University Daily Kansan / Thursday. February 11, 1988
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Soviet envoy discusses offer for Afghanistan withdrawal
The Associated Press
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Yuli Vorontsov met yesterday with Pakistani President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq to discuss Moscow's new offer of a May troop pullout from Afghanistan.
The Soviet envoy discussed forthcoming talks in Geneva between Pakistan and Afghanistan and the recent U.N. efforts to reach a settlement of the Afghan crisis, said presidential spokesman Mohammad Aslam.
Vorontsov earlier had meetings with Zain Noorani, minister of state for foreign affairs, and Abdul Sattar, the foreign ministry secretary. Details of the talks were not disclosed.
Informed Pakistani government sources said Vorontsov, who arrived yesterday, was on a "flexible schedule" to allow him to discuss the sudden momentum toward an agreement ending the Red Army's eight year involvement in the Afghan conflict.
Afghan Marxists seized power in a 1789 coup. Soviet troops intervened in December 1797 to help the government battle anti-communist Moslem guerrillas, and an estimated 115,000 army personnel remain in the country.
On Monday, Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev said his troops would begin pulling out of Afghanistan on May 15 if Pakistan and Afghanistan sign a peace accord by March 15.
On Tuesday, U.N. mediator Diego Cordovez announced after a three-week shuttle mission in the region that a "virtual agreement" on a settlement of the war between Soviet-Afghan forces and the guerrillas had been reached.
Gorbachev said the withdrawal will take 10 months, but Noorani said Tuesday that Islamabad wants to bring it down to "one digit."
Rains, mudslides kill 176 in Brazil
The Associated Press
PETROPOLIS, Brazil — Relatives watched tractors search foul-smelling, knee-deep mud yesterday for bodies buried beneath their homes during torrential rains and massive mudslides.
At least 176 people have died and 8,146 have been left homeless in and around Rio de Janeiro since the Friday storms.
Pope John Paul II sent a message of solidarity to Petropolis, a mountain resort town of 300,000 which was hit the hardest: 149 dead and 3,466 driven into emergency shelters.
Japan. Switzerland, the United
Health officials warned against contamination of water supplies caused by broken pipes, rats and diseases such as typhoid, leprosy and tetanus.
States, Nicaragua, Britain and France promised supplies and, if necessary, emergency crews in the wake of a disaster that critics said could have been prevented with less deforestation and more drainage
Torrential summer rains regularly punish this mountain region and terrorize hillside slum dwellers throughout greater Rio. But in the first days of this month 11.8 inches fell, twice the normal amount.
Congressmen caution the Pentagon
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Sixteen congressmen yesterday asked the Pentagon to re-examine spending priorities for the Air Force Logistics Command because of threatened furloughs for nearly 82,500 civilian workers.
duty slots from its force during the current fiscal year. Capt. Chris Canfield, an Air Force spokesman, said the service had determined it needed to shrink its force by 2,000 officers and almost 29,000 enlisted personnel during the current fiscal year.
"The fiscal 1988 recruitment goal for the Air Force has been reduced to 40,000, for example, and that's the lowest number ever," Canfield said.
South African army saves leader
The Air Force also disclosed that budget cuts would lead to the elimination of more than 30,000 active-
MMABATHO, South Africa — South African forces in armored trucks and helicopters entered the Bophuthatswana homeland yesterday and restored its president to power hours after his ouster in a homeland army coup.
The Associated Press
"I am back in control . . thanks to the South African army," President Lucas Mangose said on Bophuthatswa television.
Mangope had spent the day held captive in a dressing room of the national sports stadium and was rescued within 15 hours of the 2 a.m. overthrow. In a five-minute address in the Setswana language, he said that he was threatened at one point with a firing squad.
Bophutthatswana is one of four nominally independent black homelands in South Africa. South Africa is the only nation that recognizes them as independent.
Thirty South African anti-terrorist police, backed by scores of South African soldiers in armored vehicles, Independence Stadium about 4:30 m.
Journalists who entered the stadium behind them saw 40 to 50 Bophutatswana soldiers ordered to lie face down on the muddy ground.
They were searched and taken away in South African vehicles after Mangope and other homeland ministers were freed.
The journalists heard one rifle shot and saw one dead Bophuthatswana soldier. Earlier, they heard automatic gunfire near the stadium and saw South African helicopters circling the city council offices in the capital, Mmabatho. Bophuthatswana soldiers in the area fled.
The homeland's minister of defense, a South African, was shot in the heel when deposed officials overpowered their captives in the stadium
Court rules Army's gay ban unconstitutional
The Associated Press
"The discrimination faced by homosexuals in our society is plainly no less pernicious or intense than the discrimination faced by other groups" afforded protection from discrimination, said the 9th U.S.
SAN FRANCISCO — The Army's ban on homosexuals was ruled unconstitutional yesterday by a federal appeals court that said homosexuals were entitled to the same protection against discrimination as racial minorities.
Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 decision.
The ruling was the first by a federal appeals court to grant strict constitutional protection to homosexuals and to prohibit a branch of the armed services from excluding people on the basis of sexual orientation.
In 1986, the Supreme Court upheld a Georgia anti-sodomy law that allowed criminal prosecution for private homosexual acts. Lower courts have allowed the military to base
exclusions on homosexual conduct. One such exclusion was a 1980 decision by Judge Anthony Kennedy, who recently was confirmed to the Supreme Court.
But the appeals court yesterday said the Army's 1981 regulations go further by targeting a soldier's sex orientation, regardless of conduct.
A ruling that specific sexual conduct can be forbidden by criminal laws cannot be translated into "a state license to pass 'homosexual
laws' — laws imposing special restrictions on gays because they are gay." Judge William Norris said.
The appeals court ruled in favor of Perry Watkins, 39, who enlisted in 1967 at age 19 and admitted on a preinduction medical form that he had homosexual tendencies.
The ruling affirmed a May 1982 decision by the U.S. District Court in Seattle, which held the Army could not discharge Watkins on the basis of sexual orientation because he disclosed he was gay.
News Roundup
CONTRAS RESUME TALKS: Contra leaders said yesterday they would resume cease-fire negotiations with Nicaragua's ruling Sandinistas in Guatemala next week, after a delay due in part to fallout from Congress' vote against aid to the contra. The new round of talks is scheduled for Feb. 18-20.
PLO OFFICE TO CLOSE! The Justice Department will close the Palestine Liberation Organization's office in New York despite reservations from some State Department officials, congressional and other sources said yesterday.
abortive attempt to flee about April 1, 1987. Schmidt discussed the episode during his testimony in the trial of Abbas Ali Hamadi, who is accused of masterminding the January 1987 kidnapping of Schmidt and another West German businessman, Rudolf Cordes, who still is being held.
ENVOY PRESENTS PLAN: U.S. envoy Richard W. Murphy yesterday presented Israeli leaders with a plan calling for an international conference by April to launch Arab-Israeli talks, Israeli officials said.
**COMMON MARKET THREATENED:** European Economic Community leaders, meeting in Brussels, Belgium, were upbeat yesterday as they prepared to grapple with a monetary crisis that threatens to plunge the Common Market into bankruptcy. But divisions still remained among the 12 member nations on the eve of their two-day emergency summit today.
HOSTAGE NEARLYESCAPED: A U.S. hostage in Lebanon may have briefly fled his captors by crawling through a bathroom window, a former West German hostage said yesterday. Alfred Schmidt said he heard voices of U.S. hostages in adjoining rooms while he was being held captive in Beirut, and believed that one made an
JAPAN WHALING DENOUNDED: Japan is hurting international whaling agreements by killing Minke whales in the name of science, the Reagan administration said yesterday in a move that could close U.S. markets to Japanese fish.
TRAIN IGNORED WARNING: A Conrail coal train ignored three warning signals to slow down and stop and, in fact, sped up before it collided head-on with another freight last month near Lewistown, Pa., killing four crewmen, federal officials said yesterday. The Federal Railroad Administration also said that the train was equipped with two automatic stopping devices that should have activated when signals were disregarded, but “there is no evidence . . . interacting either device functioned.”
OPPOSITION CAMPAIGN FAILS: In Dhaka,
Bangladesh, Press Husaina Mohammad
Ersahd said yesterday evening that the opposition campaign to oust him had failed
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