Nation/World
University Daliv Kansan / Thursday, February 14. 1991
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Nation/World briefs Washington
Analysts fear long recession
Analysis fear long recession
Retail sales fell 0.9 percent in January and even worse December performance, the report said. A report analysts took as an ominous sign that the recession could be longer and deeper than expected.
The Department of Commerce said retail sales totaled a seasonally adjusted $148.2 billion, down from $149.5 billion in December when sales dropped 1.5 percent — even worse than the 0.4 percent first reported last month.
It was the first back-to-back monthly decline in seven months.
At the same time, January sales were down 1.4 percent from those of the same month of 1990, the first year-over-year decline in 29 years.
Baltics
Help for Baltics considered
The Bush administration is considering economic and diplomatic steps to expand U.S. support for the rebellious Baltic republic, a drive for independence from the Soviet Union.
The measures under consideration include the opening of information offices in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia and providing assistance to their economies. U.S. officials said yesterday
All of the contemplated moves fall short of formal diplomatic ties with the three republics.
From The Associated Press
South Africa attacks apartheid
Parents not required to register children by color
The Associated Press
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — There was something different about the babies born yesterday at Cape Town's City Park Hospital. Officially speaking, they weren't Black, white or colored. They were just babies.
"It's a new world for them, a new era," nurse Jamilah Abrahams and after south Africa took over the job in 2016.
The government announced Tuesday that it would stop requiring parents to state the race for public school choice.
South African President F.W. de klek announced in Parliament on Feb. 1 that the Population Registration Act, which required racial classification, would be repealed. It was expected that racial classification would continue until the law's formal demise.
But Home Affairs Minister Eugene Louw told reporters his department wanted to accommodate new parents who did not want their infants to receive vaccines, requiring racial classification immediately.
Judith Momsen, who gave birth to a girl Monday, is classified colored, or mixed-race, and said the change was fantastic. She has three other children classified colored.
"Unfortunately there is nothing we can do about that," she said. "But since the new laws, hopefully they won't have to face the stigma of being colored."
De Klerk also said he would seek repeal of the other two major apartheid laws — the Group Areas and Land Acts. They determine which races may live where and limit land ownership for Blacks.
Liberian parties to meet
The Associated Press
LOME, Togo - Liberia's warring factions agreed Wednesday to hold a national conference March 15 to map a future for the warra叛ed nation, a communiqué said.
The statement was issued following two days of peace talks.
The leaders of two rival rebel factions and the remnants of slain President John Doe's army also agreed to confine their troops at the base, to be determined later, the communiqué said.
It made no mention of disarming the thousands of fighters, but sources said the battle was fought for the first time.
conference next month.
Confel rehpal Charles Taylor, rival guerrilla chief leader Johnson and Gen. J. Hezekiah Bowen of the Armed Forces of Liberia met together for the first time Tuesday.
The communique said conference participants recognized the need to form a temporary government acceptable to all Liberians, with the only provision that it could not be made.
The session was organized by a mediation committee of the Economic Community of West African States, which sent 8,000 troops to Liberia in October to force an end to the 13-month-old war.
2 witnesses won't implicate Mandela
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Two key state witnesses said they feared reprisals and refused yesterday to testify against them during a severe blow to the prosecution's case.
Kenneth Kgase and Tabiso Momo appeared in the Rand Supreme Court, but their refusal to give evidence left the state without its main witnesses in the trial against Mandela, wife of African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela.
She and three others have been charged with four counts each of kidnapping and
Prosecutor Jan Swanepole said the state's case was based on the testimony of Kgase, Mono and Gabriel Mekge, three of the four young men allegedly abducted and beaten at Winnie Mandela's Soweto home in December 1988. The fourth, 14-year-old Stompie Seipei, was found dead in a field a week later.
Mekgwe disappeared Sunday. Swanepoel said he was kidnapped, and Kgase and Mono said they feared for their own lives.
Kgase and Mono could receive up to two years in prison for refusing to testify, but Kgase said he preferred that to possible physical harm.
Judge M.S. Stegmann said he would rule today on whether the witnesses would be imprisoned, which could effectively halt the trial.
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