Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Thursday, November 1, 1990
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Militant Moldavians attack Romanian border checkpoints
Thousands of ethnic Moldavians attacked checkpoints on the frontier with Romania yesterday, vowing to "wipe border posts off of the territory" the official Soviet news agency Tasr reported.
The militants, who seek closer ties to Romania, threatened to kill border guards and their families unless the Kremlin withdraws troops and they would seek to enforce a state of emergency, Tass said.
Tass did not mention any casualties. It said the militants threw stones and set fire to a fence but relinquished control of the two checkpoints after speaking with Moldavian leaders.
Revised SAT will let students use calculators in spring 1994
College Board trustees announced yesterday the most sweeping changes ever in the Scholastic Aptitude Test but rejected suggestions that charges of cultural bias prompted the revisions.
The new Scholastic Aptitude Test, called SAT-I, will be introduced in the spring of 1994, said College Board President Donald M. Stewart-
It will include less reliance on multiple choice in the math section and more emphasis in the reading section.
The revisions, aimed in part at reducing students' reliance on test coaches, also will allow students to use calculators on the math section. Stewart said at the board's annual meeting.
Critics have long charged that the SAT was biased, particularly against women and minorities.
Poland, Germany negotiate treaty to verify present border
Polish and German negotiators agreed yesterday on a treaty confirming their present border on the Oder and Neisse rivers, a pact that would end uncertainty dating to World War II.
The text was hammered out by working groups in the first round of negotiations between Poland and the newly unified Germany over their future relations, said Jerzy Sulek, chief Polish negotiator and director of the Foreign Ministry's European department.
Progress was also made on a second treaty on bilateral cooperation, Sulek told the government's PAP news agency. Talks are to continue in Bonn on Nov. 26-27.
From The Associated Press
Warsaw Pact nations to end military alliance, official says
The Associated Press
BUDAPEST, Hungary — After menacing the West with Soviet-led military might for more than three decades, the Warsaw Pact reportedly will cease to exist as a military alliance next year.
A senior Hungarian official said yesterday that the six-nation alliance would end joint military maneuvers in December and would stop operating as a military alliance in June.
Thereafter, the Warsaw Pact would function "only as a political forum," he added. The official, who spoke to selected reporters on a condition of anonymity, gave no further details.
The Warsaw Pact was formed in 1955 in the early years of the Cold War as a Soviet response to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally comprised of the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania, it was one of seven members after Albania withdrew in 1968.
The pact began to lose cohesion with the start of liberalization within the Soviet Union. That led to the advent of democracy in East Europe last year and a further weakening of the alliance, which was
reduced to six members with the unification of Germany.
At nearly completed conventional arms talks with the 16-nation NATO, Warsaw Pact members are basically negotiating as individual countries. The UN is moving towards positions closer to those of the West than to Moscow.
The Kremlin is withdrawing its forces from several former satellites, including Hungary, which was among the East blue nations that ousted the Communist Party last year.
By late October, more than half the 50,000 Soviet troops had left, a state news agency reported.
Col. Anatoli Kirilov, deputy commander of the Soviet troops in Hungary, said yesterday that all his soldiers would be out of the country by June 30, as scheduled under an agreement signed in March. By late October, more than half the 50,000 Soviet forces had left their bases.
Hungary announced earlier it would leave the military arm of the Warsaw Pact next year unless the military functions ceased. Last week, Czechoslovak President Vladimir Pacha's pact with Russia would be abolished and turned into a body with a consultative political function the Czechoslovak state news agency said.
Sudanese police force refugees out of shantytown near capital
The Associated Press
KHARTOUM. Sudan — Police drove 14,000 displaced people out of a shantytown and burned their makeshift hovels to ensure they do not return, witnesses said yesterday.
The displaced people, who fleed war and famine in southern Sudan, have been moved to a camp in Jabal Ahl, about 25 miles south of Khartoum. Their movements can be controlled more easily there because they have to pass checkpoints to go to the capital.
Although the government says 80 percent of the facilities in the new camp are finished, witnesses say.
The government announced last year it would dismantle shantytowns around Khartoum where an estimated 2 million displaced southern and western Sudanese have been living. A 1984-85 drought in the western Sudan brought many refugees to Khartoum.
Because of the war, the southerners are not welcomed by the northerners. The government has accused the war refugees of straining the capital's limited resources and increasing the crime rate.
anismist residents of the region are persecuted by the central government of the north, where the population is Muslim. War has been raging in the south for seven years.
When the military government decided to dismantle the camps last year, the three southerners on the ruling 15-man revolutionary command council protested.
Witnesses said the evacuation of the Bentiu camp started Saturday evening and ended Tuesday. They said smoke could still be seen yesterday after the camp that police burned after the evacuation.
There were no reports of violence being employed to empty the camp.
The Bentiu camp, named after a town in the Upper Nile region where most of the inhabitants fled from, was made up of makeshift huts made of wood sticks, tin and orange plastic sheets. It was better know as Hilat al Shook, or village of the thorns, because it was full of thorn trees.
The government has been having problems carrying out its evacuation of another shantytown called Takamul. The inhabitants there have built mud huts and are refusing to move.
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