NATION/WORLD
University Daily Kansan / Friday, November 1, 1991
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New York
Journey home starts for Marcos
Former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos gave a prayer of thanks at St. Patrick's Cathedral yesterday before embarking on a trip back to her homeland to end 59 years of exile.
Marcos walked 30 feet on her knees up an aisle in the Lady Chapel behind the main altar before the banquet.
Asked what she was praying for, she said,
"Thanksgiving."
She received communion, lighted about 20 votive candles while dabbing her eyes with a black handkerchief and put a $100 bill in the offering box. Then she took her black limousine to John F. Kennedy International Airport and caught a 3:10 m. flight for Hawaii.
On Sunday, she will fly to Manila, Philippines
in the Philippines, she faces a trial on tax evasion.
Washington
Washington China sells nuclear technology
The Bush administration expressed strong opposition yesterday to Chinese nuclear technology sales to Iran and warned that Iran may be embarked on a nuclear weapons program.
But Chinese officials said that the cooperation with Iran had been limited to peaceful uses of nuclear knowledge. Iranian officials said that there had no intention of developing nuclear weapons.
"There have been forms of civilian-nuclear cooperation between China and Iran, which, given our concerns about Iran's nuclear intentions, have led Joseph Snyder, State Department press office,
The U.S. expressions of concern came as the Chinese and Iranian presidents met in Tehran.
Washington
Commission attacks ad claims
The government is showing a new-found drive in its effort to protect consumers against false or misleading information.
The Federal Trade Commission recently announced a rash of actions to halt what it said were phony diet promotions, misleading labels on wrinkle-defierring creams, false representations about the fat content of a well-known dairy product and misinformed advertisements for cellulose and badness remedies.
The FTC's enforcement flurry reflects the agency's dynamic approach to its job since Janet Sieber took over as commissioner in mid-1989, though she modestly attributes the pickup to years of work by subordinates coming to fruition.
From The Associated Press
Zaire opposition party supports intervention
The Associated Press
KINSHASA, Zaire — Opposition and human rights leaders said yesterday they would support the use of force by Western troops to remove President Mobutu Sese Seko from power.
"When the people don't have armies to overthrow an evil dictator, they have a right to ask those who can to do it for them," said Etienne Tshisekied, the opposition leader Motubu fired as prime minister for refusing to follow orders.
French paratroopers prepared to withdraw from this strife-nation yesterday. Belgium announced it would pull out its troops, but the French government has not responded.
"There will be a blood bath" if Belgian troops leave as scheduled, said Kabane王abe, president of the Zairean Human Rights League. "Mobutu's men will kill a lot of people."
He said Western support would be needed to oust Mobutu, who seized power in 1965 when he commanded the army.
Tshekisek said the United States had not made clear its opposition to Mobutu remaining in control of his country, saying his decision to fire Tshekisek.
Mobutu has said he thought he retained President Bush's support. Mobutu, installed by the West during the Cold War, was used by Washington to block expansion of communism in the region.
Knight-Ridder Tribune News
Angola
Palestinian faction leader threatens split from PLO
The Associated Press
PARIS—A radical Palestinian leader he will ask to have his hard-line faction withdrawn from the Palestinian Liberation Organization's executive body because the PLO approved the Mideast peace talks.
In an interview published yesterday, George Habas said his Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the PLO's second-largest faction, would continue its armed struggle against Israel. He did not exclude attacks on Israeli settlements in the occupied territories.
Habas said he planned to propose to the leaders a more based action that they withdraw from the P1Q40 committee.
"It will then be up to the (PLO) central committee to accept or refuse its decision," he said of the concessions.
The threat is one of the most serious signs of Palestinian discord since PLO leader Yasser Arafat's acceptance of Palestinian participation in the Arab-Israeli talks this week in Madrid, Spain.
Clashes have broken out between Arafat's supporters and opponents this week in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, and Arafat last week had to offer a pay raise to his security force in Lebanon to
keep it in line.
The PLO's third-largest faction, the Syrian-based Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, has between 2,500 and 3,000 soldiers.
Habash has 3,000 hard-core soldiers, far fewer than the 7,000-8,000 soldiers and 2,000 infantrymen that are backed by Arafat's Fatafah force.
It was uncertain whether
George Habash
the PLO's central committee would allow Habash's group to formally leave the coalition.
Habash maintained that Palestinian participation at the Madrid conference was not in accord with decisions made in late September by the Palestine National Council, the Palestinian parliament-inexile.
He told Le Figaro his group's armed struggle against Israel would continue with efforts to avoid civilian targets, but, "as a general rule, we consider Jewish settlements as military objectives."
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