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, 16 Nov 92 17:03:26 EST Message-ID: \SE A;TOP OF THE NEWS;WORLD \BY FROM WIRE DISPATCHES AND STAFF REPORTS S=NEW STORY Libya seeks relations with Clinton camp SIRTE, Libya - Libya yesterday denounced terrorism and said it wants to turn a new page with the administration of President-elect Bill Clinton. Col. Abdel-Salam Jalloud, Libya's second-highest official, said Libya has lost $2.4 billion since the United Nations imposed sanctions on the nation last April. He urged that the sanctions be lifted immediately. "We want the new, young U.S. administration to understand us as we are. We are a country which does not want to be enemies with anyone. We are against terrorism," Col. Jalloud told a meeting of Libyan political representatives. The air travel, diplomatic and arms embargo was imposed after Libya refused to hand over to the United States or Britain two Libyans indicted in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 that killed 270 people. Families of many of the victims will hold a press conference at noon today in Lafayette Square in Washington, to protest the lack of U.S. action so far in securing the extradition of the suspects. S=NEW STORY Leftists losing in Brazil voting SAO PAULO, Brazil - Conservative candidates led in partial results of key mayoral races in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo last night, as Brazil's first black woman candidate for Rio's City Hall fell behind. Some 20 million Brazilians voted yesterday in the second round of mayoral elections in the 26 cities where the first round of voting in October did not give a candidate more than 50 percent of the vote. The Rio de Janeiro race has been the most hotly contested, pitting leftist Workers Party candidate Benedita da Silva, a black woman from the city's slums, against the conservative Democratic Movement Party's Cesar Maia, a white businessman. S=NEW STORY Saddam's foes claim bid to kill minister DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Iraqi Justice Minister Shabib Maliki escaped an assassination attempt when he arrived late at a courthouse, an Iraqi opposition group said yesterday. The Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq said Mr. Shabib had been due to visit the courthouse in al-Umara province, southeast of Baghdad near the Iranian border, on Nov. 4 when a bomb exploded, destroying the building. Mr. Shabib was 15 minutes late, the Tehran-based group said in a statement sent to Reuters news agency here. S=NEW STORY Britons turn against Major LONDON - Britons have lost confidence in John Major's crisis-rocked government, according to a new poll that shows the ruling Conservatives are as unpopular now as they were toward the end of Margaret Thatcher's stewardship. A Harris survey published today found that, only seven months after a stunning election victory, the Conservatives had fallen 23 points behind the Labor Party in voter esteem. The survey for the World in Action television documentary program also recorded a collapse in confidence in Mr. Major himself, with 37 percent of those questioned saying they held him personally responsible for the recession. Another poll for yesterday's Observer newspaper, also by the Harris organization, found that 70 percent of voters had little or no confidence in Mr. Major and put the Conservatives 19 points behind Labor. S=NEW STORY Mirror buries Maxwell's ghost LONDON - Mirror Group Newspapers announced yesterday it was replacing editors at its top three papers, further distancing the company from the scandals that surfaced following former owner Robert Maxwell's death. After Mr. Maxwell was found dead at sea on Nov. 5, 1991, evidence emerged of his massive debts and his theft of millions of dollars from Mirror Group Newspapers pension funds. A company statement said David Banks, a former editor of the Telegraph Mirror in Sydney, Australia, replaced Richard Stott as editor of the flagship Daily Mirror. "Today we finally bury Maxwell at the Daily Mirror," Mr. Banks said. "This is a new beginning which will bring rewards for both staff and readers." The company noted that Mr. Banks comes to the post "without any of the Maxwell experience that still infects the operation." Mr. Banks had also worked as managing editor of New York's Daily News and as assistant managing editor of the New York Daily Post. Sunday Mirror Editor Bridget Rowe was named editor of the People, a national Sunday newspaper, taking over from Bill Hagerty, who left the company this week. She is succeeded by her deputy, Colin Myler. S=NEW STORY Angola government spurns Savimbi LUANDA, Angola - The Angolan government said yesterday that it will not be "held prisoner" by Jonas Savimbi's forces when it convenes parliament, which was elected in a multiparty vote. There were no reports of fighting on three key fronts where Mr. Savimbi reportedly told his rebel forces to obey a cease-fire. The state daily Jornal de Angola said his troops were still massed near the northern city of Malanje. Fighting flared early this month, killing more than 1,000 and threatening May 1991 accords that brought Angola its first peace since civil war erupted on the eve of independence from Portugal in 1975. Tensions had been mounting since the rebel group lost to President Jose Eduardo dos Santos' formerly Marxist party, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, in legislative elections in September. Forces from Mr. Savimbi's U.S.-armed National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) were routed in the capital, Luanda, in the recent fighting, but advanced elsewhere to control about 60 percent of the nation. S=NEW STORY Mrs. Bhutto plans protest in capital ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The government arrested dozens of supporters of ousted Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto yesterday in an apparent effort to block a planned protest. Mrs. Bhutto is preparing a so-called "long march" Wednesday to demand a change in the country's leadership. Her supporters across Pakistan are to gather in the adjacent city of Rawalpindi, where she will lead them on the 10-mile walk to the federal capital, Islamabad, for a sit-in outside parliament. Senior leaders in Mrs. Bhutto's left-leaning Pakistan People's Party said they expect more than 100,000 supporters to participate. S=NEW STORY Miss Mussolini says 'sorry' for Holocaust ROME - Benito Mussolini's granddaughter, a parliamentary deputy, apologized in a newspaper interview published yesterday for his treatment of Jews. During the regime of the fascist leader and Hitler ally, Jews in Italy were forbidden to attend schools, marry non-Jews or get work, among other restrictions. About 8,000 Italian Jews were deported during fascist rule. "My grandfather can't do it, so I'm saying 'sorry' in his place," Alessandra Mussolini said in an interview in La Republica, a national daily. "The racial laws of '38 were an error of fascism." The 29-year-old Miss Mussolini led 50,000 neo-fascists through Rome last month. S=NEW STORY Yeltsin ready for Seoul alliance TOKYO - Russia does not intend to break off diplomatic relations with North Korea, Russian President Boris Yeltsin said yesterday, according to a Radio Moscow report monitored by Radiopress in Tokyo. Mr. Yeltsin, who is scheduled to pay an official visit to Seoul Nov. 18-20, made the remarks in an interview with South Korean journalists in Moscow. The Seoul daily Chosun Ilbo reported yesterday that Mr. Yeltsin told South Korean reporters in an interview Saturday he was ready to discuss possible military cooperation, including a military alliance between the two nations, in his talks with South Korean President Roh Tae Woo. S=NEW STORY Russia fires goodwill missile to U.S. PLESETSK, Russia - Russia launched a payload toward the United States early today, and no one on either side of the Pacific Ocean panicked. The sputnik, sent into space by a rocket, is carrying a cargo that includes a cut-glass replica of the Statue of Liberty and a message from President Boris Yeltsin on its mission to sell Russian goods to the United States. The Resource 500 satellite is due to splash down in the Pacific off the northwest U.S. city of Seattle Nov. 22 with souvenirs and promotional literature on Russian businesses. Billed by its sponsors as Russia's first private space launch, it cost $200 million and is funded by Russian private businesses led by the St. Petersburg bank Garant. 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