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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, February 4. 1992
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NATION/WORLD BRIEFS Ankara, Turkey
Another snowslide killed four people yesterday as soldiers and civilians searched for those missing in weekend avalanches that claimed at least 131 lives, the Anatolia news agency said.
Snowslide takes four more lives
Yesterday's avalanche destroyed three houses and injured two people in the village of Seslie, the agency said, quoting Gov. Aydin Arslan of Sirnak province. Seslie is four miles from Gorme, the village closest hit by Saturday's slides in southeastern Turkey.
Government representative Akin Gonen said at least 131 people were killed in the weekend series of avalanches, which struck villages, military outposts and travelers in four provinces bordering Iraq and Iran.
However, a Turkish television station said officials estimated 322 people were killed. There was no confirmation of the report.
The snowslides were blamed on a harsh winter with abnormally high snowfall — up to 10 feet in some places.
Washington
Gadhafi seeks peace with U.S.
Libvan leader Moammar Gadhafi said he was hopeful of reaching a compromise that would avert threatened U.N. sanctions on his nation in connection with the bombing of a Pan American commercial jet.
In an interview published in yesterday's editions of The Washington Post, Gadhafi said he thought his country had been made a scapegoat for the terrorist attack, which killed 270 people over Lockerbie, Scotland.
But he also praised the Bush administration and urged the United States to reopen its embassy in Tripoli.
Gadhiafi said his government had sent messages requesting a dialogue with the United States through Belgium's ambassador in Tripoli.
A U.S. grand jury has indicted two Libyans in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 and the United States is seeking their extradition — with backing from the United Nations.
Washington
Crash report studies propellers
The commuter plane that crashed in coastal Georgia last year, killing former Sen. John Tower and 22 others, had excessively worn propeller parts, federal investigators said in a preliminary report released yesterday.
The National Transportation Safety Board report, which did not assign a cause for the crash, ruled out engine malfunction but focused on extreme wear in the proofer control units.
"Examination of the engines did not disclose any evidence of pre-impact malfunction or failure," the report says.
The NTSB's final report on the crash is several months from completion, said Brent Bahier.
Tests showed severe wear in the propeller control units could have inhibited the pilot from changing the propeller blade angle, the report said.
Among those who died in the crash were Tower, his 35-year-old daughter. Marian, and a friend of his, lost their lives.
Tower was nominated by President Bush in 1989 to be defense secretary, but the Senate rejected the nomination.
From The Associated Press
Noriega aided U.S., says defense lawyer
The Associated Press
MIAMI — Manuel Noriega was the United States' closest ally in Latin American drug wars and served its political ends in Central America and the Grenada invasion, his attorneys said Monday as they enclosed his defense.
"At the end of this case you may wonder why General Noriega was ever indicted," attorney Jon May told jurors.
The prosecution's case in Noriega's 10-count drug and racketeering trial ended in December, but the defense was delayed seven weeks after U.S. District Judge William Hoeveler underwent heart surgery.
In a brief opening statement, May argued that Noriega could hardly have sold his nation to Colombia's Medellin caroline-car
tel while at the same time identifying its couriers to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, raiding laboratories and seizing cocaine-refining chemicals.
The ousted Panamanian leader even broke his own nation's banking secrecy laws to help the United States in drug cash investigations, one of which led to the arrest of the Medellin cartel's top money launderer, he said.
"The level and quality of the cooperation given by General Noriega to the United States was unprecedented among the leaders of Central and South America," said May. "General Noriega was our ally in the war against drugs."
The defense also called its first witnesses Monday, two former DEA officials.
The defense took direct aim at two key prosecution issues—an
alleged $5-million bribe the cartel offered Norigeia to protect its cocaine chemicals and a July 1984 meeting with Cuba's Fidel Castro. Prosecutors said the Castro meeting was to smooth out a dispute with the cartel after Norigeia raided a Panamanian drug lab.
May said the defense would show the bribe attempt was reported to the DEA when it was discovered.
And the Castro meeting was not about drugs but Central American guerrilla warfare — and the CIA discussed the meeting with Noriage before and after it occurred, May said.
If convicted on all 10 counts, Noriega could be sentenced to 140 years in prison. Hes has been jailed since he surrendered to U.S. forces following the December 1989 invasion of Panama.
Japan's rebukes continue
The Associated Press
TOKYO — In Japan's latest rebuke of its economic rival, Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said yesterday that U.S. workers were losing the drive "to live by the sweat of their brow," and a former Cabinet minister said Americans worked only three good days a week.
The Foreign Ministry later issued a statement saying Miyazawa "had no intention whatsoever of criticizing American workers," but the remarks prompted a visceral reaction from White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater.
Fitzwater, making an analogy to a coach using opponents' criticisms before a game to spur his team to play harder, said: "These kinds of comments are probably helpful in the sense of stirring the rages in all of us" who want to compete and show the best work force.
House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., called Miyazawa's remarks an "ignorant expression of Japanese racism."
"Americans work hard every day, and our productivity is higher than Japan's," said Gephardt, chief sponsor of a bill that would curtail Japanese auto imports unless Tokyo reduces its U.S. trade surplus.
Two weeks ago, lower House Speaker Yoshiio Sakurauchi fueled a U.S. backlash and a "Buy American" campaign when he said Americans were lazy and 30 percent of them could not read.
Japanese stress out
The Associated Press
TOKYO — A majority of adults surveyed in Japan complain of fatigue and emotional distress. The minister's office said yesterday
Asked whether they usually feel fatigue, 11 percent of the respondents in a government survey said they felt very tired, and 53 percent said they felt somewhat tired.
At the same time, 53 percent said they felt stress, 37 percent said they did not feel much stress, and 10 percent said they did not feel stress at all, the survey said.
istry said. That is the equivalent of 51 40-hour weeks a year.
The average Japanese employee worked 2,044 hours, including 185 hours of overtime, in fiscal year 1990, which ended March 31, 1991, the Labor Min-
According to government statistics, Americans worked 1,948 hours in 1990. That is fewer than 49 40-hour weeks the Japanese work.
Under U.S. trade pressure, Japan has launched a campaign to reduce annual working hours to 1,800 by the end of fiscal 1992, or March 31, 1993.
The government statistics showed Germans worked 1,642 hours—or 4140-hour weeks.
The survey, released Sunday, randomly questioned 3,000 people over 20 years old. 0-13 and was intended to investigate health conditions in Japan. The study did not specifically link the problems to working conditions.
The fact that remarks such as yesterday's continue, despite the wrath they've provoked in America, reflects a belief among Japanese politicians that the United States is a deteriorating superpower.
American workers are too preoccupied on Fridays with the coming weekend and "cannot throw themselves wholly into their work Mondays as they played too hard Saturdays and Sundays," conservative lawmaker Kabun Mutoldo Parliament during a discussion of the auto industry.
"I think Americans should learn, how to work properly from Monday to Friday," added Muto, who served as minister of international trade and industry under Miyazawa's predecessor, Toshiki Kaifu.
The comments arose when Mutoasked Miyazawa how thefaltering U.S. economy could recover.
The prime minister said that in the United States, "producing things and creating value has 'loosened' too much in the past 10 years or so."
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