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Bangladeshi leader capitulates, says he will surrender power
President Hussain Muhammad Ehrad, the president of Bangladesh, capitulated to a 7-week-old campaign for his ouster yesterday, as the opposition could choose a replacement.
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, December 5, 1990
State-run radio announced the move in a late-night news bulletin. Soon afterward, hundreds of people thronged the streets, defying a curfew that restricted civilians to their homes.
Jurors in Brooklyn acquit Bensonhurst trial defendants
At least 1,000 people attacked a downtown office of Ershad's Jaitya Party, reporters said.
A jury in New York City took just four hours yesterday to clear two Whites of murder and other major charges in the racial slaying last week in a manger in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn.
Both defendants had been accused of murder, manslaughter and other charges in the attack that resulted in the death of Yusuf Hawkins, who was shot by a neighbor's white neighborhood in Brooklyn on Aug. 23, 1989.
Israeli troops killed an armed guerrilla yesterday in a firefight in the self-proclaimed security zone in southern Lebanon, said the military command and Lebanese security sources.
Two Israeli soldiers were slightly wounded in the clash, which occurred near the village of Ramayah, 13 miles southeast of Tyre, the Israeli army reported.
Israeli troops kill guerrilla; two soldiers wounded in clash
Lebanese security sources said the slain guerrilla was a Palestinian.
Navy says A-12 supervisors will be forced to step down
The Navy said yesterday that it was forcing out the three top overseers of its classified A-12 stealth bomber program, including two adminstrators and five serious flaws in the aircraft's development
The extraordinary action by Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett III was announced by the service as the Pentagon released an internal Navy report that outlined a startling breakdown in government and Navy supervision of the 6-year-old bomber program.
Garrett wrote in a memo to Defense Secretary Dick Cheney dated November 29 that the Navy's A-12 program supervisors failed to make clear to top Navy and Pentagon leadership that the aircraft's development was faring much worse than the contractor claimed.
From The Associated Press
Miami merchants criticize police response to rioting
The Associated Press
MIAMI — Merchants criticized police response as they cleaned up broken glass and soot last night after booting and tires, which were triggered by the fire. The incident in the fatal beating of a Puerto Rican drug dealer.
About 300 people were involved in the rioting, and 10 to 15 people were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and inciting to riot, said police spokesman George Law.
"The police knew it was going to happen, and they just sat back and did nothing," said Richard Meehan.
Merchants said that police took too long — more than two hours — to move in Monday night after hundreds of youths swarmed through the usually quiet stores, locating stores and burning down businesses.
The trouble began shortly after nightfall, nearly six hours after a federal jury found the members of an elite drug squain innocent of conspiracy in the murders. The defendant, a cocaine dealer who had lived in the neighborhood.
Munoz said his small grocery store was not damaged because he scared off the looters.
"I spent all night armed and on the roof." Munoz said.
Mayor Xavier Suarez met with leaders in the most Puerto Rican Rwynwood community to look into reasons for the rioting, which police and city officials said caught them by surprise.
Suaire said that the police did not react swiftly enough but that officials did not expect the number of arrests to be much higher.
Police Chief Perry Anderson said police could have moved in earlier. But he said that in a recent confrontation with Haitian demonstrators, police were criticized for moving in too quickly.
There were no deaths or violent clashes with the police, Anderson said.
John Calpini, a fire investigator said two stores were destroyed by fire. Other damage appeared limited to a few buildings.
Officials estimated the fire damage at $2.9 million.
In the trial, the jury deadlocked on charges that officers violated Mercado's civil rights when he was beaten to death two years ago, and Judge Stanley Marcus declared a mistrial.
Some business owners said they got telephone calls in the afternoon, warning them that there might be trouble and to close down their shops.
Soviet federalism: A compromise
Gorbachev, Yeltsin settle conflict over proposed pact
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and political rival Boris Yeltsin, president of the Russian republic, continued disagreements yesterday about a proposed treaty binding the 15 Soviet republics but emerged with a compromise that Yeltsin said was a written for common some.
that Petrissian said was a victory for common sense Gorbache's Communist Party allies in the Russian republic's Congress of Peoples' Deputies tried to persuade the body to vote on a new union treaty that Gorbache is pushing to stop the disintegration of central authority.
The issue boils down to a contest between central authorities, led by Gorbachev, and authorities in each of the republics that are arrayed behind Yeltsin.
The Russian Congress is highly sympathetic to Gorbachev. He sought passage of the union treaty as a means of pressuring Yeltsin to sign the pact on Russia with the Russian Federation, the largest Soviet republic.
Gorbachev said there would be no Soviet Union without Russia nor would Russia be able to exist with it.
"We've got to pass it in one or two months, or it will mean the breakup of the union," Gorbachev said.
The Soviet president did not speak during yesterday's session but smiled broadly from an isolated balcony in the Grand Kremlin Palace as his allies engaged in a boisterous floor fight.
Veltins, who quit the Communist Party in July after being elected president of the Russian Federation, hammered out a compromise under which the congress would debate the union treaty.
six republics the Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia,
Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia — already have said
that they want to join the Union.
The congress voted 696:199 to allow an exchange of opinions on the issue.
"It wasn't a victory for anybody. It was a victory for common sense," Yeltsin said.
But Yeltsin's supporters were seething at what they viewed as a double-cross by Communist deputies, who agreed Monday not to include the union treaty on the agenda.
Veltins wants the Russians to vote first on a new constitution declaring the autonomy of the republic.
Yeltsin supporters feared that the Russian congress, having agreed to discuss the treaty, might vote to pass a resolution endorsing it and so prejudice the issue before the voters.
Russian reformers said the public should get a chance to fully discuss the proposed treaty, published three days earlier, before lawnmakers voted on it.
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