NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, April 5, 1984
Page 12
U.S.-trained general heads Honduran army
By United Press International
The Honduran Congress chose a moderate U.S.-trained general as the new chief of the armed forces yesterday in a nearly unanimous vote that appeared to strengthen democracy in the country and ensure strong ties with the United States.
Gen. Walter Lopez Reyes, 43, commander of the air force, was chosen by a 78-0 vote, with one abstention, to finish out the five-year term of Gen. Gustavo Alvarez Martinez, who was ousted in a sweeping military purge along with four other generals Saturday.
Lopez, who has had extensive training in the United States, was the only surviving general of the purge. Western political and military observers said they thought that Lopez led the military shakeh.
In Nicaragua, as the Sandinista army launched major offensives against U.S.-backed rebels, U.S. special envoy to Central America Harry Shlaudeman arrived in Managua.
Shaulademan will meet with top Nicaraguan government officials, including junta coordinator Daniel Ortega, along with, opposition fig-
The Contadora group, comprising Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and Panama, is trying to negotiate a solution to conflicts in Central America.
A U.S. Embassy official said that the purpose of Shlauderman's trip to the five Central American nations was to "examine with Central America all that has been discussed and developed by the Contadora Group."
Saul Arana, Foreign Ministry representative for North American Affairs, said the meeting with Shlaudeman would focus on "the concerns that worry the Sandinista government about the current state of relations between Nicaragua and the United States."
In EI Salvador, the guerrilla radio said that rebels surrounded a parachute battalion in the town of Ciudad Barrios, killing 12 soldiers and wounding 41.
Lebanese fail to reach accord
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanon's rival faction leaders, meeting for the sixth time since their national reconciliation talks in Switzerland last month, failed yesterday to agree on a tangible way to end violence in the country.
As they met, two people were killed and four were wounded in more fighting in Beirut.
The Muslim and Christian leaders grouped in "the higher security committee," which was founded at the
Lausanne, Switzerland, conference to halt the bloodshed, held about two hours of talks at the presidential palace outside Beirut.
A spokesman of the confereses said that they had all "accepted most of the terms of an agreement" to disengage from the war, but the country, which divided east and west Beirut.
The warring leaders are discussing a proposal to pull their fighters 700 yards from the Green Line, but the committee has so far failed to impose a lasting cease-fire. The spokesman's statement indicated that there were still differences to be resolved.
Miami still pays suspended policeman
By United Press International
MIAIAM — A policeman accused in the beating death of a black insurance salesman has continued to collect his $28.340 yearly salary even though he has not worked since he was relieved of four years ago, police records show.
ter and aggravated battery in the death of Arthur McDuffie.
William Hannon, a Metro-Dade County officer, was relieved of duty after he was charged with manslaughter.
The state dropped the charges when a judge ruled Hanlon's statements inadmissible because he had not been told they could be used against him. The state granted Hanlon immunity and compelled him to testify in the trial of four officers accused in the beating of McDuffie.
On May 17, 1980, a jury acquitted the four officers on various charges.
By United Press International
Soviets stage exercises in Norwegian Sea
LONDON — A Soviet battle fleet conducting massive military exercises in the Norwegian Sea yesterday demonstrated its anti-submarine capability and air power in a show of strength on NATO's 35th anniversary.
More than 50 Backfire bombers and Badger long-range reconnaissance planes conducted mock-attack sorties on Soviet surface vessels, an official at NATO's Eastern Atlantic headquarters said.
The fleet, comprising at least 40 destroyers, frigates, cruisers and submarines, also continued anti-submarine maneuvers with Soviet aircraft trying to locate submerged submarines, the official said.
THE ARMADA POURED into the North Atlantic from the Arctic port of Murmurans, the Soviets' biggest naval base in the world. The chiefs were concerned at the speed and
capacity of the buildup, according to news reports from their top-level meeting in Cesme, Turkey.
The battle fleet, which began forming a week ago, appeared to be withdrawn.
"Most of the surface units are now north of the Arctic Circle. The general direction of the exercise appears to be northeasterly and it may be that ships are withdrawn to prepare for the final expedition," the exercise." The NATO official said.
The exercise, described by NATO as probably the largest ever staged by the Soviet Union in the Atlantic, came less than a month after a large NATO than the region last month involving 150 ships from nine nations and 40,000 men.
The Soviet Union might have staged it as a retaliatory show of strength, with the aim of embarrassing the U.S.
But there may have been a deeper strategic purpose; to test the West's
anti-submarine defenses, said an analyst at the International Institute of Warfare.
THE NORWEGIAN SEA is NATO's first strategic frontier in any sea war against the Soviet Union. To get into the Atlantic, the fast-expanding fleet of Soviet submarines must pass through the Greenland-Iceland-Faroe gann.
The West, which must track them before they get lost in the broad Atlantic, has bugged the chilly expanse of water with underwater hydrophones and tethered electronic sonars.
"The Soviets may have been exercising to see if they could slip any ships through the net," said Col. Jonathan Aldorf, deputy director of the institute.
IN WASHINGTON, Navy Secretary John Lehman said the exercise is "very definitely offensive", but is being outfitted to way Western strategists expected.
"Just as we have predicted would happen, they have had to deplete their
ability to concentrate force against
Central Europe in order to carry out a naval exercise of this scale. "Lehman
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In Cesme, NATO defense ministers ended their two-day meeting yesterday by urging the Soviet Union to resume arms talks but also reaffirmed the continued deployment of U.S. nuclear missiles in Europe.
The Reagan administration's "Star Wars" project emerged as a key issue during the conference on nuclear planning, with some European delegates saying they were skeptical about its effectiveness.
In a final statement, the NATO ministers said that they "regretted that the Soviet Union had not yet agreed to a date for the resumption of the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks and that it had as yet refused to proceed with the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces negotiations."
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