Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, January 23, 1991
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World briefs
Lima. Peru
Peru needs aid to fight drugs
Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori has proposed that the United States write off part of Peru's $20 billion foreign debt and lower its debt levels in order to avoid traffic trafficking, the government said yesterday.
In a letter delivered Monday to U.S. Ambassador Anthony Quainton for President Bush, Fujimiur proposed measures to eradicate coca leaf cultivation through economic development.
Fujimiori faces a March 1 deadline to convince the U.S. State Department that Peru is cooperating in the drug war. Peru needs the certification of its military and military aid this year to fight trafficking.
"The foreign support mechanisms for this agreement will require, among other things, access to foreign markets and the elimination of restrictions on alternative products," said the communique.
Fujimiro has repeatedly said farmers need to be weaned from planting coca that is so much more profitable than regular crops, and the ability to finance incentive to plant alternative crops.
Vatican City
Pope wants to spread teaching
Pope John Paul II announced yesterday an aggressive campaign to spread church teachings to new fronts, including post-Communist Europe and Asia, where Christians are a small minority.
To emphasize concern that missionary zeal was diminishing, the pope laid out his strategy in an encyclical, one of the most authoritative forms a papal pronouncement can take.
The document addresses the church's relationships with other creeds and philosophies at a time of considerable tensions between Christian and Islamic cultures.
Washington
New rules would help disabled
The federal government proposed rules yesterday that would require new or renovated stores, restaurants and other public facilities to accommodate the nation's 43 million disabled people.
The rules would support the civil rights
that the disabled signed into law in
July by President Obama.
Among the numerous requirements, owners of newly constructed or altered grocery stores would have to make all checkout aisles wide enough for wheelchairs. Concert halls and theatres would be equipped with special listening devices for the hearing impaired, and restaurants and libraries would be required to make areas available to the disabled.
From The Associated Press
Latvia to govern itself
Gorbachev says republic is free from direct Soviet rule
RIGA, U.S.S.R. — The Latvian leadership yesterday said Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had agreed not to impose direct Kremlin rule in the secessionist republic.
The Associated Press
Latvian President Anatolijsi Gorbunov met yesterday with Gorbachev in Moscow to discuss the Soviet military crackdown that has claimed six lives in the Baltic republic. Fourteen people were killed Jan. 13 in Lithuania during a similar Soviet assault.
The Soviet president appeared on national television yesterday to say he remained committed to a peaceful resolution of tensions in the Baltic republics, all of which want independence from Moscow. But one Latvian lawmaker expressed skepticism that Gorbachev could control the military.
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, independent states between the two world wars, were forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940. Each of the republics last year passed independence declarations that the Kremlin wanted nullified. Protests in the republics have urged direct Kremlin rule.
Gorbunovs traveled to Moscow at Gorbachev's invitation, hoping to defuse tensions with the Kremlin.
Leaders meet
But after the meeting, he said the Soviet leader offered no concrete proposals on how to solve the conflict between pro-independence and pro-Kremlin forces in Latvia.
Gorbunovs said Gorbachev expressed regret over the loss of life in the attack by forces loyal to
The Latvian president said Gorbachev also had agreed that presidential rule was not necessary in the republic. Gorbachev's powerful office allows him to impose direct rule in any of the 15 Soviet republics, meaning he could disband local parliaments and take other drastic steps.
the Communist Party
A Kremlin envoy told reporters Monday that cabachev was considering imposing presidential rule.
"We came to the same conclusion that there is the possibility in Latvia for political dialogue and there is no need for presidential rule. We will continue dialogue." Gorbunovs said without elaborating.
Constitutional questions
The central issue, however, of whether Latvian or Soviet laws apply in the republic remains.
Gorbunov said Gorbachev told him that the Soviet constitution must be the basis of all negotiations between the Soviet Union and Latvia. That would rule out independence for the republic.
Latvia maintains that laws passed by its elected parliament are valid. Gorbunov said he told Gorbachev only a referendum was needed to decide the future of Latvia.
"The situation in the Soviet Union is serious and critical. Either we go toward democracy or it will lead to collapse."
Questions have surfaced concerning whether Gorbachev ordered the troops to crack down in the Baltics. Gorbachev has said local military forces must be aware that he does not assigned responsibility in the case of Latvia.
Ethiopia will get U.N. aid
Food supplies to be split between government, rebels
The Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya — The United Nations has begun trucking food through rebel-held areas of northern Ethiopia under an agreement that would have been used between Ethiopia's government and the rebels.
The shipments that began last week are the first since February to travel through Eritrea, where an estimated 2.2 million people face a second consecutive year of drought.
A 10,000-ton U.N. World Food Program shipment is delivered to the Ethiopian port of Mitsiwaa (the capital of Tigray) on October 26, 2018.
The 30-year-old Eritrean war of independence often has obstructed relief efforts, including basic foodstuffs during the severe starvation of the mid-1980s.
Forty-five trucks and 15 trailers Thursday carried 870 tons of the food from Mitsiwara to Asamura, the provincial capital with a population of about 496,000. The area in the province not controlled by the rebels.
A second convoy headed to Asmera on Monday, said Per Ivarsen, chief of transport services for the Rome-based World Food Program, in a telephone interview from Djibouti.
For much of the past year, the only food reaching the Asmara came by airlift. Rebels had shelled the airport, though not the section where relief flights landed
A human rights group, Africa Watch, said in September that the lack of food, water and other supplies had created a famine emergency in Asmara.
Mitsiwaa was badly damaged in the battle that preceded its capture by the rebels last year, and it has been the target of frequent government air attacks. He then seren said the port itself escaped major destruction.
Ivarsen said the World Food Program hoped to continue regularly monthly deliveries of about 23,000 tons of food from Djibouti, the capital of the tiny country, whose name on the Red Sea southeast of Eritrea.
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