University Daily Kansan / Friday, January 26, 1990
Nation/World
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Baltics offer to mediate feud
Armenians agree to partial cease-fire with Azerbaijanis
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Warring nationalists agreed yesterday to a cease-fire along one of the battlefronts of the bloody conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Tass said.
The announcement came as Baltic activists, worried that the dispute might escalate their own concerns, independently offered to help mediate the blood feud between
Armenia and Azerbaijan.
There were fewer reports of fighting yesterday. Tass said life was returning to normal in Baku, the Azerbaijani capital that was the scene of much of the violence.
During talks in the Armenian town of Yerakshe, representatives of the Armenian All-National Movement and the People's Front of Nakhichevan agreed to lay down their weapons, the Soviet news agency said.
"According to the agreement . . . along the entire border between Armenia and the Nakhihevan Autonomous region, all exchanges of fire between opposing informal groups must stop." Tass said.
tussid did not say whether the truce was holding. It also was uncertain whether the two organizations could enforce it.
Martin Martirosyan, a spokesman for the Armenian All-National Movement, said no agreement had been reached yet on an exchange of hostages. He said three Armenians were being held by Azerbaijanis.
Tass also said the leaders of the informal organizations would meet Saturday to agree on further separating the militias.
The fighting is perhaps the biggest internal crisis that has faced President Mikhail S. Gorbachev during his nearly five years in power.
Bush prepares Panama aid package
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush yesterday readied more than $1 billion in economic aid to help Panama recover from last month's U.S. military invasion, aides said.
The aid package will be used to repair damages estimated at up to $2 billion stemming from the Dec. 20
invasion.
The aid package will include development aid, loan guarantees and programs to encourage investment, said no official.
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The Bush administration will encourage other nations, including Japan and Western European nations, to help in Panama's recover.
One top official said that the $1 billion is not necessarily a completely new aid package.
The package will include money for construction of new housing to replace the homes destroyed in the invasion, officials said.
NEW AIDS DRUG: A synthetic compound has shown in laboratory experiments to prevent reproduction of the AIDS virus in a way different than AZT, the only antiviral drug now approved for use against AIDS, researchers announced yesterday.
The compound, a manmade peptide called U-81749, appears to block the final stage of a process the AIDS virus uses to reproduce itself in human cells. AZT, or zidovudine, attacks an earlier stage in the life cycle of the virus.
"It (U-81749) drastically slows down and reduces the number of mature viral particles you get in an infection," said Leonard Post, director of infectious disease research at the Uplohn Co., where the compound was developed.
Post said the compound works by inhibiting the action of protease, an enzyme used by the AIDS virus to process proteins during the final stages of its reproduction. The result, he said, is that the virus cannot make mature copies of itself, and this prevents the spread of infection to other cells.
Nation/World briefs
VIETNAMESE DISPUTE: An international meeting ended in disarray, and the fate of thousands of Vietnamese refugees relies on the settlement of a dispute between the United States and Britain about whether they should be sent home against their will.
The 30-nation conference concerning refugees adjourned Wednesday after U.S. officials insisted that no Vietnamese be forced to return home before Jan. 1, 1991. That blocked consonance on a proposed starting date of July 1.
MANDELA CLARIFIES STANCE: Jailed Black leader Nelson Mandela yesterday rejected reports that he had converted to capitalism and said he was firmly committed to nationalization of banks, mines and monopoly industries.
Mandela, a leader of the outlawed African National Congress, has been jailed since 1962. He is expected to be freed in a few weeks and to play a role in promoting talks between the government and ANC in Johannesburg, South Africa.
ISRAELI ATTACK: Israeli war planes blasted bases of three Palestinian guerrilla groups in south Lebanon yesterday in apparent retaliation for the killing of an Israeli colonel in a guerrilla ambush, police said.
One man was killed and three people were wounded, police said.
BUSH SOCIAL SECURITY PLAN
President Bush is refusing to rule out a Republican plan that would ultimately make the Social Security system private, as the battle sharpens over a Democrat's bill slashing the retirement system's payroll tax.
Bush told reporters Wednesday that a plan by rep. John E. Porter, R-III., and the No. 2 House Republican leader, Newt Gingrich of Georgia, to place workers' retirement payments into private accounts "has some interesting ingredients to it" and is worthy of consideration, of some study."
The president cautioned that his 1991 budget proposal — which he unveils Monday — will contain a different plan for addressing the huge Social Security surpluses.
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