UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, March 5, 1997
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Albanians fear government
Soldiers may shoot resisters
The Associated Press
TIRANA, Albania — The Albanian government ordered cewfurs, roadblocks and newspaper censorship under its new emergency powers Monday and gave security forces the right to fire without warning at armed resisters.
Despite weeks of protests demanding that the government be sacked — protests which the government is trying to squash with the tough new orders — parliament easily re-elected President Sali Berisha to a five-year term.
"Today is the day of open dictatorship in Albania," said Neritan Ceka, the head of the opposition Democratic Alliance. "Only a dica-ta
tor could be elected under such conditions, with martial law."
A few shots were heard in Tirana just after the 8 p.m. curfew took effect. It was not clear where they came from. Officers with rifles slung over their shoulders patrolled the capital; police stopped cars at checkpoints.
Under the state of emergency regulations, which were broadcast on state television early Monday, people cannot walk in groups of more than four, newspapers must submit stories to the government's Defense Council before publication and police may shoot anyone who throws objects at them.
Foreigners were ordered out of southern Albania, and an Italian military helicopter evacuated 36 people, including 15 journalists, from Vlora across the Adriatic Sea to Brindisi, Italy.
to Albania on Monday, and Greece increased patrols along its northern frontiers. Italy dreads a repeat of a 1991 refugee flotilla, when tents of thousands of Albanians fled across the Adriatic on overcrowded ferries and homemade rafts.
Fearing an influx of Albanians, Greece and Italy cut ferry service
The curfew is in effect from 8 p.m.-7 a.m. Under the regulations, anyone without identification will be accompanied to a police station; in case of resistance, police will fire a warning shot, then shoot to kill.
The state of emergency was declared Sunday in an attempt to quash violence growing out of public rage over the collapse of high-risk investment schemes in which nearly every Albanian family lost money.
However, government authority appeared to have dissolved across much of southern Albania, where civilians have seized arms. At least three people died in clashes Sunday and Monday in the southern towns
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of Fieri, Saranda and Gjirokastra,
state radio reported.
Berisha and his Democrats blame the unrest on political foes, including the Socialists - successors to the communists who kept Albania isolated and impoverished for decades. Berisha's foes charge that the Democrats were at least negligent in not warning people of the investment schemes.
Iran cries for help after deadly quake
The Associated Press
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's isolated government made a rare appeal for help to cope with an earthquake that may have killed more than 3,000 people and left tens of thousands homeless.
United Nations officials said yesterday that Iran's appeal came while snow, cold and wild wolves continued to hamper workers pulling bodies from collapsed houses in dozens of towns and villages in northwestern Iran's Ardabil province.
On Monday, an airplane carrying aid to survivors crashed in bad weather, killing its four crew members, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
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The official death toll from Friday's quake is 965. About 2,600 reportedly were injured, but aid workers and officials who visited the villages said it is expected to surpass 3,000.
Germans stop waste
Tractors cemented to road in attempt to stop shipment
The Associated Press
DANNENBERG, Germany — Anti-nuclear protesters hurled stones and Molotov cocktails at police yesterday and tried to seize control of a road that could be used for the last leg of an atomic waste transport.
Hundreds of protesters rushed riot police who were trying to secure the road that links this northern German town to Gorleben, the site of a nuclear waste storage facility.
The main road between Dannenberg and Gorleben has been practically disabled by scores of tractors
— some cemented to the surface
—and deep holes that protesters
tunneled to make the road unusable for heavy trucks.
At Dannenberg, the focal point of the protests, the nuclear waste was unloaded from a freight train yesterday and loaded onto flatbed trucks for the 10-mile final run to Gorleben. About 10,000 demonstrators camped around the transfer site. The road trip was to begin today.
In the biggest and costliest security operation in postwar Germany, 30,000 police officers have been deployed to protect the shipment and to keep protesters from blocking it.
More than 200 officers were on board and police helicopters flew overhead Monday as the train began its 420-mile journey before dawn from a temporary holding site at Walheim, just north of Stuttgart.
Arafat opposes housing plans
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Yassir Arafat proposed yesterday that Jerusalem's future be modeled after Rome and the Vatican - with the city serving as a capital for both the island and the Palestinian state.
"If there is a will, there is a way," the Palestinian leader said.
While objecting to the Jewish housing plan in eastern Jerusalem, Arafat reaffirmed his support for negotiations with Israel, and called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu his partner in peace.
"We have no other choice but to keep on with the peace process," Arafat said.
Yet he described Israel's decision to construct a new Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem as a unique challenge to peace efforts and contended that it violated Israeli-Palestinian agreements.
"It is a settlement, no doubt, and it is illegal," Arafat said.
A rafat stated that the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin sald that there would be no deo- graphic changes.
Yasslr Arafat
"Is it necessary to challenge the peace process and put it in a corner to build a new settlement? This is unfair." Arafat said.
President Clinton said that the decision to construct 6,500 apartments for Jews in the Har Homa neighborhood built mistrust.
Clinton and other administration officials did not say whether they considered the project illegal or whether Israel should have sovereignty throughout all of the city. Arafat wants to use as the capital for a Palestinian state.
Town captured in Zaire, Rwandan refugees flee
The Associated Press
TINGI-TINGI, Zaire — Rebels reported capturing a key mining town in southern Zaire yesterday, and their advances in the northeast have tens of thousands of Rwandan refugees on the move again.
The refugees scattered in all directions after rebels captured the huge Tingi-Tingi camp during the week-end.
The Tingi-Tingi camp was one more step in the rebels' advance toward Kisangani, the last government stronghold in eastern Zaire, 145 miles to the northwest.
Some appeared ready to go home to Rwanda after nearly three years in exile.
Rebel commander Jonathan Ndirosonga called on the United Nations to help repatriate all of the 170,000 Rwandan Hutu refugees who had been living in the Tingi-Tingi camp.
The Hutus fled to Zaire to avoid retribution for the 1994 slaughter of a half million minority Tutsis in Rwanda.
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