sprightly rhythms of Britpop music. He proclaims the country a beacon for people trying to find their way through the globalized economy, and lectures the coun- tries of continental Europe on how they should trim their bu- reaucracies and adjust their poli- cies to serve their people better and give them the opportunities for advancement that Britons enjoy. When difficulties arise, as they have with the moves on welfare and with accusations of conflict of interest against his govern- ment, he takes personal control, giving earnest television inter- views or writing newspaper columns of explanation. His ten- dency to personalize the office has led commentators to call his conduct of the prime ministership "presidential." 1]lese same commentators pro- duced year-end analyses of the heady first months of Blair's gov- ernment, weighing whether the substance matches all the self- promotion and sloganeering and expressing some surprise that it may. not to upset the large n umber of voters in the center who associ- ated Labor objectives with tax- and-spend policies, and Labor ac- tivism with the social agitation and economic chaos that cost past Labor governments popular sup- port and has forestalled the party's ever holding office for two full terms. Blair and the No. 2 man in the government, Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, have wooed the business class away from the Conservatives with steps showing that Labor is dedicated to long-range fiscal stability. Their first move in office was to turn over the setting of interest rates to the Bank of England, a surprise that overnight gained Labor new credibility in Britain's financial center. Blair has kept to the spending limits of the pre- vious Conservative government and resisted big tax increases, thereby unloading two unwanted pieces of Labor baggage. He has given some business leaders posi- tions in his government and in- volved others on task forces. The strategy so far has worked. » il X.·2 €42···0 037 . *N:.3 <,IN.'.':/ I. : I =i= .....3.···i.;.. .:·.. -ti. · . · : %•v 1....21.1.-: 4.:4::i'.:k .:/ . -, ,4.:94... .5.· 4.4.1 f«, %'4*·4*· »»infil I.:3*.12/,358 4 t:··27··:;4·1%·*:¢·5*66:29 HICKEN HIDEOUT Chickens are found hidden in a house in a rural ducks and oth area of Hong Kong by government workers Sat- if the recent m urday. A senior health official warned that geese, out the so-cal, Mti ., 4 frior secretary replaced in massacre's wake BY FRANK BAJAK Associated Press MEXICO CITY - Amid a growing crisis in the violence-torn Chiapas state, President Ernesto Zedillo replaced his hard-line in- terior secretary Saturday with a deft politician who pledged to work for a "decisive peace." In a brief nationwide address, Zedillo named Francisco Labastida Ochoa to the position, whose occupant traditionally is second in command behind the president and serves as the gov- ernment's chief political spokesrnan. The appointment of Labastida, 55, who headed the agriculture ministry until Saturday, signated a new strategy for a federal gov- ernment tainted by months of tensions and armed conflict in southern Mexico. While the outgoing appointee, Emilio Chuayffet, said he left for personal reasons, analysts argued ROVE GE COMDAMY S Loans • Call foi aza • : Grove • 655-07 , DEPARTMENTOF REAL ESTATE he was sacked for .failing to pre- vent the Dec. 22 massacre of 45 Indians in the southern. state by gunmen allied with the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party. Labastida. who has been men- tioned as a successor to Zedillo, pledged to seek talks with all par- ties to achieve "an honest, frank and decisive peace." The president said the govern- ment wants to reopen a peace di- alogue with tbe Zapatista Na- tional Liberation Army and im- prove the living standards of Chi- apas' largely impoverished.Indian population. The rebels rose up on New Year's Day in 1994, seeking greater autonomy. ' While that fighting ended after j ust two weeks, the issues that sparked it remain unaddressed. The long-simmering violence in the state boiled over with last month's massacre, whose victims were mostly women and children. "We will not rest even a day in pushing for a solution to the ex- isting conflicts," Labastida said in a nationally televised speech in which he addressed his new job's challenges. "Whether that means he's going to meet with (Zapatista leader Subcomandante) Marcos it's very premature to say. But he's not ruling it out," said presi- dential spokesman Antonio Ocaranza. However, Labastida said his government would "proceed firmly in disarming" groups sewing violence in the region. Even as his appointment was announced, troops stepped up checkpoints and weapons searches in Chiapas. Soldiers and police have seized a number of small weapons caches in the past week, some allegedly belonging to rebels and others to some of the 46 men arrested in the massacre. On Saturday, the military de- nied reports that troops had seized a Zapatista headquarters in the Chiapas mountain village of La Realidad. Villagers told reporters that troops had taken up positions on the .outskirts of the town, the closest they've come since the re- bellion began. The villagers, who said they were afraid of being attacked, said the soldiers returned to their base after several hours. "The military had patrols in the area searching for illegal arms but 66+1...- ..... ..,•. 6.........,e.+ r.- ..,e. Chuayffet has been accused ! dragging his feet in restartit peace talks that have been stall, for more than a year. Critics ali have claimed he did nothing prevent last month's massacr even though church and oppos tion political leaders had warn€, top state and federal officials th tempers were flaring. His replacement "surprised n one and I don't think there is single political observer wh didn't expect it," said Lorenz Meyer, a political scientist at th College of Mexico. "After th crisis in . Chiapas, (Chuayffet'z days were numbered." Labastida said the governmer has no intention of renegotiatin a 1996 peace accord with the ZE patistas, which Chuayffet refuse to honor because it included provision for establishing ai tonomous regions. Replacements will be ar nounced Monday for Labastida 2 secretary of agriculture and ou going Treasury Secretar Guillermo Ortiz, who took ov, Jan. 1 as governor of the Bank c Mexico, the equivalent of the UN Federal Reserve. The previous governor, Migu{ Mancera, retired after 40 years i the job. % 8*0• Ll,51 0 W Cle liV tial <12,2,121%>lit UL LuM- :144:16*0:*t )[4*14[02 1 * frontation of any sort" in La Re- r details .e .pair .1 p.gers alidad, said a top government of- We accept traae-ins ficial who spoke on condition of We buy pagers Nations tgrgest Seledion anonymity. 00 DISCOUNT CEUULAR 680 Dei Monte Blvd· Nbeestoretoramalls. Seaside ..703:i<·f·' WIN A ·· :·;=...5.4.it:ap·MLM 211 1,9..u /011 'B'.14'fff? t,V/.'tuy# ...11' DRAWIN'= Meet someone and then go Tickets available al Thinker Toys; Carmel & j around the block a few times. Proceeds benefit Monterey County Aids i No ntirrhm. n,w,=a.....r ... 1 1,1 f .. 33; Monterey. , OCR Text: sprightly rhythms of Britpop music. He proclaims the country a beacon for people trying to find their way through the globalized economy, and lectures the coun- tries of continental Europe on how they should trim their bu- reaucracies and adjust their poli- cies to serve their people better and give them the opportunities for advancement that Britons enjoy. When difficulties arise, as they have with the moves on welfare and with accusations of conflict of interest against his govern- ment, he takes personal control, giving earnest television inter- views or writing newspaper columns of explanation. His ten- dency to personalize the office has led commentators to call his conduct of the prime ministership "presidential." 1]lese same commentators pro- duced year-end analyses of the heady first months of Blair's gov- ernment, weighing whether the substance matches all the self- promotion and sloganeering and expressing some surprise that it may. not to upset the large n umber of voters in the center who associ- ated Labor objectives with tax- and-spend policies, and Labor ac- tivism with the social agitation and economic chaos that cost past Labor governments popular sup- port and has forestalled the party's ever holding office for two full terms. Blair and the No. 2 man in the government, Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown, have wooed the business class away from the Conservatives with steps showing that Labor is dedicated to long-range fiscal stability. Their first move in office was to turn over the setting of interest rates to the Bank of England, a surprise that overnight gained Labor new credibility in Britain's financial center. Blair has kept to the spending limits of the pre- vious Conservative government and resisted big tax increases, thereby unloading two unwanted pieces of Labor baggage. He has given some business leaders posi- tions in his government and in- volved others on task forces. The strategy so far has worked. » il X.·2 €42···0 037 . *N:.3 <,IN.'.':/ I. : I =i= .....3.···i.;.. .:·.. -ti. · . · : %•v 1....21.1.-: 4.:4::i'.:k .:/ . -, ,4.:94... .5.· 4.4.1 f«, %'4*·4*· »»infil I.:3*.12/,358 4 t:··27··:;4·1%·*:¢·5*66:29 HICKEN HIDEOUT Chickens are found hidden in a house in a rural ducks and oth area of Hong Kong by government workers Sat- if the recent m urday. A senior health official warned that geese, out the so-cal, Mti ., 4 frior secretary replaced in massacre's wake BY FRANK BAJAK Associated Press MEXICO CITY - Amid a growing crisis in the violence-torn Chiapas state, President Ernesto Zedillo replaced his hard-line in- terior secretary Saturday with a deft politician who pledged to work for a "decisive peace." In a brief nationwide address, Zedillo named Francisco Labastida Ochoa to the position, whose occupant traditionally is second in command behind the president and serves as the gov- ernment's chief political spokesrnan. The appointment of Labastida, 55, who headed the agriculture ministry until Saturday, signated a new strategy for a federal gov- ernment tainted by months of tensions and armed conflict in southern Mexico. While the outgoing appointee, Emilio Chuayffet, said he left for personal reasons, analysts argued ROVE GE COMDAMY S Loans • Call foi aza • : Grove • 655-07 , DEPARTMENTOF REAL ESTATE he was sacked for .failing to pre- vent the Dec. 22 massacre of 45 Indians in the southern. state by gunmen allied with the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party. Labastida. who has been men- tioned as a successor to Zedillo, pledged to seek talks with all par- ties to achieve "an honest, frank and decisive peace." The president said the govern- ment wants to reopen a peace di- alogue with tbe Zapatista Na- tional Liberation Army and im- prove the living standards of Chi- apas' largely impoverished.Indian population. The rebels rose up on New Year's Day in 1994, seeking greater autonomy. ' While that fighting ended after j ust two weeks, the issues that sparked it remain unaddressed. The long-simmering violence in the state boiled over with last month's massacre, whose victims were mostly women and children. "We will not rest even a day in pushing for a solution to the ex- isting conflicts," Labastida said in a nationally televised speech in which he addressed his new job's challenges. "Whether that means he's going to meet with (Zapatista leader Subcomandante) Marcos it's very premature to say. But he's not ruling it out," said presi- dential spokesman Antonio Ocaranza. However, Labastida said his government would "proceed firmly in disarming" groups sewing violence in the region. Even as his appointment was announced, troops stepped up checkpoints and weapons searches in Chiapas. Soldiers and police have seized a number of small weapons caches in the past week, some allegedly belonging to rebels and others to some of the 46 men arrested in the massacre. On Saturday, the military de- nied reports that troops had seized a Zapatista headquarters in the Chiapas mountain village of La Realidad. Villagers told reporters that troops had taken up positions on the .outskirts of the town, the closest they've come since the re- bellion began. The villagers, who said they were afraid of being attacked, said the soldiers returned to their base after several hours. "The military had patrols in the area searching for illegal arms but 66 1...- ..... ..,•. 6.........,e. r.- ..,e. Chuayffet has been accused ! dragging his feet in restartit peace talks that have been stall, for more than a year. Critics ali have claimed he did nothing prevent last month's massacr even though church and oppos tion political leaders had warn€, top state and federal officials th tempers were flaring. His replacement "surprised n one and I don't think there is single political observer wh didn't expect it," said Lorenz Meyer, a political scientist at th College of Mexico. "After th crisis in . Chiapas, (Chuayffet'z days were numbered." Labastida said the governmer has no intention of renegotiatin a 1996 peace accord with the ZE patistas, which Chuayffet refuse to honor because it included provision for establishing ai tonomous regions. Replacements will be ar nounced Monday for Labastida 2 secretary of agriculture and ou going Treasury Secretar Guillermo Ortiz, who took ov, Jan. 1 as governor of the Bank c Mexico, the equivalent of the UN Federal Reserve. The previous governor, Migu{ Mancera, retired after 40 years i the job. % 8*0• Ll,51 0 W Cle liV tial <12,2,121%>lit UL LuM- :144:16*0:*t )[4*14[02 1 * frontation of any sort" in La Re- r details .e .pair .1 p.gers alidad, said a top government of- We accept traae-ins ficial who spoke on condition of We buy pagers Nations tgrgest Seledion anonymity. 00 DISCOUNT CEUULAR 680 Dei Monte Blvd· Nbeestoretoramalls. Seaside ..703:i<·f·' WIN A ·· :·;=...5.4.it:ap·MLM 211 1,9..u /011 'B'.14'fff? t,V/.'tuy# ...11' DRAWIN'= Meet someone and then go Tickets available al Thinker Toys; Carmel & j around the block a few times. Proceeds benefit Monterey County Aids i No ntirrhm. n,w,=a.....r ... 1 1,1 f .. 33; Monterey. , Heritage Society of Pacific Grove,Historical Collections,Historic Properties of Pacific Grove,Shell,1031 Shell,SHEU_013_redacted.pdf,SHEU_013_redacted.pdf 1 Page 1, Tags: SHEU_013_REDACTED.PDF, SHEU_013_redacted.pdf 1 Page 1