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193 NEWS MAKER Thorvald Stoltenberg Agrees To Take Vance's Yugoslavia Job WORWAY'S Foreign Minister Thorvald Stoltenberg aqreed on Friday to take over from Cyrus Vance as United Nations peace mediator in former Yugoslavia -- a task described by Vance as one of the toughest in the world. Stoltenberq, a popular 61-year-old career diplomat with long experience in the United Nations, said he would probably take up the U.N.job at the end of April, based in Geneva. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali offered Stol- tenberg the post in New York on Wendesday. Vance, aged 76 and a former U.S. secretary of state, said it was time to step down and spend more time with his family. Primer Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, on the brink of tears as she announced Stoltenberg's departure after a cabinet mee- ting in the royal palace, said she had not tried to persuade him to stay on. "When Thorvald has been appointed to something so impor- tant for all of us, then it's not a difficult choice to take, neither for Thorvald nor me," she said. She said Norway's problems were insignificant compared with the fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Yugoslav conflict in the worst in Europe since World War Two. Brundtland said Defence Minister Johan Joergen Holst, 55, was taking over as foreign minister, with immediate effect. Joergen Kosmo, a former construction worker and now head of parliament's Justice Commitee, would become defence minister. Stoltenberg, who worked as a diplomat in Belgrade from 1961 to 1964 and says he still speaks rusty Serbo Croat, declined to say how he might help efforts to bring peace. (Reuter). MINGGU, 4 APRIL 1993 Bali Post English Corner Some Light On "Nyepi" IT is approaching night. The sound of fireworks can be heard. Sometimes their boom is far-away and sometimes the staccato sting of their sound is close-by. On such occasions the mind be- gins to understand a little of how it might feel to live in one of the war zones of the world. The sound could easily be gunfire and mor- tars. The result might then be destruction and death. At twilight, children are let- ting off fireworks by the side of the road. I ride my bicycle through their midst. I hope and pray that the fireworks will not explode at the moment I am pas- sing. They don't. I am past the imagined danger. "This time, I have lived", I think, as I pedal along the now quiet road. Was it like this in Vietnam or Beirut or Yugoslavia? How many humans did not come through to the other side? People seem to be able to adapt to almost anything. The dark of night closes in. The sound continues until sleep soot- hes and finally blanks the con- sciousness. The world of dreams. The morning begins with the birds of first light. A loud and beautiful mixture of songs and voices from the trees around my room. The still and peace of that moment of warmth which seems to be held over from the night air, is all pervading. Slowly the mind begins to fo- cus. The sounds, the warmth, fol- lowed by the chill of dawn, the ever-increasing light. Silhouet- tes on the horizon, are enlighte- ned slowly by the sun and defined for what they are. Different Day The sounds of running water, toothpaste, soap and a freshness of the skin, herald the new day. A somewhat different day. As far as one can see no-one moves. As far as one can hear, nothing sounds. The roads and streets are deserted. Nothing moves except the eyes, as they try to comprehend such a day. The day grows and continues but the only sounds are those of nature and the only mo- vement is caused naturally. As the day progresses nothing changes. Quietness reigns eter- nal. Nothing man-made moves, People have often dreamed of such peace but where else is it possible? I had found myself in Indone- sia on the Hindu island of Bali, for the Balinese New Year cele- brations. The day is known as Nyepi. Nyepi is a total day of quiet- ness. Only religion could proc- laim such a day. The strength of religion in Bali is such that no- one breaks the rules of Nyepi. There will be minimal sound, mi- nimal light, no fire, no cooking and little or no food. Time might best be given to meditation and fasting but might also be given over to sleep and regeneration. Strangely, desires vanish on that day, Nyepi is a day when heavy smokers abstain from ciga- rettes, gluttons go without food, nymphomaniacs remain celibate and musicians refrain from prac- tising. Just as it is a day for the earth to rest, it is a moment for the human body to be conscious of it's other self. The symphony of the birds be- comes the loudest thing in the world. The dogs stop barking, the geese stop squawking and the roosters stop crowing. They also seem to sense the change. It is as if their owners had warned them and this is their one day of the year for being obedient. I am told that the Balinese see the world as being made of good and evil spirits. Their life is about balancing these Yin and Yang type forces, so that human life will also maintain balance. The noises on the night before, while perhaps expelling some of the more drastic spirits, also excite the imagination of others who want to look more closely at the source of such an unusual cacop- hony of sound. The day of Nyepi is the time when these dangerous spirits are said to make their inspection. As all is quiet everywhere, they are convinced that there is no reason to visit this island again as the kind of havoc they like to produce needs active people. Therefore the New Year begins cleanly. If Nyepi is successful the forces of evil will not be around for a while, as they have gone eslewhere to look for greener pastures. Total Participation In Bali the total population of the island takes part as one, in beginning the New Year. How di- fferent is this attitude from that of our western New Year's resolu- tions for each individual? Sunset comes and twilight merges into night. There are no lights. Not anywhere. The dar- kness is complete but strangely you can still see clearly. The fire- flies are flickering their lights over the rice-fileds. How bright they are. Above them are the stars which shine with a totally new radiance. Layers of the uni- verse, which were not there last night, seem to have filled with stars. The cycle ends again in sleep. The next morning is just another day. Roosters crow, cars whiz-by, dogs bark, people laugh and shout, run and play and break- fast in haste, as they rush to anot- her day at the office where the phones will ring and the faxes will fly. Nyepi has passed for another year. Did it really happen? Yes. Its beauty is still a part of every body which was privileged to take part in it. I thank the Bali- nese for having me as their guest on such special day. (Nino S). French Power-sharing Makes Cool But Courteous Start ng- rer- itu. Paris - en- nat rja bila rat KP ogi gu- bila er- ena or- er- on, ipu pu tim lo- au- rak la- lek tas an ini gsi pai ski do- up ng an France's second experience of power-sharing got off to a busi- nesslike start on Friday, with So- cialist President Francois Mit- terrand and his conservative go- Edouard Balladur c vernment coming face to face coolly but courteously. As Prime Minister Edouard Balladur came out of the first ca- binet meeting since last Sunday's centre-right election landslide, there was no sign of the icy ten- sion that surrounded the first Left-Right "cohabitation" bet- ween 1986 and 1988. "It was pleasant," Balladur told reporters. Mitterrand, 76, faced Balla- dur, 63, across the oval cabinet table with'a double-faced clock between them. Mitterrand drum- med his fingers irritably on the table as the press cameras flashed. "You are here, we are here at the service of the Republic and France because the people so de- cided," Mitterrand was quoted as telling the ministers at the start of the 45-minute meeting at the presidential Elysee Palace. "The best thing is to get on with the work at once." RADIO MENARA Jl. Sulawesi 51 Government spokesman Nico- las Sarkozy said the 30-member cabinet felt the same way. "We will work rapidly, but pro- ceeding calmly," Sarkozy told re- porters. "We don't want to make a show of needless tension. But, as in the first cohabita- tion, there were separate brie- fings for reporter and no "family" picture of the president and the government on the Elysee lawn. "What family? Mitterrand was reported to have said in 1986 af- ter his first cabinet meeting with Jacques Chirac, now the front- runner for the 1995 presidential election. Swift Action Sarkozy promised swift action to try revive the economy and check unemployment -- both elec- tion platform priorities -- saying a group of French and internatio- nal experts had been entrusted with reviewing all possible ways of creating jobs. Phone (0361): 26979 - 23959 DENPASAR BALI MENARA F.M. Stereo 105.800 mhz Radio yg punya Citra dan Khas tersendiri He said the government would present a bill to save 20 billion francs ($3.6 billion) on this year's budget in order to cut payroll charges to give companies a shot in the arm. In a sign of the belt-tightening measures ordered by Balladur to cut government spending, some ministers shared chauffeur- driven cars and some walked to the cabient meeting. Balladur asked for full reports on immigration, security, fis- hing, agriculture and social issues. He also asked ministers to pre- pare reports on the GATT trade talks, potentially the first major crisis facing his government which has vowed to veto a crucial farm trade deal between the Eu- ropean Community and the Uni- ted States. Understanding Foreign Minister Alain Juppe told British counterpart Douglas Hurd on Friday that Paris hoped for some understanding from its EC partners. France says the EC-U.S. deal puts unacceptable strain on its farmers. Balldur said he would gather ministers without Mitterrand every Tuesday on the eve of the weekly cabinet meeting, but took pains to say this was not meant to be a snub. The newly-elected National Assembly, where the centre- right occupies 80 per centoo eets, was convening later to elect its speaker. The vote was set to ex- pose underlying tensions in the ruling Union for France (UPF) coalition. Anti-Maastricht campaigner Philippe Seguin, the candidate for the coalition's senior partner the Rally for the Republic (RPR), was favourite to win the vote. But its centrist ally the Union for French Democracy (UDF) ob- jected to an anti-European hea- ding the assembly and said it should get the post since the RPR held the premiership. (Reuter). NGUDIANG TUMBEN SIEP DANGLEK GUMINE, BLI? TUSING TAWANG NYAI ANAK NYEPI, MAKE DANG MANUSANE PATUT MAYOGA, NGERASTITIANG DAGATE, APANG TUSING CARA DI BOSNIA, PRAGAT PERANG! 1. Mengapa dunia baru kali ini sangat sepi, Kak? 2. Apa Kau tak mengetahui hari ini Hari Nyepi, sewaktu manusia sepatutnya beryoga, mendoakan agar dunia ini tidak mengalami apa yang diderita Bosnia, di sana perang melulu yang berkecamuk! fadha Halaman 9 Queen Still Richest Briton London- Queen Elizabeth, set to pay in- come this year for the first time, remains Britain's richest person, a survey said in Friday. The Sunday Times newspaper said its annual survey of Bri- tain's 400 richest people showed the Gueen stil topped the list, al- though the monarch's estate dropped in value to an estimated 5.0 billion pounds ($7.5 billion) compared with 6.5 billion pounds ($9.8 billion) last year. A spokesman attributed the decline to Britain's sluggish pro- perty and art markets. "It's gene- rally just the prices of land and artefacts she owns going down," he said. The survey, to be published in the paper's colour magazine on Sunday, estimated that the Queen's personal wealth -- on which she will bay tax for the first time this financial year was at least 450 mllion pounds ($680 million). The Queen's concession to be taxed followed what she called an "annus horriblis" (horrible year) marked by marital scandals in- volving her children and a major fire at Windsor Castle, her favou- rite palace west of London. The Queen was one of only 25 women listed in the survey, and one of 182 people listed who inhe- rited their wealth, compared with 218 who made their own money. The highest new entry into the survey, which includes British nationals and people doing busi- ness in Britain, was Hungarian- born financier George Soros. Dubbed "the man who broke the pound", Soros made around one $1 billion by betting against sterling in foreign exchange dea- lings before the pound's sharp de- valuation last September. Soros ranked 11th an estima- ted wealth of 750 million pounds ($1.1 billion). He made headlines earlier this year by donating 32 million pounds (about $48 mil- lion) to humanitarian aid for Bosnia. (Reuter). 1. Why is the world just this time very quiet, My Brother? 2. Don't you know that today is 'Nyepi' holiday, a proper time for human beings to meditate and to pray for world peace so as to avoid continuous war as what has been happening in Bosnia. Polish Church Tries To End Auschwitz Dispute Warsaw- Poland's Roman Catholic Church has renewed efforts to move 14 nuns from a convent at Auschwitz to prevent their pre- sence marring the 50th anniver- sary of a World War Two uprising in Warsaw's Jewish ghetto. The Polish bishop whose di- ocese includes Auschwits, in the town of Oswiecim, said on Friday a new decision had been made to move the nuns as quickly as pos- sible after threats by some Je- wish leaders to boycott anniver- sary ceremonies on April 19. Many Jews around the world The Carmelite nuns reset- tled because they regard the con- vent, attached to the walls of the former Nazi death camp, as an in- want Wujudkan masa depan Anda MELALUI PRODUK-PRODUK ANDALAN KAMI! trusion on the most symvolic of all monuments to the Holocaust in which six million Jews died. "Concrete steps are being un- dertaken for the possibly fast and satisfactory solution of the mat- ter of moving the Carmelite mo- nastery at Oswiecim," Bishop Ta- deusz Rakoczy of the Bielsko- Zywiecka diocese said in a statement. Polish episcopate sources said the decision to end the dispute, which has long been a thorn in re- lations between the Catholic church and Jews, had been han- ded down by the Vatican. The Va- tican did not immediately con- firm the reports. The episcopate sources said the nuns were unlikely to move before Easter, or April 12. Other church sources said their reset- tlement could take weeks. Not Immediately Clear It was not immediately clear if the decision would prevent New York Rabbi Avraham Weiss going ahead with a peaceful pro- test planned at the convent on April 16. Several protesters were beaten by bystanders during a si- milar demonstration in 1989. "We will be at Auschwitz on the 50th anniversary because the nuns are still there," the rabbi said earlier this week, repeating opposition to a large cross in the convent's grounds. "A cross and a convent at Ausc- hwitz are as inappropriate as a synagogue or a large Jewish star ceremonies marking the upri- at St Peter's Square at the Va- sing, which began on April 19 tican," he told Reuters in New when the Nazis tried to wipe out York. the Warsaw ghetto. The Nazis killed an estimated 1.6 million people, most of them Jews, at Auschwitz and the neig- hbouring Birkenau camp. The row over the convent fla- red after the nuns moved into an old theatre and storehouse, thought to have been used to store the Cyclon-8 gas used to kill many of the victims at Ausc- hwitz, to pray for all who died in the death camp. The dispute has in the past ap- peared to have been solved by se- veral agreements, including one to build the nuns a home and move them there by October 1992. New Home For Nuns But although their new home has been completed in a prayer and meeting centre about 300 metres (yards) from the old con- vent, the nuns have not moved. One Polish biship was quoted by the Polish news agency PAP this week as saying it may not be easy to move the nuns. Polish state officials say priva- tely they want the row ended to ensure the ceremonies marking the 1943 ghetto uprising against the Nazi invaders go ahead wit- hout controversy. Jewish Prime Minister Yit- zhak Rabin is due to attend the The battle, which lasted more than three weeks, slowed the Na- zis but they eventually set the ghetto ablaze and killed almost all of the people remaining wit- hin its walls. (Reuter). Sanford, Florida - Less than a month after a doc- tor was shilled at a Florida abor- tion clinic, a judge on Friday is- sued a emergency oder, barring anti-abortion protesters from blockading clinics in central Florida. The state is experiencing a wave of protest by anti-abortion groups, including Operation Res- cue, which has set up a 12-week "boot camp" in Melbourne, Flo- rida, to train protecters. The ruling was the first of its kind in the state since David Gunn was shot several times in the chest on March 10 outside a Pensacola women's clinic. He died shortly thereafter. Katherine Spiller, coordinator for the Feminist majority Foun- dation, an abortion rights group, said she was encouraged by the county judge Robert McGregor's ruling that sets limits on protes- ters and makes them liable to ar- rest if they violate the cons- traints or harass clinic patients and workers. (Reuter) HOTEL'S ACTIVITIES 110 THE ONLY ONE I' CHOOSE Silahkan hubungi!!! B9 PM 8 FKC PINGUIN 103 FM STEREO JL. Jend. Gatot Soebroto I/I phone: (0361) 25509 Denpasar - Bali B 49 PT. BANK DESA PENGASTULAN Jalan Sudirman No 88 Seririt Singaraja Telepon: (0362) 92565, 92566, 92294,41684. Fax. 92566 IZIN MENTRI KEUANGAN NO.: S.KET. 163/DJM/III.3/3/1975 C 604 Quest International's Symposium At Bali Hilton The Bali Hilton International was the venue for a symposium organized by Quest International, one of the biggest companies in the world to produce fragrance and flavour for food products. The symposium was attended by key clients of the company as well the top management of Quest International, including Mr Victor Ransing, the Chairman of Quest International worldwide. In the picture: Prof. Ida Bagus Oka (Second from the left) the Governor of Bali and honorary quest of Quest Gala Dinner held at the Ayodia Palace of the Bali Hilton International accompanied by Mr Victor Ransing (far left), Mr Ara Moushian, the President of Quest Asia Pacific Region (Second to the right) and Mr Max F Maurer-Loeffler, the General Manager of the Bali Hilton International. (*).