University Daily Kansan / Friday. December 6, 1991
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NATION/WORLD BRIEFS
Washington
Mandela: Sanctions should stay
President Bush met with African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela yesterday to discuss the coming talks to write a new, non-racial constitution for South Africa.
Mandela emerged from the White House and said he had a constructive conversation with the president about the political situation in South Africa.
Mandela brushed aside other questions from reporters, saying they would have to wait for a news conference he was holding later in the day.
Bush lifted the five-year-old U.S. sanctions against South Africa on July 11 after a series of steps by the white minority government of President F. W. de Klerk to dismantle apartheid.
Mandela is seeking to interest U.S. corporations in future investments in South Africa but opposes an immediate end to all international sanctions. He told the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday that the sanctions should be relaxed in phases as the country moves toward democratic rule.
But numerous U.S. states, corporations and pension funds retain their own restrictions on loans.
Mandela will addressing business groups in Pittsburgh and Houston later in the week.
The de Klerk government, the ANC and other political parties will meet in a convention Dec. 20-21 to start drawing up a new constitution for South Africa.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
[RAincreaseserroristactivities
The Irish Republican Army is burning and blasting shops, offices and patents with increasing frequency as Christmas nears, stepping up a campaign to hurt the British province's econo-
On Wednesday, a massive bomb exploded in downtown Belfast, injuring 23 people. Damage was heavy to the Europa Hotel, a frequent IRA hostel in the city. The attack was forced to cancel its popular Christmas show.
"What is it going to mean to people who are trying to make Belfast work, trying to attract business and jobs to Belfast?" asked Jeremy Cotterill, the assistant in the British office handling Northern Ireland.
The timing of the intensified campaign against property is painful, because it comes after the British government pumped hundreds of millions of pounds into downtown Belfast in 2012. Several large retailers were drawn in by financial incentives and a newly found confidence.
The campaign of random destruction, mainly with firebombs, is designed to "tear the commercial heart" out of the province, says the Irish Army, army which is fighting to end British rule.
From The Associated Press
Rape accuser gives emotional testimony
The Associated Press
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — William Kennedy Smith's accuser repeatedly broke down during cross-examination yesterday and pleaded with a lawyer who was asking intimate questions. "Please,
William
Kennedy Smith
Her face reddened and her eyes filled with tears.
The woman, who says she was raped by Smith, was composed until defense attorney Roy Black began seeking sexual details of her encounter with Smith and asked, "During this event, was he able to maintain an erection?"
"Why do you have to ask me questions like that?" she asked.
"No, I will continue," she said. "It's been a nightmare for me. I want this to be over."
The outbursts continued through more than four hours of testimony, and the judge finally ordered a retrial.
Black had asked her whether she experienced pain during intercourse with Smith. He then asked again about an ejaculation, and she
He then asked again about an ejaculation, and she burst out, "Please help me get this over with!"
Black had implied the woman encouraged sex by
or where she took off her pantyhose during the evening and early morning hours she spent with Smith, after meeting him at a trendy nightclub on Easter weekend.
Smith, 31-year-old nephew of Sen. Edward Kennedy, sat still throughout her testimony, frequently staring directly at her. At one point, their eyes locked and the woman appeared to glare angrily. Members of his family occupied a front row as they have every day.
She repeatedly said she could not remember when
Smith is charged with sexual battery and battery. If convicted he could receive 4/1/2 years in prison.
During Black's intense cross-examination, the lawyer suggested that the woman's account of the alleged rape was physically impossible for Smith to have accomplished.
She had testified that Smith tackled her, held her down with the weight of his chest and held her arms down.
"All I know is he pinned me down, he pushed my panties and he raped me," she said.
Black's strategy was to show inconsistencies between the woman's pre-trial statements and her witness-stand account. He played audio tapes of her early comments and read from her depositions.
Black implied that the woman sought to snare Smith as a boyfriend and cried rape because he was *Sempervivum*.
"He said he was in medical school. That made you more interested, didn't it?" Black asked, to which she replied she liked getting medical information because she has a chronically ill daughter.
In the evening, fireworks the sky above Klev,
and exuberant citizens celebrated in the streets.
"Ukraine does not have any territorial claims against other states and does not acknowledge any
Ukraine celebrates independence stressing its peaceful intentions
Voters in Ukraine sent a strong message to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that they want no part of his proposed plan to hold the Soviet Union together. Gorbachev has said the new union would be unthinkable without Ukraine, which overwhelmingly approved a referendum on independence Sunday.
The Russian Federation, the union's biggest and most powerful republic, already accepted independence for Ukraine. The United States and other nations indicated they planned to do so.
The voices of a 50-member choir filled the ornate, skytli parliamentary chamber for Kravchuk's colorful inauguration ceremony, which included a formal renunciation of the 1922 treaty that established the Soviet Union.
The Associated Press
The former Communist Party official, who has made a 180-degree political turnaround this year, also said he would carry out a radical economic reform, including turning industry over to private ownership, selling off state property and encouraging foreign investment.
"Only a free citizenry can create a free state," Kravachk told the 450-member Parliament, which punctuated his 20-minute address with several joyous standing ovations.
He said that Ukraine would have close ties to Russia and that his republic wanted to eliminate all the nuclear weapons on its territory through negotiations with the United States and the Soviet Union.
KIEV, Ukraine — Leonid Kravchuk was sworn in yesterday as Ukraine's president, and he sought to reassure those concerned about the nuclear weapons on its soil by pledging that Ukraine will be peaceful and democratic.
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