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World and Nation
Mexican president-elect faces
troubled economy, opposition
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Carlos
Salinas de Gortari, who faces contin
ued economic crisis and a vocal op
position that questions his mandate,
was confirmed as president-elect of
Mexico by a bitterly divided Cham
ber of Deputies.
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See related story, page 10
The 263-85 vote came abruptly at
the end of an all-night session Satur
day after leftist deputies walked out
tossing invalidated ballots in the air
and chanting “Electoral fraud, elec
toral fraud.”
Virtually all the votes to certify the
results of the July 6 election came
from members of Salinas’ ruling In
stitutional Revolutionary Party, or
PRI.
“In no way is he the president of
the Mexicans,” Moreno Octavio, a
democratic Front delegate, said.
“He is the president of the cab
inet, of the International Monetary
Fund or of the technocracy, but he’s
not the president of the Mexicans.”
Salinas was the architect of an aus
tere economic policy that success
fully fought inflation and helped the
nation recover from near bank
ruptcy, but also devastated the aver
age Mexican’s buying power.
“Mexico has to grow again and
will grow again, because it’s the only
v'ay to raise our countrymen’s stan
dard of living,” he told reporters.
Salinas takes the presidency on
Dec. 1 from Miguel de la Madrid for
a six-year term.
Mexican presidents cannot suc
ceed themselves.
The raucous scene in the Cham
ber capped over three weeks of
stormy debate over the election re
sults, during which the PRI brushed
aside claims of fraud.
The opposition, made up of the
leftist Democratic Front and the
rightist National Action Party, made
its strongest gains ever in the Cham
ber of Deputies and the Senate but
claims that only massive cheating al
lowed the PRI to retain its 59-year
grip on power.
Democratic Front candidate
Artists, intellectuals
discuss Solidarity
GDANSK, Poland (AP) — A
group of intellectuals and artists met
Sunday with Lech Walesa to endorse
his participation in upcoming talks
with the government and called for
immediate legalization of Solidarity.
Walesa, the leader of the banned
independent union movement, con
vened the Council on Poland, a
group of about 60 advisers, to pre-,
pare for talks between representa
tives of the union and the govern
ment.
“The most important condition
for the beginning of a true dialogue
between the civil opposition and the
authorities (is) the legalization of
Solidarity and the immediate imple
mentation of pluralism,” a resolu
tion adopted by the group, read.
A wave of Solidarity-led strikes at
Polish enterprises that began in mid-
August posed the most serious
threat to the government since Soli
darity was suppressed in 1981.
Walesa called an end to the strikes
after the government on Aug. 31
promised to discuss the country’s fu
ture with workers’ representatives,
who demanded higher pay as well as
free and legal trade unions.
“We are extending our full sup
port in negotiations concerning this
issue to the founder of Solidarity,”
Sunday’s resolution said, referring
to Walesa.
No date has been set for the talks
with authorities, but Andrzej
Stelmachowski, the law professor
who has been acting as a mediator in
arranging the meetings, said they
could begin this week.
Sunday’s session was part of a two-
day Solidarity conference in the
northern port of Gdansk.
About 100 people gathered after
Sunday Mass in a room at St. Brygi-
da’s Catholic Church, which serves
as the headquarters of the Solidarity
leadership. Walesa joined intellec
tuals, workers and regional Solidar
ity leaders for the session, chaired by
Bronislaw Geremek, a historian and
one of Walesa’s closest advisers.
Included in the group of writers,
actors and scholars — all strongly
linked to the Polish opposition —
were filmmaker Andrzej Wajda,
Catholic newspaper editor Jerzy Tu-
rowicz, former head of the journal
ists’ union Stefan Bratkowski, and
Dr. Marek Edelman, a physician
strongly critical of the official health
system.
At the Mass earlier, the Rev. Hen
ryk Jankowski spoke to a congrega
tion of 5,000 Solidarity supporters,
stressing the need for unity in Polish
society as the talks begin.
“Today there "is a chance for
round-table (talks) and we cannot
waste it,” he said in his sermon.
Zbigniew Romaszewski, a Solidar
ity activist from Warsaw who mon
itors human rights abuses in Poland
for the union, said before Sunday’s
meeting that the mood was opti
mistic. He said Solidarity was more
active and better organized than it
has been in years.
Bangladesh
bears losses
repeatedly
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) —The
floods that inundate this poor, over-
populated nation with deadly regu
larity are a combination oif man
made and natural phenomena.
This year’s deluge — the most
devastating in memory — has
claimed more than 600 lives by gov
ernment count and more than 1,400
according to newspapers. It has sub
merged three-quarters of the coun
try, spawning disease and destroying
homes, roads, bridges, schools and
food warehouses.
From the air, Bangladesh loons
like a large brown sea with atolls
where the map shows cities, towns
and villages. Individual rivers can no
longer be discerned.
The deluge comes just one year
after a flood covered half the coun
try and claimed about 300 lives by
government count and about 1,500
according to newspapers.
Bangladesh, a country for since
1971, is seemingly condemned to re
peated disasters.
The 1970-71 war of indepen
dence from Pakistan killed 3 million
people, government officials said.
Since then, floods, cyclones and tidal
waves have claimed at least 20,000
lives. Even in the dry season, over
crowded river ferries sink regularly,
with losses of life that often exceed
100.
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Friday September 16, 1988
Donald D. Carter
Registrar
Cuauhtemoc Cardenas and National
Action candidate Manuel Clouthier
plan to lead further demonstrations
next week, when Mexico celebrates
the anniversary of its independence
from Spain.
At the Saturday morning session
of the Chamber, Democratic Front
delegates walked out before PRI del
egates rammed through a vote to cut
off debate while many were still wail
ing to speak.
A roll call vote to certify the elec
tion results as valid quickly followed.
PRI supporters shouted‘‘SalinaiJ
liuas, Salinas” as they tookthe\j
National Action delegates siaj
out one-by-one after votingno
I lie PRI and the goverr;
have consistently rejected oppoj
charges, and the party accuse!
opposition of trying toderaili-j
derly presidential transition.
Cardenas, leader of a demotJ
reform movement, said the col
(nation session was the last cj
for the PRI and the govemmd
set a fraud-tainted electionriet, j
Chemical warfare !
spurs new worry '
WASHINGTON (AP) — Iraq's
use of poisonous gas against its
Kurdish minority, Iran, is prompt
ing concern that other nations
bogged down in armed conflict
might resort to the “silent killer” in
violation of a universally accepted
ban on use of chemical weapons.
U.S. officials said there is little
question that Iraq’s use of mustard
gas against Iranian forces influenced
Iran’s decision to end their eight-
year-old Persian Gulf war last
month.
Almost immediately after the
cease-fire took effect, Iraq launched
an offensive against its Kurdish mi
nority as suspected collaborators
with Iran. lens of thousands of
Kurds were forced to flee into south
ern Turkey.
Last week, about nine days after
the first reports of Iraqi chemical
warfare began to circulate, Secretary
of State George P. Shultz said he was
convinced the allegations were true.
Shultz accused the Iraqis of “un
justifiable and abhorrent” behavior.
The Senate then unanimously ap
proved stringent economic sanctions
against Iraq.
Iraq’s minister of state for foreign
affairs, Saddoun Hammadi, met
with Shultz on Thursday and called
the charges “absolutely baseless."
But well before the latest la I
saull on the Kurds, a numlxf
United Nations investigations {
i luded that Iraq — and toalessti*
tent, Iran — had engaged indj
cal warfare since 1984.
The State Department has ski
critic i/ed Iraq from timetotimtj
unanimous U.N. Security Cod
resolutions have done the same:
the- international reaction genel
has been muted and unsusul
possibly reflecting the lack of
sympathy for Iran’s fundamer.i
Islamic regime.
In May, Iran complainedikl
absence of punitive measuresarj
Iraq was having a "disastrous t |
I he 1925 Geneva comt: |
banning use of chemical wea’J
which was signed by 105 nation 1
seen as a major step toward ho
izing armed conflict and as?.1
that the’ horrors of poison andnri
gas attacks in World War 1 v j;
never be repeated.
That optimistic view has rf
changed by the Persian GulfHx:|
its ghastly aftermath, foreigni .I
analysts said. They are non d
cernd that other war-wean nac!
may conclude that the benefioofj
ing chemical weapons mayotma
the costs.
U.S. Army helicopter crashes, injures!
SCHWAFBISCH HALL, West
Germany (AP) — A U.S. Army
helicopter struck high tension
wires and crashed into a field, in
juring the two pilots, and four
soldiers on the ground, the mili
tary said Sunday.
The 5th Corps headquarters in
Schwaebisch Hall said the heli
copter crashed Saturday af
ternoon near Bad Mergentheim,
95 miles southeast of Frankfurt.
The pilots, from the 3rd Cav
alry Regiment stationed in Fort
Bliss in El Paso, Texas, were se
riously injured, the stateme:
said. Their names were not rn
leased.
Four U.S. soldiers on thtj
ground were injured when tW
tried to rescue the pilots fromtk;
wreckage, the statement saiij
The four men suffered mid
burns from power lines that wwl
pulled down by the helicoptd
the statement said.
The helicopter, a Bell OH-:'
was taking part in military ®
neuvers.
NASA delays Discovery launch date
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
head of the nation’s space flight
program cautioned Sunday that
NASA might not be able to
launch space shuttle Discovery on
the first attempt late this month.
“I think that when we do get a
launch date on the latter part of
this month, it wouldn’t surprise
me at all if it took us two or three
times to get airborne,” said Rear
Adm., Richard Truly, the head of
the shuttle program.
Truly, who is NASA associate
administrator for space flight,
said that if two recent successful
simulations of crew and launch
systems had been the real thing, a
launch would not have taken
place because of weather arc
winds.
"Wei c going to wait uaul 4
have it right, and then we’ifl
going to do it," said Truly,atw]
time shuttle astronaut. “I thiri;
the American people expectthu
of us and that’s what we regoiikl
to do.”
Appearing on ABC-TVs'TM
Week with David Brinkley!
Truly shied away from reveafel
a date for the launch of the fit?
shuttle since the Challengeresi
ploded on liftoff in January
except to say it probably will k
late in September.
“It will be the last week in Sep
tember unless there is a hiccup
he said. ‘
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