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'It is time to get tougher'
WARSAW . British Prime Minister John Major said on Monday it was time for the European Community to "get tougher' with Serbia to end the fighting in Yugoslavia, reports Reuter
Major Speaker to reporters as he began a five-day visit to three central European states, said he backed calls by US Secretary of State James Baker to lake sterner measures quickly against Serbia
"Do I agree 11 Is time for the EC to get tougher with Serbia? yes. I do," ht said
Baker called on Sunday for mandatory sanctions
against Serbia following months of violence between Serbian fighters and pro-Independence forces in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina
Major's words sent a strong message to officials of the 12-member European Community, meeting tn Brussels today, to discuss action against Serbia.
The talks were called by EC foreign ministers who were in Lisbon last weekend for an international conference on aid for the former Soviet Union.
Indonesia lacks mosques I
JAKARTA Indonesia, the world s most-populated Muslim country, still needs more mosques, the Antara news agency said here today, reports AFP
Antara quoted Religion Minister Munawlr SJadzali as telling 600 Ulemas, or Muslim scholars. In Lampung province that many Muslims still had to perform their Friday prayers in offices and on opens sites
SJadzull said the number of mosques had Increased from 87,000 In 1969 to 154,000 In 1991 Indonesia has a population of some 180 million people, more than 80 per cent of whom arc followers of Islam
Presidency I may lose but not assets
MANILA: Former First Gidy Imelda Marcos, a Called presidential candidate, formally demanded here today the release of billions of dollars in assets seized from her family by the Philippine government, reports AFP.
The widow of deposed dictator Ferdinand Mareos handcarried 4 petition to the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) demanding the return of the asacta.
I have come to the PCGG to bring my formal petition for the total accounting, audit and release of the Marcos assets.” she said in a statement
This is not just a matter of human and constitutional right and justice, but for the survival and self-defence of the Marcos family and the millions of Filipino poor and loyalists," he added.
Marcos said that If she won back the assets she would put Ihe proceeds into a foundation that would benefit poor F11-liplnoa.
As she filed the petition, Marcos was running fifth In a slow semi-official tally of the may 11 presidential elections, with former Defence Chief Fidel Hamos, President Corazon Aquino's handpicked successor, wayhead of the pack.
Wearing a black and white dress, black pumps, pearls and diamonds, the one-time Jetsetter said she did not know how much was seized from her family which has been accused of looting the country's treasury during her late husband's 20-year rule.
'Rcyiv and the rule of laic'
NEW DELHI: Rajiv Gandhi's evolution as a legislator and the laws he enacted during his term as prime minister will form the focus of a documentary film called Rajiv Gandhi and the rule of law' reports PTI.
Noted film star, Sunil Dutt, sounded the clap of the first shot of the film at a simple mahurat here in the presence of Sonia Gandhi, the Tourism and Civil Aviation Minister. Madhav Rao Scicndia. the Minister of State for Textile, Ashok Gehlot and a number eminent persons.
Earlier. in his introductory remarks, Latli Bhasln, member of the Rajiv Gandhi, foundation, the co sponsors of the film, said
Rajiv Gandhi had passed some palh-brcaklng laws like the anti-defcction Jaw. the consumer protection act the Na-garpalfka bill and the lowering of the voting age to 18 years.