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4The Daily Tar HeelMonday, February 25, 1991 WcrOd 0$ff6q(fc .Thailand government promises elections j BANGKOK, Thailand Military commanders who easily toppled the government of Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan said Sunday they wanted to return the country to democracy and hold elections in six months. ! Speaking a day after they took Chatichai captive and imposed martial Jaw, the leaders said they would amend the constitution to prevent the corrup tion they said had motivated their ap parently bloodless coup. I On Sunday, the junta repealed the military censorship it had imposed during the coup and said normal radio and television broadcasts could resume. Only a few soldiers stood guard outside Army Hall where they spoke, and the capital appeared normal in the wake of the coup. In response to the coup, the State Department suspended $ 1 6.4 million of "mostly development aid. "The United States strongly supports constitutional rule and deeply regrets the overthrow of Thailand's democratically elected government." c Albanians rally against Democratic Party , VIENNA, Austria Anti-democracy demonstrators demanded on Sun day that Albania's Communist gov ernment ban the opposition Democratic Party and hang its leaders. ; The rally came just hours after the government, seeking to prevent more bloodshed, denied it had asked provin cial authorities to organize supporters of the late dictator Enver Hoxha to march on the capital, Tirana. : Many conservative and older Alba nians revere Hoxha, the Stalinist founder of Communist Albania. But pro-democracy crowds, who blame Hoxha for four decades of pov erty and repression, last week toppled a giant statue of him as well as other monuments. They also burned his books and portraits. Democratic Party spokesman Gene Polio said about 2,000 Hoxha support ers rallied Sunday in the dictator's birthplace of Girocastra. ; "It's not clear whether these rallies are being organized by Alia or by some (government) bureaucrats," Ruka said by telephone from Tirana. IFtaal 4 fir ! ! u MdDim., Tunes., WedL. 10 Three days of strife over Hoxha led to bloodshed Friday. Three people were killed and scores injured when crowds marched on Tirana's military academy, where cadets and officers had vowed to defend a Hoxha bust. Baltic Republics hold vote on independence MOSCOW The Baltic republics of Estonia and Latvia held preliminary voting Sunday on ballots seeking further independence from the Soviet Union, the official Soviet news agency said. Only a few people in the two republics cast ballots early for the referenda on independence. Official balloting is scheduled for March 3. Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev has branded the polls unconstitutional. In Latvia, 1 ,400 polling stations were opened for people unable to vote in the March 3 non-binding vote on indepen dence, Tass said. In Estonia, town councils in the three predominantly Russian-speaking towns of Sillamyae, Narva and Kokhtla-Yarve voted to hold their polling early, al though they did not say why. In a Feb. 9 vote in Lithuania, the region's third independence-minded republic, voters overwhelmingly en dorsed their government's 1 1 -month-old declaration of independence. Soviets voice support for Russian president MOSCOW About 100,000 people rallied Sunday in support of Boris N. Yeltsin after he was blasted by Com munist Party hard-liners for demanding the resignation of President Mikhail S. Gorbachev. The enthusiastic demonstration for Yeltsin, president of the Russian re public, filled a huge square next to the Kremlin in central Moscow. After chanting Yeltsin's name, the crowd turned against the Soviet president, chanting "Gorbachev resign!" and "Gorbachev, go away!" "Red Filth, Hands Off Our Yeltsin!" proclaimed a sign in support of the 60-year-old poli tician, who was not at the rally. Other hand-printed signs also re flected public dissatisfaction with the Soviet leader: "Gorbachev, The People Despise You," and "Uncle Gorby, My Granny and I Don't Trust You Anymore." mm day to rfei9 lt, f.y.V7 rvyfn 1 : Wt 'V: 'jtmffi Tiiniirinnrur"" dRTQIRVED COLLEGE JEWELRY Fdh, 25, 26, 27, 28 a.inm. - 3 p.mm. $20 Deposit Special Payment Plans Available Teachers, parents helji children deal with war By Karen Dietrich Staff Writer As tensions in the Persian Gulf es calate, the war is becoming an increas ingly common subject for discussion in American elementary schools where children seek information and reassur ance from their peers, teachers and counselors. The war in the Middle East "is more on (children's) minds than a lot of par ents realize," said Los Angeles psy chologist Robert Butterworth. "(Children) are playing war more. There's been more fighting in school and more disruptions," he said. Billie Corder, counselor in the Child Psychiatry Training Program at Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh, said children of all ages watch television and are very concerned. "We suggest (parents) limit the time children watch television," Corder said. Betty Wilson, guidance counselor at Pittsboro Primary School, said most children know about the war from watching television. "The second and third graders talk about it," she said. "I'm amazed at how much they know. "When children are under stress, and war is just one type of stress, they show disturbances in their sleeping and eat ing patterns ... and regressions from one level of coping they had already reached. For example, some children return to wetting their bed," she said. Children commonly show unusual fears of separation or changes, Corder said. It's important to encourage all children to talk about their feelings re garding the war and to answer their questions. , "Children have four basic questions,' Corder said. "Am I going to be okay? Are my parents going to be safe? Will the war come over here? And, if something happens to my parents, what will become of me?" B utterworth said one of the problems is that small children don't have geo graphical sophistication. They don't know if the war is in the next neigh borhood or in the next continent. The five to seven year-olds need to be told that it's not happening down the street," he said. Most children who have parents or grandparents directly involved in the war are obviously a great deal more worried than others, Corder said. The biggest problem is tht children want a guarantee that their daddies won't get killed, said Jane Scarr, guidance & mw 9 : Ttaturs. VISA I it if " ' '.'sS I f-frYiYinfli rirmnmnimwififri1 counselor at Tarawa Terrace II School in Camp LeJeune. Frank Geary, superintendent of Ft. Bragg schools said, "Overall our youngsters are doing a fine jobconsidering that most of (them) have one or more parents deployedthey're coming to school on a regular basis and keeping up with school work and extra-curricular ac tivities with a few exceptions." Wilson said: "I've been impressed with how much communication goes on (between parents in the Gulf and their children). We have even made videos here to send to parents in Saudi Arabia. This sort of thing didn't happen (in any other war). This contact means a lot to the children." Most elementary schools take an active role in dealing with children's war anxieties through counseling ses sions. "We have two support groups going We meet with every child that has a parent or grandparent (in the war)," Wilson said. "We try to teach conflict resolution without fighting, so it's difficult to justify war, but we do try to encourage the children to support the troops as people," she said. Cleary said, "Some children need extra support. We work closely with the parents." Scarr said, "The teachers in some rooms are writing to the dads ... (as) a class writing project. We also had a dad who came back (from the Gulf) and spoke to his kids' class." "(The children) also help each other," Jones said. "They write letters, send pictures, and they come in groups (to talk to me)." Some school officials feel the war should not be discussed in class unless children bring up specific questions. "We try to keep everything as it was (before the war started)," said Margaret Jones, guidance counselor at Delalio Elementary School in Ft. Bragg. Cleary, however, said his staff is using the war as an educational oppor tunity to teach students about the Middle East. "We don't dwell on (the war)...(but) we do study the history and geography of the (Middle East) area." Butterworth said educators should definitely address war issues in school. "It's not what children know that hurts them; it's what they don't know. Chil dren make up their own reality based on fantasy ...made-up facts are usually more horrible than reality," he said. Reaction the negotiation process more strongly," Weisser said. "During the past couple of days, Iraq was willing to compromise and probably some settlement could have been reached. I think ultimately the United States will push Iraq out of Kuwait, but the question is, what kind of solution will be brought in?" Sarah Cagle, a senior English major from Winston Salem, questioned the coincidence of timing with regard to publicity surrounding cruel acts com mitted by Hussein and the onset of U.S. military maneuvers. Cagle noted the coincidence of Friday's media attention directed to Hussein's alleged roundup and execu tion of Kuwaiti citizens and the subse quent start of the ground war the next day. 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Security Council imposes economic sanctions against Iraq Aug. 7 . President Bush orders deployment of U.S. troops in gulf. Nov. 29 U.N. Security Council votes 1 2-2 to give Iraq six weeks to pull its troops out of Kuwait before the United States and its allies are free to launch a military strike. Yemen and Cuba oppose vote; Chirw abstains. jan. 17, 1991 The United States launches airattacks against Iraq and Kuwait. Iraq attacks Israel with SCUD missiles. The coalition pounds Iraq and Kuwait with air strikes. Jan. 19 Israel's anti-missile force boosted by additional Patriot missile batteries and U.S. crews. A second Iraqi missile attack causes 29 injuries in Tel Aviv, Israel. 'y Jan. 22 Iraq sets some Kuwaiti oil facilities ablaze. Oil prices jump sharply. Jan. 23 After more than 1 2,000 sorties, the allies claim air superiority and focus strikes on the Iraqi ground forces around Kuwait. Jan. 25 Allied officials say Iraq sabotaged Kuwait's main supertanker loading pier, dumping millions of gallons of crude oil into the gulp. The exiled government of Kuwait pledges $1 3.5 billion to the war effort. Jan. 28 More than 80 Iraqi fighter-bombers find refuge in Iran, which says it is impounding the planes until the war ends. ' ' Jan. 30 First big ground battle fought at the frontier port of Khafji in the . northeast corner of Saudi Arabia. Eleven U.S. marines killed, seven.; by friendly fire. Iraq forced to abandon centralized control of its air defense. Feb. 4 Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani makes surprise offer to hold direct talks with Iraq and Feb. 6 King Hussein of Jordan tilts sharply toward Iraq, describing war as effort by outsiders to destroy that country and carve up Arab world: Feb. 13 Allied warplanes destroy officials say many civilians were killed. The United States calls the target a military command center. U.N. Security Council votes 9- 2, with four abstentions, to hold closed formal session on the conflict, the first since the war broke out. Feb. 1 5 Iraq offers a conditional pullout, but Bush dismisses it as a cruelw hoax." Bombing continues. '? Feb. 1 6 American attack helicopters make first night raids on Iraqi posi-" tions, the U.S. Command says. Soviet envoy Yevgeny Primakov; meets with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in Baghdad. Feb. 1 8 Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz holds three hours of peace talks' in Moscow with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Feb. 19 U.S. commanders say they have evidence Iraq plans to use, chemical weapons in response to an allied ground assault. Feb. 22 Soviet peace plan revealed. Al lows Iraq to withdraw its forces from Kuwait within 21 days of a cease-fire. Allies give Iraq until noon Saturday EST to begin a pullout from Kuwait or face an all-out attack. The Iraqis denounce the ultimatum and say they agree to'. the Soviet peace plan. . i Feb. 23 The United States and its allies launch a large-scale ground assault against Iraqi troops. Feb. 24 Allied soldiers stream into Kuwait and reportedly reach the edges of Kuwait's capital. Troops move rapidly in flanking operations in western Iraq. Coalition casualties reported extremely light. Iraqi prisoners of war are 5,500. ,; : : : ... .. has engaged in cruel acts has helped the U.S. cause," Cagle said. Such alleged acts by Hussein make it more acceptable in Americans minds for the United States to take any kind of action necessary against Iraq, Cagle said. Other students support Bush's deci sion to move into ground warfare. "I think B ush has done what he needed to do so far," said Patrick Thomas, a freshman from Cary. "Hussein is a madman, and he needs to be stopped. If we backed out now, it would be very foolish." Loflin said he agreed with Bush's initial decision to send troops into the Middle East. "I agree with us being over there, and if I had to go (to war), I would because I reap the benefits of this country," Loflin said. Mary Exum, a sophomore English major from Raleigh, said she thought Bush was justified in his decision. "I think we have a good offensive strategy, and I would not protest our moving in with ground troops," Exum said. The accuracy of media reports is questionable, according to several stu dents who feel the press reports are censored not just for military tactical secrecy, but for U.S. propaganda pur poses as well. "They are censoring attitudes, not just military secrets," said Mike Grieneisen, a 25-year-old biology w. Cameron Ave. United States. underground facility in Baghdad, and from page' 1 graduate student. ;. ; Undeniably, there are attempts on the part of the United States to make the Iraqis appear non-human enemies, said Dorte Bernhardt, a 27-year-old chemi cal engineering major from Germany: Cantrell said it is sad for the Iraqi soldiers because they were fighting for seemingly ambiguous reasons. Their leader, Hussein, one day appears ready to withdraw and compromise, and the next day he refuses to budge, she said. "I cannot express the degree of sad ness I feel because our government isa't giving Iraq time to work it out." : One 43-year-old undergraduate who served in Vietnam will begin holding discussion sessions at the Columbia Street Bakery & Coffeehouse for people to gather and talk about the war. Allan Krall said that while he was there, he never knew why he was in Vietnam. He said he was skeptical of this war. "I don't have a solution myself, but it's time to start publicly questioning what's going on," Krall said. The discussions will begin March 3; sometime between 7:30 and 8:00 p.m; War from page 1 "So far we're delighted with the progress of the campaign," Schwarzkopf said. "They are moving north at great speed." He said only one Marine unit en countered an Iraqi counterattack. Ar--tillery, anti-tank weapons and air cover were called in and successfully repulsed the attack. Saddam Hussein, in a radio broads cast, urged his soldiers to kill "with al j your might." - student .Travel Catalog! Everything you need to know about: Student Travel StudentTeacher Air Fares Rail Passes ' Car RentalLeasing Work Abroad Study Abroad Int'l Student & Teacher ID & MUCH MORE!!! CALL for vonr PDFF .t , wpy: r
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