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Friday, January 18, 1991 / University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
World briefs
Belgrade, Yugoslavia Baltic leaders plan defiance
Security officials from Slavonia and Croatia have met to coordinate resistance against a possible Yugoslavian army crackdown in their autonomy-seeking republics, the official news agency said yesterday.
The Soviet crackdown in Lithuania and world preoccupation with the Persian Gulf war have raised fears in both Yugoslavian republics that the federal army will move against their non-Communist governments. The army's officer corps is heavily pro-Communist.
Both republics already have declared that they would defy a federal presidency order to disarm all illegal paramilitary forces in Yugoslavia by tomorrow.
Somalia Rebels deny cease-fire claim
Rebels seeking to overthrow Somalia's government yesterday denied that they had agreed to a cease-fire and said they hoped to unite all Somali opposition groups in their offensive.
The cease-fire claim was made Wednesday by state-run Radio Mogadishu. It said rebel United Somali Congress leaders, Somali elders and President Mohamed Siad Barre met in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, and agreed to a cease-fire effective Wednesday night.
The rebels repeatedly have rejected calls from Siad Barre, Egypt and Italy to negotiate an end to the 18-day-old conflict while the president still was in power and said their position had not changed.
Bonn, Germany Parliament reappoints Kohl
Germany's first freely elected parliament in nearly 60 years yesterday chose former West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl to continue leading the reunited nation.
The vote was 378-257 for the man who shepherded Germany to full unification less than a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall. There were nine abstentions.
Kohl, 60, sat impassively the vote was announced by Bundestag President Rita Suessmuth, and the chamber applauded. A few minutes later he thanked the body for his sacrifice.
Kohl was expected to address parliament on the euf war later in the day.
Kohl's three-party coalition won nearly 55 percent in the Oct. 7 parliament elections, the first free all-German vote since 1932. Kohl had been West German chancellor since 1982.
The Associated Press
Baltic republics fear wartime crackdowns
The Associated Press
VILNIUS, U.S.S.R. — The Kremlin promised yesterday not to seize the Lithuanian parliament building, but wary Baltic residents said they feared a crackdown because of the conflict in the Persian Gulf.
In Paris, the European Community threatened to cut off all Soviet aid, including emergency food supplies, if Moscow continued its hard-line tactics with the Baltic republics.
The Baltic republics were independent states between the two world wars, but the Soviets forcibly annexed them in 1940. They are now seeking independence. The Kremlin has used an economic embargo, as well as seizure of key buildings, to try to bring Lithuania under control.
Lithuanian President Vytautas Lands伯塞gis met with an envoy, George Tarazevich, sent by Presi-
ture of Lithuania.
"It seems that Mr. Tarazevich understands the situation in Lithuania, and he promises his assistance in trying to communicate with the military." It is also attributed by the legislature's Bureau of Information.
"My mission is to bring assistance to you and your legitimate Lithuanian government and parliament in how to restore normal life and find ways of constructive cooperation with the union." Tarazevich said in comments to the Lithuanian
In Paris, Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jacques Poos, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the European Community, said, "All forms of aid will be suspended if repression and the use of force continues or gets worse."
He spoke to reporters after EC foreign ministers met in a session devoted largely to the gulf war.
parliament.
In another development, Soviet representatives rejected a proposal supported by the United States, Canada and other European countries for an international conference on the Baltic crackdown.
Latvians were optimistic that the apparent success of the initial allied military strikes against Iraq would prevent the world's attention from being drawn away from the Baltics. However, Lithuanians said they thought the Soviet military might use preoccupation with the war to take harsher measures in the Baltics.
"The war in the island undoubtedly increases the chances of an attack on us. We all know that," said Vaidia Mindausa, one of the guards at the Lithuanian parliament.
Iinese Birzimmere, a Latvian government representative, said Laitlans had the same reaction, but turned more optimistic when they heard reports of the success of the anti-Iraq operation.
Latvia thinks U.S. success may deter Soviet military
The Associated Press
RIGA, Latvia — The prospect of a quick victory by U.S.-led forces in the gulf war raised hopes today among Latvian lawmakers that Soviet leaders would use their military authority to crack down on their separatist government.
Some Baltic leaders had feared that Western preoccupation with the Persian Gulf war would divert attention from the Soviet Union and allow hard-liners to try to suppress political movements.
Druvis Skulte, a member of Latvia's parliamentary foreign affairs committee, said in an interview that the apparent success of the first air raids on Iraq and mass demonstrations by separatists in the Baltic republics should discourage a military crackdown.
The Soviet leadership now knows it can't take
"I think that the process of democratization that was going on in all the republics, and the demonstrations by the people, show that the Baltic people will defend their independence." Skulte said.
harsh actions against the Baltics without being condemned by world public opinion," he said.
Thousands of supporters of the Peoples' Front, which holds a majority in the Latvian parliament, have staged the close-cold vignals at the building since Sunday, when Soviet tanks attacked a mass grave in Lithuania, a professional government in neighboring Lithuania. Fourteen people were killed and 230 were injured.
Inse Brizzone, a Latvian government representative, said that many lawmakers and aides were in the parliament buildings when they got word of the U.S. invasion early yesterday.
Volunteers guarding the Lithuanian parliament with hunting rifles learned about the invasion when they were awakened shortly after 3 a.m. by their commander.
When we first heard the news we thought, 'Oh no! Now the Soviets will use the opportunity to take over.' After hearing that it was going well, the mood changed," she said.
Associations tell infected doctors to warn patients
Doctor possibly gave patients AIDS
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — AIDS-infected doctors and dentists should warn their patients about their disease or give up surgery, the American Medical Association and the National Dental Association said yesterday.
The new policy came after the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta said that at least three people may have been infected with the AIDS virus by one dentist.
The American Dental Association's officials were publicly skeptical of the CDC's report of Bergalsia case last August. They announced a new policy, telling its infected dentists to warn their patients or stop performing dental surgery.
"Until the uncertainty about transmission is resolved, the ADA believes that HIV-infected dentists should refrain from performing invasive procedures or should disclose their seropositive (infected) status," the ADA statement said.
The American Medical Association went a step further, saying doctors who perform surgery or other invasive procedures and at risk of acquiring HIV infection could determine their HIV status."
Those who test positive for the disease, the AMA continued, "have an ethical obligation not to engage in any professional activity that has an identifiable risk of infection to the patient."
The dental association still
'Until the uncertainty about transmission is resolved, the ADA believes that HIV-infected dentists should refrain from performing invasive procedures or should disclose their seropositive (infected) status.'
American Dental Association
The dentist involved in the Florida cases, David Acer of Fort Pierce did complications of a disease because has been diagnosed as AIDS.
thinks that masks, gloves and other steps to prevent the spread of infection in dentists' offices are sufficient to protect patients, said ADA representative Philip Weintraub.
In its report, the CDC said evidence strongly suggested that at least three patients were infected during dental care in Acer's office. Bergbarg said that a child told AIDS staff an elderly woman and a young man, both former patients of Acer.
While the exact route of infection for the three patients may never be known, direct blood-to-blood contact, perhaps from a cut to the dentist during oral surgery, could be the most likely cause said Harold Jaffe, deputy director for science at the CDC's AIDS division.
All three patients had teeth pulled by Acer, the CDC said.
In instruments or equipment contaminated with AIDS-infected blood could have been a mode of transmission, the CDC said.
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