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those accords." ing Bangladesh to explain the country's sit Walesa sees little On other matters, the declaration said uation and ask that normal commercial re that no nation should have military bases be chance for talks lations maintained. On this, there was outside its borders. This was not elaborated agreement. on, nor did Gorbachov offer to close Soviet ChinesePrime Minister Li Peng also said Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa said bases abroad. "Militarism, power politics during a visit to Thailand that commercial Nov. 20 that there was no prospect of ne and the division of the world into military relations between the People's Republic of gotiations between his opposition move alliances .. . should be discarded. There China and Burma were proceeding normal ment and the Polish government. He made should be no military bases or facilities out ly. the statement after two secret meetings with side national borders." Only the United States, Britain, and the Poland's interior minister. United Nations have halted all aid. "At the moment the 'roundtable' talks have not even the slightest chance of taking Trotsky's son is place," Walesa told Reuters in a phone in terview. rehabilitated by Kremlin Briton sees Soviet He said he and Interior Minister Gen. Czeslaw Kiszczak made minimal progress Leon Trotsky'S son, Sergei Sedov, who was manipulation of 'greens' at meetings on Nov. 18 and 19. shot in Moscow in 1937 after his father was Former British Defense Minister Michael "The coming days will be decisive .... alleged to have plotted to kill Josef Stalin, Heseltine warned Nov. 23 that the Soviets I repeat that compromises must be far-. has beenrehabilitated. are playing the "green peace" card, to ma reaching because the situation in the econ The decision was made by the Soviet nipulate; the "environmentalist" movement omy is bad and there can be no more claims Supreme Court, which during November to cause the unilateral disarmament and as far as pay is concerned. There can be no "lifted all charges" against Sedov, who weakening of the West. Because of such strike claims," he said. stayed behind when Trotsky was exiled Soviet operations, Heseltine warned, the abroad in 1929. Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachov was Sergei's brother, Lev, was murdered in potentially more dangerous to the West than Gorbachov, Gandhi want Paris by Soviet agents at the beginning of previou� Soviet regimes. the Moscow purges. U.N. The speech was unusual, coming froma role in Afghanistan Analysts view the decision to rehabili liberal pblitician and strategist. All the more tate Sedov as an obvious step toward partial Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachov, end so in that it was delivered before the very rehabilitation of Trotsky himself. ing his three-day visit to India Nov. 19, liberal Royal Institute for International Af Another step came during October,when signed a joint statement with Prime Minister fairs in London, also known as Chatham an official of the State Publishing Commit Rajiv Gandhi that said an internationalcon House, the seat of the most pro-Soviet fac tee announced that some of Trotsky's works ference might be needed to produce a solu tion of British intelligence. would be published in Moscow next year to tion to the Afghan conflict. Heseltine identified his approach as that mark the centenary of his birth. The declaration urged U. N. Secretary of the 'l'ealists" of the West, presumably General Javier Perez de Cuellar to use the indicating that same faction as CIA Deputy mandate he was given by a resolution passed Form new opposition Directo� Robert Gates and former Secretary in November, to get talks going between the of State Henry Kissinger, who agree with parties to the Afghan conflict to establish a alliance in Burma liberal tistablishment factions on "global coalition government. power sharing" with the Soviet Union, but The declaration also noted that "the two A new alliance of 22 Burmese factions, in refuse to put so much trust in the Russians' countries deplore the obstructionist policy cluding guerrillas, fugitive students, and living up to agreements that they do not in of certain forces which are violating the ac overseas groups, joined into the Democratic sist that the West maintain its military cords," a presumed reference to Pakistan Alliance of Burma in mid-November, and strength!. and the United States, as well as Afghan urged the international community to com Hestltine focused on the Soviets' use of guerrillas. pletely isolate the military government cur the phfll.se "international ecological secu Gorbachov left open the door to aban rently in power in Rangoon. rity ," as, a key-and-code for using "environ doning the Geneva Accords and leaving It has called for an interim government mental": issues to bring about the disarma troops in Afghanistan beyond the Feb. 15; to be established under U.N. auspices. ment of the West. 1989 deadline, noting that the actions of the Rangoon radio repOrted that govern In the concluding section of his speech, United States and Pakistan "appear to indi ment officials had met with diplomats from Heseltirte stated that there is a particular cate that they would like to make us rescind Australia, Singapore, Egypt, and neighbor- danger in the Soviets focusing their "green

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• AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister Bob Hawke announced Nov. 22 that peace" ploys on West Gennany, against the ferent to the strategic and political realities the United States will be pennitted to modernization of NATO weaponry, and of Australia's neighboring region." operate its two early warning bases in against short-rangemissiles stationed in West Australia for at least another 10 years. Gennany. The Soviets will argue that NATO Hawke told parliament that the United weaponry is destroyingthe environment, and StateDept. considers States had agreed to allow more Aus that the West's refusal to disarm is forcing ra a tralian involvement in the manage the Soviets to keep arming, thereby wors visa/or A / t ment of the bases at Pine Gap and ening the environment even more. Such ar-· u.s. as EIR Nurrungar under a new agreement. guments, he said, will find a particular res The State Department, goes to to onance among the West Gennan electorate. press, is considering issuance of a visa • RITA SUSSMUTH, the West The reasonthe Soviets push internation Palestine Liberation Organization leader Gennan health minister notorious for al cooperation on "environmental matters," Yasser Arafat. The UnitedNations fonnally submitted a visa application on Nov. 21, so her do-nothing AIDS policy, was is thanechnologies important for monitor that Arafat might address the U.N. General elected speakerof the Bundestag Nov. ing the environment, both via space and via 25, Assembly on Dec. 7. replacing Philipp Jenninger, who computers, are also applicable in the mili resigned after a Soviet-orchestrated tary domain. Reuters reported that Arafat, speaking in Cairo Nov. 22, said that Egyptian leaders propaganda campaign falsely brand had told him that the United States would ed a speech he delivered "Nazi." give him a visa to visit New York Dec. 6 • ISRAEL'S Australia promotes and 7. Supreme Court will This would coincide with Soviet leader hear an appeal from lawyers for the Soviet Pacific role Mikhail Gorbachov's visit to the U.N. condemned John Demjanjuk Dec. 5. However, State Department spokesman In April, an Israeli court ruled that Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Gareth Charles Redman Nov. 22 denied that the the retired Cleveland autoworker was Evans has told neighboring nations, espe United States had already decided to grant in fact "Ivan the Terrible," the mur cially the island nations of the South Pacific, the visa to Arafat, and stated that Arafat had derous Treblinka concentration camp that Australia would not oppose their devel not yet submitted a fonnalapplication, con guard. The only evidence was Sovi opment of trade with the Soviet Union, the trary to the indications of a U.N. spokes et-supplied, and the proceeding has Daily Telegraph of London reported Oct. man. been broadly condemned as a rail 27. road. Talks are already being held in Moscow • THAILAND'S on a plan for Soviet fishing fleets to use Vietnam initiates foreign minister, Australian ports. The fonner foreign min Siddhi Savetsila announced that his ister, Bill Hayden, now the governor-gen population measures deputy will meet with Deputy Japa eral designate, had stronglyopposed fishing nese Foreign Minister Takekuzu Ku and other agreements with the Soviets. The government of Vietnam, which is fac riyama when the latter arrives in But Evans said on television in late Oc ing severe food shortages, has announced Bangkok from Hanoi to present a tober that "Australia has to acknowledge the that any family having more than two chil Japanese peace plan for Kampuchea. reality that all these Pacific countries are dren will be punished, Britain's Indepen The plan involves Japanese aid to re sovereign nations in their own right, per dent newspaper reported Nov. 22. vive the Kampuchean economy. Sid fectly able and willing to make decisions One day earlier, Malaysiafollowed Hong dhi said that Vietnam was concerned without help from countries like us. To pro Kong in announcing that it could accept no over improving Moscow-Beijing re testabout Pacificlinks with the Soviets would moreVietnamese "boat people,"because of lations, and wanted Kampuchea set go against the maturer set of relationships the difficulty of maintaining the rapidly tled on a regional, not international we want to develop in the region." growing numbers of refugees. basis. Papua New Guinea is now discussing Over 1,000 Vietnamese arrived in Ma allowing the Soviets to open an embassy in laysia in October alone, and the main Ma • THE CATHOLIC Bishops Sec PortMoresby, and Aeroflot is seeking land laysian refugee camp already has 13,000 retariat of Central America, meeting ing rights-to rotate fishing crews,it claims. people in it. The camp will be closed after in San Salvador, voted to urge the Fiji, Tonga, Vanuatu, and Kiribati are ne the refugees are resettled. United States to lift all sanctions gotiating or have already signed fishing Meanwhile, advanced sector nations are against Panama, and pledged to pro agreements with the Soviets. taking only a tiny number of Vietnamese mote dialogue as a way to end the Ian Sinclair, leader of the Federal Na refugees for final settlement-as few as 2-3 region's conflicts. tional party, called Evans "recklessly indif- a month by Great Britain, for example.

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