Show Stag'd Ea"" ’'e- - Saturday Feb 3 1593 11A World World briefs Peru’s president will attend drug summit Sudan reconsidering Islamic sentences KHARTOUM Sudan (AP) — The chief justice has told prison inmates sentenced to lose a limb under harsh Islamic law that their cases will be reviewed and they may only have to serve time In 1983 Sudan began a strict interpretation of Islamic law which decrees that a thief s limbs must be amputated an adulteress must be stoned to death and people who drink alcohol must be LIMA Peru (AP) — President Alan Garcia said Friday he null attend the Feb 15 drug summit with President Bush in Colombia reversing his earlier decision to boycott the meeting if US troops were still in Panama Garcia said he decided to go to the meeting after Bush announced his intention to withdraw bv the end of the month troops sent to Panama to remove Gen Antonio Manuel Noriega from power Presidents Virgilio Barco of Colombia and Jaime Paz Zamora of Bolivia are also set to attend the summit which is to take place in Cartagena Colombia They are to discuss strategies to fight drug trafficking in their respective countries The three Andean nations are the source of most of the world supply of cocaine most of which is sold in the United States Garcia cited the “gravity of the drug problem" and said he will go with a “decisive and positive proposal" to combat trafficking Bolivia and Peru produce 90 percent of the world's coca leaf Most of Peru's coca harvest is transformed into paste and shipped to Colombia where it is refined into cocaine Bolivian traffickers formerly did the the same but increasingly are producing refined cocaine and smuggling it directly to the United States and Europe according to US drug otficials The drug trade brings billions of dollars in clandestine revenues into the three countries each year Bush last year proposed spending $22 billion over the next five years to fight the drug trade in the three Andean nations Among the topics the four presidents are expected to discuss are military and police aid to fight smugglers and leftist guerrillas tied to drug trafficking crop eradication and substitution programs cooperation in stopping the laundering of drug money and the extradition of drug suspects Garcia had pulled out of the meetirg after US troops landed m Panama Dec 20 to topple Noriega saving “I cannot meet with the leader of an invading nation" delPeru had planned to send a did Garcia if even the to summit egation high-lev- el not go Bogged Murder was punishable by death unless the victim's kin accepts payment from the culprit However the Sudan News Agency reported Friday that Chief Justice Kamil Ah Lulfi has begun reviewing dozens of such sentences imposed under the lough Islamic penal code which is called hudud Prime minister takes to wearing fake furs Militants give de Klerk credit Speech labeled as courageous JOHANNESBURG South Africa (AP) — Even militants who spent years in jail agreed on the best way to describe President FW de Klerk’s historic speech Friday: anti-aparthe- id NEW DELHI India (AP) — Prime Minister VP Singh’s trademark fur hats are no longer the real thing Following protests from animal lovers and ecologists including the minister of state for environment the prime minister has been sporting a new line of head-gemade from synthetic fur “Some things are done without the awareness of the background" Singh said in a letter addressed to Diana Ratnagar who heads the Indian branch of Beauty Without Cruelty an international animal rights trust founded ar in Britain in 1959 "I have always stood for those who are voiceless Therefore my decision to switch to an artificial fur cap as soon as I was informed of the cruelty involved" Singh’s letter said a Cabinet colleague who at the time was considered more liberal Botha resigned in August after losing a power struggle with the Cabinet and de Klerk became acting president He was courageous It was delivered by a man formally inaugurated to a term Sept 20 following raised in a culture that accepted white domination as God’s will general elections and told the a man whose father was in the country: “We stand on the Cabinet when African National threshold of a new era in South Africa" Congress leader Nelson Mandela went to jail in 1962 Now even doubters are beOn Friday before a national ginning to believe him television audience de Klerk “We would be unreasonable if announced that Mandela would we fail to acknowledge that of soon be freed unconditionally all the presidents of all the leadand that his outlawed guerrilla ers of the Nationalist governmovement was no longer ments de Klerk has taken the banned most bold step and has "In a matter of just over half an hour Mr de Klerk has set in emerged as the most couramotion a process of peaceful geous" said black activist Pope revolution that will undo four Molefe Molefe a leader of the United decades of doctrinaire National Front Democratic that have spelled Party policies freed m Decemwas coalition for said the millions" misery more than four years after ber Rev Stanley Mogoba head of the country’s Methodist Church in jail when the appellate court Mogoba spent three years in overturned a treason conviction prison in the 1960s for memberDe Klerk 53 comes from a ship in the Pan Africanist Conlong line of politicians going gress another black-le- d guerrilla a back to his group legalized by de Klerk in senator His brother Willem e hopes of promoting quit as editor of Rapport the negotiations largest Afrikaans-ian-guag- e country’s Until a year ago few outside newspaper after being South Africa had ever heard of criticized for his increasingly de Klerk liberal views He was education minister in AfrikaThe the Cabinet of President PW y Botha a loyal National ners began settling South Africa Party politician who was viewed 350 years ago and account for 3 as cautious pragmatic and rela- million of the country’s 5 million whites They are taught in tively conservative state schools that the role as rulBotha suffered a stroke Jan ers was ordained by God Until 18 1989 and Feb 2 — exactly a few years ago the main Afria year before Friday’s speech — kaner church preached that the de Klerk took over as National ideological foundation for apartParty leader narrowly defeating heid was found m the Bible five-ye- ar anti-aparthe- id At least 15 are killed in German train crash FRANKFURT West Germany (AP) — Two crowded commuter trains collided at the height of the Frank-lu- rt evening rush hour outside on Friday killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens of others officials said Rescuers pulled 15 bodies from the wreckage and between 30 and 40 people had been injured said Hesse state Interior Minister Gottfried Milde Walter Henss a spokesman for the Federal Railroad network said about 70 people had been injured The accident occurred after one of the drivers of the trains apparently missed a stop signal on the heavily used run between Frankfurt and Wiesbaden Henss said dead 43 missing after two ships collide 70 BEIJING (AP) — A ferry sank after being struck by an oil tanker on the Yangtze River in central China killing 70 people and leaving 43 others missing a newspaper said Thursday's edition of the Shanghai newspaper Liberation Daily seen in Beijing on Friday said the accident occurred near Anqing in Anhji province about 230 miles viuthwest of Shanghai The report pve no details on great-grandfath- er black-whit- Dutch-descend- low-ke- Associated Press A jubilant ANC supporter armed with a wooden rifle pretends to fire a shot Whites uncertain about action that has blacks rejoicing CAPE TOWN South Africa (AP) — A thin line of white police on Friday silently watqhcd the pulsating throng of sinking and chanting blacks celebrating the legalization of the African National Congress Small groups of white civilians stood behind the police staring at the jubilant blacks waving the organization's black green and gold flag as glum-looki- they chanted “ANC ANC" Other whites eyes cast down walked quickly past the exuber- ant blacks The police who broke up a peaceful demonstration in central Cape Town on Wednesday made no move to block the crowd Friday White reaction to President FW de Klerk's announcement of sweeping reforms appeared subdued and uncertain De the white electorate supported his plans to end apartheid and negotiate a new constitution with blacks De Klerk included Democratic the Party voters m his calculations Democratic Party Zach de Beer said de Klerk’s Of a general election “ speech was “a great event course the road ahead will be De Klerk is unlikely to heed the call He said after the Sepsteep and rough and there's a tember voting that 70 percent of possibility of setbacks" Treurnicht “He pve no indication whatsoever in the (September) general election that he intends making such sweeping announcements today And we say he has no mandate for doing the drastic things he intends doing and we challenge him to call Klerk legalized the ANC and other outlawed groups and called for talks with blacks on ending South Africa’s racial divisions Andnes Treurnicht leader of the Conservative Party called for a referendum on de Klerk's proposals “It was the most revolutionary speech to which I have listened in this Parliament" said anti-aparthe- id id anti-aparthe- id er the collision President appeals for Kosovo peace PRISTINA Yugoslavia (AP) President Jan ez federal — Drno sek visited Kosovo province Friday and appealed for an end to v lo'ence that has cost the 21 ethnic Aiba-ra‘- s of at least fives in 10 class said the ethnic unrest tFrunns political and economic reform in Yugoslavia which is from a tnsrg to transform itselfWestern-style Communist nation to a democracy with a market He economy Riot police used tear gas to demorstrators in Pnvma capital of Kosovo while Drno sc k met with provin- disp1 rse aboLt 200 v cial officials No o' her pro'ests were rrport-i- i fnja but a virtual general v" 1" s mu d to ha in force Ko-- s o a sou'bcrn p'oun'c next to i ‘k j iv Me rations poorest r i i j V i pmu rt of i ' v I 9 r ' n e p- are ethnic Albj-- r s I'' s1 i p i VI’ i‘ r h as a '"'o' t iom-j d “ a r d c vt n some n jj v r wirl lo their jobs I thr y 7rLg n ‘filial poled General orders tanks into Beirut bloodbath vu At least 30 009 people in Kosovo have been on almost constant strike since protests and riots began Jan 24 according to official ' A statistics Ethnic Albanians have demanded greater autonomy since Serbia the largest of Yugoslav ta's six republics made constitutional changes a year ago that pve it almost total control of the province Kosovo is part of Serbia but had functioned as an autonomous region Tanjug quoted Drnovsek as saying: “1 appeal to all peoples in Kosovo regardless of their nationalities to stop siolent activi-lies- " He said the situation was “ex- ceptionally grave and complex" and "Hocks the country's fundamental reforms” The federal government has sort a sweeping pofiiical and economic reform package to Parliament When Drnovsek arrived in Pristina le said "I have come for solving with some new the Kosovo problem ” He would not give details and said he id'-a- s BEIRUT Lebanon (AP) — Gen Michel Aoun sent tanks against his rival's seaside command post f nday the fourth day of a battle for ( hnstian suprema-c- v that has killed more than 120 people and wounded 500 most of them civilians Police said a people were trapped in basements and bomb shelters of ( hnstian east Beirut without electricity food or water after a cease-fir- e Thursdav afternoon failed to hold Lac h side accused the other of breaking it Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir the Maromle ( athoiic spiritual leader appealed to Aoun arid his adversary Samir Geagea both half-millio- n A WOO 14 P'fcii Ethnic Albanians demonstrate with a bonfire of tires would d seuss the proposals with P’ovinual authorities Tanjug said a federal govern-mecommission consisting of Premier Ante Markov ic the de-nse and interior ministers and four other ( abmet ministers had Den formed to “monnor and con'rol" the Kosovo situation "IXfense Minister Veljko is at his command post rt fi Kad-ijcv- ic Marorius “S'op shootirg Hau mires on the people I h ir i p s ard are not yours with a group of generals" it said I without elaborating Serbian authorises claim the constitutional charges were lo protect mror 'v Slavs in Kosovo The republic's conservative leaders have d'nounud proposals Pom two libral northern provinces Slovenia and ( that Kosovo be allowed grcaur I rcedom re-cssar- Geagea said his Lebanese Forces militiamen "crushed the repeated advance attempts" by two columns of Aoun's tanks trying to converge on his command post behind howncr fire of 20 shells a minute Geagea's television station later said his militiamen ‘vr-'-a- n the Amshcet base of ' n s 7th brigade on the nor’ eege of the enclave It br ota’i a film showing 7th brigade c imanucr Brig Gen Sami Rchana surrendering to the Lcba ese Fore 2 the base In east Beirut hi: i L e funt apartment el depots hospitals and V ir stations sparking fires tha ay out of control Police said tr kept fire cngircs from bat’lir? o-- high-ris- the blazes t'c One salvo at ci'v s 10 pm s main power plant on f-- c Mohicddin y Mmchio acting c'eetricity authority pleaded in an appeal broadcast by all Beirut radio neutraliza-tostations for a of the Sad industrial aria lo allow firefighters hi ( i ro ' s Said ns ’v H wjs "alarm1 d b the cl the da1 la s“ ard a ro-at- ia ecase-fi-e e ouiiU "humanitarian to permit the a' uaOon of casuj'tics " ad ol th1 stale-ru- n six-ho- to put down the blaze n |