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Monday, October 6. 1986 / University Daily Kansan
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Soviet dissident arrives in U.S. to continue human rights work
NEW YORK — Soviet dissident Yuri Orilov, freed from nearly a decade of internal exile in the deal that allowed a U.S. reporter, Nicholas Daniello, to leave Moscow, arrived in the United States yesterday and pledged to continue the human rights work that led to his banishment.
"I'm very glad I have begun a free life," Orlov said, as he spoke through an interpreter at a brief meeting with reporters after he and his wife, Irina, arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
"I can say whatever I want freely. Now, I can speak my mind about how the Soviet Union should develop." Orlov, 62, has been in poor health but said he felt well.
He said he felt "very complicated" about his release to the West. "I've left my homeland. I've left my native culture, close friends, and this is not easy," he said.
Mentioning other dissidents still exiled in the Soviet Union, Orlov said, "I probably feel guilty in regard to them. Why am I here and they are there?"
As for his plans in the United States, Orlov said, "I promise not only to engage in scientific research but to go on defending the rights of Soviet people. I will continue to express my views."
Fire cripples Soviet submarine
WASHINGTON — A Soviet nuclear submarine crippled at sea by a fire that killed three crewmen was
A Pentagon spokesman said a P-3C Orion submarine-hunting plane spied the Yankee-class submarine about 480 miles east of Bermuda and also said a number of crewmen were "topside" on the surfaced craft.
towed through the Atlantic Ocean by another Soviet vessel yesterday and U.S. planes saw smoke coming from the craft, U.S. officials said.
The Soviets, with unprecedented candor about military matters, informed the United States early Saturday that a fire occurred Friday morning aboard the submarine. The submarine, which was 800 to 1,100 miles east of New York, was carrying nuclear weapons.
Tass, the official Soviet news agency, said three crewmen died in the accident. Experts in Moscow. Tass reported, determined there was no danger of an accidental firing of the weapons or a leak of radioactivity, and U.S. officials agreed with that assessment.
The Pentagon spokesman said that Navy P-3C Orion planes, flying over the area yesterday, spotted smoke coming from the Soviet submarine, but in later passes the planes saw no smoke.
U.S. memo aimed at Gadhafi
WASHINGTON — A State Department memo used to develop a plan to exploit Moammar Gadhafi's paranoia suggested that such a strategy could lead to "a coup or assassination" of the Libyan leader, it was reported yesterday.
However, the Washington Post said the plan, which was approved by President Reagan in August, deleted references encouraging the overthrow or murder of Gadhafi when embracing a wide range of covert, diplomatic and economic efforts to discourage Libyan-sponsored terrorism.
Revelation of the State Department memo was
made by Post writer Bob Woodward, who last week disclosed a "disinformation" program aimed at Gadhafi. The program misled not only the Libyan leader but also the U.S. media about possible U.S.military action and allegations that Gadhafi was planning a new round of terrorism.
The State Department memo, dated Aug. 6, was circulated among senior midlevel officials, the Post said. It quoted the document as saying:
"The document in question is a working paper with no standing as administration policy. Moreover, any inference in the document that a policy option was ever considered to promote the assassination of Gadhafi is wrong."
Nominee awaits final approval
WASHINGTON — On the day he was sworn in as ambassador to Liberia, Edward Perkins was under doctors' orders to stay in a wheelchair because of recent knee surgery. Instead, Perkins, visibly in pain, took the oath leaning on a cane.
Now he will need the same strength, grit and determination in the new job set for him as President Reagan's envoy to South Africa.
For Perkins, the challenge of serving as U.S. ambassador to the white-ruled country at a time of mounting violence and uncertainty there is heightened because he is black.
His nomination came the same week that Congress overrode a presidential veto and imposed tough economic sanctions against South Africa.
Perkins, who was nominated by Reagan last week and is awaiting confirmation by the Senate, is a 58-year-old Oregonian who worked in U.S. government administrative and management positions from 1958 to 1978.
He was appointed deputy chief of mission in Liberia
in 1981, and served as the director of the West African affairs office in Washington. Perkins went back to Liberia in July 1985 as an ambassador.
Congress goes into overtime
WASHINGTON — Having missed its original adjournment date, Congress begins another week of work today with no guarantee that lawmakers will be able to finish and be gone from the Capitol by week's end.
The threat of a post-election "lame duck" session, something almost universally dreaded in Congress, remains a possibility.
If a lot of work is left at the end of this week, lawmakers will have to choose between staying in session, which would disrupt numerous re-election campaign plans, or returning after the election to complete the work.
Congressional leaders had set Friday as the date to end the 99th Congress, but lawmakers were not ready to adjourn.
Negotiations continue on a reconciliation bill that will make necessary spending cuts needed to align Congress with its fiscal 1987 budget. A compromise is expected to be ready for House action at midweek.
A bill to increase the debt ceiling is a "must" measure, but the House has not yet appointed negotiators to work with senators on the bill. The Senate version has several controversial provisions that could take some time to resolve.
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