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Cease-fire takes effect for Afghans
United Press International
KABUL, Afghanistan — On the first day of his unilateral cease-fire, Afghan leader Najib took a hard line yesterday on national reconciliation with Muslim rebels and warned that the Soviet Union would continue to help his government until the insurgency ended.
The six-month cease-fire, which was called by Najib and rejected by the rebel coalition, began at 12:01 a.m. yesterday. There were reports from Pakistan that some Afghan soldiers were seen pulling out from posts along the Afghan-Pakistan border near the town of Torkhum, on the Afghanistan side of the Khyber Pass.
It was not immediately known, however, whether the cease-fire was being honored by government troops elsewhere in the country, and military officials refused to discuss it. The Afghan capital of Kabul appeared calm, although aircraft dropped flares to draw off potential heat-seeking missiles used by the guerrillas.
Diplomatic sources in Kabul said there were reports of small-arms fire yesterday in the area of Kabul, and sporadic, heavier fighting in the area around Kandahar. No other details were available.
In Pakistan, rebel spokesmen said it could take up to a week for them to receive reports on whether the Afghan military had returned to their barracks and refrained from mounting offensive operations, as promised by Najib.
Leaders of the seven-group rebel coalition yesterday called the ceasefire a trick and vowed to continue the war, which began after a 1978 communist coup. The war gained strength when the Soviets invaded in 1979 to install a friendlier communist leader, Babrak Karmal.
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has called for a political settlement to the war, which has left more than 25,000 Soviet dead and has become a stumbling block in his plans to reform the Soviet economy and improve relations with Third World countries.
Najib's cease-fire proposal, first announced Dec. 30, called for government and Soviet troops to fire only in self-defense for six months and proposed national reconciliation talks that could lead to a coalition government, including former rebels.
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Fueling speculation that the campaign against capitalist influences will topple party General Secretary Hu Yaobang, a party spokesman refused to comment on whether Hu still holds his post.
A Chinese source said provincial and city government chiefs gathered in Peking for a meeting that could develop into a session of the party Congress. It was suggested by both leaders to vote on their leadership change.
A Western diplomat said the spokesman's refusal indicated that Hu was in trouble.
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Television showed Hu planting a tree as part of a Peking beautification program, but it was unclear when the film was made. Hu, who has not been seen in public for more than two weeks, was also quoted in a speech published by the Communist Party newspaper People's Daily.
To try any leadership change Chinese analysts noted that state-run Central
Hu, considered the second most powerful man in China for the past seven years, has been criticized by Deng for being soft on liberals, Japan's Kvodo News Agency said.
The official Xinhua News Agency quoted He Dongcheng, vice minister of the State Education Commission, as telling the National People's Congress Standing Committee that China must not underestimate the harm of bourgeois liberalism.
"We must unswervingly oppose it and be prepared to wage a long fight against it," he said.
"Bourgeois liberalism," a phrase used by Chinese leaders to describe capitalism, has been officially blamed for the wave of student pro-democracy demonstrations that swept at least 13 cities between Dec. 5 and Jan. 1.
The crackdown on capitalism has prompted the expulsion from the party of a liberal writer and the dismissal of two prominent academicians. Chinese sources said the chief of the party's propaganda department, Zhu Houze, had been suspended.
Xinhua also said Deng told visiting Finnish Communist Party Chief Arvo Aalto that "at present there is an ideological trend of advocating bourgeois liberalization."
"China's Marxists will not agree to this," Deng reportedly said.
The State Council said tighter price controls were a matter of principal concern to China's social stability.
Despite his criticisms, Deng also stressed China's commitment to its market-oriented economic reforms and policy of opening to the outside world.
Xinhua said the State Council on Wednesday ordered stricter controls on the prices of commodities in what a Western diplomat said was a clear indication that Peking had decided to postpone price reforms.
The party yesterday canceled a meeting between Hu and the Finnish party chief, repeating an earlier announcement that Hu is not meeting to not meet foreign visitors, Finnish sources said.
First Trident-2 test launch successful despite protests
Aalto is the highest ranking Finnish party leader to visit China in 20 years.
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A Chinese source said Hu's opponents, both reformers and conservatives, were using the recent unrest to oust him.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The Navy successfully launched its first Trident-2 submarine missile on an unarmed test flight to the South Atlantic yesterday despite dozens of demonstrators protesting deployment of the far-reaching weapons.
After delays of more than two hours, the stubby 44-foot missile roared off its launch pad at the Cape Canaveral air force station at 10:25 a.m. EST, leaving a white trail of smoke zig-zagging past the sun in a cloudless blue sky.
"When that missile went up, it went right through my heart," said activist Harriet Nestel of Leverett, Mass., who watched from outside the gates of the test center. "I was only glad that my son was not here to see
it."
Nine protesters were arrested for crossing a security line and one suffered an apparent heart attack and was hospitalized.
The Trident, believed capable of zeroing in on targets up to 6,900 miles away, remained visible for nearly two minutes before disappearing on the way to a splashdown in a secret ocean target area.
Protesters said the Trident 2 was a first-strike offensive weapon that could escalate the arms race with the Soviets. Pritchard denied the charge.
"What this does is provide our seabased leg of the (nuclear defense system); a weapon capable of holding at risk the full spectrum of Soviet targets," he said, adding that those targets included military and industrial sites but no civilian populations.
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