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World Wednesday, March 27, 1991 Reno Gazette-Journal 3A MALI NORTHERN IRELAND Talks OK'd with Ulster parties Military ousts dictator, promises democracy 200 miles MAURITANIA 1 S. I Pre.ldent I MALI overthrown Timbuktu 1 if i Mopti j0r 1 V. NIGER L.A O' BURKINA ivory) Sf? COAST GHALL Political breakthrough: Leaders hail the agreement as a key step toward ending the bloodshed in the troubled province. Moussa Traore had ruled Mali, a landlocked West African nation of 8 million people, for 23 years. People Most of the country's 8 million people live in villages.

Ethnic groups 50 Mande, 17 Peul, 12 Voltaic, 6 Songhai, 5 Tuareg and Moor publican Army, will not participate in the talks. Britain's leadership has long refused to talk to Sinn Fein as long as the IRA uses violence in its campaign to unite Northern Ireland with the Irish Republic. Dublin gave a warm welcome to Brooke's announcement, with the Irish Cabinet saying, "We pay tribute to the personal qualities of Mr. Brooke and also to the combination of realism and vision displayed by the political leaders in Northern Ireland." The talks, which are expected to begin in several weeks, will consist of three phases. Phase 1 would involve the Ulster parties, Phase 2 would add on the Irish government and the final phase would consist of talks between London and Dublin.

Brooke said that the British and Irish governments would be prepared to consider a compromise structure involving Northern Ireland if the Ulster parties themselves could agree on a new power-sharing arrangement. "I am confident that all the potential participants are committed to a forward-looking and constructive approach," the Northern Ireland secretary said. Los Angeles Times reaching a satisfactory settlement in Northern Ireland, where 3,000 people have been killed in endemic violence since 1 969. The basic argument has been between Northern Ireland's 500,000 republicans, mainly Roman Catholics, who wish to unite with the Republic of Ireland, and the 1 million unionists, mainly Protestants, who prefer British rule. The key success in Brooke's arduous diplomatic efforts was to get the unionist parties of Ulster to sit down with the Catholics and with representatives of the Irish government.

At the outset, the talks will include the three Protestant unionist parties, the non-sectarian Alliance Party and the Social Democratic and Labor Party, which commands about two-thirds of the Catholic vote in the province. Ulster's Sinn Fein party, the political arm of the terrorist Irish Re LONDON Britain's top official in Northern Ireland announced to Parliament Tuesday that the British and Irish governments have agreed to talks with Ulster's main political parties to establish stability in the trouble-racked province. In describing what some called the biggest political breakthrough on British-ruled Ulster in 15 years, Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Brooke told the members of Parliament, "We are setting out to achieve a new beginning for relations within Northern Ireland." Kevin McNamara, the opposition Labor Party's spokesman on Ulster, congratulated Brooke and said: "We are at a historic moment. There is now a window of opportunity where possibilities for political settlement are open in a way which has not been possible for decades." While politicians hailed the agreement to begin talks, they acknowledged the difficulty of Language French (official) and Bambara Religion 90 Muslim Topography Landlocked BAMAKO, Mali (AP) Soldiers overthrew Mali's military dictator Tuesday after days of rioting and promised to replace Gen. Moussa Traore's "bloodthirsty and corrupt regime" with a multiparty democracy.

At least 59 people were reported killed in violence after the overnight coup, including two top Traore supporters who were burned to death. "The army will no longer meddle in politics," coup leader Lt. Col. Amadou Toumani Toure pledged in a radio broadcast. "The army will return to its barracks" after establishing "social justice and total democracy." Traore's whereabouts were not known, though state radio said he was under arrest.

Military sources said Traore was imprisoned with his family. Residents of Bamako, the Mali capital, at first cheered and set off firecrackers to celebrate the news of the ouster of Traore. Later, medical officials speaking on condition of anonymity said 59 people had been killed and about 200 injured in post-coup violence. Looters continued to plunder shops and offices Tuesday, despite appeals from pro-democracy leaders and the new ruling National Reconciliation Council of 17 soldiers. The new government, in a communique read on official radio, announced the disbanding of MEXICO Traore's government and his People's Democratic Union, which was the sole legal political party.

Coup leaders met with pro-democracy leaders and promised to work with their Committee of Pro-Democracy Associations, an umbrella group. Its chairman, human rights activist and lawyer Demba Diallo, praised "this group of patriotic officers," saying the new leadership had solicited the opposition for advice. "Their intention is not to take power," Diallo told state Radio Mali. They would "ensure that the uniform no longer usurps the people's power." "I am putting myself back in God's hands," Diallo quoted Traore as saying upon his arrest. He told the radio that was Traore's only response when his captors told him, "We have come to get you for your own security." Unconfirmed reports said the president had been caught at the airport as he tried to flee the country.

The military closed Mali's borders and international airport and imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew, the radio said. grassy plain between the coastal rain forest and the desert Economy Mali's per capita income of $1 90 places it among the world's 10 poorest countries. Agriculture employs 73 of the work force. History France controlled Mali from about 1880 until 1960. A single-party state based on socialist policies followed until a 1968 coup ended the regime and installed Moussa Traore as president kW a mm mmmm a mmm mm a a aaa ft mm AP WtWAIMI I LUWtK AU I INSURANCE RATES BY 20 BUT WE NEED YOUR HELP! OPEN LETTER TO NEVADA MOTORISTS AND LEGISLATORS PROPOSING "MICHIGAN STYLE" NO-FAULT INSURANCE Report Violence, corruption fill prisons (Senate Bill SB255) "Many prisons are powder kegs ready to explode.

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