10A
Monday, May 5,1997
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The
Etc.
Shop
928 Mass. Downtown
843-0611
---
$1 OFF COUPON
K.U. STUDENTS ONLY
WORLD'S GREATEST
HAIRCUT
$7.95 reg.
ch coupon • Expires 08/31/97
REG. $45
HELENE CURTIS
PERMS
$2995
snipn'clip
FAMILY HAIRCUT SHOPS
ORCHARDS SHOPS
842-5151
(14th & Kasold)
Long Hair Extra Open Nights and Sundays Just Drop In!
COMPLETE WITH CUT! Long Hair Extra
The KU Hillel Foundation Presents:
Stop Day BBQ
Tuesday, May 6th 1-3 p.m. Hillel House,940 Mississippi
Stop what you are doing, drop your books, and come party with Hillel. Classes are over, so take a break from studying. Come kick back with us as we enjoy the great weather! It's FREE, so there's no excuse large enough to miss out on the food and fun. We'll see you there!
Zaire's future remains undecided
Talks uneventful; leaders promise to discuss again
The Associated Press
POINE NOIRE, Congo — Zaire's ailing president met face-to-face yesterday with his rival, and all they could agree on was to meet again.
President Mobutu Sese Seko didn't announce his resignation as had been predicted by diplomats aboard the South-African naval vessel where talks were held. Mediators fear that these talks may have been the last chance to secure a truce and to prevent the rebels from marching on Zaire's capital Kinshasa. All indications are that the rebels intend to keep advancing.
U. N. envoy Mohamed Sahnoun told reporters that Mobutu proposed a cease-fire and a transitional government to prepare the Central-African nation for its first multiparty elections. Mobutu said he would give power to an elected authority. He has never ruled out running himself.
But rebel leader Laurent Kabila, according to the statement read by Sahnoun, demanded the rebels be allowed to take power as the transitional authority and Mobutu cede power to them.
Mobutu Sese Seko
Sahnoun said there was tension from both sides at the beginning of yesterday's talks, and then there was a cordial tone.
"As a gesture of good will (Kabila) has ordered his troops to stop their advance on all fronts," Sahnoun read from a statement. "They would, however, defend themselves and reciprocate if they were attacked."
"The question of a cease-fire is not part of his vocabulary," he said. "What he is concerned with is that negotiations will lead to the end of hostilities."
During a news conference with a grim-faced Mobutu and a smiling Kabila, Sahnoun told reporters aboard the naval ship that South-African President Nelson Mandela, who helped mediate the talks, would convene another meeting between the two men in six to 10 days.
Mandela emphasized that Kabila had not agreed to a permanent truce.
Sources close to the talks said that mediators were seeking an agreement in which Mobutu would step down for health reasons and appoint an interim president until elections could be held. This would allow Kabila and his forces to peacefully enter Kinshasa.
Mobutu left the ship and was expected to fly back to Kinshasa. He has insisted he would never bow to Kabila's demand to resign, but his prostate cancer and international pressure may force him to do so.
Kabila said Friday that he would go to the talks only to secure Mobutu's exit and the handing over of power to the alliance. Otherwise, he said, rebel forces would take the rest of Zaire within two weeks.
early yesterday. Supported by a cane in one hand and his wife Bobi Ladawa on the other, the ailing president was met by South-African Foreign Minister Alfred Nzo and Defense Minister Joe Modise.
After the meeting, Kabila flew to Luanda, Angola. He did not comment to reporters.
Wearing his signature leopard-skin cap, Mobutu boarded the ship
A White House official responded to reports that U.S. envoy Bill Richardson carried a letter from Mobutu to President Clinton that said he would step down.
Mobutu did send a letter to the United States last week in which he committed himself to negotiations with the rebels, the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity Saturday.
A U.S. official in Kinshasa said nine Americans—non-essential staff and dependents of embassy employees—left the city on Saturday as a precautionary measure because of confusion surrounding the peace talks.
"I would not read it that way," the official said.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Americans took a ferry to neighboring Congo. Thirty-eight Americans remain at the embassy, including Ambassador Daniel Simpson. Several hundred other Americans remain in Kinshasa.
Prime Minister Blair appoints cabinet
Labor government promises change
The Associated Press
LONDON — Cabinet ministers in Britain's new Labor government savored the novelty of making policy instead of protests while surviving Conservatives maneuvered yesterday for the leadership of a shattered party.
Underlining the centrist platform on which it won a landslide election victory Thursday, Labor said it would not tolerate workshy welfare claimants and pledged to improve relations with the rest of the European Union.
Prime Minister Tony Blair named lawmaker Doug Henderson as Minister for Europe — a job that didn't exist in the previous Conservative administration.
Foreign Secretary Robin Cook said Britain would sign on next month to the EU's Social Chapter regulations on labor union and employee rights that the Conservatives refused to accept.
Britain's policy, he added, will be a "constructive engagement" with the rest of the 15-nation union.
"We want to take Britain out of the position of isolationism,out
of inward-looking chauvinism and into being a leading member of the international community." Cook said in an interview with The Observer, a liberal British weekly.
The issue of Europe split the Conservatives, with former Prime Minister John Major getting the worst of two worlds.
He failed to placate right-wing "Euroskepetics" while his attempts to do so increasingly isolated Britain.
Blair attended church near his north London home yesterday, then returned to his official Downing Street residence and office to finish appointing his administration.
Blair gave Labor campaign manager Peter Mandelson a ministerial job that included "effective presentation to the public" of government policies, a government statement said.
Harriet Harman, the new social security secretary, signaled a continuing welfare crackdown.
"When the welfare state was set up, it was for people who for one reason or another couldn't work," Harman said in a GMTV interview. "It wasn't for people who just didn't want to work. ... There won't be an option of simply life on benefits."
Arafat to meet with Israeli president
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will meet tomorrow with Israeli President Ezer Weizman in an effort to lay the groundwork for resuming stalled peace negotiations.
U. S. Mideast envoy Dennis Ross is expected to follow up that meeting with a visit to the region later in the week.
The flurry of diplomatic activity raised hopes yesterday that the peace process' slide may have slowed, and that progress was being made toward restarting talks.
Contacts broke off in March after Israel began construction of a housing project for Jews on a hilltop known to the Israelis as Har Homa and to the Palestinians as Jabal Abu Ghneim.
Located in a part of Jerusalem captured from Arabs in 1967 and claimed by Palestinians as a future capital, the project set off riots in the West Bank and was linked to a suicide bombing in a Tel Aviv cafe that killed three Israelis.
The United States has proposed that Israel combine the initial two of three promised
measures are important but secondary."
Ahmed Tibi
Arafat adviser
Israel has not agreed to that
proposal, the official added.
withdrawals from rural areas of the West Bank still under Israeli control — turning more than 30 percent over to the Palestinians, the Palestinian official said.
Arafat adviser Ahmed Tibi said he doubted any initiative or gesture would succeed unless the core problems — building of the Jewish housing project in Jerusalem and expansion of Jewish settlements in general — were addressed.
"The American officials and the prime minister's office believe they can defuse the crisis through goodwill gestures," Tibi said. "Goodwill measures are important but secondary."
We Buy, Sell, Trade & Consign USED & New Sports Equipment
Congratulations Graduating Seniors!
844 Massachusetts
841-PLAY 1029 Massachusetts
● NATURAL FIBER CLOTHING
● NATURAL BODY CARE
• 820-822 MASS. • 841-0100
• www.cjnetworks.com \naturalway\
(913) 843-5000
NATURALWAY
The end of college is only the beginning... Good Luck Class of 1997!
The Hottest Shop In Town
SUNFLOWER
Satellite Shop
844 Massachusetts 843-5000
After your walk down the hill, come by Sunflower and get prepared for whatever lies ahead.
The University Daily Kansan would like to congratulate the advertising staff members of the month of April.
Dana Centeno, Regional Manager
Matt Fisher, Retail Sales Representative
Julie DeWitt, Zone Manager
Nicole Lauderdale, Retail Sales Representative
Loren Gershon, Creative Representative
Tazia Livaditis, Campus Sales Representative
Dustin Skidgel, Regional Sales Representative
Judd Smith, Account Assistant
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
El Matador Cafe
Serving Lawrence for over 38 years Owned & Operated by the Reyes family
Famous Menu of Names Specials!
Such names as:
·Professor Pozdro
·Mr. T. Gordon
·Tom & Anne Eversole
Tom Eversole on keyboard every Friday.
Call El Matador Cafe for Birthday, Private & Graduation Parties!
446 Locust (North Lawrence, 3 blocks east of Johnny's Tavern)
841-3837
Remember, There's Only One El Matador Cafe