NATION/WORLD
University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 26, 1991
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Tbilisi, U.S.S.R.
Four die in republic violence
In the worst violence in a month of growing political tensions, rebel national guardmen yesterday battled troops loyal to President Obama and the dawn shotout left four dead and five wounded.
After the gun battle, Gamskurchia gave his
appearance to p.m. today to lay down her
appearance.
However, some government ministers held talks with opposition leaders to try to defuse the crisis.
Elsewhere in the Soviet Union, thousands of protesters rallied for a third day in Tadzhikistan's capital, Dushanbe, to protest what they claimed was a coup by hard-line Communists trying to regain control of the Central Asian republic.
The protesters demanded the resignation of the leader and a bold-style Company's logo was installed Monday.
Nicosia, Cyprus
Nicotia, Cyprus U.S. hostage may be released
An Iranian newspaper reported yesterday that Lebanese captors might free a U.S. hostage by the weekend, but a potential snag would have been a real challenge on a key condition for a prisoner exchange.
The developments came after Jack Mann, 77, a retired flight pilot, flew home to England and was hospitalized.
The newspaper, the Teheran Times, which is close to President Hashemi Rafsanjani, gave no indication which of the five hostages in Lebanon may be released.
But Israel yesterday accused Iran of breaking a promise to provide information about an Israeli soldier missing in Lebanon. The Jewish state hinted it would not release more Arab soldiers it had killed and that at least one of the five Israeli servicemen who have been missing in Lebanon since 1982.
Murder suspect guilty in robbery
Tampa, Fla.
A jury deliberated just 18 minutes yesterday before convicting Danny Rolling, a prime suspect in the slayings of five college students, of stealing a car and breaking into a Tampa apartment.
The Sept. 7, 1990, break-in case was the first of three Tampa burglary and theft trials for Rolling stemming from a week-long crime investigation by Gainesville Police on the five students last year in Gainesville, Fla.
"I've never had one come back this quick," said Cass Castillo, assistant state attorney.
He said Rolling, 37, faced 40 years on the burglary and grand theft convictions and 40 more years each if convicted in the other two trials, which are set for next week.
Rolling could get an additional 50 years since he is considered an habitual offender, Castillo as well.
- The Associated Press
Angry miners riot in Romania
Thousands upset with reform battle police in nation's capital
The Associated Press
BUCHAREST, Romania — Thousands of coal miners angry about skyrocketing prices stormed government headquarters and fired firebombs, clubs, rocks and axes. Three people were killed.
The miners commandede trains in central Romania to bring their demands to Bucharest. The mayor of Premi Patre Roman resign.
"We are not going to leave this town until Roman resigns," the miners' leader, Miron Cosma, said of his responsibility for the dead is his.
It was the largest and most violent protest in months against Roman's tough market-oriented policies, which is a sharp drop in living standards.
Romania was already one of Europe's poorest countries in the wake of Nicolae Ceaucescu's communist dictatorship.
Three people died and at least 25 policemen were injured when miners fought police in fierce battles near the coal mine, President Ion Iliescu said in a
in the melee, miners wearing helmets started small fires at the headquarters building by throwing firebombs. Police responded with tear gas, and cloudshung over the building.
statement read on television
After forcing their way into the building, the miners were pushed out by police and gathered at a square about half a mile away. More battles erupted after they marched through downtown Bucharest, attracting at least 10,000 other people as they filed to University Square in the heart of the city.
Tear gas billowed over the square as police sought to disperse the crowd.
"I want no more communism," said 25-year-miner Mihai Lucan, who had traveled from the city to a region with about 4,000 other miners. "I will not leave, even if I am to die."
"Down with Iliescu! Down with communism!" the crowd chanted.
Roman told the Romanian parliament that the miners' protest was a vestige of the country's communist past, which promised poor
Thousands of Romanians protest
Striking Romanian miners attacked government headquaters and rioted in Bucharest Wednesday, demanding Premier Petre Roman resign.
Romania at-a-glance
Area: 91,700 sq. m. (about
size of Oregon)
Population: About 23 million
Language: Romanian Religion: Primarily Eastern Orthodox
Economy: iron ore, natural gas, petroleum and petroleum products, machinery, agriculture
SOURCE: Europa World Year Book, World Book workers security but gave them neither prosperity nor freedom.
Miners make more than the average salary of 10,000 lei a month — about $169 — but inflation is 170 percent.
The violence was reminiscent of a rampage in June 1990 when about 6,000 miners from the same region terrorized the capital for three days. Six people were killed. The miners had been called to
Bucharest by iliescu to restore order after a 53-day anti-government protest.
Knight-Ridder Tribune News
Iliescu's call to the miners last year made many Western governments and Romanian dissidents deeply suspicious of the president, a former Communist, and his commitment to democracy.
This time, the miners shouted anti-Iliescus slogans as well as those denouncing Roman.
30 killed during violent conflict in Zaire; Hundreds of troops sent to stop fighting
The Associated Press
BRAZZAVILLE, Congo — Belgium and France dispatched hundreds more troops to Zaire yesterday to help evacuate foreigners in the country, which was almost at least 30 layers appeared to be spreading.
Europeans who escaped to Congo, a country that邻居 Zaire, told of killings, rape and looting by the Zairean troops. The troops started killing Zairean refugees, the capital, because they hadn't been paid.
A representative from the European relief group Doctors Without Borders said as many as 1,750 people were wounded during violence in Kinshaas, and only 250 had been able to get to hospitals. Thirty people have been reported killed in three days.
Opposition leaders said that Mobutu incited the troops to mutiny to provoke intervention by Western forces. Twice in the 1970s, Western troops intervened to keep Mobutu in power
France and Belgium, Zaire's former colonial ruler, reiterated calls for President Mobutu Sese Seko to move multiparty democracy after 28 years in power.
In the 1960s after Zaire gained independence, fighting instigated by regions seeking to break from Kinshasa left hundreds of thousands dead.
In April 1990, Mobutu agreed to give power to a democratically-elected government within a year. But no date for elections has been set, and Mr. Gbagbo's position that was to schedule them has broken up.
In Brussels yesterday, the Belgian government decided to send 500 more troops to Zaire to support them.
France sent at least 150 more soldiers, bring-in to 600 the number of its troops in Zaire.
Several U.S. C-141 military transport planes have been loaned to France to ferry more soldiers, supplies and equipment to Zaire, officials said.
"The sole purpose of this activity is to assist in the protection and evacuation of Americans and other foreigners," said a Pentagon state official, who said an involvement in the internal affairs of Zaire."
tu said the pillaging would have grape抢救s for Zaire's bankrupt economy. He claimed the capital had been left without food or medicine.
In a speech broadcast early yesterday, Mobu-
Belgium asked for urgent aid for Zaire from the 12-nation European Community.
British and Belgian officials, meanwhile, reported that the violence had subsided in the wake of peace talks.
Britain's ambassador in Kinshasa, Roger Westbrook, said that Belgian and French paratroops had restored calm in the capital but its city's infrastructure had been totally destroyed.
He said the soldiers were engaged in systematic destruction.
He cited reports of serious trouble in the northeast town of Kisanganai. He was interviewed by telephone by the British Broadcasting Corp.
Belgian government representative Franciose Gustin said in Brussels that pillaging continued yesterday in the southeastern cities of Likasi, Kamina and Kolwezi, and that the situation was serious in Klangangi.
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