News Digest Edited by Eric Pfanner
Poorest nations suffer
blows, World Bank says
Gulf crisis adds to economic hardships
WASHINGTON — The world’s
poorest nations suffered financial set
backs last year, compounded by the
economic shocks from the Persian
Gulf crisis, the World Bank said
Sunday. *
In its annual report, the 155-nation
lending agency said overall economic
growth in the Third World edged up
2.3 percent in 1990, the worst show
ing since 1982.
The situation was even more dire
when the weak growth was measured
against population increases in the
developing nations, the report said.
Per capita income rose just 0.2
percent in 1990, compared to gains of
2 percent in 1988 and 1 percent in
1989 in the Third World.
The poor economic showing was
blamed on many factors, including
the spillover from the economic slow
down in rich industrial countries and
a slowdown in the growth of world
trade.
But the report said many of the
shocks came from the turmoil associ
ated with Iraq's invasion of Kuwait,
which sent oil prices soaring, dis
rupted trade flows and triggered a
flood of refugees from the war zone.
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seizes TV station
MOSCOW — Renegade troops and
armed opponents of Georgian Presi
dent Zviad Gamsakhurdia seized a
government broadcast station Sun
day in a widening conflict the presi
dent is calling a coup attempt.
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the crisis that has left at least 41
people injured.
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> over a clandestine television channel
for supporters to defend him against
“the pseudo-opposition that is pre
paring an attack on parliament and
the legally elected government,” the
Georgian mission in Moscow reported.
Critics have called repeatedly for
Gamsakhurdia to resign, and opposi
tion leaders who seized the govern
ment radio and television center were
demanding air lime.
But power to the building was cut
Sunday, and Prime Minister Bessar
ion Gugushvili told the Russian gov
ernment news agency that Gamsakhur
dia “cannot satisfy the illegal demands
being presented to him.”
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Canada s prime minister
aims to appease Quebec
TORONTO — Prime Minister
Brian Mulroney takes his best shot at
keeping Quebec in Canada this week
when he announces proposed consti
tutional changes aimed at appeasing
the French-speaking province.
Quebec wants the constitution to
recognize it as a “distinct society”
and will hold a referendum on sover
eignty next year if its demands are not
met.
Mulroney promises that his pro
posals “will be the beginning of the
process and not the end.” They are to
be presented to Parliament on Tues
day.
The Meech-Lake accords, an ear
lier attempt to appease Quebec, col
lapsed last summer, spurring a new
rise in Quebec nationalism and the
feeling among many Quebecers that
they had been rejected by English
Canada.
Quebec, which has about 7 million
of Canada’s 26 miUion people, be
lieves that its French language and
culture are threatened by the sea of
English speakers on all sides. The
province already has its own legal
system based on the Napoleonic code
and laws making French the only
official language.
Quebec refused to sign the 1982
constitution, although the province is
still covered by its provisions. The
federal government has spent much
of the past decade trying to woo Quebec
back into the fold.
Although many issues are involved,
Canadians outside Quebec are most
disturbed about the demand for “dis
tinct society” status.
“They fear that the word ‘distinct’
would be interpreted as meaning
superior, and that such a definition
would make them inferior,” said Joe
Clark, a former prime minister who
now is Mulroney’s minister for con
stitutional affairs.
Details of Mulroney’s plan have
not been disclosed, but Clark said in a
speech last week that they would
include giving Quebec this special
status.
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