University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, February 14, 1990
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Thousands welcome Mandela home
The Associated Press
SOWETO, South Africa — Nelson Mandela came home a hero yesterday, welcomed after nearly three decades by an ecstatic throng of Blacks who delighted in his freedom but also heard him mourn the oppression of apartheid.
More than 120,000 people crammed into the country's largest stadium to greet the man revered by most South
African Blacks as their leader. Many were getting their first glimpse of him.
"The march toward freedom and justice is irreversible," Mandela told the roaring crowd in the township of Bengaluru for the bleakest symbols of apartheid.
work with discipline to end white-minority rule.
Mandela exhorted Blacks to end their factional disputes, take control of a crisis-ridden school system and
Whites, he said, must be reassured that "a South Africa without apartheid will be a better place for all."
Some spectators came six hours early to get seats, and the 80,000-seat stadium was overflowing by the time Mandela arrived. Youths were perched precariously on wall tops, others scaled 120-foot high light lows.
ers and more than 30 people were injured as crowds shoved and pushed to get a view of the podium.
An explosion of joy shook the stadium when Mandela, 71, emerged from an underground walkway, saluting with a raised fist.
Nation/World briefs
"Mandela! Mandela!" the crowd roared as he slowly walked around the field, flanked by top leaders of his African National Congress.
GUERRILLAS KIDNAP TWO: Letist guerrillas kidnapped two U.S. citizens in Colombia yesterday to protest President Bush's visit for a drug summit and said they would put their captives on trial, police said. One captive later was reported released.
Violence worsens in Soviet republic
The two from the United States, abducted in the drug capital of Medellin, were identified as David Donnelly and Archer Donnelly, a businessman.
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — A crowd stormed Communist Party headquarters in the Tadzhikistan capital of Dusanbe yesterday in ethnic rioting that has killed at least 37 people and injured 108. news reports said.
Armenians fled the city by the hundreds to escape the violence, which began Monday. The situation worsened yesterday, with at least 200 new attacks and other incidents despite a curfew and state of emergency, late-night television news said.
Soldiers in tanks and armored personnel carriers were reportedly in control of the central Asian city
located about 1,600 miles from Moscow, but violence was spreading to the suburbs, said Anatoly Larenok, a correspondent for the national newspaper Vozdushny Transport.
People began to flock into Dushanbe, a city with about 400,000 residents, early yesterday to gather in front of Communist Party headquarters. But officials failed to persuade them to disperse, and the crowd attacked the building, the television report said.
Later, local authorities appealed to the population on Tadikistan television to repel the "hooligans." They were successful. The situation is sufficient to control the situation.
Group wants limits on terms in Congress
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Leaders of a new organization yesterday called for state legislatures to back a constitutional amendment limiting the tenure of members of Congress to 12 years in each house.
"America's outrage with its Congress has reached an all-time high, and it's no wonder," said former Rep. James K. Coyne of Pennsylvania, co-chairman of Americans to Limit Congressional Terms.
"Even as we struggle to free ourselves from budget deficits, Congress acts to give itself a 40
percent pay raise. By 1991, members of Congress will pay themselves nearly $121,000 a year, placing them in the top 1 percent of American wage earners."
The organization wants two-thirds of the state legislatures to pass resolutions that would call upon Congress to convene a constitutional convention to enact a constitutional amendment limiting the number of terms in the Senate and six two-year terms in the House.
Any constitutional amendment must be ratified by three-fourths of the states.
Donnelly was released unhurt at 10:30 a.m., about three hours after he was kidnapped, said an official at the school where Kent is a teacher. He was released along with his Colombian girlfriend, the official said.
TROOPS LEAVE PANAMA: The United States has withdrawn all of its invasion troops from Panama, leaving a U.S. force of 13,504 soldiers in the country, the White House said yesterday.
In the face of resentment from many Latin nations, which objected to the continued presence of the invasion troops in Panama, President Bush promised in his Jan. 31 State of the Union address to bring the invasion troops home by the end of February.
The U.S. troop strength in Panama is now just under the 13,597 stationed there before the Dec. 20 invasion, said presidential press secretary Marlin Fitzwater.
winds threatened to push oil on台湾 Beaches beaches yesterday as reinforcements joined the battle to block an incoming wave, after a tanker spill fouled the coast.
Meanwhile, the 811-foot tanker American Trader docked for repairs.
The cleanup crew was tripped to 1,120 workers on six miles of oil-stained beach and another 300 workers were being trained to handle the crude oil invasion. Fifteen miles of northern California remained closed.
Winds combined with increasing surf to push new bands of thick crude ashore, threatening wildlife sanctuaries. The 400-gallon spill has killed 86 birds and coated 261 others with oil.
ASPEN VOTES ON FUR: Residents of Aspen, Colo., passed judgment yesterday on an ordinance that would make it the nation's first furrier-free zone. Residents also voted on measures about how much growth should be allowed.
"Everyone is coming out. It's going slow," said deputy city clerk Kathy Strickland.
Voter turnout was heavy.
WINDS WORSEN SPILL: Blustery
Like ski lifts, there was a 20-minute wait at polling places, she said.
... So the turnout is going to be good," she said.
"We had three boots at the precincts last time, and now we have four."
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