Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.news From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Headline Article Date: Wed, 28 Oct 92 15:01:10 EST Message-ID: \SE A;TOP OF THE NEWS;WORLD \BY FROM WIRE DISPATCHES AND STAFF REPORTS S=NEW STORY Turkey sends tanks to Iraqi Kurdistan ANKARA, Turkey - Turkish tanks have thrust into northern Iraq to cut off separatist Kurdish rebels in their bases there, military officials said yesterday. On Monday, 20 tanks crossed the Hezil River, which forms part of the border north of the Iraqi town of Zakho, the officials told the Anatolian news agency. Three Turkish soldiers were killed in fighting on another front on the rocky hills of Manin and Pirbilan near Iraq's Shivamize valley, northeast of the Hezil crossing. It was the first report of Turkish fatalities on Iraqi soil since troops crossed the border Oct. 16. S=NEW STORY Chaos in Tajikistan may spill over borders DUSHANBE, Tajikistan - Political chaos in the former Soviet republic of Tajikistan threatened to spread beyond its borders yesterday, and a Russian newspaper reported tension in neighboring Kyrgyzstan. "Nobody is in charge of Tajikistan now," Gen. Vitaly Gritsan, the commander of Russian border troops in Dushanbe, the Tajik capital, said in an interview in his sandbagged garrison. "It's only guns that speak here, and whoever has a weapon has the say," Gen. Gritsan said. "If the situation here is not stabilized in the near future, then the conflict may spread to Uzbekistan and maybe to Kyrgyzstan." S=NEW STORY Beijing angrily cancels talks on Hong Kong HONG KONG - Chinese officials yesterday canceled a conference on Hong Kong's transition to Communist rule in 1997 because of bickering over British colonial Gov. Chris Patten's plans to expand democracy in the territory before it is returned to China in 1997. The three-day conference on Hong Kong's transition to Chinese rule took a year to organize and had been scheduled to open today. But organizers said yesterday the timing was inappropriate given the dispute between Mr. Patten and Lu Ping, director of China's Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office. S=NEW STORY High ANC official killed in Natal ambush JOHANNESBURG - An ANC official was killed in an ambush as he returned from a meeting of peace negotiators, one of 10 deaths yesterday that authorities linked to a new wave of political carnage. Shortly before Reggie Hadebe's killing, African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela said he was worried by growing violence in Natal and willing to meet Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of the Zulu-based Inkatha Freedom Party, in a peace summit of political leaders. But Chief Buthelezi, in a newspaper interview conducted yesterday, ruled out a bilateral meeting. Mr. Hadebe was shot in the neck by unidentified assailants who opened fire on a vehicle carrying an ANC delegation. He became the most senior ANC official killed in the war with Inkatha that has raged for years in Natal. S=NEW STORY Canadian allows gays to serve in military TORONTO - Homosexuals will no longer be barred from careers in the Canadian armed forces, the Department of National Defense announced yesterday after the Federal Court of Canada ruled that the 1989 ouster of a lesbian from the air force violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. "The Canadian forces will comply fully," Gen. John de Chastelain said in a statement from Ottawa. "Canadians, regardless of the sexual orientation, will now be able to serve their country in the Canadian forces without restriction." S=NEW STORY Soviet troops say 'Dos vidanya, Poland' WARSAW - The last Soviet combat troops are to leave Poland today , ending a presence that reinforced Moscow's domination of the country for more than 40 years. Once a hated symbol of Soviet Communist political control, the tens of thousands of former Soviet soldiers stationed in Poland had by yesterday been reduced to a lonely torpedo boat and a few men waiting to sail home. S=NEW STORY North Korea warns against war games TOKYO - North Korea has warned that it will suspend all dialogue and contact with Seoul if South Korea resumes planned large-scale joint military exercises with the United States that Pyongyang considers a dress rehearsal for an invasion of the North. The Korean Central News Agency, monitored here, said yesterday the North Korean government, political parties and organizations jointly adopted a resolution that warned that all bilateral discussions would be suspended if South Korea and the United States go ahead with the Team Spirit exercise scheduled for early next year. Pyongyang has been criticizing Seoul and Washington since they announced Oct. 8 that they would resume the Team Spirit exercise early next year as scheduled. The military maneuvers, held almost every year since the 1970s, were called off this year after the two Koreas reached agreement in 1991 on a nonaggression pact and denuclearization of the peninsula. S=NEW STORY Escobar jailbreak blamed on president BOGOTA, Colombia - A leading senator said yesterday that President Cesar Gaviria was to blame for the escape of cocaine king Pablo Escobar from jail in July because he chose inexperienced men to supervise the prison and bungled a military operation that immediately preceded the escape. Fernando Botero was the first member of a Senate panel probing the jailbreak to blame Mr. Gaviria directly. Escobar and nine henchmen surrendered under a government leniency offer in June 1991 but escaped 13 months later during a military operation ordered by Mr. Gaviria to transfer them to secure facilities. S=NEW STORY Body parts become Sydney police puzzle SYDNEY, Australia - Police are trying to put together a macabre jigsaw puzzle after discovering a male torso, two legs and a handless arm in and around Sydney. They believe the body parts belong to the same person and are looking for the head and an arm. "It could be that someone is playing some sort of weird game," a police spokeswoman said yesterday. "No one is prepared to say it is definitely murder." The limbs will undergo DNA testing to confirm they were attached to the trunk, which police say belonged to a man older than 30 with brown hair and a paunch. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM