University Daily Kansan, September 8, 1983
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Marshall Islands officials see passage of independence pact
By United Press International
MAJURO, Marshall Islands — Officials yesterday predicted that voters would approve an agreement ending 36 years of war on the 24-island central Pacific nation.
Islanders jammed open-air-polling stations to decide on a "Compact of Free Association," which would give the nation of 33,000 complete independence from the United States except in matters of defense.
to vote at 13,000 islanders are eligible to vote on the issue, which is being witnessed by U.N. observers from New Guinea, Fiji, France and Britain.
Public Works Minister Charles Dominick, a key aide of President Amata Kaba, said the vote was "pushing 70 percent yes." Other observers also predicted passage, but by a smaller margin.
VOTE COUNTING, which was
about two-thirds of the vote,
received to take
up about a quarter of
Guilds' votes.
The 12-hour voting was orderly Tuesday, but lines were long in the capital of Majuro. "They are a tribute to democracy," said U.N. observer John Margeston of Britain, "that they would stand in line for hours to vote."
A key issue is the amount of island
displacement paid to islanders
displaced by exposure.
during U.S. atmospheric nuclear testing at Eniwetok and Bikini atolls from 1946 to 1958.
The United States has proposed a $150 million fund that offers which opponents the chance to win.
The 307-page compact also provides about $750 million in aid over the agreement's 15-year life and allows the United States to use the Kwajalein strategic missile testing range for up to 30 years.
"There's plenty of money in the compact," Kabua, who campaigned strenuously for approval, said in a radio address before the polls opened. Opponents, however, disagree and argue the compact should be renegotiated.
THE 24 ATOLLS of the Marshall Islands have little industry except tourism and fishing, and are home to two small villages. They have had limited self-government since 1979.
The Marshals and the Caroline and Mariana Islands groups, scenes of heavy World War II fighting between U.S. and Japanese forces in the Pacific under U.S. administration in 1947 as the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
Mariana voters in 1975 approved establishment of a self-governing commonwealth of the United States, a status rejected by the other trusteeship areas — the Marshalls, Palau and the Federated States of Micronesia.
THE INTER-VARSITY Christian Fellowship will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Pine Room of the Union.
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THE KUAD CLUB WILL meet at 7 p.m. in the Big Eight room of the Union. A four-member group of recent KU graduates will speak about how they got a job after college. Beer and snacks will be served.
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PETER JONES, a visiting
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THE ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS on campus will have a Bible study at 7 p.m. in the Regionalist Room of the Kansas Union.
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THE KU FOLKDANCE CLUB will meet 7:30-9:30 p.m. on the second floor drill deck of the Military Science Building.
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THE UNDERGRADUATE BIOLOGY club will meet at 4 p.m. in the Sunflower Room of the Union.
"I think very great work has been made, but guerrilla warfare is difficult and it does take a lot of support." He added, heading to the need for more military aid.
CONGRESS HAS REFUSED to give the administration the $110 million in military aid it requested for El Salvador, approving only $26 million.
Speaking from a cleared area which was well guarded by Salvadoran troops to prevent a guerrilla attack, Weinberger stopped short of saying the U.S.-backed government is winning the battle against an estimated 7,000 insurgents.
it's quite clear that the support amounts we asked for originally (the $110 million) in the United States are fully justified, and I very much hope the Congress will want to make them," Weinberger said.
However, after two briefings by Salvadoran military commanders, he said, "it is quite clear that the U.S. is pressing increasing success in the last few months.
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In Panama, the foreign ministers of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica met with the representatives of the four Contadora nations — Venezuela, Colombia, Panama and Mexico.
The Contadora group has been trying since January to find a formula to bring peace to Central America and avoid a U.S. intervention.
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There have been no concrete results to date, but Panama said over the weekend it expected a firm series of agreements to be signed soon.
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MEANWHILE, the foreign ministers from the Contadora peace group and five Central American nations opened three days of intensive talks in Panama yesterday aimed at restoring calm to the troubled region.
SAN VICENTE, El Salvador — Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said yesterday that El Salvador had made "great progress" in its war against immigrants and urged Congress to fund $844 million more in aid to Salvadoran troops.
THE GROUP WANTS to end the
A spokeswoman for the U.S. Embassy in Managua said the diplomatic mission had no direct knowledge of U.S. military maneuvers in the Caribbean, and would neither confirm nor deny the incident took place.
Capt. Daniel Rossman, skipper of the merchant vessel Nicaragua, told the official Nicaragua News Agency that the incident took place off the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua during four days at the end of August.
Rossman said that U.S. jet fighters overflieh his ship as it approached Nicaragua and "the following night. Aug. 29, the U.S. (naval) war units made light signals telling us to make radio contact."
Rossman said he was forced to detail his cargo, his port of origin and his destination by radio.
In Nicaragua, Sandinista officials accused the United States of using warplanes and a Navy frigate to harass a Nicaraguan merchant ship, forcing its captain to disclose the vessel's cargo.
mintuf of foreign weapons and advisers into Central America and ease the border ties between leftist Nicaragua and guatemala, and neighbors to tiber and Honduras.
"We will send more aid, we will continue sending aid, you can be sure we will continue helping you," he told 150 camp residents. "I hope the situation is getting better, and that you can all return to your homes."
rauma contact.
"They asked the size of the crew, this type of cargo, where we came from and our destination," he said.
Weinberger was taken from headquarters to a camp of refugees who have fled to San Vicente from the war violence in the countryside. About 3,000 people, many of them children, live in wooden huts built on muddy streets pecked by chickens and fouled by too many living too closely.
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Weinberger says more aid needed Progress in El Salvador cited
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