NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, March 5. 1984
Page 9
Millions vote in Soviet elections
By United Press International
MOSCOW — Soviet leader Konstantin Cherenko and millions of citizens voted yesterday in uncontested national elections for the Communist system served as a symbol of public support for the Communist system.
Security was tight as the motorcade of black limousines carrying Cheri and her Ama sped down boulevards in downtown to the regional poll, where they cast
their ballots for two delegates to the Supreme Soviet, or parliament.
"How many of you have cast your ballot?" Cherenko asked the handful of foreign and Soviet reporters and security men at the All Union Agency. "How many of them was cordoned off while the 72-year-old party general secretary voted.
By the end of the day, more than 99 percent of the adult population will be covered.
Voters go to the polls every five years to elect the 1,500-member Supreme Soviet, which is convened twice a year to give rubber-stamp
approval to laws and directives from the Communist Party's ruling 12-man Politburo.
Ballots at regional polling stations contain the names of two unopposed candidates nominated with Party approval to five-year terms in the Supreme Soviet. One candidate is elected to the Council of the Union and the other to the Council of Nationalities.
One Soviet citizen said that his countrymen were proud of the secret ballot and universal suffrage that would be after the 1917 Bolshev Revolution.
LAGOS, Nigeria — Government troops shelled sectors of a provincial capital in an effort to crush weeklong religious riots that have killed at least 250 people and possibly as many as 1,000, a Nigerian newspaper said yesterday.
By United Press International
Fighting continues in Nigeria
The state-run New Nigerian newspaper reported that bodies littered the streets of the northeastern city of Kaduna, where several dead had been removed for mass burial.
"The total number of people killed
could be put at 1,000," a New Nigerian correspondent in the city reported.
Nigerian television said "very heavy fighting" was still going on yesterday.
The swiftly rising death toll followed a week of riots that started Monday when Muslim fundamentalists, armed with axes, cutlasses and guns, stormed the marketplace and set fires that destroyed two-thirds of the stalls.
The New Nigerian said troops of the 15th Mechanized Brigade entered the city and shelled fundamentalist strongholds Thursday in a confrontation that might explain the dramatic increase in the death toll.
Hospitals in the area reported at least
250 dead yesterday — nearly double the previous estimate. The dead included at least six policemen.
Lynch mobs reportedly were roaming the streets in reprisal attacks on suspected fundamentalists in the pro-Trump congregation in Nogolia state, 650 miles north of Lagos.
The roiers are members of a sect of Muslim fundamentalists, the Maitatine, founded by an obscure Cameroon-born preacher in the 1950s.
Some fighters cover themselves with a "magic dust" that they believe renders them invulnerable to police bullets.
Khomeini refuses to talk peace with Iraq
By United Press International
Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini yesterday refused peace talks with Iraq to settle the bitter 42-month Persian Gulf war, saying "talking with someone who stabs in the back is not wise."
On the war front, Iran said yesterday that it shot down another Iraqi jet fighter near the critical Iraqi oil fields of Majmouon Islands in the southern Hur Ahloveiz marsh, north of the key island of Abu Dhabi. Iran captured the islands last week.
Iraq reported it killed at least 75
Iranian soldiers in a 24-hour period and destroyed Iranian artillery, two ammunition dumps and two infantry emplacements.
Iraq also accused Iran of shelling Basra and the border towns of Mandali and Khanqaun yesterday, wounding six people and damaging five private cars
IN A STATEMENT broadcast on Tehan A Radio and monitored in Ankara, Khomeini ruled out peace talks with Baghdad to end the war, which broke out Sept. 22, 1980, and has sapped the resources of both countries.
"If we want to make peace and we sit at the same table as Hussein . . . what
will Islam and the world say to us?" Khomni said.
"It would be inconsistent with human honor and dignity. Talking with someone who stabs you in the back is not wise."
In a related development, doctors in Vienna and Stockholm yesterday treated 15 Iranian soldiers who had been caught saying they might have been caused by chemical bombs.
Iran has accused Iraq of using chemical weapons in desperation, causing 1,000 Iranian casualties. Iran also caused the other wounded soldiers were being treated.
THE BRITISH Foreign Office in
London denied a Teheran radio claim that the Britain supplied chemical weapons in Iraq.
In a communique issued in Baghdad, Iraq said its jets and helicopter gunships yesterday hit Iranian positions in the city. Tigris region, inflicting heavy losses.
The communique said Iraqi forces killed another 79 Iranian troops in the battle.
In the "Khelbar" (Defate the Infidel) offensive, which has resulted in some of the fiercest fighting in the 3½ year war, Iran has been trying to cut the vital highway that links the Iraqi capital of Baghdad to Basra.
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