The Daily Tar HeelThursday, December 3, 19925
Brazilian Senate votes
to indict president
j'.
j: BRASILIA, Brazil The Senate
i voted Wednesday to indict suspended
President Fernando Collor de Mello,
paving the way for a trial that could lead
to his permanent ouster.
,n On a 67-3 vote, the Senate approved
iia report accusing Collor of gross cor
- ruption. Eleven senators did not appear
.. for the vote.
The Chamberof Deputies impeached
Collor Sept. 29 and suspended him from
office for six months after a probe
showed he took more than $6.5 million
from an illegal slush fund run by Paulo
Cesar Farias, his 1989 campaign trea
surer. The Senate will rule Dec. 22 on
whether to remove Collor permanently
' for the constitutional crime of "lack of
' decorum" stemming from his alleged
' links to the kickback scandal.
If 54 of Brazil's 81 senators find
Collor guilty, he will be officially re
moved from the presidency and barred
from holding public office for eight
years. The vote is expected to pass.
Collor, who took office in 1990 as
Brazil's first freely elected leader since
1 960, has denied any ties to Farias, who
is accused of extorting millions of dol-
lars from businessmen in return for gov-'-emment
favors and contracts.
Collor's lawyers have asked the Su
preme Court to delay the Dec. 22 vote
on grounds that 29 senators are biased
'' against Collor because they took part in
the three-month probe.
No date has been set for the Supreme
Court's decision.
.. Israeli legislators opt to
lift PLO-meeting ban
JERUSALEM Prime Minister
''Yitzhak Rabin's left-center coalition
' narrowly won approval of a bill to re
" ' voke the ban on meetings with the PLO,
in spite of a last-minute protest vote by
' a key party.
Legislators voted 37-36 in favor of
the bill's first reading. It must pass two
more readings to take effect.
The bill revokes a 1986 amendment
to the anti-terror law that bars meetings
withmembersof'terrororganizations,"
a description Israel applies to the Pales
tine Liberation Organization.
Violators of the ban, enacted under
the previous right-wing administration,
face as many as three years in prison,
and several Israelis have served jail
time. Palestinians living in the occu
pied West Bank and Gaza Strip and
" annexed east Jerusalem technically also
are banned from meeting with PLO
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Rabin' s government has ignored vio
lations of the law, particularly by Pales
tinian negotiators to the U.S.-sponsored
Middle East peace talks, who take in
structions from the PLO. The PLO offi
cially is excluded from the negotia
tions. Justice Minister David Libai insisted
the government was not softening its
opposition to PLO participation.
A change in the law was expected
after Rabin took office in July. Rabin
decided to hold up the bill until after the
U.S. presidential election.
Rabin reportedly feared an earlier
repeal would have encouraged the Bush
administration to renew its dialogue
with the PLO, suspended after a 1990
terror attack on Israel.
Israelis generally consider President
elect Clinton more sympathetic to then
concerns than President Bush.
Opposition legislators said revoking
the ban would strengthen the PLO and
other Palestinian factions.
Polish abortion activists
protest ban legislation
WARSAW, Poland A pro-choice
committee announced Wednesday it had
gathered 500,000 signatures in favor of
holding a referendum to try to prevent a
proposed ban on abortion.
The legislation calls for two-year
prison terms for doctors who perform
abortions and would mean an end to
prenatal testing.
Abortion has been available virtu
ally on demand in Poland since 1956
and, according to recent estimates,
500,000 pregnancies have been termi
nated annually.
Surveys show that more than 80 per
cent of Poland' s predominately Roman
Catholic population favor legalized
abortion, especially when pregnancy
poses a threat to a woman's life or
results from rape.
Current law allows only Parliament
or the president to call a referendum,
and neither is likely to do so on the
abortion issue.
Pro-life legislators supported by the
church have a narrow majority in Par
liament, and President Lech Walesa
supports the proposed ban.
However, the presidential Charter of
Rights and Freedoms recently submit
ted to Parliament opens the way for
holding a referendum if it is sought by
500,000 people signing petitions.
It is not clear whether Parliament
will vote on the abortion bill or the
Charter of Rights first. The lower house
of Parliament rejected a bill calling for
a referendum in July.
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German
By Andrea Jones
Staff Writer
Rising nationalistic furor in Germany
has led to rightist attacks against for
eigners and Jews, creating an uproar in
that country and eliciting words of con
cern from governments and organiza
tions around the world.
Officials have reported at least 1 8,000
attacks in Germany this year. Sixteen
people have died in those attacks, which
have included fire bombings, beatings
and stabbings of refugees from eco
nomically stricken Eastern Europe.
Chancellor Helmut Kohl has con
demned the actions of neo-Nazis and
skinheads, and the German government
has reacted by banning groups such as
the Nationalistic Front and censuring
rightist rock bands.
German police also have appre
hended suspects in connection with re
cent fire bombing attacks on refugee
shelters and foreigners' homes.
Tilman Seger, second press secre
tary with the German Mission to the
United Nations, said the nation's prob
lems began when a flood of Eastern
European refugees entered Germany
seeking help under liberal German asy
lum laws.
"There was an influx of refugees due
to the Eastern Bloc falling apart," Seger
said. "People came for economic rea
sons and because of civil wars. Under
German laws, anyone who has come for
political reasons can ask for asylum in
Germany and stay there."
Seger said neo-Nazi ideologies had
taken hold largely because of condi
tions in East Germany, where economic
woes still plagued the formerly Com
munist population.
"In East Germany, there is a big
unemployment rate, and people . . . have
nothing to believe in," Seger said. "They
need something to believe in, to grasp."
Seger also said that East Germans
Catholics p3
group's cohesiveness by giving Catho
lics more of the historical background
on their religion.
"In general, it's a very positive thing,"
he said. "Catholics want to hear some
thing that doesn't just shove Jesus in
their face without an explanation."
Newman Center students hope to act
as a "bridge from the fundamentalist
community to the agnostic community,
speaking to both and making a connec
tion," Moran said.
Philip Charles-Pierre, a sophomore
from Queens Village, N.Y., said that
both priests worked well with students,
although Leach tended to follow the
doctrines from the Vatican more closely.
"Father Ron really pumped you up"
about faith, he said. "Father Philip makes
you think about it, understand it. The
end result is the same, but the getting
there is different."
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violence causes world outrage
were not used to living with foreigners,
so the growing numbers of refugees had
posed a special problem.
"People got used to living with for
eigners ... in the Western part," Seger
said. "In the Eastern part it was very
different. There were very few (for
eigners); they lived in ghettos; they did
not walk on the streets publicly. Now,
there are a lot of foreigners coming in
there. They have different customs; they
are living in a different way.
"If you're educated in a completely
different system like East Germany had,
then it' s hard to belie ve that this is going
to work just fine," he said.
Buzzy Gordon, media director with
B'nai B'rith International, a worldwide
Jewish organization, said he sympa
thized with Germany's troubles but in
sisted that governmental action be more
emphatic.
"We've had meetings with German
officials,"he said. "They've explained
to us that the problem is a lot of pressure
on German economics and society by a
mass migration of refugees.
"We understand the problem, and
we'd like to work with them," Gordon
said. "At the same time, we've told
them they must act more swiftly to put
down acts of violence."
Gordon said he, like Seger, saw a
need for educating East Germans about
the country's Nazi past
"There must be a greater emphasis
on education," Gordon said. "Especially
the Eastern sector didn't have any real
education about the Nazi period and
Holocaust. Racism is a byproduct, not
only of hate, but of ignorance as well.
You cannot really separate the two."
Seger said a strengthening of Ger
man police forces was needed to end the
violence.
"We need a strong police force,"
Seger said. "The police in East Ger
many are just starting to build up."
Gordon also called for a "larger pres
ence of police and quicker action."
"There has to be preparedness on the
part of all communities, and there has to
be a message to all neo-Nazi and
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be met with swift punishments," Gor
don said.
Seger said that he thought that change
would have to be gradual but that he
was optimistic about future relation
ships between the people of Germany.
"There has to be a lot of public rela
tions with the people. (This change)
takes some time, of course," Seger said.
"I strongly feel that it's going to be
better in a few years."
Gerhard Weinberg, a UNC history
professor, said the recent events were a
result of economic troubles in the wake
of German reunification.
"What one sees here is a welling up
of discontent at a time of very difficult
adjustments that grow out of the enor
mous costs of German reunification,"
Weinberg said. "The cost turned out to
be much bigger ... than anyone ex
pected, and the East Germans have made
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anticipated.
"Unfortunately, there are always,
when things go very badly wrong, some
people who want to take advantage of
this for political motives that have noth
ing to do with fixing whatever the prob
lem is," Weinberg said.
Weinberg said some amount of pub
lic support and slow reaction on the part
of the German government had contrib
uted to the severity of the lightest at
tacks. "Although large numbers of the Ger
mans have turned their backs on this
kind of hatemongering, there is always
a certain amount of resonance to it,"
Weinberg said. "It's always easier to
find some minute group on which to
blame the problem," Weinberg said.
"The thing is, when (the Germans) got
through blaming them in 1945, the whole
country was in ruins."
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