University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 3, 1991
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La Paz, Bolivia
Failed drug eradication could slow millions in aid
Bolivia could lose $22 million in U.S. aid for falling behind on its target for eradicating coca plants, the raw material for cocaine.
Bolivian officials said a rise in the black market price for cape leaves had discouraged poor farmers from voluntarily participating in the eradication program, which pays $2.90 per 1/2 acres of cape fields destroyed.
coca fields was suspended last month after a confrontation between farmers and Agriculture Department eradication led to a farmer's death.
Also, forced eradication of illegal
Bruce Wharton, press attach to the U.S. Embassy, said yesterday that failure to meet the target of eradicating 17,290 acres of coca in October will be the final third of this year's U.S. economic aid, which is $2 million.
Manama, Bahrain
Other countries helped Iraq develop nuclear arms
Documents seized by U.N. experts in Baghdad show many foreign countries helped Iraq's clandestine program to develop nuclear arms, a senior member of the U.N. team said yesterday.
A source said that the U.N. nuclear agency was threatening to publicy name those companies if the Security Council did not.
"We believe it's in everybody's interest — red faces or no — that information become public."
said the official, whose agency in Vienna, Austria, has coordinated six inspection missions seeking to dismantle "baddad"'s atomic weapons potential.
Although the agency wants the foreign suppliers named, it has decided it will not identify, even to Security Council members, Iraqi jobs involved because of concerns for their safety, the source said.
Port-Au-Prince, Haiti
Army chief warns ousted president not to return
The nation's army chief said yesterday that the military would hand over power to Parliament, but warned ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide not to attempt a return from exile.
president not to return
Brig. Gen. Raoul Cedars also claimed he and others had protectively written from rank-and-file soldiers who were under siege, which is believed to have claimed
more than 100 lives.
Aristide, who accused Cedras of leading the coup and called him power mad, flew from Venezuela to Washington to urge the United States and other members of the Organization of American States to help restore him to power in the troubled Caribbean nation.
From the Associated Press
Philippines sets base timetable
U.S. says will accept deadline
The Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines — Corazon Aquino, president of the Philippines, said yesterday that her government would abandon a drive to keep the Sea Bay navy base open and would expand United States three years to pull out.
In Washington, Dick Cheney, secretary of defense, said, "We're prepared to abide by whatever decision the Philipines government makes."
But several senators who oppose the U.S. military presence said the timetable was too long for the 7,000 U.S. troops to leave Subic, which the United States has had since it seized the Philippines from Sinai in 1898.
If, in fact, the Philippines sets a three-year deadline for a U.S. with
drawal from Subic, Cheney said they would meet the deadline.
The Senate voted 12-11 on Sept. 16 to reject an agreement under which the United States would give up Clark Air Base next year but keep Sucic for 10 more years in return for $20 million in annual compensation.
Aquino was unhappy with the vote and initially said she would hold a referendum to save Subic, the largest U.S. naval base in Asia.
But constitutional experts and many of her own supporters said a referendum could not overturn the Senate that would lead to a constitutional crisis.
"I don't think there is any reason anymore for a referendum," Aquino said at a news conference yesterday.
She said her three-year withdrawal plan had the support of at least 15 of the country's 23 senators. It was unclear whether she would even need Senate concurrence, but the administration wants the support of two-thirds of the Senate to preclude any constitutional dispute.
The Subic base is next to Olongapo, a city of about 300,000 people that is 50 miles west of Manila. A group of business executives and politicians there had planned to begin collecting signatures Sunday for a popular vote. More than 45,000 Filipinos work at the base and thousands of others depend on spending by the U.S. troops for their livelihood.
Overall, however, there was little enthusiasm for saving the base.
Aquino asked the senators to sign a resolution prepared by her office that stated support for the three-year
timetable for the U.S. withdrawal. Twelve did so, and others said they would study the resolution.
Some senators opposed Aquino's plan outright.
Corazon Aquino
Sen. Juan
Ponce Enrile
said a three-year withdrawal would be, in effect, an extension of the 1947 base agreement and that he would have been entitled to U.S. troops more than a year to leave.
Some base supporters hope that if the United States does not remove a substantial number of forces by the president, the environment will reverse the Senate vote.
Soviets curtail request for Western aid
Reasons for asking for $4.5 billion less unknown; most aid marked for tons of food
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union has cut its提请 for Western humanitarian aid by nearly a third to 10.2 billion, an amount described today as a "minimal necessary level" by Mikhail Gorbachev's representative.
Asked about the new aid figure delivered Tuesday to European Community officials, representative Andrie Gretchev said the Soviet presi- tive had acted after reassessing the Soviet Union's resources for meeting needs this winter.
by the Soviets sounded a bit high.
Michael Eunser, head of the EC delegation, said Tuesday that the Soviets were seeking less aid, but he gave no explanation for the change.
Senior U.S. officials said last month that the $14.7 billion in aid being sought
Graceh said that during a meeting with EC officials, Gorbachev "expressed his gratitude to Western
Mikhail Gorbachev
countries for their readiness to provide economic aid."
"The president confirmed that the Soviet Union wants to bring the volume of aid down to a minimal necessary level," the representative told the Soviet news agency Tass.
Grachev said EC officials expressed readiness to speed up aid, particularly in providing food for the winter and helping nation's inefficient agriculture system.
The Soviet government has said the country does not face famine this winter. It said, however, that northern cities — including Moscow and St.
Petersburg — were likely to face food shortages because of the near collapse of the centralized distribution system.
In a letter last month to Jacques Delors, the EC commission president, the Soviets asked for millions of tons of food that it valued at $1.5 billion.
The rest of the $14.7 billion in aid was requested from other Western nations.
The Kremlin's request includes 5.5 million tons of grain, 900,000 tons of sugar, 800,000 tons of meat, 350,000 tons of butter, 300,000 tons of vegetable fat, 300,000 tons of flour, 50,000 tons of baby food and 30,000 tons of malt.
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