University Daily Kansan / Friday, February 24, 1989
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Soviet urges Israel, PLO to meet
The Associated Press
CAIRO, Egypt — Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze said yesterday that Israel must agree to talk with the Palestinian Liberation
Organization and accept an international peace conference as the price of renewing diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
Arafat
PLO chief Yasser Arafat said that the
Soviets were providing him with an indirect channel to the Israelis through increased contacts set up this week in Cairo.
Shevardnadze met separately with Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Arens on Wednesday in Cairo. He flew to Bagdad, Iraq, yesterday.
When he arrived in the Iraqi capital, he said, "The prospects of a war with the Middle East look good and more realise because of the POLE's peace overtures."
Shevardnadze planned to visit Iran after Iraq and then head home, and Iran's Islamic Republic News Agency reported that Shevardnadze would be granted a rare audience with Ayatollah Ruhullah Khomeini during the visit. The report was monitored in Cyprus.
In a speech to politicians in Cairo, Shevardadhne said, "We would like the government of Israel to know that
once it opts for the conference and agrees to a dialogue with the Palestine Liberation Organization, our two countries could take yet another step toward re-establishing full diplomatic relations.
Relations between the Soviet Union and Israel were severed after the 1967 Middle East war.
Israel opposes a U.N.-organized conference but has said that it would go to one under the auspices of the United States and the Soviet Union. Israel has said, however, that it would not talk with the PLO, which it considers to be a terrorist organization.
"The beginning of the conference would be a starting point for resumed relations."
Under the plan proposed by Moscow, the Soviet Union, the United States and the other three permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, will meet in such a conference, along with Israel, the PLO and other regional parties.
Asked about the results of Shevardnadez's meetings, Arafat said, "Actually, it was indirect negotiations. . . . He informed me about what was mentioned by the Israel delegation, and no doubt he will inform the Israelis what I have mentioned."
After the speech, Shevardnadze criticized President George Bush's comments relegating the Kremlin to a "limited role" in the Middle East.
Group wants more for Bhopal disaster
The Associated Press
NEW DELHI, India — The supreme court yesterday agreed to hear a petition from a social service group asking Union Carbide Corp. to pay as liability for the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster.
The case will come up for a hearing today, a court official said.
Legal experts said that it was a legal duty of the supreme court to agree to hear the petition filed by the plaintiff.
The supreme court on Feb.14 ordered the
Danbury, Comm.-based Carbide to pay $470 million to settle the Bhopal case. It was not clear whether the group wants $600 million to be paid in exchange for the $600 million to include the earlier udgment.
Gas leaked from the Indian subsidiary of the company in the central Indian city of Bhopal on December 18, 2015.
The federal minister for industries, J. Vengala Rao, told Parliament yesterday that the highest figure offered by Union Carbide for the disaster was $300 million.
"Therefore, the settlement of $470 million was much higher and it meant immediate availability of finance." Rao said.
Opposition members, shouting 'Shame!'
protesting government support of the judgment.
Rao made no mention of the petition by the social service group, which was filed Wednesday.
The petition said the supreme court should not have disposed of such "an important case by a one-page order without giving reasons."
News Briefs
North
Contra leader testifies on financing of rebels
WASHINGTON  Nicaraguan rebel leader Adalo Calefo testified yesterday in Oliver's criminal trial that he hadn't expected North to
not intent in demanding an accounting for the money. "Calero said, 'He said that he had an accounting. We have no idea.' But I guess I never got around to it."
Prosecutor John Keker asked Calter if he expected North, who was charged with taking $4,300 of the money, to spend any of it on himself.
Calero said he consulted with North on his arms purchases. He said that $17 million to $18 million went for weapons and the rest for other expenses in pursuing the war against the Sandinista government.
Calero, who was president of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force — FDN, was the second prosecution witness at North's trial. As he waited to take the witness stand, Caleri did not answer the question, who was staring at him intently.
Church bells rang in many towns to support the event. It was organ-
Calero, one of the top leaders of the Nicaraguan contras, testified that he gave North the funds in traveler's cheeks after the White House aide "mentioned the need to help rescue Americans hostage."
The Associated Press
Snowflakes reached the beaches on the Gulf of Mexico, and temperatures dropped below freezing in northern Florida. Meteorologists said traditional methods of keeping fruit crops from freezing might not help against the wind-driven cold that pushed wind chill factors below zero across most of Alabama.
ARCTIC OZONE DIMINISHING: An environmental time bomb is tickling away miles above the North Pole as chemicals there react. Earth's protective ozone layer, Sen. Albert Gore Jr., said yesterday.
rus harvest while delighting youngsters with rare snow and closed schools.
Adrian Tuck, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said that although no direct evidence of arctic ozone damage was found, scientists were surprised at the extent to which conditions in that area show the potential for such damage.
Calero surprised by North's dealings
bank account that had received $23 million in deposits in the eight months after Calergo gave North the account number, he testified.
GREENSPAN ADVISSES CONGRESS: Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan, saying a separately regulated thrift industry may not be needed in the future, told Congress yesterday
He said that in May 1984, the contras were told that they would get no more U.S. money "and we felt compelled by the American government."
IRELAND CEEBLEBRATS PEACE DAY: Thousands of Protestants and Roman Catholics attended Peace Day rallies yesterday in Ireland and expressed hope for an end to violence in the British province.
that the Fed would make it easier for bank holding companies to buy troubled savings and loans.
SNOW BLOWS SOUTH: The cold air of the winter surged across the Deep South yesterday. icing highways and threatening the cit-
Greenspan, testifying before the Senate Banking Committee, also said the central bank and the Treasury Department had instructed Federal Home Loan Bank system in the event of runs on $&Ls.
The money began flowing in, he said, in June 1984, soon after official United States financial support for the Nicaraguan guerrillas stopped.
"I had absolute trust in what Colonel North was doing, so I was
ized by Belfast city council members from four political parties and a group called Women to Bring Peace to Northern Ireland.
But then came a visit from CIA agents, accompanied by North.
The money came from a Miami
"From that moment on, I understood Colonel North would be the laison and go-between." Calero testified.
GVORACHEV AT CHERNOBLYI Mikhail Gorbachev inspected the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster for the first time today, and the president discussed safety issues the 1986 reactor explosion.
The 57-year-old Kremlin chief visited the Chernobyl nuclear power plant's control room and the hall where turbines generate electricity. A spokesman for Kombiat, a spokesman for Kombiat, the company running the plant.
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Finance committee backs Sullivan for Cabinet post
WASHINGTON — Louis Sullivan, President George Bush's first black nominee to the Cabinet, won overwhaling support yesterday from the Senate Finance Committee, which showed no interest in prolonging controversy over his abortion views.
The Associated Press
The committee voted 19-4 to recommend to the full Senate that Sullivan be confirmed as secretary of health and human services. The vote, on which Sen. William L. Armstrong, R-Colo., had himself recorded as "present," came after a two-hour hearing in which both Republicans and Democrats spent much less time discussing Sullivan's views on abortion than they did sympathizing with him about his sacrifice of $300,000 a year job to take the government job.
Sullivan did address the subject of abortion, a main point of controversy in recent weeks, in his opening testimony. He read a series of sentences that echoed the position taken by her counsel, Mr. Sanders, member Sen. Bob Packwood, R.Ore, for having "misspoken" on the subject during a private meeting.
He was not asked about it during subsequent questioning, in which senators asked him about such large programs as Medicare and Social Security that will come under his jurisdiction as head of the 114,000 employee department that administers a third of all federal spending.
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