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Star-BullcHn A'10 Tuesday, December 7, 1993 gftf HE WORLD Japan prime minister in hot water over loan repayment South African blacks gef first iaste of power in hew council In February 1991, saying he couldn't have used the retirement allowances to repay the debt: Hosokawa replied that he had "man-. aged to make a repayment plan depending on the retirement money coming soon." He also said there might be a difference in the exact date of the The Kumamoto prefectural government says it notified Hosokawa on March 25, 1987, of his retirement allowance for the first term, which totaled $285,834 before tax, and informed him on Feb. 20, 1991, of his $348,334 retirement allowance for his second term. The office did not say when the allowances were paid out Hosokawa also had said he used his resort house in Yugawara, in Kanaga-' wa prefecture southwest of Tokyo, as security for the debt Yanagisawa mentioned that the prime minister's Yugawara house was held as security until March this year, indicating the debt had not been paid more than two years after the date Hosokawa said the final payment was made. AsoM News Service 1 TOKYO Lower House budget committee deliberations stalled yesterday when Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa revised earlier statements he made concerning the repayment of $925,925 he borrowed from the former chairman of Sagawa Kyubin, a parcel delivery company Involved in illicit payments to politicians.

Hosokawa was answering questions by Liberal Democratic Party member Hakuo Yanagisawa. Hosokawa earlier had insisted tnat he repaid the entire amount to company Chairman Kiyoshi Sagawa by Jan. 31,1991. He had said that he repaid Sagawa with $370,370 to $462,962 from the $648,148 retirement allowance he received for his two four-year terms as governor of Kumamoto prefecture in southern Japan, and covered the remainder by selling land he owned in Tokyo's Ogikubo area. Yanagisawa, however, pointed out that Hosokawa didn't retire as Kumamoto governor until one month later as well as Indian parties aligned to the ANC The council could grow if other parties agree to The council began work this morning with St moment of prayer.

i "This day marks the beginning of the end tt minority rule," said ANC secretary-general Cyrl Ramaphosa at the beginning of the "The TEC is the final step in the process bring about true democracy in South Af rica;" said Minister Roelf Meyer, represeritlngtfte government at the council. 'He said the council will assure that "there A fll -be free and fair elections in which all parties that want to can participate." An opposition politician said the proceedings were a travesty. "We do not regard the institution as legal We do not regard it as a legal process. Therefore tfe won't obey any regulation or whatever th4y decide," said Willie Snyman, deputy parliamentary leader of the Conservatives, one of tile boycotting parties. A meeting to have the Freedom Alliance parties join the TEC and then take part gn elections alliance failed to bring results Monday night.

Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa South Africa's black majority got its first real say in governing today, with the seating of a powerful transitional council that will monitor the Cabinet until democratic elections in April. -The Transitional Executive Council was cotted by parties in the Freedom Alliance, a' potentially dangerous partnership of white separatists and conservative black leaders who have pledged to resist the new constitution as drafted. Self-styled "Boer commandos occupied a fort outside Pretoria today to protest the seating of the council. They are part of a white movement that wants a separate homeland. The council, known as the TEC, is part of the negotiated settlement in which South Africa's minority whites led by the governing National Party are to hand over power to the black majority through the country's first fully democratic elections scheduled April 27.

The African National Congress, the country's largest black-led organization, will play a major role on the council, which has one representative from each of 19 parties. Most are black-led groups. But white-led parties such as the Nation-al Party and the Democratic Party are partici Typhoon Lola death toll rnln Philippines up to 64 MANILA Tropical storm -Manny veered to the northeast today, battering the main Philip tppine island Luzon with rain gusty winds but sparing an "garea where 64 people died in a "typhoon earlier this week. -pi The Manila weather bureau "isaid the eye of the storm, with Sustained winds of up to 68 jniles per hour, was about 470 miles east of Casiguran, about "110 miles northeast of Manila. Manny, which was downgrad-ed from a typhoon to a tropical Itorm after weakening late yesterday, was expected to skirt porthern Luzon tomorrow.

Before the storm changed Course, forecasters predicted it would strike the island province of Catanduanes, 230 miles Southeast of Manila. -3' JCatanduanes was among five 'provinces on' the main Philip-. pine Island of Luzon worst hit 'by Typhoon Lola which struck Sunday. Deaths, were reported in the provinces of Camarines Sur, Camarines Marinduque, -Quezon and Catanduanes, the "Office of Civil Defense said. Most were from drowning and landslides.

3,000 families were evacuated from homes destroyed by floods and strong winds from Lola. Hcmas claim deaths jpt 2 Jewish settlers ARB Occupied West Bank Islamic militants Claimed responsibility today for Uhe slayings of two Jewish and threatened more attacks. Angry Israelis burned Hires and blocked roads in the West Bank and Jerusalem. A leaflet from the radical group Hamas said the attack javenged the death of Imad Aq-ifal, the top man in its armed ibrigades who was shot by Israelii soldiers 24., Hamas threatened the Israeli i chief of staff, Lt Gen. Ehud Barak, with assassination and told the army "to prepare more jjbody bags." Palestinian and Israeli extremists trying to undo the PLO-Israel peace pact have 'waged an increasingly violent campaign, with 37 Palestinians and 14 Israelis killed since the Sept.

13 signing. tGrand dyatollah omaliG's Mure briqhfer Mi remains 66 Every Somali, ri mcludmgmaidyi has said it's time. to work for peace. 99 1 i Richard Bogoslon; U.S. ambassador: That part was so successful aid 'Mi.

4 Assodoled Press ri -IOGADISHU, Somalia I I There is food in Soma-i llia now, and bright-U eyed, laughing children. But a year after U.S. troops landed, a haze of anarchy and clan conflict obscures the future in a land where the incredible is normal A summer of battles in Mogadishu between U.N. troops and supporters of Mohamed Farrah Aid-id has overshadowed the success of the mercy mission in relieving hunger and restoring calm else-; where in Somalia. Pictures of Somalis dragging a U.S.

soldier's body through the streets hit Americans in the gut, -and President ordered' U.S. troops withdrawn by March 31. Other nations also plan to pull out, and many people fear Somalia's clan factions will not settle their differences before That could mean a slide back into the cycle of civil war, devastation and What started as an American effort to save lives turned into deadly street battles, entanglement in clan politics, a hunt for Aidid by UJS. Army Rangers, and, finally, Washington's decision to withdraw. In Mogadishu, American soldiers and other foreign troops mainly sit in fortified compounds, seeing few if any Somalis.

They train in urban warfare for possible rescue missions but much of their time is spent fighting boredom by playing cards or volleyball. Perhaps the crowning irony came a few days ago when Aidid no longer reviled as the man responsible for the deaths of American fighting men was flown by a U.S. plane to attend talks in Ethiopia. Ethiopia's president is meeting with Somali faction leaders in an effort to set up a peace conf er-ence. But like U.S.

and U.N. diplomats, he so far has been unable to break through the distrust that keeps clan tensions high. In a country with generations of factional violence, clan loyal-' ties take precedence over all else there are six main clans and a tuners neon rai lire NICOSIA, Cyprus Grand Assacioiea press The 164th Armored Scouts keep guard at a U.N. checkpoint In Mogadishu. This week marks the first anniversary of U.S.

forces landing in Somalia to provide security for aid shipments. Ayatollah Mohammad-Reza Gol- agencies oegan snuiing meir pri- orities as early as April, trying to; wean Somalis from food aid so they could concentrate on des- perately needed health care. Somalia is one of the unhealthi-I est places on Earth, where scratch can become a festering! wound in days. Despite all that, the failure of clan leaders to reach a peace! settlement has kept about 1 mil-; lion Somalis as refugees in Ke--nya, Ethiopia and other nations, With starvation waning, the an-S archy and violence that caused! the famine during the civil war! steadily seeped back into Mogadi-! shu's everyday life while the countryside remained generally peaceful. A critical turning point in the United Nations' first effort at nation-building came on June 5 simultaneous ambushes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.

After the attacks, the signs of progress in Mogadishu vanished as U.N. troops fought with Aidid's militiamen trying to run the leader to ground. Then on Oct. 3, a furious, daylong battle killed 18 American soldiers and 300 or more Somalis. That led Washington, and then the United Nations, to shift gears and accept Aidid as a political force in an effort to rebuild a government before U.S.

troops begin leaving. Aidid quickly returned to the public spotlight, holding news conferences and presiding at fes-' tive rallies of his supporters. tEvery Somali, including Aidid, has said it's time to work for peace," said Richard Bogosian, U.S. ambassador. "They're not rattling swords." bewildering welter of sub-clans.

Tension in the city The hostility and demands for help that many Somalis in Mogadishu show their helpers have left virtually every foreigner jaded. Any walk into a crowd is fraught with tension and potential danger. Eager young hands try to pick pockets. A car can come under attack from gunmen at any time. While some Somalis still smile and wave when foreigners drive by in the city, more shake their fists or make gestures indicating they would like to shoot or slit the throats of visitors.

It is a sharp contrast to the countryside, where the United Nations and relief agencies say violence and banditry remain minimal. There, foreign troops get a warm reception, like the Somali children who cheered an American convoy to Gelip: "America good. America my friend." That was the result world leaders sought when they intervened ayearago. Disease, warfare and famine killed about 350,000 Somalis in 1992, and the world watched in horror, as long lines of living skeletons trudged across a vast, scorched land in search of food. Relief agencies responded but were overwhelmed by the tide of hungry, hopeless, dying people.

The effort also was hounded by warring clans, armed bandits and the residue of years of civil war wild-eyed youths with guns and the fierce will to survive by theft, intimidation and murder. The international intervention, Operation Restore Hope, came to pacify Somalia and allow delivery of life-saving food. Intervention: a year later The landing in the early hours of Dec. 9, 1992, was bizarre. American commandos struggled ashore from the Indian Ocean on a Mogadishu beach, shielding their eyes from TV lights and brushing aside microphones and journalists.

In the following weeks, huge American transport planes flew in troops, jeeps and sacks of food. French, Italian, Pakistani and soldiers from a score of other countries arrived with truckloads of food and headed for towns like Kismayu, Baidoa and Bardera. It worked. People were saved and Somalis welcomed the foreign soldiers with their food, chewing gum and sunglasses. Aid workers could do their job again and they slowly nursed Somalia back from its deathbed.

Helped by a break in the drought farmers who felt safe enough to return home have harvested bumper crops. A few schools have reopened. Guerrillas free American held paygani, one of Shiite Islam's I spiritual leaders, was hospital-i ized today after suffering heart failure. 5 Tehran radio reported he was Sin satisfactory condition. Earli- er news reports said Golpaygani was in critical condition.

Golpaygani was taken to Teh-ran late yesterday from the holy city of Qom, 80 miles south I of the capital, according to Iran's official news agency. I I Golpaygani is one of a few Shiite clerics of his generation Jto have achieved the title of grand ayatollah. Estimates of I his age range from 96 to 98. i I Suspected drug lord I In Tijuana arrested MEXICO CITY The govern-ynent announced the arrest of one of four brothers suspected 5 of running the powerful Tijua- na drug cartel, wanted for ques-J tioning in the ambush-killing of 1 i Roman Catholic cardinal i The attorney general's office yesterday said Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix, whose family is believed to control millions of dollars a year in U.S.-bound drugs, was arrested. 2 A terse communique gave no charges, nor did it elaborate on whether any positive links had been established with the May 23 shooting death of Cardinal Juan Jesus Posadas Ocampo.

'I'' Francisco Rafael is the eldest Brother of Ramon, Benjamin and Javier Arellano Felix, who authorities blame for hiring the gunmen who shot Posadas 14 times at the airport in Guadala-; jara. Carpizo later said the car-i; dinal's white Mercury Crand Marquis was apparently mistak- en as that of drug trafficker Joaquin Guzman Loera, a fierce I I rival of the Tijuana cartel. Student protesters, police clash in Taiwan TAIPEI, Taiwan About 70 Taiwanese student protesters flemanding the removal of mili-55 tary instructors from universi-M; ties stormed parliament in Tai-K-rpei Kicking and screaming, the protesters were dragged away by police only to return later to smash the glass doors of the jS parliamentary chamber when BUY ONE LINGERIE andYreceive50 OFF IP' Th. 8Wffi orL va.u. in Philippine) Hi UNFORGETTABLE TOYS i C1 HOT POTIONS Si i Reuters JOLO, Philippines Kidnapped American Bible translator Charles Valid in toie only Not combinabia wam ottwr off.

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Walton was freed today from 24 days of captivity by Muslim guerrillas on the southern Philippine island of Jolo. "I am emotionally tired. I want to thank God for his mercy in bringing about my release," Walton told reporters after his captors handed him over to Libyan Ambassador Rajab Abdulaziz Azza-rouq in Patikul town. The guerrillas, described by the military as from the fundamentalist Abu Sayyaf group, had demanded Islamic diplomats attend the release of the 60-year-old captive; Soon after his release, Walton was taken by Philippine officials to Jolo city where he spoke by telephone to his wife. The guerrillas had demanded the withdrawal of foreign Christian missionaries from the em islands, ban on fishing by foreign vessels and restoration of Muslim barter trade in the area, Philippine officials said Walton, a linguist working with the U.S.

Summer Institute of Linguistics, was released unconditionally. Walton was snatched by Muslim gunmen Nov. 14 from his home on Pangutaran Island near Jolo, 590 miles south of Manila. He has been in the Philippines for 30 years and working in the Pangutaran area for 20 years, translating literature and the Bible into the local dialect fl fl iianiameni voiea oy-w against "(j''" tl hannins militarv fnstrnptnrs fl I rn rx- 946-1400X 5 won 1 vi iiivio iiuuniiauoni un UanU neiyuvur laianua: Off-ttHiS (KahUIUI) 245671 (Kauai) 661-4815 (Lahalna) 329-0707 IKonn) fl 0 Hi The demonstrators hurled themselves against a wall of police, who dispersed them jj when they tried to force their jway into the chamber. Universi- tyi professors Intervened and tensions eased.

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