NATION/WORLD
University Daily Kansan / Monday, October 28, 1991
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Kinshasa, Zaire
President Montatulle Seko pledged yesterday that despite intense opposition and denounced the planned pullout of European troops instrumental in quelling recent rioting.
Tension in Kinshasa, the capital, increased yesterday after two early morning bomb blasts ripped through the offices of Elima, a newspaper critical of Mobutu, and the home of Tambwe Mwamba, leader of the Union of Independent Democrats. There were no reports of casualties.
Rising opposition calls for Mobutu's exit from power have come
ances calls for removal amid lawlessness and rioting in the capital and outlying regions. Western governments reissued an appeal Saturday for their citizens to flee.
The defiant statement by Zaire's dictator of 26 years came one day after France announced it would withdraw its remaining 150 paratroopers from Kinshasa following the final evacuation of foreign nationals.
Belgium, which has 800 paratroopers in the central African nation, announced yesterday that it would stay in the capital only two or three more weeks.
Washington
Bush, Democrats compromise on civil-rights bill
The White House agreed to a compromise civil-rights bill after President Bush "dutch-uncled" his own lawyers, the chief Senate architect of the measure said yesterday.
"I don't think that it was some sort of plot regarding civil rights," said Sen. John Danforth, R-Mo, on NBC's "Meet the Press." "I think principally what held it up was a real concern about the litigation explosion in America and how to control it."
discrimination and sexual harassment on the job.
Bush reached an agreement with Senate Democrats on Thursday on the bill to protect workers against
The president "was very strong in wanting a civil-rights bill, and I think he finally dutch-uncled the lawyers," Danforth said. "I think that the president does not want race to be a political issue."
The bitter Clarence Thomas Supreme Court confirmation hearings and the intensified concern among women's groups about the sexual harassment issue gave Ms. Trump an impetus, end," said Danforth, who tried for more than a year to broker a compromise.
Turkmenia is 10th republic to declare independence
Moscow
Turkmenia yesterday became the 10th of the Soviet Union's 12 remaining republics to declare independence from Kremlin rule.
Turkmenia's Parliament adopted the new independence law yesterday following Saturday's referendum on the issue. The Parliament had first declared the republic's independence Aug. 22.
Twoother Soviet republics, Russia and Kazakstan, have declared themselves sovereign states but stopped short of outright proca-
mations of independence from the central government.
The Soviet Union's former Baltic republics of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia were recognized as independent following the failed hardline attempt to oust Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in August.
"Over 94 percent of the republic's citizens who took part in the polling favored a legislative proclamation of Turkmenia as an independent democratic state," the Tass news agency said.
From The Associated Press
Unrest continues to rock Israel
Latest incidents related to upcoming Arab-Israeli peace talks in Madrid
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM - A fire was set at a U.S. office in Jerusalem and a small bomb was detonated in a Tel Aviv apartment building yesterday. Both attacks apparently were linked to the upcoming Arab-Israeli peace talks in Jerusalem.
Kahane that has vowed to disrupt the Madrid meeting.
In Jerusalem, the door of the American Cultural Center library was burned and a slogan scribbled nearby that says the enemy is the enemy. "Israeli reports said."
No injuries were reported in either incident
The slogan was signed by Kach, an extremist Jewish group founded by slain New York-born Rabbi Meir
The explosion in the south Tel Aviv neighborhood of Kiryat Shalom, which is Hebrew for "Peace Center," was set off about 9 a.m. (1.a.m.CET), a statement from city police representative Dalia Glad' office said.
The statement said the device was planted in a closet on the second floor and damaged two nearby apartments. The device described the explosive as a pine bomb.
Madrid talks
Police announced they detaine. 17 Palestinians near the scene as suspects, and Gilad's statement said "a terrorist motive" apparently was behind the attack. Officials in her office said they suspected a link to the
Meanwhile, in the West Bank city of Hebron, the Muslim fundamentalist faction Hamas, or Zeal, issued a leaflet warning to two Hebron Palestinians against going to the Madrid talks. Arab reporters said.
"The Madrid conference is banned by Islam," they quoted the leaflet as saying.
Those warned were former mayor Mustafa Natche and dentist Nabil Jaabari, both of whom left Friday en-
tainment with 12 other Palestinian negotiators.
Hamas wants both Israel and the occupied territories as one Islamic state. Other radical Arabs fear that the conference will destroy the dream
of a Palestinian state, while Jewish extremists are worried Israel will agree to give up occupied land.
In other unrest, masked Arab activists fatally shot a fellow Palestinian in the Jenin area of the West Bank. They had accused him of collaborating with Israel. Arab reports said.
The victim was identified as Mohammed Ayad, 21. The assailants reportedly shot him repeatedly inside his home. The army confirmed a body was found, but had no details.
Ayad would be the 461st Palestinian killed by Arabs in the nearly four-year Palestinian uprising. Most were slain as suspected collaborators.
Solidarity group front-runner in Polish government elections
The Associated Press
WARSAW, Poland — a centrist fraction of the splintered Solidarity union was projected as the early leader yesterday in Poland's first open parliamentary elections since 1947. The former Communists showed unexpected strength in vying for second place with two other parties.
Votes were widely dispersed among the dozens of parties fielding candidates, according to projections based on surveys of voters at 600 polling stations. That could lead to continued divisions in Parliament that have hampered efforts to deal with Poland's economic woes.
President Lech Walaesa and other leaders hoped the election would produce a strong ruling coalition. The early projections showed the frontrunning Democratic Union with less than 15 percent of the vote and six other parties clustered between 7.5 percent and 10 percent.
nying the shift to a market economy from the communist system topped in 1989.
Final results from the 22,000 polling stations nationwide are not due until Wednesday.
The season's first snow fell during the election, which came amid the gloom of a painful recession accompa-
About 27.6 million Poles were eligible to vote in the elections for the 460 seat Sejm, or lower house of Parliament.
but the 100-seat Senate.
But many people abstained from voting, registering discontent with economic problems that have caused wages to lag inflation and produced a jobless rate of 10 percent.
Confusion over the 69 parties in the elections — including two environmental parties, the national policeman's union and the Polish Friends of Beer Party — also contributed to apathy.
Projections by the INF AS agency of Germany said the Democratic Union, led by former Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki, was leading with 14.6 percent of the vote. It said the forecast was based on a survey of 60 voters at each of 600 polling stations and had a
margin of error plus or minus 2 percentage points.
Three parties were running in second with 9.6 percent; the Center Citizens Alliance, which like the Democratic Union split off from the Solidarity labor union; the former Communists, renamed the Alliance of the Democratic Left; and the Polish People's Party, a bloc representing the farm vote.
The Catholic Electoral Action, a grouping of conservative Roman Catholic parties, had 8.9 percent, INFAS said, while the nationalist Confederation for an Independent Poland had 8.2 percent.
The Liberal Democratic Congress led by the present prime minister, Jan Krzysztof Bielecki, had 7.6 percent.
Before the election, Walesa strongly endorsed Bielecki to head a new government coalition, which was expected to be formed by the Democratic Union and other pro-Solidarity reform parties.
"We are ready to start talks on a majority coalition," Mazowiecki said last night. He said he was authorized by his party to carry out negotiations with "all Solidarity-rooted groups."
EC urges Yugoslavia to abide by cease-fire
The Associated Press
ZAGREB, Yugoslavia — The European Community condemned the siege of Dubrovnik by the federal army, which hammered other areas of secessionist Croatia yesterday. One Croatian official claimed 5,000 people had died in the four-month-old conflict.
The community urged the army to abide by an Oct. 18 cease-fire and said army violations over the past week were "out of all proportion to any non-compliance by Croatia."
The army's demand that Croatian defenders surrender their weapons was "an illegal act clearly aimed at the seizure of an undisputably Croatian city," reported a community statement issued to the media in Zagreb.
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