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Show Tuesday, January 7, 1992, The Daily Herald Shevardnadze says Georgia Chinese expel Canadian group - - HONG KONG (AP) Chinese police expelled a group of Canadian legislators today, roughing them up and keeping them incommunicado for hours alter the group announced plans to lay flowers in honor of China's 989 demonstrators, the legislators said. ""We were kidnapped. We were manhandled. said Svend Robinson. 39. a New Democratic Party legislator from British Columbia, speaking on arrival in Hong Kong. "It was the worst treatment of mv 1 cy life." The Canadian government protected the action, which marked the first time Communist China has expelled a group of foreign legislators. Cuba makes more cuts to save fuel - MEXICO CITY ( APi Cuba's energy woes hae led the governg ment to announce yet another measure: the Saturday closoffices and ing of most state-ru- n businesses, it was reported. fuel-savin- Monday's announcement, re- ported by the Mexican news agency Notimex. exempts agricultural enterprises and services such as transportation, funeral homes, radio and television stations, tourist centers, fishing and food distribution. Cuba's energy crisis is the result of a drastic reduction in oil shipments from the former Soviet Union. Cuba's virtually only oil sup- plier. MOSCOW (AP) Eduard Shevardnadze says his native Georgia should join the new commonwealth now that the republic's president has been ousted in what the former Soviet foreign minister called a "democratic revolution." Shevardnadze said in an interview with The Associated Press that he would like to play a role in rebuilding Georgia arid would not rule out running for its vacant presidency. President Zviad Gamsakhurdia. who fled to neighboring Armenia on Monday , was a ' "dictator" ' who ignored human rights and kept Georgia out of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Shevardnadze said. k During the bloody that lead to Gamsakhurdia "s ouster, commonwealth leaders said Georgia could not join until its power struggle was resolved. "Great harm was done by this (Gamsakhurdia) regime ... because Georgia was isolated economically, politically, morally both here in the framew ork of the commonwealth, and in Europe, the whole world." Shevardnadze two-wee- Eunpe. Bulgarian official's death likely suicide - SOFIA. Bulgaria (APi Two day s before he was to go on trial, a former deputy interior minister accused of destroying files on the v dutv officer in nearbv Paardhik. SEOUL. South Korea (AP) -North Korea said today it w ill sign a nuclear safeguards, agreement allow ing inspections of its facilities and South Korea reciprocated by cancelling annua! military exercises with the United States. The moves are a significant step toward easing tensions and ending the nuclear arms race on the div d Korean peninsula. North Korea is believed to be nearing capability to produce nuclear arms, perhaps by 1993. It denies its nuclear program is geared toward developing weapons but until recently it refused steadfastly to open its secretive nuclear facilities. "The government of our rer c decided to sign the nuclear safeguards accord in the near future jb-Ii- Marcos will make bid for presidency MANILA. i AP) Philippines Imelda Marcos an- nounced her candidacy for president today after pleading innocent in court to anti-gra- ft charges filed by the government of the bitter rival who helped drive her from power. widow of The 61 year-old -- decision to run SEOUL. South Korea APi -Economic cooperation between the United Stales and South Korea w ill expand into high technology and move trom selling goods to joint ventures ;n third nations, officials predicted : day South Korean officials and businessmen cia'm the new direction is the result o! momentum triggered by this week's summit between President Bash and President Roh . I Summit ient t. tais U'nv. a included an Korea-U.- agree-- i Eco- nomic Council, a new group to be app nntcd to deal with pending trace issues such as increasing imports on .red it. liberalization ot the financial market and early opening ol the communications market. Judge OKs cutting off life support QUEBEC CITY. Quebec (APi A judge ruled Monday that doctors can shu' off the respirator that is keeping a paralyzed woman alive, in a case seen as setting a major precedent in Canada. Justice Jacques Dufour ruled the doctor for the woman identified in court records as Nancy B. would not be commuting a criminal act by disconnecting her life support woman when the chooses. Dufour said Dr. Danicle could stop the respirator if she has not chanced her mind after a 3Uday appeal pcrx beginning Monday. Mar-cca- u w "The forces of unity, democra- freedom have gained victory over the dictatorship. A democratic revolution has triumphed. I congratulate you on this historic event." he wrote. Shevardnadze quit as Sov iet foreign minister in the fall of 1990. warning of an impending dictatoi-shithen returned to the post for the final month of the Sov iet Uncy and p. ion's existence. ti sr I I fr'f' J" --" - fin I - Moscow. He said he would continue to cooperate with, and be a friend of, former Soviet President Mikhail S. f V Gorbachev. Since resigning last month. Gorbachev has been on vacation. But Shevardnadze said Gorbachev "has not left politics." 4-,- who became head of the Georgian Communist Party in 1972, was the republic's Shevardnadze, li t Kg j 'AAV' t - 3 j, J most powerful official when Gamsakhurdia was convicted of agitation in 1978 and jailed for a year. anti-Sovi- et Shevardnadze was brought to Moscow in 1985 by Gorbachev and played a key role in Gorbach-ev'- s reforms: helping to end the Cold War, reduce nuclear weapons, and allow Communist gimes in eastern Europe to lapse. recol- said candidly Shevardnadze that he hopes his good reputation in the West will translate into support for his new fund to rebuild Georgia. Monday ft v 7ir- - jyr,--- - -. ''- , imi iji in' . ratified through legal the earliest possible at procedures date." said a statement from the Communist north's Foreign Ministry released by its official news and have it agency. In Vienna. North Korean ambassador Chon In Chan said his country would sign the safeguards d agreement w ith the International Atomic Energy Agency during the last week of January. ienna-base- He said "all facilities will be included in the inventory which will be submitted to the IAEA" as a basis for international inspectors to v isit North Korea. Chon In Chan said the accord with die IAEA would be ratified as soon as possible, but it was unclear if that would be done before sched- - uled talks of the North and South Korean prime ministers in Semen Mgeladze, right, and his wife Shuren climb over the rubble of their totally destroyed house Tuesday which stood near the Parliament building in Tbilisi, Georgia. y. Yoon Chang-ro- . spokesman of the South Korean Defense Ministry . said the decision to cancel the U.S. South Korean Team Spirit exercise was for this year only. He left open the possibility that future exercises could be held. President Bush said during a visit to Seoul on Monday that he and President Roh Tae-- oo had agreed -- w to scrub this year's exercise if North Korea fulfilled its nuclear-fre- e pledge. The breakthrough in resolving the nuclear issue came Dec. 31 w hen the north and south signed a milestone agreement calling for elimination of all nuclear weapons on the divided peninsula. Georgian rebels kill two at rally pro-preside- nt TBILISI, Georgia (AP) -Fighters loyal to the military council that drove President Zviad Gamsakhurdia from Georgia opened fire today on thousands of people rallying in support of the deposed leader. at the crowd. People panicked and started running wildly. This Associated Press correspondent w itnessed the assault. A rally at the train station was broken up Friday by masked gunmen, and two people were killed and 25 station, with people shouting "Zviad)"! Zviady!" and holding' pictures of Gamsakhurdia and waving red, white and black Georgian flags. Eventually the crowd grew to about council has banned demonstrations in Tbilisi and has never Several people were wounded. The rally began at the train 4.-00- 0. former President Ferdinand Marcos, speaking on the courthouse steps, called her Koreans praise Bush, Roh summit Shevardnadze 64. said he was creating an international fund to help Georgia recov er from the brutal power struggle that took more than 70 lives and devastated down-ton Tbilisi, the capital. In a w ritten appeal to his countrymen, he expressed sy mpathy for the families of those who died but welcomed Gamsakhurdia"s ouster by rebel troops. in North Korea to sign nuclear agreement 9X assassination of dissident . fice. Now , his only position is head of the Foreign Policy Association, a private research center he founded AP Laserphoto Georgi Markov was found dead in an apparent suicide, police said. Gen. Stojan Sawn. 68. was found shot in the right temple, a revolver near his body . an Interior Ministry spokesman said. A letter found beside the body was addressed to the general's wife, said the spokesman, who spoke on condition ot anopy may Savov's bkiy was found Monday in the illage of Lcsichevo. his birthplace about W" miles east of Sofia, said Maj. Spjs Marinkov. Gamsakhurdia. who was overwhelmingly elected in May in Georgia's first popular vote, has alleged that Shevardnadze masterminded the campaign to oust him. Opponents say Gamsakhurdia became dictatorial after taking of- ri id-e- The Caribbean nation has lost nearly all of its markets and sources of subsidized trade since communism collapsed in eastern said. - 1. elections the in the May result 1 1 of "months of direct consultations with our poor and oppressed citizens ..." The flamboyant former first lady, who is known for an extra1 gant lifestyle, ac- cused outgoing President Corazon Aquino's government of failing to deliver basic services to the country's destitute. "This government would rather spend hundreds of millions to persecute and vilify its own citizens." said Mrs. Marcos, wno left behind pans of shoes in the presidential palace when she tied with her husband in the 1986 popular revolt Mrs. Aquino rode into office. The Aquino government 1.-2- claims the Marcoses looted the treasury of up to S10 billion during 20 y ears in pow er. Mrs. Marcos, whose hus- U.S. auto ex ecutives say they don't w ant handouts - of the government. Japanese car makers are preparing plans of assistance. 's "I really don't want Mr. sympathy," Stempel said. "The reason that we could come to Japan this time is not because we come from a position of weakness but because we come from a position of strength." Chairman Robert Stempel said Stempel added. "... We can come to this country and not ask they wanted real action by Japan to for sympathy but ask for action. open its market to U.S. manufacturers. That's what the whole purpose of '"We have world-clas- s cars." this trip is: one. open the market, and two, let's look at the chronic Stempel said. "We joined the president for just that reason: that trade imbalance." America can be proud of the goods Iacocca said they were seeking it produces, can be proud of the fundamental change in Japan's trade practices. technology it has." Iacocca and Stempel. along w ith "To say w e are coming to Japan Ford Motor Co. chairman Harold to get a souv enir or we're going to A. Poling, are part of an sit around and accept whatever faexU.S. of business vors they can bestow on us, that's delegation ecutives accompany ing Bush at his not the game," Iacocca said. "The request in an effort to focus attengame is. you've got to change the tion on Japan's $41 billion annual basic trading relationship between trade surplus with the United these two countries. s of the States. About "We don't have to apologize to is gap anybody," Iacocca told the AP. In the run-uto his summit "We're the leaders of the world," with Prime MinisBush. he said of the United States. meeting ter Kiichi Miyazawa called upon The messages delivered by the the Japanese to show "compasauto executives are likely to strike sion" for the recession-wrackemany Japanese as brash, even United States, including the auto cocky. The general perception here is that Detroit cannot compete industry On Monday, Miyazawa said he on its own without concessions would increase efforts to help Desuch as existing voluntary export troit sell cars here. At the prodding limits from Japan. OSAKA. Japan (AP) U.S. auto executives lashed out today at suggestions their ailing industry is seeking handouts from Tokyo and said their products are competitive. On their first day in Japan as members of President Bush's trade mission. Chry s'er Corp. Chairman Lee Iacocca and General Motors Miya-zawa- three-fourth- auto-relate- d. p d . band died in Hawaii in 1989. returned to the Philippines in November after nearly six years of exile, hoping to revive her late husband's political network and clear the family name. But she also found 47 criminal charges awaiting her. Today, she pleaded innocent to six charges alleging she con- trolled and created private companies in Switzerland while governor of Manila. One case accuses her of stashing in Swiss banks S20 million in interest from trca- - As demonstrators began to march through the capital, sev- eral onlookers waved and cheered from balconies. At one point, someone threw a smoke bomb into the crowd and fired into the air. The marchers continued. After the marchers passed a hotel, a group of armed men loyal to the ruling military some wearing masks council appeared and formed a line across the street. They fired into the air and then some fired were wounded. The military denied responsibility for Friday's assault. The AP reporter saw one wounded man being rushed to a nearby house, where people bandaged his leg. In addition, two women were seen being carried away. It was impossible to immediately determine the total number of casualties. The v iolence came as Geortook stock of the dev astagians tion from 16 day s of fighting that subsided Monday when Gamsakhurdia fled the Parliament building where he and his supporters had been pinned down and took refuge in Armenia. Croatians say federal troops shot down EC helicopter ? ZAGREB, Yugoslavia (AP) A European Community helicopter carrying five people was shot down today by federal air force jets northeast of Zagreb, the Croatian Interior Ministry said. A ministry statement, read over the telephone to The Associated Press, said the aircraft blew up in the air after it was hit by an it declared independence from Yugoslavia on June 25. 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