NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, October 3, 1994
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Troops search for Haitian weapons
The Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — American military patrols rolled through the capital searching for weapons yesterday after seizing 1,000 weapons at an outpost and hundreds more at a paramilitary training base.
In another sign of change in Haiti, the voice of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was heard on state radio for the first time in years. State media, which had banned his voice, was under the control of Haiti's coup leaders until American troops seized the installations Friday.
U. S. military police guard dogs sniffed through the Boutillier area overlooking the capital, and convoys of armored vehicles snaked through Port-au-Prince and suburban Petionville.
American soldiers also searched warehouses and factories owned by
wealthy supporters of Haiti's coup leaders and detained Tomeo Haloum, security director for Haitian army chief Raoul Cedras, and a member of a black-masked, machine-gun-carrying militia known as the "Ninjas."
"That's the mission we came here to do — disarm the military and go from there," said Army Chief Warrant Officer Roland Van Dorn, who had been in one of the helicopters providing surveillance for U.S. ground troops.
The U.S. troops are charged with providing stability and security in Haiti during the transition period before Oct. 15, when the nation's top military leaders are to resign, making way for Aristide's return.
The American mission was being debated yesterday in Washington, where the House was expected to vote this week on setting a pull-out date for American troops.
*umnistration was "on the edge of disaster." He told NBC that U.S. troops should be pulled out "as quickly as possible, and I mean weeks — not months, not years."
Rep. Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., said the
White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta told CBS that American troops would "be a little more aggressive ... in regard to disarming" the Haitian paramilitary.
American military police removed semi-automatic weapons, machine guns, tear-gas grenades and rifles from the Admiral Killick Naval Station in Bizoton, west of the capital, late Saturday. The navy base had been used as a storage depot and training center for Haitian paramilitary units who disrupted three pro-democracy marches last week.
American Special Forces units seized 1,000 weapons at the northern border town of Ouanaminthe, a military official said yesterday.
Trade war avoided by U.S.-Japanese talks
By Laura King
The Associated Press
TOKYO — In Washington, D.C., the talk was of a trade war being staved off. In Japan, they're wondering whether this is just a lull in the fighting.
The Clinton administration is hailing a trio of market-opening trade accords reached over the weekend that should result in billions of dollars more in American goods' sales and services in Japan.
U. S. officials also say Saturday's agreements on insurance, flat glass and government procurement of telecommunications and medical equipment could help put the U.S.-Japanese trade relationship on new footing.
ANALYSIS
In Tokyo, the accords were welcomed, but much is being made of the lingering threat of sanctions over autos and auto parts.
Japanese news reports about the agreements were peppered with the phrase "sanbyaku ichi", or 301, a section of U.S. trade law that provides for keeping an eye on Japanese practices in that sector during talks.
Washington said it would begin talks over the next 12 to 18 months on opening Japan's auto market. But it refrained from citing Japan under the far harsher "super" 301 provision, which can be used to unilaterally punish countries designated as unfair traders with the United States.
Trade Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, Japan's point man in the talks, said even the possibility of sanctions if the new round of auto talks failed was "very regrettable."
Japan has said previously it might break off talks under sanction threats.
One recurring pitfall of U.S.-Japanese trade dealings has been a tendency to reach an accord, then disagree.
this time around, though, both sides may be prepared to use differing interpretations of the accord to declare victory.
"This is a good deal for the United States and a good deal for Japan," said Mickey Kantor, a U.S. trade representative.
Democrats seek higher turnout
WASHINGTON — Alarmed by primary election trends and the defensive tone of their campaigns, Democratic officials are increasingly worried that low turnout among the party's core voters will tip close contests in favor of an energized Republican Party.
The Associated Press
The worries have persisted and even grown despite an $8 million-plus national party effort aimed at boosting Democratic turnout on Election Day. As a result, party strategists find themselves still searching for ways to motivate Democrats to vote in elections less than six weeks away.
In the past week, party leaders settled on steering President Clinton to more black churches to implore that vital constituency to vote and warning senior citizens that the House GOP's new platform would lead to tax breaks for the rich and devastating Social Security and Medicare cuts, which Republicans deny.
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee director Don Foley is urging candidates to tell voters that now is not the time to turn back to Reaganomics.
Also, Democratic National Committee Chairman David Wilhelm has asked his finance staff to try to raise money beyond that committed to campaign and state party assistance. This money would be used for national party advertising in the campaign's closing days.
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