University Daily Kansan / Thursday, March 22, 1990
Nation/World
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Romania blames riot on neighbor
Hungarian leaders accused of spurring Transylvania battle
The Associated Press
BUCHAREST, Romania — The provisional government accused Hungary yesterday of inciting tensions between Romanians and ethnic Hungarians that led to bloody street battles this week in Transylvania.
In a strongly worded statement, the government charged Hungarian officials with "propagandist violence" in Pylonsylvania as a Hungarian component.
Clashes between the Romanian majority and Hungarian minority left several people injured yesterday in the Transylvanian town of Tirgușa on Wednesday night's violence that killed at least six people and injured about 300.
Tanks cordoned off all highways into the city and patrolled downtown, where the pitched battles Tuesday on swinging sexties into crowds.
Tirgu Mures was reported quiet yesterday evening.
However, Romanians and Hungarians were entering the city on foot late yesterday afternoon armed with clubs and iron bars, witnesses said. The army had orders to arrest anyone carrying a weapon on the streets.
The government accused interim Hungarian President Matyas Szueroes of issuing a March 18 call through the press to ethnic Hungarians in Romania, urging them "to intensify their efforts to organize themselves according to the idea that Transylvania would be 'native Hungarian land.'"
The provisional government has run Romania since the December revolution that overthrew Communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușcu.
But the provisional leadership also put some of the blame for the violence on right-wing elements inciting ethnic Romanians.
At United Nations headquarters in New York, a Hungarian diplomat said yesterday that Hungary had appealed for U.N. help to protect the rights of Hungarians in Romania and was pressing for Security Council action to halt ethnic violence in Transylvania.
The State Department appealed to Romanians to reject extremist groups and end the ethnic violence.
Imelda Marcos trial continues
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — An attorney for Imelda Marcos said the Philippine government is trying to turn Americans against his client, who is being tried on fraud charges involving $325 million.
The lawyer, Gerry Spence, gave the judge on Wednesday what he said were documents describing Philippine government lobbyists' efforts "to instil bias and prejudice" in this country against the former Philippine first lady.
Judge John F. Keenan said he would examine the papers but expressed doubt about their relevance to the trial.
Twenty-one prospective jurors were selected Wednesday for the trial of the former Philippine first lady and Saudi Arabian financier Adnan M. Khashoggi, who is charged with mail fraud.
Mrs. Marcos, 60, has denied that she took part in an illegal transfer of more than $160 million from the Manila government
The Associated Press
Reagan diary ruled inessenial
Judge reverses ruling in Poindexter case
WASHINGTON — The judge in
John Poindexter's Iran-contra trial
Poindexter
reversed his previous ruling yesterday, said President Reagan. He does not have to produce diary entries sought by his one-time national security adviser.
U. S. District Court Judge Harold Greene issued the ruling as the jury began watching eight hours of videotaped testimony by Reagan.
Greene had ordered Reagan to turn over the diary, but said after reading the three dozen entries sought by Poindexter that the material was not essential to the achievement of justice in this case.
Pointeheart said he needed the excerpts because Reagan, in his taped testimony, professed a total inability to recall the diversion of Iran arms sale proceeds to the Nicaraguan contrasts and a 1985 Hawk missile shipment.
Defense lawyers also said Reagan was unable to recall Poindexter's activities on behalf of the contras.
Pointexer is charged with five colony counts of conspiracy, making false statements and obstructing Congress in connection with the Iran-contra affair.
"Mr. Reagan did testify under oath at great length about many specific activities in his administration — an event that is unprecedented in American history," Greene said in a 14-page rulng.
He granted Reagan's motion to set aside Poindexter's subpoena for the entries, which relate to both the Iran initiative and contra resupply operation. He said the entries offered no new insights about those events.
Reagan, later joined by the Bush administration, fought the subpoena
"If the concept of executive privilege is to retain any meaning, it will surely shield personal presidential leadership on so flimsy a basis," Greene said.
"The inability of a witness to recall ... does not automatically entile a party ... to rumbleage from ...
personal papers, including his personal diary," he said.
Prosecution witnesses have testified during the 7½ days of the trial that Poindexter destroyed a presidential document and sent false letters to Congress about covert aid to the contras.
Reagan's videotaped testimony taken Feb. 16-17 was shown in Greenwich courtroom on television, then inbound one position in front of the jury.
The jury is expected to finish watching the eight-hour videotape this morning.
In the first two hours of his testimony, Reagan described the Iran initiative and criticized the media for depicting the arms sales as a straight arms-for-hostages deal.
Reagan's characterization of news reports as totally erroneous prompted several jurors to look over at the press section.
Two jurrors smiled after Reagan mistakenly mentioned France in connection with the Iran initiative and had to correct himself.
A juror yawned as the former president began describing the administration's efforts on behalf of the contras.
Provision combats city smog
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Environmentalists, defeated twice in the Senate in attempts to strengthen the clean air bill, tried to salvage a victory yesterday as lawmakers considered a proposal to close loopholes in laws combating urban smog.
It was the third provision sought to add stronger environmental controls and parts of a compromise bill worked by the Senate. Leaders senate and the White House.
The proposal would preserve the federal government's authority to impose an air pollution reduction plan if states and local officials fail to act. It also would eliminate waivers, on expense for some industrial polluters, and broaden the smog-controlling curbs to include smaller polluters.
The principal sponsors were senators from the Northeast and California where many cities suffer from the dirtiest air.
Nation/World briefs
RELIEF ARRIVES: A convoy of trucks unloaded at least 110 tons of food for famine victims yesterday after safely passing with wartown northern Ethiopia.
The 11 trucks arrived Tuesday night in Kobo in the Wollo province after leaving Desiex, the provincial capital, at dawn on a 75-mile journey on mountainous roads through contested territory.
The convoy was the first relief effort since early February, when a rebel offensive closed a Red Sea port being used to unload supplies.
tory but said only a small fraction of starving people were being reached.
Bush delivered his assurance at a ceremony at the White House becoming Poland's first non-communist prime minister since World War II.
BUSH WELCOME LEADER:
President Bush told Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki yesterday that his country's borders must not be altered by the reunification of Germany.
The U.S. State Department yesterday welcomed the resumption of food delivery to rebel-held territory ceded to Poland by Germany after World War II. Moreover, Poland wants a greater role than it has been granted in international discussions about German reunification.
At the top of the agenda are Poland's fears that a reunified Germany may try to claim terri
BAKER MEETS MANDela: Secretary of State James Baker III met black national leader leader Mandela yesterday amid growing superpower diplomacy for more reform in white minority-led South Africa.
nadze departed.
Delegates from more than 100 nations were in Namibia to celebrate its independence from South Africa, and the occasion provided a prime opportunity for officials to confer.
ASPIRIN ANTIDOTE: An aspirin a day cuts in half the risk of strokes caused by abnormal heartbeats, a new study has concluded.
The strokes are devastating disruptions of blood flow to the brain that strike 75,000 U.S. citizens each year.
Such strokes are triggered by extremely rapid beating of the heart's upper chambers.
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