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NEWS MAKER : Boris Yeltsin Ball Post/Rtr Will Sack Incompetent Officials RUSSIAN leader Boris Yeltsin says he will sack incompetent bureaucrats but not make revolutionary changes if elected Russian president this week. "I will not heedlessly purge the existing power apparatus and throw them all out, as has been usual for us in the past," Yeltsin told Germany's Bild newspaper. "But I will carefully reconstruct it and replace incompetent people with others who have competence and professiona lism," he was quoted as saying in an advance copy of Monday's edition. Yeltsin, who looks the likely victor in Wednesday's poll, said he agreed with his rival Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that the Soviet Union needs aid to help build a market econo- my. But he said it could not just accept hand-outs without hel- ping itself. "Certainly our country needs a strong financial injection from the West," Yeltsin told Bild. "But the money must not be handed over willy-nilly...We cannot simply put our hands in our laps and leave it to the West to save our economy," he added. (Rtr) Desmond Tutu Sanctions Must Stay Bali Post/Rtr NOBEL Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu told Australi- an Foreign Minister Gareth Evans on Saturday that san- ctions against South Africa must stay until apartheid was totally destroyed. Tutu, the Anglican Archibshop of Cape Town, said he also told Evans that he was distressed by Australia's appro- val for President F.W. de Klerk's reform programme. But Evans reassured him that his week-long visit to South Africa did not mean that Australia was abandoning support for the black cause, he told reporters. "He has reassured me, and we needed it because I thought we were being abandoned," Tutu said after a 40- minute meeting with Evans, the most senior Australian mi- nister to visit South Africa since apartheid rule started in 1948. Tutu said sanctions could not stay for ever, but the in- Halaman 10 Bali Post English Corner Philippine Volcano Threatens U.S. Base Thousands of Americans Flee Clark Air Base, Philippines Thousands of Americans in a huge convoy of cars and buses on Monday evacuated a major U.S. air base in the Philippines that a volcano threatens to smother in a torrent of molten rock and boiling mud. Hundreds more Filipinos we- re evacuated as Mount Pinatubo spewed out ash, steam and red hot lave in a series of smallscale explosions that rocked the long- dormant volcano during the day. Pinatubo was the second vol- cano along the Pacific "Rim of Fire" to explode in the past week. In Japan, Mount Unzen erupted a week ago, killing 38 people on Kyushu island, 1,000 km (620 miles) southwest of To- kyo. Philippine authorities set up evacuation centres in schools in three adjoining provinces and rushed in extra medical teams and supplies to counter increa- sing cases of respiratory, skin, eye and stomach infections. Clouds of ash contaminated rivers around the spluttering volcano, and the state-run Phi- lippine news agency reported that some evacuation centres had run out of drinking water. Molten rock, its temperature possibly as high as 1,000 deg rees Celcius (1,800 Fahrenheit), threatened to engulf empty far- ming towns at the foot of the smoke-shrouded mountain, 90 km (55 miles) northwest of Ma- nila. More Than 15,000 Filipino Evacuees Health officials said they we- re distributing food and clot- hing to more than 15,000 Filipi- no evacuees, many of them Aeta tribesmen who lived around the foot of the volcano, Officials at the Philippine In- stitute of Volcanology and Seis- mology said flows of red hot rock and mud covered a 12 km (seven miles) radius from the cone of the volcano, which ex- ploded on Sunday after lying dormant for 600 years. No casualties have been re- ported from Sunday's explosion but the country's chief volcano- logist warned a more powerful and destructive eruption was imminent. force spokesman said in an in- terview. "All of those non- essential personnel should be in Subic naval base by now." More than 14,500 American servicemen and their depen- dante were withdrawn from Clark to the U.S. Subic Bay na- val base to the west. More than 1,500 personnel were left to ma- nage and provide security for the base, the spokesman, who declined to be named, said. Up To Half The Base A big eruption could bury up to half the base, officials and vulcanologists warned. The Americans, riding in a three km (1.8 mile) convoy of cars and vans, were being given temporary accommodation at Subic. "Pinatubo may be gearing up for bigger eruption. The present Iull is deveptive. Stronger erup- tions should be expected," Phi- lippine Volcanology chief Ray- Children clutched pet dogs, mundo Punongbayan said in a and babies clung to scruffy dolls television interview on Monday. as cars packed with video came- Defence Secretary Fidel Ra- ras, household utensils, slee- mos told local radio the gover- ping bags and luggage set out at nment was studying the possibi- dawn on Monday, a towering lity of ordering the evacuation of more than 200,000 Filipinos living in Angeles city, adjacent to Clark base, if a bigger erup- tion takes place. Thousands of Americans on Monday completed their pul- lout from Clark in a convoy of 6,000 cars and buses. "They re all gone," a U.S. air Indian Monsoon Floods Kill 44 Bombay- At least 44 people died in Bombay and the nearby city of Thane over the weekend as the heaviest June monsoon rains in recorded history created wides- pread devastation, police said on Monday. Some people were swept into sewers through manholes ope- ned to speed the draining of floodwaters, they said. Others died in collapsed houses and from electric shocks as power lines came down. Most of the deaths were in Thane, some 60 km (40 miles) from Bombay, India's commer- cial capital. Bombay's weather centre said 48 cm (19 inches) of rain fell on the city in the 24 hours ending Monday morning, the highest rainfall ever recorded in June over a 24-hour period. Bombay was virtually paraly- sed. Bus and commuter train services ground to a halt, power to several parts of the city was cut and officials of the state-run telephone company said at least 60,000 telephones were out of action. Bombay airport was closed on Sunday because of flooded run- ways. Airline officials said one runway was re-opened on Mon- day morning for domestic traf- fic. The other, longer runway u- sed for big airliners was still un- der water, they said, The Bombay Stock Exchange, India's biggest, was closed for the day, stockbroker Dinesh Valji said. The navy had to be brought in to help about 6,000 slum dwel- lers who took to the roofs of their huts to escape the floods, officials said. Navy boats rescued about 1,600 people overnight. The rest were able to move back to the ground on Monday morning when the floods began to rece- de, they said. Storms in north India were welcomed, especially in tha de- sert state of Rajasthan where temperatures at this time of year routinely top 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit). In New Delhi, an early mor- ning storm brought temperatu- res down 6.5 degrees from 28.5 Celsius (83 Fahrenheit), the lo- cal meteorological office said. (Reuter) struments of apartheid's destruction could be abandoned China Will Not Intervene only when the task had been fully completed. Evans said on Thursday at the start of his visit that Australia would be as active in dismantling Western trade and investment sanctions as it had been in imposing them. He said that, unless the whole reform process was blown off course, sporting ties with Australia could soon be resto- red. (Rtr) Rina Khan Rap Rina Bali Post/Asia Week RAP music, with its distinctly rhyming lyrics and heavy beat, has crossed language barriers. Rina Khan has recorded what she believes is the first rap song in Malay. The 21-year-old Malaysian wrote the lyrics for Stop It in just 45 minutes, and featured it on her optimistically titled first album, Rina Khan, Volume 1. The album also included blues, rock, and disco songs to test public reaction, which appears to be mixed: "Some people say that my song is not rap because it is sung in Malay and they're not used to that, but I hope people eventually accept it for what it is." One of the many odd jobs that Khan had taken to support her singing career actually landed her the recording contract. As a PR person promoting cigarettes for an advertising agency, she went on a sales call to the office of a large recording company and talked her way into an audition. The 170-cm tall Pakistani Malaysian has also been modelling since 1988. Khan likes the pace of being both a singer and a model, although singing will always remain her first love. Says she: "In singing you express your-self. If the audience claps, it's for you and your talents, not for the designer for whom you are modelling." Khan aso has a taste for fame: "When I'm on stage, I'm not the Rina I know who does the dishes. I'm the glamorous Rina. I'd like to walk down the street and have people say 'Hey, there's Rina Khan." (BP/Asw). In Hong Kong Before 1997 Beijing- tervening in the administration of Hong Kong before it is turned over to China in 1997, Chinese Communist Party General Sec retary Jiang Zemin said on Mon- day. Beijing has no intention of in- "We have no intention of in- consider the future of millions of Hong Kong residents, and therefore hope that the British- Hong Kong government will think more about the long-term stability and prosperity of Hong Kong in the future." Jiang also sounded a softer SELASA, 11 JUNI 1991 Bali Post/Reuter ash cloud spewed out by the vol- Melted volcanic ash flows along the road near a volcano June 10 in Zambales province north of Manila which exploded yesterday. cano visible in the distance. "Who wants to evacuate? But the danger is there so we have to move out," said U.S. air force sergeant Jim Pakle, driving with his wife and two sons into the giant naval base, 80 km (50 miles) northwest of Manila. Helicopters flew above the convoy to protect the Ameri- cans, who have often been tar- gets in the Philippines of attack by communist guarrilles of the New People's Army (NPA). Some 16,000 of the 40,000 U.S. servicemen an dependants in the Philippines are stationed on or near Clark air base, head quarters of the U.S. 13th Air Force. Aircraft, including C-130 transport planes and helicop- ters, were flown out of the base as a precaution after the erup- tion. (Reuter). Bangladesh Ruling Party Votes for Parliamentary Government Dhaka day night, party sources said on close to her said. Leading members of Bangla- Monday. desh's ruling party want to re- A final decision would not be turn to a parliamentary form of government, outweighing Pri- me Minister Begum Khaleda Zia who prefers the presidential system. taken until Tuesday when par- liament begins its budget ses sion, they said. Khaleda Zia, who chaired the A majority of the Bangladesh meeting, favours the presiden- Nationalist Party's (BNP) Cen- tial system because she believes tral Executive Committee voted a strong executive is likely to for parliamentary government bring more stability to the poli- at a meeting in Dhaka on Sun- tically volatile country, sources Muscovites Vote On JATURA Western-Style City Government Moscow- prompted accusations that Po- Muscovites vote for a new pov is trying to form a dictator- Western-style mayor on Wed- ship. He is also criticised for fai- nesday, burying Lenin's ral- ling to fulfil promises to put mo- lying cry of "all power to the re food on shop shelves, repair Soviets" and its promise of wor- potholed streets and find hou- kers' power. sing for thousands living in communal cramped, tments. Radical Gavriil Popov, chairman of the Moscow City Council, is the front-runner. He is regarded affectionately by many for his rotund figure and paternal demeanour. His leading challengers inclu- de a former city manager and a member of the Politburo of the Russian Communist Party. The central issue in the poll, the first free mayoral election in Soviet history, is whether Mus- covites favour granting a mayor broad executive power while decreasing the authority of the City Council. Popov, supported by the So- viet Union's leading opposition movement Democratic Russia, is a radical economist who fa- vours a mayor with veto powers and a council in charge of the the city. apar- "I am afraid that the introduc- tion of a mayor in Moscow may bring the return of authoritari- an power," said Tatyana Korya- gina, a deputy who tried to run for mayor but failed to gather enough signatures to register. Slashing the Number of Deputies A Western-style city council would mean slashing the num- ber of deputies from 450 to bet ween 15 and 20. Popov and the leadership of Democratic Rus- sia believe this would bring mo- re democracy to a city gover- nment that historically has been a rubber stamp for the Commu- nist Party. Some deputies, who would lo- se their jobs and the many privi- strictly by trial and error. "It is only by working in the job as mayor that I learn as I go along what my responsibilities are," Popov said. "This is why in many cases we have groped a- long." Outside city hall, forming a democratically-run government for some amounts only to theory that has no bearing on reality. Yuri Kudryavtsev, a 57-year- old lawyer, said he would vote for Popov, but is unconvinced he will make dramatic changes. "As far as his plan to create a strong mayor, I think no one can have real power here," he said. "Look at Gorbachev. He has a lot of rights, but did anything change?" (Reuter) She listed the successes of her three-month-old government, "but she reserved her opinion of the form of government and might eventually accept what the majority like", one BNP lea- der said. Khaleda promised last week to settle the issue of the form of government after acting presi- dent Shahabuddin Ahmed threatened in a national broad- cast to quit, saying he wanted to return to his old job as chief jus- tice. "You must decide at the early stage of the parliamentary ses- sion on how to relieve me of my job," he said. The session begins on June 11. The BNP said it would make the necessary constitutional a- mendments for him to quit ho- nourably. ted by parliament, or a presi- dential election is held. Some BNP leaders failed on Sunday to muster support for a middle course that would have given the prime minister more power at the expense of the pre- sident. The largest opposition party, the Awami League led by Khale- da's arch-rival Sheikh Hasina, has strongly advocated a return to the parliamentary system. The Awamis have asked for an end to what they described as the present "diarchy", saying people were confused as to whether Khaleda or Ahmed was running the country. Ahmed, who took over after former president Hossain Mo- hammad Ershad resigned last December during an opposition campaign, said in his broadcast he wanted to end the confusion. Simely Adviser The BNP, with 164 seats in the Under the proposed parlia- 330-member parliament, needs mentary system, power would a two-thirds majority to amend be vested in the prime minister, the constitution to allow Ahmed as head of the ruling party, but to transfer power to the speaker she would exercise it in consul- or prime minister. tation with cabinet colleagues. This means it would have to Under the existing system, ask for Awami support, which the president is head of state political analysts say may not be and the prime minister simply granted easily. adviser to the president. "The Awamis might withhold Ahmed wants the speaker of their support, at least for some parliament to replace him as ac- time, trying to keep alive the ting president until the country constitutional deadlock that returns to a parliamentary sys- would put the BNP under se- tem of government, in which ca- rious strain," one analyst said. se the president would be elec- (Reuter) Anak Agung Rai: Toward An Intelligent Sponsorhip of The Arts? tervening in the daily adminis. note on a dispute over plans for day-to-day business of running leges they enjoy as city officials, veryday visiting tens of Ba- sy, with color photographs of Rai's endeavour, which goes tration of the British-Hong Kong government," Jiang told a dele- gation from the Hong Kong Ge neral Chamber of Commerce in comments carried by the offi- cial New China News Agency. Jiang's statement seemed de- signed to allay mounting fears in Hong Kong that Beijing was trying to assume effective con- trol of the British colony before the 1997 handover date. Hong Kong's stock market fell moderately last Friday after China's foreign ministry slam- med Hong Kong's new Bill of Rights and stated that Beijing reserved the right to review - and possibly scrap - all the terri- tory's laws after 1997. a new Hong Kong airport, al- though he repeated Beijing's key objection that the project would drain the colony's coffers before the handover. "We believe that Hong Kong needs a new airport, but con- struction of the airport should not leave a burden on the Hong Kong residents in the future," he was quoted as saying. (Reu- ter) "The main problem with the Mossoviet is that there is no des- cription of the functions of di- fferent branches of city gover- nment," Popov wrote in a state- ment to deputies. "This is why there has always been confusion about what my powers are and which powers are out of my scope," he said. The idea of a strong mayor has are against the idea. undreds of tourists are e- ted by A.A. Rai. The book, glos- her scope. Let us hope that A.A. Last month a majority of de- linese galleries. Many look for good quality, shows us that In- much beyond past endeavours puties either voted "no" or ab- the cheap souvenirs, but some donesia has now the technical of the same type, opens the door stained when asked if Popov also look for the serious ar means to publish art books of for a systematic approach of Ba should run for mayor. twork. They have the choice bet- quality. We are waiting for mo- linese and Indonesian national Popov has tried to counter ac- ween the strongly "ethnic" Bali- re, indeed. A book on Balinese painting. The fate of Balinese cusations that, under his nese painting, characterised by painting should describe the painting as creative branch of reform-minded leadership, lit- a full occupation of space and an pictural techniques used as well Indonesian painting might hang tle has been done to improve li- emphasis on repetitive and hig- as analyse the specificities of on the initiative of enlightened fe for Muscovites. He said he hly detailed patterns, and the the Balinese system of forms, in- sponsors such as A.A. Rai. has governed the city since his national Indonesian one, which cluding a description of the ico- election as chairman last year is structurally and formally nography. But it is a job of anot- much to the Westerner's taste. There are very few publica- tions on these types of pain- tings, and they mostly consist of newspapers' encensing cliches. In that perspective we must wel- come the small book published by A.A. Rai Gallery of Peliatan, Ubud. Church Becomes A Mediator Between Students and Police Jiang assured the Hong Kong delegation that Hong Kong Seoul - would be allowed to keep both South Korean dissidents ho- local autonomy and its capita- led up in Seoul's Roman Catho- list system after Beijing assu- lic cathedral have until Satur- day to give themselves up or fa- "The practice of 'one-country, ce an attack on the building by two systems' will continue on a riot police. mes control. swer." long-term basis," Jiang was quo A cathedral spokesman said Riot police have surrounded A.A. Rai is a still very young (35) art dealer. He prides him- self of having started his busi- ness with nothing, on of these painting's peddlers hassling tourists in their hotels and bu- ses. He says that the became a dealer out of disappointment of not being able to become a pain- ter. But he had intelligence, and he managed to build a business and to train himself as an art connoisseur. only as Cho. "The whole thing Kang has been in the church was a set-up. Students just fell compound since May 18, the day right into the government's of the funeral for Kang Kyung- trap." dae, who was beaten to death on Prime Minister Chung Won- April 26 by riot police using iron shik was pelted with eggs and pipes. flour and manhandled for half an hour while visiting a Seoul ted as saying, adding that the on Monday police hoped priests the cathedral in Seoul's busiest campus last week. central government would ne- could persuade wanted stu- street and several stand guard Cho said those involved in the ver intervene in matters falling dents and dissidents in the near the entrance. assault were freshmen and sop- within the scope of Hong Kong's church to surrender before they Police met cathedral officials homores who were in high local autonomy. were forced out. inside the church on Monday school when Chung fired 1,500 and gave them until Saturday to members of a teachers' union in persuade students and dissi- 1987. A.A. Rai belongs to the small dents to give themselves up or Last week, South Korea's be forcibly evicted. best-known dissident, Moon Ik circle of Balinese art dealers that understand that their role "If nothing happens until Sa- hwan, was arrested for playing a is not only to sell, but to shape turday, then we have no choice leading role in this year's pro- and to inform, putting the art but to forcefully bring them tests. He was freed from prison out," a police commander told last October after having been works into an historical and es sentenced to seven years in jail thetical perspective. With use for visiting North Korea in 1989. not only to the potential buyer, A committee organising the but also to the cultured man of funeral of Kim Kwi-jong, a wom- an student who died during a The book published by Mr. demonstration, said on Monday A.A. Rai has been written by Al- her funeral would be held on lison, a long time visitor of Indo- Wednesday. nesia who has long lectured on They said Kim's body would Indonesian art. He gives us a be taken to Sunkyunkwan Uni- short historical perspective of versity, where she was a stu- the various schools of Balinese dent, on Tuesday. Funeral rites art, with the emphsis on the would take place at City Hall in works available at the gallery. the centre of the capital the Follows a presentation of the next day. (Reuter) main individual artists exhibi- Under the Basic Law, the Security around the Myong mini-constitution for Hong dong cathedral in central Seoul Kong that will come into effect has been tight since police were in 1997, China is given the po- told Kang Ki-hoon, vice wer to review the territory's president of the nationwide di- laws and will have ultimate ju ssident coalition Chonminyon, risdiction over matters of auto had taken shelter there. nomy. Kang, among 55 wanted dissi dents, is suspected by police of having forged a suicide note left by Kim Ki-sol, one of nine peo- ple who committed suicide in protest against the fatal police beating of a student in April. China has pledged to keep Hong Kong's capitalist system for at least 50 years after the handover. reporters. No Punches "We have the arrest warrants Jiang told the Hong Kong and we can't wait forever." group that Beijing and Hong The government is pulling no Kong should work towards a "We will not have riot police punches in cracking down on partnership. storming into the church to drag the student demonstrations "After 1997, Hong Kong away students who have come to which began in late April. Aut- should and can be more flexible, the church for help," a priest horities seem positive they have and Hong Kong and the main told reporters on Monday. the support of the populace. land will enjoy mutual promo- "It does not, however, mean "Students made a stupid mis tion and common develop that we are siding with the stu- take when they assaulted the ment," he said. dents. We want them out of here prime minister," said a radical too, but violence is not the an student who identified himself But he added: "We have to Indonesia. Jean Couteau B 2218 C SELASA, 11 JU Pimpi Tujuh Surabaya (Bali Po Perkara pemals pimpinan Bank U Surabaya, sudah p Djunaedi (38) dija kilnya, Ny. Lilis I bulan penjara oleh rabaya, Selasa ker Sidang yang diketu rah Adnyana, S.H. d gota Djautan Purba Balil Achmad, S.H kan, kedua terdakw membuat surat kr malsukan dan meny lain untuk melakuk an. Perbuatan itu te langgar pasal 264 (1) sal 55 ayat 1 ke 1 yo p KUHP dan Pasal 37 ayat 1 ke 1 yo psl. KUHP. 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