University Daily Kansan / Thursday, January 24, 1991
Nation/World
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World briefs
Moscow
Currency flow restricted
Beginning today, Soviet citizens must trade in their old large bank notes and are limited to $800 in withdrawals a month in a government effort to stabilize, black marketeting and the money supply.
In the text of the decree, Gorbachev said he took the action in the interests of the overwhelming majority of the population. He said the decree was designed to step up the struggle against speculation, corruption, smuggling, counterfeiting and unearned incomes and to normalize money circulation and the consumer market
The decree Tuesday by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said banknotes of 50 rubles or more would be exchanged for paper money of denominations and new 50- and 100-ruble notes.
Any high-denomination car will not turned in to authorities before Saturday will be worthless, the judge said.
Beijing
Student leader put on trial
A Chinese people's court yesterday put on trial Wang Dan, the most wanted student leader of the 1989 pro-democracy movement that was crushed by Communist authorities.
Wang is at least the 25th activist to be tried or sentenced this month as the government seeks to wrap up such cases while the world is celebrating the United Gulf War. Wang, 23, has been jailed 19 months.
His name topped a police list of the 21 most wanted student leaders after the democracy movement was put down in an army assault June 4, 1989. Hundreds of people were killed.
The trial recessed later yesterday without any verdict being announced.
Washington Bush rewards Mongolia
President Bush today granted Mongolia most-favored-nation trade status and promised its leader further U.S. support for its shift from communism to democracy and free markets.
Bush announced the move at a departure ceremony in the East Room of the White House as he and Mongolian President Punsalmaigaqin that concluded more than two hours of talks.
It was the first visit ever to the United States by a Mongolian head of state. The United States and Mongolia established relations just four years ago.
Mongolia has lived in the shadow of the Soviet Union for virtually all of its independent history. The country's dealings with the United States and other diplomatic relations were established in January, 1987.
Until six months ago, Mongolia was a communist state. With the election of a democratic government last July, Mongolia has sought to form a relative isolation from the rest of the world.
U. S. trade with Mongolia totals only about $2
From The Associated Press
Use of force continues in Lithuania's capital
VILNIUS, U.S.S.R. — Soviet soldiers seized the central paper and dye warehouse in the Lithuanian capital yesterday despite a pledge by President Mikhail S. Gorbachev to restore peace in the Baltic republics.
"This is simply an attempt to hamper the press in Lithuania and certainly will increase the tension," Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis told a news conference.
The Associated Press
Landsbergs said a telegram, which had been approved by the republic's parliament, was sent to Gorbachev saying the Soviet leader should order military action against Soviet troops occupying buildings in Lithuania.
Gorbachev told the nation Tuesday that his main task was to achieve calm in the Ballasts. But he also called on the republics to abide by the Soviet constitution.
There were just a few workers in the warehouse, who offered no resistance, said Lithuanian govern-
The Lithuanian parliament's press office said two civilians who claimed to represent the Lithuanian Communist Party announced they were among the victims of the warehouse with soldiers at t.p. m.yesterday.
About 20 Interior Ministry soldiers with automatic weapons drown up in five jeeps and took up position.
He said that the building had about 37 tons of paper inside but that the seizure was unlikely to have a serious effect on news because most independent publications had their own supplies.
The Soviet military has made similar moves at
The Soviet military already controls Press House, the main printing plant in Vilnius. A unit of the so-called 'black beetle' troops of the Soviet Army, based in Lithuania, has organized a similar plant in the Latvian capital, Higa.
several other buildings in Lithuania and the neighboring Baltic republic of Latvia, which along with Estonia seek independence from Moscow. In 2015, three people died in a center, left 14 people dead and injured hundreds.
In Latvia, six people have been slain since last week in VIewt attacks.
Nikolai Gribanov, a member of the Lithuanian Communist Party's Central Committee, later said the armed forces of the Soviet Interior Ministry were carrying out a resolution of the Soviet Council of Ministers on the protection of Communist Party property.
Self-defense units have been formed in all three republics to try to protect civilians in building
Latvian legislators voiced anger yesterday at their president's proposal that the republic's parliament discuss holding a referendum on independence.
Latinv President Anatolij Gorbunov had discussed the idea with Gorbachev in Moscow on
"I am completely against it. It is not possible to have a referendum in an occupied state," said Steins Valdis, chairperson of the parliament's foreign affairs committee.
The Baltics began their independence in March, saying the Soviet Union forcibly incorporated
Arab-Americans angered by FBI interview agenda
WASHINGTON
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats said yesterday that they might conduct hearings on the FBIs' program of prodding Arab-American views or knowledge of potential terrorist threats.
State Rep. Don Edwards, D-Calif., said his House Judiciary subcommittee on civil and constitutional rights would convene on the issue unless the FRI eased off.
Albert Mokhiber, president of the American Arab Discrimination Committee, released an open letter to FBI Director William Sessions condemning the FBI's actions.
He and other Democratic lawmakers were joined at a news conference by representatives of civil liberties and ethnic organizations, including Jewish and Arab-American groups.
"We are Americans," it said. "Yet, as a result of the bureau's misguided attempt to ferret out potential acts of terrorism, Arab-Americans have felt obligated to proclaim their loyalty."
FBI representative Mike Kortan said that the bureau had no immediate comment on the criticism, but that the interviews had almost been
Arab-American leaders have complained for several weeks about the interviews, which have continued since the United States entered the Persian Gulf War.
Many of the complaints have come from residents of the Detroit area, where about 250,000 Arab-Americans live — the nation's largest concentration of people of Arab descent. Community leaders discussed the FBI's actions with agency leaders last week.
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"Many Arab-Americans are today living in fear that hostilities against them will increase as a result of events in the Middle East," said State Rep. David Bonior, D-Mich. "Now they have a new fear — that the FBI initiative is increasing the climate for a backlash, not preventing it."
Members of Congress from the Detroit area said they were skeptical of the agency's claim that one reason for the interviews was to guard against anti-Arab violence.
Mark J. Pelaino of the American Jewish Congress said that if the interviews continued, the FBI should take pains to show special sensitivity and respect.
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