University Daily Kansan / Monday, February 5. 1990
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Obstacles still block Mandela's release
The Associated Press
PAARL, South Africa — Serious obstacles still block the release of Nelson Mandela, and the white-led government must be pressured into further reform before he can be freed after nearly three decades in prison, Mandela's wife said yesterday.
President F.W. de Klerk partially lifted the country's state of
De Kierk's actions met many, but not all, of the conditions the ANC and Mandela had set for the start of negotiations to end apartheid and
emergency Friday. He announced the legalization of the African National Congress, placed a moratorium on executions and lifted restrictions on scores of anti-apartheid organizations.
give the voteless black majority a voice in the government.
Under the emergency regulations that remain in effect, the government can detain anyone for up to six months without charge and police have wide powers in dealing with political unrest.
Mandela, 71, was jailed in 1962 and is serving a life sentence for helping
to plan the start of the ANC's sabotage campaign against the government.
De. Klekr said the government would free Mandela as soon as possible. He mentioned safety and perseverance, but not what he said would be a short delay what he said would be a short delay
"The onus is on Mr. de Klerk," his wife told journalists."
Nation/World briefs
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration's goal of slashing the federal deficit to $63.1 billion next year could be thwarted by the Federal Reserve Board's goal of keeping inflation under control, according to many private economists.
The Associated Press
Analysts predicted that the central bank would keep interest rates higher than the administration wanted, keeping overall economic growth below the administration's
Fed expected to oppose Bush's deficit-slashing
assumed growth.
The Fed's main policymaking group, composed of Fed governors and regional Fed bank presidents, is scheduled to hold closed-door discussions tomorrow and Wednesday to set monetary strategy for the rest of the year.
The results of those deliberations will not be known until Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan testifies before Congress on Feb. 20.
Solidarity founder Walesa plans to resign union post
The Associated Press
GDANSK, Poland — Solidarity leader Lech Walesa said yesterday he probably would step down in April as leader of the union that he founded as a shipyard electrician and ultimately led into the halls of government.
PARTY BREAK: Slovenia's liberal Communists yesterday broke away from the national Communist Party and declared that they no longer recognized the institution that has ruled Yugoslavia since World War II.
Wales, 46, who has served as leader of the Eastern Bloc's first independent trade union since its founding in 1980, made the statement during a speech before 1,000 supporters in his home city of Gdansk. At one point during the Walesa was interrupted by beckling.
Walesa has spoken about retiring from the burdens of the union. Some people mumper he will make a bid for Poland's presidency if the country's constitution is altered, requiring new presidential elections.
The move came after disputes over the pace of democratic reform and a virtual trade war between the relatively affluent republic of Slovenia and its territorial Serbia, the largest and most portful of Yugoslavia's six republics.
The break from the national party by the Slovenian party was the first formal party schism since the Communists took power in 1945.
LEBANESE STRIKE! Rival Christian forces battled with tanks in burning east Beirut and fought with daggers and bayonetts for control of a key coastal town Sunday. Police said 210 people have died in the savage six-day showdown.
Gen. Michel Aoun's forces claimed they captured the town of Dbaye, 5 miles north of Beirut, from Christian warload Samir Geagea, and Aoun's Channel 5 TV station showed paratroopers occupying what it said was Geagua's Lebanese Forces base there.
CANAL DEFENSE The U.S. invasion of Panama has raised the issue once again of whether the United States will maintain a military presence beyond the year 2000, when the U.S. bases must close.
President Guillermo Endara has abolished Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega's military, leaving open the question about who would defend the Panama Canal.
CZECH TALKS: The official CTK news agency of Czechoslovakia announced that officials from the new non-Communist government would meet Kremlin officials in Moscow Wednesday for talks on withdrawing the estimated 75,000 Soviet troops from Czechoslovakia.
The tense report did not specify the length of the second round of the Soviet-Czechoslovak talks or who would be participating in them. The first round in Prague Jan. 15-16 failed to provide tangible results.
WORK FORGE CHANGES: Jobs for the unskilled and poorly educated are disappearing, and future employment will require, if not higher education, at least good communications skills and basic ability in math and reading, a new study reported.
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