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DARRIN HILUThe Battalion
Debi Lyn Hardaway, cleans the outside of Kinkc/s Copies on
Tuesday, Aug. 18. Hardaway is manager of Kinko’s Copies and
was cleaning the building to prepare for an inspection from the
president of the company.
Cease-fire brings
Kabul back to life!
Cction D
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KABUL, Afghanistan —
Afghanistan's ravaged capital
limped back to life Sunday, a day
after forces of the interim Islamic
government and a dissident guer
rilla leader agreed to a truce.
For nearly a month, the thun
derous clap of incoming rebel
rockets rattled the capital, killing
an estimated 1,800 people,
wounding thousands more and
destroying hundreds of homes
and shops. Perhaps a third of the
city's 1.5 million citizens fled.
The interim president,
Burhanuddin Rabbani, took ad
vantage of the lull Sunday to fly
to Indonesia to attend a summit
meeting of non-aligned nations,
according to a Radio Afghanistan
broadcast monitored by the
British Broadcasting Corp. The
conference begins Tuesday.
Kabul's streets seemed almost
normal again, but few people said
they believed the cease-fire would
hold between the rival l
movements that ousted a 1
regime in April after a 14-yearci
il war.
Already the government?
reporting sporadic clasheswl
renegade Hezb-e-Islami troops]
defense ministry spokesmans
government soldiers andretJ
forces dueled south of thecitylij
Saturday, but the report coulds
be independently confirmed.
Within hours of signingtij
peace pact, Hezb-e-Islami's(iil
damentalist leader, Gulbuddl
Hekmatyar, and Rabbani argue
over terms of the agreement.
Hekmatyar wants the 4-mon4
old government to expel a for®
pro-Communist militia fromt
capital, but the governmentsji
the Uzbek militiamen from r ..
ern Iraq have been absorbed in * f
the army.
Hekmatyar also wants eleefe
within two months, but I
ernment says the war-ravage
country will not be ready forva ^
ing for at least a year.
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Abkhazian separatists
battle Georgian troop
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Thugs, neo-Nazis continue
racist violence in Germany
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BERLIN - Rightist thugs
burned down a tent city for
refugees, rumbled with police and
fired a bullet through an Albanian
family's window as Germany. ' scufFerbroke'ouTTnd'90 people
grappled again Sunday with ja rr
clashes with police in the Baltic
Sea city of Rostock in former East
Germany.
On Saturday, about 13,000 peo
ple, including leftists, marched
under tight security in Rostock to
denounce the violence. Numerous
surge of racist violence.
Police agencies reported neo-
Nazi attacks in at least eight cities,
most of them in economically de
pressed eastern Germany. The at
tacks were a continuation of anti
foreigner outbursts in 10 cities on
Saturday.
At least 26 people were arrest
ed and a dozen injured on Sun
day.
Roughly 180 arrests were re
ported during numerous con
frontations the day before.
The weekend of violence by
young, right-wing radicals was
inspired by five days of attacks
last week on refugee homes and
were arrested on weapons and
other charges, but the demonstra
tion did not escalate into the riot
many had feared.
The last seven days have been
the most harrowing for foreigners
in Germany in the past two years,
when the rag-tag neo-Nazi move
ment — comprised mostly of une
ducated, apolitical young people
— began systematically attacking
Slavs, Africans, Arabs and Asians.
The surge in violence has coin
cided with a huge influx of
refugees into Germany, which
this year could double last year's
record of 256,000 asylum-seekers.
TBILISI, Georgia — Georgian
troops and Abkhazian separatists
battled near the Black Sea coastal
city of Gagra oh Sunday, hours
before a cease-fire was to take ef
fect, reports said.
A Georgian official said 10
Georgian soldiers died and 20
were wounded.
Georgia sent troops into its
Abkhazian region earlier this
month to secure major communi
cation routes and hunt for sup
porters of Zviad Gamsakhprdia,
who was ousted as president of
the former Soviet republic in Jan
uary.
The Abkhazians are Muslims
who control the rich autonomous
area in western Georgia even
though they are in the minority.
They considered the Georgian
government action an infringe
ment on their proclaimed sover
eignty and fought back. More
than 100 people have died in the
violence.
During negotiations in the
Russian resort of Sochi on Satur
day, Georgian, Abkhazian and
Russian officials agreed to begin a
cease-fire Monday, stop all mili
tary movements and exchanJ
prisoners and hostages.
According to Interfax, tk|
agreement also stipulates!
Georgian and Russian forces nil
jointly guard railroads and otli
key communication links in /
hazian, which have been a I
quent target for armed Gam
sakhurdia supporters.
Russian President Boris Yeltsq
is scheduled to discuss the
hazian crisis with Georgiai
leader Eduard Shevardnadzeani
Abkhazian parliament heai
Vladislav Ardzinba in Moscot
on Thursday.
Abortion
Defensive
SW Louisi
Continued from Page 1
It was one of the largei
protests outside of the conventioi
with organized groups sucha
the Texas Abortion Rights Actioal
League (TARAL), Women's Ac]
tion Coalition (WAG), and!
National Organization
Women (NOW) that participate!
in protests.
Posters that read "Gooi
enough for Dan, and George:
Barbara. And good enough foil
us" "Keep abortion legal" a" l,
"George, what about Iraqi
bies?" were a few of the numer-|
ous protest signs.
The WAC had one of th(|
largest groups of protesters|
whose members chanted ah
played drums and whistles to g
recognized and get their pro!
choice message across.
Women were not alone at til!
protest. Many men were protestl
ing, such as Gil Brown of Houi|
"A very small minority of
the Republican party has
dictated the platform. It's j
a platform that virtually
none of the American
people would agree with
— especially on this
particular issue."
-Gil Brown, protest]
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ton who carried a sign that read,
"Pro-choice Catholic fatherol
five."
Brown said that even though
the majority of Catholics in Hous
ton advocate a strict anti-abortion
position, he believes abortion is i
personal issue for a woman, and!
men and the government can not
interfere in a woman's decision
"Government has no busing
dictating to a woman what sh’
can or cannot do with her body,
he said.
Brown also said he believes th
Republican party based its plat;
form on the views of only a fewtf
its members.
"A very small minority of tin
Republican party has dictated fe
platform. It's a platform that vit
tually none of the American peo
pie would agree with — especial
ly on this particular issue."
In a Public Opinion Strategic
poll taken last January, 59 percent
of Americans said they consider
themselves pro-choice, and3:
percent labeled themselves pro
life. A poll taken in Marchb;
CBS News and the New Yori
Times found that 44 percent bf
lieve abortions should be general
ly available, 17 percent saidi'l
should not be, and 37 percent said]
it should be available with certain 1
restrictions.