University Daily Kansan, November 12, 1984
NATION AND WORLD
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Shultz, OAS leaders confer
By United Press International
BRASILIA, Brazil — Secretary of State George Shultz and Latin American foreign ministers met for informal talks yesterday on the eve of an annual meeting of the Organization of American States which was overshadowed by a U.S. Nicaraguan overlap over Soviet arms supplies.
A high-level U.S. official, who asked not to be identified, said Shaltz would "certainly" set forth the Reagan administration's concern over what it considers to be an assault on military buildup by Nicaragua.
Nicaragua, who was represented by Vice Foreign Minister Nora Astorga at the meeting of 31 Latin American and Caribbean nations, has accused the United States of an invasion to create a pretext for an invasion.
THE MEETING YESTERDAY was closed to the press, but diplomats made Mexico, Venezuela, Panama and Colombia of the so-called
Contadora Group would inform the ministers of the status of their efforts to negotiate a peace settlement in Central America.
Nicaragua accepted and U.S. allies in the region rejected a Contadora proposal calling for a freeze on armaments and a ban on foreign military bases, advisers and maneuvers in the region.
HE ALSO SAID he did not believe the two positions would be fully reconciled at this OAS meeting.
Honduras, Costa Rica and El Salvador have proposed changes to the Contadora plan, adding programmed and negotiated arms reduction plus international verification.
Mexican Foreign Minister Bernardo Sepulveda said he believed some aspects of the proposed changes might "destroy the balance" of the existing Contadora proposals.
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Isidro Morales Paul said some points of the counter proposals put forth by Washington's Central American allies could be "accepted completely,
some of them with modification, and some must be rejected."
Costa Rica, El Salvador and Honduras argue that Contadora adequately protects Nicaraguan security but fails to safeguard neighboring nations, which want additional clauses to ban terrorism and sabotage and control arms trafficking.
The counter-suggestions would set up an ad hoc international group to supervise a Central American peace agreement. A 30-day army freeze and an interim regime of days of negotiations leading to programmed and verified ad hoc reductions.
Another step called for a ban on terrorism, rules about military maneuvers, a calendar to dismantle foreign bases and reduce foreign forces, and prohibition of support for irregular forces in other countries.
All American nations are members of the OAS with the exception of Canada, which holds observer status, while Cuba remains formally a member but has been suspended for two decades.
Russian defectors return home
By United Press International
LONDON — Two Red Army soldiers who deserted in Afghanistan and defected to the West, flew home to the Soviet Union yesterday after asking to be reunited with their families.
Smiling and look happy, Igor Rykhow, 22, and Oleg Khlan, 21, were hurried aboard an Aeroflot flight for Lennard at Heathrow Airport. For the police officers, two uniformed policemen and Soviet Embassys officials
"We are going back because of our families. We think everything will be all right." Rykhov said through a Soviet interpreter.
ASKED IN ENGLISH IF any
pressure had been put on them, he said, "I'm sorry I don't understand English." Asked again in Russian, he simply smiled, but an irate Soviet Embassy official snapped, "They are going back of their own free will."
The two young soldiers, who were given asylum in Britain last June, disappeared Friday after heading for the Soviet Embassy to inquire about Rykhon's family, who had written a letter from Gulakhevich, southern Russia.
ized" by emotional blackmail into going home.
Lord Nicholas Bettell, the Conservative Party politician who freed the two soldiers from their Afghan guerrilla captors and secured asylum for them, said in a British Broadcasting Corp. interview yesterday he feared they had been "caplied, or persuaded, or pressur-
BUT THE SOY JET EMBASSY said in a statement the two men "came to the embassy of their own free will and gave us their statement in which they express their firm intention to rejoin their SS R. team as possible to rejoin their families."
"Oleg and Igor have been a major embarrassment to the Russians, not only for deserting but also for exposing the brutality of the Red Army inside Afghanistan." Bethell said.
Nevertheless, their return would be a propaganda coup for the Soviets, who have succeeded this fall in getting Stalin's daughter Svetlana and detector Oleg Bibov, a prominent Soviet journalist, to return home
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Falkland war tape denied by Britain
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LONDON — The Defense Ministry yesterday dismissed as "sensationalism" reports that sailors on the submarine that torpedoed an Argentine warship in the Falklands War listened to gruesome tape recordings of the sinking ship.
The ministry also refused to comment on a report in the Observer newspaper that a log-book from the submarine, the Conqueror, had been removed by a British naval officer of the Argentine cruiser, the General Belgrano, in May 1982 was likely to prove controversial.
A report in the Observer newspaper said sensitive hydrophone equipment aboard the submarine Conqueror recorded the dying minutes of the Belgrano, as it went down with 398 men aboard.
"SOUNDS WERE HEARD which some of the crew believed to be the screams of Argentine sailors as they drowned or were killed by the observer said it was told by former sailor on the submarine.
The sailor said there were "mixed feelings" among the crew about the tapes. One officer was physically sick when he heard
them, but others called for replays of the recordings at crew parties.
"We regard this as sensation-alism, and have no reason to believe that anything of the sort was important." A Defense spokeswoman said.
NEWS OF THE "LOST" logbook last week intensified charges of an official cover-up in the face of charges that the Belgrano was steaming home to Argentina when it was sunk.
The Observer also said its own investigations had found that a logbook from the Conqueror detailing its movements at the time of the sinking had not been "mislaid," as the government claimed, but had been deliberately removed by a crewman.
Defense Minister Michael Heseltle told a Parliarliament committee last week that the book had been written and that an official inquiry had been launched.
At the time of the sinking, the government claimed the ship posed an immediate threat to British forces in the South Atlantic in their battle to recapture the Falkland Islands from Argentina.
The Observer said the log was removed two years ago by a crew member because it contained a bomb. The Bolgrano was heading home.
Leaders meet in Ethiopia for summit
By United Press International
ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia — African leaders began arriving here yesterday for the 20th summit of the Organization of African Union amid an unprecedented drought that has swept across the continent.
A threatened Moroccan boycott of the summit, relations between black American states and white-rulled South Africa and a continent-wide economic crisis are among the issues under consideration, whose summit opens today.
The United States is expected to come under fire for not achieving independence for South-West Africa, or Namibia, from South Africa.
African leaders have criticized the U.S. for ignoring a U.N. resolution urging a cease-fire and elections in Namibia and insisting on the withdrawal of 30,000 Cuban troops as a precondition for independence
The OAU is also expected to approve a plan to combat the worst drought in modern African history that has affected 34 states.
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