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Nation/World
Friday, Sept. 27, 1985
4 French officers jailed
United Press International
PARIS — Five military officers suspected of leaking information to journalists about the French secret service role in bombing the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior were charged yesterday with compromising national security.
The charges came a day after Prime Minister Laurent Fabius went before the nation in a television broadcast and placed responsibility for the attack in New Zealand on the defense minister and chief of intelligence, both of them recently fired from their jobs.
Military authorities held four of the officers charged in the case in isolation. The fifth, suspected of acting as an intermediary between the four officers and the press, was released on his own recognizance.
The four detained officers were identified as Col. Joseph Fourier, 53, assistant to the secret service's chief of counter-espionage and one of the agency's longest-serving officers; Capt. Alain Borras, 32; Petty Officer Richard Guillet, 32, and Sgt. Maj. Bernard Davier, 27.
The fifth, Capt Paul Barril, 39, was released. Barril, convicted in 1983 of planting evidence to frame
members of an Irish nationalist group and banned from military activities for five years, was not on active duty.
All five were charged with compromising national security for allegedly leaking information to journalists about the scandal and face sentences one to five years in jail.
The government at first denied its intelligence officers had any role, but Fabius on Sunday admitted that French agents bombed the ship and covered up their actions from an official inquiry.
The French press first linked the secret service to the July bombing of the Greenpeace flagship, which was in New Zealand to lead a protest of French nuclear testing at the Mururoa atoll. The blast killed a photographer working with the anti-nuclear group.
Fabius' Wednesday night address was seen by many as an attempt to draw the line of responsibility at ousted Defense Minister Charles Hernu and halt the political storm before it further eroded President Francois Mitterrand's personal credibility.
Breaking a weeklong silence, the presidential Elysee palace said Mitterrand was satisfied with Fabius' comments.
Quota on textiles proposed
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WASHINGTON — The House Ways and Means Committee, hoping to send a tough message to the Reagan administration and America's trading partners, approved a bill yesterday to limit textile imports.
The panel approved the measure, sponsored by Rep. Ed Jenkins, D-Ga., by voice vote and without amendment. It now goes to the House where more than 290 members have already signed on as co-sponsors. More than half of the Senate has sponsored a similar measure.
"This industry is on the verge of going under if something is not done," Jenkins said in support of his bill. "It seems we can't have the attention of both houses (of Congress) or whatever administration until we crawl bloody to the front door and I'm now out in the front yard ready to come up the steps."
At the White House, deputy press secretary Edward Djerejian said, "Our opposition to protectionism is well known." U.S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter has said President Reagan would almost
certainly veto a textile import quotas bill.
The Jenkins bill establishes quotas for clothing and textile imports, rolling back import levels for Brazil and 11 Asian countries that account for the bulk of U.S. imports.
Other countries would be restricted to last year's import levels and all countries would be permitted to increase their textile and apparel exports to the United States by 1 percent a year thereafter, except developing nations, which could increase their exports by as much as 6 percent a year.
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WASHINGTON — Education Secretary William Bennett, calling bilingual education a failure, said yesterday that he would seek legal changes to give students whose primary language is not English better chances to master the language and succeed in America.
Some Hispanic and education groups and members of Congress, despite assurances to the contrary, immediately questioned whether the administration's real goal was to gut 17-year-old Bilingual Education Act.
"We don't want to get rid of the program, we want to improve it." Education Undersecretary Gary Bauer said. "We're willing to take some political heat for the benefit of these kids."
Bauer said that if Congress approved proposed changes to give schools more flexibility in choosing teaching methods, he and Bennett would push the White House to increase financing.
Federal law requires schools to
teach students in their native language until they reach a certain level of competency in English.
Supporters say this allows students to keep up with their studies, but critics say that too often the students stay in courses taught in their native tongues and never learn to speak English fluently.
"After 17 years of federal involvement and after $1.7 billion in federal funding, we have no evidence that the children whom we sought to help — that the children who deserve our help — have benefited," Bennett said in a speech prepared for delivery in New York.
John Trasvina, an attorney with the Mexican-American Legal Defense Education Fund, citing figures such as rising achievement and reading scores by Hispanics, said, "Bilingual education is working."
"While Bennett is saying more flexibility (in teaching methods), we are afraid what he really is saying is English only" in the classroom, Trasvina said.
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