? ing's MAR EJUS8$ Contemporary Archives Record of World Events Edited by Roger East Volume XXXII (1986) 55th Year of Publication Record of national and international current affairs with continually updated indexes. Keesing's factual reports are based on information abstracted from press, broadcasting, official and other sources. UK ISSN 0022-9679 MAJOR WORLD EVENTS — FEBRUARY 1986 lst-5th — Uganda. A 24-member National Resistance Coun­ Also on Feb. 7 the state of emergency was lifted in seven cil was sworn in at a ceremony in Kampala; 11 members of the magisterial districts, and Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, the leader of new civilian government were also sworn in, and further Cabinet the Progressive Federal Party (PFP), the official opposition party appointments were made on Feb. 5, with Paul Semogerere, the in Parliament, announced his resignation, stating that he could leader of the Democratic Party, becoming Minister of Internal "no longer act with integrity" within the system. Affairs. 7th-10th — Haiti. President Jean-Claude Duvalier fled Haiti lst-6th — Soviet Union-France-Italy. Four Soviet diplomats for France on Feb. 7 and a military-civilian council headed byi were expelled from France, and a diplomat and an Aeroflot Gen. Henri Namphy assumed power [see 34158 A]. A new official from Italy, for alleged espionage; the Soviet authorities Cabinet was named on Feb. 10. reciprocated by expelling French and Italian personnel. 7th-9th — Peru. President Garcia declared a state of emergen­ Ist-lOth — Vatican. Pope John Paul II toured India, visiting, cy on Feb. 7 and on Feb. 9 introduced a night-time curfew in Lima among other places, New Delhi, Meghalaya, Calcutta, the and Callao. southern states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, Goa and Bombay. 7th-21st — United States. Larry Wu-Tai Chin, a former CIA 2nd — Costa Rica. Oscar Arias Sanchez of the ruling National analyst, was convicted of spying for China; he committed suicide Liberation Party was elected President, gaining 53 per cent of the in prison on Feb. 21. vote; his chief opponent, Rafael Angel Calderon Fournier of the 7th-26th — Philippines. President Marcos claimed on Feb. 16 Social Christian Unity Party, won 45 per cent. to have defeated Corazon Aquino in presidential elections on Feb. 2nd — Liechtenstein. Women voted for the first time in a 7, amid widespread allegations of extensive electoral fraud. With general election [see 34184 A]. Mrs Aquino also claiming victory, Lt.-Gen. Fidel Ramos, the 2nd — South Africa. President Botha announced that the pass Deputy Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, and Juan Ponce system, which controlled the movement of blacks, was to be Enrile, the Minister of Defence, together with a few hundred abolished by July 1986. troops, occupied the Defence Ministry on Feb. 22 and announced 3rd-4th — Southern Africa. At a meeting in Lusaka, Zambia, that they had ceased to accept President Marcos's authority. with the Foreign Ministers of the six "front-line states", Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Manila in a representatives of the European Communities stated that they largely peaceful display of "people power" which prevented would not impose further sanctions upon South Africa other than Marcos's troops from reaching or attacking the rebels. Both those agreed in September 1985. Aquino and Marcos were sworn in as President in rival ceremonies 3rd-22nd — Angola. President dos Santos restructured the on Feb. 25. Later that day, faced with widespread military and Council of Ministers on Feb. 3, relieving four ministers of their civil defections to the rebels, and having been advised that he no posts, and creating three "super-ministries". Further changes were longer enjoyed US backing, Marcos and his entourage (including announced on Feb. 6, and on Feb. 22 President dos Santos Gen. Fabian Ver, the former Armed Forces Chief of Staff) were assumed temporarily the portfolio of State Security. airlifted by US helicopter out of the presidential palace, travelling 3rd-25th — United States. President Ronald Reagan on Feb. 3 to the US Clark Air Force base and thence to exile in the USA. appointed a commission to investigate the explosion of the space Mrs Aquino was formally declared the winner of the elections on shuttle Challenger on Jan. 28; Mr James Beggs resigned as NASA Feb. 26 and on the same day she announced a Cabinet under the administrator on Feb. 25 [see 34266 C]. premiership of her vice-presidential partner Salvador Laurel (who 4th — Sudan. The IMF declared Sudan to be ineligible for also took the post of Foreign Minister), with Enrile remaining as further loans, because of the extent of its arrears of payments. Defence Minister and Ramos becoming Chief of Staff of the 4th-6th — Libya-Israel. In an attempt to capture radical PLO Armed Forces. leaders Israeli fighter aircraft intercepted a Libyan executive jet 8th-10th — South Yemen. Haider Abu Bakr al Attas, the carrying Syrian and Lebanese politicians from Tripoli to Damas­ Prime Minister, was appointed President on Feb. 8 and was cus and forced it to land in Israel. The aircraft was allowed to succeeded in his former post by Dr Yasin Said Numan. The proceed to Syria after questioning of the passengers and crew. A government announced on Feb. 10 that Abdel Fattah Ismail, head UN Security Council resolution condemning the interception was of state in 1978-80, had been killed on Jan. 13 in the factional vetoed by the USA on Feb. 6 [see 34260 A]. fighting between rival wings of the ruling Yemen Socialist Party. 4th-7th — Cuba. The third congress of the Cuban Communist 8th-11th — Argentina. Following the death on Feb. 8 of Roque Party took place in Havana [see 34230 A], Carranza, the Minister of Defence, President Alfonsin on Feb. 11 4th-7th — United States. President Reagan on Feb. 4 named German Osvaldo Lopez as his successor. delivered his State of the Union address [see 34163 A] and on Feb. 10th-11th — Syria. In elections to the People's Assembly, the 5 submitted to Congress his budget for fiscal 1987, proposing ruling Arab Baath Socialist Party won 129 of the 195 seats. expenditures of $994,000 million and projecting a deficit of 10th-17th — Chad. Renewed fighting broke out in northern $143,600 million. A federal district court in Washington on Feb. 7 Chad between government forces and Libyan-backed rebel units ruled unconstitutional key provisions of the Gramm-Rudman at Kouba-Olanga and Oum Chalouba. French fighter bombers balanced budget amendment but issued a stay of its ruling pending operating out of the Central African Republic bombed the main a final decision by the Supreme Court. rebel air base at Ouadi Doum, north of Faya Largeau, on Feb. 16. 5th — Guatemala. President Cerezo disbanded the Depart­ The following day, a Soviet-built Tupolev-22 aircraft, apparently ment of Technical Investigations (DIT), Guatemala's secret police Libyan, bombed the airport in the capital, Ndjamena. In response, force, which had been accused of human rights abuses under past the French government announced that a "deterrent force", military governments. He announced that all agents found to have largely consisting of Air Force units, would be sent to Chad to a "bad record" would be brought to trial. assist the government. 6th-7th — South Africa. A remark on Feb. 6 by the Foreign 11 th — East-West prisoner exchange. The Soviet human rights Minister, Roelof "Pik" Botha, concerning the possibility of a activist Anatoly Shcharansky was among four detainees released future black President of South Africa as a consequence of the by the Soviet Union and exchanged in Berlin for three citizens of current process of constitutional change, was repudiated on the Eastern bloc countries imprisoned in West Germany and two who following day by President Botha as being "purely hypothetical". had been detained in the USA [see 34185 A]. .