University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, November 29, 1989
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Czech leader vows government reform Plan would include non-communists
The Associated Press
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia — Premier Ladislav Adaslav a promised yesterday to include non-communists in a new government and try to end the constitutional guarantee of the party's monopoly on power.
Adamec made the pledges in a meeting with the opposition Civic Forum movement after 11 straight days of unprecedented protest in Czechoslovakia. Millions of workers observed a two-hour general strike Monday, but the streets were quiet yesterday because the Civic Forum asked for calm.
After the meeting, government minister Marian Calfa said that Adamec would submit a coalition petition to President Gustav Husek by Sunday.
Civic Forum spokesman Jiri Kanturek appeared on state television's evening news with a 10-point statement outlining the damage and compensation demands.
Two demands were for free elections and the resignation by Dec. 10 of Husak, a central figure in the government. He was appointed Secretary-in-charge of Sovietled invasion of August 1968.
The Civic Forum also demanded immediate revision of the official view that the "Prague Spring" reforms of 1968 were worthless.
The organization called on Czechoslovakia to urge the Soviet, East German and Bulgarian parliaments to follow those of Poland and Hungary in condemning the 1968 invasion by the five Warsaw Pact countries as a result of the invasion of East and the Warsaw Treaty itself." Kanturek said on television.
His two-minute appearance was the first time Civic Forum was allowed to make its points on a national TV news program.
Kanturek said that Adamec pledged to seek access for the opposition to state-run media and permission to publish its own journals. The
premier also said he would try to obtain the release by Dec. 10 of political prisoners named by Civic Forum.
Kanturek said the government should urge Parliament to adopt new laws guaranteeing free elections and freedom of speech, press, assembly association, religion and speech, and to abolish the People's Militia, the Communist Party paramilitary force.
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We applaud Civic Forum for its commitment to democracy.
— Margaret Tutwiler
State Department spokesman
"If the public is not satisfied with the new program, the Civic Forum and Public Against Violence will ask for the premier's resignation," Kanturek said.
He concluded with an appeal to Czechoslovakys to work peacefully while remaining on alert to strike if necessary.
Califa told a news conference that the coalition would be a government comprised primarily of experts and professionals, including Communists, members of other parties traditionally allied to the ruling Communists and outside figures.
Calfa said that Adamec promised to ask Parliament to remove constitutional guarantees of Communist government but did not mention free elections.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Margaret Tutwiler said, "We applaud Civic Forum for its commitment to peaceful transformation to democracy."
It was not clear whether Civic Forum representatives would be among the non-Communists in the government, and Calfa did not indicate how many non-Communists there would be.
COLORBIAN AIRLINE CRASH:
The pilot's log of a Colombian jelinier that crashed with no survivors indicates a three-inch fissure was found in the fuselage three days before the plane exploded in the air, a Bogota newspaper reported yesterday.
The 26-year-old Avianca airlines Boeing 727 carried 101 passengers and six crew members when it exploded Monday, five minutes after taking off from Bogota on a domestic flight to Cali.
A woman who answered the telephone at Avianca's public relations office refused to comment on the El Tiempo report and would not identify herself.
El Tempo gave no further detail, but a spokesman for the paper said policemen had found the log. Scores of policemen were involved in searching the wreckage Monday.
CONSTRUCTION ACCIDENT: A crane toppled from a 16-story building under construction yesterday in San Francisco, raining concrete and twisted steel on the busy financial district. At least five people were killed, 21 injured and five left missing, authorities said.
World Briefs
The crane flattened a school van and a protective scaffolding over the sidewalk, crushed a taxi and several other cars and smashed
into a 21-story office building across the street as it buckled, swung around and went down. Bystanders fled in terror.
A piece of the crane at least three stories long dangled from the side of the building under construction two hours after the 8:30 a.m. accident. Police roped off the area and ambulances rushed in and out, taking away the injured.
Police Capt. John Newlin said the dead were four construction workers and the woman driving the school van. Officials who earlier said a student in the van was killed later, said the student was not on board.
TWO ABC EMPLOYEES KILLED:
A charter bus carrying ABC employees to Monday night's National Football League game in San Francisco was struck by a train, killing two people and injuring about 25, police said.
The victims' names were withheld until relatives were notified.
The bus had stopped between grade crossing gates for an unknown reason, police said.
The bus was the third in a convoy of four vehicles full of ABC employees and clients who had taken a cruise on San Francisco Bay and were headed to Candlestick Park to watch the San Francisco 49ers play the New York Giants, Wheeler said.
The Associated Press
U.S. delegates to help Poland's reform
WASHINGTON — Leaders of a Poland-bound presidential delegation cautioned yesterday that Poles and other Eastern Europeans could be in for some hard winters before economic changes could catch up with political reform.
"We must be careful that economic expectations do not become unrealistic," said Agriculture Secretary Clayton Yetter, who heads the mission. "In the kind of emotional environment that exists today, that can
very readily occur.'
Yeuetter said at a White house news briefing that he was carrying with him a $20 million installment in U.S. food aid. Labor Secretary Elizabeth Dole promised help in retraining displaced Polish refugees. Comminutor Robert Moshachar said he would plumb trade and investment opportunities.
"Economic reform is not an overnight proposition," Yeatter said.
another two dozen or so government officials. It was to leave later yesterday and return Saturday.
The delegation includes the three Cabinet members, 20 representatives of business, labor and academia and
President Bush named the delegation last month to "focus on those economic sectors where U.S. expatriates can be of greatest assistance."
Dole, who, with her husband,
Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole,
visited Poland last August, predicted
a period of "some pain" as Poland
moved from a state-owned economy
to a market economy.
setting up job training and retraining programs, teaching Poles how to run their own businesses, which she called "a new concept," and help in devising a better system for gathering labor statistics.
Noting labor's direct contributions to Poland's changes, Dole said she was glad the presidential mission included prominent labor leaders. The team includes AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland and Robert Georgie, president of the federation's Building and Construction Trades department.
She also promised U.S. help in
Committee criticizes Bush's civil rights policies
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Members of the House Education and Labor Committee attacked the Bush administration's civil rights efforts yesterday, saying key jobs remain unfilled and important discrimination cases are unresolved.
"After almost one year in office, there seem to have been no substantive efforts to improve the Office of Civil Right's dismal enforcement record, and there has not even been a
nomination for permanent assistant secretaries of civil rights enforcement in either the Department of Education, or the Department of Justice," said Rep. Major R. Owens, D-N.Y.
Members of the committee quoted a year-old staff report that found "an apparently deliberate and very effective system" by which civil rights laws were not enforced.
Although the reporting period was during the Reagan administration, panel members said that the Bush
administration had done little to correct the situation.
"Apparently, ensuring equal education opportunity for all American children is not very high on our standards' list of priorities," Owens said.
Denying the charges were William Smith and James P. Turner, who temporarily head the rights departments of the departments of Education and Justice, respectively.
The White House and Education Department are "attempting a
nationwide search" for qualified top officials. Smith said.
"I do not deny in any shape, form or fashion what the report said. But we are in the process of making changes," said Smith, who promised written responses by Dec. 16.
According to the report issued in December 1988 by the committee's Democratic staff, 58 percent of investigations closed between the fiscal years 1983 and 1988 were concluded with a finding of "no violation" of civil rights laws.
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