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Jamaicans continue to protest
Associated Press
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamai
cans protesting an increase in fuel
prices set up roadblocks and shut
down most of this Caribbean capital
Wednesday. Leftist opponents of the
government of Prime Minster Ed
ward Seaga called for him to resign
and hold new elections.
hospitalized in the disturbances
sparked by the announcement Mon
day of a 20 percent hike in fuel
prices.
A Kingston newspaper. The Daily
Gleaner of Jamaica, said Wednesday
there were reports of three more
deaths Tuesday.
The Jamaica Defense Force, po
lice and members of Seaga’s Labor
Party worked through the night to
clear Kingston’s main arteries of de
bris, burning tires and auto parts,
but protesters following behind re
stored the barriers, police said.
Police confirmed three fatal
shootings and said six people were
Police said two liquor stores and a
department store were looted over
night in Kingston, and one of the li
quor stores was burned to the
ground. A sugar cane field outside
Kingston was also set afire.
“What is not happening is that
there are no riots anywhere in Ja
maica,” Seaga told reporters. “There
are demonstrations in Kingston,
peaceful assemblies in most cases,”
tie said.
He said the protests would be al
lowed to continue “as long as they
are peaceful.”
A tiny Communist party said it
was participating in the roadblocks,
which Seaga blamed on “a coalition
of opposition political groups.”
Seaga said the nation’s security
forces were out in full force, but had
orders not to confront protesters un
less they were damaging property.
He charged the protesters with
trying “to undo the economic gains
made under this country’s structural
adjustment program. While their in
tentions may have been to reduce
the inflow of tourists, this has not
succeeded.”
Protesters stayed away
beachfront hotels and didn’t b
1,500 visitors Tuesday afternooil
aboard two cruise ships in Ock|
Rios, the government said.
The prime minister’s leftist oppoj
nents called for him to resign;
hold new elections. Seaga defeated!
Socialist Michael Manley in
and his Labor Party won one-pan,I
control of the island’s Parliamentl
when Manley’s People’s Nationill
Party boycotted early elections called I
by in December 1983.
Seaga’s government, which broke
the close ties Manley formed
Cuba, has received more than 1
million in U.S. aid since 1980,
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Desertion acknowiegded by Soviets
THE PI KAPPA PHI FRATERNITY
Associated Press
Announces its Spring RUSH 1985:
Thurs. January 17; 8:00-Midnight
lues. January 22; 8:00-Midnight
Fri. January 25; 8:00-Midnight
All open RUSH parties will be held at:
Treehouse Apts. Partyroom
MOSCOW — For the first time
since the Soviet Army invaded Af
ghanistan, the Kremlin acknowl
edged Wednesday that one of its sol
diers had deserted. But it said he
chose to return to his homeland ^^f-
ter finding only “sleazy propaganda
and dubious love” in the West.
The official Soviet news agency
Tass also accused the United States
of offering Afghan rebels a bounty
for a new quarry — live Soviet sol
diers Tass said could then be tor
tured and brainwashed into becom
ing traitors.
In an account Tass carried on its
Russian-language service Wednes
day, Soviets were told of the 20-year-
old deserter from a military con
struction unit. Tass said he was
drugged, nearly starved and visited
by lovers of both sexes with CIA
links in an attempt to get him to
make anti-Soviet statements.
Tass also charged that a second
Soviet defector, who went to Af
ghanistan as a soldier during the
1979 invasion, wants to return from
his present home in the United
States, but that the State Department
is dragging its feet. Deputy State De
partment spokesman Alan Romberg
said in Washington that if Alexander
Voronov “wants to go back, that’s his
free choice.”
Until recently, the Soviet press has
paid little attention to the activities
of what it terms the “limited contin
gent of troops invited” to Afghani
stan in 1979. But in recent months j
Soviet readers have been told of sac
rifices of Soviets battling Afghani
bandits and dying to protect a grate
ful Afghan population.
Western sources estimate as man\ I
as 110,000 Soviet troops have been
deployed in Afghanistan.
Ryzhkov returned to the Soviet I
Union last month. The l ass account |
did not say what his fate would be.
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