NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, November 16, 1984
Page 12
Chilean troops seize 3,000
By United Press International
SANTIAGO, Chile — Heavily armed troops yesterday surrounded a Santiago slum, seized thousands of men and teen-age boys and herded them into a soccer stadium for questioning in a search for opponents of the military regime.
Armored cars and army units equipped with combat gear lined the streets of the shanty town of La Vieira and helicopters hovered above a police station launched a house-to-house patrol up dawn of most of the male population.
Roman Catholic Church officials estimated at least 3,000 men and boys over the age of 15 were placed on buses and trucks and taken to a nearby soccer stadium for questioning.
A military government spokesman later said 227 men with criminal and terrorist records were detained after
interrogation and guns, knives
Marxist literature and home-made
grenades were found during the
search operation.
IT WAS THE second mass detention of slum dwellers since President Augusto Pinochet placed Chile under state of siege nine days ago to counter mounting protests against his 11-year-old military government and a wave of terrorist bombings.
Troops last Saturday surrounded another shanty town and rounded up all males over the age of 15 for training at a nearby military base.
The government said later 323 petty criminals and suspected terrorists had been detained. Of those, 103 were sent to a prison camp for 90 days in the north of Chile where other government opponents are confined
Government spokesman Francisco
Quadra called yesterday's operation an "inspection" aimed at identifying "subversive elements" responsible for the recent bombings.
LA VICTORIA IS a town of wooden shacks inhabited by 50,000 people on the south side of Santiago. Residents have been arrested for protests during the past 16 months.
Residents said they were awakened yesterday by helicopters swooping overhead as soldiers toting automatic rifles surrounded the slum just before the end of the nightly curfew.
"They said they were after criminals, but that's just an excuse. They want to stop us protesting," said one resident who was taken to the stadium and freed four hours later after questioning.
The man, who asked not to be identified, said secret police checked documents on the field and led away detectives for detention in changing rooms.
NATO backs verifiable arms control
By United Press International
BRUSSELS, Belgium — NATO Secretary General Lord Carrington urged lawmakers of the Western alliance yesterday to strengthen their nations' conventional defenses to reduce the risk of a nuclear conflict.
The plea followed a vote by the North Atlantic Assembly to seek a
"I think the reality makes it... certainly necessary for us to do so if we wish to raise the nuclear threshold."
verifiable arms control pact with the Soviet Union. The assembly also narrowly rejected a West German attack for a unilateral NATO freeze.
The assembly is a consultative body, which twice a year brings together 184 members of legislative bodies in the 16 NATO nations.
During a question and answer session Carrington said, "I think you should just do it."
to be on all our parts an effort to remedy the conventional inferiority" to the Soviet Union.
The assembly called on the United States to resume arms control talks with Moscow based on a formula rejected by the Soviets in 1982.
Lebanese talks snag over reparation issue
By United Press International
NAQOURA, Lebanon — Talks resumed yesterday on an Israeli troop pullout from Lebanon but it a new snap over a Lebanese demand for $10 billion in war reparations, which Israel rejected as being outside the agreed area of discussion
The talks opened last Wednes-
day but were suspended by Leba-
non after Israeli troops today
arrested four officials of Amal, a
leader in the fight against lea-
ding armed resistance to the
occupation of southern Lebanon.
The two sides met for the second round of military level negotiations under heavy security in the Lebanese coastal town of Naquira, 5 miles north of the Israeli border.
Beirut agreed to resume the talks, the highest level contact between the two sides since it abolished the a May 1983 peace accord, and Israel released three of the four militiamen Wednesday. SIX LEBANESE NEGOTIATIONS with U.S. officials 14-member Israeli delegation met at the headquarters of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, deployed as a peace-keeping unit in 1978.
quick withdrawal of Israeli forces unconditionally according to U.N. Security Council resolutions."
In a six-page statement, Hajj said Lebanon wants its army to assume positions vacated by Israel, which occupied southern Lebanon in a June 1982 invasion to crush Christian Liberation Organs that had been attacking its northern border settlements.
Brig. Gen. Mohammed al Hajj, leading the Lebanese delegation, demanded "the complete and
HAJI REITERATED his government's opposition to an Israeli proposal that border security after a pullout be entrusted to Lebanon Army, a militia created financed by Israel for that purpose.
He also said Israel should pay Lebanon $10 billion in compensation for damages caused by its attacks during the invasion and occupation
"Lebanese towns and villages were devastated and destroyed, resulting in damages estimated at a value ranging from $2 million, which should be indemnified by the Israeli side." Haij said.
"AS FOR REPARATIONS, we do not think this is within the mandate of these talks. The mandate stipulates we shall discuss security arrangements for our northern border as well as the...withdrawal," the statement said.
Africa to get drought aid through fund
By United Press International
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The Organization of African Unity concluded its 20th summit yesterday resolved to set up a special emergency fund to help feed millions of starving people hit by one of Africa's worst droughts ever.
"We decided to establish an African fund for emergency relief purposes which we will all try and contribute to, even if it can only be a small amount," he said. The president Julius Nyerere of Tanzania in his closing address to the summit.
But Nyerete also appealed to the world to not let Africa down. The current drought is one of the worst in recent African history, stretches across countries and threatens to kill 8 million by starvation in Ethiopia alone.
"We are also appealing for international support for this fund, for we know how limited our resources are and how great our need," he said.
Nyerere said African leaders also called for the establishment of a World Bank fund for drought victims of sub-Saharan Africa dealing with the region's mid- and long-term needs.
"It was one of the most productive and successful summits, marked by serious discussions, in trying to find solutions for devastating the continent," Nyerre said.
Soviet Union will increase defense funds
By United Press International
MOSCOW — President Konstantin Chernenko said yesterday the Soviet Union's defense budget would be increased in 1885 to counter attempts by the West to gain military superiority.
Cherenko made the remarks at a regular meeting of the ruling Poli-ture in which he gave his approval for a 1985 draft budget that is to be submitted to the Supreme Soviet, or to rubber-stamp approval Nov. 27.
Defense Minister Dmitry Ustinov, who has not been seen publicly in seven weeks amid rumors he was killed, was absent from the meeting.
In remarks carried by the Tass news agency and read on evening television news, Chernenko said the defense plan 'duly takes into account the needs of strengthening the country's defense capability.
"WE CANNOT FAIL to see the growing aggressiveness of imperialism, its attempts to gain military power and establish a vastist community," Cheneko said.
"Our country is not going to attack anyone. But we will strengthen our defense capability, guarding the peaceful work of the Soviet people, upholding the cause of peace all over the world."
Asserting that the Soviet economy had begun "developing more dynamically" in the past two years, Cherenko said the positive changes "should be not only consolidated, but also multiplied."
He called to task managers of light industry for not showing the flexibility necessary to meet market demands.
Acknowledging the existence of shortages and the low quality of consumer goods, Cherenko assured the people their leaders were concerned about their problems and were reviewing a plan to raise the standards of consumer goods and services.
Two of the country's most difficult areas, transportation and agriculture, were improving. Cherenkov said, although the country faces its own challenges in an open harvest, due in part to an insufficient transportation network.
"AT PRESENT THE consumer demands high quality goods," he said. "However, the industry proved to be unprepared to meet such demands. It continues to produce consumer goods of low quality."
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