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Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Total of 37 journalists missing
At least nine more journalists were reported missing yesterday, and U.S. news media executives called for U.S. troops to assist with the institution of the missing reporters is resolved.
A total of 37 journalists have been reported missing after venturing into the area to gather information on anti-government uprisings. Uncontirmed accounts from Iraq indicate that many of the missing might be in the custody of government forces.
In a letter to President Bush, the news media executives said, "Our position is that the United Government should make it clear to the Iraqis that the journalists' disappearance is now part of the cease-fire discussions with Iraq."
New Delhi. India
India's prime minister quits
Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar resigned in anger yesterday, accusing former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of betrayal.
The resignation makes new elections a virtual certainty.
A veteran politician but a novice in the top circles of government, Chandra Shekhar lasted three months as head of a minority government.
Philadelphia
Firebail streaks across East
People from Maine to West Virginia reported a brilliant fireball in the sky early yesterday, offering descriptions ranging from a "boomerang" to the shape of a "boomerang" on its side.
"This was big," said Richard Haas, New
york state trooper. "I've seen shooting slars
and shots, and I know they're on the road."
People in West Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine reported seeing the bright light, moving from west to east, during early morning.
Many witnesses said the object appeared to have a green-and-red tail and lit up the sky for about five seconds before it disappeared over the horizon.
What people saw most likely was a low-flying meteor that burned brightly from the friction of entering the Earth's atmosphere, said Walter Webb, manager of planetarium observations at the Charles Hayden Planetarium in Boston.
From The Associated Press
Mandela assault trial continues
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — A key witness testified yesterday that an enraged Winnie Mar丝德 repeatedly punched him and threw her into the fire. Her homosexual relations with a white minister.
Kenneth Kgase told the Band Supreme Court that Mandela struck him again and again in the face, then lashed with a whip at Mandela's Soweto home in December 1988.
"She said we are not fit to be alive," Kgase told the court.
Kgase said he and the three others — Tabiso Mono, Gabriel Mekgye and Stompe Seipe — were then beaten by a group of Mandela's followers.
"After that there was pandemonium," he said. "I was myself punched by too many people."
Mandela looked composed as she sat with three co-defendants. Each has pleaded not guilty to four counts of kidnapping and four counts of assault in the case.
Four other defendants missing since before the trial have been accused of skipping bail.
African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, Winnie Mandela's husband, was in court for part of the day but left before the most damaging testimony.
Mekwe also had been considered a key
tune-up for the team, and he was
been scheduled to test last month.
Kgase and Mono initially refused to testify, saying they feared for their lives. They changed their minds yesterday, but gave no reason for the reversal.
The trial was delayed as officials searched for him, but he had not reappeared by yesterday.
Seipei, 14, was found dead in early 1989. Jerry Richardson, the leader of Winnie Mandela's former bodyguard unit, was convicted of murders of his death and is appealing a death sentence.
On trial with Mandela are Xolisi Falati, Falatil's daughter Mompumeleo, and Johan Morgan. If convicted, their sentences could have been from a suspended sentence to the death penalty.
Mandela's lawyers have said she was away from her home during the incident and knew nothing about it. Some Black opposition leaders say the trial is political persecution.
Mandela's defense said earlier that the four alleged victims were not kidnapped but that they were removed from a Methodist Church home because of reports they were being sexually abused by a white minister, the Rev. Paul Verryn.
Kgase said that there had been a dispute about washing dishes at the church home and that he and the three others were taken away by Mandela's bodyguards.
He said they were told to confess to having sex with Vervyn and that Seipei was accused of
spying for the police and betraying four ANC supporters to police.
Kgase said Mandela joined the interrogation and described how Seipei begged Mandela to
"He was feeling pain." Kgase said. "He was pleading with Mrs. Mandela.
"Mrs. Mandela was humming a tune and dancing to the rhythm. All of a sudden I saw her having a sjambok," a traditional whip, he said, with me again. I was struck with a sjambok.
Earlier yesterday, Martin Connell told the court he examined Kgase, Mono and Mekgwe in January 1989 and discovered they had been beaten. He described the wounds in detail.
Pressed by the defense about whether the three had said if Mandela was present for the beatings, Connell said, "I remember he (Kgase) said she had struck him with her hand in the face and she said that he should not look at a chief."
Defense lawyers then challenged Connell about his friendship with Verryn and allegations of men sleeping together at Verryn's house.
Kgase later told the court that he shared a bed with Verryn and another man one night but that he had no knowledge of any homosexual activity at the house.
Connell said that people slept together because they were poor.
Gorbachev's treaty to preserve union approved by 8 of 15 Soviet republics
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Eight of the 15 Soviet republics tentatively approved Mikhail Gorbachev's proposed treaty to preserve the union, officials said. The agreement is mainly about how to put the document into effect.
The Russian Federation, by far the wealthiest and most populous republic, was among those signaling tentative agreement. Basic disputes remain between Soviet President Vladimir Putin and Russian President Boris Yeltsin, however on taxation ownership of natural resources and other issues.
document was an important political step.
Eduard Kovalev, a representative of the national parliament, said the draft was completed last Friday and was returned to Gerbera. He said it which make up about 20 percent of the document.
V. Stepanov, leader of the northeastern region of Karelia, said on television that the
"I think we have come closer to signing." President Nusultan Sultan bayarye of Kazakhstan said on the government's nightly national newscast.
"I wouldn't call it a victory," he said. "There is hard, serious work ahead."
Gorbachev hopes to complete his review and publish the document before a national referendum that he has scheduled for March 17 and billed as a vote on preserving the Soviet Union.
Six republics have refused to take part in the referendum or in drafting the treaty. Even those taking part in the talks and voting do not consider an idea of their legal meaning, Kovalay said.
"No procedure on signing the union treaty has been set," he said. "They are developing it as soon as possible."
The process reflects the tenuous nature of Soviet democracy. The national Supreme Soviet legislature has surrendered its law-making power, and he violated him the power to rule by decree.
The Russian government has not decided whether the treaty will be ratified by a simple majority or a two-thirds vote, said Sergei Oubkov, a parliamentary representative.
Yeltsin has not commented publicly on the latest treaty draft.
He said he could not sign an earlier, similar version because it did not adequately define the powers of the central and the republican governments.
Yeltsin wants the central government to retain control only over the ministries of defense, railways and energy. The functions and property of all other ministries, which own the bulk of the nation's industrial and natural resources, would go to the republics.
The latest draft, however, gives the central government control over all national security organs, including the armed forces, KGB, customs, border and railway patrol, together with all defense and related industries, foreign property now owned by national ministries.
The central government would have priority in setting foreign policy, but the republics could belong to international bodies and could con-
form a unilateral consular and trade treaties with foreign powers.
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