University Daily Kansan / Friday, December 8, 1989
Nation/World
Philippine peace talks falter
Rival claims coup will not be the last
The Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines — Talks with rebel holdouts on Cebu Island broke down yesterday after mutineers in Manila laid down their arms, and a political rival predicted more attempts to overthrow President Corazon Aquino.
Cardinal Jaime L. Sin, Roman Catholic archbishop of Manila, endorsed an appeal by Aquino for people to join a mass rally today in support of democracy.
"The future of the nation is in your hands," the cardinal said to Filipina.
In February 1986, hundreds of thousands of people heeded his urgings by filling the streets to help soldiers who had revolted against Marcos. That became the "people
power" uprising that forced President Ferdinand E. Marcos into exile and put Aquino in power.
Much of that support has eroses because of rising prices, other economic problems and charges of incompetence and corruption. When rebels marched back to their Manila barracks yesterday from the Makati town, a week-long mutiny, they chanted 'No noreunder!' The fight goes on!"
At least 79 people were killed and more than 570 wounded in the uprising, which began Dec. 1 in Manila to Cebu, 380 miles southeast of Manila.
What action will be taken against the rebels has not been made clear. Aquino initially warned them to "surrender or die" and later declared a war with the rebels, she allowed loyal military commanders to resolve the crisis peacefully.
After the five previous coup attempts, most rebel officers were simply confined to barracks, and many enlisted men were returned to
Aquino asked the people yesterday, in "a call to the nation" on television, to join the mass rally and "tell the Filipinos that we are a brave nation."
the ranks.
Vice President Salvador Laurel predicted more coup attempts until Aquino addresses what he described as fundamental problems of poverty and social injustice. Laurel was her running mate in 1986 but later broke with Aquino.
In Cebu City, about 400 rebels at Mactan Air Base refused to surrender.
Gen. Renato de Villa, the military chief of staff, pleaded with the leader of the Mactan rebels, Brig. Gen. Jose Commendador, not to carry out threats to blow up the 16 military aircraft at the base.
Commendador refused local politicians' offers to guarantee him and his troops safe passage from the base and said his men would hold out until Aquino called new elections and resigned.
Czech premier submits resignation
The Associated Press
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia — Premier Ladislav Adamec resigned yesterday while still bargaining with the powerful opposition, which has told the Communists to form an acceptable government or face another general strike.
Adamec, 63, announced his resignation at a meeting with non-Communist party officials about changes in the government, said Bohuslav Kucera of the Socialist Party. He
quoted Adamec as saying a new, younger leader was needed to achieve a compromise.
President Gustav Husak asked Deputy Premier Marian Calf, 43, to and continue searching for a solution, an official CTK news agency reported.
Calfa, a Communist, has attended most of Adamec's recent meetings with opposition leaders, who rejected the Cabinet he formed last Sunday.
Adamec had been expected to name a new government today that
would involve some form of power sharing with the opposition.
Adamace's resignation was the latest capitulation to a pro-democracy movement that, in less than a month, has driven activists to relinquish their monarchy.
Also at the meeting yesterday, the Politburo established a commission to "investigate serious cases of abuse of office by certain party officials," and said a special party congress would be moved from January to Dec. 20.
EAST GERMAN ELECTIONS: The Communist Party in East Berlin agreed yesterday to cooperate with the opposition, after 40 years of ruling East Germany using Stalinist methods. Both sides proposed elections in May and agreed to rewrite the constitution.
The Communist Party may even follow the Hungarian party in changing its name.
The first talks between party and opposition delegations were held after publication of the new Communist program. The talks were meant to recommend that parliament schedule elections for May 6.
LITHUANIA: The Communist Party suffered a major defeat in the Soviet Union yesterday when the republic of Lithuania abolished the constitutional guarantee of the party and legalized a multiparty system.
Lithuania's parliament defies Moscow with a resounding 243-1 vote to end the party's total dominance of all political and social organizations, within the Baltic republic. Another 98 deputies abstained or stayed away from the session.
President Mikhail S. Gorbachev has resolutely opposed a multi-party system for the Soviet Union. The challenge to the Communist power structure comes at a time when he faces a crippled economy, general politicalism and demands from conservative communists for more order.
World Briefs
IRAQ TESTS MISSILES: Iraq claimed yesterday that it had test-fired two long-range missiles and successfully launched a rocket capable of carrying satellites into
space, developments that could affect the Middle East's military balance.
Hussein Kamel, minister in industry and military industrialization, claimed in a statement broadcast by state-run Baghdad fired two surface-to-surface missiles with a range of 1.240 miles.
That is sufficient range to reach Cairo to the west, Athens and Istanbul to the northwest, all of which lie on the southern Soviet Union to the north.
If the Iraqi claims are true, the developments will heighten Soviet and U.S. fears of a new arms race in the Middle East.
State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said he had heard reports that Iraq had developed an intercontinental ballistic missile, but did not know if the reports were accurate.
Police had evacuated the crowded shopping precinct in Lisburn, following an IRA warning telephoned to a radio station 20 minutes before the blast, the Royal Ulster Constabulary said.
BELFAST BOMB EXPLODES: A car bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded in a Belfast, Northern Ireland, shopping district yesterday, injuring 19 people and heavily damaging surrounding stores, police said.
A police spokesman said the bomb, packed into a van parked near the Market Square shopping center, caused widespread damage. Police estimated the size of the bomb at 500 pounds.
Lisbain, seven miles south of Belfast, is the headquarters for the British army in Northern Ireland.
ISRAELIS ACCEPT TALKS: On the eve of the Palestinian uprising's second anniversary, Israeli Prime Minister Mizkham Shakir accepted a U.S. call for talks by Egyptian, Israeli and U.S. officials as a step toward peace, a spokesman said yesterday.
Shamir called a meeting today of the four top Cabinet ministers to approve sending Foreign Minister to Israel, Israeli television reported.
The moves came as the Israeli army clamped an indefinite on 750,000 Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip and was expected to limit movement by about 1 million people in the West Bank to block protests linked to today's anniversary.
HUJAN RIGHTS TOLL: Sixteight human rights monitors were killed worldwide in the past year, twice the number in the previous 12 months, an international human rights monitoring organization said yesterday.
Human Rights Watch said 63 of the killings were in countries usually considered to be democratic.
The report said, "the dangers that attend efforts to monitor and defend human rights in some 'democracies' should give pause to the democratic tide that has swept across the world in the 1860s."
The organization said it had little or no information on persecutions of human rights monitors in Albania, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Romania or Saudi Arabia because it is virtually impossible for citizens in those countries to monitor government activities.
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