The Island WORLD Saturday 2nd April, 2011 NEWS Updates 7 Japan utility ordered to review radiation figures TOKYO (AP) - Japan's nuclear safety Co. has not been able to stabilize the review. Agency has held out the possibility that a agency ordered a review Friday of the lat- plant's dangerously overheating reactors "We have suspected their isotope complete review of all radiation data collect- est radiation measurements taken in air, since cooling systems were knocked out in analysis, and we will wait for the new ed since the tsunami might eventually be seawater and groundwater samples the March 11 tsunami. results," Nishiyama said, adding that the ordered. around a leaking, tsunami-disabled Among the measurements called into agency thinks the numbers may be too Though the size of more recent leaks is nuclear plant, saying they seemed suspi- question was one from Thursday that high. now unclear, it appears radiation is still ciously high. TEPCO said showed groundwater under TEPCO has conceded that there appears streaming out of the plant, underscoring The utility that runs the Fukushima one of the reactors contained iodine con- to be an error in the computer program used TEPCO's inability to get it under control. Dai-ichi plant has repeatedly been forced centrations that were 10,000 times the gov- to analyze the data and that recent figures The company has increasingly asked for Tokyo Electric Power Co., (TEPCO) Chairman to retract such figures, fueling fears over ernment's standard for the plant, the safe- may be inaccurate. They have indicated they international help in its uphill battle, most Tsunehisa Katsumata, center, Vice President Takashi health risks and a lack of confidence in ty agency's spokesman Hidehiko are probably too high but have also said that recently ordering giant pumps from the U.S. Fujimoto, second from left, Sakae Muto, second from the company's ability to respond effective- Nishiyama said. Seawater and air concen- the figures may be correct, despite the glitch. that were to arrive later this month to spray right, and others bow before a news conference at the ly to the crisis. The Tokyo Electric Power trations from this week also are under The Nuclear and Industrial Safety water on the reactors. company's head office in Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, March 30, 2011. (AP)

A woman, whose nails are painted TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - with the colour of the Libyan flag, Moammar Gadhafi struck a defiant stance after two high-profile defec- holds a portrait of Moammar India probes Commonwealth tions from his regime, saying he's Gadhafi during a demonstration of not the one who should go - it's the Gadhafi supporters outside a hotel Western leaders who have decimat- where most of the foreign media Games wasteful spending ed his military with airstrikes who representatives are staying, in NEW DELHI (AP) - The delays, administrative ineffi- should resign immediately. Tripoli, Libya, Thursday, March 31, Indian government is exam- ciency and wasteful spending Gadhafi's message on Thursday 2011. The defection of Libya's for- ining a report from a high- cost the government $355 mil- was undercut by its delivery - a eign minister, a member of scroll across the bottom of state TV level committee that found lion. as he remained out of sight. The Moammar Gadhafi's inner circle, is organizers of last year's The committee held White House said the strongman's the latest sign that the embattled Commonwealth Games in Delhi's Chief Minister Sheila inner circle was clearly crumbling regime is cracking at the highest New Delhi spent hundreds of Dikshit and games organiz- with the loss of Foreign Minister levels as the West keeps up pres- millions of dollars more than ing committee officials Moussa Koussa, who flew from sure on the longtime leader to they needed to spend. responsible and recommend- Tunisia to England on Wednesday. relinquish power. (AP) Prime Minister ed an official investigation. Ali Abdessalam Treki, a former Manmohan Singh says vari- Singh said Friday that the foreign minister and U.N. General ous ministries are reviewing ministries have yet to give Assembly president, announced his the report's findings that him their assessment. departure on several opposition websites the next day, saying "It is Koussa's resignation as a sign of our nation's right to live in freedom weakness in Gadhafi's more-than-41- and democracy and enjoy a good year reign. life." White House spokesman Jay Gadhafi accused the leaders of Carney said if there was ever a sign Teachers strike fuels unrest the countries attacking his forces of that Gadhafi's inner circle was being "affected by power madness." crumbling, Koussa's departure was "The solution for this problem is it. in polarized Honduras Koussa "can help provide critical that they resign immediately and TEGUCIGALPA, against the government, and to intelligence about Gaddafi's current their peoples find alternatives to Honduras (AP) - The demand the return from exile state of mind and military plans," them," the Libya state news agency Honduran government wants of ousted former President quoted him as saying. Gadhafi: said Tommy Vietor, U.S. National to impose a law aimed at ensur- Manuel Zelaya. At least one Security Council spokesman. He His government's forces have ing the country's frequently teacher has been killed and added that his defection "demon- regained momentum on the rapidly striking teachers show up for more than 50 people have been strates that the people around moving front line of the battle with work the number of days legal- injured in clashes with police, Gaddafi understand his regime is in opposition forces, retaking the town Leaders of airstrikes ly required. in some of the worst unrest disarray." of Brega after pushing the rebels Teachers responded by since the months following the In another blow to the regime, miles back toward the territory they walking off the job. June 2009 coup that toppled U.S. officials revealed Wednesday hold in eastern Libya. Disgruntled parents - who Zelaya. that the CIA has sent small teams of The rebels said they were would get greater oversight "The protest will continue operatives into rebel-held eastern undaunted, taking heart from the over schools under the pro- and the regime will not break should go, not me Libya while the White House departures in Gadhafi's inner circle. posed law - complain their chil- us with repression because peo- debates whether to arm the opposi- "We believe that the regime is dren spend more days at home ple who don't fight never tri- backs the opposition. Libyan officials, who initially tion. crumbling from within," opposition than in school. umph," said Jaime Rodriguez, Koussa is privy to all the inner denied Koussa's defection, said he Despite the setbacks and ongo- spokesman Mustafa Gheriani said The three-week old teach- director of the Federation of workings of the regime, so his had resigned because he was sick ing airstrikes - now led by NATO - in Benghazi, the rebels' de facto cap- ers' strike has become a catalyst Teachers' Organization, which departure could open the door for with diabetes and high blood pres- Gadhafi loyalists have retaken much ital. for a wider political movement has 70,000 members. He compared Gadhafi to a some hard intelligence, though sure. Government spokesman of the territory the rebels had cap- wounded animal. Britain refused to offer him immu- Moussa Ibrahim said Koussa was tured since airstrikes began March "An injured wolf is much more nity from prosecution. given permission to go to Tunisia, 19. dangerous than a healthy wolf. But "Koussa is one of the pillars of but the regime was surprised to Rebels had advanced overnight to we hope the defections continue and Gadhafi's regime since the 1970s," learn he had flown to London. the west gate of Brega, a town I think he'll find himself with no one said Abdel Moneim al-Houni, a for- "I talked to many people and this important to Libya's oil industry around him," Gheriani said. mer Libyan Arab League represen- is not a happy piece of news, but peo- that has gone back and forth Most high-level Libyan officials tative who was among the first wave ple are saying, 'So what? If someone between rebel and loyalist hands. are trying to defect but are under of Libyan diplomats to defect this wants to step down that's his deci- They were in Brega at dawn, but tight security and having difficulty month. "His defection means that he sion,"' Ibrahim said. they soon pulled out under heavy leaving the country, said Ibrahim knew that the end of Gadhafi is com- Nations behind the campaign of shelling from Gadhafi's forces. Black Dabbashi, the deputy ambassador in ing and he wanted to jump from the international airstrikes that have smoke billowed in the air over Brega Libya's U.N. mission, which now sinking boat." hobbled Libya's military hailed as mortars exploded. Swedish Parliament OKs warplanes to Libya STOCKHOLM (AP) - Swedish The center-right government's The Swedish JAS 39 Gripen The Swedish Air Force says the Riot police battle with protesters during a general strike in lawmakers have approved a plan to proposal passed in a 240-18 vote in fighter jets can't be used to bomb first planes will depart this week- Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Wednesday March 30, 2011. Union send up to eight fighter jets and the 349-seat Parliament. Five law- Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's end and will be ready to help workers, farmers and other organizations demanding better one transport plane to join the makers abstained and the rest were ground forces, but will be able to enforce the no-fly zone in the mid- education, an increase in the minimum wage and against fuel NATO-led air operations over Libya. absent. return fire if they are attacked. dle of next week. price hikes clashed with police as they tried to block many of the capital city's main roads.(AP)

LIMA, Peru (AP) - A leftist for- Peru's presidential candidate Ollanta mer army officer who nearly won Humala, left, of the political party Peru Peru's presidency five years ago Wins, accompanied by his wife iduh with fiery anti-capitalist rhetoric Nadine Heredia, gestures as he cam- and open affinity for Hugo Chavez paigns in Lima, Peru, Sunday, March has risen once again to share the 27, 2011. Peru will hold general elec- i;=g lead in opinion polls just days before tions on April 10. (AP) the presidential election. To get there, Ollanta Humala iem; ditched his leftist discourse and rad- panies, which account for 60 percent ical red T-shirt and has distanced of Peru's exports. iekiqu himself from Venezuela's president, Toledo also proposes higher pitching himself as a mellowed mod- taxes on windfall profits by mining erate. companies. But he and several other jdikdj But is the image makeover mere- of the five leading candidates also ly cosmetic? Although Humala fre- believe the private sector should †kuq quently dons a suit and tie and does continue to play a dominant role. his best to appear as a modest, In his 192-page campaign plat- respectable family man in pictures form, Humala strikes a markedly ,nkka with his three children, the business different tone from the others, con- community is spooked. tending that Peru has become "the Business leaders fear that if instrument of a few small (business) lgg Humala won the April 10 election, he groups who consider their transna- would scuttle an economy that grew tionalization the only road to devel- rig nearly 9 percent last year and is the opment." envy of many neighboring coun- Humala told business leaders in tries. a January speech that he'd seek to Whkakg Lima's main stock market index rewrite the constitution to create dove more than 5 percent earlier this "an economic regime that has social ,iaikg week after two polls showed Humala justice as its objective." That, he reaching a technical tie for the lead said, includes "restoring national with Keiko Fujimori, daughter of sovereignty over ... natural „j;a disgraced former President Alberto resources." Resurgent leftist He insists, for one, that the natu- Fujimori. Dropping to third was Alejandro ral gas needs of Peru's people take ùug Toledo, Peru's president from 2001 to priority over exports, echoing rheto- 2006, who had been leading the race ric that helped Morales get elected fj,djg since January. One of the polls had in gas-rich Bolivia. Humala leading with 22.8 points, in Peru election Playing on class resentments in compared to 22.3 percent for a nation where 34 percent of the l,djg Fujimori, and 21.6 for Toledo. The people live on less than $2 a day, margin of error for the poll was plus Humala says Peru's economy still rdcld˙ or minus 1.96 percentage points. called for renegotiating Peru's free silence opposition-run news media. depends too much on the cheap The latest numbers indicate that trade agreements. Humala says he respects freedom of labor of its poor, poorly educated no candidate will obtain the simple Humala also is promising to the press. indigenous majority. ls¯ug majority needed to avoid a runoff in respect Peru's constitutional prohi- But Peru's dominant, business- That has played well in the large- June. bition against immediate re-elec- friendly daily newspaper, El ly destitute central and southern Seeking to calm investors, tion, a clear acknowledgment of Comercio, has shown little respect highlands, where people whose first Humala summoned reporters to a fears he might mimic Chavez and for him. language is Quechua or Aymara hotel in Lima's wealthy San Isidro the Venezuelan president's South Last week, the paper suggested have barely benefited from the n,kak district after Monday's market drop American allies, Bolivian President Humala planned to implement the decade-long boom produced by high- to assure them his economic policies Evo Morales and Ecuadorean same kind of policies that wrought er mineral prices. would "respect our international President Rafael Correa. All three economic ruin in eastern Europe Humala's climb from fourth agreements." won re-election after voters passed under Soviet rule. place in January, when just 10 to 12 "Nothing will be done outside referendums allowing the countries' While short on specifics, Humala percent of voters preferred him, is a democratic, legal means," he added. constitutions to be rewritten. has advocated expanding the state's reflection of what independent polit- Earlier in the campaign, the for- All three also have been accused role in the economy and extracting ical analyst Julio Cotler calls "the mer army lieutenant colonel had of using strong-arm tactics to higher royalties from mining com- classist vote" in Peru.