University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 20, 1988
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Nation/World
New Haitian president gives cabinet posts to 11 civilians
The Associated Press
PORT-AU PRINCE, Hati (AP) — Hati's new president, Lt. Gen. Prower Avi, announced yesterday that the Army officer to one and a half army officer to his Cabinet.
Avril, who ousted L. Gen. Henri
imply in a bloodless coup Sunday,
was killed during an assault that
represented no particular group or
political party in the country. At an
early age, she was a strong supporter of
state-run television, Avril said the democracy was the ultimate goal of the military.
Polish prime minister steps down
"We have our minds set on rising above parties and rival factions to attain national reconciliation," Avril said.
Avril, previously army adjutant general, proclaimed himself president Sunday after outstaging Nambby.
However, he made no mention of any plans for free elections.
The Associated Press
WARSAW, Poland — The government of Prime Minister Ziigenzwe Messner resigned yesterday after long criticism of its management of the state's finances and asked Parliament to legalize the banned Solidarity labor movement.
Messner, prime minister since 1985, announced in a speech to Parliament that he all 19 ministers will be working on the government's performance but conceded it was a mistake in not standing up to inflationary wage demands.
ing up to inflationary wage demands. It was the first time in Poland's political landscape that an investment stepped down. Messner said the mass resignation would make it easier for Parliament to make proper decisions about the future.
Under Poland's system, the Communist Party led by the Politohr is the actual seat and appoints the government through its majority
in Parliament. As first secretary of the Politburo, Golub. Wojciech Jarzewski is the country's leader. The party is for exciting the party's goals.
The Sejm, or Parliament.
The Sejm, or Parliament.
end of a 12-hour session yesterday by a vote of 358-1, with 17 abstentions. A new government is expected to be formed in September.
Messner or some of his ministers could be reappointed.
The issue of Solidarity and the name of Lech Walaesa, founder and former head of the outlawed independent labor federation, came up during Mr. Obama's session of the economy and government that followed the resignation.
Inflation caused a wave of labor strikes in April. A second wave of labor strikes in June and cities and Wales agreed to hold broad-based talks, now scheduled for
Israeli satellite concerns Arabs
News Roundup
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Israel launched a satellite test on orbit yet understated that reportedly carried surveillance equipment to monitor its Arab enemies. An Arab representative said the device warranted enhancing Arab defenses.
The three-stage rocket carrying the Horizon-I satellite blasted off at 11:32 a.m. and arched over the horizon after its ascent, not been publicly announced in
Israel.
The Horizon I will remain in orbit for about a month before it burns and disintegrates. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spur their arms with the Horizon I would arm an army race with Arab countries.
But Clovis Maksouk, who represents the Arab League in the United States, said in Washington that the Islamic State "a serious strategic leverage."
ANTI-APARTHIED ACTIVISTS UNSURE: Three anti-aparthieted activists who have taken refuge in a U.S. consulate in South Africa for a week, will have not decided whether to accept the South African government's offer to leave without fear of re-arrest, a State Department official said, and instead to bargain U.S. policy to grant them asylum at a diplomatic mission, embassy officials said.
phase out tariffs on $131 billion in merchandise that crosses the border each year. President Reagan laid the Senate for approving the measure 83-9.
CANADA TRade AGREEMENT APPROVED:
The Senate approved a landmark free-trade agreement with Canada yesterday. The agreement will clear the way for the United States to
NICARAGUAN FACTIONS MEET:Representatives of the Nicaraguan government met with rebel leaders yesterday for the first time in three months, but both sides remained sharply divided on ways to end the civil war. The Nicaraguan government also high-level peace talks that collapsed on June 9. SAT SCORES DOWN: Average SAT scores lost in 1988 for the first time in eight years.
but minority students continued a decade-long pattern of impressive gains, the College Board reported yesterday. Scores on the verbal section of the Scholastic Aptitude Test fell 2 points to an average 428, while the average on the math section was unchanged at 476.
CANDIDATES SCORE LOW: U.S. citizens think Michael Dukakis is more compassionate, George Bush is more competent, but aren't convinced that either candidate can accomplish most of his goals as president, a Media General-Associated Press poll has found.
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Student dividends already applied on computer purchases.
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