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CARACAS,
Venezuela (AP) —
After surviving a
botched coup
attempt. President
Hugo Chavez won
a precarious second
chance Monday
from Venezuela’s
business elite and
upper classes that rose up to overthrow
him last week. He also replaced mem
bers of the military high command that
arrested him on Friday.
Opposition leaders expressed reser
vations about Chavez’s willingness to
bring about reform, despite fresh
assurances from his government.
Chavez said he was “surprised”
by the speed of Friday’s coup and
“anguished” by the violence. He
pleaded with Venezuelans to work
with him.
“I call upon Venezuelans, all
Venezuelans, to reunite, to reflect. I
want to hear from opposition leaders,”
Chavez said. He said talks with oppo
sition figures would begin Tuesday
and he envisioned Venezuela someday
becoming a “middle-class country.”
Chavez said that “a lot of
Machiavellian people planned this
operation. ... It was not just a military
coup. The intellectual authors were
not military personnel.”
He refused to elaborate.
But Chavez appeared to be
addressing the interim president
installed by the military, businessman
Pedro Carmona, when he said:
“What a grave error, man. You’ve
gotten yourself into serious trouble.”
Chavez said Carmona, who is
detained with as many as 100 others,
“probably” would be allowed to go
home. Defense Minister Jose Vicente
Rangel said Carmona’s Cabinet
members were freed.
The 1 million-strong Venezuelan
Workers Confederation, which joined
with Carmona’s Fedecamaras busi
ness chamber to lead last week’s gen
eral strike against Chavez, demanded
that everyone be freed.
Bolivia’s government said late
Monday 10 people sought refuge in
their Caracas mission seeking diplo
matic asylum after the weekend events.
Chavez said a “serious” opposition
should organize into political parties so
it can contest the next elections, in 2006.
“Chavez isn’t only for the poor. I
want to represent everyone,” the pres
ident said. “We have sown hatred in
this country.”
Oil prices rose Monday after
Chavez’s reinstatement. Markets saw
Chavez’s return as a sign Venezuela
would continue its policy of restrict
ing production and thus keep oil
prices high.
In Washington, the State Department
said it was encouraged Monday by
Chavez’s appeals for national reflection
and urged Venezuelans to end political
polarization.
I call upon
Venezuelans, all
Venezuelans, to re
unite, to reflect
— Hugo Chavez
President of Venezuela
The leftist Chavez had irritated
Washington by cozying up to Cuba as
well as Iraq, Iran and Libya.
Cesar Gaviria, secretary general of
the Organization of American States,
was headed to Caracas on Monday to
begin an investigation.
Chavez was deposed and arrested
early Friday by his military high com
mand after gunmen opened fire on at
least 150,000 people marching on the
palace, demanding his resignation. At
least 16 died of wounds that day, and
hundreds were injured.
After Chavez’s ouster, at least 49
died and 300 were wounded in the
ensuing violence. Hundreds of busi
ness were looted.
He returned to power just two days
later after other members of the mili
tary brass refused to go along with the
revolt and tens of thousands of,
Venezuelans took to the streets
demanding his return.
Carmona’s decision to dissolve all
branches of government received
immediate condemnation abroad and
upset many Venezuelans, even those
who had wanted Chavez out.
Chavez said he had sacked dissi
dent members of his high command,
including army commander Gen.
Efrain Vasquez, replaced by Gen. Julio
Gracie Montoya. Vasquez announced
Friday that Chavez resigned but
Chavez insists he never did.
Chavez also said he spoke with
Russian President Vladimir Putin,
Cuban President Fidel Castro and
other world leaders. All were “stupe- l
fied” by events in Venezuela, he said.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan
telephoned Chavez and “expressed
satisfaction that the process of restor
ing constitutional order in Venezuela
was under way,” U.N. spokesman Fred
Eckhard said Monday.
“He appealed for national reconcil- j
iation and underscored the importance
of an inclusive democratic system in
the country.”
Chavez told Annan he was commit
ted “to the principles of constitutional |
rule, legality and democracy,” the U.N.
spokesman said.
Chavez also said he was investigat
ing why a plane with U.S. matricula
tion numbers was at an army airstrip
on Venezuela’s Orchila Island, one of
five places he was held in captivity. He
gave no details, but denied reports he
had been mistreated.
El Universal newspaper, a staunch
Chavez critic, ran a banner headline
Monday: “Conciliation.” On its front
page, it emphasized Chavez’s
announcement that the state-owned oil
monopoly’s board of directors,
appointed by Chavez but opposed by
the group’s executives, had resigned.
An internal power struggle at
Petroleos de Venezuela erupted into a
popular rebellion by the opposition
last week, provoking the general
strike and bloodshed. Chavez’s
intransigence and imposition by
decree of economic laws widely
opposed by business leaders had infu
riated the upper classes.
KHOJA KOTKAI, Afghanistan
(AP) — They would have made an
easy target: a steady stream of buses
and trucks, minivans and taxis, spew
ing up a trail of dust as they trundled
down the valley road.
Explosions and bursts of anti-air
craft fire rang through nearby hills,
and two tanks fired shells toward a
mountainside.
In most places, factional fighting
on the road ahead would have been
enough to make a driver pull over.
But in war-ravaged Afghanistan, few
seemed to mind.
Not the dozens of passing vehicles.
Not the children herding goats. Not the
bored-looking soldiers watching the
battle between two rival commanders
from the top of a red shipping contain
er partially buried in the dirt.
“I don’t think anything about it. I
don’t care,” said 23-year-old Sherali,
who was busy changing a flat tire.
“This is Afghanistan. We’re used to it.”
Sherali spoke just minutes before a
tank rumbled past his car, turned onto
the valley floor, and began pounding an
enemy position in the distance. Like
many Afghans, he only uses one name.
It's unclear what sparked the week
end clashes between Gen. Zafar Uddin
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drinking such as alcohol poisoning
and date rape.”
Collins said drunk driving is a
problem in most colleges, and can be
better prevented through education.
“Drinking and driving is 100 per
cent preventable,” Collins said. “I
think that every college could benefit
from a program like CARPOOL
because no one should die due to
drinking and driving accidents. It is
hard to quantify the number of lives
we save, but the roads are safer and
some people would drive home if
CARPOOL was not around.”
New alcohol-related laws were
put into effect this year to control the
number of drunk driving incidents in
and Ghulam Rohani Nangialai in the
valley around Khoja Kotkai, about 30
miles west of Kabul.
Government officials called it an
isolated turf battle between two long
time rivals and said it posed no threat
to interim leader Hamid Karzai’s frag
ile administration.
Karzai’s government, which came
to power in December soon after the
fall of the Taliban, is faced with trying
to secure peace in a country battered
by 23 years of war.
But government authority is uncer
tain in hills like these just outside the
capital. Much of the countryside remains
under the control of local warlords, who
sometimes take up arms against each
other for patches of territory.
On Saturday in Khoja Kotkai, sol
diers totting rocket-launchers at a
crumbling roadside mud hut peaked
around a corner to watch a duel
between two trucks mounted with
heavy guns — one from each faction.
One of the trucks fired from the top
of a hill toward Uddin’s men, then
quickly disappeared from view. An
artillery shell ripped into the dirt about
150 feet from one of Uddin’s trucks,
prompting a blast of return fire.
the Bryan-College Station area.
These laws included raising the
penalty for contributing alcohol to a
minor to up to $4,000 in fines and a
year in jail. Also, if a minor is pulled
over and has any alcohol in his sys
tem, he may be charged with a DUI
and fined up to $400.
Ford said she hopes the new laws
make students aware of the risks
associated with drinking and driving.
“People stop drinking for several
reasons,” she said, “whether it be
religious or from a personal experi
ence, such as a friend or a friend of a
friend getting killed in an alcohol-
related accident.”
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