Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, September 12. 1990
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Briefs
Slain leader's troops attack rebels from executive mansion
Troops loyal to slain Liberian President Samuel Doe bombarded rebels from atop the executive mansion yesterday, and a West Michigan police officer would make more difficult to end the war.
Two days after rebelled by Prince Johnson attacked Doee and his entourage at the headquarters of the West African task force, the German army used heavy cannons to beat back insurgents.
In the rest of Monrovia, shells exploded and gunfire crackled as Prince Johnson's fighters stormed.
Teen-agers given maximum sentence for assault of looger
Three defiant teen-agers, including one who challenged the judge to "Give me the max," received maximum sentences yesterday of five to 10 years in prison for the rape and assault of a woman jogger in New York's Central Park.
Judge Thomas Galligan denounced the three for showing only defiance. He described them as "mindless marauders seeking a man who turned the park into a torture chamber."
Although the seriousness of the charges allowed the youths to be tried as adults, Galligan had to sentence them as juveniles because they were under age 16 when the jogger was attacked. An adult would have up to eight and one-third to 24 years in prison.
Detailed questioning needed of Court nominee, Biden says
The chairperson of the Senate Judiciary Committee insisted yesterday that Supreme Court nominee David H. Souter be pinned as a witness before the committee's issues at the panel's confirmation hearings.
"All signs' point to the need for very extensive, detailed questioning of this nominee." Joseph Biden, D-Del., said as he secured for the hearings, which begin tomorrow.
From The Associated Press
Mandela says government waging war against ANC
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Nelson Mandela accused the government yesterday of waging war against his African National Congress and its military, while the national fighting threatened talks on ending apartheid.
Mandela met with President F.W. de Klerk as fighting left at least 24 people dead. Police said unrest in Black townships near Johannesburg continued into the night.
"We will do everything in our power to ensure that the peace process remains on track, but the government has to do its part," Mandela said yesterday. The government "cannot be allowed to talk peace and negotiation while it conducts war against the ANC."
An ANC statement issued later noted that the government had established the Kwazulu homeland in Natal, and it alleged that Kwazulu leaders were using the power they received from the government to carry out warfare against political opponents.
De Klerk said in a brief statement that the
growing sense of urgency in the country demanded that leaders get the chance to complete talks on a new constitution. He offered no new steps on ending the violence.
About 700 Blacks have died since violence erupted a month ago between Zulus loyal to the conservative Inkatha movement and Blacks linked to the ANC.
The fighting spread from eastern Natal Province, where ethnic and political warfare has killed more than 5,000 Blacks in five years. Mandela said the government had failed to take "visible measures" to halt the fighting, such as sending in its powerful military.
The government sent military units to the townships almost two weeks after the violence began.
Mandela has previously warned the violence threatened negotiations on ending apartheid and political power for Blacks, but the talks with the government have continued.
Gorbachev, Russian parliament show support for radical reform
Mandela also has appealed for his supporters to lay down their arms.
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Russia's parliament voted over-whelmingly yesterday for a radical economic reform program, and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev urged it. The prime minister, a moderate plan proposed by his prime minister.
Gorbachev's surprise statement undercut the authority of Prime Minister Nikolai I. Ryzhkov and added momentum to calls for Ryzhkov's resignation.
It also increased the chances that the radical plan, drafted largely by economist Stanislav Shatkin, will go into effect throughout the Soviet Union.
Shatalin's plan calls for transferring most economic authority from the national government to the country's 15 constituent republics. The republics will be responsible for privatizing government industries, legalize private
ownership of land and take other steps toward implementing a market-based economy.
The national legislature and the parliament of Russia, the largest of the 15 republics, met separately yesterday to consider the competing proposals.
Ryzhkov charged that the Shatain plan would lower living standards by 30 percent, force one of every four collective farms into bankruptcy and raising prices on about 75 percent of basic consumer goods.
Ryzhkov called for retaining central control over the economy and making a much slower transition to a market-based system. He recommended keeping price controls on most food and household products while raising prices of some major items, such as televisions, radios and refrigerators.
He also said imports of consumer goods and medicines would have to be cut
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