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Show World November 29, 1990 Thursday, The Daily Herald. Provo, Utah mltfsKer reorganizes ThaMne's Ntercr prim LONDON (AP) New Prime Minister John Major has reorgan-- , v1 ized the Cabinet be inherited from Margaret Thatcher, a move seen as demonstrating his intent not to n be a Thatcher clone. Major assumed the office on Wednesday, a day after Conserva- tive deputies of the House of Cora- mens elected him party leader. "" Major who was Thatcher's protege and her favorite among seeking the party leadership kept all but three of ber 22 Cabinet members but gave many of them different jobs. He also took on Michael Hesel-tin- e, whose challenge of Thatcher's leadership led to her resignation. such extensive changes, Mr. Major has demonstrated that he is his own man and not, as critics have suggested, Mrs. Thatcher's puppet," the British "By making Broadcasting Corp. observed today. The Times of London said in an I editorial: "The back-sedriver if Margaret Thatcher ever pondered the role has been thrown from the car at the first turn." Heseltine was appointed environment secretary, with responsibility for the promised reform of the widely unpopular "poll tax" that was one of the major factors in bringing down Thatcher after 11 Vi years as prime minister. The tax, to help fund local government, was leveled on a per capita basis and many critics saw it as evidence that Thatcher's government was favoring the rich at the expense of the lower classes. With the Persian Golf crisis deepening, Major kept the other resigned, Thatcher promised to at double the British contingent to 30,000 soldiers. One of Major's closest associates, Norman Larnont, was appointed chancellor of the exchequer, or treasury chief, the post Major held in Thatcher's Cabinet. Kenneth Baker, who was Conservative Party chairman under Thatcher, was appointed by Major as home secretary responsible for police, law and order, prisons and a variety of other matters. The new Conservative Party chairman is former environment secretary Christopher Patten. A Harris opinion poll broadcast by Independent Television News on Wednesday night showed the Conservatives under Major to be 11 points ahead of the opposition Labor Party. The Conservatives had lagged behind in the polls for 16 months. Based on interviews with 1,092 CalbDiniql people, it put support for the Tories at 49 percent to 38 for Labor, 9!for the Liberal Democrats and 4 '.for other groups. It stated no margin of error. A Harris poll last spring shofed the Tories under Thatcher trailing tabor by a whopping 28 points. By law, tne next general election must be held by mid-199but Jthe prime minister can call one tiny tune before then. 2, ,,JisMggsbr I leadership contender, Douglas Hurd, as foreign secretary. Tom King remains as defense secretary. That indicated a continuation of Thatcher's policies, including backing the massive VS. de- h pro-U.- S. ployment in the gulf with thousands of British troops. Before she U.S. reopens its embassy il -- A - Tearful reunion n f rf t It Sisters Hamo, (2, and Maro-zi- a, St, (no last names given) weep for joy today at Tel Aviv after a I 15-ye- separa ac-'tio- chief foreign policy adviser to Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Also today, the German Red Cross sent 37 tons of emergency food supplies on an Aeroflot plane to the Soviet Union, starting what ffirials hope could be a daily airlift to the Soviet Union. A telethon on Germany's ZDF television Wednesday night netted pledges of 3.8 million marks ($2.6 million) to help Soviets burdened by the onset of winter and empty "shelves in state stores. Other campaigns are coDecting millions of dollars more worth of 'donations and goods. If the pace keeps up, the relief effort could become the largest such human- itarian punched. action Teltschik, who Germany has just returned from .talks in Moscow, told reporters ; ! that Kohl had agreed to send the Berlin reserves to the Soviets. He tion. Hamo arrived from the Soviet Union oo one of 14 planes bringing 200 Jewish immigrants to Israel. said details would be worked out next week. on The massive stockpiles of grain, canned fruit and other foods and supplies are valued at up to $1.6 billion. Officials in West Berlin had built up the reserves in case of a repeat of the blockade that cut off all but air travel to and from the western side of the divided city. A UjS.-le- d airlift broke the blockade in 1949. Berlin officials urged that the supplies be sent to the Soviets as sign of good will in the current era of improved relations between East and West. In Bonn, the German branch of the CARE international relief organization said today it would soon be sending the first batch of 20,000 food packages to the Soviet Union. The packages contain such items as chocolate, rice and meat CARE packages sent by Americans were vital in feeding Germans after World War n, and the memory of the welcome aid has become part of national history. Germany has been leading international efforts to aid the Soviets. Kohl and Foreign Minister Genscher both have appealed for private donations for the action. Hans-Dietri- ch Sept 3 DON'T WEEKS MISS LEFT!! OUT!! ONLY , ii 6, 1989. Followers of rebel Gen. Michel Aoun had besieged the compound. The Christian general, who battled Syrian troops backing the government, was defeated in October. Militias have since been withdrawing from the capital. After his one-homeeting today with Hoss, a Sunm Moslem who doubles as foreign minister Hrawi's Cabinet, Crocker was whisked to Hrawi's temporary residence in Moslem west Beirut in a bulletproof gray Mercedes-Ben-z. Green-berete- d soldiers of the Lebanese army's elite commado brigade provided security for Crocker, surrounding his car with seven jeeps that sped across the jammed streets of west Beirut with lights on and honking horns. In Washington, deputy State De- f!Columbi4 ur fWhirlibird Telluride i f Richard Boucher said Wednesday that partment spokesman Crocker was dispatched to Beirut UJS. security team inspected the situation in the Lebanese capital last weekend. A Lebanese Foreign Ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Crocker and seven American security officials arrived at the embassy compound Wednesday morning aboard two UJS. after a il Powder Keg 'TSweat Shirt plonashee AnorakX Yyt . Opposition: Troops kill 50 in Bangladesh - Bang-- 5 CALCUTTA, India (AP) ladeshi security forces have killed 50 people and wounded more than f 1,000 in battles with protesters de-- j manding President Hussain Mu-hammad Ershad's ouster, the coun-- i try's opposition leaders said today. The claims were made in Bang- j ladesh's capital of Dhaka by Sheik Hasina and Khaleda Zia, who said J the deaths and injuries occurred when demonstrators ignored a cur- few Wednesday. J The reports could not be verified, since the country has been virtual- ry cut off from the outside world, i Some previous claims by the have been exaggerated. i U.S. BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Ambassador Ryan Crocker presented his credentials to Prime Minister Salim Hoss today after reopening the UJS. Embassy, which had been evacuated 15 months ago during fierce fighting. The decision to send in Crocker despite the security situation reflects VS. support for President Elias Hrawi's government, which is trying to create a militia-fre- e capital and end 15 i years of civil war. On Wednesday, Crocker was flown by helicopter from Larnaca, Cyprus, to the VS. Embassy compound in Beirut's northern suburb of Aukar. The career diplomat became the first American diplomat to enter the compound since it was evacuated by former Ambassador John McCarthy and his staff still-tenuo- us German Red Cross starts sending food to U.S.S.R. BERLIN (AP) Germany will send the Soviet Union huge food Teserves that were stockpiled to help feed West Berlin in case of a Repeat of the 1943-4- 9 Soviet blockade of the city, a top government official said today. . The announcement regarding the Berlin reserves was the latest in a series of German aimed at helping the Soviets. It was made by Horst Teltschik, Lebanon iii a ' 1 a w HOUDAY SPECIALS INNER SPRING MATTRESSES 9 1 BOX SETS on ; run Diplomatic sources in New Delhi laid they received reports that four .people were killed and 15 wounded f Wednesday in Dhaka. The sources, speaking on condi- Jion of anonymity, said paramili- ary troops fired into a mob of J "5,0)0 in central Dhaka, killing three Jeop!e. One more died in another toraromauon in me uia wny, ac-Jcording to reports reaching the WW ms'a. TWIN SIZE Reg. S129 DOUBLE-SET- Rcg.$1M DINETTE SETS S199 Sal ill frtcm "B- 00 QUEEN SIZE SETS Reg. S269 'diplomats. ; ; '. ; Ershad declared a state of emer- ligency Tuesday night, suspending i'tivfl rights, imposing a curfew and teisoring the press after six weeks VtA often violent opposition protests. 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