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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, August 29, 1990
Nation/World briefs
TOWNSHIP VIOLENCE INVESTIGATED: President F. W. de Klerk told church leaders yesterday he would investigate charges that police sideline a woman who was a National Congress in recent township violence.
Black leaders have blamed police for fueling the two weeks of savage street fight in black townships around Johannesburg that killed more than 500 people.
A delegation of church leaders, including Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Rev. Frank Chikane, head of the South African Council of Churches, met in Pretoria with de Klerk and Adrian Vlok, the law and order minister.
After the two-hour meeting, Chikane told journalists the president had pledged to investigate charges that police aided Zulu-based Inkatha supporters in the fighting against Xhosas and other blacks loyal to the African National Congress.
ANC leader Nelson Mandela, Tatu and other anti-apartheid figures have said police bias toward Inkatha inhaling the situation. They accused police of disarming and scattering ANC supporters while allowing Zulu to carry crude weapons, shouldered part of their tribal heritage and costume.
Government officials have denied the charges. De Klerk has previously said individual officers may have acted improperly, but to be accused as a whole followed orders to be impartial.
TRADE DEFICIT NARROWED: The United States recorded its smallest quarterly trade deficit in 8% years in the spring, the government reported yesterday, but analysts forecast widening deficits in coming months as the Persian Gulf crisis boosts the U.S. foreign oil bill.
The Commerce Department said the trade gap from April through June narrowed a sharp 14.1 percent, to $2.6 billion, reflecting a big drop in prices and a record level for U.S. exports sales.
The United States' trade performance has been the one bright spot in a generally lackluster economy this year and the Bush administra-
tion's focus on trade gains to keep the country out of recession.
However, since Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, many private economists fear that an economic slump is imminent as an already weak U.S. economy succumbs to an oil price shock that sends inflation surging and reverses the trade improvement.
BLACK ACTIVISTS RALLY: Black activists yesterday pitched tents on Liberty Island, forcing the closing of the Statue of Liberty, to which he was invited by Luther King Jr. "I's Have a Dream" speech.
They also said they want to rename the city for the slain civil rights leader.
Separately, black construction workers drove
schools and brought back high school
to City Hall in a demand for more jobs.
U.N. to support truce
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — The five permanent Security Council members agreed yesterday on plans for a truce in Cambodia and U.N. aid to the country until a new government is elected.
It would be an unprecedented U.N. operation to solve a regional conflict, one U.N. diplomat said, costing $3 billion to $5 billion over one or two years, and involving as many as 10,000 peacekeeping troops and 10,000 civilian personnel.
The five permanent memoirs, the United States, Britain, France, China and the Soviet Union, ended two days of private talks on details of the Korean war to guide Cambodia to peace and democracy.
"We have gone as far as we can as the five permanent members," said a U.S. diplomatic involved in the talks. "Now it is up to the four Cambodia factions, is can the four Cambodia factions agree."
The diplomat was referring to the Khmer Rouge, its two non-communist guerrilla allies, and the Vietnam-diagnosed government in Cameroon, its diplomat and several other sources spoke on the subject.
The Cambodian factions are to meet in Indonesia in September.
The U.S. diplomat said, "We think there are grounds, if not for wild optimism, at least for a certain kind of optimism."
A Western ambassador close to the talks said
he thought the chances were better than even
On Aug. 22, he said, the three resistance factions issued a communique expressing support for the work of the five permanent Security Council members and willingness to accept military and administrative arrangements, which were worked out earlier.
Yesterday's accord means the backers of the warring nations, the United States, Soviet Union and others, are fighting for a peace.
The Khmer Rouge gets its weapons and supplies from China. The Soviets back the current Cambodian government of Prime Minister Hun Sen. The United States backs the two noncommunist guerilla factions, led by Prince Sihanouk and Son Sann.
The Western ambassador said if all goes well, a truce can take effect by November.
The U.S. diplomat said the agreement would
the United Nations very broad authority to
admit war crimes in Iraq.
Its significance regarding U.N. involvement in a regional conflict would far exceed the U.N. role in guiding Namibia to independence from South Africa, which cost more than $750 million.
The United States pays 30 percent of all peacekeeping costs.
The key issues now, the diplomat said, are organizing a cease-fire and elections so that a new government can be established that is not pro-vietnam government.
Kohl receives cheers, jeers
The Associated Press
HALLE, East Germany — West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl tried to woo Eastern民主 voters with promises of jobs and prosperity yesterday after a work stoppage over unification
cahors' campaign speech received mostly critics, but a group of leftist protesters responded most positively.
Earlier, about 45,000 workers across East Germany stageed warfare to demand better life.
Kohl told us of nearly 5,000 in Halle, about 125 miles southwest of Berlin, that the legacy left by 40 years of Communist rule was a economic boom. But this economy becomes a blooming landscape.
It was Kohl's first appearance at an East German rally since the setting of the Oct. 3 date for unification. It also marked the start of his campaign, Germany for the leadership of a united Germany.
During the appearance, several hundred supported during the now-dissolved Communist Party repeatedly interrupted Kolh, who came to this inference and tried to open a training program for young workers.
As Kohl took to the podium, leftists tossed
tomatoes and peaches over the metal barrier separating the two rooms. The rod spunered at the foot of the platter.
Kohl, tanned after an Alpine issue, criticized the demonstrators, saying the issues of unity were more important than survival.
Kohl told the crowd he was optimistic agreement could be reached by the end of the week on the so-called "unity treaty." Dispute over abortion rules has delayed ratification of the treaty, which covers a host of unification issues like tax revenues and property claims.
East German 'Prime Minister Lothar de Mishner also appealed to his countrymen to refute
"We should lose no time," de Maizeira said. "We have it easier than our eastern neighbors. If we remain plucky and show the courage to act, we will be out of the woods soon. Our chances are good."
Kohl and de Maiziere hope to attract support for the Dec. 10 German elections and for East Germany's efforts.
The warning strikes were staged in Halle and at least nine other cities.
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The University Counseling Center is offering the following groups for students throughout the fall semester:
Adult children of alcoholics: An ongoing support group dealing with the problems and concerns resulting from growing up in an alcoholic family. Time: Mondays, 1:30-3:00 or Tuesdays, 2:00-3:30.
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