University Daily Kansan / Monday, October 21, 1991
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NATION/WORLD BRIEFSE
National party refuses to recognize David Duke
White House representatives said they wanted nothing to do with former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke, a Republican who is a runoff candidate in the Louisiana governor's race next month.
Some political scientists have said that although Duke's views are more extreme and single-minded than the GOP in general, the racial strategies used by President Bush have helped pave his way.
John Sununu, White House chief of staff, made it clear yesterday on ABC's "This Week With David Brinkley" that the national party had threatened to fire Duke in his Nov. 16 faceoff with Democrat Edwin Edwards, a former governor who narrowly led Duke in Saturday's primary. White House-backed incumbent Gov. Buddy Roemer, whoswitched from Democrat to Republican a few months before the election, ran third.
"David Duke is not the Republican nominee, "Sununu said. "He is an individual that has chosen to call himself a Republican. He was not supported by the party there. He is not supported by the national party."
Speaking for Bush, Sununu said,
"The president is absolutely opposed to the kind of racist statements that have come out of David Duke now and in the past."
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At least 341 people killed, 2,000 hurt in earthquake
A mighty earthquake shook the Himalayan foothills yesterday, killing at least 341 people, flattening tens of thousands of homes and triggering large landslides, police said.
The earthquake ripped through northern Uttar Pradesh state, causing massive destruction in at least two districts along the Indian-ibetan border. At least 2,000 people were killed and more than 200,000 news of India news agency reported.
At least 500 people were feared trapped in the rubble of buildings that collapsed when the quake struck. The government describes Shishur Priya Darshi said.
measured the 45-second quake at 6.1 on the Richter scale. The U.S. Geological Survey put the magnitude at 7.1.
India's Seismology Department
The epicenter of the earthquake was in the Almora district, 135 miles southeast of Uttarakashi. initial surveys found no damage or injury.
The state's top police official, Director General Frawkash Singh, said 262 bodies had been recovered in the Uttarkashi district. Darshi said the count in Uttarkashi likely would rise.
The last large earthquake in the
region occurred Aug. 21, 1988,
along the Indian-Nepalese border.
More than 1,000 people were killed.
Anti-abortion leader to seek presidential nomination
A national anti-abortion leader launched his Democratic presidential campaign when he said that he tried to conceal the indications as a single-issue candidate.
Wichita
The Rev. Pat Mahoney of Boca Raton, Fla., a leader of the national group Operation Rescue, announced Saturday he was joining five prominent Democrats in a run for the nomination. Mahoney said the three would be starting abortion clinic protests in Wichita this summer.
"Ihave alarger national network right now than any other candidate," Mahoney said of the 120 anti- abortion groups run by Operation Rescue.
Mahoney, 37, said he chose the Democratic ticket because he thought anti-abortion voters had no voice in the Democratic Party.
"To have a voice in national Democratic politics, you have to bow down at the altar of choice. We are going to take a sledgehammer to that altar of choice," Mahoney said.
From The Associated Press
Israel will attend peace talks
Sharon criticizes Shamir for leading country down wrong path
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Most members of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's Cabinet set aside misgivings yesterday to week '6 Middle East peace conference.
But one of Shamir'i's allies in the government, the ultright Tehiyah party, balked and said it would leave the coalition when the peace talks with Iran ended. Spain. Shamir'i's Lakud party was not in danger of losing power, however.
An Arab group that opposes the talks bombed an Israeli convoy in southern Lebanon, killing three soldiers and wounding two, and raising fears of terrorism by extremists who are against Arab negotiations with Israel. The pro-Iranian Hezbollah, or Party of God, claimed responsibility.
A Shamir adviser, Yossi Ben-Aharon, linked the attack to the peace efforts and to Syrian domination in Lebanon. He indicated that Israel
The Cabinet vote was the last step needed for Israel to send representatives to the U.S.-Soviet-sponsored talks.
would take up the issue with Syria at the peace conference.
U. S. Secretary of State James Baker III, who made eight trips to the Middle East to press Israel and the Arabs to attend, was in Madrid on Saturday to make final arrangements, then returned to Washington.
The Cabinet vote to attend was 16-3, said Transport Minister Moshe Katzav.
Those who voted "no" were Housing Minister Alej Arison, the most outspoken opponent in the Likud bloc; Science Minister Yuval Neeman of Tehiyah; and Rehhav vzeeni, a middleman in the Modelet, or Homeland, party.
Tehiyah advocates Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied lands and strongly opposes the peace forum.
saying it would force Israel to make territorial concessions. Model advocates expelling Palestinians from the occupied lands.
Israeli radio said Sharon harshly
said Shamar in the closed-Cabel-
petri nest.
He said the Cabinet was not adhering to Israel's refusal to give up land and should resign.
Sharon told the radio that Shamir "has led Israel on this mistaken path and continues to anesthetize the people against...really terrible dangers."
At a meeting later in Tel Aviv, Teishai decided to leave the government Oct. 30. Neeman said he would comply but also would resign as leader of Teishai because the party's decision was premature.
"I saw this as a victory of feelings over reason," he said on Israeli televised program *The Voice*.
Teihyah has three seats in Israel's 120-member parliament.
Soviet session to open under fire
Seven republics send delegates to Moscow; leadership in doubt
New Soviet economic union
Real power appears to have shifted to the parliaments and leaders of the individual republics.
The legislature has been reconstructed since the defeat of a hard-line Communist coup in August, but its powers and effectiveness are in doubt.
Eight of 12 Soviet republics Friday signed a treaty to create a "single economic zone." Who joined and who refused:
President Mikhail Gorbachev is expected to speak to the lawmakers.
Joined treaty
MOSCOW — Only seven of the 12 remaining Soviet republics will send full delegations to the Supreme Soviet session opening today, the legislature's acting officer said yesterday.
Russia Kirghizia
Uzbekistan Kazakhstan
Turkmenistan Beyelorusia
Tadzhikistan Armenia
The Associated Press
The state TV news program "Vremya" said yesterday that public confidence in the legislature had decreased. The Supreme Soviet now ranks just behind the Communist Party and the Council of Ministers as a discredited institution, "Vremya" said.
Refused to join
Ukraine Georgia
Moldavia Azebajian
The acting officer of the Supreme Soviet, Ivan Lapper, said in a TV interview that there was danger of the legislature becoming a figurehead.
One of the lawmakers' first tasks will be to elect new legislative leaders. Their former leader, Anatoly Lukyanov, is under arrest and facing a
Source: News reports
Knight-Ridder Tribune News/ROY GALLOP
treason charge for his alleged role in the August coup.
Laptev said the seven republics sending full parliamentary delegations are the Russian Federation, Byelorussia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kirghizia, Turkmenistan and Tadzhikistan.
Two more republics, Azerbaijan and Moldavia, are sending observers.
Laptevsaid.
Three republics, Georgia, Armenia and the Ukraine, have not named their delegates and may not participate. They are pushing for full independence, which the three Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia won in the aftermath of the coup.
Laptvei said he would not run for the leadership of the legislature.
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