WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, November 30, 1992
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Attacks continue in Germanv
BERLIN — A refugee center in western Germany was firebombed yesterday as violence against foreigners continued despite Chancellor Helmut Kohl's call for tolerance and a police crackdown on neo-Nazis.
Hate violence targeted toward foreigners, Jews
The Associated Press
- in the attack in Lingen, near the Dutch border, two firebombs were thrown at buildings housing 20 people. The building was reelected and damage was minor.
Atleast 16 people have died this year in about 1,800 extreme rightist attacks throughout Germany against foreigners and Jews. Neo-Nazis have often found support among those suffering economic hardship, particular-
lv in former East Germany.
Although the government took measures to curb the violence, including banning a radical-right group, it has been criticized for not doing enough.
In a radio interview broadcast yesterday, Kohl vowed Germany would use the full force of the law against the radical right. He said proposed constitutional changes to limit the number of refugees and toughen Germany's liberal asylum policy, however, would not resolve the problems of racism and anti-foreigner violence.
In Jerusalem the Israeli Cabinet denounced German racist and anti-Semitic attacks and demanded German officials fight right-wing extremism with the full force of the law.
Kohl said Germany's prosperity would have been impossible without help from foreign workers such as the Turkish, which are Germany's largest minority group.
Germany, and will never do so," German Embassy official Hans Joerg Haber said in Turkish during a speech at the funeral of an ethnic Turkish woman and two children who were killed in a firebomb attack in Moellin.
"Germany has not reverted to Nazi
Nine people arrested on suspicion of attacks against three refugee shelters are being investigated for links to the Moelin arson, the worst attack since the violence flared.
In other attacks, a Turkish youth was stabbed and slightly injured late Saturday after an argument between Turks and skinheads broke out in a youth center in Marktredwitz, a Bavarian town.
Authorities banned the extreme rightist Nationalistic Front after the attack and raided homes of its members across Germany, seizing explosives, weapons and neo-Nazi propaganda. The banned group has not been linked to the Moelin attack.
A fire destroyed a barracks housing 60 refugees near Berlin on Saturday.
A watchman suffered smoke inhalation.
The Israeli Cabinet said it "strongly condemns the neo-Nazi, racist and anti-Semitic phenomena in Germany, and views them with concern and gravity."
In Hanover police reported that a Lebanese refugee said youths fired a flare pistol at him late Saturday and he was punched and threatened. Police arrested nine youths and confiscated an ax, clubs, tear gas and six starters pistols.
Education Minister Shulamit Aloni proposed Saturday that Israelis and world Jewry refrain from traveling to Germany. But Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said her idea was not discussed by the Cabinet and made it clear Israel was not condemning all Germans.
"We distinguish between the people who are responsible (for the violence) and the people who stood up against it," he said.
Venezuelan leader refuses to resign
The Associated Press
CARACAS, Venezuela — President Carlos Andres Perez yesterday defied demands for his resignation in the aftermath of a coup attempt, but conceded that he had failed to convince Venezuelans that his policies were aimed at bettering their lives.
Perez spoke two days after rebel troops tried to bomb him out of the presidential palace. The government raised the death toll to 169 in the coup attempt, which Perez bashed on military mafia and social reefs.
Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse protesters outside a prison where 42 people were slain in a rebellion that broke out in the waning hours of the coup attempt, the second in 10 months. Protesters demanded to know if their incarcerated relatives had died.
The Peruvian government was considering a request for political asylum by 93 rebel Venezuelan air force officials, including one of the coup leaders, who flew a C-130 Hercules cargo plane to Iquitos, Peru, after the coup failed. Venezuela has demanded their extradition and the return of the C-130.
The capital remained jittery yesterday. Perez announced that curfews and other restrictions imposed during the coup would be lifted gradually by the end of the week, and the military said it would be detonating dud bombs that were dropped by the rebels.
Perez has been severely criticized for his strict economic austerity measures and for failing to improve the lot of most citizens. Recent polls show his popularity rating at 9 percent.
About one-fourth of Venezuelans live in extreme poverty despite one of the highest rates of economic growth in the hemisphere. The country, the No. 3 producer in Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, also has suffered from low oil prices.
Yeltsin calls for new party attempts to quell criticism
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — President Boris Yeltsin, facing a showdown with hard-liners this week, urged the creation yesterday of a pro-reform party and said he must be for it and in it.
It was one of Yeltsin's strongest pledges to tie himself to a political party since being elected president last year. He quit the Communist Party in 1990 and later promised not to join another party while serving as president.
Yeltsin's comments, in a speech to a reformist alliance of 29 parties and groups, was also an attempt to rally reformers before a parliament session begins on Tuesday.
Hard-liners in the Congress of People's Deputies have vowed to use the session to try to limit Yeltsin's powers, move slowly to a market economy and dump Acting Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, the architect of radical reforms.
The president's authority to rule by decree, the backbone of his power to impose reforms, will expire unless the Congress extends it.
Yeltsin's critics say the government's policies are impoverishing Russia.
Several hundred of his opponents defied a city ban on demonstrations, which started yesterday, and held rallies in central Moscow.
Yeltsin did not say what role he would in a new party or how it should be organized. He had made a similar, though weaker, pledge in April before the previous parliament session.
Yeltsin has tried to work out a deal with centrist opponents by reshuffling some top aides and hinted yesterday that he might make more changes. But he tried to reassure reformers that any shifts would not affect fundamental reforms.
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