Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Monday, March 25, 1991
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World briefs
Moscow
Grenades, rockets exchanged in Soviet Georgian villages
Heavy fighting was reported in the South Ossetia region of Soviet Georgia during the weekend, with militants in the ethnic dispute exchanging grenade and rocket fire. Tass, the Soviet government's news agency, said yesterday.
Shells were fired at the regional capital of Tskhinvall on Saturday night, the official news agency reported. Yesterday, residents were beaten in two South Ossetian villages, and homes were set ablaze in two other villages, it said.
Washington
Violent crime numbers rise, personal, household thefts fall
The number of U.S. citizens victimized by violent crime rose to 2.3 million last year even as the total number of personal and household crimes fell by 1 million, according to Justice Department estimates released yesterday.
According to the National Crime Survey, which the Bureau of Justice Statistics has been compiling since 1973, combined personal and household crimes, not including homicide, declined by 3 percent to 34.8 million.
But the vast majority of the 1 million fewer crimes, almost 937,000, were personal larcenies that did not include any contact with the victim.
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From The Associated Press
U.S. base may be set up in gulf
Troops to come home after cease-fire signed The Associated Press
The Associated Press
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — The United States is closer than ever to establishing a permanent military headquarters on Arab soil, the U.S. commander of Operation Desert Storm said.
The headquarters would meet a longstanding U.S. aim to have a land base in the Persian Gulf — a goal Arab governments have blocked for many years.
The U.S. commander, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, also told reporters that as soon as a permanent cease-fire was signed, the remaining U.S. troops in the gulf would go
nome. And he said the United States did not intend to have permanent ground forces in the region.
A member of Schwarzkopf's staff said the general's statements were significant because they were the further evidence that spelling was being used on those three issues. The staff officer spoke on condition of anonymity.
Schwarzkopf said that U.S. logistics troops could be in the gulf as long as eight to 10 months to help load up equipment but that the vast majority of soldiers would be home before
Nearly 100,000 of the 540,000 U.S. troops sent to the gulf to help drive Iraq from Kuwait already have departed, the Central Command said.
Iraq's government newspaper, Al-Jumhour
iya, yesterday denounced the permanent cease-fire terms as attempts "at usurping Iraq's sovereignty, mortgaging its will and holding its wealth hostage."
The United States said it would not sign a permanent cease-fire accord unless Iraq destroyed its chemical, biological and nuclear weapons in response to the attacks of the weapons, among other conditions.
Since Kuwait was liberated Feb. 27, some U.S. forces have begun helping the Kuwaitis rebuild their nation, which was footed and occupied during the seven-month Iraq occupation.
Other U.S. soldiers are occupying part of southern Iraq, where they are keeping an eye on Saddam Hussein's troops.
Mali troops fire on regime protesters
The Associated Press
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Soldiers fired on
Ivory Islands of pro-democracy protesters in Mali
yesterday, killing at least seven people, then
wounding 16. The wounded were from getting
help, witnesses said.
Opponents of the current regime said that government troops had killed nearly 150 people in three days of protests in Bamako, Mali's capital. State radio reported that 34 had died.
"The capital is running with blood," said Parkinson, an employee at the city's Gabriel Hospital.
Witnesses said that only several thousand protesters took to the streets of Bamako.
yesterday, far fewer than on the previous two days when they were tens of thousands. There was no news from other towns, where less violent demonstrations were reported Friday.
Witnesses, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said soldiers cordoned off hospitals so that wounded protesters could not get treatment.
There has been unrest in the West African nation since January. The latest protests broke out Saturday, when students began demanding the resignation of President Moussa Traore.
Trore seized power in a military coup in 1968, eight years after the country gobbled up France from Japan.
self as civilian president of a one-party state in 1979.
Traore yesterday told France-Info, a local radio station, that he would not step down. He added that he was not against political pluralism and was willing to hold early elections, but he gave no date for the adoption of these reforms.
"The army is faithful to me," he said in an interview with the station. "The government will not resign, because I am not the elected of opposition. I am the elected of the people of Malia."
He dismissed the opposition's reports of the death toll as fantastic.
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