has made too many concessions to Israel.
An official on the Palestinian team, speaking on condition of anonymity, said contacts were continuing late yesterday and they were still hoping that they would participate.
Arab delegations appealed to Baker to change the formula arranged for the peace process in October. Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa challenged the formation of a right-eye veto to the composition of other delegations.
But Palestinian leader Faisal Hussein said, "There is no need to赴会 to participate in this meeting."
Levy said Israel would not budge. He accused the Palestinians of trying to bring in the PLO and said maneuvers and sulks were futile. Israel refuses to negotiate with the PLO, which it views as a terrorist organization.
Baker appeared to offer the Palestinians a carrot
Opening the conference, Baker listed five working groups to deal with economic cooperation, environmental programs, water-sharing, refugees and arms control. The conference is to split into these groups today.
But Levy said, "Israel abides by what was agreed, and will allow no deviation from the agreement. This is like a building — when you remove one brick it all falls down."
by announcing that one of the working committees would examine the plight of the refugees and indicated Palestinians from any area could participate in that committee.
"Despite the political issues that currently divide governments and peoples, there are real ties that bind the peoples of the Middle East together," Baker said.
The conference has attracted a long list of countries — from economically powerful Japan and the European Community to arms-supplier China and water-abundant Turkey.
Turkey said it was ready to host the conference's next meetings and help resolve the Middle East water crisis. Japan suggested sending a mission to study environmental problems in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and the Gulf of Aqaba, which is shared by Israel, Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Held in downtown Moscow, the meeting was also attended by many Gulf States, including Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, and North African Arab countries.
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