Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Friday, November 30, 1990
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Briefs
France to send more troops to Chad as fighting escalates
Saying a rebel offensive in Chad is growing, French officials yesterday ordered 150 more troops to that North African country but said they wouldn't join the fighting.
Chad's government contends the rebels are backed by Libya, a view endorsed this week by the U.S. State Department. However, France has described the 3-week-old war as an internal conflict between Chadians, and Libya denies backing the rebels.
A French Foreign Ministry spokesman was
on hand that the "situation is worsening,
and it will be a great challenge."
The French Defense Ministry said a 150-member company of the Second Foreign Parachutist Regiment of the Foreign Legionnaires would be sent to 'N'Djamaena.
The glaring absence of a female in the Cabinet quickly became a target for the rival Labor Party, with one Labor legislator, Robert Hughes, asking whether the only woman in Prime Minister John Major's Cabinet would be "the back-seat driver."
For the first time in more than a decade there are no women in the British Cabinet, emphasizing the abrupt end of the Thatcher era and prompting angry reactions yesterday from women's groups and some legislators.
Major's all-male Cabinet draws criticism in Britain
Major defended the all-male appointments during his first appearance in the House of Commons yesterday, saying women were gaining a higher profile in law, commerce, civil service and politics.
Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kan., has appealed to a top Bush administration official to relax U.S. restrictions on trade with the Soviet Union.
Kassebaum wants relaxed trade restrictions on Soviets
Kassebaum said yesterday she had made her request in a telephone call to Brent Scrowcroft, the national security advisor to President Bush, and said she received "the clear impression they are reconsidering their position."
Kassebaum wants the United States to lift its trade restrictions and offer export credits to clear the way for more grain sales to the Soviets.
From The Associated Press
Bulgarian premier steps down Pressure of strikes, protests topple government
The Associated Press
SOFIA, Bulgaria — Premier Andrei Lukanov and his government of former Communists resigned yesterday under unrelenting pressure on streets, street protests and the halls of Parliament.
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The Socialist premier, blamed for the Balkan country's political and economic anarchy, accused unions and the opposition of making it impossible for him to govern
But it appeared certain the resignation would end a four-day nationwide strike that had gained strength daily, and would draw the opposition to the vote. It was Parliament's lawmakers walked out last week.
No successor was immediately named to replace Lukanov, a reform-minded Social Party member who helped out longtime Communist leader Boris Yeltsin and president Mikhail Soborov, 32, was appointed premier in early February.
"For me, it is therefore pointless to remain at the premier's post, and . . . I resign my office," he said in a statement broadcast on state radio and television.
The resignation of the 52-year-old Lukanov had been expected since he and other political leaders struck a deal in talks yesterday to end a stalemate in the fight against from tackling its worst postwar economic crisis.
The accord came in a meeting called by President Zhelyu Zhelev, as the strike continued and Sofia's streets filled with thousands of people demanding an end to political turmoil and economic hardship.
Although political leaders agreed during the meeting on Lukanov's resignation, they apparently had been unable to reach final agreement on who should succeed him.
On Wednesday, the official BTA news agency said the new premier would be a member of neither the socialist Party nor the opposition candidate Alexei Navalny. The military, agreed in an interview earlier yesterday,
BTA said political leaders of all parties had agreed that "an immediate change of government is indispensable for the formation of a national government for the peaceful transition to democracy."
It said they also would agree on the draft of a further accord that would outline steps to resolve the country's crisis, define the status of political institutions, and reinstitute repression, and set ethnic policy and social programs.
The former Communist Party, which ruled Bulgaria for four decades, renamed itself the Socialist Party during the pro-democracy movement in 1985. It won the last year and went on to win the June elections.
Gorbachev takes economic blame
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — President Mikhail Gorbachev yesterday pronounced himself and other Communists guilty before the working class in a candid admission of blame for the country's worsening economy and political paralysis.
In his one-hour speech, he promised immediate steps to increase food supplies, reiterated his determination to hold the restive republics and called on the delegates to keep the common man in mind.
Gorbachev, 59, is both the country's president and general-secretary of the 18 million-member party.
He told nearly 1,000 delegates to the 28th Moscow City Communist Party Conference that the Soviet Union faced increasing difficulties with food supplies, ethnic conflicts, crime and a battle of laws that has led to a paralysis of power.
But Gorbachev the delegates earlier yesterday he had no intention of quitting as party leader.
"The reasons," Gorbachev said, were "errors in the actions of central organs, above all in the Central Committee of the Communist Party, and the actions of the general secretary and president."
He said failure by the party leadership to address workers' concerns was responsible for its defeat in recent elections around the country.
A poll published yesterday in the government newspaper Ivzestia indicated the number of people who fully trust the party fell from 27 percent in December 1989 to 14 percent in July.
"We are guilty before the working class, I think, all of us, and I personally take responsibility," he said.
Gorbachev announced that agreements were reached Wednesday with the republics of Estonia, Kazakhstan and the Ukraine to send dairy products to Russia. The EU has hall all but disappeared from stores this month.
Some delegates jeered when he said supplies of key non-dairy products — meat, bread and vegetables — have remained the same or risen since last year in Moscow.
He also said the country's two largest cities would receive first priority for food purchased or donated abroad, and indicated that powdered milk may be taken out of storage and distributed to the people.
"Then why isn't there anything in the stores?" one man shouted.
"Quit down," Gorbachev replied. "Summaries from Moscow and Leningrad are on my desk every day."
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