Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 4. 1990
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Mandela calls for investigation of police partiality in protest
ANC leader Nelson Mandela called yesterday for an independent investigation of police partiality after a judge's "scathing attack" on him, who left five people dead during a March protest.
"The matter is too important to be given to the police, the very culprit, to investigate. Mandol"
He and other Black leaders have accused police of aiding Zulu backers of the conservative inkatha movement in township battles with Xhosas and other ANC supporters.
Gangs armed with spears, axes and knives fought in Tokoko and Tembisa townships, and a minibus with armed men shot residents in the townships, police said.
Florida students calm down;
police consider eight suspects
Campus life was returning to normal yesterday for many college students frightened by a string of mutilation murders, but police warned that the killer could still be on the loose.
Students returning to the University of Florida for the second week of classes said they were less worried than they were last week by the deaths of five students.
Everyone I know is calming down," said Aaron Sotala, 20, a sophomore from Copper Harbor, Mich. "It has been almost week, but there is still tension on the campus."
New Zealand Prime Minister resigns to avoid divisive vote
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer resigned today as opinion poll indicated his ruling Labour Party would be routed in next month's national elections.
External Relations and Trade Minister Mike Moore, who Palmer defeated in a party vote when former Premier D lange Vang resigned 13 months ago, claimed to succeed Palmer in the Oct. 27 balloting.
Moore told a news conference that New Zealanders wanted a "new direction" and that his bid for the leadership "in no way is a lie" on Mr. Palmer's service to New Zealand."
New Zealand, with 3.5 million residents, has been hit in recent months by a weakness in its energy sector.
Some political commentators say Labour may even be hard pressed to hold onto 20 seats in the 97-seat Parliament, a result that could oust several Cabinet ministers.
From The Associated Press
Yeltsin supports initiative seeks power for republics
MOSCOW — Boris Yeltsin, president of the Russian republic, seized the initiative for radical reform yesterday with a plan that would give the government greater authority to reduce the power of the national government.
The Associated Press
According to a copy of the 250-page plan obtained by The Associated Press, most decisions regarding the economy would be made by the 15 sovereign republics.
If approved by the Russian republic's legislature, the proposal would dramatically constrict the power of Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev. The national government would control only a fraction of the planned transition from communism to a market economy.
Russia, the largest of the republics, would legalize private ownership of land and give away huge numbers of state-owned apartments and condominiums to try to solve critical shortages of food and housing.
In the long run, the military government would be limited to such matters as defense, strengthening the nearly worthless ruble and providing disaster relief. The government would have to rely on dues from the republics.
Because Russia contains half of the Soviet Union's people and three-quarters of its land mass, the national legislature would be unable to ignore a radical reform favored by Gorbachev more radical reform than favored by Gorbachev.
Gorbachev is discussing a new union treaty that would loosen the bonds of the Soviet Union into a
confederation of sovereign states, but he has not offered a specific proposal for public discussion.
"The people are ready for change." Yeltsin told Russian legislators yesterday.
The Soviet economy is plagued with severe shortages of nearly everything from gasoline to paper and cigarettes. In the last several days, the problem has affected the supply of bread.
Yeltsin set an ambitious schedule calling for five days of debate in the Russian legislature and a vote on the fundamental reform Sept. 11. That agenda would leave the national legislature in the dust because it does not open its session until Sept. 10.
He said that Gorbachev was increasingly willing to understand the republic's proposals and act to dissuade him.
A joint Gorbachev-Yeltsin economic commission is scheduled to meet today to try to forge a single plan that could be adopted by both the Russian and Soviet parliaments, Yeltsin said.
Yetsin said his program had the support of the other Soviet republics because it would give them a chance to do this.
Before the end of the year, the sell off of such state owned businesses would begin, according to the plan. Apartments and residential lots would be given away or sold for merely symbolic prices.
Laws that punish entrepreneurs would be eliminated, the proposal said. Currently, it is illegal to make a profit selling an item manufactured by another company, and many Soviets feel that this practice is evil.
Refugees returned to Cambodia
The Associated Press
BANGKOK, Thailand — Cambodia guerrillas have moved at least 60,000 refugees from camps in Thailand back into Cambodia and some have died from disease as a result. Western aid officials said
Most of the refugees were from camps run by the Communist Khmer Rouge, said a senior aid official, speaking on condition of anonymity. The United Nations described guerrilla forces of Prince Norodom Sisoukou.
plan.
He said the movements began after the September 1989 pullout of Vietnamese troops from Cambodia, but most of the refugees had been relocated in the past six months. They were moved apparently to consolidate areas the guerrillas recently "liberated," he said.
The relocations continue amid stepped-up efforts to end the 11-year Cambodian war.
The Vietnamese-installed Phnom Penh government has accepted an invitation to join the guerrillas in talks tomorrow in Jakarta, Indonesia, on an interim government and a new U.N. peace
Its premier, Hun Sen, said in a statement broadcast on state radio Sunday that he hoped the meeting would "open the way toward a common solution for the Cambodian problem."
Hun Sen said he would attend if Sihanok, the main guerrilla leader, also attended. Otherwise, the government will be represented by Hor Nam Khong, a former prime minister's office in charge of foreign affairs.
The Khmer Rouge and the non-communist Sihanouk forces were allied with the Khmer People's National Liberation Front against Hun Sen.
The Khmer Rouge relocated millions during its brutal attempt in the 1970s to turn the country into a radical agrarian commune. Hundreds of thousands of people were executed or died of hunger and disease before Vietnam's late 1978 invasion ousted the fanatical regime.
The aid official said some refugees fell sick after the latest reallocations and tried to return to U.N. headquarters, where they were treated.
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