University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, March 21, 1990
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Iran's leaders reject hostage negotiations
The Associated Press
NICOSIA, Cyprus — A majority of Iran's parliament members has demanded that the government not negotiate to gain freedom for Western hostages in Lebanon, Teheran radio reported yesterday.
The radio, monitored in Cyprus, said parliament issued a statement Monday night saying the fate of the opposition should depend on the Lebanese only.
The statement, signed by 170 members of the 270-member parliament, was the latest sign of a power struggle in Teheran about the captives.
Moderates led by President Hashemi Rafsanjani have said the issue is moving toward a solution.
"The fate of the western hostages in Lebanon depends on what the Muslim people of Lebanon want — an end to the U.S. plots in Lebanon and the clarification of the fate of the Lebanese and Palestinian hostages in prisons in the West," the statement said.
The pro-Iranian Lebanese Shiite Muslim groups that hold most of the 18 Westerners have in the past demanded freedom for hundreds of Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners held in Israeli jails.
Lithuanians defy Moscow warning
VILNIUS, U.S.S.R. — Hundreds of Lithuanian youths volunteered yesterday to serve as the breakaway republic's customs and frontier guards despite a Kremlin warning not to change border security operations.
The Associated Press
ning of negotiations on the Baltic republic's demand for independence.
Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis said the warning from Moscow marked the begin-
Lithuania declared itself independent on March 11, 50 years after it was occupied by the Red Army and amended to the Soviet Union. The Soviet Parliament declared the decree invalid but did not say what steps it would take to stop the republic from seceding.
Lithuanian officials said there were no plans to arm the border force.
The symbolic value of the force may help convince other governments that Lithuania is controlling its territory and should be recognized formally as a full-fledged country, said Edward Tuskenik of the republic parliament's information center.
Food trucks to try to reach 1 million starving Ethiopians
The Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya — Fifteen trucks loaded with 150,000 tons of food were ready to roll through a war zone in northern Ethiopia yesterday in an attempt to feed some of an estimated 4 million famine victims.
Officials said that, at best, they hoped to reach about 1 million people.
in the provinces of Wollo and Tigre, which is about one-fourth the number of people in danger of dying this year, according to the United Nations.
"We won't really know how well, or if, this is going to work until the first convoy gets through," said Hamed Bahget, deputy director of Catholic Relief Services in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital.
PROSECUTION OF POINDEXTER:
Prosecutors closed their case yesterday against John Poindexter after a Senate staff member testified that it seemed strange how little Poindexter said he knew about a 1985 missile shipment to Iran.
Poindexter, who was national security adviser in the Reagan administration, is accused of concealing from Congress the U.S. role in a November 1965 Hawk missile shipment to Iran and also Oliver North's secret military assistance to the Nicaraguan contras.
"The government rests its case," Iran-contra prosecutor Dan Webb said at the $7 \frac{1}{2}$ days of testimony, during which the government called 10 witnesses.
The government's primary witness was North, who reluctantly testified
against his former boss with for 3½ days.
CHINA'S STERN POLICY: China's premier Li Peng yesterday reaffirmed his country's hard-line policies, which have been in place since the pro-democracy movement was crushed last year. He also attacked Western ideas and lauded the superiority of socialism.
"As we confront pressure from abroad and difficulties at home, preservation of the country's stability is a matter of paramount importance," Li said in a state of the nation after China's annual legislative session.
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Li stressed the importance of maintaining correct ideology to combat bourgeois liberalism or Western ideas. He also stressed the need for
more central planning and control of the economy.
"A trend toward bourgeois-liberalization thinking had run rampant during previous years," he told the 2,705 delegates to the National People's Congress. But, he said, "Importance has been attached afresh to ideological and political work."
In contrast to recent developments in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Li proclaimed that come what may, socialist China would stand firm in the East. He reaffirmed the leading role of the Communist Party.
MARCOS RACKETEERING TRIAL:
Former Philippines first lady Imelda Marcos arrived in court in New York for the start of her racketeering trial yesterday. She complained about
"I am a Filipino citizen. I should be tried in my own country, the Republic of the Philippines, not in a foreign country," Marc told a crush of reporters before entering the U.S. courtroom in the United States. District Courthouse.
Supporters carrying signs that read "Marcos is Innocent" and "Stop Persecuting Mrs. Marcos" greeted Marcos when she arrived with her lawyer.
Marcos, 60, is accused of taking part in the illegal transfer of more than $160 million from the Philippines treasury to buy Manhattan real estate. The indictment also alleges she defrauded $165 million from banking institutions to finance the properties.
REWARD FOR PAINTINGS: The
Gardner Museum in Boston yesterday offered a $1 million reward for information leading to the recovery of a dozen uninsured art treasures that were stolen in one of the largest art heists in the 20th century.
At the same time, investigators admitted they had few leads and turned their attention to what may have been similar recent efforts to break into the Gardner and the Museum of Fine Arts.
Eleven paintings and drawings by Rembrandt, Degas and Vermeer and other Old Masters were among the works stolen from the Gardner. The loss was estimated in the hundreds of millions.
Museum officials said Sotheby's and Christie's, international art auction houses, had agreed to underwrite the $1 million reward.
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