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1 _ 0__ News Digest JL w w ^ ^y w Emitted by Eric Pfanner U.S. charges Yugoslavia’s military with aggression UNITED NATIONS — The Bush admini stration Wednesday charged Yugoslavia’s military with unacceptable aggression against separationist Croatia, causing death to citizens it is constitutionally supposed to protect. “A lot of blood has already been lost, but it is time for all parties to commit themselves to resolve their differences in the future in a peaceful way,” Secretary of State James Baker said at an extraordinary meeting of the U.N. Security Council. “All nartipc p.cnpriallv thp Spjrhs and Croats. need to stop the fighting,” he said. Baker said, “We cannot and will not accept repression and the use of force in the name of those concerns.” He said the government of Serbia and the Yugoslav federal military “bear a special and indeed growing responsibility for the grim future which awaits the people of Yugoslavia if they do not stop the bloodshed and reverse the violent course now being pursued.” The Security Council session was called to approve an arras cutoff to Yugoslavia and all factions that have brought the country to the verge of civil war. . „ . . “The aggression within Yugoslavia . . . represents a direct threat to international peace and security,” Baker said as the Bush admini stration set aside diplomatic understatement to register unmistakable disapproval of the drive against Croatia. . . . . , “This crisis in Yugoslavia has descended into open warfare,” Baker said. “This violent conflict threatens all the peoples of Yugoslavia with terrible economic and social strife, with a sharp deterioration in me most iundamcntal human rights and freedoms, and, above all, with massive bloodshed and loss of life.” Baker urged the council to support peace making efforts of the European Community and the Conference on European Security to bring about an effective cease-fire and to ap point arbitrators to resolve the dispute peace fully. He also backed the proposed arms embargo, warning that the conflict threatens to spill beyond Yugoslavia’s borders. Iraqis beef up forces besieging U.N. inspectors UNITED NATIONS — More Iraqi troops joined the siege of U.N. weap ons experts in Baghdad on Wednes day, but the inspectors refused to surrender secret nuclear documents and spent a second night surrounded in a parking lot. Gen. Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Con gress that the U.N. team has found “gold mines” of data proving that Iraq lied in its repeated denials that it has a nuclear weapons program. The United States began moving Patriot anti-missile units to the Per sian Gulf in case the U.N. Security Council orders military escorts for U.N. teams searching Iraq. The teams are working under pro visions of the gulf war cease-fire call ing for weapons of mass destruction and any production facilities to be destroyed. The standoff in Baghdad contin ued even as Iraq gave the Security Council written assurance late Tues day that it would no longer interfere with search flights by U.N. helicop ters. The Slate Department questioned Baghdad’s sincerity Wednesday, and U.N. officials said Iraq might be tested in four or five days with a search for Scud missiles in western Iraq. The Security Council repeated its demands that the 44 inspectors be released along with documents they uncovered Tuesday during a search of the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commis sion. The Iraqi foreign minister, Ahmed Hussein, rebuffed that demand dur ing a meeting Wednesday with U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar. “It leads to further confrontation between the Security Council and Iraq, and obviously we take that very seri ously," said U.S. Ambassador Tho mas R. Pickering. In a satellite telephone interview with The Associated Press, the leader of the U.N. team, David Kay, said the Iraqis had begun beefing up the force surrounding the inspectors on a park ing lot outside the nuclear agency at sundown Wednesday. F-15E fighter jets, A-10 tank killers, E-3AWACS. KC-135 refueling tankers, U-2 high-altitude spy aircraft Ships <C2-U 2 aircraft carriers, 2 marine amphibious assault units, dozens of other warships » 36,300 military personnel 11,200 Army; 4,750 Air fores; 16,000 Navy; 4,000 marines (most in Saudi Arabia) AP Deadlock broken in El Salvador peace negotiations UNITED NATIONS — El Salva dor’s government and the leftist rebel movement reached a broad agree ment Wednesday that “breaks the deadlock” in their peace talks, U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar announced. The accord, reached after 10 days of gruelling private talks, sets out conditions to allow members of the leftist guerrilla movement to lay down their arms and join the political proc ess without fear of persecution. “It is my firm expectation that this agreement will break the deadlock in the negotiations, efforts leading to ward agreements on all pending sub stantive matters and a brief dynamic cease-fire are to result shortly,” he said. “The Gordian knot has been un tied,” the U.N. chief said. The agreement covers a broad spectrum of military reforms, includ ing purging the army of rights abus ers; economic and land reforms; and incorporation of the rebels into a new national civilian police force. The accord calls for the govern ment and rebels to meet for what is envisioned to be a conclusive 10-day round of peace talks beginning Oct. 13 at a site yet to be selected, said Alvaro de Soto, the chief U.N. media tor. De Soto said a permanent cease fire would not be declared until the remaining political issues are settled. “The possibility exists of reaching an agreement this year,” he said. Diplomats said El Salvador’s government agreed Wednesday that the FMLN guerrillas and their fami- i lies would be given title to lands held by the rebels. Accord was also reached I on other economic issues in the U.N.-i mediated talks, the diplomats said." The government will respect the constitutional limit on the size of estates of land, a key clement of land reform that many believe is necessary for lasting peace in El Salvador. The rebels also were seeking agree ment that the army will be purged of human rights abusers. Four dead after rebels battle troops in Soviet Georgia TBILISI, U.S.S.R. — In the worst violence in a month of growing political tensions, rebel national guardsmen on Wednesday battled troops loyal to Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhur dia. The pre-dawn shootout left four dead and five wounded. Gamsakhurdia gave his opponents until 6 p.m. today to lay down their arms or face arrest. Some government ministers held talks with op position leaders to try to defuse the crisis. Thousands of protesters rallied in Tadzhiki stan’s capital, Dushanbe, to protest what they called a coup by hard-line Communists trying lo regain control of the Central Asian republic. The protesters demanded the resignation of President Rakhman Nabiyev. The violence in Georgia erupted just hours after Gamsakhurdia clamped a stale of emer gency on Tbilisi, the Georgian capital, to try to halt mounting opposition demands for his res ignation. The conflict pits the president against a growing opposition movement led by intellec tuals. They object to Gamsakhurdia’s efforts to restrict press freedom and his dictatorial man ner since he won popular presidcniial elections in May. Gamsakhurdia said the shootout in Tbilisi occurred about 3 a.m., when about 40 opposi tion national guardsmen attacked the admini stration building of the city’s electric power station, which was guarded by loyal militia men. The president said the opposition forces were trying to seize the building to shut off power to downtown Tbilisi. A communique from the city’s military commander said four people were killed, in cluding two loyalist militiamen and two oppo sition guardsmen. It said five were wounded. Another man was found dead early Wednes day in a doorway about 100 yards from the television center, but it was unclear whether he was shot during the fighting. Various accounts of the events circulated among opposition leaders, who were holed up in the well-guarded TV center they seized Sunday. It is little more than a mile from parliament, which was also heavily guarded. Former Prime Minister Tengiz Sigua said at a news conference that the shooting occurred when a car carrying a sick guardsman to a hospital was slopped by Gamsakhurdia’s forces. Netfraskan Editor Jana Padarsan 472- 1766 Managing Editor Diana Brayton Assoc News Editors Stacey McKenzie Kara Wells Diversions Editor Bryan Peteraon Photo Chief Shaun Sari In Copy Desk Editor Paul Do malar Art Director Brian Shelllto General Manager Dan Shattll Production Manage' Katherine Poiicky Advertising Manager Todd Sears Sales Manager Eric Kringel Classified Ad Manager Annette Sue per Publications Board Chairman Bill Vobejda 476-2855 Professional Adviser Don Walton 473- 7301 FAX NUMBER 472-1761 The Daily Nebraskan(USPS 144-080) is published by the UNL Publications Board. Ne braska Union 34, 1400 R St., Lincoln, NE, Monday through Friday during the academic year; weekly during summer sessions Readers are encouraged to submit story ideas and comments to the Daily Nebraskan by phoning 472-1763 between 9 a m. and 5 Km Monday through Friday The public also is access to the Publications Board For information, contact Bill Vobegda, 436-9993. Subscription price is $50 for one year, Postmaster: Send address changes to the Daily Nebraskan. Nebraska Union it. 1400 R St .Lincoln, NE 66586-0448 Second class postage paid at Lincoln, NE. ALL MATE RIAL COPYRIGHT 1981 DAILY NEBRASKAN Romanian miners storm government BUCHAREST, Romania — Thousands of coal miners, an gered by steep food prices and a plunging standard of living, at tacked the government palace and fought police Wednesday in battles that left three dead and at least 60 injured. After a day of rioting, the president announced he would form a new government “of national openness,” but later ordered the army and Interior Ministry to protect state prop erty and restore order, accord ing to state television. The miners stormed the gov ernment building and fought police with firebombs, clubs, rocks and axes. President Ion Iliescu and Premier Petre Roman later in formed the Supreme Council of National Defense that they would move to form a new govern ment to restore order, according to state television. _ Dr. Seuss Departs Author of children’s classics dies LA JOLLA, Calif. — Theodor Seuss Geisel, the Dr. Seuss whose rhyming children’s classics de lighted generations of children and parents has died. He was 87. Geisel, author of “The Cat in the Hat,” “Green Eggs and Ham,” “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” and dozens of other books, died Tuesday night at his home with his family at his bedside. He had been ill for several months. He wrote and illustrated 47 books, selling more than 100 million copies in 18 languages. He was awarded a 1984 Pulitzer Prize for his contribution to children’s literature. Geisel’s works are journeys into nonsense, magical worlds of iruffula trees, ziffs and zuffs and nerkles and nerds, where top-halted cats run rampant through young sters’ homes while parents are away. They often included subtle mes sages on issues important to him, from internationalism to environ mentalism. Through the 1950s, Geisel wrote a couple of children’s books a year, capped in 1957 by the publication of “How the Grinch Stole Christmas and “The Cat in the Hat.” “The Cat in the Hat” revolution ized children’s reading habits. Of all his books, “The Lorax was his favorite. His last book was “Oh, the Places You’ll Go,” published in 1990.
