University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, January 15, 1992
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WORLD/NATION
NATION/WORLD
Zagreb, Yugoslavia
U. N. peace force arrives in Yugoslavian republics
U. N. peacekeepers arrived in Yugoslavia yesterday, a day before the European Community was expected to recognize the departure of Croatia and Slovenia from the federation.
Some of the 50 peacekeepers arrived in Belgrade, Serbia's capital, and others in Zagreb to bolster a 12-day truce in the Serbian-Croatian conflict. If the peace holds, the group will be followed by a U.N. force of up to 10,000 soldiers.
Recognition of Slovenia and Croatia by the 12-nation European Community appeared imminent, although some EC members still freted that it could intensify the war by provoking Serbia to a more militant stance.
Moscow
Former Soviethardliners charged with conspiracy
Prosecutors charged 12former Soviet officials yesterday with conspiring to seize power in the failed coup that quickened the demise of the Soviet Union, which they thought they were saving.
Among the former Soviet officials charged were KGB chief Vladimir Kryuchkov; Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov; Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov; Vice President Gennady Yanayev; Security Council official Oleg Baklanov; Alexander Tiziyak, head of the state enterprise association; and Vasily Starodubtsev, Peasants Union leader.
Seoul, South Korea
Koreas sign agreement to keep nuclear arms out
The two Koreas exchanged signed texts yesterday of a historic agreement intended to keep nuclear arms out of their region.
The texts also require the Communist North to renounce its suspected nuclear weapons program.
South Korean newspapers reported that the United States and North Korea would hold their first-ever meeting of high-ranking officials in New York on Jan. 22.
Israelis decry negotiations after sniper attack on bus
The Associated Press
BET EL, Occupied West Bank — Snipers ambushed a bus carrying Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank yesterday, shooting a 6-year-old boy in the stomach and injuring six other people, a West Bank army officialsaid.
Maj. Gen. Danny Yatom, West Bank army commander, told reporters that a group of terrorists were involved in the ambush near the Arab village of Ein Sinya, nine miles north of Jerusalem.
Settlers and right-wing politicians, noting that the attack was the latest to coincide with meetings in the Arab-Israeli peace process, demanded that talks, which resumed Monday in Washington, be halted immediately.
"I think there is a connection, a direct connection...in order just to torpedo the peace talks." he said.
Both the settlers and radical Palestinians want the peace talks to end; the settlers because they fear negotiations will bring about surrender of their land, the Arabs because a solution will forfeit their dream of over taking all of Israel.
More than 200 settlers drove in a convoy to Jerusalem to demonstrate.
Four Israelis, including three set
tlers, have been killed since peace talks opened in October in Spain. Settlers have responded by destroying property in Arab villages.
The bus that came under fire yesterday was headed from Jerusalem to Shilo settlement, said an army representative, who remained anonymous under army regulations.
The injured driver lost control of the bus, which slammed into a stone retaining wall, then careened across the road, she said.
The ambushers escaped.
Two victims, including the 6-year-old boy, suffered serious stomach wounds, said Ruth Meckel, representative for Haddassah Hospital in Jerusalem. Other injuries were slight, she said.
Hanan Ashrawi, a representative for the Palestinian delegation to peace talks said, "We condemn all violence against innocent civilians."
But the real solution is to end the occupation that leads to such attacks, she said.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's top aide, Yossi Ben-Aharon, said that Ashrawi and her colleagues condemned violence when talking to American media, but urged Palestinians to keep up their anti-Israel rebellion when they talked in Arabic.
Bob Lang, representative of the settlers, The Associated Press, "The prime minister should immediately recall the delegates from the peace conference because every time we go to the peace conference, they kill more Jews."
Rahavim Zeevi, a Cabinet minister without portfolio, asked Shamir to quit the peace talks. Zeevi led the right-wing Molede Party, which advocates transferring Arabs out of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Yatom promised increased security on the road and said he hoped that settlers would not take the law into their own hands.
Aharon Domb of the West Bank Settler Council said on Israel radio that Israeli leftists, who urge trading occupied land for peace, were "accomplices in spilling Jewish blood."
Ran Cohen, a legislator from the left-wing Citizens' Rights Movement, told the radio he condemned such attacks but also denounced settlers for refusing to try and solve the problem.
About 110,000 Israelis have moved to the West Bank and Gaza Strip since Israel captured the territories in the 1967 Middle East war.
The territories are home to 1.7 million Palestinians.
Arkansas governor leads poll
NEW YORK — A national poll of democratic voters found significantly rising preference for only one of the party's five major presidential candidates, Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton. Clinton moved from 9 percent in an early November Gallup poll to 17 percent in a CNN-USA Today-Gallup release late Monday.
The Associated Press
Support for former California Gov. Jerry Brown remained at 21 percent, which reflected his advantage in name recognition, pollsters said.
The pollsters reported earlier Monday that 49 percent of the nation's voters thought President Bush deserved re-election. And the overall population was split on how he had handled his job — 46 percent approved and 47 percent disapproved.
Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey rose from 10 percent to 11 percent, while Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin dropped from 10 percent to 9 percent, and former Massachusetts Sen. Paul Tsongas dropped from 7 percent to 6 percent.
Bush'sapproval rating has been on a steady slide in polls since its record postwar high of about 90 percent in March. The president maintains his popularity will come back as soon as the economy picks up.
On most of the important issues,
USA Today pollster Ji Norman said
he found the Democratic Party had a big edge over the Republicans. But voters think the GOP does a better job of handling trade, by 52 percent to 32 percent, and foreign affairs, by 57 percent to 28 percent, the poll found.
"There's plenty of time for things to turn around for him," Gallup Vice President Larry Hugick said. "As we get into the campaign, it's a different environment."
"His political vulnerability is being overstated, justlike his political invicibility was being overstated five months ago," William Feltus, a Bush
campaign representative, said.
CNN political analyst William Schneider noted that 64 percent of registered voters said Bush was more likely to win than any Democrat.
But by a 48 percent to 38 percent margin, those polled said they saw the Democratic Party as the one that best served the interests of people like themselves.
The poll involved two samplings totaling 2,864 telephone interviews from Jan. 3-9. The margin of error is plus or minus 2 percentage points for the total, 3 points for each sampling, and 5 points for smaller groups such as Republican voters.
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