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Libya may have to yield suspects
NATION/WORLD BRIEFs
United Nations
Security Council members met informally yesterday to consider a resolution requesting that Libya surrender suspects in the bombing of 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
Libya says the resolution represented unprecedented council interference in a nation's sovereignty and legal affairs.
Easy adoption was expected of the resolution, sponsored by the United States, Britain and France, calling for the handover of Libyan agents. The resolution does not use the word "extradition", but Western diplomats said the demand for surrender clearly was implied and unmistakable.
New York
A poll published yesterday found Americans divided over whether the pervasive sight of homelessness is numbing people to the problem.
The New York Times-CBS News Poll showed significant differences in the way people of various age groups viewed the homeless.
Overall, 44 percent said they thought most people had gotten so used to seeing the homeless that they did not get upset; 42 percent said most people felt upset.
Washington
Iran official denies allegations
Iran's ambassador to the United Nations denied a report yesterday that his country's government paid Lebanese kidnappers for the upkeep of U.S. hostages, as well as for their release.
Ambassador Kamal Kharrazi, interviewed on NBC's "Today" show, said the report in Sunday's Washington Post was baseless.
The newspaper said the Iranian government paid the kidnappers for the hostages' confinement plus $1 million to $2 million for the release of each hostage.
Finland, Russia sign new political treaty
HELSINKI, Finland — Finland and Russia signed a political treaty yesterday that dissolved a 1948 agreement that limited Finland's role in Western Europe and obliged it to help defend the former Soviet Union against attack.
The Associated Press
The post-World War II treaty ruled out Finland's membership in the European Community and created the term "Finlandization" to describe a weak country accommodating itself to a strong one in order to maintain its autonomy.
But the senior Russian official who signed yesterday's accord — independent Russia's first political treaty with a Western country — said Russia had no problem with Finnish EC membership.
"We will go along with it and support it," deputy Prime Minister Gennadi Burbulis said at a news conference.
Finland's Parliament currently is debating whether the country should apply for EC membership. A decision is expected within a few months.
The agreement replaces the 1948 Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, which required Finland to help defend the former Soviet Union against any attack through Finnish territory.
"Finland is a bridge for Russia to the West and ... Russia, on its own part, will in every way support the integration process in Europe," Burbilus said after the visit of Prime Minister Aiko Aho.
"The FCMA treaty had this potential element in it which did become a kind of burden on Finland in our relations with the Western world," said Max Jakobson, a former ambassador to the United Nations.
"The new treaty has no military commitment, and it is very important that this has now been removed," Jakobson said.
German guards convicted
Two Berlin Wall guards: Murder of escapee was ordered
The Associated Press
BERLIN—A Berlin court yesterday convicted two former East German border guards of the last killing at the Berlin Wall, saying the Nazi era had proved that some orders must simply be refused.
It was the first prosecution of East German soldiers for carrying out the internationally condemned shoot-to-kill commands aimed at people fleeing to the West.
The men, and two colleagues who were acquitted, had argued that they were only following orders of the since-fallen Communist regime.
But Chief Judge Theodor Seidel called the killing of Chris Guelfey, 20, a criminal "similar to an execution."
"There is a central area of justice which no law can encroach upon," he said. "The legal maxim, 'Whoever flees will be shot to death,' deserves no obedience."
Gueffroy, who died Feb. 5, 1989, was the last person slain attempting to escape Communist East Germany. Nine months later, anti-Communist protesters breached the Berlin Wall, and the Germans reunited in October 1990.
The convictions are likely to encourage prosecutors, who are investigating hundreds of former Communist officials for their roles in the killings of more than 200 people fleeing to the West.
But many Germens criticized the 4½/−month trial as unfairly singling out four young guards when former East German leader Erich Honecker and other top-ranking Communists remained free. Honecker, 79, has been charged in four deaths, but he has been given refuge at the Chilean Embassy in Moscow.
In what may have been an attempt to reduce criticism, the prosecution asked for suspended sentences.
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