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4cm SEPTEMBER 1992 Kuno k Santong kreativitas seniman," a. urut dia, pemberian ke- Can untuk tampil di tanah r semata-mata untuk rong kreativitas seniman. iran tentang kekhawa- dak memperoleh pengun- da saat pergelaran tidak erjadi karena khalayak hu NTB memiliki aset bu- ang potensial, sehingga sendirinya akan datang ksikan keragaman bu- TB. m era globalisasi atau likenal dengan pemba- jangka panjang tahap II II), budaya tradisional ti- zan sirna, tetapi justru semakin meningkatkan yang tertuang di dalam- ncasila sebagai filter me- udaya asing yang negatif ak dipungkiri ada budaya ang bernilai positif. Ba- erkikisnya budaya sangat tung dari individu yeng ima Pancasila sebagai tunya azas bangsa. "Indi- ang tidak berdiri dalam as inilah yang perlu di- lai," katanya. engungkapkan, secara s maupun kuantitas aset yang dimiliki NTB seja- gan Bali dan Yogyakarta i pelopor utama kebu- di Indonesia. Konsep me- Dembinaan dan perkem- budaya telah dipersiap- melalui pendekatan tokoh masyarakat se- kekhawatiran akan ter- us globalisasi tidak per a. (064). Dipacu atitis B melakukan supervisi pro- ntuk memantau kese- masyarakat. "Supaya pro- ang sudah dicanangkan at berjalan sesuai dengan ng kita harapkan ber- Jangan sampai ada pus- tidak melaporkan hasil asi pencapaiannya di -masing wilayah," kata suksesnya program imu- Hepatitis B ini, Bupati an kepada segenap ja- gar senantiasa menjalin sama secara baik, ter- dalam mengatasi berba- dala di lapangan. Sebab alinan kerja sama itu, su- dicapai hasil sebagai- iharapkan. la Dinas Kesehatan Sum- Dr. Ziad Umar menjelas- ain hasil cakupan imuni- patitis B masih rendah, ngelola di lapangan juga perpedoman pada indika- (DPTI. DPT. II dan Cam- 052). inati B Baru zan, dari 5.075 akseptor 30 persen masih meng- mkontrasepsi nonperma- perti suntikan, pil dan Untuk memenuhi pen- terget dalam operasi ma- ini, pihaknya bersama 1620 secara rutin turun akan penyuluhan ke sa di sembilan keca- i daerah ini. Di samping a mengadakan orientasi g melibatkan semua un- yarakat termasuk alim tokoh masyarakat dan nya. kan KB ini jelasnya, ti- a memberikan motivasi p calon akseptor, tetapi nganjurkan penggunaan Han menjelaskan akibat gan dari alat kontrasepsi enjadi pilihannya. "Jadi, ayakan agar para calon r paham benar tentang epsi yang menjadi pilih- baik menyangkut kebai- upun dampak samping- tambahnya. (065). kauan ate dia, irigasi Jurang Sate endapat perhatian inten- k menghindari endapan yang dapat mengaki- Dendangkalan. Pendang- 2 m dari tinggi air 2 m urang Sate terjadi satu ang lalu akibat endapan pencucian batu apung. rena itu, ia mengharap- ar masyarakat tidak me- pencucian batu apung angsung. "Sekarang iri- rang Sate sudah bersih apan, dan aliran airnya jelasnya. juga mengatakan, 8-10 1992 di kawasan wisata i akan diadakan Kongres Pertemuan Ilmiah Ta- (PIT) Himpunan Ahli Hidrolik Indonesia ). Pertemuan ini renca- kan dihadiri sekitar 250 termasuk peserta tuan m kongres akan dibahas ai Anggaran Dasar (AD) ggaran Rumah Tangga pengurus periode 995. Sedangkan, untuk etua saat ini NTB belum ukan calonnya. "Kami embahasnya 25 Septem- datang untuk menentu- on kuat yang diajukan katanya sambil meng kan, bahwa pada PIT adakan setahun sekali, kan membawakan lima h. ditunjuk sebagai tuan karena menginginkan nya ide dari peserta un- engatasi keterbatasan air. (064). NEWS MAKER Clinton Clinton Campaign Slows Down IS Bill's campaign for the White House running out of steam? Some observers travelling with him sense that his once-torrid campaign pace is slowing down, allowing President George Bush to dominate the news. Clinton and his vice-presidential running mate Al Gore began their campaign in July with dawn-to- midnight bus trips, but now their bandwagon tyres seem to be leaking air. Polls released last week suggest Clinton is still ahead. One important poll by the Field Institute said Clinton would "win the election today with 366 votes in the all-important Electo- ral Cole to Bush's 35, with 137 undecided. But Washington Post columnist David Broder described Clin- ton's campaign as "a popgun offensive, hardly the kind of assault that would usually cause an incumbedent to quake in his boots." In fact since Labour Day, Bush has dominated the news. Even though there was little new in his ecinomic speech in Detroit on Thursday, it dominated network television coverage. and front pages everywhere in the nation. While Bustting all the attention, Clinton was closeted in the address as "more of the same." And he seemevoiding reports who had been questioning him to again explain how he received a draft deferment as a Rhodes scholar at Okford University 23 years ago, during the Vietnam War. Republicans have mede the Clinton's draft record a major tar- get in this campaign, with daily demands that he "co" on his record. (Rtr). Maradona Maradona In Seville DIEGO Maradona arrived in Seville on Sunday to finalise the details of his expected transfer to the Spanish soccer club. The former Argentine World Cup captain, accompanied by his wife Claudia and agent Marcos Franchi, was met at the airport by Sevilla chairman Luis Cuervub directors. Maradona is still technically under contract to Italian side Na- poli but he told reporters before leacing Buenos Aires that he thought the transfer deal had been settled. Arrival in Madrid, where he caught a private plane to Seville, the 31-year-old midfielder said: "I'm just coming to have a look at the team and see how everything works and then we'll do whate- ver Marcos says." Maradona, who has serveonth ban from world soccer for co- 'caine abuse, hopes to link up with former Argentina coach Carlos Bilardo, who now coaches Sevilla. (Rtr). Yeltsin Yeltsin Seeks Truce PRESIDENT Boris Yeltsialling for a truce in Russo - Japa- nese war of words which erupted after the last-minute postpone- ment of his state visit to Tokyo, Japanese media reported on Sunday. Speaking to reporters in Moscow, Japanese or Sumio Eda- mura said Russion foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev told him the president had asked him to convey the wish that both sides exer- cise moderation. Edamura said he responded that Japays exercised moderation and that restraint was required on the Russian side. Kozyrey promised to reprimand anyone involved where neces- sary, the Japanese envoy told reporters. The two men met for about one hour in Moscow on Thursday against a backdrop of angry exchanges between the two coun- tries over the postponement decision, notified to Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa on Wednesday night just four days before Yeltsin's scheduled arrival. Yet on Friday, speaking in the Russian city of Cheboksary, Yeltsin told reporters the visit had been scrapped because Japan had been "too categoric" in its demands that Russia hand back four north Pacific seized at the end of World War Two. Tokyo has made return of its lost "Northern territories" a pre- condition for unlocking the massive economic aid Moscow is ur- gently seeking. Russians say the four small islands part of the Kurile mised to the Soviet Union at the Yalta conference of World War Two victors. (Rtr). SENIN, 14 SEPTEMBER 1992 M,1 MONUME MAL Bali Post Hurricane Iniki Devastated Hawaii Three Persons Dead Honolulu - At least three persons dead in Harricane Iniki, the worst to hit Hawaii this century, totally devastated one island and caused severe damage on others, authorities said. Hawaii Civil Defence and Na- tional Guard officials said they had confirmed two deaths on Kauai and Oahu. They said there had been at least 14 injuries on Kauai, adding that the number was expected to grow considerably. Journalist, including a Reuter reporter, flew over Kauai, an is- land made famous in the musical "South Pacific" and witnessed to devastation in cities, towns and villages along the coastline from Friday's storm. Three and four-storey hotels, condominiums and apartment blocks were left as were shells, while single faes were reduced to rubble. Cars were strewn everywhere, thrown into back yards and fields, overturned on roads, and even washed into the ocean by the surging tide created by Iniki. Fields of cane sugar, one of the island's main industries, were flattened, and palm trees had their frond from them, leaving them looking like toothpicks from the aircraft's 1,500-foot (450-metre) vantage point. Earlier, before the damage had been surveyed and relying only on ham radio reports, Hawaii Ci- vil Defence spokeswoman Bar- bara Hendrie said, "It looks as though there could destruction on the island. It appears that there is serious damage or des- truction on just about everything on the island." proved her right. The view from the plane car- rying journalists showed exten- sive damage in the island's lar- gest town, with a population of about 35,000, and the site of its only commercial airport. All Flights Suspends All Flights, other than civil de- fence and military, were suspen- ded to Kauai be airport's control tower suffered servere damage. It was not expected to reopen un- til Monday. Police said a teenage boy was killed on Oahu, Hawaii's most po- pulous island and home of the state capital, Honolulu, in a fire caused by a candle which was lit during a power outage. There wasdiate information on the deaths of the two people on Kauai. The hurricane, packing winds up to 160 mph (250 kph) brushed past Oahu on Friday and slam- med into Kauai, a tropical para- dise with a population of 90,000 permanent residents. Thousands of people in Kauai, an island dominated by the breathtaking volcanic moun- tains, were evacuated from the coast pounded by 30-foot (nine- metre) waves. National Guard medics airlif- ted 55 kidney dialysis patients from Kauai to a Honolulu hospi- tal on Saturday because the is- land's main hospital did not have enough emergency generators to give them treatment, a National An aerial survey of the damage Guard spokesman said. Thailand Votes, Ouring Niihau, about 25 miles (40 km) to the west, also felt Iniki's fury. A privately owned is- land, it has a population of 290, most of whom are native hawaiians. By Saturday evening Iniki was churning harmlessly0through open seas hundreds of miles north of Kauai. Its winds had weake 05 mph (168 kmp) and were dropping quickly, forecas- ters said. The last hurricane to hit Ha- waii was Iwa in 1982, which si- deswiped Oahu and everran Kauai, killing one person and causing $234 million worth of damage. But Iniki, which National Hur- ricane Centre offaid was the stro- ngest to hit the island chain this century, was much stronger than Iwa and the damage was likely to run itno billions of dollars, accor- ding to a spokesman for Hawaii Governor John Waihee. Iniki, which means "sharp and piercing as wind or pangs of love" in Hawaiian, with sustained winds of 145 mph (236 kph), ma- king it as powerful as Hurricane Andrew when that storm hit south Florida and parts of Loui- siana last month. Bush's disaster relief action on Saturday made federal funding available to affected indind local governments on the islands of Oahu, Maui, Hawaii, Kauai, Nii- hau, Lanai and Kahoolawe, a go- vernment spokeswoman said in Washington. (rtr). Army Chief Says Respect Bangkok - Thailand went to the Sunday, four months after protesters trying to curb the military's po- wer were gunned down, and the country's new army commander promised to respect the result. The army has dominated Thai politics since absolute monarchy was abolished in 1932, with 17 coups or coup attempts. But an interim government has trim- med the military's might since the May massacre and demoted many of those held responsible. The Association of South East Asian Nations also groups Ma- laysia, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines and Brunei. Radio Thaid civilian turnout was low in the first hours of vo- ting, but predicted a turnout greater than the 61.7. In Bangkok and nearby Non- thaburi province civilian polling stations were sparsely populated but Reuters saw soldiers tut in force to vote in military areas. Pro-military parties which won a narrow majority in the March polls appointed as prime minister an unelected general, Suchinda Kraprayoon. He had expected to stick with tradition. Anand's caretaker gover- nment has removed commanders blamed for ordering the May massacre and forced top officers out of lucrative positions in state companies. "Like it or not, we are going to see the return of many familiar faces," Foreign Minister Arsal Saraaid. "If some of these politicians continue with their dubious be- haviour our nation will plunge into the vicious cycle we are trying to break." The official Pollwatch commit- tee says vote-buying is rife in poor rural provinces. Ahead in some polls is the Pa- lang Dharma (Moral Forrty hea- ded by Chamimuang... a former major-general. Chamlong, known as the Mr Clean of Thai politics, is a hero to many because of his frontline role in the anti- Suchinda protests. But his opponents accuse him of leading the demonstrators to their deaths in a bid for glory. Seven Die At least seven people were kil- led a military coup in February led on the eve of Thailand elec- 1991 to oust the previous elected tion on Sunday, the first polls government. since soldiers killed pro- democracy demonstrators in May, police and politicians said. Suchinda resigned in disgrace after his troops killed scores of demonstrators in May and was replaced by a caretaker gover- nment under interim Premier Anand Panyarachun. Suchinda declined to comment after voting on Sunday. Anti-military parties are ex- pected to do well in Bangkok and thewhere more prosperous and better educated Thais live. But the impoverished north-east, bastion of pro-military parties, is Five canvassers were killed in Prachinburi province in the east, near the Caborder, late on Satur- day night when gunmen sprayed them with bullets. Two died in- stantly and three succumbed to their injuries later in hospital. A political activist in the pro- vithe victims had been canvas- sing for the Palang Dharma (Mo- ral Force) Party of Chamlong Srimuang. OPEC Needs Money OPEC Ministers, their gover- nments by financial worries, will be under pressure at a meeting this week to agree to curb rising oil output and boost the price of the barrel. But sceptical Western petro- leum industry executives say di- ffes among the 13 exporters, par- ticularly between Saudi Arabia and Iran, may impede a consen- sus on supplay quotas at the Ge- neva meeting starting on Wednesday. Iran and the Gulf Arabs over control of Abu Musa, an island in the Gulf, could cloud delibera- tions at OPEC, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Coun- tries. "Logic says that they all need money. They will reach an agree- ment," said a European-based crude oil buyer. But he said that the fractious exporters had needed money du- ring the ruinous glut of the mid-1980s. "And they still quarrelled." An average prices are around $19 per barrel (42 U.S. gallons), $2 below an OPEC target. Ear- nings have been eroded by the weakness of the dollar, the cur- rency in which oil is priced. Most OPEC countries have deficits and major debt. Pricing 'Dove' It moght hold prices firm if pro- ducers kept their above-quota 'leakage' within reasonable limits. Chamlong galvanised the May protests by going on a hunger strike to demand the resignation of General Suchinda Kra- prayoon, who had become pre- mier without having the general election in March. One Palang Dharma worker was wounded earlier in the day in the same province when his truck was fired on. Two young people were shot dead on Saturday in Bangkok when they were pasting up pos- ters accusing on party leader op- tion. "Four policemen were wounded on Sunday in raid on a polling station by suspected Mos- lem separatists in Narathiwat province in the south near the Malaysian border," police said. Two bombs were lobbed into a polling station injuring a soldier in that same, and another man was wounded by a gunshot near polling station in Yala province, also in the south. a Since campaigning began on July 13, at least 18 precinct chiefs and village headmen have been gunned down, according to Inte- rior Ministrynt Secretary Anan Anantakoon. Police have arrested 42 gun- men and shot dead eight more. (Reuter). English Corner BADAH NANG EBLONG ENU DOGEN KUNO, NGAE TEMBOK NGANGGON TANAH POPOLAN BATAKO ANAKE ANGGON APANG (KUAT BUIN ENGGAL NEMBOK!! Halaman 5 EDA ANAKE PATUHANGA D4- DEMENANE NANG KOCONG!! YEN MAKEDANG AJAK NGANG- GON BATAKO, BISA PUNAH TRADISI KUNONE. Sadha ge The Disappearing Mud Wall WITH the introduction of the big brick, the batako (pressed cement-sand brick) has become more and more popular. This type of brick is much larger than the ordinary one and some people prefer having it for building ma- terial. The traditionally baked earth brick has been surpassed by this innovation. Looking back to history, mud has played an important role, es- pecially as building material. One can still witness in Bali ho- mes or walls made of mud stiffe- ned by the insertion of rocksor tennis-ball size pebbles. But as the income of the people in villa- ges improves, they tend to re- place their mud-wall homes and compound-partioning walls by brick or batako. They have good reasons for doing this it is more economical and durable having brick or batako walls or homes. Thus mud-walls are gradually disappearing. For those who have made and seen mud-walls, this is a sorry si- tuation. Encountering surviving mud-walls provokes nostalgic feelings among lovers of the ar- tistic and elegant mud wall. It re- minds one of the antiquity, a time when men were still quite close to nature. the wall last many years and when the straw decays, a new roof is installed. In the village, most work is done communally among members of the extended family. ded into ball-size forms and then dried). These tatals are placed on top of the other to form a wall; and it is plastered with specially prepared sticky mud. Tatal walls can still be seen in the villages of Bugbug, Timrah and Asak in the The kind of mud considered to Regency of Karangasem, whe- be suitable for walls is the one reas mud-walls are still elegantly standing along the main road of Sukawati and Pejeng in the Re- gency of Gianyar. In order to protect mud or tatal walls, particularly those for com- pound fences, from ruining due to There are two or three kinds of rain water, people place rice mud-wall. Walls made of mud straw roofs. The straw used for which are strengthened by rocks this purpose is selected from the or pebbles, and walls made of un- traditional variety of rice straw baked earth brick. The third is which is longer than the new walls made of tatal (mud moul- ones. Proper roofing can make which contains clay. They clay functions as cement which makes a wall stiff and strong when it gets dry. It is not unusual to hear people say that they mix mud with fresh cow dung or straw-ash. to make it sticky particularly for plastering. But with the development of technology, one might wonder if mud-walls will be able to survive. Nobody can tell. Only time will give the answer. Estije Weapons Agreement Gives Sarajevo Quiet Night Sarajevo- United Nations monitorng of as Sunday to be having an effect, heavy weapons around Sarajevo with the Bosnian capital en- joying its second consecutive quiet night. Serb gunners ringing the town or to the autumn mist which con- agreement, covering Sarajevo an cealed the city from the hills Gorazde, is not a ceasefire, but is osnian towns of Jajce, Bihac and intended to let U.N. Monitors see which side opens fire first. The battered suburb of Do- brinja was again under fire, but mainly by mortars, which are not Placed All Heavy Weapons in the monitoring agreement which came into force on officials, Radovan Karadzic, the Despite doubts expressed by Saturday. Bosnian Serb leader, said placed by mortar bombs in the Alipasno Sarajevo under UNPROFOR Three children were wounded all his heavy weaponry around Polje suburb before midnight, (Uniter Nations Protection and there was lire on the old city Force) supervision. the night, Sarajevo radio repor- "Besides the monitors, there ted. The morning brought only was now a permanent UNPRO- occasional sniper fire. FOR liaison officer attached to It remained to be seen whether the Bosneadguarters at Pale out- this was due to restraint by the side the capital," he said. Golan Deal Debated As Israelis Head For Talks Jerusalem - Israel negotiators flew to Was- hington to resume bargaining with Syrian delegates, leaving behind a raging debate over whether Israel should return the occupied Golan Heights. The prospect of an agreement Israel and Syria -- seemingly in- tractable foes who fought wars in 1948, 1967 and 1973 -- oversha- dowed simultaneous Washing ton talks between Israelis and Palestinian, Jordanians and Lebanese. As thousands of protesters gat- hered outside the airport to ime Rabinovich, asked about Ra- Minister Yitchak rabin's offer of bin's offer to exchange at least territorial concessions, Itamar part of the Golan Heights for a Rabinovich led his Israeli team paty with Sryia, said "breakt- aboard a commercial flight to the hroughs and also painful conces- united States early on Sunday. sions" would not happen "I believe that within a week immediately. the stategic plateau. On Sunday 15 members of par- liament toured the area, which of Israel's Galiee to the west and the Syrian plain to the north, in a show of support for the Jewish residents. Government ministers took to Israeli radio stations on Sunday to support Rabin's position, which contrasts with previous Prime Minister Yitzhak Sha- mir's refusal to discuss any re- turn of captured Arab land. we will give the Syrians a docu- "For the moment we are not di- Talks with Damascuagnated ment. If the Syrians respond to it scussing the question of sovereig- after opening last October but re- vived when Rabin became prime the way we believe they ought do- nty in the Golan Heights," he minister in July. The joint cument of principles," Rabino- said. "I say for the moment be- Israeli-Syrian document now ap- vich said in an interview broad- cause I am characterising the ne- cast later by Israel Radio. gotiations as they stand not drop- pears the immediate goal. ping clues about the future." Talk of an Israeli withdrawal among other things, present both angered the Israeli right wing the dispute and the agreements," and the 15,000 Jewish settlers Deputy Finister Yossi Beilin told who have moved to the 'Golan army radio. since Israel's 1967 conquest of Analysts also notets that Saudi Arabia, a traditional pri- cing "dove", might not mind an OPEC accord that resulted in slightly stronger prices. Problems might arise with the Saudis, however, if their OPEC rival Iran press to get a bigger in- dividual quota. Gulf-based sources reported Saudi Arabia would be unwilling to cede its own share of about one- third of whatever total volume of for 10 days. oil OPEC produces. The big producers need to stake claims against a day when the United Nations lifts the em- bargo on oil which it imposed when Iraq invaded fellow OPEC member Kuwait in 1990. A joint declaration, listing areas of agreement and disagree- ment, could appear during the current Washington session which starts on Monday and lasts "Such a document could, "We expect the other side to do reign minaid such an air exclu- the same, and if they refuse -- we sion zone should be monitored by rest is to have the monitors con- do not care, because our first inte- local airports. Unlike the "no-fly" zone in southern Iraq, it would the fire," he said in a statement. bat aircraft. firm theat the Serbs never start not be patrolled by Western com- U.N. civil affairs officer Cedric Vital aid flights to Sarajevo we Thornberry said on Saturday the re suspended after an Italian mostly Moslem territorial forces plane was shot down on Septem- defending Sarajevo had assem- ber 50 km (30 miles) west of the monitoring as well. "We are in- bled some of their artillery for city. Western officials have also ac- specting thos same way we are cused Serb pilots of dangerously the Serb side," he told reporters. shadowing relief planes. The EC ministers also appro- their positions, the European ral Yugoslav state, comprising As U.N. observers took up ved moves to bar the rump fede- Community called on Saturday Montenegro after the secession of for a ban on air force sorties over four other republics including Bosnia to make the skies safer for Bosnia, from U.N. bodies pen- relief flights. ding an end to the fighting. (Ŕtr). Meeting in England, EC fo- U.S. Changing Aircraft Carriers In Gulf Aboard The USS Indpen- U.S. military officials say pa- dence- trols are continuing around the The United States, changing clock but the number of U.S. air- its warship the Gulf, has sent a craft involved has been cut by up new aircraft carrier battle group to take up the enforcement of a to two-thirds because Iraqi pla- nes have mounted no challenge. no-fly zone over southern Iraq. "Certainly there is movement Commanders from the USS and there is activity but it does Ranger and its accompanying not seem to be unusual activity," eight warships flew to the arrier Bennitt said. Independence on Sunday for briefings with their counterparts who launched "Operation Sout- hern Watch" on August 27. The Ranger, which is steaming through the Gun, was expected to on Wednesday the U.S. Navy's role in policing the area below Iraq's 32nd Parallel, U.S. Mili- tary officials said. enter the Gulf soon and take over "Our goal is to make the traion between one carrier battle group and another completely invi- sible," Rear Admiral Brent Ben- nitt said on the Independence late on Saturday. "Tasking will remain essen- tially the same...the next carrier wble to carry on without skipping (Rtr). a beat," he said. Military officials say the num- ber of flights by U.S. planes fell to a low of around 40 per day last week from 120 at the start of the operation to protect dissident Shi ite Moslems from Iraqi air attack. But they say the amount of sor- ties will vary widely from fay to day to keep Iraq guessing. Fighter jets, surveillance and radar-jamming aircraft from thndence are flying just over half the patrols, reinforced by U.S. Air Force, British and French planes based in Saudi Arabia. The USS Ranger carries a si- milar mix of about 70 planes as the Independence but does not have any of the F/A-18 jets which are able to frop bombs as well aept other jets. (Rtr). Tajikistan Sweeps Aside Its Soviet-Era Symbols RELATIONSHIP between peoples is our priceless treasure" proclaimed the welcoming sign at Dushanbe airport. symbol to be swept aside this white and green national flag month in Tajikistan, where inter- bears the old hammer and sickle clan warfare has reduced "friend- emblem, abandoned by every ot- ship peoples" to an empty and iro- her former Soviet republic since nic slogan. the breakup of the Union last The Central Asian state mar- year. ked the first anniversary of its Statues of Lenin survive in declaration of independence from some squares and parks, his fea- Moscow by unveiling a giant tures taking on a faintly Oriental bronze statue of Persian poet look as if to bridge the gap bet- Ferdowsi in Dushanbe's Free- ween Tajikistan's Asiatic people dom Square -- on the very spot and their form rulers. where a statue of Lenin once stood. Eight metreet high and car- at men with hot summer days drin- after 50 or 60 years, they say. king green tea and playing cards For now, the top political prio- shaded cafes called rity is ending what the gover- chaykhanas. nment calls "fratricie south of the country between fighters of the Kulyab and Kurgan-Tyube regions. The capital's most impressive building is its newly-built mos- que, richly decorated with blue and green tiles and dominated by Local leaders say hundreds of a turquoise-domed minaret from people have died in weeks of clas- which the morning call to prayer hes between pro and anti Na- floats acroty. biyev clans who smuggle guns ac- Some Western analysts fear ross the Afghan border to fuel the Tajikistan, the poorest and most fighti. Persian Music conservative of the former Soviet "The old system is on the way The yellow taxis in the streets republics, could swing towards down, but we have nothing new Iraqi re-entry to the world market might require others in OPEC take pro-rata cuts in their quotas to avoid a new glut. A stone's throw away, three "Iran is arguing hard for a ma- CIS tanks stood with their engi- jor adjustment to its quota in or- nes roaring and guns pointing der to boost its share of the total," straight at the three-storey glass said Paris-based consultancy and concrete building. Cambridge Energy Research As- Inside, opposition gunmen sociates (CERA). were holding airport employees "But this is more of longer- hostage with automatic rifles The Venezuelan Oil Minister, term bargaining position... At and hand grenades. Alirio Parra, has given a warning Next week's meeting it is very The tense three-hour standoff about that recession in the Uni- possible they will drop their on September 7 ended when Ta- ted States and Europe is crim- demands. jik President Rakhmon Nabiyev, rying a flaming torch in his left are like those in Moscow, except Iranian-style Islamic fundamen- in its place. That's why we have ping demand for petroleum. The dispute between Iran and trapped in an adjacent VIP lou- hand, the forbidding, bearded fi- the drivers wear embroidered talism, especially after the remo- this fighting, this fratricide," Parra said OPEC would need the Gulf Arabs over Abu Mared nge, resignation statement after gure personifies Tajikistan's re- green Islamic skullcaps and play val of Nabiyev. to show "moderation, caution and up last week. heavy pressure from opposition turn to its traditional Persian languid Persian music on their "If they try to impose an Isla- says a former government dicsipline". He also sugested that Iran has asserted rights over leaders. and Islamic roots after seven de- radios as they race along, spitting mic Republic here, there will be "The republic has the poten- its output for October-Desember to the island over which it has Nabiyev, an old guard Com- cades of Communist rule. out of the window regular was worse than in Afghanistan," tiale of the strongest, economi- should be around 24.7 million shared control under a 1971 munist who was elected presi- In Dushanbe, 3,000 km (75 mi- intervals. says a trader in his twenties. barrels daily. cally, but it depends on the politi- agreement with the United Arab dent last year, told Reuters on les) from Moscow and just 160 km Markets selling everything Government officials and Mos- cal situation... We are busy kil- Analysts said an accord which Emirates, an Aráb OPEC produ- Friday that he had been forced to (100 miles) from the Afghan bor- from potatoes to pearls and silk lem lea Western concern is mis- ling each other, so we are set individual supply quotas to cer and Saudi ally. step down at gunpoint, and Taji- der, Soviet and Moslem cultures are thronged by bearded, turba- placed. Soviet rule has all but destroying what we have." achieve a total volume of that le- Iran has told the Gulf states in- kistan was now under the in- collide everywhere. ned elders and women wearing destroyed Islam's traditional vel would at least on paper terfering. fluence of Islamic militants. Above the Supreme Soviet or long, brightly-coloured dresses base here and an Islamic state, if balance the market. He was not the only Soviet-era parliament building, the red, 'over vivid striped trousers. Old possible at all, could happen only Nicholas Moore.. minister. 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