UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Thursday, April 20, 1995 13A Gore looks toward U.S. disarmament The Associated Press UNITED NATIONS — Vice President Al Gore, pressing for permanent curbs on nuclear-weapons technology, declared yesterday that the United States ultimately wants to eliminate its own arsenal. With at least 90 votes in hand, a majority, Gore took on the wavering and opposing nations with a detailed response to their arguments and concerns. Anything short of indefinite extension of the 25-year-old Non-Proliferation Treaty would encourage states aspiring to obtain nuclear weapons to hold their options in reserve, Gore said. "It will encourage would-be promoters to lie low and to clandestinely pursue their objectives," he said in a speech that ranged from a dry recitation of nuclear issues to an eching of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's admonition in 1936 that Americans faced a "rendevous with destiny." the knowledge and capacity to build nuclear weapons are increases ing, and the few countries wishing to possess them have an increasing possibility of succeeding, Gore said. He did not identify any of them The Clinton administration is trying to maintain a freeze on a suspicious North Korean nuclear program and to persuade Russia and China not to proceed with agreements to help Iran with reactors and other technology. The foreign ministers, ambassadors and assorted diplomats assembled in the U.N. General Assembly Hall received Gore's speech quietly. They are due to vote by May 12 — by open ballot, the vice president urged. Afterward, Gore had lunch with delegates from Singapore, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Uruguay and other nations leaning against an indefinite extension of the treaty. While he did, Foreign Ministers Abdul Karim Karabari of Jordan and Farouk al-Sharaa of Syria took their turns at the rostrum with arguments against indefinite extension. The Jordanian, whose country signed a peace treaty last year with Israel, centered some of his objections on the likelihood it has a nuclear weapons arsenal. But Kabartil also said countries with the bomb should pledge not to use them first and establish penalties for violators of the treaty before the question of extension was addressed. Al-Sharara declared flatly that Syria could not vote for permanent extension unless Israel signed the treaty and opened its installations to international inspection. "Irareal is known without a shadow of a doubt to possess an arsenal of hundreds of nuclear bombs" and "occupies territories of its neighbors," the Syrian said. There are more nuclear warheads in the world now than there were in 1970, when the treaty took effect, al-Sharaa said. Gore, trying to encourage fence-sitters to get in queue behind the United States, said the risk of nuclear war had diminished with the end of the Cold War and decisions by the United States and Russia to dismantle 14,000 nuclear warheads, two-thirds of their stockpiles. But, he said, "should nuclear weapons proliferate, these risks could again increase, and the opportunity we currently have to reduce the global nuclear danger will be lost." To demonstrate good faith, Gore listed several arms-control measures, including the elimination of all American and Russian intermediate-range nuclear missiles, and a commitment by the United States, Russia, Britain and France two weeks ago to negotiate effective measures for nuclear disarmament. Disarmament, Gore said, remained the ultimate goal, and if negotiations succeed the United States will have conducted its last nuclear test. Meanwhile, a coalition of 20 private groups, called for speeding up negotiations to ban nuclear weapons tests Federal regulators take steps to expand low-income loans The Associated Press WASHINGTON — A compromise plan aimed at expanding loans to needy communities and minorities while easing the paperwork burden on banks was approved yesterday by federal regulators. The Clinton administration and other supporters of the new rules conceded that no one would be completely happy but urged Congress to give the new approach a chance to work. laws. "These reforms help fulfill two important promises I made to the American people: to increase access to credit for all Americans and to decrease meaningless federal regulatory burdens," President Clinton said in a statement. "Now is the time to end uncertainty and get on with business, not to tinker with the statute." Many Republicans in Congress have proposed drastically revamping financial anti-discrimination The revisions approved yesterday result from an overhaul Clinton ordered two years ago in the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977. In one key change, regulators scrapped 12 largely subjective criteria and replaced them with three broad categories to determine whether lenders were meeting terms of the law. "This whole regulatory approach is less about confrontation than about partnership," said Eugene Ludwig, Comptroller of the Currency. The Federal Reserve, the Office of Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision approved the new rules yesterday. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is expected to adopt them Monday. Officials said the regulations — without sacrificing the needs of underserved communities — would help meet complaints by banks and other lenders that they were swamped with paperwork. The new rules dropped a proposal that lenders be required to list the race and gender of all small-business borrowers. Instead, only larger banks will compile information on loans made to specific areas using census data as a guide to whether low- and moderate-income areas are getting equal treatment. The Federal Reserve also proposed that banks be allowed to gather information about race and gender from customers who want to provide it. The new rules will not provide enough data to satisfy community groups that claim banks avoid lending in declining neighborhoods, and it will be too much to please all lenders, said Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Alan Blinder. "But both sides are better off," said Blinder, a Clinton appointee to the Fed who voted to adopt the new rules. "This is very reasonable compromise." The Fed approved the overhaul, 5-2. The dissenters, John LaWare and Susan Phillips, said the rules were still too harsh and could force banks to write risky loans to avoid violating the law. "I continue to believe that credit allocation is bad public policy," LaWare said. New streamlined examinations for smaller banks will begin next year, and the new rules are supposed to take full effect by July 1997. The Community Reinvestment Act was enacted to expand credit availability to minorities and the poor and to counter "redlining" — a practice of excluding neighborhoods that are regarded as poor credit risks. Critics say it has at best an uneven record throughout the 18 years it has been in effect. Terrorist train attack gives Japan more fear The Associated Press YOKOHAMA, Japan — An out woman stood in front of the entrance to Yokohama Station and watched a chemical warfare unit suit up and head inside. "Oh my God," she said. "Not again." A month after terrorists released nerve gas in Tokyo's subways, a possible copycat attacker let loose a mystery gas yesterday at the main train station in Yokohama, just south of the capital. This time, about 300 people got sick, and the nation's ragged nerves were set on edge again. The attack in Yokohama came after one of Japan's most trying months since World War II, in which cherished beliefs about the nation's security have been undermined. Twelve people were killed and 5,500 sickened in the March 20 nerve gas attack in Tokyo. Ten days later, an assailant shot and seriously wounded the nation's top police official. Police said they believe yesterday's case was a deliberate attack, and sent hundreds of officers and chemical weapons experts wearing gas masks to Yokohama Station to look for suspicious objects. They have made no arrests and appeared to have no solid evidence. Last Saturday, stores closed and 10,000 police officers mobilized in Tokyo amid fears that the doomsday cult suspected in the nerve gas case would deliver a terrorist strike in the capital. Nothing happened. At least 297 people were taken to hospitals, complaining of stinging eyes, coughs and dizziness after inhaling a foul chemical odor at the station, police said. No one was reported in serious condition; most victims were treated and released. Pandemonium erupted as thousands of commuters raced out of the station. Some 50 emergency vehicles clogged the streets. Nearly a dozen helicopters — half belonging to newspapers and TV stations — buzzed overhead. The victims came from two different places: an underground passage in Yokohama Station lined with shops, and the second car of a train coming from Tokyo that passed through the station. Police said the Yokohama case appeared different enough from the Tokyo subway attack that it may have been a copycat crime by another person or group. Sarin, the nerve gas used in Tokyo, was not suspected this time because the victims' symptoms were different. Last night, dozens of police with flashlights crawled on the floors at Yokohama Station, probing cracks for clues. More police were sent to nearry Yokohama Stadium and fans hoping to see the night's baseball game had to first open all their bags for inspection. In a nation that boasts the lowest crime rate among leading developed countries, the idea that average commuters could face regular attacks by terrorists would have been dismissed as incredible just a month ago. But in the past few weeks, Japanese have been treated to one bombshell after another about Aum Shinri Kyo, the religious cult that has become the prime suspect in the nerve gas attack. According to police, the secretive cult has spent the past few years assembling the ingredients needed to produce sarin, a deadly gas developed by the Nazis in World War II. Japan's Parliament passed a law yesterday banning sarin and penalizing its use with up to life in prison. Aum Shinri Kyo also bought a military helicopter, manufactured gun parts and studied biological weapons and nuclear technology, police say. The cult denies involvement with the nerve gas attack and also said it had nothing to do with yesterday's attack in Yokohama. Early yesterday police arrested one of the cult's highest-ranking leaders, Kiyohide Hayakawa, on suspicion of trespassing. But it wasn't clear whether the arrest would help police solve the nerve gas case. Pre-Order & Save 35% off all used textbooks 10% off all new textbooks And save time! Pre-ordering your textbooks means they're packaged and waiting for you before classes start. That can save you time hunting for books and standing in long lines. 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