NATION/WORLD
Tuesday, August 25,1992
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Fundamentalists win election in Lebanon
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The pro-Syrian government suffered a surprising defeat in Lebanon's first parliamentary elections in two decades, according to unofficial returns yesterday. Iranian-backed Shiite Muslim fundamentalists triumphed over Syrian-supported secular Shites, including the Parliament speaker, the returns indicated, although specific figures were unavailable. There were complaints of fraud from all sides during Sunday's first round of voting. Voting was limited to the predominantly Shiite Beaa Valley of eastern Lebanon and to northern Lebanon, which is half-Christian, half-Sunni.
Asians establish diplomatic relations
BELIING — China and South Korea yesterday established diplomatic ties, hoping to ease tensions on the heavily militarized Korean Peninsula, one of the last fronts of the Cold War.
Hours earlier, South Korean Foreign Minister Lee Sang-ock and Chinese minister, Qian Qichen, signed documents establishing relations. South Korea hung an embassy sign on its former trade office in Beijing.
Iraq predicts victory
The Associated Press
BAGHAD, Iraq — Saddam Hussein led a host of government officials yesterday in predicting Iraq will evince victorious from a confrontation with "imperialist" enemies.
The Associated Press
Also yesterday, attackers fired rocket-propelled grenades at the headquarters of the United Nations Children's Fund in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah, said a U.N. official in Irbil, Iraq.
The attack was the latest in a series against U.N. personnel and relief workers in the Kurdish area of northern Iraq. The building was not hit and there were no casualties, said the U.N. official on condition of anonymity.
In yesterday's war of words with the West, several senior Iraqi officials singled out Britain for blame.
The English-language Baghdad Observer newspaper also criticized Britain in an editorial yesterday for "spearheading the ongoing anti-Iraq move to ban Iraqi overflights below the 12nd parallel."
The allies were expected to notify the Iraqi government this week of the "no fly" zone. But there was growing opposition among Iraq's Arab neighbors, who fear the allied move might lead to the partitioning of Iraq which would de-stabilize the region.
Libya condemned the proposed exclusion zone yesterday as a violation of Iraqi sovereignty and said it was a prelude to the partition of Iraq, according to a statement by the Foreign Ministry quoted by the Libyan News Agency JANA.
Saddam told an emergency Cabinet meeting that Iraq will not compromise on its rights, the official Iraqi News Agency said in a report monitored by the British Broadcasting Corp.
In a discussion on economic issues, Saddam said anyone trying to undermine the state was "in effect siding with imperialist wolves who try to bite the country and the Arab nation," the report said.
The United States, Britain and France are expected to notify Iraq this week that allied forces will shoot down any Iraqi government planes over southern Iraq, where Saddam is trying to defeat Shite rebels.
British and French officials announced their support for the plan last week. British Prime Minister John Major said it appeared Saddam was pursuing a genocidal policy in the marshes.
Washington has been slower to commit itself, but the White House said Sunday that President Bush might make the announcement as early as Tuesday.
Iraqi Vice President Tahla Yassen Ramadan told a visiting Sudanese delegation yesterday that the three Western powers "are stupid if they think they can underline Iraq's will, determination and steadfastness."
Usually, the United States has received the brunt of Baghdad's verbal attacks in its confrontations with the West since the end of the Gulf War last year. But the three senior Iraqi officials- all Shiites- wrote in newspaper columns that Britain was trying to partition Iraq "because of historic enmity" stemming from the British occupation of Iraq after World War I.
Arab-Israeli talks reconvene
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Syria opened a new round of peace with Israel yesterday with demand for the return of all US forces.
Rabin's government announced it was canceling deportation orders against 11 Palestinian Arabs as the sixth round of peace talks in 10 months opened here.
The talks resumed at the State Department with expectations that the new government in Israel might be more willing to make concessions to the Arabs than its tough predecessor. One of Prime Minister Yizhak Rabin's first moves was to slow down Jewish housing on the West Bank and in Gaza.
Syria, which lost the Golan Heights, will be willing to discuss security arrangements for that strategic territory only if Israel agrees to what chief negotiator Muwaffiq al-Alallaf calls the basic principle.
"We are here for a comprehensive and total peace, not for a partial peace," he said. "The only way to reach a comprehensive peace is to return all the territories occupied in 1967."
But Rabin, chief of staff in the 1967 war and a former defense minister, is probably as determined as his predecessor, Yitzhak Shamir, to hold on to the Golan Heights as a security buffer. Before Israel's victory in 1967, the heights were used frequently for attacks on villages in
northern Israel.
"Then, everything is possible," he said, implying Syria would be ready to consider a peace treaty with the Jewish state.
Itamar Rabinovich, the chief Israeli negotiator in the talks with Syria, avoided a clash on the issues in his remarks to reporters.
"We are expecting to see more progress," he said. "As you know very well, Israel has a new government. We come here with a lot of good will, many high hopes."
Israeli and Lebanese negotiators began their meetings simultaneously and chief Israeli negotiator Elyakim Rubinstein and Hadar Abdul Shafi, the leader of the Palestinian delegation, met separately.
The talks are the first under the new Israeli government and the first without Secretary of State James Baker III, who resigned to become chief of staff and chief campaign adviser to President Bush.
Rabin's plan for Palestinian self-rule involves electing an administrative authority through which the Palestinians would run their day-to-day affairs. Israel would still maintain order in the territories, where some 115,000 Jews live among 1.7 million Palestinian Arabs.
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