Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Monday, January 28, 1991
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World briefs Zagreb, Yugoslavia
Croatia, army reach agreement
Croatian President Franjo Tudjman said yesterday that Yugoslavia had gone through its worst crisis since World War II as his pro-independence republic faced a military clash with the federal army.
During a dramatic nine-hour session, Tudjiman and the army reached an agreement early Saturday to avert a possible clash between the central government army and Croatian security forces.
At the session in Belgrade, Croatia agreed to demobilize its reserve police force, and the army in return said it would reduce combat readiness of its troops in Croatia to peaceetime status.
Colombo. Sri Lanka
Tamil rebels killed in attack
Helicopter gunships killed 25 Tamil rebels during the bombardment of a fortified hideout in the jungles of northeastern Sri Lanka, military officials said yesterday.
"The attack was conducted on Friday on predetermined terrorist targets, mainly their bunkers, fortifications, ammunition and explosives." The Army said that the military's customary condition of anonymity.
The government said Friday's raid was at Navarro 170 miles northeast of Colombo.
The Tamil Tigers have been fighting since 1983 for a separate homeland for their ethnic minority. At least 14,000 people have been killed in the insurrection.
Johannesburg, S. Africa
Mourners bury massacre victims
Mourners massed in the Black township of Sebekeng yesterday tobury 39 African National Congress supporters killed in a recent massacre. Many of the peoplewere slainin unrest incidents nationwide
On Jan. 12, at a funeral vigil not far from a stadium, assailants with AK-47 assault rifles fired into a crowd of ANC mourners and killed at least 39. One of those being buried yesterday was ANC activist Mphikeleli Christoffel Nangalembe, whose first funeral vigil was the scene of the Sebokeng massacre. Nangalembe was found strangled near Sebokeng on Jan. 5.
Police and the military, concerned about possible violence at the Sebokeng funeral, set up roadblocks on streets leading into the township outside Johannesburg. About 15,000 people were displayed on the field. Youths charted ANC slogans.
From The Associated Press
President flees as rebels take control of Somalia
The Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya — Guerrillas yesterday wore apparent protection of Somalia after a month of fighting forced President Mohamed Sidar Barron from his official residence. A Western doctor who just left Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, said rebels had taken over the airport and main radio station.
The whereabouts of Siad Barre, who had ruled the California-sized nation since 1969, remained unknown.
Rebel representative Mohamed Robleh said it was thought that Siad Barre was at the airport surrounded by rebel forces and that he might be captured.
Earlier reports from Somalia's capital said Siad Barre, about 80, had fled to Kismayu, south of Mogadishu, one of the few sections of the Horn of Africa nation of 8 million thought to be still loyal to
Robieb is living in London that his United Somali Congress would announce an acting committee within 48 hours to run Somalia. He said the interim government would remain until representatives from the main rebel groups could meet to form a national government representing the nation's own clans.
Thousands of people danced through Mogadishu's streets Saturday night after the rebels
drove Siad Barre from the presidential mansion and seized state radio, said Marc Gastello Etchejryr of the humanitarian agency Doctors Without Borders.
The guerrillas tightened their grip yesterday by capturing the airport, the last government strong.
"The information from Mogadishu is that the fighting has finished. There is no more shooting," said Etchejorry, who left Mogadishu yesterday after an 18-hour standoff with radio telephone to Western doctors in Somalia.
While there was no independent confirmation of the situation because of widespread communications problems, the rebels said they had seized control of Mogadishu on Saturday night and broadcast their claim on the formerly government-run Radio Mogadishu.
The rebels, who draw their strength from the large central Hawiye clan, have pledged to replace Siad Barre's government with a multiparty democracy, hold free elections and allow some form of regional autonomy for the arid nation's clan-based people.
The United States was Siad Barre's main backer from the 1970s until recent years, when it cut nearly all aid because of increasing reports of human rights abuses.
Utah law draws reactions
Pro-choice groups concerned, abortion foes encouraged
The Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah's passage Friday of the nation's strictest anti-abortion law — the latest attempt to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision — worried pro-choice activists but buved abortion foes.
"This is a dark day for women all across America as another case is pushed into the legal pipeline to challenge Roe vs. Wade. And Kate McKenna, who was the first Abortion Rights Action League in Washington.
About half of the states' legislatures are considering similar bans, increasing the chance that the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, which made abortions legal, eventually will be overturned. Michelman
Abortion opponents said the bill Gov. Norm Bangerter signed Friday put Utah at the forefront of the fight to outlaw abortion on demand.
Utah's law is the toughest anti-abortion measure enacted since the Supreme Court's 1989 Webster decision gave states greater leeway to restrict abortion.
The Utah law bars abortion except to save a woman's life, prevent grave damage to her health
or in cases of grave fetal defects. It permits abortions for rape and incest victims as long as they reported the crime to police.
they reported that 4,000 people rallied outside the state Capitol on Saturday to protest Bangerter's signing of the bill, Salt Lake City police said.
Unless blocked in federal court, the law will take effect 60 days after the legislative session ends
Richard Wilkins, a former assistant U.S. solicitor general who honeed the nation's toughest antiabortion legislation, gives the law that passed last week the evidence of passing muster with the U.S. Supreme Court.
"What we don't know is what Justice O'Connor and Justice Souter will do," said Wilkins, a Brigham Young University constitutional law professor.
James Bopp Jr., general counsel for the National Right to a life committee, is even more optimistic.
"I think we have six votes to uphold any abortion restriction or prohibition, up to and including one that would allow abortion only to save the life of the mother," he said.
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