University Daily Kansan / Thursday, November 30, 1989
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Christians to join forces against Syrian buildup
The Associated Press
BEIRUT — Christian militias that have opposed Gen. Michel Aoun said yesterday that they would join him in fighting the troops, tanks and artillery that Syria was massing around Lebanon's Christian enclave.
Ellas Hrawi, the new Christian president who is backed by Syria, dismissed Aoun as army commander Tuesday and ordered him to leave his post bunker beneath the presidential palace in Baalbeq, east of Beirut.
Aoun said that Hrawi's election by Parliament last week was unconstitutional and that he would not accept the coup attempt. He said "occupation army" left the country.
The Phalange Party, the main right-wing Christian political force and a foe of Aoun, pledged to confront any Syrian attempt to storm the 310-square-mile Christian enclave north and east of Beirut.
In a show of support that contradicted France's official position, 33 French legislators have joined thousands of young men who have formed a human shield around the palace.
One of the lawmakers, Bernard Bosson, said, "This is like the people's movement in Eastern Europe asking for democracy."
France supports Hrawi, who is trying to strengthen his central government and reunite the fractured military in an effort to end the war. The president has issued 14 years, and more than 150,000 people have been killed.
Christians have dominated the government, army and judiciary since Lebanon gained its independence from France in 1943.
Residents of Chctoura, an east Lebanon market town on the Damascus-Beirut road, said yesterday afternoon that scores of Syrian artillery pieces were moving toward Beirut and the central mountains above Baabaa, followed by dozens of trucks filled with ammunition.
Earlier, the residents reported seeing at least 15,000 Syrian soldiers in 800 trucks roll into Lebanon through the Beka Valley.
CIA PLANE CRASH: A CIA plane en route from Zaire to Angola carrying military and other equipment for U.S.-backed rebels in Angola crashed this week, killing an undetermined number of U.S. citizens and insurgents, government officials said yesterday.
The L-100 flight left a military base at Kamina in Zaire Monday night and went down not far from the southeastern Angolan town of Jamba, where the UNITA rebels have their headquarters, the sources said, attributing the crash to pilot error.
Asked for comment, CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield said, "As a matter of policy, we never confirm or deny such reports."
World Briefs
The sources were unable to identify the dead U.S. citizens but a Defense Department official on Tuesday reportedly notified the family of James Spessard, 31, of his death in a plane crash "near Zeilr."
A family member told the Hagerstown Morning Herald that the Pentagon official offered very little information about the crash.
Sspardis is survived by his wife, Deborah, and two small boys. Efforts to reach the family may evening were not successful.
Since 1980, the United States has been providing 'military aid to the Soviet Union in 14-year struggle against the Soviet-backed government in Angola.
U. S. resupply plan secretly have been using Zaire as a staging area for sending material to the rebel forces but Zairean President Mobutu Sese Selo ordered a halt to the campaign until he launched a peace mediation effort.
During a visit to Washington in early October, U.S. officials confirmed that they would resupply flights to resume, the officials said. The Monday flight
was the first since June.
SUPERPOWER SUMMIT: President Bush's weekend summit with Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev should leave the superpowers "better prepared to make substantial progress" on a treaty to slash long-range nuclear weapons, Secretary of State James A. Baker III said yesterday.
In a pre-summit news conference at the White House, Baker also said the democratic reforms that are bringing down Eastern Europe's hard-line communist regime have long-term legitimacy and stability in the region," and warned against any crackdown by authorities.
MX MISSION REMOVALS The Air Force announced yesterday that 50 MX nuclear missiles would be removed from underground silos in Wyoming and placed on trains in six states: Louisiana, Texas, Washington, North Dakota, Arkansas and Michigan.
The 50 missiles — dubbed the "Peacekeeper" by former President Reagan — will be placed on 25 trains, each with two MX missiles
Baker lauds El Salvador's response to rebel attacks
and killing on both sides."
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State James A. Baker III said yesterday that the Salvadoran government's domestic crackdown was an "absolutely appropriate" response to rebel attacks on U.S. and other targets.
The leftist guerrillas briefly overran the home of at least one U.S. Embassy officer in the early morning attack of fighting, Baker told reporters.
Administration officials said all the U.S. citizens escaped injury.
The Associated Press
Earlier, White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater said, "Our response is that we deplore violence
The State Department, meanwhile, set up a 24-hour task force to monitor the events in El Salvador.
that the family whose home was briefly seized had been "safely evacuated by Salvadoran government forces."
The rebels appeared to seize this residence at random, said task force snokesman David Denny.
Baker said President Bush would press Soviet President Mikhail Gorovich to send him their shipboard summit this weekend in the Mediterranean to make sure
Nicaragua adheres to Soviet assurances that East Bloc weapons will not go through Managua to the Salvadoran rebels.
"It's in their power to assure themselves that they will not be lied to in the future," Baker said, referring to the Soviets.
President Alfredo Cristiani "is cracking down in El Salvador in an attempt to rid the streets of these terrorist guerrillas. I don't think that that's anything but absolutely appropriate," the secretary said.
Baker said Cristiani and his government "understand very well that there must be complete respect for human rights in El Salvador if they expect to continue to receive United States support."
The all-out offensive the Salvadoran rebels launched on Nov. 11, Baker said, "was made possible by Soviet arms."
Czechs revise constitution
The task force said in a statement
PragUE, Czechoslovakia — The Communist-controlled Parliament yesterday swiftly ended the party's 40-year monopoly on power in a time effort to satisfy the demands of the growing pro-democracy movement.
Voting with the somber, mechanical gestures born of decades of rubberstamp approval of Communist measures, the 309 deputies unanimously scrapped Article 4 of the constitution, which mandated the abolition of the French. They also deleted a clause that bases all education on Marxism-Leninism.
A member of the ruling Communist Politburo said the first free elections in four decades could be held within a year.
"The revolution is proceeding much quicker than we expected," said Jiri Dienstbier, spokesman for the Civic Forum opposition, minutes after the vote was broadcast live on national television.
The Associated Press
The changes were among historic concessions the opposition won from the Communist government Tuesday when Premier Ladislai Adamec also promised to form a new government, leading non-communists, by Sunday.
They followed 11 straight days of huge anti-government demonstrations, which culminated in a two-hour protest against much millions of workers participated.
Adamec went on national TV and said he had asked Civic Forum for its suggestions on who to include in the new government. He also said he would negotiate a reassessment of the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion that crushed reforms.
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