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Wednesday, September 9, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
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Aides say Bush was not informed of North's dealings with contras
WASHINGTON — Aides to Vice President George Bush received a stream of clues indicating that Lt. Col. Oliver North was "chairman of the board" of a secret effort to resupply contra rebels in Nicaragua, but the aides never told Bush, according to depositions and documents made public yesterday.
One Bush associate, Army Col. Samuel J. Watson, said the vice president was not told of allegations that a group of profiters with unsavvy connections was overcharging the Contras for weapons and supplies because the information was unproven.
U.S.. Soviets discussing emigration rules
WASHINGTON — The United States and the Soviet Union are discussing an overhaul of Soviet emigration rules to make them less arbitrary, Secretary of State George P. Shultz said yesterday.
make this process work better, be more humane and understandable." Shultz said in an interview.
"We're looking to see if there aren't some procedures that could be worked through that would
He and other State Department officials welcomed reports from Moscow that mathematician Isofi I. Begun and a handful of other Jewish dissidents would be granted exit visas.
Search continues after Venezuelan floods
MARACAY, Venezuela — Civilian volunteers joined troops and civil defense units yesterday in the search for survivors of a 10-foot deep tide of mud that swept hundreds of cars off a mountain road.
said there were 150 known dead in the mudslide and floods, 250 missing, 1,000 people injured and 20,000 homeless.
No official casualty figures have been released. Unofficial reports
The mudslide roared down the mountain Sunday after torrential rains, wiping out three miles of the road.
Western fires' smoke hinders firefighters
Firefighters made slow but steady progress yesterday against huge forest fires still burning out of control in the West, but thick smoke sickened some of them, kept trucks from hauling their gear and grounded aircraft.
One area of fires in northern California was so darkened by smoke that trucks had to inch along behind a man carrying a flashlight to find the sides of forest roads, said Forest Service spokesman Pat Irwin in Yreka.
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WASHINGTON — The Navy's escort operations in the Persian Gulf are costing taxpayers between $15 million and $20 million a month in extra, unbudgeted expenses, the Pentagon said yesterday.
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Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger, in an earlier TV interview, said the United States will maintain its expanded force in the gulf until the threat to international shipping diminishes.
"I don't think it'll go 40 years, but we've been in the gulf 40 years. In Europe, the objective is to prevent and deter a Soviet invasion of Europe. In the gulf, it is to get shipping through and as that gets more difficult because the threat increases, then we have to put more forces in."
Until yesterday, the Pentagon had steadily declined to estimate the cost of the gulf operations, characterizing the expense as relatively small and incremental.
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Appearing on ABC's "Good Morning America," Weinberger likened
Webb said he thinks U.S. allies now are "beginning to recognize their own interests and their own obligations in the area" by deploying warships to the gulf.
"We've been in Europe with troops to make sure there isn't a Soviet invasion for over 40 years, and this (the Persian Gulf operation) is a forward deployment of the Navy," Weinberger said.
BONN, West Germany — East German leader Erich Honecker yesterday demanded full West German diplomatic recognition of his country and secured a promise of a visit by Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
Navy Secretary James H. Webb, meanwhile, responding to reports he had opposed the military buildup, said yesterday evening that he supported the gulf operations but had been concerned initially by the administration's unilateral intervention without the aid of U.S. allies.
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German leaders close summit
The two-day summit between the East German and West German leaders was marked by Kohl's insistence on a goal of German reunification and Honecker's flat rejection of the idea.
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At the end of the summit, the West German newspaper Bild quoted a high-ranking West German official
Honecker's trip Moments at a dinner he hosted last night. Honecker urged West Germans to accept the fact of two German nations and warned them to avoid "sweet dreams" about reunification.
as saying Honecker had lifted shoot-to-kill orders during escape attempts along the border.
Kohl responded by saying, "On the fundamental issues, we are as far apart as ever. No one could expect anything else.
At a news conference, Kohl's chief of staff, Wolfgang Schauele, spoke in general terms about the discussions on the shoot-to-kill orders but did not comment directly on the report by Bild.
"There was a certain agreement to the extent that both sides want there to be no shooting on the border." Schaeuble said. He declined to be more specific.
talks with Kohl, who condemned the shoot-to-kill orders at the start of Honecker's trip Monday.
According to Bild, the 75-year-old Honecker made the assurances in
"I want to say once again on behalf of the federal government — we are firm about the unity of the German nation," he added.
Reagan pledges support
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, vowing "we will not abandon our friends in Nicaragua," said yesterday that the contrais should be guaranteed help from the United States if a newly signed Central American peace accord fails.
The Associated Press
Reagan also criticized the congressional budget process as not being reliable or credible and called anew for a balanced budget amendment and new veto authority over spending.
"In recent weeks the issue in Central America seems at times to have become confused — who is proposing what, how many likely votes are there on Capitol Hill for this or that," Reagan said in a speech to political appointees.
The president used his address to outline priorities for his final 16 months in office.
"But the real issue has never changed: the real issue is peace and democracy in Central America and the national security of the United States," he said.
He said it would be a tough fight to win Senate confirmation of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court, but he predicted victory. He said critics were wrong when they claimed Bork was some kind of right-wing ideologue.
The president devoted a single sentence to superpower relations when he said negotiations were under way.
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