NATION/WORLD
University Daily Kansan / Monday, December 2, 1991
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Jerusalem
Israel continues to call for peace conference delay
Israel's Cabinet resolved yesterday to stick to its call for a five-day delay in the Middle East peace agreement in Washington on Wednesday.
But a split emerged in the threeday debate as Foreign Minister David Levy accused colleagues of creating needless tensions with Israel, and indicated Israel continued to threaten a compromise on the issue.
Jordan, the Palestinians, Syria and Lebanon have accepted the Bush administration's snivitation to the talks, meant as a follow-up to the peace conference that began in Madrid on Oct. 30.
Israel's prior agreement, has sought a five-day delay. Washington has refused, but the United States and Israel have continued to discuss the matter in recent days.
But Israel, angry at Washington for setting the date and site without
The 20-member Cabinet took no formal issue and issued no immediate statement, the official said on condition of anonymity.
In its three-hour meeting yesterday, the Cabinet found nothing in the U.S. response so far that should change Israel's decision to go Dec. 9, said an aide to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir.
Shamir has said the United States should leave the parties to work out procedures like date and site in face-to-face talks.
Paramus, N.J.
Retailers pleased with weekend shopping sales
Several of the nation's big retailers said yesterday they were pleased with results of the first weekend of the Christmas shop season as bargain-hunting consumers reusert discounted special holiday sales and discounts.
But it was obvious that U.S. residents were shopping conservatively and generally looking for lower-priced gifts. And while some retailers may have exceeded their expectations for the beginning of a year, they've been weak when compared with the results of more robust economic times.
were stronger than anticipated this weekend, while Sears, Roebuck and Co. said business was as good as it has been at Jackson Corp. reported mixed results.
J. C. Penney Co. Inc. said sales
Home furnishings retailer Pier 1 Importes Inc. and toy retailer Child World Inc. said they were pleased with their sales.
"Business was good all over," said Duncan Muir, a Penney's representative. "Friday was really much better than expected."
Sales at Sears "met our expectations," said Matt Howard, senior vice president for marketing.
London
Firebombs planted by IRA damage British stores
Firebombs thought to have been planted by the Irish Republican Army damaged several stores in central London early yesterday, and unarmed units detained from their homes, police said. No injuries were reported.
Firebombs also damaged two hardware stores yesterday in northern Ireland, where the IRA is holding a solvent campaign to end British rule.
The IRA previously has targeted
stores in Northern Ireland and Britain in an attempt to hurt the British economy.
Its most famous attack in London was a bombing of Harrods department store in December 1983 that killed five people. The last major MAJA attack in London was a Feb. 18 bombing on a train station that killed one man.
A Scotland Yard official said it was too early to say why the stores were targeted.
From The Associated Press
Ukrainians choose independence
The Associated Press
Election results could decide fate of Gorbachev, Soviet Union
KIEV, U.S.S.R. - Brimming with hope, Ukrainians voted yesterday in a referendum on independence that could deal the fatal blow to Mikhail Gorbachev's disintegrating Soviet Union.
All six candidates in an accompanying presidential election, including front-runner Leonid Kravchuk, have said the referendum will lead to full reelection. They and pledged not to sign Gorbachev's Union Treaty.
That appears to mean the Ukraine will break completely from Gorbachev's central Soviet government, unlike a few other republics that declared independence but signed the treaty.
But it was not clear whether the Ukraine could legally secede from the Soviet Union without recognition by the national legislature or Gorbachev, the Soviet president.
And there would be formidable logistical challenges to independence: The republic would have to set up its own border posts, enact its own citizenship laws and hold talks on removal of about 1.2 million Soviet soldiers. The Ukraine's Parliament already has voted to create its own army and currency.
Irina Uspenkaya, 60, a retired economist and ethnic Russian, acknowledged the difficulties but said, "I'm voting for my grandparents. For me, I don't think anything is going to change soon, but for them, yes, I want independence."
Early turnout was reported at 75.6 percent. Preliminary results from the voting were not expected until this afternoon, but pre-election polls indicated the Ukraine's 37.5 million voters were 8-1 in favor of independence because of nationalism and economic discontent.
Voters said Gorbachev had failed to raise their living standard and suggested the industrial and agricultural powerhouse, dominated for centuries by the Nazis and Soviets, would be more prosperous on its own.
"Independence is the only way out of the current situation. It's easier to put order into a small yard than a large yard," said Viktor Zakerpinkyn, 43, as he played in ByeLO Tserkov, 55 miles south of Kiev.
In Kiev, Mihailo Avanesov, 37, a metal artisan, said as he waited to vote, "If the center no longer takes a big slice of Ukraine's pie, we'll live fine."
The only early returns were from six Soviet military bases in Kiev, Odessa. Dessaonetrovsk and
Donetsk. The referendum carried there easily, with support ranging from 80.4 percent in Dneprotekovsk to 97 percent in Kiev, said military representative Vladimir Morkodim.
Soldiers at five of the six bases supported Kravchuk for president, giving him from 49.7 percent to 70 percent of their votes. His closest challenger, Vyacheslav Chornovil, was leading only at the Kiev base with 46.4 percent of the votes.
The Ukraine is so powerful economically and politically and has so many people, it is the second most populous republic with 52 million people, its secession would severely cripple Gorbachev as well as his government. Gorbachev has campaigned hard against any republics seceding, saying Saturday that Ukrainian independence would be a catastrophe.
But he and his government have become increasingly irrelevant as the republics fill the vacuum created by the failed hard-line coup against Gorbachev in August.
U.S. officials expect hostages detained in Lebanon to be home for Christmas
Kravchuk told reporters he was convinced that Western governments, including the United States, would soon recognize Ukrainian independence.
The Associated Press
BEIRUT — Shiite Muslim kidnapperspledged yesterday to free U.S. citizen Joseph Cicppio at 3 a.m. CST today, and Israel's allied militia in south Lebanon released 25 Arab detainees to help move the hostage-freeening process along.
Diplomatic sources in Syria, where the Western hostages from Lebanon have usually been turned over to their governments, said Ciccippo most likely would be released today.
There was no new news from the kid.
The fast-moving developments came as a U.N. envoy was in Damascus, where he met with Syria's foreign minister. The developments came after last month's releases of U.S. citizen Thomas Sutherland and Briton Terry Waite.
nappers on weekend news reports that Alann Steen, another U.S. hostage, would be freed by Wednesday and that the only other U.S. hostage, Terry Anderson, would be out within 10 days. Two Germans and an Italian also are missing in Lebanon.
Astatement from the Revolutionary Justice Organization, delivered to a Western news agency in Beirut, said that the kidnappers had decided to free Ciccippio after positive results came from negotiations among the United Nations, Syria, Lebanon and Iran.
The Arabic-language communique,
accompanied by a photograph of
Ciccioppo, said that he would be freed
in 48 hours to fill their side of the
战局.
Cicippio, 61, of Norristown, Pa., was acting comptroller of the American
Cicippio's brother Thomas said in Norristown that he was on pins and needles hoping for Cicippio's freedom. He said that the State Department called about yesterday and was very hopeful.
University of Beirut when he was kidnapped from the campus Sept. 12, 1986
"It looks real," Cicippio's Lebanese wife, Elham, said in Beirut of the promise to free him. "Inshallah" — God willing it will be "true."
"I hope so," he said.
President Bush was asked as he returned to the White House from Camp David yesterday whether he thought a hostage would be released
The kidnappers' communique praised U.N. efforts to end the hostage ordeal and said that the United Nations had agreed to push Israel to free more Arab detainees.
The statement said that Israel's hostage-negotiation team had been in contact with the secretary-general and his aides to discuss an overall hostage deal including word on the fate of four Israeli soldiers missing in Lebanon.
In Damascus, U.N. envoy Giandomenico Picco met yesterday with Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharqa to thank Syria for its help in freeing the hostages, the official Syrian Arab News Agency reported.
The release of hundreds of Arabs held by Israel and its allied militia in south Lebanon has been a key demand of Shiite kidnappers. Several previous hostage releases were linked to the freeing of Arab detainees, but the release last month of Sutherland and Waite apparently was not a direct hostage-for-prisoner swap.
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