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NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, April 11, 1984
Top Peruvian officials resign
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By United Press International
LIMA, Peru — Prime Minister Fernando Schwab and his entire Cabinet have resigned in protest of the government's handling of Peru's economic crisis, a government spokesman said yesterday.
President Fernando Belaude was studying names of possible successors to Schwalb and the 16 Cabin members. It was not known whether Belaude would accept all the resignation requests said that a new Cabin would be sworn in.
Schwalb, 67, who also quit his post of foreign minister, resigned Monday, saying he was stepping down in disagreement with changes in economic policy planned by Belaudine. The letter was published yesterday.
Schwab will continue as vice president. He is also expected to return to his former post as Peru's ambassador to the United States, a job he held from 1980 to 1983. Foreign Ministry sources said.
The government spokesman said the rest of Schwab's ministers resigned
Schwab opposed plans by Belaune to stray from International Monetary Fund austerity measures and spend $600 million for public works and other election-year policies designed to increase the debt and stem wide-spread social unrest.
His departure from the Cabinet had been expected ever since Belaudne
ousted Finance Minister Carlos Rodriguez Pastor three weeks ago.
About 60 percent of Peru's work force is either unemployed or earning less than the monthly minimum wage of $45.
Protests against economic policy, including strikes, marches and riots, have grown during the past year, fueling a Maori guerrilla movement in Peru's Andes and major cities that has left 2,500 people dead.
Bankers and economists say Balaude's economic policy, which also forced the resignation of Rodriguez Pastor, will jeopardize an IMF agreement and continued refinancing of Beno's foreign debt.
Peru's economic growth fell 12 percent last year.
Soviets kill 44 in Afghan bombing
By United Press International
NEW DELHI, India — Soviet MiGs and helicopter gunsbombed villages along the strategic route linking the Afghan capital to the Soviet Union, killing about 40 civilians and four soldiers, Western diplomats said yesterday.
The recent attacks came amid a flurry of diplomatic activity surrounding last week's visit of U.N. special envoy Diego Cordovese to the Afghan capital of Kabul. This was Cordovese's response in 1978 to resolve the Afghan dilemma.
A diplomat said 20 Soviet aircrafts, including some MIG warplanes, had dropped bombs in raids from March 31 to April 5 on the Shomali Valley, which is home to a rebel base.
Hardest hit was the town of Karazem, the dironat said. The attack
began with a ground offensive followed by repeated battemond, including one on April 3 that killed at least 30 of them civilians, the diplomats said.
Four Islamic rebels were reportedly killed. The rebels are fighting to oust the Soviet-backed government and to expel the 105,000 Soviet troops who have occupied the country since December 1979.
One diplomat said the Soviets bombed Karazi-i-mir again last Wednesday, killing another eight people.
Rebels used rocket-propelled grenade launchers to knock out 10 armored vehicles brought into Karaz-i-mir with the ground forces, which were composed mainly of Soviet troops, diplomats said.
The Afghan government and Soviet troops also sheltered the Shomali town of Kunduz.
In a separate Shomali incident on April 2, Soviet tank crews reportedly mined a road north of Kabul, and stood by as the mine blew up a bus loaded with civilians, killing 18 people and injuring others, a diplomat said.
Helicopter gunships Saturday bombed the nearby town of Istalef, killing five civilians, a diplomat said. The town, once famous for blue pottery, has already been severely damaged by repeated bombings.
Diplomats said the fighting in the Shomali valley was part of ongoing efforts by Soviet and Afghan governments to protect a vital supply line between the capital and the Soviet border.
The diplomats' reports could not be confirmed independently because Western reporters were not permitted to travel to Afghanistan.
TOULOUSE, France — Lionel Rehal, 24, brother of a young French soldier killed in Chad, is carried on a stretcher. Rehal was shot and wounded Tuesday trying to run down French Defense Minister Charles Hernu with a car. Rehal, who police said "went mad," was attending a funeral for his brother and the eight other soldiers killed in Chad Saturday." The car sent one of the nine flog-draped coffins crashing to the ground and mourners fleeing in fear.
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Soviets to test their missiles near Alaska
By United Press International
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Missile tests by the Soviet Union were thought imminent yesterday in waters off the Kuril Islands, not far from the general area where a number of jetliner pilots used a bag ball-shaped cloud, officials said.
No contamination was found after the aircraft landed in Anchorage. Federal officials said the aircraft had not been tested.
The cloud, which one pilot said rose to about 60,000 feet and 100 to 150 miles wide in a matter of minutes, was observed by the Soviet tests were expected to begin.
The sighting of the huge cloud Monday near the coast of Japan sparked debate over what caused it. U.S. officials later examined five Boeing 747s that flew through the area for radioactivity.
"The Russians notified Japan that they would be testing missiles in international waters, which might affect the northern air route that we use getting aircraft from Japan to Alaska." FAA spokesman Paul Steuke said.
The missile tests were not expected to cause closure of Route 20, the most northern of the flight paths to Asia and the one taken by the ill-fated Korean Airlines Flight 007 last year when it was shot after striving into Soviet airspace.
"The Soviets have said they (the test missiles) won't be going higher than 27,000 feet," Stuecke said. "All our flights are normally at 28,000 feet and up and we will route our aircraft higher than that."
Neither Soviet officials in Moscow nor the Japanese had immediate contact.
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