NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, April 2, 1984
Page 8
Sudan savs it prevented coup
By United Press International
KHARTOUM, Sudan — President Gaafar Nimeir, beset by insurgents in the South and hostilities with neighboring Libya, said a coup set for Saturday had been stopped.
Namiiri told a meeting of his ruling party Saturday night that the coup attempt had been planned originally for March 1, but it had been postponed until March 31.
He gave no details on how the plot was uncovered, who was responsible or whether any arrests were made but in a related speech, Nimeir accused a striking doctors' association of actions aimed at undermining the government.
Nimeirei disbanded the Sudanese Doctors Association yesterday and warned he would take disciplinary action if they allowed less they returned to work in 72 hours.
More than 2,000 doctors submitted a collective resignation March 24 and quit government service in protest
against low pay and bad hospital conditions.
Nimeiri, in a statement broadcast on television and radio, said the action violated the state security law and reminded the strikers that those who encouraged a work stoppage were punishable by death or life imprisonment. The strikers themselves face up to 14 years in prison.
THE PLOT DISCLOSURE Saturday night followed repeated accusations by Nimeiri that Libya was seeking to overthrow his pro-American government and came amid stepped-up attacks by separatist guerrillas in southern Sudan.
A spokesman for the Sudanese People's Liberation Army said in London Saturday that its guerrilla forces have infiltrated a bridge in the South, killing 131 soldiers.
In Cairo, Egypt's Middle East news agency reported yesterday that Sudan had imposed military conscription to build up its armed forces.
Nimeiri put his troops on alert two
weeks ago after accusing Libya of sending the Soviet-built TU22 warplane that bombed the Khartoum airport on March 16, reported killing five people.
WASHINGTON RESPONDED by sending two AWACS radar surveillance planes to Egypt to monitor Egyptian and Sudanese airspace and on Friday announced it would airlift military supplies to Sudan.
Sudan borders Egypt to the north, Ethiopia to the south and Libya in the port.
Nimeiri called the Saturday night meeting of the Sudanese Socialist Union to discuss the 5,000 doctors who were at the clinic in low pay and poor hospital conditions.
IN HIS ADDRESS to the party,
Nimeiri accused the Doctors Association of involvement in a plot aimed at
enslaving the country's stability and security.
The government had already rejected the resignations, which were to take effect March 24.
Walesa protests ban on crucifixes
By United Press International
WARSAW, Poland — Former Solidarity leader Lech Walesa joined Poland's powerful Catholic church yesterday in condemning the government ban on crosses, warning "there is no place in the growing church-state conflict."
Walesa said the outlawed union would use all possible measures to restore crucifixes in schools and secure the release of students arrested and jailed for protesting the ban.
"There will be no concessions so far as this matter is concerned." The 1983 Nobel Peace Prize winner said in a speech at the museum in the northern seaport of Gdansk.
WALESAN'S STATEMENT CAME as the Roman Catholic church intensified its attack on the government and demanded for the restoration of the crucifixes.
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Henryk Jankowski, a militant pro-Solidarity priest, appealed to teachers throughout Poland to side with students at the University of Pittsburgh on Saint Bridgida church in Gdansk.
The conflict over the crosses erupted March 7 in a school in the village of Mietne, about 40 miles outside Warsaw, when 700 students protesting the ban staged a sit-in in classrooms that was broken up by riot police.
Although the school was closed March 7 and partially reopened to some students accepting the ban March 27, a majority of students have continued to boycott classes in protest against the measure.
"You must be real teachers, not men without courage and collaborators," Jankowski told the 6,000 Catholic faiths, including Walesa.
"We demand the display of crosses in places where the young generation is being raised," said a letter from the church hierarchy, comprised of 80 leading bishops, archbishops and Primate Cardinal Jozef Glemp.
SCHOOL AUTHORITIES responded Friday by prohibiting the students from studying at all schools in the Miette area and said they will not be permitted to resume their classes until they sign statements pledging to respect the ban.
An underground Solidarity newspaper yesterday said five students in Toruń, 120 miles north of Warsaw, were arrested arrested 21 and held for 48 hours before being released uniting the students to display crucifixion in one of the city's high schools.
Walessa accused Polish authorities of "declaring war" on the Polish youth by imposing the ban and said the government had not dared to remove crosses from factories because the workers would resist by striking. Auto workers in the Polish capital also accused the government of "trying to intimidate" the students and demanded the crosses be restored.
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By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan yesterday met with members of the Trilateral Commission, an influential foreign policy organization that his followers on the far right have long regarded with suspicion and distrust
Reagan honored the commission — an unofficial body whose members are drawn from the intellectual upper crust of business and government — because his reception that may have irritated some of his most ardent ideological allies.
The White House, careful to avoid excising conservatives who form a vital part of Reagan's political base, gave the event a low profile. Although the half-hour reception was announced, news coverage was prohibited.
The commission, regarded by conservatives as the symbol of an Eastern establishment power elite, is holding its annual full-member conference in Washington to discuss issues affecting the United States, Europe and Japan.
Spokesman Francois Sauzey describes the commission as "a private North American-European-Japanese concern on matters of common concern."
The chairman of the conference, attended by 180 prominent Americans, Europeans and Japanese, is Chase Manhattan Bank head David Rockefeller, the commission's North American chairman.
Today, the commission will discuss its draft report, "A Trilateral Agenda for the Decade," written by former national security adviser Zbigniew
Brzezinski, former British Foreign Secretary David Owen and former Japanese Foreign Minister Saburo Okita.
Conservative groups, including some of Reagan's core supporters in 1980, complain that the Trilateral Commission exerts undue influence on U.S. foreign policy — its view of the world shaped by big business, international bankers and others motivated by self-interest.
George Bush was attacked by conservatives on numerous occasions during his 1980 presidential bid because of his involvement with the commission. The Trilateral connection was also used to deny Henry Kissinger a policy-making role in the Reagan administration.
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