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: Mon, 2 Nov 92 15:45:13 EST Message-ID: \SE A;TOP OF THE NEWS;WORLD \BY FROM WIRE DISPATCHES AND STAFF REPORTS S=NEW STORY Armenian protesters demand bread, money MOSCOW - Some 400,000 Armenians took to the streets of their capital, Yerevan, yesterday demanding cheaper bread and higher pensions and wages, the Russian news agency RIA said. RIA quoted a government minister, Gagik Shakhbazyan, as saying on television that the latest food-price increases were brought on by the higher cost of energy imported from Russia. Armenia's top diplomat in Washington issued an urgent appeal to the United States Friday to airlift flour to his former Soviet republic because of serious bread shortages. S=NEW STORY Mozambique fighting imperils foreign aid MAPUTO, Mozambique - Renewed fighting in this ravaged southeast African nation would cause the country to lose international help in rebuilding itself, the United Nations special representative said yesterday. Aldo Ajello, sent to Mozambique to help implement a cease-fire signed Oct. 4 to end the 16-year civil war, said he had reports of troop concentrations by the government and Mozambique National Resistance rebels that could lead to new attacks, the AIM national news agency reported. Rebels have seized several towns since the cease-fire was signed, and government forces have retaken two of them. The war killed more than 600,000 people, created more than a million refugees and left Mozambique dependent on foreign aid. S=NEW STORY Good, evil contend, and nobody wins NEW DELHI - Women temperance squads in the south India state of Andhra Pradesh are winning their battle against booze by closing down liquor shops, according to the German news agency Deutsche Presse Agentur. In a report distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, DPA said the movement began last month in one village and has spread, cutting sales of state government liquor by 50 percent. The Andhra Pradesh government, ruled by the Congress (I) Party, rejects demands for prohibition because it's not prepared to forgo nearly $300 million in annual revenue. The main opposition Telugu Desam Party has announced that it will not support any candidate who consumes "devil alcohol." Andhra Pradesh got into the alcoholic-beverage business in the 1980s to supply untainted, cheap liquor after several incidents of moonshine-related mass deaths. The state government's rice rations for the poor are financed by revenue from the alcohol sales. S=NEW STORY Engine drops off another 707 cargo jet LUXEMBOURG - A Boeing 747 cargo plane lost an engine while coming in to land at Luxembourg airport yesterday, but the aircraft landed safely and none of the four crew was hurt, police said. The same type of plane, belonging to the Israeli airline El Al, lost two of its four engines exactly four weeks before, plunging into an apartment building in the Dutch capital of Amsterdam. About 70 people died in the resulting inferno. The plane in yesterday's incident belonged to the Luxembourg company Cargolux and was on a flight from Istanbul, Turkey. Although one wing scraped the runway, the pilot managed to right the plane and halt it safely. S=NEW STORY Taiwan exile returns to monitor elections TAIPEI, Taiwan - A dissident leader hailed as the godfather of the island's independence movement returned yesterday from 22 years in exile to a tumultuous welcome from supporters. "I have finally returned home after all these years," an emotional Peng Ming-min, 69, told an airport crowd estimated at 3,000. Mr. Peng has lived in the United States since 1970. He said he returned home to help monitor the Dec. 19 parliamentary elections. S=NEW STORY Cameroon prevents exit of two opinion leaders YAOUNDE, Cameroon - The directors of two independent newspapers in Cameroon, scene of an increasingly tense standoff between the government and supporters of the small political opposition, have been prevented from traveling abroad to attend seminars. Western diplomats said Benjamin Zebaze and Emmanuel Noumbissie, directors of Le Quotidien and Dikalo, had their passports seized at Douala airport Saturday. The two men had been invited to seminars in Germany and the United States. President Paul Biya has announced himself winner of Oct. 11 elections and has placed Northwest Province, a focus for opposition protests, under emergency rule. Opposition leader John Fru Ndi, who says he won the election, has spent the past week under house arrest with 130 supporters. S=NEW STORY Japanese soldiers told to exemplify peace TOKYO - Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa urged Japanese troops yesterday to become model United Nations peacekeepers and vowed that they would never again fight in foreign wars. "I expect you to carry out your mission as international peacekeepers with perfection . . . with a deep sense of pride and mission," Mr. Miyazawa told some 5,000 Self-Defense Forces troops in an annual review at Asaka base just north of Tokyo. Over the past month, Japan has sent 600 troops to back up the U.N. Transitional Authority in Cambodia, charged with organizing the disarmament of warring groups and elections by next May. It is the first overseas deployment of Japan's forces since the Imperial Army overran much of Asia 50 years ago. Mr. Miyazawa said Japan would never again wage war. "Japan will adhere to its peace constitution that restricts its troops to a defense role," he said. "We will never again become a military power." S=NEW STORY Lovelorn elephant fatally tramples keeper SAN SALVADOR - Frustrated and lonely, a 42-year-old elephant crushed her keeper to death at the national zoo as a party of schoolchildren looked on, staff members said over the weekend. It was the second zookeeper Manyula has killed in 15 years, said biologist Rosa Maria Delgado. She said Ricardo Ramirez, also 42, died on the way to a hospital Friday after Manyula trampled him, perhaps because she was in heat. The zoo acquired Manyula, one of its most popular attractions, in 1950. She has never had a mate, Miss Delgado said. S=NEW STORY Is tiger dung a cure or just a deterrent? TAIPEI, Taiwan - Heavy drinkers in this offshore Chinese enclave are scrambling to obtain a newly popular cure for alcoholism - tiger excrement, the Taipei City Zoo reported last week. The zoo has provided tiger dung to more than 40 people so far this year, said zoo director Wen Yung-chang. "Most of them are women asking for tiger feces to help their husbands or relatives stop drinking," he said. After it is dried, the dung is ground into powder, mixed with wine and served to the unsuspecting. Mr. Wen said it became popular last year after a newspaper recommended it as a sure cure for alcoholism, citing Chinese traditional medicine. "Those who are too fond of drinking should watch out. Maybe their next cup will contain tiger droppings," he laughed. 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