University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, November 7, 1989
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Lebanon's election brings riots, strikes
The Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A strike called by Gen. Michel Aoun, the Christian army commander in Lebanon, virtually closed east Beirut yesterday, and his followers filled the streets to protest the election of a Syrian-backed president.
Rioting Aoum loyalists stormed the residence of Nasrallah Sfir, the
Maronite Catholic patriarch, who supported Rene Mouawad's election as president on Sunday, and forced Steir to kiss a portrait of the general. Mouawad, 64, and Aound, 54, are Maronites, the main Christian sect in Lebanon.
Aoun declared a "war of liberation" this year on the 40,000 Syrian soldiers stationed in Lebanon under a 1976 peacekeeping mandate from the
Arab League.
A police spokesman said 100 Aoun supporters drove to Bkirkri, where Sfeir resides, in 30 cars shortly after midnight Sunday and stormed the walled compound. A 40-man unit of Aoun's command assigned to protect Sfeir did not try to stop them, said the spokesman, whose name was withheld under standing regulations.
On Saturday, Aoun said he was
dissolving the legislature. He and acting Prime Minister Salim Hoss have led rival Christian and Moslem governments for 14 months, since President Amin Gemayel's six-year term ended without agreement by Parliament on a successor.
A statement from the Soviet Foreign Ministry said Lebanon had made "an important move toward restoring constitutional institutions."
U.N. to be forum for Nicaraguan talks
The Associated Press
When President Daniel Ortega canceled a 19-month-old truce last week, he also proposed a meeting at U.N. headquarters. Nadia Younes, an U.N. spokesman, said that the two
UNITED NATIONS — Leaders of Nicaraguan rebels have agreed to meet Sandinista government representatives this week for the first direct peace talks in more than a year, U.N. officials said yesterday.
sides had agreed to meet Thursday and Friday.
A senior U.N. official said privately that all issues would be on the table, including the voluntary disbanding of the contras, security guarantees for those repatriated from rebel bases in neighboring Honduras and political reform in Nicaragua.
In Honduras, contra military leader Enrique Bermudez said, "We have accepted the new proposal for
dialogue from Ortega," and said he would lead a five-man rebel delegation.
Nicaragua's highest ranking Roman Catholic bishop, Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo, has agreed to attend as an observer.
The contras are expected to insist on resuming the cease-fire. They also want a general amnesty and guarantees that they can visit Nicaragua to verify that reforms have been made and it is safe for them to return.
The peace plan says the contras must disband by Dec. 5, but also that their renatriation be voluntary
So far, the rebels have shown no inclination to lay down their weapons and return home, although some of them are to Nicaragua with their weapons.
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Ortega said the infiltrating contras had killed dozens of people and were trying to disrupt the campaign for national elections scheduled for Feb. 25.
Thieves snag $17 million in art from Picasso heir
art thefts ever.
CANNES, France — Thirteen works of art worth about $17 million were stolen from the Riviera home of Pablo Picasso's granddaughter in what police called one of the biggest
Police declined to reveal the titles of the works, which were stolen Sunday morning from Marina Picasso's villa in Cannes.
The Associated Press
Picasso was on vacation in Megvee at the time of the break-in, which
police said took place while a guard was out shopping.
Police estimated the value of the stolen artwork at $17 million, and said it included two paintings by Henri Matisse, a bust by Auguste Rodin and seven paintings.
Maurice Rheims, a Picasso expert who was appointed by the government to help divide the multibillion-dollar Picasso estate after the painter's death in 1973, knew the collection and said he thought the value estimate was low.
Waldemar Bohdanowicz defeated four other non-Communist candidates in a secret ballot on Tuesday, ending a five-month impasse.
MIDEAST PEACE TALKS: The Bush administration on Monday welcomed Israel's qualified acceptance of a U.S. plan for Mideast talks as a "very positive step" and said it was willing to consider any requests for clarifications from the parties.
Lodz, a textile manufacturing city of 850,000 people about 8 miles southwest of Warsaw, has been without a mayor since May 29, when the previous Communist city president was ousted in a no-confidence vote following complaints of poor management.
SOLIDARITY MAYOR: A Solidarity candidate was elected mayor in Poland's second-largest city yesterday, the first time the independent movement has taken control of a municipal government away from the Communist Party.
U. S. officials said the next step was to get a response to the plan advanced by Secretary of State James A. Baker III for the talks between Israeli and Palestinian Arabs.
Egypt is serving as a stand-in for the Palestine Liberation Organization. Without at least PLO acquiescence, Palestinians who live under Israeli control on the West Bank and in Gaza are unlikely to participate in the talks.
Baker's plan is aimed at having Israelis talk to Palestinians before an election is held in the territories
under Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's proposal for limited Palestinian self-rule.
Boucher said Israel's acceptance of the U.S. plan was "a very positive step ... a clear step forward."
"There is still much to do and many details to be worked out before it would be possible to put together a pre-election dialogue," said State Department spokesman Richard Boucher.
The Israeli inner Cabinet, at a meeting Sunday, accepted on a 3-9 vote Baker's plan for Israeli-Palestinian talks.
AWOL RODEO CLOWN: A Kansas City, Mo., rodeo clown is vowing to die on his feet.
Leon Coffee said he had two helicopters shot out from under him in Vietnam and that he walked out of a hospital against a doctor's advice after suffering a heart attack.
"I'm AWOL from a Colorado hospital," Coffee said Sunday while waiting the start of the American Royal Rodeo in Kansas City. "In the fourth week of July, after a rodeo on Monte Vista, Colo., I showeded, walked out and col- lered, and I had a heart attack, and I was in the hospital for three days. They tried to keep me but I left with some pills."
The clowns amuse the audience, but more importantly they distract bulls intent on goring or stomping cowbirds who have fallen during bull-riding competitions.
"I have a list of injuries a page long." said Coffee.
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