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World and Nation
ozambique president’s death
ost recent setback for country
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) —Pres-
dent Samora Machel’s death is the latest of seve-
-al reverses Mozambique has suffered since gain-
ng independence from Portugal 1 1 years ago.
For the black-ruled states of southern Africa, it
:ould delay efforts toward new alliances and tac-
ics in a renewed confrontation with their power-
ul white-ruled neighbor, South Africa.
It takes from Africa another soldier-president
vho was one of the few remaining leaders linked
o the anti-colonial struggle that spread across
he continent in the 1960s.
Machel’s death also is a loss for the West. His
:ommitment to pro-Soviet Marxism did not pre-
ent him from seeking to involve the West in-
reasingly in solving Mozambique’s serious eco-
lomic problems.
Mozambicans appeared never to lose personal
rust in their magnetic leader, no matter how
teavy the burden on national crises. “It is very
difficult to substitute for a man like Machel, but
do have a leadership,” said Teodomiro de
Vasconcelos of state-run Mozambique radio.
The ruling FRELIMO party is not expected to
start the formal process of choosing a successor
until after the funeral, which probably will be
conducted next week.
Premier Mario Machungo and Marcelino dos
Santos, secretary to the permanent commission
of Parliament and the party’s No. 2 man, were
expected to share decisions during the interim.
Speculation about a successor focuses on For
eign Minister Joaquim Chissano, 47, who was
prime minister in a transitional government be
fore independence and has been foreign min-.
ister.
Chissano was personally close to Machel, 53,
and is regarded as a moderate.
Other possibilities include dos Santos, a
staunch Marxist who once shared pre-indepen
dence leadership with Machel in a FRELIMO
triumvirate; Machungo, who performed well as
governor of the food-producing province of
Zambezia; Security Minister Sergio Vieira, and
Defense Minister Alberto Joaquim Chipande.
Bryan Bench, an analyst for the independent
Institute of International Affairs in Johannes
burg, said: “Now there must be some attempt to
grapple with all of Mozambique’s troubles. They
can’t muddle through much longer.
“The popular leader who had been in the fore
front of the anti-Portuguese struggle is gone, and
all the problems are out in the open.”
Machel’s government inherited a largely unde
veloped country. The Portuguese left at inde
pendence and took most of the administrative
skills and business machinery with them.
Within months, Mozambique faced an anti-
Marxist rebellion. The insurgents were aided
first by whites in Rhodesia, which now is black-
ruled Zimbabwe, and then by South Africa.
Rebels of the Mozambique National Resistance
crippled the Cahora Bassa dam, potentially the
world’s sixth-largest hydroelectric project, and
their raids in the drought-stricken countryside
contributed to a famine that affected millions of
people.
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as new Israeli
prime minister
JERUSALEM (AP) — Yitzhak
Shamir, leader of Israel’s right-
wing Likud bloc, was sworn in
Monday to replace Shimon Peres
as prime minister and vowed to
increase Jewish settlement of oc
cupied Arab territories.
Shamir and his 24-member
Cabinet took their oaths after the
Knesset, or Parliament, debated
for four hours and then gave
Shamir an overwhelming 82-17
vote of confidence. There were
three abstentions in the 120-
member Parliament.
Under an unprecedented 1984
coalition agreement between
Peres’ left-leaning Labor Party
and Shamir’s Likud, Peres takes
Shamir’s previous job as foreign
minister.
The 71-year-old Shamir said a
supreme priority” of his govern
ment would be to funnel funds
into increased Jewish settlement
of occupied Arab territories.
“The (national) economy will
be based not only on solid eco
nomic principles, but also on the
Zionist values which must be our
guide, among them the supreme
value of settlement throughout
the Land of Israel,” he told the
Knesset as he presented his new
government.
Increased Jewish settlement in
the occupied West Bank and
Gaza Strip, where 1.4 million Pal
estinians live, could antagonize
peace efforts with Jordan.
Israel captured the West Bank
>m Joraan and Gaza from
Egypt in the 1967 Middle East
Quake strikes New Zealand,
reaches 8.1 on Richter scale
WELLINGTON, New Zealand
(AP) — An earthquake powerful
enough to cause tremendous dam
age struck a remote Pacific archipe
lago Monday, but New Zealand sci
entists on the only inhabited island
said no one was hurt.
“They’re all okay,” said Jeremy
Lumley, a technical officer at the
meteorological observatory in Well
ington. “There’s no damage. No one
was injured.
“They said a few things tumbled
off the shelves. That’s about it. The
quake lasted from about 45 seconds
to a minute and was followed by two
aftershocks.”
He spoke by telephone after mak
ing contact with the scientists at the
weather station on Raoul in the Ker-
madec Islands, about 750 miles
northeast of New Zealand’s North
Island and south of Tonga. New
Zealand administers the Kermadecs.
The U.S. Geological Survey in
Golden, Colo., said the temblor mea
sured 8.1 on the Richter scale, mak
ing it the biggest earthquake since
one of the same strength devastated
parts of Mexico City on Sept. 19,
1985.
Spokesmen for the agency said
the worst earthquake in the Kerma-
dec area registered 8.6 on the Rich
ter scale and occurred May 1, 1917.
Mike Randall, chief instrumental
ist at the observatory, said the Raoul
weather station was operated by a
handful of New Zealanders.
A wide area of the South Pacific
was put on alert in case the quake set
off a tsunami, or giant underwater
wave, but the warning was canceled r
after reports from Pago P&go, West
ern Samoa, that the water level there
rose only four inches.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning
Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, sent
out the alert to areas near the
quake’s epicenter.
The Richter scale measures the
magnitude of a quake at its epi
center, according to ground motion
as recorded on seismographs.
A quake of 6 or more is consid
ered severe, capable of causing wide
spread damage near the epicenter.
Any quake with a Richter reading of
8 or more is considered a “great”
quake capable of major damage.
Official: Interest high for new U.S, gold coin
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The first general-circula
tion U.S. gold coin to be minted in more than a half-
century went on sale Monday with Treasury Depart
ment officials reporting brisk demand for the Ameri
can Eagle coins.
By midday, officials at the U.S. Mint said they had
processed orders for 232,000 ounces of gold, with 18 of
25 primary dealers making requests for the new coins.
“The orders are coming in; the interest is definitely
there,” said Donna Pope, director of the U.S. Mint. “We
hope to sell 2.2 million ounces of gold in the first year
of the program, but if interest continues at the height
that it is right now, that may be a conservative estimate.
The coins will have a face value of $50, $25, $10 and
$5 but will sell for far more than that. The price will
fluctuate, reflecting the price of gold. The coins will
contain gold in amounts ranging from one-tenth of an
ounce for the $5 coin up to a full ounce in the $50 gold
piece.
Gold was selling in London for $425 an ounce on
Monday.
The Mint is not selling coins directly to the public but
is distributing them to 25 primary dealers around the
world, who must place their orders in minimum
amounts of 5,000 ounces. These dealers will resell the
coins to a network of coin shops, precious metal dealers,
brokerage firms, banks and savings and loans.
Officials estimated that the coins will begin showing
up for sale to the public as early as Thursday and
should be in widespread distribution by the end of the
month.
Jerri Eskow, vice president for marketing at Deak In
ternational, one of the companies that will be selling the
coins, said her firm hoped to start selling the coins over
the counter by the end of the week.
The coins, which feature Miss Liberty on one side
and a family of eagles on the other, are being minted at
a rate of 90,000 coins per week at West Point, N.Y., the
site of the government’s second-largest gold depository.
Pope said that U.S. investors purchased $1 billion in
gold coins last year and she hopes that the American
Eagle will capture a sizable portion of that market.
arrested in nationwide ‘Star Wars’ protest
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Demonstrators protesting
“Star Wars” missile defense pro
blocked streets and sidewalks Mon
day in Atlanta, Washington, Cleve
land and Sunnyvale, Calif.
Police arrested 93 people.
The demonstrators, members of a
group called No Business As Usual,
said the Strategic Defense Initiative,
popularly called Star Wars, is a first
step to World War III.
gin Atlanta, about 100 people
turned out for a protest at Georgia
Tech, which is engaged in various
defense-related research projects.
“We expect that our researchers
will proceed with this type of re
search in the firm conviction that
their work will be broadly benefi
cial,” said a statement from acting
school president Henry C. Bourne
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There was a brief attempt to slow
morning rush-hour traffic, but that
was halted by police.
In Washington, about 50 protes
ters chanted, “We’re the future, not
the bomb!” outside the building that
houses the main SDI offices and the
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commis-
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were charged with disorderly con
duct, but one was also charged with
assaulting a police officer, a felony.
Police at Lockheed Missiles and
Space Co. in Sunnyvale, Ca. arrested
45 people on charges of disrupting
traffic into the Silicon Valley defense
plant after a march by about 100
protesters.
In Cleveland, about 75 to 100
people gathered outside the NASA
Lewis Research Center and 21 were
arrested for aggravated disorderly
conduct and resisting arrest, police
said.
Security officers said no protes
ters entered NASA Lewis, a 350-acre
complex that employs about 3,700
people.
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