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Nation/World briefs Seoul, South Korea
Turnout for general election low
A record low number of voters turned out yesterday for the first local elections held in South Korea in 30 years. Officials blamed apathy and a campaign marred by scandal.
President Roh Tae-woo said the election had been the fairest in the nation's 42-year history and called it a sign that democratic reform, begun when he took office in 1988, was taking
Yet Rob himself did not vote. The election in his home district was uncontested due to a lack of candidates, another example of general apathy.
Preliminary results showed 52.6 percent of the 24 million vote voters cast ballots. Final tally is
South Korea has not had local elections since the military government in power abolished the ruling party.
Bamako. Mali
Military dictator is overthrown
Soldiers overthrew Mali's military dictator yesterday after days of rioting and promised to replace Gen. Moussa Traore's "bloodthirsty and corrupt regime" with a multiparty democracy.
At least 59 people were reported killed in violence after the overnight coup, including two top Traitor supporters who were burned to death and another who landed West African nation for 23 years.
"The army will no longer meddle in politics." The players wore Toumari. Toumer pledged in a radio broadcast:
Traore's whereabouts were not known, though state radio said he was under arrest. Military sources said Traore was imprisoned with his family.
Washington
The Bush administration said yesterday that the Persian Gulf War would cost far more than the $4.5 billion billed by allies, denying that United States might make a profit from the conflict
U.S. will not profit from war
White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said the cost would be greater than the contributions by a considerable amount, but the cost of staffing is high. There are numbers all over the place," he said.
President Bush said, "I'm afraid it's not going to be any cheaper . . . than original estimates," though he did not specify which projection he had in mind.
Cosmanauts low on food, water Two cosmanauts running low on food and water must run their dirt yesterday to investigate equipment problems that have kept them from getting provisions.
Moscow
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, March 27, 1991
Viktor Afanasyev and Musa Manarov are not in immediate danger but will have to dip into emergency food and water rations next week unless an unmanned cargo ship carrying the supplies can dock with the Mir, said Anatoly Yeromenko, a representative for the Soviet Mission Control Center. The cargo ship has failed twice to dock.
The equipment failure is the latest in a series of problems plaguing the Soviet manned space program, which for decades has been a source of national pride. For the past 24 years, missions have suffered from docking equipment malfunctions, human error and budget cuts.
From The Associated Press
Airplane carrying 129 hijacked by Pakistanis
The Associated Press
SINGAPORE — Four Pakistani hijacked a Singapore Airlines jet carrying 129 people yesterday and demanded the release of prisoners in their custody. The prime Minister Prime Minister Bruniz Khurat, police said.
Police said the 118 passengers and 11 crew members aboard the airbus A310 were safe more than six hours after it landed at Changi International Airport at 10:15 p.m. en route from Malayay.
A government representative said two crew members suffered minor injuries but he refused to elaborate.
Police sources said the hijackers also demanded enough fuel to fly to Australia and demanded that the Pakistani ambassador come to the airport for talks. The hijackers said they would release everyone on board if the ambassador met their demands, sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Malaysian police in Kuala Lumpur, the capital
of Malaysia, arrested a man on charges of being
beef or chicken; they identified the beef or
chicken as being used to identify the beef.
Officials at the U.S. Embassy in Kuala Lumpur said they were checking to determine if Americans were on the plane.
An intuitives spoke on condition of anonymity. Police in both countries said Flight SQ171 had left Singapore earlier than 40-minute time to Singapore. There is a lot of shuttle traffic between the Southeast Asian nations.
All officials spoke on condition of anonymity.
About five hours after the plane landed, police in
Singapore issued a statement that said, "The four Pakistani hijackers who took control of SQ17 have demanded the release of a number of persons said to be detained in Pakistan. The hijackers, who turn to members of the Pakistan People's Party, demanded to see the Pakistan ambassador."
Asif Ali Zardari, husband of Bhutto, was among the people they wanted freed, the statement said.
Zardari and other members of Bhutto's leftist party face trial on charges that they were involved in the Aug. 22 killings of 28 supporters of a rival party.
Zardari, 38, has been jailed since October, charged in the kidnapping and extortion of a Pakistan national British citizen who wanted to set up a financial institution. He was charged with murder in February.
Bhutto has maintained her husband's innocence, saving he is being used to punish her.
The 37-year-old former prime minister was dismissed by President Ghulam Ishqa Khan in August on charges of corruption, political inpti-
tion and abuse of power. She was later defeated at the polls.
Her party contends that hundreds of supporters have been arrested since her 20-month-old governors' ban.
Malaysian police expressed surprise at how the hijackers could be armed because they said security at the airport in their country had been breached January, when the Persian Gulf War started.
Countries plan war's end
Security Council to vote on formalizing cease-fire The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — The United States and the four other Security Council members with veto power reached broad agreement yesterday on a plan to strengthen and the Persian Gulf War. Western diploms said.
The resolution demands the destruction of Iraq's chemical, biological and nuclear arms under U.N. supervision and would maintain the U.N. trade embargo on conventional arms purchases by IRAQ. Conventional arms purchases could be permitted only on the basis of genuine need, diplomats said.
The five permanent council members — the United States, Britain, China, France and the Soviet Union — are expected to meet again today to put the finishing touches on the draft resolution.
It could be presented to the other 10 Security Council members today or tomorrow for discussion. A vote could occur this weekend but was considered more likely next week.
The draft resolution would clear the way to convert the current cease-fire into a formal end to hostilities, after which foreign troops would withhold supplies. U.N. sation—national economic embargo would be lifted.
Diplomats said there was still some disagreement regarding a provision that would call on the Security Council to approve and guarantee the 1983 agreement between Kuwait and Iraq as sought by Kuwait.
Broad agreement was reached on the resolution after the Soviet Union卸掉了 its objections to provisions including the destruction of chemical and other weapons, duiomats said.
China's exact position was not known, but Western diplomats said the Beijing government was not expected to cast a veto and might abstain. China abstained from the Nov. 29 resolution authorizing military force to expel Iraq from Kuwait.
The Soviets still oppose some provisions, including a plan to attach a percentage of Iraq's future oil revenues and designate them to a U.N. fund to pay compensation to Kuwait and other nations, the diplomats said.
China reportedly sought linkage between destruction of Iraq's chemical and unconventional arms and the destruction of those arms in other countries in the region.
The proposal to call on all states to recognize the 1963 boundary between Kuwait and Iraq would be unprecedented in the history of the Security Council, as its members expressed objections. Western diplomats said
They said the council action could have implications for other nations with boundary disputes.
U. N. military observers would guarantee the border, diplomats said.
The resolution does not call for a permanent cease-fire, but it sets the conditions Iraq must meet before a permanent end to hostilities can be achieved.
It demands that Iraq fulfill all previous U.N. resolutions, including provisions requiring it to return all Kuwaiti captives and prisoners of war as well as gold, currency, art works, aircraft and other property seized during the occupation of Kuwait.
Non-aligned nations were working on a draft resolution that would call for lifting all economic sanctions.
The council already has lifted restrictions on food shipments and promised to view liberally the use of electrical generating equipment, water purification equipment and gear needed to improve health conditions in Iraq.
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