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Show The Daily Herald Monday, March 9, 1992 Iraq’s financial assets abroad add up to $5 billion NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Factional fighting Iraq's known financial assets abroad, whose confiscation the leaves 27 dead United States is urging to pressure Baghdad into complying with JOHANNESBURG. South Africa (AP) — At least 27 blacks U.N. resolutions, amount to about $5 billion, it was reported today. have been killed in gun battles in The respected Middle East Ecoone of the bloodiest outbreaks of nomic Survey newsletter said it un— factional fighting in months, police derstood the US. suggestion to said today. seize the assets was made after Police said the fighting, which much departmental infighting in flared in black townships around Washington. Johannesburg and in Natal provWashington has su ested that ince over the weekend, mainly pit- the assets be seized an used to pay ted members of the African Na- for humanitarian supplies to Iraq, tional Congress against the rival Inkatha Freedom Party. In a‘third day of fighting, four men were killed in fighting today in the black township of Alexandra in northern Johannesburg, police said. Six people died from gunshot and stab wounds over the weekend in Alexandra after Inkatha held a funeral for a slain member Saturday, police said. elimination of its weapons of mass destruction and compensation to Kuwait and other victims of the Persian Gulfwar. The Middle East Economic Survey, which has good sources in financial institutions, said the US. Treaqu Department believes seizure of the Iraqi assets would lead to numerous lawsuits and [be opposed by some major allies. But the State Department advocated the measure as a way to tighten sanctions imposed on Iraq and destablize the government of Saddam Hussein, the newsletter re- TOKYO (AP) — The embarrassing defeat of a governing party candidate in a key parliamentary by-election could further cripple Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa’s scandal-plagued administration. The Liberal Democratic Party candidate’s loss Sunday was nar— row, yet it dealt a new blow to Miyazawa’s government, which has been unable to gain passage of any major legislation since taking office in early November. It was also the second by-election loss for the Liberal Democrats in two months — a worrisome development with national upper house elections set for July. In the election, Nobuo Onodera lost to opposition~backed candidate Koki Hagino, 396,532 to 393,615, in voting to fill an upper house vacancy in Miyagi, northern JERUSALEM (AP) — A gas chamber operator has testified that the Nazi death camp guard “Ivan the Terrible” fled to Yugoslavia near the end of World War II, according to the defense for John Demjanjuk. Defense attorney Yoram Sheftel also quoted the operator’s testimony as saying that the Treblinka camp guard had black hair, brown eyes, a square face and a scar on the cheek. Demjanjuk, a retired Cleveland auto worker convicted in 1988 of being the sadistic “Ivan the Terrible," was blond in his youth, has a round face and no scar on the cheek. Demjanjuk, 72, has appealed his TORONTO (AP) — Prime Min- some harsh words about recent his attacks at “low-level functionprotectionist U.S. moves, says aries" in the US. administration, President Bush has reassured him while praising Bush’s commitment the United States is not heading to free trade. toward a trade war with Canada. Coca-Cola plans return to India AP Laserphoto At the top Two Hong Kong climbers, Chain Vick-ital, 32, foreground, and Chung Kin-man, 38, reach the top of a 30-story building today in a climb to publicize their campaign to raise nearly 340,000 so they can join an international expedition that will climb Mount Everest March 21. The two have raised almost 536,000. ing to comply with regulations restricting foreign ownership to no more than 40 percent ofany busi.. years. and we have never the fine business we left behind,” John Hunter. president of CocaCola International. told a news conference today. Foreign investment in India — a vast potential market of 844 million people — had been held to less than $200 million a year by red tape and limits on taking profits out of the country. Thousands rally in Serbian capital BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) — About 40,000 people massed in Serbia's capital today to denounce President Slobodan Milosevic for the long war over Croatia‘s secession from Yugoslavia and the crumbling economy. Chanting “Slobo, Hitler" and “Slobo, Saddam," they defied a government warning the rally could bring a repeat of violence that erupted a year ago today when police and army tanks moved against 200,000 anti-Milosevic protesters. Two people died, scores were hurt and hundreds arrested during four days of unrest. Algeria reopens eastern university ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) —- The University of Annaba in eastern Algeria reopened Sunday, five days after it was shut down followmg violent protests by students supporting the Islamic fundamen— talrst movement. Political instability threatens largest African AIDS project KINSHASA, Zaire (AP) — Po- litical and social instability is putting more Zairians at risk of getting AIDS and could force the closing of Africa's largest research project on the disease, medical workers say. very big loss for Zaire and the world,too.” Other countries have followed Project SIDA’s (SIDA is French for AIDS) progress and compared their own studies to its results, Tar— ande said. Officials of the US Centers for Dr. Manzila Tarande, the depu- Disease Control told him the U .S.ty director, said the project’s clinic financed project probably would has no more test kits for AIDS and close because Zaire could not only about 5,000 condoms to dis- guarantee the safety of foreign natribute to the growing number of tionals who supervise the studies, women who have turned to prosti- Tarande said. tution to feed their families. In Atlanta, CDC spokesman He said it also had run out of the Kent Taylor said the agency was material needed to do diagnostic forced to abandon the project “betests for sexually transmitted dis- cause of the security problems, eases, which facilitate the spread which would have involved the of the HIV virus that causes ac- safety of the clients as well as our quired immune deficiency syn- own staff. ” He said CDC financial drome. support for the project will end “In reality, Project SIDA is Sept. 30. going to close," by July at the “The sad thing is, this was a latest, Tarande said. “It will be a very important project, ' ‘ he said. BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) —— Azerbaijani forces today reportedly shelled the Armenian town of Askeran for a fourth straight day and staged overnight raids on other villages in the dis uted enclave of Nagomo—Karab . Teams of Azerbaijani fighters crossed into the Taush area of Na- Igovernment Wednesday a ter a Imonth of arrests since the new Cgovemment was installed and can;celed parliamentary elections ex'pcctedtobewonbythefundamentalists. That scandal irelped end the Liberal Democrats’ upper house majority in 1989. They retain a majority in the more powerful lower house. While the opposition has kept parliament embroiled in bickering over the scandals, urgent matters such as the new national budget have had to wait. Legislation to enable Japan‘s armed forces to join United Nations peacekeeping operations also has languished as Miyazawa struggled to reassert his leadership. At a news conference Sunday, Mulroney said he had spoken with Bush by telephone earlier in the day and that Bush promised to look into Canadian trade concerns. In a rare swipe at US. trade policies, Mulroney charged in comments published Sunday that Washington was engaging in pro— tectionism and harassment after Canada lost important trade disputes over automobiles and lumher. “If you had told me that some tinpot dictator in some tiny little country somewhere was engaging in this kind of harassment, I’d say ‘So what else is new?” Mulroney was quoted by The New York Times as saying. “But for the United States, this is most unworthy. " On Friday. the US. Commerce Department issued a preliminary decision that Canadian softwou‘l lumber exports were unfairly subsidized and slapped a tax of nearly 14.5 percent on softwood irrrports from Britrsh Columbia and Que- “There’s a certain element of bec. the American administration that is Mulroney, who faces an elecresponding to protectionist cries ... but that is not Bush‘s position,“ tion campaign next year, also said the American actions could threatMulroney said. en North American free trade The criticism was unusual since talks. Free trade has become inMulroney‘s Conservative Party creasingly unpopular in Canada and Bush‘s Republican Party es- amidst a recession and growing job pouse similar conservative views losses. on foreign affairs and domestic The prime minister also repolicies. sponded to Washington‘s criticism A week ago, US Customs of Canada’s decision to pull its ruled that Honda Civics built in combat units from NATO by Alliston, Ont., from 1989-1990 pointing out that the Americans are have insufficient North American years behind in paying their dues to content to qualify for duty—free ex- the United Nations. port under the free trade agreeCanada is one of the few counment. tries to pays its U.N. dues on time. “We don’t believe you can be a The decision could discourage member of a club and not pay your Japanese investors from establishing new ventures in Canada, Hon- dues," Mulroney said. “Otherwise, you're a deadbeat. " da officials say. were casualties in all three towns, but did not give any figures. At least 42 people have been reported killed in the Caucusus Mountain enclave since Friday, according to Armenian news me- dia. Armenia and Azerbaijan have been fighting for four years-over gomo-Karabakh overnight and as- Nagorno-Karabakh, a region in saulted the villages of Mofses and Muslim Azerbaijan that is populatAigenar, said Mikit Kazaryan of ed mostly by Christian Armenians. the Armenian mission in Moscow. Azerbaijan has controlled NagorHe said several people were no-Karabakh since 1923. wounded and three Armenians Azerbaijan now controls only were taken hostage in the raids. A canned food factory was wrecked one rriajor city in Nagomo-Karacountry are among the last bastions by artillery shells but the attacks bakh, Shusha, although a signifiof open resistance to the army- were repelled by Armenians early cant number of villages remain in Azerbaijanihands. backed govemment': crackdown . today, he said. Azerbaijani artillery, meanon the fundamentalist Islamic SalIn other developments. Britain‘s The party was banned b the linked parcel delivery firm to son. ior politicians. Miyazawa himself was obliged to step down as finance minister in 1988 for links to another scandal involving Recruit Co., which supplied cheap shares to politicians and other influential figures. Azerbaijanis shell Armenian town Universities throughout the vation Front. At the news conference, the ister Brian Mulroney, who has had prime minister was careful to aim the Supreme Court. “We have been absetlf‘h' 14 Japan, after the death of a Socialist legislator. “it‘s very unlikely that Miyazawa can regain his popularity, ‘ ’ said Tokyo University professor Takeshi Sasaki. Miyazawa, 72, had been widely expected to use his relatively strong power base and diplomatic expertise to help raise Japan’s profile on the world stage. But instead he has been mired in scandals involving alleged pay— ments to politicians — a chronic problem in a country where candidates must spend massive sums to win elections. A top Miyazawa associate, Fumio Abe, has been charged with accepting $700,000 in bribes from Kyowa Co., a now-bankrupt steel frame maker, in exchange for political favors. Another scandal in— volves alleged payments by a mob— Bush reassures Canada of trade status conviction and death sentence to llL‘Sb. The Middle East Economic Sur— deposits with more than 30 countries — mainly the United States, Council resolution allowing Iraq to Britain, Japan, Switzerland, Italy sell $1.6 billion worth of oil to pay and Bahrain. for humanitarian supplies expires Another $750 rniilion is in the on March 19. form of oil sold by Iraq in July Iraq, objecting to requirements 1990 but not paid for because of that part of the money be used to the UN. trade embargo. Of this, compensate Kuwait, refused to sell more than $600 million worth is the oil. The newsletter said Iraq with US companies. It said it had encountered “no was not expected to re-enter world oil markets “in the foreseeable fu— hard evidence” that Saddam Hussein personally accumulated tens ture." The economic survey, published of billions of dollars over the past in Nicosia, said $3.76 billion of two decades and deposited them Iraq's assets were in the form of outside Iraq. vey noted out that a UN. Security EleCtion loss rattles Japanese leader Defense says camp guard misidentified NEW DELHI, India (AP) — Coca-Cola, which shut down Indian operations in 1978, plans to return under the new government's liberalized economic policies. Coca—Cola left India after refus- ported. A major debate is expected in the Security Council this week dur— rng a visit by Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, Baghdad’s most eloquent apologist. Aziz must defend his nation against accusations it is systematically impeding U.N. efforts to destroy its weapons of mass destruction, which Iraq agreed to as pan of the cease-fire that ended the Per— sian Gulf war. Aziz was expected to fly from (Amman, Jordan to New York toay. while, attacked Askeran again to- foreign minister, Douglas Hogg, day, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported. it said the Armenian town of Martuni also was shelled today. a day after helicopter gunships attacked the Village of Kamchinar. 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