Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, February 13, 1991
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Tokyo
Valve failure caused accident
Japan's worst nuclear accident was caused by an emergency pressure release valve that failed to work properly when technicians tried to shut it down. The leak weekend, the Energy Agency said yesterday.
Anti-nuclear groups responded to yesterday's doleby by calling for similar reactors to be shut down.
The agency did not say why it withheld disclosure of the safety system malfunction, which occurred Saturday and was reportedly the first during a nuclear accident in Japan.
When the valve failed to work Saturday, technicians had to use a water sprinkler to reduce pressure in the reactor's primary cooling system after the leak was detected at the 500,000-kilowatt reactor at Mihama Nuclear Power Plant in Fukui, in western Japan, agency officials said.
Although the accident caused the largest accidental radiation leak ever recorded in Japan, it did not pose a threat to humans or to animals. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity,
Beijing
Activists get 13-year terms
The court gave a six-year sentence to a third man convicted of questioning and released a fourth man convicted of questioning.
Wang Jintao, a 33-year-old private editor, and Chen Ziming, 38, the head of a private social science research institute, received the 13-year terms after they were convicted of sedition.
Robin Munro, a researcher for the human rights group Asia Watch, said authorities were trying to make the two the scapegoats for the attacks on protesters in the city streets nationwide.
Sources close to the two men's families said Chen asked the court to investigate alleged tampering with documents and tapes used against him, but his petition was turned down.
Moscow
Iceland to recognize Lithuania
MOSCOW — Lithuania's president welcomed the "good news" yesterday that iceland had moved toward becoming the first country to establish relations with an independent Lithuania.
Iceland's parliament Monday voted 41-1 to adopt a resolution endorsing the government's de facto recognition of an independent Lithuanian government. It authorized the government to establish diplomatic ties with the Baltic republic as soon as possible.
From The Associated Press
Mandela trial delayed; witnesses won't testify
The Associated Press
JOHANNEBURG, South Africa — Two men who have said they were beaten by Winnie Mandela refused to testify in her kidnapping and were arrested yesterday after another witness disappeared.
The development put the state's case in jeopardy and forced the third interruption in four days in the bizarre trial. The two men and the missing witness only surviving members of the alleged assault
Prosecutor Jan Swanepole told the court Kenneth Kgase and Tabiso Mono were too scared to enter the courtroom after the alleged abduction of Gabriel Mekqwe, who also was scheduled to testify against Mandela. The case was adjourned until today.
Swainope told reporters he expected Kgase to appear in court today, but there was no guarantee he would take the stand. A witness may refuse to testify because of court rules if the court is not convinced there is good reason.
Mandela, the wife of African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, pleaded not guilty Monday to four kidnapping charges and four assault charges against defendants pleaded not guilty to the same charges.
Swanepole then stumed the court by announcing that Mekque, a key witness and one of the alleged victims, was missing and reportedly abducted Sunday night.
Saturday night.
Prosecutors allege the defendants kidnapped
four young men from a Methodist Church in Soweto in December 1988, took them to Winnie Mandela's home and beat them. One victim, 14-year-old Stompie Seipei, died. The leader of Winnie Mandela's now-disbanded bodyguard unit, Jerry Martins, was killed in Stompie's murder and sentenced to death.
During Richardson's trial last year, Kgase, Mono and Mekqe testified that Winnie Mandela beat them with a whip.
The Star newspaper of Johannesburg, the country's largest daily, reported yesterday that Mekwane was last seen leaving a Methodist church home in Soweto on Sunday with three ANC members. The newspaper, citing unidentified source said it said known if Mekwane left voluntarily with the men.
The ANC denied involvement in his disappearance.
In a written statement read in court Monday, Winnie Mandela acknowledged that the four young men were taken to her home in December 1988. She requested that she be removed from the Methodist Church minister's sexual advances.
Prosecutors allege the defendants were motivated by allegations the young men engaged in the abuse with a white minister at the Soweto Methodist Church, and by claims that Stompie was a police spy.
U.S., Soviets to reduce troops
She said she was out of town the days they stayed in her house.
WASHINGTON — The United States will begin negotiations with the Soviet Union tomorrow to withdraw tens of thousands of troops from Europe, as the Kremlin squabbles with Moscow about weapons cutbacks.
The Associated Press
The talks in Vienna, Austria, will involve the 16 North Atlantic Treaty Organization nations and the six Warsaw Pact nations. The nations signed a treaty in November to sharply reduce tanks, aircraft and other non-nuclear arms in Europe, but the treaty's future is cloudy.
Secretary of State James Baker has taken the Soviets to task for trying to exempt three motorized infantry divisions from the cutbacks. The shifting of thousands of Soviet tanks east of the Ural mountains and the figures Moscow has issued current weapons levels also have been questioned.
But the negotiations to move beyond the treaty signed in Paris last November and to reduce the size of armies across Europe will proceed on schedule, Margaret Tutwil, State Department representative, said yesterday.
A significant U.S. incentive is to compel Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev to fulfill his pledge to withdraw Soviet troops from East Germany and Poland.
Last February the United States and the Soviet Union set 195,000 as the projected ceiling for Soviet troops in Eastern and Central Europe, and 225,000 for U.S. troops based in NATO countries.
The actual ceilings may be lower, however. Gorbachev is under pressure from within the
MOSCOW — The Warsaw Pact, the Soviet-led alliance whose troops crushed reform movements in two countries, will dissolve its military structure by April. Kremilin officials said yester-
Warsaw Pact to dissolve military forces by April The Associated Press
The Soviet Union planned to change its relations with the five other members of the alliance to bilateral ties, said Vitaly Ignatenko, a Kremlin representative.
The termination of Comecon, the bloc's trade organization, also is scheduled to occur at a summit of the group's heads of government in Paris and of February. Soviet news agency Tass said.
Hungarian Prime Minister Josezef Antall said pact officials would meet in Budapest, Hungary, on Feb. 25 to formalize the action.
The six Warsaw Pact members are the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Romania.
Warsaw Pact to pull Soviet forces back to Soviet territory.
but the negotiators are unlikely to make much headway until the disputes about how to interpret he Conventional Forces in Europe treaty are resolved.
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