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Show S3mM Ai Wednesday, November 4, 1992 The Daily Herald Bffloffo v CV ' i r-- ' ft Global leaders remind Clinton of superpower responsibilities . U.S. submarine deployed to Gulf .1 1 fori." ' I ctW x ft V) out. NATO Secretary General LONDON Global leaders today reminded Bill Clinton of Manfred Woerner, in Brussels, exWashington's responsibilities as pressed confidence that under the sole superpower and said reviClinton, the United States would continue to provide NATO with talizing the U.S. economy is important to the entire world. strong leadership. Iraqis danced in the streets to Foreign policy took a back seat celebrate President Bush's loss, to the economy in the U.S. election but Kuwaitis were heartbroken. campaign, but many governments Across the continents, reaction said Clinton must recognize Amerwas generally upbeat, although ica's global leadership. several leaders expressed concern "I believe the leadership of the that Clinton might lead the United United States is as necessary as States on a more protectionist path ever to preserve peace and enhance in trade. democracy and a market economy Chancellor Helmut Kohl of Gerall over the world," President Roh o of South Korea said in his many, in a somber message, said "close solidarity" with the United congratulatory message. States "is even more important as In Japan, Foreign Minister we face new challenges after the Watanabe said a revitalized end of the conflict. ' ' American economy "is important "Our hopes for a more peaceful not only for the United States alone world and for the carrying out of but also for Japan and for the human rights, democracy and a whole world." market economy everywhere in He had been quoted Tuesday by Europe and in the world still have the national Asahi newspaper as not been fulfilled," he said. fretting that the Democrats would Some European politicians wor"apply the brakes to Japan's sellry that Clinton might quickly cut ing products cheaply." U.S. military strength in Europe at Swedish Prime Minister Carl a time when they believe an AmerBildt expressed hope that Clinton ican presence is desperately needwould "resist the protectionist ed because of increasing winds." In Brussels, Jacques Delors, the Boris Yeltsin of RusEuropean Community's top execusia expressed hope for a continuative, asked Clinton to meet the tion of the partnership established challenge of maintaining good re n ... v' ' ' f BERLIN (AP) Clearing a gal hurdle before the trial of former East German leader Erich $ East-We- le- ' ' ' ' I ' 1 Ho-neck- the Supreme Court has upheld convictions of two former border guards who killed a man trying to escape over the Berlin ' ' V AP Photo Wall. scheduled to soldier listens to his commanding officer during a briefing of troops Sunday in Monrovia, Liberia. A young open Nov. 12 in Berlin. The former Communist leader, who has liver cancer, is charged with manslaughter in the deaths of people shot while trying to escape from East Germany. His lawyers have argued that Honecker should not be prosecuted for actions that were legal under East German law. Tuesday's ruling by the Supreme Court, which came in response to an appeal by the lawyers of the two former border guards. ton. By MICHELLE FAUL Associated Press Writer conj-mitte- t Peace negotiations "will continue, and I'm convinced that also the new administration will show deep and serious interest in the talks,?' said Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. In Baghdad, groups of Iraqi io st businessmen celebrated Bush's defeat by dancing in the streets and chanting "Bush out, but Saddam lives MONROVIA, Liberia -Lcivil war continues to take its toll on the innocent, with 38 rubber plantation workers among the latest victims. Nigerian jets in a multinational force defending Monrovia bombed the Firestone rubber plantation and killed at least 38 of its employees and their relatives, officials said Tuesday. Firestone officials said all the casualties were civilians. Russia focuses on volunteer army - MOSCOW (AP) Defense Minister Pavel Grachev says that by the end of the decade, half of Russia's soldiers and sailors will be volunteers. Grachev had said shortly after being named defense chief in May that he preferred changing from a conscript to a volunteer force. On Tuesday, he named a target date. g is on the rise in Russia because young men fear they will be sent to areas of ethnic unrest. Military life in Russia has other drawbacks housing shortages, low pay, unappetizing food and hazing by older soldiers. Grachev has said the number of military personnel will shrink from 2.8 million to 2.1 million men by 1995 and fall to 1.5 million by 2000. As many as 3,000 people, mainly civilians, have died in the siege of Monrovia alone since Oct. 15, Dr. Ruth director of the U.N.'s World Health Organization in the capital , said Tuesday . . Others doubt that number, saying the fighting prevents an accurate account of casualties. Most of the estimated 20,000 victims in the war and another 40,000 who have died of starvation in Monrovia have been civilians. Draft-dodgin- Tsha-balal- a, Maj. Gen. Adetunji Olurin of of the West African force, refused to confirm at a news conference that his warplanes bombed the Firestone plantation Monday as part of the campaign to strike at rebel leader Charles Taylor's supplies and communications lines. "You can be sure that anywhere Taylor is using to launch any attack on us will be a target," Olurin said. Military sources said Taylor had been storing munitions at the American-manage- d Firestone plantation at Harbel, a company town 30 miles east of the capital. Taylor's forces deny the claim. Taylor used Firestone as a military base to attack Monrovia when he first besieged the capital in 1990. Trevor Hoskins, the chief spokesman for Nashville-base- d Inc., Bridgestone-Fireston- e forever." Zaurier Halim, a soldier in the internaIraqi army that U.S.-le- d tional troops forced from Kuwait in the Persian Gulf War, said: "Our wounds have finally healed." But Bush was not forgot- ten. instability-Presi- "This for Kuwait," saidjournalistKhaledThiab. "We owed this man the return of both our country and our democracy . " is a sad day Political solution unlikely in Angola Nigeria, commander iberia's : d "Syria and the Arabs are to the peace process, anjd they expect President Clinton to be an honest broker between-th- e Arabs and Israel, taking no one side against the other," said Syria's foreign minister, Farouk dent Liberian civil war claims 38 plantation workers ; Markets had anticipated Clinton's victory, and generally react' ed calmly. In the Mideast, Arabs and Israelis said they could work with Clin- Tae-wo- Mi-ch- - lations with Europe amid fears a transatlantic trade war could break Vyaches-la- v Kostikov. - guard convictions Honecker's trial presidential spokesman Associated Press Writer Court upholds is during the Bush presidency, said By ROBERT BARR MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) -The USS Topeka, the first U.S. attack submarine to enter the Persian Gulf, steamed toward the center of the strategic waterway today, days ahead of a sub that Iran has purchased from Russia. But the U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, with headquarters on the USS LaSalle, tried to play down the significance of the deployment. Cmdr. Bruce Cole, the spokesman for the command, said the Topeka's visit "has been planned well in advance" of reports that one of two diesel submarines Iran bought from Russia was headed to the gulf. - still exist," said Durao Barroso, who was the chief mediator in talks that led to peace accords last year. Pope John Paul II, who visited Angola in June, urged both sides to "put down their arms and return to dialogue and the force of reason. ' ' LUANDA, Angola (AP) The government called today for talks with rebel leader Jonas Savimbi after fierce weekend fighting, but diplomats said there was little hope of a political solution. Government forces crushed outnumbered rebels in the capital in fighting that claimed up to 1,000 lives. Several of the rebels' top leaders were effectively held prisoner by government forces and others were killed or wounded, but the rebels still control large parts of the country. The government's news media said shooting continued today around the port city of Lobito, 250 miles south of the capital. Luanda Tension had been mounting since Savimbi claimed elections held in late September were rigged by the government. His group, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, trailed the vote to the ruling Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola in the vote. U.N. monitors declared the vote generally free and fair. But Savim-bi'- s opposition raises the possibili civil war will Angola's resume in earnest. 16-ye- ar ty State radio today said the government wanted a meeting between Savimbi and President Jose Eduar-d- o dos Santos to resolve the crisis. But diplomats in Luanda and Lisbon said only negotiations had been held so far, concerned mainly with the safety of rebel officials in government low-lev- el hands. The diplomats spoke on condiof anonymity. The rebels' two top negotiators in the capital, Jeremias Chitunda and Elias Salupeto Pena, Savim-bi'- s nephew, were killed. tion was quiet. Jose Manuel Durao Barroso, Portugal's state secretary for foreign affairs, told reporters in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, that the Angolan government had reopened contacts with rebel leaders. "Chances of peace in Angola RENTERS INSURANCE Less Than $8.00 Mo. Call For Quote 374-111- 0 mm ZIONS Insurance Agency said he had no information on whether Taylor was now using the plantation as a base. Briton arrested in smuggling case FLENSBURG. Germany (AP) A Briton living in northern Germany has been arrested on suspicion of illegally dealing with plu-toniu- Russian lawmakers ratify arms reduction treaty authorities said Tuesday. newspaper said the plan was to ship the plutonium to Iraq to By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press Writer A British Hard-line- make a bomb. Russia's legislaMOSCOW Flensburg prosecutor Thomas ture today ratified the Strategic Thamm said the 51 year-old man Arms Reduction Treaty with the was arrested this week for violatUnited States, despite heated dethat it would be ing Germany's weapons export bate by laws. Bill seen as a gift to President-eleAuthorities, who declined to re- Clinton. lease the suspect's name, believe The START treaty would cut by he was acting as a middleman in an about d the U.S. and forme attempt to smuggle 176 pounds of er Soviet arsenals of and bombers missiles next over the plutonium. Britain's Sunday Express newsseven years. In a joint session of the Supreme paper reported this weekend that the plutonium was produced in Soviet, lawmakers voted 157-Russia and was to be sold to Iraq with 26 abstentions, to ratify the for $77.9 million. treaty. It must also be ratified by -- hard-line- rs ct one-thir- long-rang- 1, the former Soviet states of Canadian Eskimos vote on land claims - 0 TORONTO (AP) Nearly Eskimos in Canada's eastern Arctic are eligible to take part in a settlevote to ratify a ment that will lead to de facto in an area covering 20 of Canada. percent The vote by the Eskimos, who prefer the name Inuit, began Tuesday and continues through Thursday. Results are to be announced Nov. 12. A "yes" vote would pave the way for creating the federation's third territory, to be called Nuna-vuor "our land" in the Inuit language of Inuktitut. The accord gives the Inuit $912 million over 14 years and the right to fish, hunt and trap land-clai- 10,-00- m leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev. in the Russian legislature demanded that the ratification vote be postponed because the treaty was unfair to Russia and because it followed Clinton's election victory Tuesday. "Some people want to present (the treaty) on a silver platter to the said Vitaly U.S. president-elect,- " Sevastyanov, a former cosmonaut. "But we shouldn't make presents. ... I am for this treaty, but we should take a reasonable attitude," he said, arguing to delay the vote. He complained that many technical problems relating to the dismantling of the missiles remained and that Russia lacked the money to resolve them. Legislator Nikolai Pavlov, one of the leaders of the hard-lin- e opposition National Salvation Front that was disbanded by President Boris Yeltsin last week, said the treaty was unfair to Russia. Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan, which have nuclear arms. The U.S. Senate adjourned last month without ratifying the pact, which was signed in July 1991 by President Bush and former Soviet rs in ill fnSl tAv J Wife a 11 m mm. hi r i ' mm VSR 3 All You Can Eat Chinese Buffet M-F- ri Sat. 12 1 1 a.m.-3p.- noon-3:3- 0 !', . . 1'J KJUPlJ a lite iavition Mongolian SPECIALIZING UN: -- ADULT ADOLESCENT DEPRESSION BBQ ALCOHOL and DRUG DEPENDENCY Af one time through I s'C t, M8 MOUNTAIN VIEW HOSPITAL 1000 EAST VS. HICHWAY i PAYSON, UTAH 14651 (801) 465-70- 41 cjptjpcJr3cJricJp L.- |