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Wednesday, October 26, 1994
NATION/WORLD
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Cubans may win freedom in immigration suit.
The Associated Press
MIAMI — A federal judge yesterday blocked the United States from returning Cuban refugees to their homeland, intervening just one minute before a military plane with 23 of them was to leave for Havana.
An immigration raceied to a pay phone to stop the flight from the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay after U.S. District Judge C. Clyde Atkins issued his order, pending a hearing today.
The order was sought by attorneys who filed a lawsuit Monday to win
Attorneys for the refugees argued that the Cubans are being forced to return to Cuba by inhumane conditions in the U.S. camps.
freedom for the more than 30,000 Cuban refugees held at Guantanamo Bay and in Panama.
President Clinton has refused to let the refugees into the United States, saying they must return to Fidel Castro's Cuba and apply for immigration through routine channels.
Reynaldo Bello, a refugee at Guantanamo, said that he would rather die than return to Cuba. He said most refugees at the U.S. base felt the same way.
Atkins agreed to halt all such departures while he hears lawyers' arguments.
Miami Mayor Xavier Suarez, one of the attorneys who filed the lawsuit. "All political solutions are not working. It's time for a legal solution."
"We are here not to go back," Bello said. "We want to be reuenced with our families. What would we do in Cuba now?"
the lawsuit seeks immigration
"This is the last resort," said former
hearings for the refugees, the release of minors and medical treatment for 250 pregnant women.
Thousands of Cubans fied their homeland in August and September on makeshift rafts and leaky boats, seeking freedom in the United States.
The wave of refugees prompted Gov. Lawton Chiles to demand federal help. Responding to Chiles' plea, Clinton reversed the government's 28-year-old policy of welcoming Cuban immigrants with open arms and ordered that all refugees be detained indefinitely.
Noriega's wealth from CIA, drugs
"That was the whole point. Was it drug money?" defense attorney Jon May said yesterday. "It was our contention it came from other sources."
The Associated Press
MIAMI — Prosecutors used Manuel Noriega's wealth to argue he got rich running drugs. In a newly declassified appeal, the defense claims it was barred from showing that much of the money came from U.S. intelligence sources.
The CIA admitted paying Noriega $160,000 for years of political favors, but the defense claims in the appeal of his drug conviction and 40-year prison sentence that Noriega actually was paid more than $10 million.
In the appeal, the defense painted a partial picture of foreign-policy favors performed by Noriega at the behest of the United States. Three sections of the legal brief were blacked out by censors.
Size, effects of Russian oil spill unknown
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — An oil spill from a broken pipeline has reached two rivers and drenched tundra in Russia's far north, but Russian officials insisted yesterday it poses no serious environmental threat.
The size of the spill was unclear. U.S. Energy Department officials said it could range from 4.5 million gallons to more than 80 million gallons. The higher estimate would be eight times the size of the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska.
The spill, first reported in yesterday's New York Times, extends over the frozen ground like a ribbon about 3 feet deep, 40 feet wide and 6 to 7 miles long, Deputy Energy Secretary Bill White deputy yesterday in Washington.
Alexander Avdoshin, a spokesman for Russia's Ministry of Emergency Situations, said the pipeline burst in February. He said that he had no figure on the size of the spill but called it "considerably smaller" than 80 million gallons.
There have been several minor spills along the aging pipeline, about 1,000 miles northeast of Moscow, dating back to 1988, officials said.
Valery Ilyin, a spokesman for Kominteft, which operates the line, said the most serious spill of crude occurred in late August, when 4.3 million gallons escaped.
An emergency pipeline was built to bypass the area, and a 25-foot-high dike was built to contain the spill.
Heavy rain washed out the dike Oct. 1 near the town of Usinsk, and oil spilled into the Kolva and Usa rivers, tributaries of the Pechora, a salmon-spawning river which flows into the Arctic Ocean.
U.S. looks to sell African nations on regional peacekeeping
The Associated Press
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, on a mission to encourage regional peacekeeping that would keep American troops out of Africa, asked Ivory Coast yesterday to send soldiers to Liberia.
Ivorian and U.S. officials said Defense Minister Leon Konan Koffi
responded with a litany of his army's equipment shortages and the country's economic woes.
Talbott got a similar reception Monday in Ghana, where President Jerry Rawlings said his country could not keep peacekeepers in Liberia unless Washington contributes money and equipment.
The No. 2 foreign policy official in the United States has heard the same
refrain from other countries on his first trip to Africa — a seven-nation tour including stops in Zimbabwe, Malawi, Burundi, Zaire, and Cape Verde.
Washington already has contributed millions of dollars and equipment to the combined West African army in Liberia, a war-torn country founded by freed American slaves in 1837.
LONDON — Prime Minister John Major suggested yesterday that the owner of London's best-known department store tried to blackmail him, and the second government minister in less than a week resigned in a growing corruption scandal.
Corporate Affairs Minister Neil Hamilton, whose job included responsibility for business ethics, submitted his resignation just hours after pledging to remain in office.
Hamilton had been accused of accepting payments from Harrods department store in exchange for posing questions in Parliament. He denied the allegations, and an inquiry instituted by Major cleared him. But, Major said Hamilton quit over unspecified unconnected allegations.
Harrods' blackmail attempts leads to second minister resignation this week
Major also told Parliament that Mohamed Al Fayed, the famed store's Egyptian-born owner, sent an intermediary a few weeks ago to try to make a deal with him seeking the withdrawal of a critical government report on Al Fayed in return for hushing up allegations against government officials.
"I replied it would be impossible for me to see Mr. Al Fayed in the circumstances," Major said.
"If ministers had been guilty of wrongdoing, as Mr. Al Fayed alleged, I was not going to make any sort of deal, regardless of the cost to the government's reputation."
Al Fayed, who bought Harrods in 1985, denied trying to blackmail Major. In a statement yesterday, he said he simply wanted Major "to know of my experiences in order that he could take action against malpractice."
Aristide faces problems in rebuilding
The Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Forevidence of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's troubles in reassembling a government in Haiti, look no further than the naming of his new prime minister.
The president of Haiti's lower house, Frantz Robert Monde, announced yesterday that Aristide had designated wealthy businessman Smarck Michel as premier-in-waiting. Monde showed the Chamber of Deputies a letter from the newly returned president and said Aristide was expected to convene the body within 48 hours to ratify Michel.
Aristide consult with the heads of both houses before officially announcing his choice as prime minister. Monde said he met with Aristide on Monday; Senate President Firmin Jean-Louis has been nowhere to be found.
But the Constitution requires that
Sources told The Associated Press that Jean-Louis left for the northeast region Friday to campaign and was expected to return to the capital yesterday.
The fact that the absence of one prominent senator could bring the process of restoring democracy to a standstill illustrates the challenges Aristide faces in trying to form a functioning government from the ashes of three years of brutal military rule.
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