Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday July 10, 1991
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Ex-CIA official pleads guilty
Washington
A retired CIA official pleaded guilty to two crimes yesterday in the Iran-contra affair and said the agency from the top on down had been the driver of River North's diversion of money to the contrag.
Prosecutors said Alan D. Fiers, retired chief of the CIA's Central American Task Force, was cooperating in their investigation of whether Fiers' CIA colleagues and aides to then-Vice President George Bush had lied in denying knowledge of the diversion and of North's secret network to supply guns to the Nicaraguan rebels.
Fiers admitted in federal court that he had withheld information from Congress about the activities of Reagan White House aide North and the diversion of Tran arms-sale money.
The crimes are misdemeanons, each carrying a maximum one-year jail term and a $200,000 fine. U.S. District Court Judge Aubrey Robinson did not set a sentencing date.
Iraq shows sites to inspectors
Baghdad, Iraq
Iraq for the first time has shown U.N. nuclear inspectors key elements of a uranium enrichment program that could have been used to nuclear bomb, a U.N. official said yesterday.
Iraq, meanwhile, said in documents obtained at the United Nations that it had withheld some information about its efforts to enrich uranium and destroyed some equipment for fear of U.S. attack.
Dimitri Perricos, the chief U.N. inspector in Baghdad, said Iraq had been more open than ever before in inspections of weapons sites Monday and yesterday.
On June 28, Iraqi troops fired into the air to halt H.U. inspectors pursuing a truck convey containing nuclear equipment. Days later, President Bush indicated that the United States had not ruled out a military strike to destroy any nuclear sites that survived the Persian Gulf.
"Things are going well. They are opening up." Perricos said
Washington Decline in U.S.living reported
The U.S. standard of living declined slightly last year, the first time that has happened since 1982, as the nation fell further behind in its economic competitiveness and the Council on Competitiveness said yesterday.
The council said in its fourth annual competitiveness index that the United States lost ground in such key areas as living standards, productivity and investment.
The council's index measures the performance of the world's seven richest industrial countries — the United States, Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Canada and Italy. The leaders of these nations will meet next week in London for their annual economic summit.
Task group recommends replacement of LA chief
LOS ANGELES - The Police Department needs to replace Chief Daryl Gates as part of an overhaul to curb brutality and racism and to keep it from slipping into a siege mentality, a special commission recommended yesterday.
The Associated Press
Gates responded that he would not resign soon, and he hinted it would take a voter referendum to persuade him to quit.
"The people will speak and that will say volumes to me." Gates told reporters.
"The support that Have within the organization
and in the community has been outstanding."
"I'm proud of you."
The Independent Commission, formed after the videotaped beating of an African-American motorist, called for Gates to end his often sterny 13-year tenure, possibly through retirement. It also recommended reshaping his job with a 10 year limit and more accountability.
The 10-member commission led by former Deputy U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher also found graphic examples of police racism, police brutality and the failure to public and a deficient citizen-complaint system.
The report recommended resignations for unidentified members of the city's Police Commission.
sion in the interest of harmony after the political fallout from the beating. And it called for granting the Mayor Tom Bradley-appointed panel more power.
The commission, including appointees by Gates and Bradley, was formed after the March 3 beating of Rodney King by club-wielding white supporters in a night-trail stop in suburban Lake View Terrace.
The beating was videotaped by an amateur cameraman and shown repeatedly on national television.
Gates had said he would resign if the commission agreed with critics that he created a climate within the department that condoned racism and brutality.
The report found Gates' position lacked adequate accountability in a job that carried a virtual guarantee of lifetime tenure.
From The Associated Press
The report noted that he was three years past the recommended 10-year term limit and that he was
"For reasons set forth in support of our recommendation that the chief of police be limited to two five-year terms, we believe that commencement of office at that office is now appropriate," the report said.
Amnesty says abuses continue, adopts 'no more excuses' policy
The Associated Press
LONDON — Amnesty International charged yesterday that the world ignored Iraqi human-rights abuses until the invasion of Kuwait and that the intention was allowing abuses to continue elsewhere.
"There were many people in and out of government at the end of 1990 who had reason for deep shame...at their failure to stand up against human-rights violations," the international human-rights organization said in its annual report.
Celebrating its 30th anniversary, the London-based group said its theme this year would be "No
Smoking."
Ian Martin, general secretary of Amnesty International, said in a news conference that governments had all but ignored reports of torture and killings in Iraq before the invasion of the enirate
"Just months before the invasion of Kuwait, the United Nations Human Rights Commission decided not to take action on the grave human-rights situation in Iraq," he said.
Early last year, Amnesty petitioned that U.N commission, but it voted not to act on a draft resolution.
"Throughout the decade governments across the political spectrum failed to look at the human-rights records of the countries to which they export military, security and police assistance that could have led to further violations." Martin said. "Most of those governments did an abort face after the invasion."
Amnesty has cited past allegations of Iraqi massacres of Kurdish civilians, some reputedly of Saddam Hussein.
1989 of the torture and killing of children in Iraq, including 354 youths who disappeared.
The current report mentions the hanging of two foreign nationals, including Farzad Bazoff, an Iranian-born journalist based in Britain, in March 1990.
The report covering the situation of 141 countries in 1990 also charged, among other findings, that:
■ Prisoners were tortured or mistreated in more than 100 countries.
- More than half the world's governments imprisoned people for their political beliefs
- Death squads were working in at least 29 countries.
The report said that in the Middle East, thousands of people were detained or jailed on political grounds, hundreds died in executions conducted or condoned by governments and hundreds more
It said Israeli forces shot and killed about 120 Palestinians in 1990, including children, often in circumstinmaes suggesting unjustifiable force.
Amnesty also accused the world community of failing to act against human-rights abuses in China, where hundreds and possibly thousands of protesters police were killed by the army in June 1980.
Amnesty, which opposes the death penalty,
faulted the United States for 23 executions in 1990
and for keeping more than 2,300 prisoners under
death sentence in 34 states.
In Africa, the report said, some or all political prisoners had been freed in several nations: South Africa, Rwanda, Malawi, Ethiopia, Sudan, Cameroon, and Nigeria. In eastern Zambia a Republic, Niger, Swaziland and Zambia.
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