3 August 1990
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' *TODAY: NAMIBIA 'BOMB SCARE' AT BBC* ACADEMY' lECTURERS UPSET'OVER 'FOR-EIGN' AP,POINTMENTS * Friday August 3 L-ISTER-FACES CIIARGES OW-R 'SECRET'REPORT THE editor of The Namibian, Gwen Lister, was yesterday warned by police that,she , could face charges in terms of the ~rotection of Information Act following a report in this newspaper on Monday headlined 'Coup Plot Unc~vered'. The newspaper report, quoting what terms of fueProtection of Informa , tiOfiS', told reporters when they asked_ was described as a "top secret" tion A~t pending the completion of about possiqle arresJs in: terms of the document, said a group of 500 men, the police investigation. 'coup plot', thatit was more 'likely reportedly with close tIes to, Jonas This act,- one of the oppressive that "journalists Will be arrested". Savimbi's Unita, may be plottiIig the , SouthAfricanlawsstilionNamibian While scepticism was expressed overthrow of Namibia's Swapo-l~d statute books, replaced ' the former, about ~ihe aufuenticity of the docu- government, and the assassination of Official Secrets Act. Shortly before , ment in various circles after its dis top members of the politiCal hierar the elections last'year, a number of closure, it would appear Jhat it is a 'chy, local lawyers called: for the scrap- ' legitima.fe police document judging Shortly after lunch yesterday, ping of this act because ofits oraco- by the reaction to its publication. Colonel Jumbo Stnit of the Criminal , nian provisions, but the then Admin , On Wednesday, Information and Investigation Department (CID) and istrator-General, Louis Pienaar,re- Broadcasting Permanent Secretary , Inspector Johannes Knouwds, arrived fused to do so. , Bob Kandetu declined to commerit at the offices of The Namibian. Yesterday Colonel Smit warned directly on whether the 'government They asked Lister if she was pre Lister that charges were being inves h~dbeenawareofthe'plot'ornot,or _ pared t.o name the}our~e ofthe docu tigated against her for "disclosing ,whether the report was based on an' ment, and whether she would make a top secret information in The Na official docUment. , statement. mibian ofJuly 30 1990". It is obvi However, Kandetu said the ~ews Lister declmed either to name the ous that fue police are very angry paper rePort fell "within the context source or make a stateinent, but agreed about the 'l<iak' of their document: of the destabilisation tactics we (the - to hand over a copy of the document. - Earlier this week Brigadier Siggi,' 'government) have been talking She was then warned of charges in Eimbeck, chief of police public rela- - about". , . ., FoteignerS'preferred say Academy lecturers COLONEL Jumbo Soot of the cm (right) and Inspector Johannes Knouwds leaying the offices of the editor of The Namibian, Gwen Lister, yesterday after questioning her over the 'top secret Accuse authorities of discrimination document' which came into the newspaper's possession. Photograph: Conrad Angola: BLACK lecturers at the Academy -Uruversity. _ are dissatisfied with their conditions RAJAH MUNAMAVA Turning to their charge of foreign of appointment and have accused the 'ers being given employment prefer authorities of employing foreigners this week by Prime Minister Hage '. ence'" over Nllflubians, they said a Namibia 'bomb scare' at BBC at the expense of Namibians who Geingob and Education Minister , casein point was the employment have equally recogiused and accept Nahas Angula. recently of a Sierra Leone lecturer in THE Africa Desk at the nnc in London seemed to take the explosion of able qualifications for the job. The lecturers also felt offended , the' Education Department whereas fawon ofAfrican prin(shirts in Namibia seriously when a tape containing The lecturers said yesterday they that many of the black Namibian an application by a Namibian had ,a programme onthe trend arrived at Bush House, the broadcasting centre, were prepared to meet the authori lecturers at the institution had not ' been turned down. earlier this week: ' ties in order to thrash out their differ .been accorded the opportunity to meet ' . They said the position was ini Attached to the ahJreighted package, mailed from Windhoek,was a me ences with the top echelon of the the Prime M4llster, and Education tially held by ,the wife of Deputy chanical device' wl¥ch caused staff to'sound the b~lllb scare buzzers. Academy. , Minister during the visit so as to Agriculture Minister Dr Kaire Mbuende This follows on th~ heels of a exchange views on educational de " [ CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 familiarisation tour of the Academy velopn;entsat this future Namibian CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 * CONGRATULATIONS 'AIR ZIMBABWE * .The Staff and Management Wish you many happy landings in your dire,ct flights tQ Windhoek H~*TYYY - .. ~~--~~~--.. ~~------~------------~----~---------------------- , ---.- - --~~ .... , 2'Friday August'3 1'990 , THe NAM'IBIAN CHAOS IN THE MIDDLE EAST Kuwait falls after short battle KUWAIT - Iraqi troops and' tanks invaded Kuwait on Thursday Independence and five escort ships and quickly captured the ruler's palace and key installations in the in the Indian ocean to head for the small, oil-rich Gulf state. Gulf. ' , We are not ruling anything in YOUR DAlLY GUIDE TO EVENTS WORLD-WIDE or out, " an American official said. Explosions and bursts of gunfire Iraqis. "We shall die but Kuwait will A statement from Revolution echoed around the skyscrapers of live," an emotional announcer said Command Council in Baghdad said Kuwait City as ,the Iraqis ran into between patriotic songs. that Iraq, which had already marshal I pockets of resistance , from hugely At 11.30am (0830 GMT) two Iraqi led up to 100 000 tro.ops on the bor IRKUTSK, Soviet Union - Two days of high level Soviet-US talks in fighters swooped over the city. Fif outnumbered Kuwaiti forces, der, lauJ:lched the invasion to help Siberia ended with the announcement that M)scow was h~ting The invasion across the disputed teen minutes later there were two young revolytionaries who had ousted huge blasts. production of rail-mounted nuclear missiles, but W#h no breakthrough border was launched at 2am (2300 the Sabah family. on Mghanistan. GMT) and nine hours later Iraqi troops "We will withdraw as soon as to appeared to be largely in control of things settle and when the temporary NEW YORK - The Defence Department plans cut American Kuwait City's centre. free government asks us to do so," it military forces by 500 000 from the current 2,1 million by the Waving Iraqi flags, jubilant sol said. middle of the 1990s, the New York Times reported. diers in cars raced through the city After the pre-dawn invasion, Kuwait EAST BERLIN - East and West Germany signe" an accord to hold thoroughfares. Iraqi helicopters Radie;> appealed to its citizens and unity elections in December under Bonn voting.rules modified to hovered overhead. Arab nations for help: give small East German parties a better chance of entering parliament Some of the fiercest fighting was "The people of Kuwait, their honour ULAN BATOR - US Secretary of State James Baker said Washington on the banks,of the Gulf at Dasman EyeWitnesses said the Dasman is being violated and their blood is was heartened by the emergence of democracy in Mongolia, and Palace, residence of the Emir, Sheikh Palace was "crawling with Iraqi being shed. Hurry'to their aid, you the first steps were taI<.en towards granting the country preferential Jaber al-Ahmed al-Sab$, who Kuwait , tanks' , and Iraqi helicopter gunships Arabs ... trade status. officials said had escaped capture. had opened fire .on the ornate resi , ... we will make the aggressors Smoke billowed from the area and .. dence. taste the chalice of death, , , the radio SILAY, Philippines - Kidnapped American Peace Corps volunteer eyewitnesses reported loud explo Just as it appeared that the Iraqis said. Timothy Swanson was freed by communist guerrillas iIi the central sions and heavy machine-gun fire. had overrun the palace, they met , Iraq, with a million-strong perma Philippines after being held captive for 50 days. r t ' In Baghdad, Iraq said it had launched renewed resistance from Kuwaiti nent army and thousands more men NAIR OBI -A senior US official arrived in Kenya for talks expected its operation to Support a coup by soldiers, witnesses said. called to arms on Thursday, has the to include Washingtpn's concern over human rights after the young Kuwaiti revolutionarips agairist Iraq, ,in a warning clearly aimed at Arab world's most powerful military government launched a crackdown on dissent last month. Herman the Sabah family which it denounced the United States, threatened to turn machine. Kuwait has total forces of Cohen, Assistant Secretary of State for Mrican Affairs, was due to I; I as' 'traitors and agents ofZionistand J<uwait into a "graveyard" if any 20,300 men. ' meet President Daniel arap Moi and Foreign Minister Wilson foreign schemes". outside power intervened in the fight Residents in al-Jahra province close Ndolo-Ayah during his two-day visit. Eyewitnesses and Kuwaiti officials ing. to the border told Reuters that thou MONROVIA - A strong government counter-attack fizzled out in said the airport and the Central Bank, The United States, whose 'navy sands of Iraqi troops were pouring which manages one of the world's kept open Gulf oil lanes during the into Kuwait backed up by tanks, Liberia's seesaw conflict, as rebel groups struck back but plotted wealthiest economies, were unqer 1980-88 Iraq-Iran ~ar, had already armoured cars and helicopter gun against each other for ultimate victory in the country's corpse Iraqi control. put its fleet of six warships in the ships. strewn capital. The United States appealed to other countries to Kuwait Radio broadcast increas wate,rway on high alert. Iraqi troops were calling at Ku .