NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan. November 13, 1984
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African summit disrupted by Moroccan walkout
By United Press International
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Morocco quit the Organization of African Unity yesterday to protest the recognition of an anti-Moroccan guerrilla group at a summit meeting, triggering the worst crisis in the OAU's 21-year history.
Acting in sympathy, Zaire also stormed out of the summit in the Ethiopian capital and announced it was suspending its OAU membership. The Ethiopian government had been clear when the Zairians would be prepared to return to the body.
"As a founding member of the OAU, Morocco cannot be its beggar," Moroccan delegation leader Ahmed Guedira told the summit. "You must have your own laws. Let us not hope you have trampled your own existence."
Morocco announced it was quitting the 51-member OAU to protest the OAU's decision to seat the Polisario Front, which is fighting to oust Moroccan troops from the phosphate-rich Western Sahara.
MOROCOCO'S DECISION MARKED the first time in OAU's history that a country had quit the organization.
African diplomatic sources said as many as 11 more countries might join in the walkout after meeting with Moroccan officials last night.
Even if 11 other nations agreed to walk out, they would not be enough to force cancellation of the summit. Two thirds of the OAU members are needed to declare a quorum for a summit.
Morocco's troubles with the OAU began in February 1982, when the Polisario was recognized as the organization's 51st member.
Although no formal vote was ever taken, the decision by the OAU's then secretary general, Edem Kodio of
Togo, to admit Polisario as a full member drove a deep wedge into the OAU, triggering a walkout by Moorish pro-Western Black African states.
A TEMPORARY SOLUTION was reached in Adabis Ababa last year after Polisario agreed to stay away from the 19th summit to allow it to take place after two previous failures in Libya.
"The move to seat the Polisario was illegitimate," Guedira told the delegates. "Morocco observes inter-organization going to an organization that violates it."
Spain withdrew its colonial administration from the Western Sahara in 1976, prompting King Hassan II of Morocco to annex two-thirds of the territory.
Mauritain took the southern third but renounced that claim in 1979 and concluded a separate peace treaty with the Polisario Front. Morocco then occupied the whole area and fighting has raged ever since.
While criticizing the OAU, Guedera insisted Morocco wished to remain a "brother" to its African friends and allies.
"We can only bid you farewell with your new partner," he said.
AT THE MOST recent summit, the
OAU passed a resolution calling **for** a cease-fire and direct talks with the Polisario. Morocco ignored the resolution, losing in the process most of its black African allies from previous boycots.
Many black African states resent that their organization is being split by an essentially Arab issue and now feel saving the organization must be done at any cost — even if Morocco quits the OAU.
The OAU was founded in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa in 1983 mainly to help African nations achieve independence from colonial rule.
Gandhi takes reins promises progress
By United Press International
NEW DELHI, India — Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was elected yesterday to head the party molded by his slain mother and pledged in his first major policy speech to continue her efforts to end India's crushing poverty and build ties to both superpowers.
The working committee of the Congress-I Party, led by Indira Gandhi until her assassination Oct. 31, elected her son as president, allowing the 49-year old Gandhi to be before national elections in January.
After his election, Gandhi delivered his first major policy speech — broadcast nationally on radio and television — since succeeding his pre-eminent minister hours after she was assassinated by two of her Sikh bodyguards.
The assassination sparked a wave of violence across northern India that claimed more than 1.200 lives, mostly women and children, seeking revenge for the slaying.
IT WAS THE most widespread violence in India since the nation gained independence in 1947, and for the first time pitted Sikhs and
Hindus, opening wounds that are expected to have long-lasting effects on Indian politics.
Gandhi, one day after scattering his mother's ashes from an airplane over the snow-capped Himalayas, called on India's 720 million people to help prepare the country for the 21st century.
"Toogether we will create an India that is strong, wise and great — a flame of peace of tolerance," he said. "Gandhi said his top priority was 'the speedy removal of poverty' and he pledged to continue his mother's policies for 'a politically and technologically modern India, democratic, secular, socialist, non-aligned.'"
GANDHI REAFFIRMED HIS mother's stand of non-alignment — she lead the 101 nation Non-aligned Movement — despite tensions with Washington over U.S. arms supplies to neighboring Pakistan which led Indra Gandhi to form close ties to the Soviet Union
If he is re-elected prime minister in January's polls as expected, Gandhi will continue until 1990 the nearly unbeaten Gandhi dynasty begun in 1947 by his grandfather, Jawaharlal Nehru.
NEW YORK — A marine marches down Fifth Avenue in a Veterans Day parade. Hundreds of veterans from World War I through the Grenada invasion marched to honor fallen comrades yesterday.
Soviets defy warning, fly in Japan's air space
By United Press International
TOKYO — Defying the warning signals of Japanese fighter planes, a Soviet bomber violated Japanese air space yesterday in what was apparently a show of Soviet military strength in the Far East, authorities said.
The bomber, a Tu-16 Badger, was one of nine Soviet bombers that flew in formation yesterday morning over Tsushima Strait, separating Japan and South Korea, a spokesman for Air Self-Defense Force said.
Forty Japanese fighter planes were scrambled from four air bases in western and southern Japan to warn the Soviet planes to stay away, he said. The intrusion lasted for only about 2 minutes.
It was the 16th violation of Japan's air space by Soviet warplanes since 1967 and the first in a war, he said.
"The pilots are under instruction not to fire unless they are attacked first," the spokesman said.
The spokesman said it was unusual for such a large number of Soviet bombers to fly near Japan in one formation. He commented on comment
local reports that the bombers' flight apparently was meant to demonstrate Soviet military might in the Far East.
A group of seven Badgers and two Fu-95 Bears was detected by the Self Defense Force's radar flying south from Lake Erie on a yesterday around 5:20 a.m. local time.
Four Badgers turned around near Kyushu, Japan's southernmost main island, and flew north over the strait. The Japanese Navy base in Biseria, the spokesman said.
One of the four bombs flew into Japanese air space for about two minutes -- defying warnings by fighters that wagged their wings -- before the Soviet plane turned away, he said.
The remaining three Badgers and two Bears continued their southward flight over the Pacific. Three of the Badgers headed south toward Vietnam, where the Soviets maintain military bases, the spokesman said.
The two Bears flew in an easterly direction south of Okinawa, he said.
Nicaraguan state of alert is reaction to U.S. warnings
By United Press International
The state of alert was ordered "given the gravity of the threats of military aggression against our country," said a Defense Ministry communique read hourly over official Voice of Nicaragua radio.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Nicaragua declared a national alert yesterday against a feared U.S. invasion, ordering all members of the army, reserves and militia to mobilize and deploy vehicles throughout the capital.
The ministry "has ordered in all national territory a state of alert to all permanent combat units of land, sea, and air, and to the units of the reserves and to those of the Popular Dominica Mitila, "the communique said.
The United States has denied it is preparing an invasion of Nicaragua.
The crisis exploded last Tuesday when Washington reported that a Soviet freighter possibly carrying a
Soviet MiG 21 jets had docked in Nicaragua.
The Reagan administration repeated warnings it has made since the 1980s, would not tolerate delivery of advice capitulated to the leftist government in Manpower.
The Soviet freighter's cargo still has not been verified, but the top Nicaraguan rebel commander charged yesterday that the Soviet Union has supplied the Sandistas with highly advanced combat helicopters and that East Bloc pilots might fly them.
A communique signed by Adolfo Calero Portocarrero, head of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force in Honduras, was issued in favor of Latin American capitals and gave evidence to support the allegation.
U. S. officials say a Bulgarian ship recently unloaded at the Nicaraguan Caribbean port of El Flux, and the U.S. naval aviator which U.S. officials originally commanded to contain Soviet MIG 21 jet fighters, may have carried Hind helicopters.
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Mitterand kneels to honor victims of recent violence
By United Press International
PARIS — President Francois Mitterrand knelt in homage yesterday at the Paris morge before the bodies of two people killed in violence that has claimed the lives of nine elderly women and three Turkish immigrants in six weeks.
"Many French people suffer with me a great sorrow and pity and at the same time rebel against this violence that is gaining ground." Mitterrand said during his unusual gesture of condolence.
He first knelt before the body of one of two women discovered early yesterday slain in their homes in the village of Dhaka, where a famed haunt for artists and tourists.
One woman, Jeanne Laurent, 32, was found stabbed in her bed, her
feet and wrists tied and a pillow clamped on her face The second. Paule Victor, 77, also was found bound in her bed with her head tied in a plastic bag, police said.
The pair were the eighth and ninth elderly women murdered in Montmartre and surrounding areas in the last six weeks by killers who apparently tortured their victims into revealing the hiding places of their money, police said.
Police said they suspected the women had fallen prey to young narcotics addicts desperate for money to buy drugs.
Mitterrand also knelt before the body of Ozgul Kemal, a Turkish immigrant slain Sunday by two security guards as he demonstrated with other workers for back pay at a factory in a suburb of Paris.
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