University Daily Kansan / Friday, January 19, 1990
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Colombia disputes surrender by cartel
The Associated Press
BOGOTA, Colombia — Leading politicians said yesterday that the cocaine traffickers' admission of defeat in Colombia's drug war meant the struggle had almost ended, but the press said the government must fight on.
The Extravitabiles, an armed group representing the Medellin cocaine cartel, said in a statement Wednesday that it had been defeated by government and would abandon the long business in exchange for amnesty.
The government, however, said that the drug traffickers would have to surrender to authorities and face charges.
Otherwise, the traffickers' communique would be viewed as another effort to trick the government into ending its 5-month-old crackdown, Interior Minister Carlos Lemos Simmonds said.
He said that under no circumstances would the government negotiate with the traffickers-
Soviet reserves enter fray
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — The Defense Ministry called up reserve troops yesterday to help 29,000 soldiers quill ethnic violence that has killed at least 68 people and wounded more than 220.
The death toll rose from 58 yesterday, and the infury fell from 169.
At least 10,500 Armenians reportedly have been evacuated from the Azerbaihtan capital of Baku, where a bombing mission began the violence Saturday.
Extremists have obtained heavy weaponry, including helicopters, tanks and ground-to-ground missiles in what Interior Minster Vadim Bakatin on Thursday called a "civil
In his first public comments since the Baku riots, President Mikhail S. Gorbachev defended the Kremlin's decision Monday to declare a state of emergency but said the ethnic problems date back centuries.
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"The problems, which have been accumulating for tens, no, for hundreds of years, have erupted and acquired the character we are now confronted with," he said in a meeting in Moscow.
"We are now busy trying to halt this process, to prevent it from going deeper and getting more acute." Gorbachev said in comments broadcast on state radio. "We have
resorted to the use of force against criminals, against this vandalism."
On Wednesday, the 29,000 troops already in Azerbaijan and the republic of Armenia were authorized to shoot, if necessary, to stop the bitter conflict. The United States potted territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, according to Soviet media.
The activation of reserve troops resulted in part from Gorbachev's recent depletion of the armed forced by 500,000 troops. Tass said that the reserves were men who had recently completed their compulsory tours in the Soviet army.
Foreign reporters were barred from travel to the republics.
Bulgarian dictator arrested
The Associated Press
SOFIA, Bulgaria – former leader Todor Zhikov – was put under house arrest and charged with abuse of power and fomenting ethnic unrest, the government-run news agency BTA reported yesterday.
The state agency also said opposition talks with the ruling Communities about access to Bulgaria's broadband networks broke down yesterday.
The prosecution-general's office issued a warrant for the deposed
dictator of 34 years, who was toppled in a November uprising, charging Zhivkov with malfeasance in office, inciting ethnic hostility and misuse of state property.
Zhivkov was the author of so-called "Bulgarianization," the persecution and forced assimilation of the nation's 1.5 million ethnic Turks and other native Bulgarian Muslims, known as Pomaks.
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Zhivkov's often-violent forced assimilation policy banned Muslim religious practices and required ethnic
Turks and Muslims to forsake their own names and take.Bukarian ones.
The talks with the reform gernment of party chief Petar Mladenov have foundered because of the government's refusal to allow the opposition to use the electronic media to spread its democratic message throughout this mostly rural nation.
Earlier this week, the Communist Party agreed to allow the opposition to publish its own newspaper and promised it office space.
CHINESE PROTESTERS FREED:
China has released 573 people arrested for their part in pro-democracy protests last spring and held for six months or more without being formally charged, it was reported yesterday.
The "lawbreakers" were released after "they pleaded guilty and showed repentance," the official Xinhua News Agency quoted a Public Security Ministry official as saying.
Chinese sources recently reported that significant numbers of people were being released, including students, but none were leaders of the movement.
KINOPHN WON'T COOPERATE:
The U.S. government has balked at court orders to turn in both secret and non-secret documents to aid the defense in the case against Manuel Noriegia and his co-defendants, attorneys charged yesterday.
And a lawyer for convicted drug kingpin Carlos Lehder Rivas strongly denied that his client would cooperate with the government to convict the deposed Panamanian leader, despite an interview Lehder gave implicating Noriega.
VISITS MAY BE TOO SOON: Vice President Dan Quayle, resistance to proposed visits to several Latin American nations,
may have to settle for talks with some leaders outside of their home countries, administration officials indicated v戴廷.
Several countries have signaled that it is too soon for Quayle to visit because of simmering resentment about the U.S. military invasion of Panama, officials said.
ARMS SHOULD BE DELAYED: The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee called on the Bush administration yesterday to delay production of some high-tech weapons in light of budget pressures and a lessening Soviet threat.
Rep. Les Aspin, D-Wis., said the Warsaw Pact can no longer be perceived as a cohesive military alliance ready to respond blindly to orders from Moscow. In response to areas where the threat has diminished, the United States should reduce its spending on defense he said.
Berry considered the photos his private property, attorney Melvin Belli said Wednesday after he filed the $10 million lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court.
PHOTOS LEAD TO SUIT: Rock 'n' roller pioneer Chuck Berry, 63, said pictures of him in the allogear with female companions were stolen, and he is suing the magazine that published them.
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