NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, September 4, 1984 Page 12
Reagan permits banana imports
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Reagan administration, allegedly involved in a covert war against Nicaragua, has done nothing to halt a sixfold rise in banana imports from the Marxist nation in the first half of 1984.
The skyrocketing banana imports, arriving entirely via one California company, have meant a cash inflow of $14.7 million in U.S. currency to a country Reagan says is exporting to destabilize the Caribbean basin.
The White House has taken no action despite prodding a year ago from Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C.
Chief beneficiary of the banana imports has been Pandol Brothers Inc., a firm based in Delano, Calif. Company president Jack Pandol failed to respond to several telephone calls.
BANANA IMPORTS FROM Nicaragua through May of this year totaled 42.8 million metric tons, compared with 7.4 million tons during the same period last year, according to U.S. Agriculture Department figures.
At the same time, banana imports from Honduras an American ally, have fallen by 18 percent, the decline has been down eighty xx as well.
Officials at the State Department. the Agriculture Department and the
Honduran government said that although the numbers may look surprising, they indicate nothing unusual. They note that the United States has no trade restrictions with Nicaragua.
Nicaragua
An Agriculture Department official said a Honduran official said banana imports can fluctuate wildly, depending on the weather.
ON APRIL 26, 1983, Helms urged the ON APRIL 26, 1983, Helms urged the House to wallop the Sandistas economically, calling it "essential to the peace and security of Latin America and the United States that we do not continue on a 'business as usual' basis with Marxist Nicaragua."
"Since the United States is the only practical market for Nicaraguan bananas, it is clear that prompt action to restrict access to our market could have given the economic benefits to the Sandinista and his four-page letter, a copy of which was obtained by United Press International.
"At the same time, such an action could send a very positive signal to our friends in the region — that the United States will not continue to be a source of economic vitality to the Sandinistas while they endeavor to disrupt the economic and political systems of their neighbors."
THE SENATOR PROPOSED that Reagan impose restrictions, and promised to sponsor legislation authorizing presidential action if that
was not possible. A spokesman for Helms said receipt of his letter was acknowledged, but nothing further happened.
A spokesman for one banana importing company said he believed the Nicaraguans, using expropriated, government-owned banana plantations started by an American company, were deliberately "dumping" the bananas to endanger the American market and endanger U.S. dollars.
Asked why the White House has taken no action, the import company spokesman said, "Perhaps it has not drawn any attention out there."
During an interview at the Nicaraguan Embassy, Rolando Sevilla, minister counselor for economic affairs, flatly rejected suggestions his nation is dumping on the American market.
SEVILLA SAID THE United States received 40 percent of all Nicaraguan imports prior to the 1979 revolution resulting in the ouster of strongman Anastasiio Somoza. Last year, the figure was 18 percent.
When he was asked why the United States allows an increase in banana imports from Nicaragua, Sevilla said, "because the United States probably needs to fill out its import quota. Nicaragua is close and (had) always traded bananas with the United States. It's just a continuation of it, to fill the U.S. quota of imports."
Acid leak thwarted in Omaha
By United Press International
OMAHA, Neb. — A nitric acid leak from an outdoor storage tank that sent a poisonous cloud drifting over southwest Omaha, forcing thousands of persons to flee, was halted early yesterday.
The leak, which began Sunday night, was contained about five hours after workers first saw the leak. They also found in steel tank at Control Data Corp.
The teak combined with air to form a cloud of poisonous nitric oxide gas, which drifted over the hopes of about 10,000 Omaha residents staying in hotels nearby, Fire Department Capt. Joe Wiegel said.
As it hit the air, the acid formed a yellow-orange cloud that drifted southeast.
Police went door-to-door and cruised neighborhoods with loudspeakers Sunday night warning people to leave their homes, or at least to shut doors and windows, turn off air conditioners and take pets inside.
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