University Daily Kansan / Monday, May 1, 1989
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New party launched in Zimbabwe
The Associated Press
HABARE. Zimbabwe — A founder of Zimbabwe's ruling party launched a new opposition political movement yesterday with the avowed aim of preventing a dictatorship.
Edgar Tekere, 52, said the current leadership was "decayed," and he vowed to challenge President Robert Mugabe as head of state in the next elections, which are due before April 1990.
"We are going to pursue one another right up to the presidential election," Tekere, chairman of the newly formed Zimbabwe Unity Movement, told reporters at a news conference.
Tekeke, who helped Mugabe establish the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union party in 1963, was fired from the 15-member politburo and 90-member central committee in October after lashing out at top-level corruption and accusing fellow politicians of weaving a personality cult around
the head of state.
"I am sure he with the ruling party." Tekeen said, he beaviewed his movement's emblem — a black, a brown and a white hand clasped together. "The election battle lines are drawn."
Tekere admitted that the party had yet to be registered, but said he did not expect any problems.
the head of state.
Tekere said there was an urgent need for a new party because the ruling party's leadership was "throughly decayed," the rigidly controlled social-ist orientated economy was "very weak" and total collateral investment was out of control of the 9 million Zimbabweans had lost respect for their government.
respect for then government.
Tekere also expressed concern that Mugabe
would go ahead next year with his avowed aim of establishing a one-party system in Zimbabwe, one of Africa's few democracies.
"The movement seeks to gain control of government by peaceful and democratic means." Tekere
He also issued an invitation to supporters and officials of the ruling party and all other opposition parties regardless of their race, tribe, religion or sex to join the movement before a congress approves a constitution and elects leaders later this year.
Tekere said that the Zimbabwe Unity Movement would introduce a free market economy, promote local and foreign investment and guarantee democracy.
democracy.
"It is time for a drift away to better leadership, a clean leadership for the survival of our country," Tekere said.
Soviet police seize underground leaders
MOSCOW — Police grabbed leaders of underground political groups who yesterday defied a government warning by gathering to sell copies of their illegal magazines on a crowded pedestrian mall.
Leaders of the Democratic Union,
Express-Chronicle, Free Migration,
Debate and other groups were
away and detained after
ignoring calls to dispense.
The Associated Press
In their publications and in telephone calls to Western reporters, the groups declared yesterday to be a "sanitized holiday" for those who use "the publicist" and is intended to describe underground newspapers and magazines.
Exhibitors outside the Vakhtangov theater on busy Arbat Street held makeshift bulletin boards bearing copies of their publications.
Thousands of passersby peeked at
the publications. The most sensational of the newspapers was a copy of the Communist Party daily Pravda that had cartoons lamponing the Soviet revolutionary leader Vladimir I. Lenin pasted to it.
A policeman with a megaphone ordered the exhibitors to disperse. About 15 minutes later, officers moved in.
moved in.
The exhibitors regularly sell their propaganda separately and are not
usually bothered by police.
The Communist Party's policy-making Central Committee criticized the political groups and said that samizdat was intolerable.
Heinz destroying stock after baby food scare
Several Central Committee speakers condemned the Democratic Union, which bills itself as an alternative political party. They called for a crackdown on the Democratic Union and other groups.
The Associated Press
LONDON — A supermarket chain said yesterday that it would resume selling the two leading brands of canned baby food because it found no tampering in a check of its stock after a contamination scare.
However, the Teseo company's 375 stores will keep glass jars of baby food made by H.J. Heinz Co. and Gate Lale off their shelves while police continue investigating more cases of contamination, the retailer said.
Boot's, a drugstore chain with more than 1,000 stores, and the Asda food chain also have stopped selling glass jars of the two brands of baby
too.
Reports of taintings with glass shards, pieces of razor blades and caustic soda first surfaced April 7. Most reports involved Hewn or Cow and Gate baby food, but several in other brands.
Police said most of the reports of contamination were mistakes, hoaxes, or copycat crimes. Scotland Yard, which is coordinating the national inquiry, said several arrests had been made.
extortionist who demanded up to $1.7 million from the Pittsburgh-based H.J. Heinz Co., police said.
hatin been made.
Two cases, one involving caustic soda and another involving broken razor blades, have been tied to an
John Asprey, a British spokesman for Heinz, said the company had confirmed five cases of contamination, all involving glass jars. Two of them are the work of the extortionist, he said.
Heinz and Cow and Gate are the top-selling brands of baby food in Britain.
Officials at Heinz said their company sold 80 million jars and 90 million cans of baby food in Britain each year. Asperia said the contamination scare had cost Heinz "a considerable amount" in lost sales.
Heinz said that it was destroying its stock and introducing tamperproof packaging as soon as possible.
Tesco withdrew jars and cans of Heinz and Cow and Gate baby food from its shelves Friday. It said it found them all and found them intact.
The contamination scare has spread to the United States, where three grocery stores in Springfield, Ohio, and two restaurants have put insects from their shelves after a woman reported finding straight pins in jars of the food.
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