University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, January 31, 1989
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U.S. staff closes Afghan embassy
The Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan — Marine guards yesterday lowered the flag for the last time, and the U.S. Embassy staff prepared to depart before the Red army leaves Kabul's fate to Afghan soldiers and Muslim guerrillas who wait in the hills.
"As we say goodbye, we say, 'God bless the United States,'" said Charge d'affaires Jon D. Glassman, the ranking U.S. diplomat still in Kabul, at the solemn ceremony.
"Today we leave at a moment that is both happy and sad, pleased that the people of Afghanistan are going to be relieved of their suffering, but we know their struggle is not over.
"The people of the United States are with them," Glassman said, raising the folded flag above his head in a salute. "We will be back when the conflict is over."
Soviet soldiers entered Afghanistan's civil war nine years ago and are to be gone by Feb. 15 under a U.N.-mediated agreement. Muslim insurgents, who get most of their support from the United States and Pakistan, were not parties to the agreement and predict victory soon after the Red army is gone.
arbitly is gone.
Efforts for a political settlement continued.
President Mohammad Najibullah wrote an open letter that was published by the English-language Kabul Times that urged the insurgents to negotiate. The guerrillas rejected the offer, the paper said, as they have previous government and Soviet proposals.
Yuri Masyukov, Soviet deputy premier, arrived to meet with Najibullah just after Soviet Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov ended a three-day visit to Kabul. A Western diplomat in Islamabad, Paki
stan, said the visits were meant to "boost the sagging morale of the communist government."
Embassy officials would not say when the U.S. staff of two diplomats, four Marine guards and five others would leave on a chartered flight to New Delhi, India.
The building is in the heart of Kabul near the presidential palace, the state radio and secret police headquarters, all of which would be prime guerrilla targets in a battle for the city.
The State Department said last week that the embassy would be closed because of fears that Afghanistan's conscript army could not protect foreign diplomats after the Soviets leave.
Moscow has said it will give the Afghan army military aid after the withdrawal because of continuing U.S. and Pakistani assistance to the rebels.
NATO base stripped of nuclear weapons
News Briefs
news media, were then permitted to tour the four empty bunkers.
ment signed by former President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
U.S. INCOMES INCREASE:
After-tax incomes in the United States shot up 3.8 percent last year. Some of the extra money would raise the nation's personal savings rate from the 40-year low it had hit just a year before, government officials said Monday.
"To me, this is a milestone in the implementation of the INF treaty," said MaJ. Gen. Marcus Anderson, commander of the 3rd Air Force, referring to the arms control agree-
The treaty, signed in December 1987, calls for the elimination by 1991 of 2,700 Soviet and U.S. land-based intermediate-range nuclear missiles.
The Commerce Department said that the gain in income, adjusted for inflation, was the best since a 3.9 percent gain in 1986 and was more than double 1987's 1.7 percent.
In a short ceremony at the Molesworth base, 70 miles north of London, members of the U.S. Air Force 303rd Tactical Mission Wing were told that their mission was complete.
The Associated Press
TERRORISM SURVEY: U.S. citizens favor tough new anti-terrorist measures, including military strikes, to combat attacks against international flights, but most say that poor airplane maintenance is a greater threat to the nation, a poll indicates.
MOLESWORTH, England — The last NATO base to receive U.S. cruise missiles was the first to be deactivated yesterday, under the terms of the superpowers' arms control treaty.
The national Media General-Associated Press survey found that a majority backed U.S. military strikes against nations that supported the support were proved and innocent civilians were not killed.
ation would deter terrorists or spur them. But a majority said the government could stem terrorism, and 57 percent said it was not doing enough now.
Reporters and photographers, including several from the Soviet
The poll found opinion sharply divided on whether military retali-
WEST GERMAN POLITICS: Conservative politicians said Monday that they may have lost touch with like-minded voters after surprising legal tightrope actories by a ultra-right party led by a former Nazi SS soldier.
The Republicans, guided by former Nazi SS soldier Frank Schonehuber, campaigned on a platform of ridding West Berlin of foreign intrusions in arts and giving preferential treatment to Germans seeking jobs.
SOLIDARITY ACTIVIST DIES: A pro-Solidarity priest was found dead yesterday morning after fire swept through his home in the city of New York, a state-run church officials and the state-run news agency PAP said.
The Rev. Stanisław Suchowelo, 31, of the Immaculate Heart of Mary parish in Bialystok apparently died of smoke inhalation.
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