University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, November 5, 1991
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Lima, Peru
Gunmen crash party, slay Hooded gunmen burst into a barbecue party and killed 15 people yesterday in an attack authorities blamed on leftist guerrillas. Other authories linked the massacre to paramilitary squads that target rebel sympathizers.
Gunmen crash party; slay
The slaying was the worst terrorist attack on record in the capital. The victims included a 9-year-old boy and villagers who came to the city for jobs and to escape the civil war.
About 40 people were attending the party in the run-down neighborhood of Barrios Altos. They were lis-
15 people at barbecue
tening to folk music when five
masked men stormed the home,
forced everyone into a rear patio
and opened fire, an Interior Ministry representative said.
Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia
But witnesses, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the gunmen arrived in two-wheel drive vehicles with flashing roof lights like those on police vehicles.
The representative said the shooting was carried out by Maost Shining Path guerrillas, who have waged an 11-year battle against the government.
Fighting continues as Serbia rejects plan for peace
The Serb-dominated army unleashed tank, artillery and howitzer fire on three Croatian warfronts yesterday, and Serbia rejected a European plan to end the fighting.
On the eve of the European Community's most recent deadline, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic's Socialist Party claimed that the peace plan violated international law and rejected it. The rejection risked international sanctions on Serbia.
Milosevic is the only one of six Yugoslav republic leaders to reject
the plan. He called for recognition of all republics in their existing borders and an extensive program to protect minority rights. He claimed that his plan would mean the total dismantling of Yugoslavia.
Lord Carrington, the EC's special envoy, said he would meet with army leaders and defense chiefs of Ukraine and Croatia at talks in the Hague.
Students need classes in thrift, university decides
Saying young people are spending too much money on entertainment, clothes and cosmetics, university officials in Beijing plan to classify to teach the benefits of threer, an official report said yesterday.
The English-language China Daily newspaper said a recent survey indicated that college students in the Chinese capital spent an average of $30 a month. The survey questioned 200 students at nine universities and colleges in Beijing.
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The average monthly income for wage earners in the city is $37.70.
According to the survey, about 79
percent of the students' monthly spending goes to buy food, clothing, soap, shampoo and social activities. It said about 21 percent was used to buy books and study materials.
"Some undergraduates get caught up in such extravagant trends as smoking and drinking, while others become too image conscious and purchase expensive fines and cosmetics," the report said.
The newspaper did not give details about the new frugality classes or say whether students would be required to attend.
The Associated Press
Blacks in South Africa strike against government
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Millions of Blacks went on strike yesterday as anti-apartheid groups shut down large parts of the economy in a government to share power. At least 19 people were killed in strike violence.
The massive strike, which was to continue today, was officially called to protest a new tax. But it was widely seen as a power struggle between the government and Black opposition groups.
The strike appeared to be one of the most politically effective actions taken recently by opposition groups, which have frequently been left on the defensive by President F.W. de Klerk's rapidreforms.
Skeleton staffs made up of mainly white workers kept many businesses operating at partial capacity, but the streets of some cities were deserted.
Essential services were not hit by the strike. Power stations, most transportation and other services ran nor
Johannesburg's sidewalls were clear of the hundreds of Blacks who normally sell fruit and vegetables, and white supervisors unaccustomed to cash registers struggled to serve whites.
Strike organizers claimed that at least 3 million people were taking part in the action, but the figure could not be confirmed. The Congress of South African Trade Unions alone has 1.2 million members.
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The African National Congress and the allied Congress of South African Trade Union, the groups that called the strike, want a say in economic policy. The Klerk has scrapped apartheid laws, the opposition says little has changed.
The government alleged that many Blacks were intimidated into staying home, a charge denied by the groups. Opposition leaders threaten further action if the government does not accept their demands.
"The organized working class has today and will tomorrow strike a body blow to apartheid," said Jay Naiduo, secretary of the trade union congres
Business representatives said that they had no nationwide figures but that 50 percent to 80 percent of Black workers did not show up at most major businesses. The country has 30 million Blacks.
Government officials estimated the strike would cost the economy about $800 million in lost production.
Knight-Ridder Tribune News
The strike is opposed by the ANC's main Black rival, the Zulu-dominated Inkatha Freedom Party. Fighting between ANC and Inkatha supporters has claimed thousands of lives in recent years.
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The walkout appeared most effective inANCstrongholdssuchasJohannesburg, Pretoria and the southern city ofPortElizabeth.
Ukraine forgoes independence, joins economic alliance of Soviet republics
any attempt at economic cooperation.
The participation of the Ukraine, the Soviet Union's second most populous republic and a major food producer, had been seen as vital to the success of
The action came after Gorbachev convened a closed-door meeting of the governing State Council with a warning that the post-coup leadership had to prevent the breakup of the Soviet Union and had approached an abscess.
Bowing to pressure from Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin to cut costs, the State Council also endorsed a decision to eliminate about 80 Soviet ministries and departments from the bloated national bureaucracy discussed what to do with the foreign defense and interior ministries.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Vitol Fokin told the State Council that his republic would sign the economic treaty within two days, the Tass news agency reported, quoting Gorbachev representative Andrei Griachev.
Despite its agreement to join the economic union, the Ukraine asserted its independence in another way yesterday by creating its first formal armed forces.
Gorbachev told his top economic and political advisers and the leaders of 10 republics at the meeting that the nation was in the most critical situation.
The announcement was a breakthrough in the Soviet president's efforts to bring all 12 remaining republics into the new economic union.
MOSCOW — The resource-rich Ukraine reversed its go-it-alone strategy yesterday and agreed to join a new economic union that Mikhail Gorbachev has hoped would replace the old centrally run system.
The Associated Press
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