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WORLD & NATION
Wednesday, January 24,1990
Violence in Azerbaijan continues
MOSCOW (AP) — Extremists ambushed a
military convoy in Azerbaijan, killing two reserve
soldiers and a woman bystander, Soviet media
said Tuesday. The KGB said the republic was on
the brink of anarchy, and local politicians pushed
for secession.
Radio Moscow said the situation in the Soviet
Caucasus, where Armenians and Azerbaijanis
have been battling for 11 days, remained “very,
very tense” Tuesday.
It said leaders of Soviet Azerbaijan and Arme
nia continued negotiations to end the ethnic vio
lence, but little progress was reported.
The death toll rose to 170, including those
killed in anti-Armenian riots in the Azerbaijani
capital of Baku and the clashes that ensued
among Armenians, Azerbaijanis and Soviet
troops.
The soldiers, who smashed into Baku to quell
the ethnic uprising Saturday, are “more and
more often being chosen as targets” by local
fighters, Tass quoted Interior Ministry Maj. Gen.
Yevgeny Nechayev as saying.
Radio Moscow said “irresponsible people”
were spreading anti-army and anti-Russian senti
ments through unsigned letters and anonymous
phone calls.
“Azerbaijan is on the edge of the abyss, beyori
which lie chaos and anarchy,” the KGB warnei
The public appeal was virtually unprecedentl
for the usually secretive state security agency.
Azerbaijani activists said sentiment to bre|
away from Moscow was rising. Jeikhun Mil
said
Soviet TV reported Tuesday night that gun
fire continued in some areas of Baku, and
warships remained blocked by militants from
leaving the Caspian Sea city’s port.
Baku Radio, monitored by the BBC in Lon
don, said two soldiers and a woman bystander
were killed in an attack on a military convoy.
Azerbaijan’s KGB expressed alarm in its ap
peal to residents of the republic for calm, Radio
Moscow said.
Zade, a political scientist, said the Azerbaijij:
Communist Party leadership was meeting M
day and Wednesday and would consider a brej.
from the national party, as Lithuanian Comitl
nists did last month.
In Gyanje, Azerbaijan’s second-biggesi
the City Council demanded the Azerbaijani[
liament call a referendum on the republic’ssej
sion from the Soviet Union, according to [J
viyar Nusibov, a Baku attorney. Azerbaijj
lawmakers have already threatened to doji
that if Soviet troops are not pulled out soon.
Congress convenes second session
with agenda full of old, new issues
WASHINGTON (AP) — The 101st Congress con
vened its second session Tuesday, facing an agenda
suddenly expanded by the emergence of democracy in
Eastern Europe and a plan to cut Social Security taxes
at home.
Lingering issues also abound, including child care,
capital-gains taxes and deficit reduction.
Not waiting for President Bush to send up his own
budget and legislative proposals, the Senate almost im
mediately began debating a far-reaching plan for clean
ing up the air — a bill that is more costly and more
sweeping than the president wants. Opposition is based
more on geography and competing regional interests
than on party lines.
The House made plans for another confrontation on
Wednesday, an attempt to override Bush’s veto of legis
lation aimed at preventing the deportation of Chinese
students who have sought refuge in the United States.
The House origihally passed the bill on a 403-0 vote.
“There really is no good reason to override the presi
dent’s veto unless it is just straight-out politics,” said
Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole of Kansas. He said
Bush has done as much for the students through ad
ministrative actions as the bill would do. But Republi
cans were generally conceding Bush faces a one-sided
defeat.
The president, traveling in the Midwest, said he is
hoping to renew a spirit of cooperation with Congress.
But he attacked as “a sheep in wolfs clothing” an anti
crime bill sponsored by Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., D-
Del., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
“It will be tougher on law enforcement than on crimi
nals,” Bush said of the bill. The measure generally
would prohibit use of tainted evidence, bar racially dis
criminatory executions and ban the sale of assault
weapons.
The first day of the session was marked by friendly
reunions. Rep. Jack Brooks, D-Texas, told colleagues
he’d nearly died of a pancreas ailment during the long
break, and he accepted hugs and applause on the
House floor.
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On the other side of the Capitol, Sen. Daniel Patrick
Moynihan, D-N.Y., formally introduced a bill to reduce
Social Security taxes — an idea that had prompted a
full-scale White House attack when he proposed it last
month. Moynihan says workers are being deceived be
cause their Social Security taxes are being used to make
the federal deficit appear far smaller than it is.
In advance of Bush’s budget, which will be submitted
on Monday, and his State of the Union message, which
will follow on Jan. 31, three of the president’s top aides
met with Republican senators to discuss the wealth of is
sues facing Congress in this election year.
Typewriter may help FBI crack case
ENTERPRISE, Ala. (AP) — A
junk dealer offered prayers and co
operation as FBI agents searched his
warehouse Tuesday looking for an
old typewriter that could help solve
the mail bomb killings of a judge and
a civil rights lawyer.
Wayne O’Ferrell ate lunch with
FBI agents and accompanied them
to his warehouse Tuesday af
ternoon, one day after about 100
agents scoured O’Ferrell’s home,
warehouse and abandoned store,
about 75 miles from Montgomery in
southeastern Alabama.
O’Ferrell, 46, a one-time rural
preacher, said he asked several
members of his church “to pray for
my family so that we can get through
this thing, and I’ve asked them to
pray tor the FBI to find whatever
they are looking for.”
FBI agent Chuck Archer said
there have been no arrests and that
three search warrants have been ap
proved for property other than
O’Ferrell’s.
Agents unearthed the top of
O’Ferrell’s home septic tank Tues
day afternoon and began pumping
out its contents. Authorities also
plan to dig up a septic tank at the
warehouse.
Archer declined to describe
O’Ferrell as a suspect. “He is one of
many people we have interviewed,”
the FBI agent said.
Court records show O’Ferrell lost
a lawsuit heard on appeal by U.S.
Circuit Judge Robert Vance. The
judge was killed Dec. 16 when a
package bomb sent through the mail
exploded at his home in suburban
Birmingham.
Robert Robinson, a black civil
rights lawyer in Savannah, Ga., was
killed two days later by another ex
ploding package, and similar mail
bombs were defused at the 11 th Cir
cuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta,
where Vance served, and at National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People headquarters in
Jacksonville, Fla.
FBI sources, who spoke on condi
tion of anonymity, confirmed pub
lished reports that typewritten cor
respondence in O’Ferrell’s court
case appears to match typewritten
correspondence allegedly sent by the
mail bomber.
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The beguiling beagle whoap
pears in Charles Schulz’s comii
strip “Peanuts” was honored witk
a blockbuster retrospectivt
worthy of the World War I flyinj
ace, bird-lover and faithful friend
to that round-headed kid
Schulz, by the way, also was
honored. He was named Cora
mander of Arts and Letters, out
of France’s highest awards fores
cellence in the arts.
“T hank you for being the ere
ator of Snoopy, full of hiimorand
with a zest for life,” Culture Min
ister Jack Lang told Schulz. “Yom
character is both mythical and he
donistic, and he has taken ovei
our collective consciousness am
become a part of our everyda
lives.”
Schulz, beaming but appearin
slightly embarrassed by theatten
tion, said that during Snoopy
war years when he battled the
Red Baron, he once explained
how he learned to speak French
“He said he had a small touris
phrase book, but he told me yon
only really need to know one
word, and that is, ‘Merci,’” Schuh
said in English.
Ceremonies took place at the
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Eve Dutton, director of specia
events at Determined Produc
tions, which co-sponsored the
show with the Paris museum, sail
Schulz was “shocked” when askec
to participate in the show, which
opens to the public Wednesday
and runs through April 22.
Craftsmen hold rally, denounce communism
East Germans want free-market reform
EAST BERLIN (AP) — More than 10,000
skilled workers held a rally Tuesday to denounce
communism for killing East German crafts
manship and to demand free-market reforms to
revive it.
“We absolutely and unconditionally need con
version to a full market economy,” Burkhard
Schmidt, spokesman for the Craftmen’s Union,
told the Associated Press before the rally. Many
of those attending also favored reunification with
West Germany.
“Better to close for four hours than forever,”
said Lutz Scheibner, an electronics repairman.
“We need to show the government we know what
needs to be done.”
The rally was called on short notice, despite
the opposition of top union leaders still loyal to
the Communist system that rewarded them with
comfortable bureaucratic positions.
While Hans Modrow, the Communist pre
mier, and opposition leaders dicker over how to
share power before free elections May 6, the gen
eral attitude toward compromise has soured.
Pro-democracy advocates from the Social
Democratic Party and New Forum declared
Tuesday they were not prepared to negotiate a
role in the interim government and said coalition
talks have been postponed.
Opposition reluctance to prop up the govern
ment reflects the atmosphere of uncertainty in
East Germany, which does not have a unifying
pro-democracy figure like Czechoslovakia’s Va
clav Havel or Lech Walesa of Poland.
Since they have no obvious alternative to the
distrusted Communists, East Germans increa
ingly look to the West and call for unificatio
with prosperous W’est Germany.
Up to 2,000 East Germans flee to the Westf
ery day, bleeding the country of skilled worke
and undermining chances for economic reco'
ery.
Weekly rallies by hundreds of thousands
people have moved from demanding reform
outright rejection of the Communist system tit
has guided the nation through its existence.
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unity was narrowly averted at the rally of mor
than 100,000 people Monday in Leipzig, whet
zeal for reform is strong.
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