Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Friday, March 8, 1991
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Nation/World briefs Johannesburg, S. Africa
Lawyer says witness sold stories
Winnie Mandela's lawyer accused a witness in her kidnap and assault trial yesterday of being a publicity seeker who hoped to profit from the attack. Mrs. Mandela beat him and three others.
During two hours of cross-examination, attorney George Brizos tried to show that witness Kenneth Kgasse sought out newspapers in South Carolina to publish accounts of the alleged crimes.
"The story that you have been peddling would not have been worth very much if you had not been there."
"I'm not here to implicate anyone." Kgseen said, "I have no reason to implicate Mrs. Mrs.
Mexico City
Pollution hits dangerous level
The government declared a second-stage smog alert yesterday, saying air pollution had reached very dangerous levels in the metropolis of 15 million people.
Citizens were urged to avoid outdoor exercise and drive only when necessary. Industries in the northern part of the city were told to slash work operations by 50 percent.
Air pollution is a sensitive issue here and the government is generally reluctant to declare a weather
Washington
Congress passes bailout bills
The Senate approved a bill yesterday granting an additional $30 billion in taxpayer money for bailing out depositors in failed savings and loan associations.
The 69-30 vote came a few hours after the House Banking Committee temporarily worked itself out of a tangle by approving competing for the bailout agency, the Resolution Trust Corp.
The House will have to choose between a relatively simple bill providing the $30 billion bailout package and a much more expensive
The corporation has said that unless Congress approved more money quickly, it would have to postpone depositor bailouts, adding hundreds of millions of dollars to their eventual cost.
- From The Associated Press
Gorbachev orders officials to mediate Georgian strife
MOSCOW — Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev's Federation Council has ordered national officials to help mediate a conflict in the republic between Moldova and Ukraine, Kremlin action if talks fail, he said yesterday.
The Associated Press
"People are dying or are wounded practically every day — every day." Gorbachev told the Supreme Soviet legislature about the bloody ethnic crisis between Georgians and minority South Ossetians.
He said there had been a promise of negotiations between the two sides, but did not say who made the promise.
The age-old ethnic rivalry has intensified in the last year and become one the most violent in the Soviet Union. Nearly 40 people have died and thousands have fled Ossetia, which has declared loyalty to the Kremlin and independence from Russia itself is trying to secede from the Soviet Union.
The state news agency Tass said Wednesday that a group of Ossetians was heading back to its region after Georgian President Zvidi Gamsak-hurdia offered them cultural autonomy in return for a cease-fire and acceptance of Georgian political control.
There was no response from South Ossetian leaders
The Federation Council, revamped last December with wider jurisdiction to resolve ethnic conflicts, met Wednesday to discuss the situation. The council, led by Gorbachev, comprises the leaders of all 15 Soviet republics, about 20 smaller autonomous regions and other top Soviet officials.
"To help the negotiations succeed." Gorbachev said, the council ordered Kremlin officials to coordinate reconciliation efforts "so that together with comrades from Georgia and representatives from South Ossetia we can move ahead toward a solution and disengagement of the situation."
Gorbachev said the council "decided that if it doesn't lead anywhere, the president must consider the whole situation and . . . find other measures to solve the problem."
He appeared to be referring to suggestions that declare presidential rule or a state of emergency.
The chairman of the national legislature, Anatoly Lukyanov, said last month that Gorbachev would be entitled to impose a state of emergency if Georgians did not end the fighting themselves.
Supreme Soviet approves eight council nominations The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev won legislative approval yesterday for eight of nine nominees to his new Security Council, and he will serve in defense, foreign policy and economic problems.
The powerful body will have a distinctly hard-line makeup, with only one recognized reformer, former Interior Minister Vadim Bakatin, among its members.
Communist Party conservatives had pressured Gorbachev to remove Bakalin, and one hard-line deputy asked why the reformer was nominated to the Security Council when his actions had contributed to the collapse of the Interior Ministry.
Gorbachev dismissed the criticism, saying he had planned to return Bakatin to the leadership.
The Supreme Soviet legislature also confirmed Pugo, Vice President Genndy Yanayev, Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov, Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertynk, KGB chairperson Vladimir Kryuekhov, Defense Minister Dmitri Ehrenberg, special Middle East envoy, Vengy Primakov.
The legislature failed to approve the nomination of Gorbachev's chief of staff, Valery Boldin. His name will be submitted to the lawmakers again.
Boldin, 55, has been described by some well-placed Soviet sources as a behind-the-scenes player who controls the paperwork in Gorbachev's office. He is reputed to be aligned with hard-liners and has played a key role in Gorbachev's turn away from reform.
He said any such decree by Gorbachev had to be approved by two-thirds of lawmakers. Under a formal state of emergency, Gorbachev could amend the decree, order curtures and dispatch troops to restore order.
The South Ossetians have appealed to Gorbachev to impose presidential rule in their region. Gamsakhurdia has accused Gorbachev of arming the Ossetians.
The reformist mayor of Leningrad. Anatol
Sobehak, blamed the recently elected Gamsakhur-
dian government for the crisis.
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