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Nation/World
Tuesday, April 8, 1986
University Daily Kansan
Nicaragua refuses to sign peace pact
United Press International
PANAMA CITY, Panama — U.S. allies in Central America strongly criticized Nicaragua yesterday for refusing to sign a pledge to accept a regional peace treaty written by foreign ministers of four Latin nations.
The quarrel between U.S. allies in Central America El Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica — and Nicaragua, which has a leftist government with close ties to Cuba and the Soviet Union, has prevented the signing of the treaty.
Nicaragua is the only nation unwilling to sign the agreement.
"One cannot put oneself in an attitude of a prima donna when what you have here is a situation that affects all of us equally." Salvadoran Foreign
Minister Rodolfo Castillo Claramount said.
The Contadora Group — Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and Panama — drafted a document to impose a June 6 deadline for the conclusion of more than three years of regional peace talks.
The document was approved by Contadora's so-called support group, made up of Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Uruguay, and all Central American nations except Nicaragua.
nations except North America.
The document under discussion, called the "Panama Pledge," states the two issues to be settled are "control and reduction of arms levels and international military maneuvers" in Central America.
Nicaragua has long refused to agree to arms reductions in the peace pact until the United States
first committed itself to stopping aid to Contra rebels fighting to overthrow the Nicaraguan government.
"The basic problem is the attitude of the foreign minister of Nicaragua," Costa Rican Foreign Minister Carlos Jose Gutierrez said. "The basic concern of Nicaragua is how not to be obligated (to comply with the pact), while they consider their points of what they call American aggression."
The weekend meeting lasted into yesterday so the parties could try to agree to a signing date.
After morning talks, the Nicaraguan delegation consulted with its leaders on a second draft of the document, which also has been approved by the 12 other countries participating in the peace talks, said Gutierrez.
Former U.N. member suspect in war crimes
United Press International
The World Jewish Congress released documents yesterday showing that former U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim's army intelligence unit in World War II received reports on deportations of Greek Jews. Waldheim has denied knowledge of the deportations.
At the United Nations, the Austrian government yesterday joined Israel in requesting access to the U.N. War Crimes Commission file on Waldheim, a candidate for the presidency of Austria. The Austrian government officials will inspect the file later this week, U.N. sources said.
Austrian President Rudolf Kirchschinger said the request was made to clear up allegations about Waldheim's World War II activities.
Charges that Waldheim was involved in Nazi war crimes first surfaced in various publications last month. Waldheim has denied he was
a Nazi war criminal.
The World Jewish Congress said new documents uncovered in the National Archives in Washington indicated Waldheim was not telling the truth about his wartime conduct.
The documents included two reports for the intelligence unit of an army section in which Waldheim had a senior ranking.
One document, dated Aug. 11, 1944, notes that the "evacuation of Jews" from the Greek islands of Rhodes and Crete was received by local Greeks and Italians there "with mixed feelings."
In a March 7 letter to congress President Edgar Bronfman, Waldheim said he had never been informed about the deportations, the organization said.
the Congress said it rejected earlier public assertions of Waldheim's innocence by several wartime colleagues, including his immediate superior, Lt. Col. Herbert Warnstorff.
TWA blast killed one; others died in the fall
United Press International
ATHENS, Greece — Autopsies indicated yesterday that three U.S. citizens were alive when they were sucked through a hole in the fuselage of a bombed TWA jetliner and hurled 15,000 feet to earth. The fourth victim died in the blast.
In the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli, a woman suspect offered to meet with Greek investigators to clear her name in the bombing of TWA Flight 840 on its way to Athens from Rome.
"I understand the Greek authorities want to me to go to Athens and testify," said May Elias Mansour, a Lebanese anti-Iraeli guerrilla described by Italian authorities as an explosives expert. "I am not compelled to go, but I am willing to meet anyone the Greek police sends to Tripoli to clear my name of this whole thing."
Greek authorities consider Mansour to be a prime suspect in the bombing. They said she had been on the TWA plane during an earlier flight, from Cairo to Athens, and that she sat in the seat where the explosive was hidden.
Liberals request end to testing of weapons
where the captain was.
Forensic experts performed autopsies yesterday on the bodies of the four Americans in an attempt to find clues to the bombing.
Nine passengers were wounded.
Security police chief Athanazios Zafiris said the coroners searched for evidence that could identify the mechanism of the bomb and give investigators leads to its origins.
Athens Chief Coroner Nikolaos Bernardis, who performed the autopsies, said traces of metal were found in the body of Alberto Ospina, 38, of New Haven, Conn., who sat in seat 10F under which the bomb is thought to have been hidden.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — House liberais urged President Reagan yesterday to call off a planned nuclear weapons test or risk going down in history as the president who passed up a chance to end the arms race.
The administration has scheduled an underground test of a nuclear warhead today, the first since a Soviet testing moratorium offer expired April 1. The test comes the same day Reagan meets at the White House with retiring Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin.
Russ Wild, a spokesman for the international peace group Greenpeace, said his group had confirmed the test would take place at 10 a.m. at the Nevada site test. Greenpeace, which plans to have six people at the Nevada site for the test, said the United States planned to explode a 1.3-kiloton bomb.
The Soviet press criticized the administration for going ahead with the test.
The Novosti news agency said in Moscow that the U.S. nuclear explosion served as "a moment of truth when American policy in arms limitation and reduction appears in its true colors, without any propaganda embellishments."
"It is clear that the U.S. line aimed at the continuation of nuclear tests is a direct and open departure from the spirit of Geneva," the news agency
said, referring to November's super- power summit.
Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass, said going ahead with the test would mean a missed opportunity to make gains against the arms race.
"The Soviets have said they want to stop testing and are willing to accept on-site inspection to verify a test ban treaty. Why don't we call their bluff? If we don't, history will record that it was a Soviet leader who went the extra mile toward ending the nuclear arms race, and an American president who turned him down," Markey said.
Rep. Tom Downey, D-N.Y., said, "By conducting this the test, the administration will take a perilous step backwards in their nuclear weapons policy, placing ideology firmly ahead of national security."
Rep. Les AuCoin, D-Ore, said, "By testing, the United States will essentially give the U.S.S.R. the go-ahead to develop their technology further."
"Our need to test is less important than our need to stop the other side from testing. We can't expect the rest of the world to exercise restraint if we don't," said AuCoin.
The Union of Concerned Scientists also was concerned about the perilous
"The Reagan administration has no interest in arms control," said Director Howard Ris. "The simple truth is they want more nuclear weapons, not less."
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