| OCR Text |
Show TheSaltLake Tribune WAR ON TERRORISM All Wednesday, November Afghan Summit - Delegates Face Huge Challenges Afghans Say U.S. and U.N. Offer Best Hope for Peace BY KATHY GANNON @ Continued from A-1 United Nations andthe United States rather than the factions holding Germany. We know the United force them,” needs, they must abandon the responsibility “T am optimistic that maybe wewill have peace now because the United States and the United Nations will make sure HermannJ. Knippertz/TheAssociatedPress and no one wants to. I urge you all to forge a truly historic compromise that holds outa better delegates at the table, and other national reconciliation and to women served as advisers. A create a political system that guarantees respect for human rights and humanvalues.” in Rome since his ouster in 1973; and two Pashtun exile groups oneallied with Pakistan andone with Iran, coun- The four delegations are from the Northern Alliance, tries that have jockeyed for influence in Afghanistan for manyskeptics,itappearsthatis precisely that which you are aboutto do,” he said in a message to the gathering. “You mustprove them wrong.” Two women were among the Nations did not said Sami Ullah, a ends in Kabul’s main market Afghan royalists hold up posters of King Mohammad Zahir Shah duringa rally in Koenigswinter, Germany, on Tuesday,at the beginningof the talks on Afghanistan. Afghan factions Opened the talks on how to share powerand secure peace oncethe Taliban are defeated. U.N.Secretary General Kofi Annan also urged the delegates notto let Afghanistan slip back into chaos and bloodshed. “To in fatherof eight who earns barely 50 cent: day selling odds and is future for your torn country andits people.” talks these people. They would not besitting togetherif the United States and bloody power grabsofthe past 20 years and forge a broad-based government that respects human rights and includes women and a variety ofethnic groups. yours,” said Fischer, looking around theoval table where the delegates gathered, some in Western suits, somein thetur. bans and green combatjackets. “No onecan relieye youofit, while people back homestrug: KABUL, Afghanistan Cynical after more than two decades of war, many Afghans said Tuesdaythat their hopes for peace rest mostly with the have said the delegates represent only a fraction of nation’s political and ethnic forces, and therefore cannotcraft a stable, representative government. German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer opened the talks with a sharp reminder that if the delegates want the billions of dollars of reconstruction aid that their country “The have lived outside Afghanistan for much of the past 23 years THE ASSOCIATED PRESS group of Afghan women pro- tested at the foot of the Petersberg conference center because oftheir exclusion. delegates “all used more or principally made of ethnic Tajiks, Uzbeks and Hazaras the same phrases to de During the first. sessions, from the central and northern their thirst for peac part of the country; a largely ethnic Pashtun delegation sent by former king Mohammed Za- spokesman Ahmad Fawzi sai¢ “They were unanimous inexpressingthis desire to work for decades. The United Nations. hopes thetalks will last only three to and create an interim ghanis ation to govern Afan until spring, Fawzi they don't start fighting,” he sal It’s a long way fromthe sun baked mudhomes and grinding povertyof Kabul to the luxury hotel overlooking the Rhinein Germany where Afghan dele- gates discussed thefirst steps toward a broad-based, multi ethnic government Called by the United Nations to plot a better future for this war-shattered country, includ. ing eventual democratic rule, the conference brought to. gether 23 men and two women representing a wide spectrum of Afghai ty. hir Shah, whohas lived in exile gled to survive Soviet occupa tion, civil war, harsh Taliban rule and nowanother conflict they hopewill betheir last. This rubs someAfghansthe wrong way “Some of them have been swimming in pools in the West while in Afghanistan we have nothing, our children have no food,” said Mohammed Hussain. Hussain said that most days thereis no lunchat his home. Breakfast is usually bread and sweet black tea. Dinner con: sists of potatoes and bread soaked in a gre soup. Manyofthe delegates gathered outside Bonnarefrom the samegroups that once fought other for power in Afghanistan. With so many Afghan lead ernments anddiscredited ideologies, a growing number of peoplehere are looking to the 87-year-old former monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah, as their best hope. Muchof Zaher Shah's support stems from nostalgia for thepeacethat prevailed during his rule, which endedin a coup in 1978. Zaher Shah, wholives in exile in Rome,is not attend ing the conference in Germany buthassent adelegation. HOLIDAY SALE ENTIRE STOCK KITCHEN ELECTRICS ON SALE SALE 199. KITCHENAID® SALE 49.99 CUISINART? CLASSIC CHROME 2-SLICE ELECTRONIC TOASTER ULTRA POWER STANDMIXER Planetary mixing action: 4.5-qt. stainless steel bowl. Flat beater. Stainless steel whip. Reg. 240. Wide slots. Extra-lift feature. Browning/defrost controls. Slide-out crumbtray. Reg.*75. SALE 129.99 TILIA FOODSAVER KITCHENAID® ULTRA POWER 5-SPEED ELECTRONIC BLENDER PACKAGING SYSTEM Vacuum, package & seal. Vacloc bags are boilable, microwaveable, reusable. Reg. *165. Crushes ice at any speed. Quick-lock lid. In § colors. Reg. 1125, SALE 99.99. SALE 99.99 FOOD 41-cup food processor. Wide-mouth feed tube. Mixes up to 2.2 Ibs. of dough. Reg. *350. TO 12-CUP COFFEEMAKER CUISINART BREW CENTRAL 2LED clock with temperature Stainless steel. Program monitor. Automatic shut off. Brew pause feature, Retro styling. Reg. 125. All coffeemakers on sale, reg.'30-'275, SALE 19.99-229.99. Place 9 am-10 pm. Regular Down Pet, Down Saak Oty root aso Aoveried mechan may be ORDER ANYTIME: BLACK & DECKER® WAFFLE ade maker &MAKER ome Bee maker griddle. in-1 appliance: gril, welle Reverse non-ebck sriaces. Signal fort. Temperature control. Chrome file. Reg, "$5. and may oF may sales, Bar savageoSwpiedio pe al sae prices fn preg sale vets, Scton ves ‘Sale OUR COLLECTIBLE “#8 "HohOB Mi | ANY "35 PURCHASE 450-6923, Too All the right choices \ \ |
