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University Daily Kansan / Friday, February 3, 1989
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Botha quits party post after stroke
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - President P.W. Bohle resigned yesterday as leader of the governing National Party but said that he would carry on as the country's leader after he recuperated from a stroke.
Education Minister F. W. de Klerk was narrowly elected as the new leader of the party, which has held power for 40 years, and consolidated his status as the favorite to become the next president.
Botha, 73, told party officials in a letter that he was resigned the party post, which he assumed in 1978, to concentrate on his presidential duties and to distance the presidency from partisan politics. He did not elaborate.
He is recuperating at his home in Cape Town from the Jan. 18 stroke that weakened his left arm and left leg. Doctors said yesterday that Botha was recovering rapidly and taking daily walks but that he would need at least one more month of rest before he could return to work.
As education minister, de Klerk, 52, has tried to avoid ideological labels and has not been associated with any innovations. Last year, he proposed controversial steps to reduce financial aid to universities that allowed demonstrations in protest of South Africa's apartheid
Najib vows to stay in power in Kabul Pledge made as Red Army continues exit
The Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan — Presiden Najib said yesterday that his government would survive after the Red Army is gone and that he saw movement toward a political settlement that could avoid a bloody showdown with Muslim guerrillas.
He told foreign journalists that the Afghan army is "mightier than ever and can defend the country against any onslaught, and we will prove it."
Explosions and artillery fire could be heard in and around the capital Wednesday night and yesterday.
While Najib held a two-hour news conference at the Foreign Ministry, in a room unheated because of the fuel shortage, a Red Army convoy of more than 100 tanks, armored vehicles and trucks moved out of Kabul
on the 260-mile trip north to the Soviet border.
Departing soldiers travel on the Salang Highway, which also carries supply convoy south to Kabul. Insurgent attacks have created severe food and fuel shortages in the capital.
Mountain guerrilla camps surround Kabul, and insurgent commander Ahmed Shah Masoud controls the Salafi league, through which the Salafi runs.
Afghan refugees live, urged the squabbling guerrilla factions yester-day to patch their differences and form a broad-based government in Kabul as soon as the Soviets are gone.
Najib said in his comments about a possible political settlement that his Communist Party must be part of any future government attempt to force the party “and give it power from a coalition government will be in vain.” he said.
will be in vain, he said. Pakistan and Iran, the neighboring nations in which more than 5 million
Asked whether he would be willing to resign as part of a settlement, Najib said, "Talk about places in future governments disrupts the development of a political solution. The resignation of a person will not help to solve any problem."
He expressed optimism that Eduard Shewadnadez, the Soviet foreign minister, would work out a settlement at a meeting with Pakistani leaders tomorrow but added Pakistan must change its position.
Afghan guerrilla says Kabul to fall in weeks
The Associated Press
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — An Afghan guerrilla leader predicted yesterday that the Marxist government in Kabul would collapse within weeks of its overthrow, if the insurgents wouldn't have to attack the cities.
Neighboring Pakistan and Iran, which support the Muslim guerrilla, urged the factions to end their squabbles and form a broad-based movement in Kabul when the Soviet withdrawal was completed Feb. 15.
Gulbadin Khematyar, leader of the guerrilla group Hezb I-Islami, said the government "will fall in weeks, not months." He addressed a news conference in Peshawar, a frontier city where a seven-party guerrilla alliance has its headquarters.
He said the insurgents were determined to avoid attacks on Kabul, the Afghan capital, and other ally cities. Other civilians living. More than 2 million people, including many refugees, have crammed into Kabul.
Cleanup crew heading for Antarctic oil spill
The Associated Press
SANTIAGO, Chile · U.S. experts with 52 tons of cleam gear were bound for Antarctica Thursday to tackle a fuel oil spill that officials said threatened baby penguins about to take their first swim.
Anton L. Inerbiter, born of Antarctic staff for the Washington-based National Science Foundation, said the Polar Duke was to depart Friday and take about four days to reach the
spill, just off the Antarctic Peninsula and about two miles from the U.S. scientific base, Palmer Station.
"Our concern right now is primarily for the birds," he told reporters at Santiago's airport. "All the young penguins are just about at the age where they take their first swim.
"When these birds enter the water for the first time, it could be the last time."
at time, it could be the The Science Foundation said the 9,300-ton
vessel, the Paradise Bay, was carrying 250,000 gallons of diesel fuel.
The boat was leaking fuel oil at an undetermined rate, and hundreds of drums of oil and canisters of compressed gas had slipped from its decks, the foundation said.
Some environmental experts and scientific groups have said that hundreds of gallons of oil fuel leaked from the ship and created a slick up to 16 miles long, but the Chilean navy said
that the reports appeared exaggerated.
"The information that we have is that there is no big spill," said navy spokesman Lt. Juan Pablo Barros.
Jack Reniren, a Science Foundation spokesman, said, however, that a slick did exist and
that personnel at Palmer Station were gathering drums of fuel oil and tanks of compressed gas from around the grounded ship.
News Briefs
QUAYLE IN VENEZUELA: Vice President Dan Quayle yesterday began a second day of high-level meetings with heads of state who have come to attend the inaugural meeting for Venezuela's new president.
Quailey's meeting with Brazilian President Jose Sarney centered almost entirely on the Latin debt crisis.
Quayle also met with Spain's prime minister, Felipe Gonzalez, to discuss a range of U.S.-European political and security issues, said Quayle's press secretary, David Beckwell.
SUSPECT'S DEATH TRIGGERS RIOT: gunshots, rocks and bottles rained down on more than 100 police officers as they put down a riot triggered by the arrest of a black drug suspect who later died in custody, authorities said.
At least four officers received minor injuries, including the detective involved in the arrest, who suffered a broken nose, police
Wednesday night's three-hour disturbance was the third riot in the predominantly black Charlotte county, the second in Florida in two weeks.
DIANA IN THE BIG APPLE: Britain's Princess Diana, arriving for a whirlwind tour, wowed the city's fashion elite before turning her attention to those at the other end of the social spectrum.
U.S. and Japan to discuss new start
Diana's explorations were to continue today with a visit to the Henry Street Settlement, a 96-year-old community center that helps immigrants, homeless people and the elderly.
Diana was to visit the day care center and a homeless shelter at the settlement, which has served generations of poor people on Manhattan's lower East Side.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush promised continued good. U.S.-Japanese relations yesterday, telling Prime Minister Noboru Takehita that any disputes between the nations are "the differences of friends."
nautobike Takesha was equally upset. Standing alongside Bush in a colorful departure ceremony on the south lawn of the White House, Takesha said their session "marked a new start for U.S. J. cooperation."
Both leaders pledged closer economic and political cooperation. Bush vowing to work to drive down the U.S. budget deficit and Takeshita promising that Japan would accept more imports.
They also reaffirmed a plan to assist the Philippine government of Corazon Aquino and said that they would continue to consult closely on policies toward the Soviet Union, the Middle East and Latin America.
No policy initiatives had been expected at yesterday's "working lunch" at the White House — Bush's first meeting with a foreign leader since he took office — and apparently none materialized.
Aides said the two leaders dealt mainly with generalities and did not discuss in any detail a new Japanese proposal for a high-level panel to resolve disputes between the two factions of the fighter project that has drawn criticism in Congress.
However, these issues were taken up in a separate meeting between Secretary of State James Baker and Japanese Foreign Minister Sousuke Uno, according to the statement secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific affairs.
Although couched in the flowery language of diplomacy, the remarks by both Bush and Takeshita alluded to current irritants between the two nations.
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