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Nation/World briefs Washington
Washington
Japanese holdings in U.S. soar
University Daliv Kansan / Wednesdav, July 3, 1991
The United States retained its unenvied position as the world's largest international investment debtor in 1990 as direct Japanese holdings increased by 42.4 percent, the government reported yesterday.
The Commerce Department said that the increase in Japanese investments helped Japan solidify its hold as the foreign nation with the largest investment in the United States with $83.5 billion.
Britain retained its position as the largest holder of direct assets in the United States, defined at at least 10 percent ownership of a business, with holdings of $108 billion. However, the 2.4 percent increase in British investment was just one-tenth the pace of Japan's gain.
For the first time, the Commerce Department gave a choice on how to measure the nation's "net debtor" position, the difference between foreigners' seas and what foreigners own in this country.
Hartford, Conn.
Lack of budget forces shutdown
A budget deadlock yesterday forced Connecticut to become the second state in two days to shut down non-essential services, idling 7,000 July campers and ferrying 500 of July campers out of parks.
In Maine, the grinding halt of state functions snared car buyers who could not get registrations, out-of-town defendants stuck waiting for courts to reopen, and an 80-year-old woman who was stymied after she traveled about $1\frac{1}{2}$ hours to place flowers at her husband's grave.
"I couldn't believe it," said Thelmia Shepard, when she saw the locked gate at the Maine Veterans' Memorial Cemetery in Augusta.
Besides Maine and Connecticut, at least seven other states — California, Illinois, Ohio, Massachusetts, Louisiana, Pennsylvania and North Carolina — were without a spending plan yesterday, two days into a new fiscal year.
Washington
Reagan campaign manager William Casey abandoned his political duties in late July 1980 and traveled to London for a meeting of World War II history scholars.
Casev was abroad in July 1980
That much is now known.
What isn't known is whether Casey made a side trip to Madrid to strike a deal with Iran to delay the release of 52 U.S. hostages held in Teheran, as alleged by an Iranian arms dealer.
Historian Robert Dallek said yesterday that he had his photograph taken with Casey at the London conference the evening of July 28, 1980, when he him at breakfast, probably the next morning.
The two had chatted about politics and Reagan's acceptance speech 10 days earlier at the Republican National Convention, said Dalek, becoming biography of President Lyndon Johnson.
From The Associated Press
Iraqis deny U.N. access
BAGHIDAD, Iraq — Despite repeated promises, the Iraqi government denied a U.N. delegation access yesterday to a secret convoy of equipment and supplies for making nuclear bombs. U.N. officials said.
The Associated Press
Hans Blix, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said the Iraqi showed him only destroyed nuclear research equipment for civilian use, not what U.N. officials earlier said was specialized equipment used only for making weapons-grade enriched uranium.
The officials had emphasized earlier that such a refusal could have serious consequences. President Bush warned Monday that he might order a military strike against if it refused to comply.
Regarding a mysterious armed convey of trucks that U.N. inspectors have been seeking for a week, Blix said, "We have not had a satisfactory explanation of what they were and where they went."
In another part of the country yesterday, Iraqi soldiers supervised by U.N. officials destroyed ballistic missiles of the type that were showered on Israel and Saudi Arabia during the gulf war.
Rolf Keius, chairperson of a special U.N. commission overseeing the elimination of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, said his delegation, in Iraq for three days, would report today in Geneva to U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar.
"The Iraqis have shown in this a way of behavior that definitely does not give confidence."
Blix and Ekeus reserved final judgment on the seriousness of its alleged violation of the gulf law.
"I can only say that in view of the complexity of the situation it merits very careful consideration when we make our report." Ekeus said.
resolution, Iraq agreed to the inspection and destruction of its chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.
Iraqi leaders had pledged their cooperation with the inspectors.
The government-run Iraqi News Agency said yesterday that Iraq had made categorical pledges from the highest levels to enable the international inspection all the Iraqi agencies, equipment and sites.
But when it came to the elusive convoy, scene of an armed confrontation Friday between Iraqi soldiers and U.N. inspectors, the U.N. delegation encountered mostly stonewailing and repeated denials that Iraq had any nuclear-weapons program, U.N. officials said.
Iraqi officials talked in circles during a meeting yesterday, a delegation member said.
At the same meeting, the U.N. delegation showed the Iraqis what it said was clear photographic evidence that at least some of the equipment in the convoy was intended for making weapons-grade enriched uranium.
A U.N. inspection team on a surprise visit to an army base west of Baghdad took the photographs Friday. When the team attempted to follow the team's approach, they in the air and demanded a camera at gunpoint.
Complying with the other element of the ceasefire resolution, Iraqi soldiers bulldozed 12 ballistic missiles at the Al Taji launch base, 18 miles north of Baghdad.
Yugoslavs get U.S. support
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The State Department said yesterday the Bush administration was willing to support independence for two rebellious Yugoslav forces provided it was the result of a peaceful process.
The statement represented a departure from the normal administration position of supporting the territorial integrity of nations afflicted with secessionist movements.
The administration never had ruled out support for an independent Slovenia and Croatia but had previously advocated a negotiated settlement with the two provinces would remain part of Yugoslavia.
The emphasis in Tutwiler's remarks yesterday was on a peaceful outcome, even if it means independent status for the breakaway republics.
"Dialogue, not use of force, must shape Yugoslavia's future," she said. "We do not support the use of force to preserve Yugoslavia's unity. A coding-off period is needed to launch a dialogue that is open and inclusive, people are created a new basis for relations among the peoples and republics of Yugoslavia."
Last Friday, for example, State Department representative Margaret Tutwiler expressed hope that the Yugoslavs could find a way to create a new basis for unity.
Asked whether the United States could accept independence for the two republics, she replied, "I'll continue to answer it the way we all have from the beginning of this, that those types of issues are for the peoples of Yugoslavia to decide through
peaceful means."
Tattuier spoke as the fragile truce agreed to over the weekend broke down.
She reaffirmed the U.S. condemnation of the use of force in Yugoslavia and called for an immediate salt in the fighting, most of which was occurring in Slovenia.
Later, Secretary of State James A Baker III told reporters he had laid down clear guidelines with Yugoslav authorities concerning the use of force last month but that his admissions have been denied.
The European Community is playing the lead role in attempting to bring peace to Yugoslavia, but the Bush administration was trying to use its influence as well yesterday.
"We have very grave concerns about this," he said. Under questioning, Baker denied there was any shift in U.S. emphasis on the importance of maintaining Yugoslavia's territorial integrity.
President Bush sent a letter to Yugoslav President Stipe Mice expressing grave concern over the outbreak of violence and urging him to ensure that civilian control over the military is re-established and peace restored. White House press secretary Martin Fitzwater said.
Fitzwater added that Bush also said he was hopeful that all parties in Yugoslavia would seek a new and democratic basis for Yugoslavia's future.
Meanwhile, Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger, a former US. ambassador to Yugoslavia, expressed serious concern during a meeting with the president of Pakistan in lightning near a nuclear power plant in that country.
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