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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, November 14. 1990
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Lawmakers' visit signals end to cold relations with China
Chinese Premier Li Peng yesterday greeted the first group of U.S. lawmakers to visit Beijing since the June 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators, and he urged them to help improve China's relations with the United States.
Although the U.S. Embassy refused to provide details about the delegation's activities, the visit was the lead item on Chinese state-run evening events and highlighted the importance China attached to the visit.
China recently has won considerable international goodwill by joining efforts aimed at forcing Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait. The United States, but included a series of high-level meetings
The Democrats, who will have a 36-44 majority in the 102nd Congress, emerged from their closed door caucus with a群 of unity All of them were filled without contention, Mitchell said.
Democrats yesterday re-elected George Mitchell of Maine as Senate Majority Leader and chose Wendell Ford of Kentucky as his new deputy.
Ford succeedes Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., who had served since 1977 as the assistant majority leader, or whip. Cranston announced last week he was stepping down from the post because of cancer and would leave the Senate at the end of the next Congress. $^1$
Bob Dole of Kansas and his deputy Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming ran unopposed and were assured another two years as head of the minority Republicans.
Mitchell, Dole again will lead Senate during 102nd Congress
No evidence of death squads,
South African judge reports
South African police and a covert military group probably committed violent crimes against anti-aparathyroid figures, but there was no evidence of organized death squads. A supreme court judge ruled in favor of the group.
The report by Justice Louis Harms was criticized by government opponents who have long blamed security forces for the deaths of some 60 activists.
The African National Congress demanded the resignation of Defense Minister Magus Malan and said the conclusion that no organized death squares existed was "inexplicable."
President F. W. de Klerk, who ordered the Harms report, said its findings cleared political concerns.
From The Associated Press
Yeltsin says talks produced accord on dividing power
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — In a major step toward ending the paralysis of power in the Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin said yesterday that he and Mikhail Gorbachev had agreed to divide authority between the central government and Yeltsin's Russian federation.
The two agreed to appoint commissions of their Cabinet ministers to allocate the authority and property of the national government and the Russian parliament, which emerged as a rival for power after Yeltsin was elected to the newly created post of Russian president in June.
"Russia has chosen its path and is on its way." Yeltsin told Russia's parliament in the most detailed account yet of his watershed, four-hour meeting with the Soviet president on Sunday.
During the meeting, as recounted by Yeltsin, Gorbachev made major concessions to arrest the disintegration of the Soviet Union, made up of 15 seek greater independence.
"We are starting the process that should have started after we passed our declaration of Russian sovereignty in June." Yeltsin said.
Russia, which contains more than half the Soviet
people and many of the country's natural resources, would be hard-pressed to strike out on its own, but it can exercise a de facto veto over many of Gorbachev's decisions.
In recent months, Gorbachev, Yeltsin and their respective parliaments have issued conflicting decrees and laws that have complicated even simple transactions. That, in turn, has worsened an already dire shortage of food and consumer goods at the outset of winter.
Gorbachev has issued no detailed public comments on the meeting Sunday, although he told senior military officers yesterday that after a certain amount of time in prison he was certain the two could work together.
"I am confident that both the center and the Russian leadership will act in a spirit meeting the interests of our multinational state and all its peoples," the state news agency TASS reported
Gorbachev did not comment on the strongest claim by Yeltsin, that the Soviet president had agreed to "a new system of state power; the formation of a coalition government of national unity in which the candidates for several posts would be proposed by the Russian parliament."
Noriega assets ordered unfrozen
Judge says court will appoint lawyers if money is withheld
The Associated Press
MIAMI — A judge yesterday said he would declare Nuria Montegi indigent and appoint government-paid attorneys to defend him if the president's main leader's money was not unfrozen by Friday.
U. S. District Judge William Howeveler, also citing the ongoing dispute with Cable News Network over Noriega's tape-recorded conversations, commended the issue were threatening to engulf the drug case.
If Howevelier appoints government-paid attorneys, invoking the Criminal Justice Act, it would be the second time the court has tried to use the case against the former Panamanian dictator.
unfreeze about $6 million. But yesterday, Justice Department attorney Drew Arena said the governments of France, Austria and Switzerland had stepped in with their own confiscation efforts based on initial U.S. claims that the money was drug related.
"It has never been made more clear than in the last few days that as long as this case ringers, we face the prospect of new issues causing more delays." Heve尔说.
Rubino accused the State department of sabotaging release of the funds "with a wink" to foreign governments, secretly encouraging them to tie up the accounts.
If foreign governments fail to release bank accounts frozen in those countries, or if some agreement is not reached on $5.8 million in cash confiscated from Noriaga's quarters during the U.S. invasion of Panama, the judge said he would appoint new counsel by Monday.
However previously proposed hiring Rubino under the law, but abandoned the effort because the law did not allow for fees reaching $350 an hour, which defense attorneys testified were normal for a difficult case. The maximum the law allows is two attorneys working for only $60 an hour each, which can be extended to $75 in special cases.
The fee issue has simmered since spring, when lead defense attorney Frank Rubino threatened to withdraw his lawyers because the government had frozen 27 Noriega accounts worth about $20 million. The freeze left no money for legal fees or expenses.
In June, Hoeveeler ordered prosecutors to
The law also limits investigative expenses to only a few thousand dollars, and Rubino called those figures ridiculous. He complained the gov't had 40 attorneys prosecuting Noriega
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