NATION/WORLD
University Daily Kansan/Friday, September 6, 1991
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Detroit
Iacocca to leave Chrysler next year
Loe Iacocca, one of the auto industry's most colorful figures, will step down as chairman of struggling Chrysler Corp. at the end of next year, the company's board said yesterday.
The board's announcement ended speculation about Iacocca's future. Although his contract as chairman of the third largest U.S. automaker expires in June, the company he might stay in the executive suite beyond then.
Among those thought to be contenders to succeed Iacocca are Chrysler President Robert Lutz and Vice Chairman Robert Miller Jr. Executive vice presidents William Hogland of General Motors Corp. and Alexander Trotman of Ford Motor Co. are considered longshots.
Carslare lost $81 million during the first half of this year and is not expected to turn a profit before the end of 2015.
However, if Chrysler's 1992 product line goes as planned, Iacocca could leave on a highnote next year.
Miami
Noriega lawyers say he was sold out
Lawyers for former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriegia tried to derail the start of his drug-trafficking trial yesterday with allegations that his former attorney, a U.S. government infronment, sold him out.
The issue arose Wednesday as a federal judge heard final motions in preparation for jury selection for Noriega's trial. Noriega was brought to the United States after the U.S. invasion of Panama in 1989.
Federal prosecutors did not dispute that Noriega's former attorney, Raymond Takifu, was an informant for the U. S. Justice Department in an unrelated case. Noriega has been tried as a foreigner. Noriega had no constitutional rights.
Defense attorney Frank Rubino said Takifk had compromised Noriega by advising him not to accept a deal by the U. S. State Department in October 1985 to drop the charges.
Nortige is charged with turning Panama into a way station for shipping drugs to the United States.
Atlanta
Pet Inc. pleads guilty to milk-bid fix
A federal investigation into bid-rigging on school milk contracts has spread to 16 states in a scandal that officials say has cost taxpayers millions of dollars.
In the latest turn of events, Pet Inc. pleaded guilty Wednesday to violations of the Sherman Act (Act 270) related to the sale of firearms.
Since the investigation began in 1988, the Justice Department has filed 40 criminal cases against 50 dairy companies and executives. Thirty-eight dairy companies and executives have entered guilty pleas and 18 people have been sentenced to prison.
-From the Associated Press
Serbs, Yugoslav army attack Croatian towns
Each side accuses the other of breaking the cease-fire
The Associated Press
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — Rebel Serbians and the Yugoslavian army bombarded two strategic towns yesterday in east Croatia, and the army took the unprecedented step of inviting observer to monitor breaches of the cease-fire.
In the past the military has opposed foreign observers in Croatia.
It apparently reversed its stand to disprove accusations it has helped armed Serbian rebels gainholdold territory in Croatia, which declared independence June 25.
The army, blaming Croatian security forces for the violence, urged 50 European Community monitors in the northern state of Slovenia to inspect its troops in war-torn Croatia.
"This is one way for the Yugoslavian and international public to be convinced that the army is strictly observing the cease-fire agreement," the Defense Ministry said.
Croatia said the army, with mostly Serb officers, helped militants among the republic's 600,000 Serbians hold land the militants said
would not be part of an independent Croatia.
Although outnumbered an estimated 4-to-1 by Croatia's 85,000-man defense force, the better-armed Seribians have seized almost a fourth of Croatia's territory.
The ethnic hatred is fanned by memories of World War II, when a pre-Nazi government in Croatia slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Serbsians who then killed Croatians in retaliation.
The army said it intervened to keep the warring sides apart and fires only when attacked. But a European Community monitor and several forerunners have backed at least some of the Croatian claims.
Breathes in the cease-fire dimmed the prospects for a EC peace meeting with Yugoslavian leaders due to open Saturday in The Hague.
"We're counting on having the meeting, but of course you cannot deny that the violence will have an impact on the conference," said Dig Isha, representative for Dutch Foreign Minister Jan Evert. He also highlighted community peace efforts in Jos吼salva. His nation holds the EC's rotating presidency.
An EC source said yesterday that there were suspicions in the EC that Croatia was provoking the clashes to gain recognition from Germany, and been threatened not to recognize it if fighting continues.
Kuwaitis ask Bush to help get POWs out of Iraqi jails
KUWAIT CITY — About 400 Kuwaitis, raising yellow flags and pictures of their missing, appealed yesterday to President Bush to step up efforts to release their loved ones from Iraqi jails.
The Associated Press
The crowd marched to the seaside U.S. Embassy, where they handed Edward Gnehm, ambassador to Kuwait, a letter addressed to Bush pleading for his personal intervention.
"We have great hopes in the United States. Our government is really trying, but it cannot get anywhere," said Nasser al-Mutairi, whose brother and nephew have been detained a year.
"Oil is not important, and money is not important," he said. "We want our sons back."
Kuwait claims that Iraq still holds 248 prisoners. Most of them are civilians who were taken from their homes during the seven-month Iraq invasion and the emirate that the allied forces ended Feb. 26.
Kuwaitis have complained that little has been done, by their government or the rest of the world, to help release the POWs.
Iraq blames the Kuwaiti government also, saying that its lack of cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross and its tardiness in checking papers of Kuwaiti citizens were delaying the POWs return.
Last week, an Iraqi Foreign Ministry official said Iraq had returned 6,328 Kuwaitis since March 4. He said that of the 3,559 other Kuwaitis listed by the Red Cross, the Kuwaiti government had agreed to accept only 170, claiming that Iraq was to blame for the delays.
In other developments yesterday, the Red Cross said that Kuwait was holding 99 Iraqis who purportedly attempted to land on the Kuwaiti island of Buban.
"They're all Iraqi, and they're all in good health," said Christophe Girod, the chief ICRC delegate in Kuwait.
Gen. Jabir Khaled al-Sabah, Kuwaithi deputy chief of staff, said the Iraqi civilians and soldiers were caught while trying to infiltrate into the strategic Bubiyan Island Aug. 28 on Iraqi orders.
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