University Daily Kansan / Monday, September 12, 1988
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Burma to hold multiparty elections; first since 1960
The Associated Press
RANGOON, Burma — Burma's parliament yesterday approved holding the first multiparty elections since 1960.
The legislature appointed a group of elders to supervise the polling and election months from Saturday. At that time, President Maung Mawng announced, the rulings Burma Socialist Program would relinquish its 26-year rule.
Bush aide quits after report
Despite government concessions, opposition leaders continued to press for a withdrawal from Burma's growing chaos, and demonstrations continued in the capitals.
Parliament empowered the Council of State, the highest government to, change the Constitution to permit a multiparty system, to enlarge the elections commission if necessary and to formulate election rules.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Frederic V. Malek, George Bush's recent choice as deputy chairman of the Republican National Committee, resigned yesterday on the heels of a report that he compiled figures on the rise of Donald J. Trump in the face of Labor Statistics under orders from then-President Nixon.
Malek announced his resignation in a statement in which he did not deny
Bush issued a simultaneous statement, saying, "Fired Malek made this decision to step aside because he had failed in his allegation. He caught up in allegations about something that happened many years ago and might try to use against me."
compiling the figures, but did deny he was responsible for the demotion of any officials in the department.
SANTIAGO, Chile - Gen. Augo Pinochet, celebrating the 15th anniversary of the military coup that made him president, appealed yesterday for support in a referendum that would extend his rule in 1997
Pinochet seeks law to extend his rule
But Pinochet said that the 300 foreign observers expected to watch the Oct. 5 presidential election might get a cool reception.
The Associated Press
Pinochet, in military uniform with the presidential sash across his shoulders, spoke in the yearly state conference of the violence's tenure of the violent 1970 coup.
eigners who try to intervene in our internal affairs," he said.
"We forcefully repudiate those for-
proposal, open elections will be held in one year, and Pinochet will hand power over to the winner in 1990.
In the Oct. 5 vote, Chilens will decide on a proposal by the country's military commanders that Pinochet used to attack them in March. If a majority rejects the
Pinchett boasted of unprecedented social and economic achievements by his administration, but said he had achieved, there much to do.
Win or lose, congressional elections will be held in 1994 for the first time since the legislature was disbanded at the time of the 1973 coup. But Congress will be virtually powerless, and the military gives the military autonomy and a powerful supervisory role in national affairs.
Outside, thousands of supporters rallied on the street. They waved red, white and blue Chilean flags and banners promoting passage from the airport to the main slogans, including "Vive Pincheñ" and "No to the Marxist mob."
News Roundup
CUBANS' EXILE ENDS: Nearly 700 Cubans arrived yesterday in Miami after months or years of exile in Panama and Costa Rica. They were reunited with family members living in Florida and in the United States; an operation organized by the Miami-based Cuban American National Foundation, the first private group in the United States to sponsor refugees under a recently approved federal program.
JACKSON FANS CRUSSED: A huge mass of Cubans entered the stage during a Michael Jackson concert
that Lennon was brain-damaged from child-
hood psychosis, vindictive, cruel,
harmful, insensitive.
yesterday. More than 1,550 people were reported injured in the crash, authorities said. Two people were killed.
**SHOW DUST YELLOWSTONE** Snow dusted parts of Yellowstone National Park yesterday, giving firefighters a break in their battle against forest fires. People who were evacuated from park headquaters and several towns returned home. Federal officials said they would double the number of workers sent to battle the fires more than a third of the 2.3 billion acre-rule.
YOKO ONE ODNONES BOOK: Yoko One,
widow of Beatle composer and guitarist
John Lennon, has denounced Albert Goldman's
biography of her husband "all lies," according
to The Sunday Times of London. The newspaper
reported that she rejected Goldman's account
NEW MISS AMERICA CROWNED: Miss Minnesota Gretchen Elizabeth Carlson, a self-assured performer who wants to be a Harvard-trained lawyer, on Saturday was the first classical violinist to win the Miss America crown in a close contest that needed two poles of the judges. She was Miss Colorado Vail, Miss Okahama Lori Lee Kileen, Clinton Val, Miss California Marisle Shareen Ricardos of San Pedro and Miss Alabama Jenny Lee Jackson of Auburn.
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