University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, November 28, 1989
Nation/World
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President of India cuts off Parliament
The Associated Press
NEW DELHI, India — The president dissolved Parliament yesterday, leaving Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and a caretaker government to see India through what could be weeks of post-election uncertainty.
Gandhi's Congress Party had overwhelming control of Parliament, but voters in the world's most populous democracy took it away in three days of elections that began Wednesday, the party far short of a majority.
To retain power, Congress must find partners for what would be the first coalition government since the carve-in independent of Britain in 1947
On the Cabinet's recommendation, President Ramaswamy Venkataraman took the first step toward a coalition yesterday by dissolving Parliament. Parliament normally is dissolved before elections, but Indian law does not require it.
Growing opposition to Gandhi's leadership was reported within his party.
"If Congress wants to win anything, the prime minister must go," said Bhabani Sen Gupta, an independent analyst. "With Rajiv Gandhi, very few things are possible. Without Rajiv Gandhi, many things are possible."
When all votes are counted, the president probably will ask the party with the most seats to try and assemble a majority in the 543-seat Lok Sabha, or House of People, the lower house of Parliament where the power lies.
Many opposition leaders argued the president should turn to the party or alliance with the most popular support, regardless of the number of seats involved.
The two largest opposition groups, the five-party National Front and the right-wing Hindu Bharatiya Janata (Indian People's) Party, opened talks on a forming a coalition.
Yashwant Sinha, spokesman for the Janata Dal, or People's Party, the main group ip the National Front, said: "The National Front will form the next government.
"Our position will be quite clear in the next two or three days. We will know who will be in the . . . government, who the leader will be, and we will approach the president and tell him that we are in a position to form the next government."
Congress Party and its smaller allies had 183 seats, and the National Front 89. The opposition alliance is led by Vishwanath Pratap Singh, a former Congress Party member and trusted Cabinet minister.
State TV compiled results from the Election Commission. By Monday night, winners were known for 400 of the 252 seats at stake in the elections held Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.
Bharatiya Janata, which wants to transform India from a secular to a Hindu state, had 70 seats. The others went to smaller parliies and independent candidates.
Singh, 58, was expected to win his constituency in northern Uttar Pradesh state, but the count was delayed by floods.
Gandhi, a former airline pilot, was carried to power on a wave of sympathy after Sikh bodyguards killed his mother, and Congress captured an unprecedented 415 seats in the Lok Sabha.
Euphoria greeted his promises to moderate the nation of 880 million people and prepare it for the 21st century, but suosion was dispelled by allegations of corruption and inepititude in Gandhi's government.
Several papers claimed that in 1986 Bofors, the Swedish arms manufacturer, paid up to $50 million in kickbacks to get a $1.4 billion artillery contract. Gandhi denied such payments were made, but could not shake the scandal.
AID FOR FARMERS: Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, said yesterday that Congress could face another request for disaster aid next year if winter wheat farmers in Kansas and other states are hit with a second straight poor harvest because of drought.
World Briefs
Dole said a dry fall in Kansas had raised fears of another bad crop for winter wheat producers, although it's too early to predict what will happen because the 1990 crop won't be harvested until next summer.
PACIFIC SET BACK Prospects for peace in Central America, battered by fierce battles this month between Salvadoran rebels and the
Dole made it clear that if next year's crop was greatly reduced, lawmakers probably would be forced to consider providing emergency aid similar to a nearly $900 million assistance package enacted this year to help cover farm losses from bad weather, including drought. A $2.9 billion farm disaster package was enacted in 1988 because of drought-related losses.
government, were further set back by El Salvador's break in relations with Nicaragua.
The move Sunday by rightist President Alfredo Cristiani capped a series of events that indicated more tension, conflict and war led ahead in the troubled region.
Cristiani, who suspended relations to protest the alleged shipment of sophisticated arms from Nicaragua to El Salvador's leftist rebels, called Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega "a pupet of international communist aggression."
AOUN REFUSSES TO LEAVE:
Lebanese Christian army
commander Gen. Michel Aoun
rejected an ultimatum to leave
the presidential palace and said
 yesterday he would die fighting, even with "kitchen knives, sticks and stones."
At a news conference in his bunker beneath the shell-battered palace east of Beirut, Aoun said he was recruiting volunteers to meet a possible assault by the 40,000 army soldiers stationed in Lebanon.
Military sources discounted
reports of military buildups in mountains above the palace in the Baadba suburb and along the line that divides Muslim west beirut from the Christian eastern sector.
Elias Hrawi, the newly elected president who gave Aoun the ultimatum, issued a statement at his temporary headquarters in the Syrian-controlled Bekaa Valley town of Choura urging Christian troops to support him.
DEAF STUDENT SUES: A federal judge yesterday ordered a New Jersey law school to provide notes for a deaf student who charged in a lawsuit that the school failed to provide adequate classroom assistance.
The temporary restraining order barred Rutgers University School of Law from holding two classes attended by Karen Prince unless she receives transcribed notes within 24 hours of each class.
"I've got to salix that she gets that information," said U.S. District Judge Stanley S. Brotman. "It may cost Rutgers some money, but that's my least concern now."
Ms. Prince, 39, a third-year law student who represented herself,
sued to be provided with an adequate note-taker or interpreter.
She is the only deaf student attending the 700-student law school, school officials said.
The university has spent about $10,000 a year to provide sign language translators and note-takers for Ms. Prince, said Aaron Schwartz, the university's attorney.
Jacobs' good fortune started last summer when he was named one of five Reagan Scholars and awarded four years free tuition at Reagan's alma mater, Eureka College.
STUDENT ON SCHEDULE: Diane Jacobs, of Eureka, Ill.; is giving thanks for a year that's been his dream come true as one of former President Ronald Reagan's biggest fans.
Then, the 19-year-old Arkansas City, Kan., nation was elected freshman class president, putting him right on his self-imposed schedule for reaching his ultimate goal; president of the United States
Next week, Jacobs is going to California to meet his idol and role model.
Bush gears up for his meeting with Gorbachev
The Associated Press
Tutwiller said the protest referred to the escalation of conflict in El Salvador. She said Bush intended to discuss the Central American situation in Malta when he meets Dec. 2-3 with Gorbachev on board Soviet and American ships.
On another potential summit topic, White House spokesman Marianne Fitlin水 said Bush would
WASHINGTON — President Bush will head into his meeting with Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev this weekend prepared to condemn "dangerous escalation" of the conflict in El Salvador while holding out the prospect of U.S. troop reductions in Europe, officials said yesterday.
At the State Department, spokesman Margaret Tutwierat a protest was lodged with the Soviet Embassy over a shipment of surface-to-air missiles that Salvadoran authorities said was earmarked for leftist guerrillas in their country by Nicaragua.
Flitwater declined to go beyond describing possible U.S. troop reductions as other than an
consider reducing U.S. military forces in Western Europe in light of the collapse of hard-line regimes in Eastern Europe in recent months.
The war in El Salvador continues to be run out of Managua, and resupply to the FMLN (rebels) is carried out by the Sandinistas with the support of Cuba.'
— Margaret Tutwiler State Department Spokesmap
option open to Bush during the weekend talks.
The unusual time of delivery of the protest at 7 p.m. Saturday reflected the gravity with which the administration viewed the incident. There were 24 SA-7 missiles and 21 rounds for a Soviet-designed morar aboard a Cessna aircraft that crashed in eastern El Salvador, the State Department said.
Privately, U.S. officials said yesterday that the Soviets may be having trouble restraining Managua and Havana from supporting the FMLN rebels.
The crash and weapons discovery represented something of a public relations windfall for the State Department, whose claims of Nicaraguan involvement on behalf of the Salvadoran rebels often have fallen on skeptical ears.
There was only scant press attention last month when Honduran security guards seized from a truck a cache of Soviet bloc weapons, which were being sent were being sent by the Sandinistas to the FMLN.
"The war in El Salvador continues to be run out of Managua, and resupply to the FMLN (rebels) is carried out by the Sandinistas with the support of Cuba." Tutwiler said.
She added that Sandinista actions have flagrantly violated Central American peace agreements Nicaraguan authorities hasigned. She characterized the actions as a "reckless, dangerous and inexcussual escalation."
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