6 Wednesday, June 18, 1997 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Exceptional Woman. Exceptional Diamond! Our Jewelry Dazzles! Lazare Diamonds Tallmon & Tallmon FINE JEWELERS 520 W.23rd · 865-5112 WEEZER the pulsars All Ages/21 to Drink Fighting breaks out in Cambodia Sat. July 19 Seven Mary Three VALLEJO 18 & Ocea! Aly 1x Visit Lawrence's hippest Lounge AQUA LOUNGE "Serious Drinks for Drinking Seriously" Bodyguards from rival sides begin battle The Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The feud between Cambodia's co-rulers erupted yesterday into a bloody gunbattle between bodyguards loyal to each side, heightening fears in an already tense capital. With the whereabouts of Khmer Rouge guerrilla leader Pol Pot still a mystery, the violence could threaten a coalition government that has been unstable since the United Nations pieced it together in 1993 after years Assault rifle shots and explosions from grenades and rocket launchers rang out in central Phnom Penh as the bodyguards of First Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh traded fire with police loyal to Second Prime Minister Hun Sen. of genocide and civil war. About 100 police armed with AK-47s surrounded the prince's heavily guarded compound. At least one of Ranariddh's men was killed. Two blocks away, a rocket or grenade exploded inside the walled residence of U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Quinn. No one was injured. Wounded in the fighting was a soldier with the prince's FUNCINPEC party and a Cambodian driving a bus down Norodom Boulevard where the fighting took place. Journalist Matthew Lee, Buffalo, N.Y., of the French news agency, Agence France-Presse, was struck by shrapnel in his left arm, colleagues said. The wound was not serious. Thousands of soldiers, police and militia units of the rival factions are posted around the city, and fears have run high in recent weeks of a civil war. However, none of the larger units got involved in yesterday's two-hour clash. Leaders from FUNCINPEC and the rival, Cambodian People's Party, or CPP, met to defuse tensions. The fighting comes just 10 days before U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is to visit Cambodia to support democracy and urge the prime ministers to resolve their differences peacefully. Ranariddh's chief military adviser, Maj. Gen. Tum Sambol, dismissed the seriousness of the clash. "I don't think it's bad yet," he said. "We're trying to resolve the problem." But the U.S. ambassador called the fighting a wake-up call. "If there's a silver lining, Quinn said, "it's that it didn't get any worse." Government officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the clash apparently escalated from tensions between Ranaridh's bodyguards and police a block away guarding the home of Hok Lundi, national police director and CPP member. The breakup of the Khmur Rouge over the past year has increased tensions in the government coalition. In the past week, Pol Pot, who had been holed up with supporters in northern Cambodia, reportedly has been pursued by 1,000 troops who turned against him after he ordered the execution of his former defense minister. Son Sen. Clandestine Khmer Rouge radio reported yesterday that "Pol Pot's betrayal has ended," suggesting he had been overthrown. It was unclear if he was alive. Murders in Ireland prompt steps to prevent march Protestants insist on taking regular solidarity parade The Associated Press PORTADOWN, Northern Ireland — A road through the main Roman Catholic neighborhood of this stunchily Protestant town is shaping up as a battleground following this week's Irish Republican Army killing of two policemen. Members of the Orange Order, Northern Ireland's dominant Protestant fraternal group, say they are determined to march down Garvaghy Road, as they do every July 6. The march commemorates their 17th-century victories over Irish Catholics. But the leader of the town's Catholic protesters, Breandan MacCionnalhit, said that no Orange foot would march through the neighborhood. Last year's attempt to block the march triggered deadly riots across Northern Ireland. The Orangemen have refused to talk with McCionnaith, because he was imprisoned in the 1970s. The Gavaggh Road march is one of more than 2,000 marches staged each summer by the Orange Order, along with two smaller Protestant fraternal groups, to celebrate their community's solidarity. Many Catholics resent the one- "It undoubtedly looks like the IRA have gone in for this brutal, cynical device, deliberately to raise tensions, running up to the 6th of July." Alistair Graham British government appointee assigned to defuse the crisis Johnston, 30, were the first Northern Ireland Protestants killed by the IRA since it resumed hostilities against British rule 16 months ago. sided celebrations with the booming drums, anti-Catholic songs and drunken thugs. Alistair Graham, the British government appointee assigned to defuse the crisis, said Monday's IRA slayings of the Protestant police officers made it impossible "to see how we're going to get face-to-face dialogue, never mind any possibility of a formal understanding" between the two sides. The British minister responsible for governing Northern Ireland, Mo Mowlam, shuttled between Orange leaders and Catholic protesters yesterday to try to win a consensus. John Graham, 34, and David The Orangemen, who used to parade several times each year down the Garvaghy Road, think they have conceded enough. Both sides said nothing had changed. Mowlam also stopped where the policemen were gunned down Monday, in neighboring Lurgan, to sign a book of condolences. Bouquets and handwritten notes, one of which said, "My blood runs cold at this dreadful act...From a local Catholic family," lined the sidewalk where the men were killed. Garvaglyph Road connects downtown Portadown with the focal point of the parade, an Anglican church outside town. The Rev. William Bingham, district chaplain for the Orange Order, said the IRA had killed 60 local Orangemen since launching its campaign against British rule in 1970. In an open letter to the Garvaghy Road's residents, he pleaded for the 15-minute parade, which he called "an outward witness to our sincere belief in the Reformed Faith." Stalled peace talks provoking violence The Associated Press HEBRON, West Bank — Rami Obeid carefully unfurled an Israeli flag yesterday, set it ablaze and carried it toward Israeli snipers until he was cut down by three rubber bullets to his back and leg. Obeido, 26, is a nine-year veteran of stone-throwing protests, said being shot was worth the humiliation he had inflicted on the soldiers by burning the flag. Obeido is one of many foot soldiers the Palestinian leadership relies on to rekindle riots to remind Israel that the deadlock in peace talks cannot continue. Although Palestinian leaders denied organizing the protests, the violence began Saturday — the day Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement urged members to confront the Israeli and American aggression against Palestinians. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the riots were a tactic to pressure Israel into concessions. The latest violence began during the weekend, when it appeared an Egyptian mission to restart peace talks was going nowhere. Arafat has been angling for a more active U.S. role in the negotiations, and Washington has been more inclined to become involved when West Bank streets are burning. In Hebron, word has been out for the past four days: "Clashes start at 10 a.m. on Shalaleh Street." Four teen-agers yesterday began throwing stones at Israeli soldiers on schedule. Several hours later, 17 Yassir Arafat Palestinians had been injured by rubber bullets, including a 12-year-old boy with a head wound. Two Israeli soldiers were injured by rocks. Palestinian Palestinian leaders said people were demonstrating about Israeli policies including Jewish settlement expansion, and they accused Israel of unleashing settler vigilantes to scare Palestinians. In Gaza on Monday, a Jewish settler fired his pistol for almost 30 minutes at Palestinians in a land dispute, wounding one protester. Israeli troops did not intervene. "I wished Mr. Netanyahu would take one look in the mirror to find the responsibility for the escalation that is taking place," the chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said yesterday. Palestinians acknowledged that their leaders had encouraged recent clashes but noted that activists had tapped into frustration about Netanyahu's hard line policies. Obido, forded for three years by Israel during the 1987 to 1993 uprising against Israeli occupation, has been hurling rocks for the past four days, returning even after he was shot yesterday. "I don't care if I become a martyr," he said. "As long as blood runs in my veins, I will continue fighting the Israelis." Schoolgirl choir proclaims he's 'A Jolly Good Fellow' at send off for British ruler Outgoing Hong Kong governor good for country, people The Associated Press HONG KONG — With just two weeks left before Britain turns Hong Kong over to China, Gov. Chris Patten easily could be dismissed as yesterday's man. But the adoring crowds that greeted him yesterday on one of his last public outings — including a schoolgirl choir that sang "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" — suggest that Patten is still one of the most popular of the 28 British governors Hong Kong has had. Unlike the career diplomats and China scholars who preceded him, Patten is a politician and master of the common touch. That much was clear from the day he arrived in July 1992, wearing a business suit instead of the traditional sword, tunic and ostrich-plumed hat. The common touch was still evident when he toured a school in Tsuen Wan, where grimy factories and apartment blocks are slowly yielding ground to glitzy shopping malls and overhead expressways. His silvery hair waving in the breeze, the 53-year-old governor inspected rows of Chinese nursery school kids, giving kindly pats on the back. He signed a visitor's book under a banner welcoming "The Right Honorable Christopher Patten, Governor of Hong Kong." Behind a barricade, hoping to photograph his 12-year-old son with Patten, engineer K.K. Cheung said he would be sad to see Patten leave. "He doesn't consider only what's good for Britain, but what's good for Hong Kong," Cheung said. "But China will only consider what's good for China." "I think he's a good man," said another parent. Ngai Yeung Luk. China detests Patten for having engineered democratic reforms without its consent, and is disbanding the legislature elected during his tenure. A substitute, unelected legislature is already in place. And on Monday, the last of Patten's work unraveled when the incoming, China-approved government appointed extra members to local councils, effectively weakening the power of councillors elected under Patten's rules. Chinese officials avoid contact with Patten, while the pro-China press consistently vilifies him. He was dealt an unusually severe snub when organizers of a gala charity dinner failed to invite him, even though his wife, Lavender, is patron of the charity. Even now, debate rages among scholars about whether Patten was unwise, even vainglorious in thinking he could challenge mighty China. Did his crash program of democratic reform reinforce Hong Kong's freedoms? Or did he push China into a corner from which it had no option but to lash Parents at the school seemed to have no doubts. Their remarks highlight Hong Kong is almost alone among British colonies in displaying its fondness for its departing ruler. "He gave advantages to Hong Kong on freedoms and political matters, which are most important to people in Hong Kong," said Luk, 38, a technician on construction sites. Cheung, the engineer, said Hong Kong needed a man like Patten to see it through the change of sovereignty. He said the previous governor, David Wilson, "was too weak. he wouldn't argue with China. He just tried to make the Chinese happy." out by reversing those freedoms? 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