The Guardian of Liberty - Nemzetőr, 1989 (12. évfolyam, 1-4. szám)
1989-05-01 / 3. szám
12 Gunmen Kill Nationalist Leaders Gunmen killed two Melanesian nationalist leaders in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia on May 4. Jean-Marie Tjibaou, President of the Front de libération nationale kanake socialiste (FLNKS), and his deputy, Yeiwéné Yeiwéné, were shot at point-blank range during a tribal ceremony on the island of Ouvea. Tjibaou died immediately and Yeiwéné a few hours later. Djubelly Wea, one of the gunmen, was himself killed in a subsequent shoot-out. He belonged to the Front uni de libération kanake (FULK), a small militant group. Another man was arrested and charged with murder. In September, 1984, 17 FULK members visited Libya for political indoctrination and training in the use of firearms and explosives. At a Press conference in Melbourne on April 7, 1987, Australia's Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, said that his (Labour Party) government was closely monitoring Libyan interference in the South Pacific. Libyan activities, he added, stemmed from a determination to promote terrorism and unrest. Libya had a "monstrous record" and had no concrete, legitimate, peaceful reason for trying to establish a presence in the region. A Rome court recently sentenced two Libyans, Said Ali Tharauni end Omar Mabrouk Ghamudi, to 21 years and eight months’ imprisonment for killing Yusef Kherbish, a critic of Colonel Qadhafi, the Libyan leader, in Italy in 1987. An absent defendant, Jaber Mohammed Zaghdud, was sentenced to 23 years for complicity. According to French Press reports, Burundi's expulsion in April of all its resident Libyans — diplomats and about 20 people calling themselves "tourists" - was the main subject discussed at a meeting at Mbuji-Mayi, Zaire, on May 6 of the Heads of State of Zaire, Burundi and Rwanda, the member-nations of the Communauté économique des pays des Grands Lacs (the Economic Community of the Great Lakes' Countries). Foreign Minister Cyprien Mbonimpa of Burundi said in a broadcast on April 5 that Libyans had been engaging in "destabilising activities" endanoering the nation's peace and stability. TRUCKS CARRIED SPY EQUIPMENT A convoy of about 12 trucks held up in February by the Nepalese customs authorities at Raxaul, on the rontier with India, was carrying electronic equipment for delivery to the Soviet Embassy in Kathmandu, according to local sources. The trucks were reportedly refused entry while the authorities made detailed enquiries about the consignment. It seems the Nepalese are not alone in being wary of the activities of Moscow's Kathmandu mission. A few weeks earlier, on January 19, a Nepalese weekly, Arati, reported that the Chinese Embassy was proposing to look for new premises because of the danger of espionage by the Soviet mission, situated only three or four minutes' walk away from its present building. The opportunities which the two embassies' proximity offer for electronic eavesdropping would be particularly tempting and could well explain the Chinese concern to find premises in another part of the city. SKATERS 'GIVEN BOGUS ARMY RANKS' Judging from the May 16 issue of Sotsialistischeskaya Industriya, the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee has begun allowing journalists to practise glasnost (Party-controlled "openness") when reporting on the management of ice-hockey in the USSR. An article in this Moscow daily, a Central Committee publication, quoted Anatoly Firsov, a former ice-hockey player in the Central Army Sports Club (TsSKA), as saying that he had "negative feelings" about players being given officier ranks, as these were "not really genuine." He aded that the army and Dynamo clubs were "plundering trade union teams of their best players, drafting them into their sides under the law on compulsory military service." Players were under double pressure and at the mercy of their coaches. In his view a "revolt" in the TsSKA was "inevitable." The Dynamo clubs are sponsored by the KGB (secret police) and the MVD (militia). After winning the 1989 ice-hockey championship in Sweden, the Soviet team returned home without one of its best players, Alexander Mogilnyi. Instead of checking in with the rest of the team at Stockholm airport for the Moscow flight, he waited behind for a few days before leaving on May 5 for the United States to sign up with the Buffalo Sabres icehockey team. KGB OFFICER A SPORTS BOSS V. S. Sysoyev, Chairman of the Dynamo Central Council, is one of the 12 KGB officers elected to the USSR’s new Congress of People’s Deputies. The other 11 hold ranks ranging from lieutenant to lietcnant-general, according to a recent Moscow Press report; it did not give Sysoyev’s rank. EASTERN EUROPE 40 YEARS AGO (Continued fom page 11) POLAND The Polish trade union movement came under full Party control at the Second Congress of the Central Commission of Trade Unions (KCZZ) on June 1-5, 1949. Then Law 293 of July 1 laid it down that the highest organs of the Polish trade unions were the Congress and the new Central Council of Trade Unions (CRZZ). The CRZZ remained in being, as a typical Party-controlled trade union organisation, till October, 1980. Then on October 13, 1980, when the application of Solidarity to the cours for registration was under consideration, the CRZZ announced that all its branches had left it, and that a plenary session would meet to decide its future. So, finding itself in the humiliating of an octopus without any arms, it decided to dissolve itself with effect from December 31, 1980; this was announced on December 5. Nor was the CRZZ revived when martial law was imposed and Solidarity suppressed on December 13, 1981. 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