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Monday, November 29, 1993
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Mexico's top political party picks presidential candidate
The Associated Press
MEXICO CITY — The party that has governed Mexico for more than 60 years named public works chief Luis Donaldo Colosio as its presidential candidate yesterday, virtually assuring that he will be the nation's next leader.
The announcement by the Institutional Revolutionary Party's national chairperson, Fernando Ortiz Arana, ended months of speculation on who was going to be its standard bearer.
The party, known by its Spanish initials as PRI, has not lost a presidential election since it was founded 64 years ago.
Colosio, 43, is a native of northwestern Sonora state and a close friend of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Both carried out post-graduate studies in the United States. Colosio holds a master's degree and a doctorate in urban economic development from the University of Pennsylvania.
"Luis Donaldo Colosio is the PRI member who, because of his social vocation and party experience, is the candidate of unity and of hope for all Mexicans to overcome old backwardness and new challenges of the future," Ortiz said in his brief announcement.
In the next few days, Colosio is to resign his Cabinet post as Secretary of Social Development, a job Salinas created for him out of the old Urban Development Department two years ago, to enter the campaign.
The election is Aug. 24,1994
He faces a formidable challenge from Cuauhtemoc Cardenas of the Democratic Revolutionary Party, who nearly carried away the election that put Salinas into power in 1988.
Colosio was coordinator of Salinas' campaign, then for about two years the president entrusted him with reforming the party. Colosio's aim, he said at the time, was to make it competitive in a more open political atmosphere.
It is part of the president's effort to improve Mexico's tarnished image abroad, especially now that the nation has entered into the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and the United States.
Salinas, meanwhile, has been pushing for political reform aiming to do away with favoritism and corruption and to open the field to give opposition people greater access to public jobs.
But opposition party leaders have been saying he has not done enough.
Israeli helicopters attack guerrilla bases
The Associated Press
SIDON, Lebanon — Israelis helicopters attacked the bases of Palestinian guerrillas opposed to the Mideast peace process yesterday, wounding at least three people, security sources said.
Four other Israeli air raids since the accord targeted Lebanese guerrillas, who are fighting Israel's occupation of southern Lebanon.
In Jerusalem, the Israeli army acknowledged the attack and said the helicopters hit a base belonging to the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
The attack on the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp near Sidon was the first to target Palestinians in Lebanon since Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization signed a landmark peace agreement Sept. 13.
The sources in Lebanon said two helicopters fired five missiles that blasted two adjacent bases, one belonging to the DFLP and the second to its ally, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Three guerrillas were wounded. The extent of damage couldn't immediately be determined.
The refugee camp also houses offices and training bases for supporters of PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat. They were not affected by the attack.
The PFLP and DFLP are at odds with Arafat, who reached the accord with Israel without their consent. The agreement calls for limited Palestinian self-rule in the occupied Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Jericho as a first step toward a permanent settlement for the occupied territories.
Since the accord was signed, Arafat's Palestinian opponents have strengthened their alliance with the Iranian-backed Hezbollah.
MOGADISHU, Somalia
Somali warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidi is boycotting this week's conference in Ethiopia, his representative said yesterday, threatening to ruin a chance for the nation's rival factions to reconcile their differences.
Aidid won't attend conference unless prisoners released
THE NEWS in brief
Aidid would attend the conference only if the United Nations releases three of his top aides, the representative, Abdi Ghabbad, told an organized rally of Aidid supporters in Mogadishu, U.N. and American officials have said the men likely won't be released soon.
The U.N. Security Council removed Aidid from its wanted list two weeks ago while it investigated the Somali slayings of 24 Pakistani troops in Mogadishu in early June. The three aides are suspected of masterminding subsequent attacks that killed at least 24 Americans and scores of other U.N. troops.
241 militants and scores of other U.N. troops.
U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali
last week appointed a commission to investigate the attacks, most of which took place in Mogadishu between June and October.
U. N. and U.S. officials have said the men could be released in the meantime, but they expressed doubt they would be freed on time for the conference.
FRANKFURT. Germany
Drug lord's family in Germany
Four members of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar's family arrived in Germany yesterday, but authorities did not immediately follow through on statements that the family would be refused entry.
The family's departure from Colombia was taken as an indication that Escobar might be about to surrender if he knew that his family was safe from people trying to kill them.
Reporters waiting at Frankfurt airport for the Lufthansa flight that arrived yesterday afternoon from Bogota via Caracas were not permitted to see the Escobar relatives.
The border police issued a statement saying four Escobar relatives had arrived.
The four were two women, a man and a girl, the statement said. It did not give their names, but from reports in Colombia when the group left under heavy guard, they would be Escobar's wife Victoria, son Juan Pablo and daughter Manuela, and possibly a sister of the fugitive drug chief.
In Bonn, an Interior Ministry representative who did not give his name said that Escobar's family would not be granted entry and would be put on the next available plane.
Compiled from The Associated Press.
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