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Monday, October 18, 1993
NATION/WORLD
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Haitians flee capital as ships arrive
Dole offers bill limiting Clinton's use of military
The Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A U.S. warship rode the horizon off the capital yesterday — to some Haitians an omen that a foreign invasion was imminent, to others a harbinger that democracy might soon be restored.
The ship was one of six dispatched by President Clinton to enforce a U.N. arms and oil embargo that is to take effect at midnight tonight unless Haiti's military leaders cooperate with a U.N.-brokered accord on bringing back ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
It was the first one spotted by the
capital's fearful residents, although a Pentagon representative in Washington, Maj. Steve Little, said all six were in place yesterday. The ship was not immediately identified.
Meanwhile, opponents of Aristide's return threatened to shut down business in Port-au-Prince again today. Such efforts succeeded in the past with help from the military and allied civilian gangs.
And in Washington, Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole said he would offer legislation restricting Clinton's authority to send troops to Haiti.
Dole, speaking on CBS "Face the Nation," said he would offer an amendment early this week requiring congressional authorization for sending U.S. troops to Haiti unless the president certifies certain conditions, such as a threat to national security, exist.
"I wouldn't risk any American lives to put Aristide back in power and try to force democracy on Haiti," he said.
Despairing Port-au-Prince residents jammed aboard trucks yesterday to flee the city. Bus drivers seeking to capitalize on the fear doubled fares.
On a street in the capital, gunmen killed a young woman who had been carrying a suitcase, presumably intending to leave.
In fits and starts, Haiti in recent weeks had been working toward the return of Aristide and democracy. Aristide, the country's first freely elected leader, was deposed in a September 1991 military coup and went into exile.
Aristide was to return Oct. 30 under an accord he and army commander Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras signed in July. A pro-Aristide prime minister had taken office as another step to ease
the transition, which was to be aided by a 1,600-man U. N. militar mission.
But Cedrus refused last week to step down because of a dispute over an amnesty for human-rights violators. A U.S. warship carrying troops for the U.N. mission turned back in the face of unruly port workers and protesters. The nation's justice minister was assassinated in broad daylight.
Nearly all U.N. personnel have been evacuated from the country, and the U.S. Embassy is warning Americans in Haiti to be careful.
There is wide hostility toward Americans from Haitians who believe that an invasion or longtime military presence, such as in Somalia, is in the works. One ultranationalist leader said Saturday that his followers would use voodoo against foreign invaders.
MOSCOW
Yeltsin's coalition names candidates for new parliament
A coalition of President Boris Yeltsin's allies nominated reformers — including some prominent Cabinet members — yesterday to run for Russia's new parliament.
The coalition, Russia's Choice, was established by government members and other Yeltsin allies. It is widely described as "the president's party" and a favorite in the Dec. 12 parliamentary election.
The candidates included deputy prime ministers Yegor Gaidar, Vladimir Shumeiko and Anatoly Chubais; Yeltsin's administration chief Sergeli Filatov; Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev; Finance Minister Boris Fyodovov; and Dmitry Volkogonov, a military advisor to the president.
The coalition appears to enjoy substantial financial backing and could build a modern, media-oriented campaign. Its slogan is "Freedom, Private Property and Lawfulness."
Other presidential aides, pro-reform economists and democratic activists were also on the 14-name list. Gaidar, a major architect of Yeltsin's market reforms, was given the right to nominate five more candidates.
Russia's Choice leaders warned against excessive optimism, saying that the coalition faces a tough election campaign and strong competition from other pro-reform groups.
One competing movement, the Russian Unity and Concord Party, was founded yesterday. Its leaders
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include deputy prime ministers Sergei Shakhai and Alexander Shokhin as well as Sergei Stankevich, a Yeltsin adviser.
Shakhrai said the party seeks to represent Russia's provinces, as opposed to Moscow's political elite, and will strive for a slower pace of reforms.
SRINAGAR, India Peace sought at seized shrine
Indian forces sought to defuse tensions yesterday with Muslim separatists who have taken over Kashmir's holiest Islamic shrine and threatened to blow it up.
In New Delhi, Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao and his Cabinet met to discuss the crisis at the Hazratbal Mosque, believed to be the center of the armed effort to separate the Jammu-Kashmir state from India.
The domed, white marble building houses what is believed to be a hair from the prophet Mohammed, a relic so holy that its brief disappearance 20 years ago sparked a week of rioting.
Police said they had moved to the building Friday in the belief that militants had broken the locks of the mosque's sanctuary and intended to steal the relic. However, the guerrillas accused the security forces of trying to break into the inner sanctum to remove the relic in an attempt to discredit the militants.
About 400 soldiers surrounded the mosque yesterday while negotiations continued.
Police Inspector-General Ashok Kumar Suri, who was negotiating with the militants, said that they had threatened to blow up the mosque if security forces entered the shrine.
EAST FINLEY, Pa.
EAST FINLEY, Pa. Violence erupts at mine strike
Violence broke out during a protest staged by striking union coal miners near a non-union mine in southwestern Pennsylvania. One miner was slightly injured.
About 18,000 United Mine Workers members in seven states have been on a gradually-expanding selective strike since May 10 against the Bituminous Coal Operators Association, an industry contract bargaining group.
Thomas Hoffman, a representative for the BCOA and CONSOL Inc., parent company of the mine targeted by Saturday's protest, yesterday called the UMW activists union thugs.
Union representative Jim Grossfeld in Washington said he was still receiving information about the disturbance.
Compiled from The Associated Press.
Canadian leader behind with election a week away
The Associated Press
RED DEER, Alberta — Prime Minister Kim Campbell was in the middle of a campaign harangue against Liberal leader Jean Chretien when a heckler interjected, "Then how come he's leading?"
With a week to go before the Oct.
25 election, many folks are asking
how come indeed. How can a lack-
luster Liberal dinosaur with few
new ideas command a 15-point
lead over a sitting prime minister?
The answer has less to do with Campbell's Progressive Conservative program or Chretien's unrevolutionary thought than with upstart regional protest movements and the legacy of former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, the most unpopular Canadian leader since polling began.
Campbell last week wrapped up an uninspired tour of western Canada, heartland of the six-yearold Conservative Reform Party,
and headed for Quebec to take on the separatist Bloc Qbebercoils.
Both movements are draining votes from Canada's mainstream parties, the Progressive Conservatives, the Liberals and even the socialist New Democratic Party. But the Progressive Conservatives are being hurt the worst.
It now looks increasingly likely that no party will win a majority in Canada's 295-seat House of Commons, meaning Canada would be governed by a shaky minority government.
An Angus Reid poll showed the Liberals leading by 37 percent among 1,961 Canadians surveyed. Next were the Conservatives at 22 percent and the Reform Party with 18 percent. The Bloc Quebecois is at 12 percent nationally but has 46 percent in Quebec, the only province in which it is running candidates.
The poll has a 2.5 percent margin of error.
Telecommunications mergers create concerns about control
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON—A recent string of multibillion-dollar corporate alliances is aimed at creating a revolutionary information network, spawning business opportunities unheard of since the postwar boom of the 1950s.
But the government is worried that the new communication giants may attain monopolistic power, so federal regulators and lawmakers are busy looking for ways to bridle this new frontier of technology and commerce.
Legislation is being written in both the House and the Senate to address some of the anticipated problems of mergers like the one announced Wednesday between Bell Atlantic phone company and a cable giant, Tele-Communications Inc.
The $33 billion merger will create a network that delivers interactive television and phone service to the millions of customers in the current service areas of the two companies —
about one-third of the nation.
The deal caps a number of other big alliances:
AT&T has announced it will buy McCaw Cellular, the nation's largest cellular phone company.
U. S. West regional telephone company said it would invest $2.5 billion in Time Warner, the second-largest cable TV operator in the country.
Viacom cable television and QVC cable network both are bidding for Paramount.
Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., head of the House Energy and Commerce telecommunications subcommittee, said that the government generally supported the technological advancements that companies promise from such mergers if they guaranteed that every family in the country was able use their services.
He has asked the Federal Communications Commission to find out whether the mergers, acquisitions and alliances are likely to choke competition.
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