Polls boycott
A radical Melanesian group, the United Kanak Liberation Front, said it would boycott and disrupt provincial elections in June and reiterated its opposition to accords last year on the future of the French territory.— Houailou, New Caledonia. Dissidents jailed Two more Czechoslovak dissidents are to join the playwright, Vaclav Havel, in prison after a court found seven activists guilty of hooliganism, but gave five of them suspended sentences. Ota Veverka, aged 32, was sentenced to one year and Jana Petrova, 22, received a nine-month term after a two-day trial. — Prague. U.N. force Finland, Kenya and Malaysia will each provide an infantry battalion as part of a major United Nations military and civilian operation to oversee Namibia’s transition to independence from South Africa, diplomats said today. — New York.
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