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Show Monday, December 10, 1990 The Daily Herald, Provo, Utah As World Bethlehem has lotis of room in iis imms Japanese back from space- trip 1 TOKYO (AP) After eight days the first journalist in space, Toyohiro Akiyama safely touched down today with down-to-Earcravings for beer, good food and a smoke. ; "It seems like I came back as a mass of desire," Akiyama, 43, said after emerging from the Soyuz space capsule that landed on the frozen tundra in Kazakstan, the Soviet republic in Central Asia. " Akiyama, a news director for the Tokyo Broadcasting System, was the first Japanese in space. He returned with cosmonauts Gennady Manakov and Gennady Strekalov, who were concluding a Stay aboard the Mir space station. TBS paid the Soviets $12 million is th four-mon- -- the project. As soon as Akiyama emerged from the capsule, waving and smiling, he was mobbed by TBS reporters who had raced to the landing site to beam live to Japan his first jrords back on terra firma. "Yes, it's very beautiful," he said when asked how it felt to be back on Earth. TBS then arranged for Akiyama to say a few words to hi? wife, Kyoko, who had watched the landing from the company's Tokyo studios. "I'm back," said Akiyama, wrapped in a parka and with his space helmet still in place. "I worried a bit," replied his wife. ' "Did the kids do all right on their exams?" he asked, v "Why ask such things now?" she shot back. "I want to eat imething good." 1 "I've prepared it," his wife reas-Surhim. ed AP Laserpbolo Members of the former guerrilla group BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) Voters have given a former guerrilla army the largest bloc in an assembly that will rewrite the country's constitution, dealing a resounding defeat to Colombia's traditional parties. As if to punctuate its insistence that leftists can do better at the polls than in the jungle, the army on Sunday raided the headquarters of a recalcitrant rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. The attack south of Bogota claimed the lives of 11 soldiers and as many as 40 rebels, the army said. "Violent groups have lost their JOHANNESBURG, South Africa Police said today that 25 (AP) people died in black factional fighting as President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela continued efforts to end political unrest. Police reported scattered clashes over the weekend, with the worst violence in the Johannesburg black township of Tokoza, where 13 people were killed. Eleven men were hacked and shot to death in the township, another man was "necklaced" with a burning tire and a girl was gunned down, police said. ld Dozens of people died in Tokoza last week in clashes. De Klerk and Mandela issued a statement late Sunday revealing they had been holding secret talks on halting the violence that has claimed about 1,000 lives in the Johannesburg area since August. The statement said the two leaders had met several times in recent weeks, including a secret meeting Saturday. The statement said significant progress had been made, but gave no details. It said urgent follow-u- p steps would be taken. Army replaces 3 Ershad loyalists DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) -The army has replaced three senior officers loyal to ousted President Hussain Muhammad Ershad, and mayors appointed by the former president also will be replaced, Sources said today. Ershad, a former general who seized power in 1982, bowed to "public pressure last week and handed over power to a caretaker government led by Supreme Court 3hief Justice Shahabuddin Ahmed. Shahabuddin has appointed nine ."advisers to preside over the affairs .Df state while he prepares parlia mentary elections to be held early next year. Sources close to Ershad's government said the army had replaced Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ashraf Hos-saand Brig. Nasiruddin Ahmed, the two senior intelligence officers, along with Gen. Abdus Salam, the in quartermaster-genera- celebrate victory Sunday in Bogota, Colombia. to persevere in their practices of hate," President Cesar Gaviria said in a televised speech Sunday night. The voting capped a bizarre 12 months in South American politics. Last December, Brazil electn ed businessman Fernando Collor de Mello as its president. In June, Peru selected Alberto Fujimori, a virtually unknown agronomist, as its president. Only about 30 percent of the roughly 12 million eligible voters went to the polls on Sunday, elections officials said. While the overall composition of the Constituent As argument little-know- sembly will be conservative-to-moderat- e, the results marked a remarkable turnabout for the leftist April 19th Movement, known as which laid down its arms in March. With 83 percent of the vote 9 had 27 percent of counted, the vote and should control 20 seats, political analysts said. The governing Liberal Party garnered around 26 percent of the vote. A right-win- g splinter group of the Conservative Party, the National Salvation Party, won 16 percent of the vote, while the M-1- 9, M-1- traditional Conservative Party captured around Soviet OSLO, Norway (AP) President Mikhail S. Gorbachev accepted the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize in absentia today. He said problems in his homeland prevented him from coming to the awards ceremony. "I do not regard the the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize as an award to me personally, but as a recognition of what we call perestroika and innovative political thinking, which is of vital significance for human destinies all over the world," Gorbachev said in a message from - g Austria (AP) police fought student demonstrators the Albanian capital who L staged a rare show of public defiance against the Communist gov-- eminent, but diplomats said there were no new clashes today. A diplomat reached by telephone j '3n Tirana said there were injuries ''nd arrests in Sunday's clash, but jje did not know how many. J The diplomat said without citing a source that more demonstrations "jiad been planned for today, but by taoon there were no street gatherings, nor any sign of an increased police presence. Talks between students and the J government, reportedly opened Sunday's protest, may have -- eased the tensions. ST First word of the clash in Tirana Club-rieldin- af-j;t- er percent. Moscow. In an acceptance speech read by his envoy, Anatoly Kovalyov, Gorbachev promised to continue the process of openness and reform. Kovalyov said the prize's $715,000 cash award probably would be donated to worthy causes. Nobel prizes in physics, chemistry, literature, medicine and economics were to be awarded later today in Stockholm, Sweden. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said the 71st Peace Prize recog nized Gorbachev's international efforts, more than his domestic policies. But committee leader Gidske Anderson said at the Oslo City Hall ceremony that she hoped the award would be seen as "a helping hand in an hour of need" as Gorbachev and the Soviet people cope with the restructing of their economy and government. "This transformation is inevitably a painful porcess, involving great sacrifice," she said. Norway's royalty, government leaders and roughly 900 guests applauded as Anderson presented the Peace Prize medal and diploma to Gorbachev's stand-iGorbachev had hoped to attend the ceremony in person, but last month said problems at home required his attention "hour by hour." Demonstrators in Moscow protested the award Sunday and today, blaming Gorbachev for ethnic and political violence in his own country. n. because the crisis accompanies what usually is their busiest season. The government had predicted a record year in tourism, surpassing the previous high of 1.5 million visitors in 1987. Instead, tourist arrivals have declined by half since Iraq seized Kuwait on Aug. 2, said Tourism Ministry spokesman Yossi ShovaL He said the 1990 would be 1.3 million at best r came in an unusually frank dispatch from the government-controlle- d news agency ATA. It appeared to be the first instance in which ATA was the first to report a confrontation between police and demonstrators in the isolationist Balkan country. The agency even indicated, without providing specifics, that the students who took to the streets were critical of Communist authorities. It said the students were angry about a power outage that left their dormitories without heat and light, and that demonstrators had tried to exploit dissatisfaction over the lack of heat for "political ends." The students "provoked the order forces and acted contrary to the law," the agency reported. i i X birth. In normal times, pilgrims would in the church be and the tiny grotto. "Things are so bad that I am not earning enough to feed me and my a man in wife," said Issa his 70s who usually makes his living shining the shoes of pilgrims outside the church. elbow-to-elbo- w X He has set aside his brass-inlai- d shoeshine box and directs drivers into parking places around Manger Square, hoping they will give him small change for his efforts. : Traditional religious ceremonies' are scheduled for the holidays.: They will begin on Christmas Eve with the ceremonial arrival of the Roman Catholic patriarch of Jerusalem and end with Masses and Anglican chorale services. Socialists winning in Serbia, but opposition alleges fraud BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) -The former Communists and their hard-lin-e President Slobodan Milosevic appear to have won a sweeping but fraudulent victory in elections in Serbia, the opposition said today. Official results were not immediately expected in Sunday's balloting, the first free multiparty elections since 1938 in Yugoslavia's largest republic. But the opposition Democratic Party said it had indications of a sweep by Milosevic and his Socialist Party, which recently underwent the name change. A victory for Milosevic and his party is thought likely to deepen the regional strife that threatens to break open Yugoslavia's fractious federation of six republics. "All I can say is they are leading and leading well," said Jova Vukel-i- c, spokesman for the Democrats. He said he based his remarks on partial results filing in to the party. Milosevic could even win an outd bid right majority in his to retain the republic's powerful presidency, said another Democratic official, Alexander Raznjatovic. A runoff vote will be held Dec. 23 for the presidency or any of the 250 Serbian Parliament seats in which no single candidate wins 50 percent. Republic-wid- e elections were also held Sunday in Montenegro, where Communists took an early lead, according to unofficial returns reported by the official news agency Tanjug. Tanjug said the Communist candidate for Montenegro's presidency, Momir Bulatovic, appeared likely to win without having to face a runoff. The Marxist leaders of Serbia and Montenegro are pitted against the Western-leanin- g republics of Slovenia and Croatia in the Yugoslav power struggle. At stake is whether the volatile Balkan country stays together as a federal republic, dissolves into a confederacy 'Hi The urifil-ti- Sfwofl QhotaMon of SortnpvWe, tost m H 00MMM ft Ml CtnWffnflhMI WE'VE MOVED. .. fmifaiioiiaii ' t LAftOMM. CALL ABOUT OUR GRAND OPENING SPECIAU ONE FREE WEEK! with ttM purchM of prepaid, 6 WMk program.' Not valid ltt) my other oftor. 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MAKE YOUR TAXES LESS TAXING. with ht THIS YEAR, THE IRS WOULD LIKE TO GIVE YOU SOMETHING FOR A CHANGE. - or collapses member states becoming completely independent Center-rigcoalitions ousted the Communists in Slovenia and Croatia in regional elections earlier this year, and advocate greater democracy and implementation of market-based economic reform on the ; federal level I'm living proof our program works. Diet Center- total Shoval said the ministry still was trying to woo Jewish religious' groups and Christians pilgrims, but that Israel bad canceled its overseas television advertising "until the gulf situation improves." "There will be Christians here for Christmas," he said. "The: question is how many." On a recent morning in Bethle- -' hem, a single tour bus was parked in Manger Square. Its seven Italian passengers were alone in the underground grotto of the Church of the Nativity, kneeling at the silver star that marks the site of Christ's l. The intelligence officers were part of Ershad's crisis team, which met almost daily during the seven-wee- k campaign of street demonstrations and strikes organized to press for his ouster, the sources said. Police in Albania break up protest VIENNA, 10 Gorbachev accepts his Nobel Prize in absentia Factional violence claims 25 lives : M-1-9 win Colombian election Ex-guerril- las Briefs - Ml ) th for Akiyama's rocket fare and spent an additional $25 million on - .Cr- BETHLEHEM, Occupied West In the season of Bank (AP) Christmas pilgrimages by Christians from around the world, the town where Jesus was born has nothing but room at its inns. Mayor Elias Freij looks out the window of his office onto the deserted square at the Church of the Nativity. "Tourists? What tourists?" he asks rhetorically, sweeping an arm toward the emptiness. "This is the worst situation in my memory." "With the drums of war beating in the Saudi desert and the large armada assembling in the (Persian) gulf, people are simply too scared to come here," says Freij, a Greek Orthodox Palestinian who has been mayor for 18 years. He said "the last straw" was Israel's decision in October to distribute gas masks in case of an Iraqi attack. "Would you go on holiday to a country where you need a gas mask?" Freij asked. Israel has suffered an overall loss in tourism because of the gulf crisis. Bethlehem and Arab east Jerusalem are especially affected Public Service of This Publication & A . |