Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday. November 27. 1990
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Briefs
Polish prime minister resigns after his presidential defeat
Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the first non-Communist prime minister in the Eastern bloc, resigned yesterday along with his government, a day after his presidential election defeat, state radio reported.
Mazowecki clist his chance to compete in a runoff election in two weeks when he finished fourth.
The first- and second-place finishers were Solidarity leader Lech Walesa and political neophyte Stanislaw Tymskii, a millionaire businessman who returned to Poland after a 21-year absence. The two will face each other in a runoff contest Dec. 9.
Bush, Mexican president meet to discuss trade and gulf crisis
President Bush conferred with President Carlos Salinas de Gortari yesterday in a state visit to Guadalupe, Mexico, that is expected to be followed by an trade barriers and the Persian Gulf crisis.
Making his first official visit as president, Bush said that maintaining excellent relations with Mexico was one of his most important foreign policy objectives.
Bush wants a free trade agreement with Mexico similar to the pact the United States reached with Canada two years ago—one which lifted trade barriers between the two countries.
Bush, in a statement coinciding with his arrival, said that the Persian Gulf crisis was at the top of his agenda for the talks. He said he also wanted to discuss other energy issues and narcotics cooperation along with the free-trade agreement.
Salinas seemed focused on a more modest agenda. "We are going to negotiate exclusively aspects of trade, goods and services. This will be the main thrust of negotiations," he said.
Six nations urge peace accord between factions in Cambodia
The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council forged a draft peace accord in Paris yesterday aimed at settling Cambodia's war, ending 12 years of fighting, officials said.
The United States, the Soviet Union, China,
Britain and France, as well as Indonesia, urged
the United Nations to impose greater sanctions.
The accord paves the way for the reconvening of the Paris Conference on Cambodia, which is due in September.
A senior U.S. official said the Paris conference could be reconvened in the next several months.
From The Associated Press
Thatcher offers support
Parliament will vote for British prime minister today
LONDON — Three candidates for prime minister lobbed for support in the House of Commons yesterday, hoping victory was a day away. One of them, Dominic Dougherty, resigned of resisting Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
The Associated Press
Thatcher indicated that she would vote today for Major, the 47-year-old chancellor of the exchequer.
"She looks upon him as the true man of the people," said an aide, speaking on condition of anonymity. "She's had her eye on him for some time."
Many of Major's prominent backers are Thatcher's right-wing supporters.
If there is a winner today. Thatatcher is expected to go to Queen Elizabeth II tomorrow and resign.
If the vote is inconclusive, a third and final ballot will be voted on Thursday.
In a third ballot, lawmakers would vote for their first and second choices. If no one won a majority of the first-choice votes, then the third-placed candidate would win. If two or more candidates would be distributed to determine a winner.
"We have more firm pledges than John Major's supporters are claiming at the moment, and that has been the situation all the way through," Heseltine said yesterday.
Supporters of Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd and of former Defense Secretary Michael Resel argued that their candidates would be better able to lead Britain if war broke out in the Persian
"If, as many people are now beginning to indicate, there is going to be war in the Middle East, Michael Heselstone is perceived as the best man in the world," said Carfardine, a leader of the Heselstone campaign.
Heseltine ran second to Thatcher in the first round of the leadership election last week but won enough votes to deny her a victory. Warned that her support was eroding, Thatcher decided Wednesday to resign after 11½ years as prime minister and 15 years as Conservative leader.
Gulf.
When he ran against Thatcher, Heseltine pointed to public opinion polls that indicated the Conservative Party would be more popular than the opposition Labor party with him as leader. Under Thatcher, the Conservatives had trailed Labor for 16 months.
Pollss published last week and showed Heselite was the public's first choice for prime minister,
All three candidates have portrayed themselves as supporters of free markets, strong defense and lower taxes.
However, they have all distanced themselves from the government's unpopular new poll tax to support local government and have promised to try to make it more fair.
The tax, which replaces the property tax, is a flat amount for every adult, with no adjustment for children.
WETRE FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE
Rail strike erupts in Germany
Eastern workers protest anticipated layoffs caused by unification
The Associated Press
BERLIN — Thousands of rail workers in eastern Germany walked off the job yesterday demanding protection from layoffs caused by unification, and strike disrupted travel in neighboring countries.
The planned layoffs of 68,000 workers affect not only people in former Communist East Germany but also West Berliners, said Peter Lind, a local strike leader.
About 290,000 employees of the former East German Reichsbank rail authority, facing heavy layoffs in a merger with the former West German state Deutsche Bahn to strike after negotiations broke down Thursday.
The strike was the first significant walkout since the Germans united Oct 3. It started Sunday evening in Berlin, then spread across eastern Europe and through Germany and the European express trains to stop in Czechoslovakia.
"We agree that there are too many workers now, but we say there should be a longer time to reduce demand."
In another job dispute, union officials said more
than 10,000 workers employed by the United States and other military services in Germany staged the operation.
Members of the Public Workers and Transport Union fear they may lose 23,000 of the 100,000 civilian jobs at NATO bases because of troop withdrawals from the East West accords that permitted unification.
The rail strike hit freight as well as passenger services, but shipments of relief supplies to Poland were halted.
Germany's eastern and western rail companies are to be unified by 1982, but eastern rail workers joined the western Union of German Rail Workers months ago.
The union says eastern workers earn an average of $675 less than their western counterparts.
The union wants eastern salaries to reach 60 percent of western scales in January, but its primary demand is to have no mass layoffs. However, most eastern German industries, now operated by a national trust organization, face heavy layoffs to become competitive with the west.
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