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Tuesday, April 5. 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Soviets, Afghans discuss troop withdrawal terms
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnade and Afghan leader Najib met yesterday in Kabul to plan a Soviet troop withdrawal in case peace talks in Geneva do not produce an acceptable plan, Tass said.
The official Soviet news agency said Shevardnadze and Najib, during their second day of talks in the Afghan capital, discussed the pullout terms announced by Soviet leader Mihail K. Gorbachev on Feb. 8.
That plan called for the Soviet Union to begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan May 15 if a Geneva
agreement was signed by March 15 and for all Soviet soldiers to be home within 10 months.
"The sides confirmed that the program of actions outlined will be implemented regardless of how the situation at the Afghan-Pakistani talks in Geneva ultimately develops." Tass said.
It was not known whether the Soviets and Afghans planned to adhere to the May 15 starting date or other provisions mentioned earlier, such as a plan to bring home most of the soldiers within the first three months.
istan in December 1979. An estimated 115,000 Red Army troops are helping the Marxist government fight U.S.-backed Muslim guerrillas.
Soviet troops intervened in Afghan-
U. N. mediator Diego Cordovez, who met separately with the leaders of the Afghan and Pakistani foreign ministries, said he saw a 50-50 chance of success in the talks.
Cordovez also had talks with a Soviet special envoy, Nikolay Kozyrev and a deputy assistant secretary of state. The Soviet and U.S. officials have been following the talks from the sidelines.
U.S., Philippines open talks
Negotiations will determine future of U.S. military bases
The Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines — Government leaders open talks today with Washington to determine the future of the last major U.S. military bases in Southeast Asia.
The negotiations over a 41-year-old agreement on U.S. garrisons in the Philippines come amid a growing clamor by many Filipinos to phase out the bases.
Filipino Foreign Secretary Raul Manglapus said yesterday that his government was entering the talks optimistically, but that its negotiators will not allow their initiative to
be stifled or their dignity to be lost.
Filipino negotiators were expected to press U.S. officials for higher payments to use the bases and details of weapons that may be stored there.
Filipino officials said the talks were expected to continue for about three months.
Officially, the two sides will review the 1947 Military Bases Agreement, under which the United States maintains Clark Air Base, Subic Bay Naval Base and four smaller installations. About 20,000 U.S. troops and Defense Department workers are
defense of the west. Although officially under Filipino command, the bases are effectively controlled by the United States.
stationed at the bases, which the United States says are crucial for defense of the western Pacific.
The U.S. lease on the bases expires in 1911, and concessions made by the United States are likely to influence the government's decision on extending the accord.
Under a new Filipino constitution, a lease extension must be approved by two-thirds of the 23-member Senate, where opposition to the bases is strong.
Polish water games are protests, too
The Associated Press
WAARSW, Poland — Poland was all wet yesterday.
Nationwide, young people hurled buckets of water at each other in the annual post-Easter folk holiday of "Pouring Sunday."
In Warsaw, teen-agers also doused police officers who wandered by the good-natured and vaguely-political water games.
The 1,000 participants' slogans had
tongue-in-cheek confrontational overtones: "Freedom and Water," "Free the Buckets," and "Smurfs (Cons) Go Home."
The Independent Students Union, still active despite a government ban, organized the unusually large gathering in Warsaw.
Easter is a national holiday in Poland. The day's traditional activity in the countryside is for peasant boys to soak not-so-reluctant girl's
with water.
The phrase "pouring water" is slang for "lying" in Poland, and the student group raised a sign — later pulled down by police — that said: "The government spokesman is the best example of pouring water."
Police in groups of twos and threes walked through the crowd, stopping some people to check IDs and at times ordering young people to empty their buckets of water. There appeared to be no arrests.
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