NATION/WORLD
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, November 19, 1991
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Nairobi, Kenya
Somalian president overthrown
President Ali Mudi Mohamed of Somalia was overthrown yesterday after two days of tribal fighting between rival forces of the ruling United Somali Congress that seized power 10 months ago, sources said.
The sources, who included diplomats and aid workers, quoted Somalia's state Radio Mogadishu as saying that clan rival Gen. Mohamed Farrah Aaidid had toppled Ali Mahdii. They said that there had been an undetermined number of casualties and that the whereabouts of Ali Mahdii remained unknown.
Somalia is a poor, mostly Muslim nation of 6 million residents on the Horn of Africa, strategically located between the Red Sea and Indian Ocean.
Nearly all telecommunications to Somalia were severed during the street fighting in January that ended President Mohamed Siad Barre's 21-year rule. Diplomatic sources said that nearly 20,000 people died in those battles.
Washington
Congress puts credit bill on hold
Lawmakers rattled by the stock market plunge retreated yesterday from their effort to force credit card rates lower, after bankers and investors forced a laborious furiosity against the proposal.
The House Banking subcommittee on consumer affairs had been scheduled to act on a rate cap yesterday, but it abruptly postponed the session without setting a new date.
Bankers and some stock market traders are blaming Friday's 120-point plunge in the Dow Jones average of industrial stocks partially on the Senate's passage of a measure that would immediately cap rates, which are now averaging 19 percent. at 14 percent.
Meanwhile, at the White House, press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said, "We have urged Congress not to pass this, and I suspect they won't."
He said the legislation would mean that only the rich would get to keep credit cards.
Croatian fighting ends in city
Belgrade. Yugoslavia
The commander of Croatian fighters huddled in the ruins of Uvokovar ordered his men to end their three-month fight against besieging Serbs on Thursday, Yugoslavia's Tanjig news agency said.
Yugoslavian soldiers who fought their way into the eastern Croatian city Sunday fired their guns into their air in celebration. Wewry residents say they were killed by some, some for the first time in months.
Croatian Health Minister Andrija Hebrang who took part in talks with the army in the Croatian capital Zagreb said they did not have any issues regarding the safety of those left in Vukovar.
Fighting continued in other parts of Croatia as the warring sides ignored the 13th cease-fire agreement.
The United Nations said it would not send any force unless a cease-fire took firm hold.
The Associated Press
Atlantis ready for mission to release military satellite
The Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fln — Weather is the only worry in the countdown to tonight's launch of the space shuttle Atlantis, which will carry a military satellite similar to craft that warned of Iraqi Seud
Meteorologists predicted a 50 percent chance of rain for the 6.51 p.m. CST liftoff.
Shuttle test director Al Sofge said Atlantis was ready except for a few standard problems that appear with any launch countdown.
The $300 million surveillance satellite aboard
Atlanta is also passed all its tests.
"The bottom line is the satellite is in good shape, and we're ready for launch," said Air Force Col. John Kidd, director of the Defense Support Program.
Antiastis' six astronauts plan to release the satellite six hours into the flight. An attached rocket is to boost the satellite into a 22,300-mile high orbit, where it will join other Defense Support Program satellites designed to detect nuclear detonations and missile launches.
Kidd said the network of satellites transmitted data about Iraqi Scud launches to the Air Force Space Command during the Persian Gulf war. He said the data provided a performance of the satellites or how the data was used.
The Air Force's Defense Support Program has been cloaked in secrecy for the last 20 years. Officials decided to go public with the Atlantis mission because they have the multimillion-dollar cost of extra security.
The Pentagon still will not talk openly about the Defense Support Program craft already in orbit or future DSP launches. This is the first time a shuttle is launched by DSP, the DSP satellite; the others rope unmanned rockets.
Kidd said the Defense Support Program was as important as ever, regardless of peace efforts.
Shuttle mission
"As long as you have a society as free as the one
Scheduled launch:
Tonight at 5:51 p.m.
CST, mission to last
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Shuttle:
Atlantis
Crew:
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Primary
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Deploy satellite designed to detect nuclear detonations, missile launches Source: NASA Knight-Ridder Tissue New
that we have, you're going to have people who want to take it from you, "Kidd said.
The five full-time astronauts will share the shuttle with Army imagery analyst Thomas Hennen, who will conduct a surveillance experiment during the 10-day flight. Hennen will use a special telescope to zoom in on about 30 targets 224 miles below, mostly U.S. military installations.
"This is a pathfinder," said Lt. Col. James Marsh, who test director "We're just seeing what he can do."
Atlantis' trip will be the ninth of 44 shuttle flights devoted to Defense Department work. The first seven military missions were completely classified.
Wealthy democracies meet to discuss how Soviet Union can repay its debt
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — U.S. Ambassador Robert Strauss said yesterday that the West should "risk a couple of billion bucks" by deferring debt payments and sending money to an abusive nation to stave off the chance of food riots this winter.
Financial experts from the seven richest democracies were meeting yesterday to discuss how the Soviet Union could repay its foreign debt. The agenda at the talks included proposals to grant financial aid to the former Soviet Union and the Interafx news agency quoted Ivan Silavev, leader of the new Soviet common market, as saying:
Even before the crucial talks began, Germany, the Soviet Union's biggest creditor, pledged to find a solution.
"The Soviet Union will be helped in an effective way," said Horst Koehler, Germany's representative at the talks. "We have a difficult task ahead of us we see possibilities for solving these problems."
The seven countries, the United States, Germany,
Japan, Britain, Canada, France and Italy, held
three hours of negotiations behind closed doors last
night with representatives of all 12 Soviet republics
and Lithuania and Estonia, two of the three newly independent Baltic states.
The Soviet Union acknowledges a foreign debt of at least $65 billion, but some experts say it is as high as $81 billion. It allows it to relief from the seven economic powers, a shortfall in hard-currency earnings could force the nation to default on foreign debt payments as early as this month.
Strauss urged the economic powers to find a formula to defer payments.
"Failing to defer is not going to increase anyone's chances of getting paid," Strauss said. "It is going to happen."
The Soviets owe the United States about $3.1 billion, about $300 million to commercial banks and $2.8 billion in government credits for grain purchases.
German banks are awaiting about $28 billion.
Yesterday's talks were called to follow-up last month's meeting, at which the republics promised the seven economic powers that they would repay the debt run up by the former Communist regime.
Since then, the economy has worsened, food shortages have become more severe and the tourist exchange rate for rubles has been devalued by 30 percent.
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