Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday. March 26. 1991
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Nation/World briefs
Beirut
Hostage release effort made
Syria, Iran and Lebanon are cooperating to gain the release of the Western hostages, Prime Minister Omar Karami said in an interview published yesterday.
Karami told the conservative Beirut daily AL-Ilaw that Lebanon did not exercise any power or influence over the kidnap groups. But he said the police had a duty to enforce laws against kidnapping.
"This is our stance. So far we have no information, and I believe there is a Syrian-Iranian-Lebanese cooperation to ease up matters," he said without elaborating.
Washington
Cruise missiles to be removed
The U.S. European Command is poised to remove the last batch of ground-launched cruise missiles from Europe, as called for under the Treaty on Missile Defense and Treaty, the Pentagon announced yesterday.
Sixteen of the missiles will be removed Tuesday from Comisio Air Station in Italy and are destined for destruction at the Davis-Coast Base in Arizona, a Pentagon statement said.
The IRNF Treaty required the first-ever ever
class of weapons from U.S. and Soviet inventors.
The treaty deadline for the elimination of the weapons is May 31, 1991.
The missiles will be transported to the United States aboard Air Force aircraft, the statement
United Nations
Iran supporting Shiite rebels
A letter to the U.N. secretary-general from Iraqi Ambassador Abdul Amir al-Anbari cited 13 border incidents that allegedly took place in Egypt and Jordan, as well as Syria and infiltrators crossing from Iran into Iraq.
No casualties were reported in any of the incidents, all of which accompanied the Shite Muslim rebellion that swept southern Iraq after the Iraqi defeat Feb. 28 by the allied coalition.
Al-Anbari stopped short of directly linking the Iranian actions with the Shiite rebels, saying only that the Iranians were backing individuals and groups infiltrating from Iran, a Shiite-dominated nation.
From The Associated Press
Mandela co-defendant says police forced his statement
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — One of Winnie Mandela's co-defendants tested yesterday that police tortured him with electric shocks and forced him to sign a statement implicating Mandela in the kidnapping and assault of four people.
The Associated Press
John Morgan was the first of the four defendants to testify in the highly publicized trial, which opened Feb. 4. It is not known whether the other defendants will testify.
Defense attorney Hendrik Kruger spent the bulk of last week questioning police in an attempt to discredit the statement they said Morgan made. Portions of the statement said Mandela was present when four young men were beaten in her Soweto home in December 1988.
Morgan denied police testimony that he made the statement voluntarily after his arrest in February 1989. In court yesterday, he said police Col. Chris Oosthuizen offered him a house, a car and money if he would say Mandela was involved in the assaults.
because Oosthuis threatened him with electric shocks if he refused. He said police had tortured him with shocks the previous day.
Morgan said he eventually signed the statement
Mandela, Morgan and two other defendants pleaded not guilty Feb. 11 to four counts each of kidnapping and assault. Prosecutors said they were motivated by allegations that the victims had homosexual relations with a white church minister that one of them, Stompe Seipel, was a police spy.
Sepei was later killed and Mandela's former
guard, Jerry Richardson, was convicted in his deed.
Mandela has acknowledged the four alleged victims were taken from a Methodist Church home to her house, but she said it was to protect them from a minister's sexual advances.
Mandela said she was out of town when the young men staved at her house.
Oosthuizen testified last week that Morgan volunteered to help police.
Yesterday morning, before Morgan testified,
pardon Capt. Dempsey also told the court that
pardon Capt. Dempsey also told the court that
Cabinet bans rallies in Moscow
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — President Mihail Gorbachev's Cabinet yesterday banned rallies in Moscow for the next three weeks, fearing that unhappiness would spread. Gorbachev's chief rival could boil over in violence.
Boris Yeltsin's position as chairperson of the Russian Federation parliament is to be tested at an extraordinary session of that parliament scheduled to start Thursday.
Several groups, led by the anti-Communist movement Democratic Russia, have scheduled a mass demonstration to support Yeltsom tovorow. The government denies democracy forces, already has granted a pledge.
A similar rally on March 10 drew about 500,000 people to Moscow and tens of thousands more into streets in other cities, the biggest demonstration since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.
Hard-line members of the Russian republic's parliament, which is known formally as the Congress of People's Deputies, called the session after Yeltsin demanded that Gorbachev resign in an appearance on Soviet national television last month.
An emergency Cabinet meeting approved a resolution banning all marches, demonstrations, picketing and rallies in the Soviet capital, the state news agency Tass said.
Yeltsin's plea came as Gorbachev was attempting to muster support for last week's national referendum to preserve the union. The two leaders accused each other of fomenting civil war and intimidated personal power with the referendum, which passed with nearly 77 percent approval.
Yeltsin criticized the March 17 referendum as ambiguous but welcomed Russian voters' approval of a second question that created a new Russian presidency.
Yesterday's order for the Interior Ministry, KGB and other security agencies to prevent any gatherings on city streets from March 25 to April 15 went beyond a previous ban and showed clear apprehension that demonstrations could turn violent or threaten government authority.
Many commentators speculate that Yellsin will run for the new presidency if he loses the no-conti-
The Cabinet instructed Moscow city and district officials, Interior Ministry and KGB security police "to take all necessary measures to ensure strict compliance with the resolution and (to ensure) the order and safety of the population." Tass paraphrased the order as saving
Gorbachev last year issued a decree banning demonstrations in the center of Moscow, but Moscow city officials mostly ignored it. Yesterdays apparent appeared to carry more enforcement power.
The order also will cover the initial period of steep price increases on nearly half of all consumer products, due to take effect April 2 as part of a general price reform
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