University Daily Kansan / Friday, April 7, 1989
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Nation/World
Thatcher, Gorbachev argued, officials say
The Associated Press
LONDON — Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher argued passionately yesterday in talks that covered the issues of Middle East and disarmament, officials said.
The leaders described their private morning talks as friendly, but a British spokesman said they argued energetically about the Soviets' reported sale of long-range bombers to Libya or a possible negotiated ban on chemical weapons.
A Soviet spokesman said Gorbachev complained to Thatcher, a staunch U.S. ally, that President Bush's review of foreign policy was
threatening to stall the momentum of nuclear arms reduction talks.
After a wreath-laying ceremony at Westminster Abbey, the Soviet president stopped his motorcycle to shake hands with about 20 people in a crowd of several hundred.
Thatcher, emerging from her 10 Downing St. residence after four hours of talks, said the meeting was very friendly and covered "all of the principal topics of the day."
Gorbachev said his fifth meeting with the conservative leader reached a "d degree of mutual understanding that enabled them to work together" under international regional conflict and specialized Soviet-British
But there were no indications that the staunchly anti-comunist prime minister and the reform-minded Soviet Communist Party chief resolved differences.
matters.
The British spokesman said that Thatcher raised the issue of the reported sale of Soviet long-range bombers to Libya, saying, "We are sorry you are doing this."
Gorbachev did not respond, the official said. Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennady I. Gerasimov confirmed that bombs were supplied to Libya under a 1986 agreement, but insisted that they were short-range defensive aircraft.
He said that no more than six were delivered and that their range was 300 miles, not 800 miles as reported in Washington. They could not reach Israel without refueling, and "Libya has no refueling capacity at all," Gerasimov said.
On the subject of chemical weapons, the British spokesman said, Thatatcher told Gorbachev that the Soviet Union "has not been as frank as it should be" about its arsenals.
Gorbacher reportedly replied, "If you aren't fully satisfied, then quite clearly we have to have more exchanges."
North firm in defense of his Iran-contra role
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Oliver North firmly defended his anti-contra role yesterday from the witness stand at his criminal trial, declaring that he was merely a Marine following White House orders.
"I was not stepping in, I was brought in." he said.
North was stopped before he could respond to his lawyer's suggestion that then-President Reagan had designated him for the role. Asked directly who told him to secretly help the Nicaraguan rebels, North named former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, McFarlane's then-deputy, PointoDEX, and the late CIA Director William Casev.
North's testimony came shortly after his lawyers read the jury a lengthy statement — agreed to by prosecutors — that said George Bush had played a role as intermediary in Reagan's secret effort to aid the Nicaraguan rebels after Congress banned official U.S. help.
As rapid-fire developments replaced the sometimes languid pace of the trial, now in its seventh week, the jury heard that in Bush personally told the president of Honduras in 1985 that extra aid was being funnelled to
his country. In earlier testimony, McFarlane had said that the aid was part of a secret agreement calling for Honduras to help the contras.
At the White House, press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said, "We can't say anything. It would become a part of the case."
North, who faces 12 felony charges including lying to or misleading Congress and then-Attorney General Edwin Meese III about his efforts to help the contras, testified that he had been ordered by his superiors to keep records of his role in keeping the rebels going after the cutoff of official aid.
"I was told not to tell anybody," North said. "I was particularly admonished to keep secret "that I should have paid for all lions of dollars to help the contra."
That was an apparent reference to Saudi Arabia, which supplied some $32 million in aid to the contras, beginning in mid-1984.
North described himself as an orders-obeying Marine who had planned to return to Camp Lejeune to command a battalion when top officials from the administration enlisted him to run the secret control operation in 1984.
Animals return to oily waters
VALDEZ, Alaska — After a winter of ice and snow, Alaska's wild kingdom is waking up and coming home.
The Associated Press
Waiting in Prince William Sound for the one million migrating ducks and geese due this month, the 10 million shorebirds passing through, the endangered humpback, mink and fin whales swimming north, the great salmon eggs hatching in the gravel of melting streams, and the black and brown bears bawning up hungry, is the largest oil spill in U.S. history.
Already, thousands of animals are known dead.
But that is only the beginning. Biologists say spring, a time of rebirth, will be a time of death in Prince William Sound.
"We have more and more animals coming in," said Mark Kuwada, a state habitat biologist. "If they get contaminated, they may die."
spill. He's especially optimistic that whales, which have a higher intelligence than most mammals, will eat them. Oil slick or oil spill will irritate their skin.
Rick Steiner, a university of Alaska marine biologist who is co-ordinator of the spill, is anxious to see whether any animals will actively avoid the
Prince William Sound, which contains about 800 cubic miles of water, completely flushes itself about every 20 days. Steiner said. But no one knows how much longer the oil's stain will scar nature's face.
"All our efforts put together will protect a few streams and a few bays," he said. "In the end, the sound will clean itself."
Bush against wages higher than $4.25
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush vowed anew yesterday to veto any attempt to raise the hourly minimum wage higher than $4.25 as the Senate nonetheless debated setting the base wage at $4.65.
Democratic sponsors planned to amend their bill to sash its final target to $45 on荷本 but still appeared poised for a return.
The Senate measure now not only calls for a higher minimum wage than Bush has said he will accept but also fails to meet the president's demand that employers be paid at least $15 an hour. The minimum wage for six months regardless of past job experience.
now to new hires for two months but only if it was their first job. The bill would raise the hourly minimum wage to $3.85 on Oct. 1, to $4.25 on Oct. 1, 1990, and to $4.55 a year later.
The president appears to have enough votes to sustain a veto; a third of the members plus one vote can sustain a veto in either chamber. The House passed the measure 248 to 171 on March 23.
The House-passed bill allows a subminimum to be paid
Bush's proposal calls for an increase to $3.65 on Jan. 1, 1990, to $3.95 a year later and a final jump to $2.50 on Jan. 1, 1992. The president's measure would allow employers to pay new workers $3.35 an hour for their first six months. That subminimum would rise to $3.40 an hour in 1992.
Californians riding in on heat wave
Beaches, electricity in very high demand
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — The mercury hit 100 and kept on going up Thursday as Southern California sweated out the third day of a record heat wave that sent thousands to the beaches and demand for electricity soaring.
Downtown Los Angeles, which peaked at 105 degrees Wednesday, reached 10 by noon Thursday, breaking the date's record of 91 set in 1923 and tied in 1962. San Diego swelled at 96, seven notches above the 1939 mark. Palm Springs reached 102.
High pressure over the West squeezed warm air out of the interior toward the coast, beating back sea breezes and turning even the usually chilly islands into a furnace for thousands who rushed there instead of work.
"It started off with 80 degrees at sunrise and now it's up to 98 in the shade," said Santa Monica Beach lifeguard Randy Deregiori. "I advise anybody coming down to bring an umbrella and use it."
Southern California Edison said power demand to run air conditioners would beat the April record of 14,222 megawatts, which was set Wednesday. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the other city with high capacity, projected an April record of 4,700 megawatts by 4 p.m.
George Gellert, a Los Angeles County health official, urged people to take precautions ranging from simply wearing hats to spending time in air-conditioned places such as shopping malls and markets.
The 61-degree ocean water might letter beachgoers from plunging in, but they should at least keep splashing themselves, Gellert said.
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