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26 OKTOBER 1992 lak ndaki agar masyara- nesia menjadi masya- mg Pancasilais. Ini se- akan dapat terwujud para pemimpin dalam kat kita dapat mem- contoh-contoh dalam. man nilia-nilai religius, pat dan benar dengan- erukunan dalam ber- enuh ukhuwwah Isla- Katanya. dan tanggung jawab, akan semakin menon- ma masa depan negara sa terletak di tangan Baik buruknya ne- bangsa masa depan, tanggung jawab a tugas-tugas akan le- ak berada di tangan muda, maka keta- analisis terhadap -masalah bangsa enyiapkan diri dari erasi muda sangat di- untuk menjawab masalah tersebut. menghadapi era le-o as 25 tahun menda- dapat dihindari akan ergeseran-pergeseran i kehidupan. Karena nghimbau kepada se- nerasi muda, pelajar asiswa agar memper- iri secara berkualitas enerima estafet kepe- n dan tanggung jawab. atang dengan ketang- ekuatan serta ketah- alam menjalankan gas pembangunan di- Ketinggian iman dan pada Allah. (*) atatan memang menimbulkan da tanya! 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Dalam dupliknya msipnya tergugat me- No. bahwa tergugat tetap jawaban X/1992 tanggal 26 Sep- 992. ergugat membacakan a, majelis hakim mem- esempatan kepada pi- gugat untuk mengaju- i-bukti dan saksi. Ka- um siap, penggugat vaktu hingga Senin ntuk menyiapkan saksi Ei-bukti. Namun sebe- mg ditutup, Husny me- an selembar bukti per- udukan kuasa hukum Hamdan Daulay, S.H., status PNS d Kanwil PU lam repliknya terda- sny mohon kepada ma- im agar diadakan pu- ggapi hal ini majelis pat bahwa pengadilan lini tidak berhak me- m. "Karena penggugat an keberatan akan ke- kuasa hukum tergugat dalam pokok perkara, alam replik," jelasnya. u lanjut ketua majelis, han penggugat akan di- bersamaan dengan pu- kim. (063). at Wahyanto DES NEWS MAKER Ross Perot and Spouse. Perot Says He Quit In July Because Of Threats TEXAS billionaire Ross Perot, whose independent presidential bid has been gaining strength, has said in an inter- view he dropped out of the race in July because of threatened dirty tricks from the Bush campaign, CBS television said on Sun- day. The statement, disclosed in a pre-broadcast news release by CBS early on Sunday, could send another Perot shockwave through the 1992 presidential campaign. Perot, whose standing in the polls has risen faster in recent days than that of Democrat front-runner Bill Clinton or Presi- dent George Bush, has been hurt by dismay among his army of supporters caused by his July 16 withdrawal from the race. Perot's statement, to be aired on CBS's "60 Minutes" pro- gramme on Sunday night, could do much to assuage the hard feelings of millions of discontented voters who felt they were hoodwinked by Perot when he dropped out after promising to put on a "world-class" campaign. According to the CBS news release, Perot said he was told by a high Republican friend, whom he refused to name, that the Bush campaign had used a computer to doctor a picture of his daughter Caroline that would have embarrassed her and the family. Perot told CBS that he never saw the picture but was also told that there were plans to disrupt his daughter's August wedding and to wiretap his Dallas business office telephone lines. Perot has previously accused Republicans of trying to smear him. A barrage of Republican attacks last spring, including an allegation that he had Bush's children investigated, severely da- maged his grassroots backing. Many of Perot's allegations have proved to be impossible to confirm independently. The computer tycoon, who re-entered the presidential race on October 1, also said he got a telephone call from Bush on the day he dropped out, according to CBS. He said Bush suggested they have a meeting, but when Perot sent a message to the White House that the alleged dirty tricks would be discussed in the meeting, the meeting was cancelled. Perot was due on Sunday to make his first campaign trip since re-entering the race with rallies in New Jersey and Pennsylva- nia. (Reuter). OPEL Steffi Graft. Graf Overcomes Huber To Reach Final STEFFI Graft snuffed out spirited resistance from young German compatriot Anke Huber to reach her sixth final in seven years at the Brighton women's indoor tennis championship on Saturday. The world number two chalked up her 29th successive victory in the event 7-5 6-2 but not before Huber had given her a severe test in the first set. Huber, demolilshed by her illustrious compatriot in their three previous meetings, proved a different proposition on this occa- sion. After dropping the opening two games, she broke twice to lead 3-2, but Graft weathered the storm to level at 3-3 and grabbed the set when Huber drove a forehand over the baseline. The 17-year-old, dubbed "the next Steffi" in some quarters, broke Graf at the start of the second set, but the top seed then took command, reeling off six of the next seven games to take the match in 70 minutes. Graf, who had played brilliantly when crushing American Lori McNeil in the quarter-finals, was critical of her performance, awarding herself only "five out of 10". "One day I can play such great tennis and the next day it does not work so good," sighed the 23-year-old defending champion. (Reuter). Nigeria Reinforces SENIN, 26 OKTOBER 1992 MILIK MONUMEN PERS ASIONAL Bali Post Poles Seek Whole Truth About Russian Role Warsaw- The release of Soviet Communist Party documents proving Josef Stalin ordered the war- time massacre of 15,000 Polish officers has raised hopes that Moscow will tell the truth about other dark secrets from the past. A Russian envoy gave Polish President Lech Walesa docu- ments this month showing that dictator Stalin ordered Soviet NKVD security police in 1940 to execute the officers, including 4,000 in Katyn forest near Smolensk. The documents told Poles little new about an incident long seen as a symbol of Soviet oppression," but they have closed a difficult chapter in relations. "Even though the Polish people have always known thw real na- mes bihind the crime, the disclo- sure creates a new moral situa- tion in Polish-Russian relations," the Sejm, Poland's lower house of parliament, said in a statement. "The full truth must be revea- led, crimes must be punished and harm must be redressed." Poles, whho ousted their Com- munist rulers in 1989, want So- viet Communist Party archives opened on their "blank spots" in history such as the 1939 agree- ment between Russia and Ger- many to carve up Poland. They want to know about the Soviet role in the imposition of martial law in 1981 by Poland's former Communist ruler General Wojciech jaruzelski to crush the Solidarity trade union. They also want to know how much Moscow knew about the murder of pro-Solidarity priest Jerzy Popieluszko by Polish secu- rity police in 1984. Soviet officials including Ru- dolf Pikhoya, who delivered the document to Walesa on behalf of Russian President Boris Yeltsin, have hinted that Moscow will re- lease other secret documents on events in Polish-Soviet history. "The release of the documents on the Katyn crime and close re- lations with President Yeltsin show that in the near future we will have access to Soviet archi- ves dealing with Poland's recent history," said Andrzej Drzycim- ski, Walesa's spokesman. In return, he said, Russia wan- ted to see a list of Russians captu- red in 1920 when Poland repelled a Soviet invasion. The Katyn massacre happe- ned after the officers were inter- ned on Polish soil captured by the Soviet Union at the start of World War Two. For many Poles it has been the main cause of mistrust of the Soviet Union. Moscow long blamed the kil- lings on Nazi Germans, and ad- mitted responsibility only in 1990. The papers released by Yeltsin show that all Soviet party chiefs hid the truth, although Mikhail Gorbachev says he saw the order signed by Stalin only as he was leaving office. The main document is an order by the ruling Communist polit- buro on March 5, 1940, for the NKVD to execute 11,000 captu- red Polish civilians and 14,700 of- ficers including 295 generals and colonels and more than 2,000 captains and majors. English Corner Katyn were conducting a delibe- rate campaign of distortion. In 1976, a document signed by party leader Yuri Andropov accu- sed the West of interpreting Ka- tyn like Adolf Hitler's propa- ganda chief Josef Goebbels, who used the incident as one of the justifications for trying to defeat the Soviet Union. But by March 1989 the polit- buro had already called for a new line and some top officials wan- ted the truth to come out. "It is not ruled out that it would be more advisable to ex- plain how it really was and who bears responsibility and con- clude the issue," said a document signed by then Soviet foreign mi- nister Eduard Shevardnadze. A secret annexe to the pact set out spheres in influence in Po- land under an agreement which vasion by Nazi Germany and the led to an almost simultaneous in- Soviet Union in September 1939. Details about how much Soviet party leaders were involved or knew about the declaration of martial law in Poland in Decem- ber 1981 also remain hazy. Disclosures about the death for Popieluszko, whose tortured body was found bound and gag- AKIHITO - Japanese Emperor Akihito and his wife Empress Mic- hiko peek into the private quarters of China's last emperor during a Halaman 5 Bali Post/Reuter. tour of the Forbidden City October 25. The Emperor leaves Beijing for the southern city of Xian today. Akihito Meets Brother Of China's Last Emperor Beijing- The order was signed by lea- ged in a river in October 1984, met the 86-year-old brother of ders including Stalin, NKVD would be particularly partinent. chief Lavrenti Beria and Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov. Teeppers show how party chiefs from Nikita Khrushchev to Gorbachev reviewed the case and continued to conceal the truth. One show that in 1971, Fo- reign Minister Andrei Gromyko told the politburo that English historians who blamed Stalin for Four security policemen were jailed for the murder, but two more are now on trial on charges of conspiring to kill Popieluszko. General Czeslaw Kiszczak, then the interior minister, has said the murder was part of a plot to oust Jaruzelski and hinted that unscified foreign secret ser- vices were involved. (Reuter) France's First Lady Recounts Lifelong Struggle For Justice Paris- France's First Lady Danielle Mitterrand was denied a sweet as a schoolgirl, and that simple inci- dent may have launched her on a lifelong struggle for justice and human rights. She did not get the "bonbon" she was due as the best pupil be- cause her father was a free- thinker in a small Breton town dominated by a bourgeoisie stee- ped in rigid Roman Catholic con- servatism. "What a drama for a six-year- old girl. It was only much later that I realised the target was my father," the wife of President Francois Mitterrand recounts in her just-published memories "La Levure Du Pain" (The Bread's Yeast). "I condemn injustice.... (why) have we not advanced on the road to tolerance?" Mitterrand, still youthful looking and energetic at nearly 68, people are still exclu- ded or persecuted for their opi- nions. Her quest for justice and at- tempts to alleviate suffering have made a popular public fi- gure -- more popular these days than her husband, whose politi- cal fortunes are at low ebb. She is a permanent thorn in the side of the foreign ministry because some of the causes she champions clash with the gover- nment's "realpolitic". She has also drawn Washington's wrath for backing Latin American lef- tists, especially in El Salvador. Japanese Emperor Akihito China's last emperor in Beijing on Sunday -- the man who was part of Japan's grand wartime design to expand a puppet empire in northeast China. Pu Jie, wearing a dark high- collared Mao suit in the style be- loved of Chinese communist bu- reaucrats, bowed when he met Akihito, the first Japanese mo- narch ever to visit China. revered as a living god by the Im- perial troops who invaded much of China in the 1930s and 40s. The emperor asked during a tour of the imperial sleeping quarters whether empresses slept in a separate room, repor- in attendance Later, the couple blushed as they were shown the special chamber where the emperor and his new empress were said to have spent their wedding night. Akihito and Michiko stopped to chat with gawking Chinese bystanders as they returned to in the back garden, asking them if they visited the palace often. Chinese plain-clothes security police kept close check on strag- glers surrounding the imperial party. Security has been tight throughout the visit, the first by a Japanese emperor in 2,000 years of contact between the two countries. Chinese viewers were remin- ded on Sunday night of their country's suffering at the hands of Japan's imperial troops by a programme on state television depicting Japanese soldiers bayoneting prisoners-of-war they had hung upside down. Chinese activists had deman- ded apologise for Japan's war- time atrocities in China. No for- but Akihito did say he deeply de- plored the suffering inflicted on China by his people. nue their exploration of China's cultural heritage after leaving Beijing on Sunday afternoon for Zian, China's ancient capital. But observers were mystified that they will not visit one of the country's primier attractions, the life-sized army of terracotta war- riors buried in the tomb of China's first emperor. Japanese officials say Aki- hito's tight schedule, made in consultation with Beijing, does not allow him to visit the site an hour's drive from tyhe city. The Chinese say the schedule was "I said today is one of the hap- their limousines after a brief rest mal apology was forthcoming drawn up according to Japanese piest days for the Chinese peo- ple," Pu Jie told reporters. Schooled in Japan and mar- ried to a member of its aristoc- racy, Pu Jie became heir- apparent to the Japanese puppet-state of Manchukuo in northeast China, where his chil- dless brother Pu Yi was installed as "emperor" in 1935. Her then newly-created read: "... I have AIDS, I didn't de- human rights foundation, serve this but it doesn't matter. France-Libertes, caused a furore From the anguish I feel as days go Manchukuo crumbled when in South Africa in 1987 by spon- by, let me say: please do not let us Japan was beaten at the end of soring an unprecedented semi- down." World War Two. The two brot- nar bringing together white libe- hers were taken prisoner as trai- There are humorous passages rals and members of the outla- in the book, too. Madame Mitter- tors to China's new communist wed African National Congress. rand tells of her first visit, just af- government, and "re-educated" Her support for refugees in the ter World War Two, to the Elysee before their release in 1959. Pu Western Sahara caused such presidential place for a reception anger in Morocco, which claims for wives and children of newly- the territory, that Foreign Minis- appointed cabinet members. ter Roland Dumas was sent espe- Francois Mitterrand, barely cially to soothe King Hassan. aged 30, was one of the cabinet's "I don't think I am a bother to my husband," she writes. "One has to have a goal in life and my parents taught me that it is un- comfortable to live comfortably when others live in misery. One incident she does not re- count was an apparent assassi- nation attempt this year when a powerful bomb exploded near her car in Iraqi Kurdistan, killing three local residents. French security officers bla- med Iraqi agents, furious at her attempts to draw world attention to the plight of Kurds. youngest members and Danielle, then 21 or 22, looked years you- nger than her age. "The major-domo at the en- trance looked at me and said Mademoiselle, whose daughter are you please?" "When I replied that I was the daughter of Mr Gouze (her mai- den name), he looked puzzled and said there was no minister called Gouze. "I know, but he's not a member of the government. My husband Francois is the minister," she said. Earlier in the day, Akihito and Empress Michiko toured Bei- jing's Forbidden City, home to Pu Yi before he was toppled from his wishes. Akihito and Michiko will travel from Xian to Shanghai, China's biggest city, before returning to The imperial party will conti- Tokyo on Wednesday. (Rtr). Political Will Need To Create A Better Economic System death and disability, we would la- ment the terrible loss of some 13 million children worldwide each year without raising moral issues or awkward questions about ac- countability, "he added. Denpasar (Bali Post) - group or sub-region, have a brig- vive and grow to his or her poten- ASEAN countries have to hter outlook than most of the tial. If we do not know how to pre- create the political will that is world's children, he didn't sa- vent or treat the infectious and Yi died of cancer in 1967. needed to create national econo- tisfy. He is concerned with the malnutrition causing most child Akihito, 58, and Pu Jie, who mic systems which will provide condition of the children in this have met before in Tokyo talked greater social equality for those region that according to him is about Beijing's brisk autumn most at risk children and women. still badly needed to be improved. weather and the need to wear ex- Despite the advances of this re- In Reid's mind, ASEAN must tra clothing. gion, close to 700 thousand chil- be aware of sharp disparities bet- dren under the age of five die in ween and within the nations-di- sparities in income, between men the ASEAN countries. Director of Division of Public and women, between urban and Affairs of UNICEF, Mr. Richard rural areas, and in terms of acces Reid said on 6th ASEAN Pedia- to basic health services, safe wa- tric Federation Conference that ter and sanitation. "More than was closed yesterday. half the population in Philipines Reid on his scientific paper tit- and almost 40% of the Indone- led The Right of the Child, Pre- sian population live under the po- sent Status & Immediate Future, verty line. Rapid urbanization Global Perspective' admired the has resulted in large increases in in UNICEF's group of high mor- economic growth countries achie- a street children, child labour, tality countries and in UNDP's ved by the member of ASEAN. He child prostitution, child abuse low human development cate- was proud the dramatic progress and child neglect." gory, Indonesia too, is making this region have made toward In that occassion, he also as- considerable progress and we universal children immunization ked pediatricians giving more at- fully expect it to catch up in key (UCI). Although children in tention to child's life-saving. social indicators within the de- ASEAN countries, taken as a "Every child has a right to sur- cade, "Reid hoped. (to). throne in 1911. Akihito, dressed in a grey wes- tern suit, and his wife, wearing a delicate ivory silk kimono, visited the outer halls and the inner li- ving quarters of past Chinese emperors. The couple, accompanied by an Her book recounts difficulties Danielle Mitterrand is not a entourage of aides, police and with well-meaning security men run-of-the-mill politician's wife. journalists, smiled, nodded and who tried to shoo her away from a If you doubt that, listen to her marvelled as they were shown particularly miserable slum in ideas on how to organise France's the splendour in which Chinese Rio de Janeiro. grandiose annual July 14 Bas- royalty and their hundreds of tille Day military parade. concubines lived and played. "What if the planes of the Air Force aerobatics team drew the grandeur of the Chinese imperial The lacqyered and cloisonned words "Thou shalt not kill' in the style was in stark contrast to the sky in large plumes of blue, white austere and even severe elegance and red smoke?" she asks. of Japan's royal abode. Akihito's father, Hirohito, was She has travelled the world in her efforts to set up schools and clinics for the poor and oppres- sed. Recently she turned her at- tention to helping AIDS victims at home. It happened after she received an anonymous postrcard that (Reuter). Liberia Contingent Royal Opera House Faces Lagos- Nigeria has rushed troops, air- craft and ammunition to rein- force its military contingent in Liberia following attacks on Monrovia by rebels led by Char les Taylor, Lagos-based Western diplomats said on Saturday. "I don't think they are going to let Taylor rub their noses in it. They are going to do everything they can," one diplomat said. Officials have made no public comment on the fighting, which the sources said coincided with the arrival in Monrovia of Nige- rian Major-General Adetunji Olurin, new field commander of the West African force that has been in Liberia since 1990. Nigerian troops form the bulk believed to be among its only ser- viceable combat planes, Western mililtary sources said. Its Worst Financial Crisis They said all 18 of Nigeria's Ja- guar fighters and most of its 29 Soviet-designed MiG-21s were London- not in flying condition. tory. Britain's premier opera com- Last season was a big artistic cent of its revenue. On that conference, Reid also gave the report of UNICEF to ASEAN. According to UNICEF's ranking system, Brunei, Malay- sia, Philipines, Singapore and Thailand are now among the countries with low and medium levels of under-five mortality. "Although Indonesia is currently Fighting Flares In Tajik Capital-Interfax Moscow- Fierce clashes erupted in the Tajik capital Dushanbe on Satur- day evening, hours after suppor- ters of ousted President Rakh- mon Nabiyev seized control of the city centre, Interfax news agency reported. ting President Akbarsho Iskan- kandarov signed a decree impo- darov to stay in his post. He said Iskandarov, who had headed an uneasy coalition of parliamentary democrats and Moslem radicals since Nabiyev was ousted last month, had taken refuge in the Interior Ministry building and did not respond to the request. sing a state of emergency from midnight on Friday until Ja- nuary 1, 1993. The Kulyab troops also seeing the residence of Tajikistan's Mos- lem leader, Ali-akbr Turanjod- zoda, who Nabiyev supporters ac- cuse of trying to create a funda- mentalist Islamic state. Kenjayev later appeared on Kenjayev told Tajik radio that Tajik television with Kulyab lea- power in May had been grabbed der Rustam Abdurakhimov to by "a puppet government which appeal for calm and said the go- was controlled by Islamic funda- vernment which had been in po- mentalist" which wanted to expel The slide towards chaos has "Fierce clashes between oppo- sing groups are continuing. Shots from grenade launchers, machi- neguns and other firearms can be heard in the city," it said. Nabiyev looked to have secu- gest chunk of money given to any red a dramatic return to power A drama as intense and impas- hit while the present one got com- Five ago government Nigeria has also suffered troop sioned as anything seen on its pany's production of "Tosca" star- funding covered 60 per cent of the organisation out of the Arts after armed groups from the wer until May would be restored. all non-Tajiks. Council annual budget. But the southern Kulyab region, a bas- A representative of the coun- transport problems following last stage is shaking the prestigious ring Italian tenor Luciano Pava- ROH's expenditure but spiral- ROH has to share the grant with tion of support, stormed parlia- try's security police told Interfax prompted fears in western capi- month's crash in Lagos of an air Royal Opera House in the heart rotti. ling production costs have now two ballet troupes, leaving the ment and the presidential palace the body would continue to be su- tals--and in Moscow -- that Taji- force C-130 Hercules that killed of London's theatreland as it con- But the goings-on offstage left the company short of cash. opera company only 8.5 million in a dawn raid. bordinate to Iskandarov and kistan, which has ethnic and li- some 163 officers and possibly up fronts the worst crisis in its his- have drawn sharp criticism. With only two corporate spon- pounds ($14.7 million). But Interfax said earlier that would defend its headquarters if nguistic links to neighbouring to 37 other people. An independent report com- sors coming forward to support ROH director Jeremy Isaacs forces still loyal to acting Presi- attacked. Iran, could swing towards Isla- missioned by the government's the present season, the ROH is has been an outspoken critic of dent Akbarsho Iskandarov were If Nabiyev does take up the mic fundamentalism, although art-funding body the Arts Coun- having to rely on high ticket pri- the government's funding policy regrouping in the town of Kofar controls again it will be his se- the leadership which ousted Na- cil, pinpointed what had led to ces to survive, going against the and has courted more contro- nikhon, some 30 km (20 miles) cond return to power in little over biyev consistently denied this the current crisis: "The disrepair government's policy of making versy by committing the opera east of Dushanbe, raising the a year. was the cace. of the buildings.... an accumula- subsidised arts organisations ea- house to modernise its antiqua- prospect of further bloodshed. The fighting reflects the politi- Moscow, worried about the se- ted deficit.... and the perfor- sily accessible to the public. ted backstage area at a cost of 250 Hundreds of people in Taji- cal instability afflicting many curity of its southern borders, is mance of the ROH management. Average seat prices for the million pounds ($436 million). kistan have died in battles bet- southern republics which were likely to wait to see whether or "It is the team's view that the opera are nearly 50 pounds ($85), The report into the ROH had re- ween Nabiyev supporters and op- plunged into independence in the der is restored before officially financial crisis could have been with even a place high up in "the commended shelving the ponents since May, when the wake of a failed hard-line coup in reacting to the latest news. avoided. The tendency has been gods"-- the seating furthest away scheme. impoverished republic began its Moscow last year. Although dealing with an old- headlong descent into anarchy. Diplomats said Russian armed style communist leader could be Close Nabiyev ally and former forces had deployed in the streets politically embarrassing for Rus- parliamentary speaker Safarali of the capital, but had taken no sia's democratic government, it Kenjayev told Interfax that the part in the fighting. might relieve some of the pres- parliament's leadership would be Tass said units of the Russian sure on Russian President Boris reconvened under Nabiyev's con- 201st motorised infantry division Yeltsin from his conservative trol. took control of the airport and te- parliament. He told Itar-Tass news agency levision centre overnight after a Deputies, concerned by what kistan's former communist lea- that supporters of Nabiyev. Taji- request by the Tajik government, they see as indifference towards Division commander Colonel the fate of ethnic Russians out- der, wanted to convene a special Svyatoslav Habzdorov told Inter- side the republic, might well session of parliament. fax that his troops would not fun- greet the move on the grounds "We are not claiming power ction as a buffer between the two that Nabiyev would be more li- we came here to end the blood- battling sides. kely to protect their rights than shed and restore law and order," The attack on parliament oc- the government which ousted (Reuter). he said, adding he had asked ac- curred just a few hours after Is- him. (Reuter) The crash left only one of the country's remaining eight C-130s pany, which acts as a magnet to operational, the sources said. the rich and famous, is broke, di- Newspapers have reported lapidated and blaming the gover- troops being sent to Liberia in ci- nment for its woes. vil planes in the past month. Running a deficit of four mil- The diplomatic sources, mean- lion pounds ($6.8 million), the while, said military President company cannot survive on state of the six-nation ECOMOG force Ibrahim Babangida earmarked funding alone. It is struggling to in Liberia. At the begining of this an extra 250 million naira ($12.8 find sponsors and having to month, there were some 4.450 million) for Nigeria's ECOMOG charge astronomical ticket prices Nigerians in the estimated contingent last month. 8,250-strong force, the sources said. to decide what was artistically from the stage costing 27.5 Morale among ROH staff is in an attempt to make ends meet. right first and to count cost la- pounds ($46). Top tickets to see said to be at a low ebb, with an The extra cash had been The government, which bla- ter." Pavorotti in "Tosca" were 250 enforced pay freeze and manage- mes bad management, is worried The Royal Opera House and its pounds ($426). Some of the estimated 800 Ni- in Monrovia two day who arrived that Britain's flagship arts orga- sister company the Royal Ballet ment seeking 70 redundancies. ago to suc- nisation has become too elitist. The ROH argues it has been A strike by the orchestra last gerian soldiers in Sierra Leone ceed Major-General Ishaya Ba- were given a permanent home in forced to raise prices to counter year cost the ROH 600,000 were sent to Liberia in the past kut, another Nigerian, the sour becomes ghettoised among the don in 1946. "Art is not going to flourish if it the Covent Garden area of Lon- government underfunding. I pounds ($1 million, and there is two days and two battalions to- ces said. says it is the only European opera talk of further strike action. talling about 1,500 men are on super rich," said David Mellor The company established an house that has to earn more from They said the plane that shortly before a sex scandal for international reputation, attrac- the box office than from public Stirling: "It is no exaggeration to Said ROH chairman Angus standby at home, they said. The sources said Nigeria sent arrived in Liberia to take Bakut ced him to quit his job as Britain's ting famous stars and drawing grants. say that the survival of our com- two more AlphaJets to the region out was loaded with ammunition culture minister. glittering audiences. For the 1992/93 season the panies.... is now in jeopardy un- this week, bringing the total for the contingent's 105 mm artil- But despite its wealthy sup- Arts Council gave the ROH less we are helped very soon by lery batteries, 106 mm anti-tank very future is in doubt, the Royal porters the opera house is a pub- nearly 19 million pounds ($32.4 the government." Nigeria has 22 AlphaJet guns, 81 mm mortar launchers Opera House is enjoying enor- licly funded operation depending million). fighter-ground attack aircraft, and rifles. (Reuter). there to eight. Ironically at a time when its mous critical acclaim. on government grants for 40 per This represents the single big- Color Rendition Chart 2cm