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Friday, February 20, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Around the World
One Soviet dissident released; officials say Begun will be next
MOSCOW - Psychiatrist Anatoly Korvagin came home yesterday after five years in a labor camp, and officials said Jewish activist Josef Begun would be out of prison in 24 hours, almost a week after his release was announced.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennady Gerasimov reported the releases at a news briefing, Koryagin, who had accused authorities of putting sane dissidents in psychiatric hospitals, and Begun were
among the most prominent dissidents still held, but other well-known activists remain in prisons or labor carms.
Begun, 55. still was at Chistopol Prison yesterday.
The teacher of Hebrew was pardoned Tuesday by a decree of the Supreme Soviet, the nominal national parliament. He was sentenced in 1983 to seven years in prison for anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda.
Nicaraguan leaders vow to fight for reform
WASHINGTON — Two prominent moderate Nicaraguan rebel leaders announced yesterday that they would remain part of the three-member directorate of the United Nicaraguan Opposition and fight for reforms inside the organization.
The leaders, Arturo Cruz and Alfonso Robelo, both were former officials of the Sandinista government who once headed political parties in Nicaragua. They had threatened to leave UNO in a coup with their allies in El Salvador. Adalo Catégo, who heads the main rebel army, the 10,000-member Nicaraguan Democratic Force.
ing congressional support for future U.S. aid to the rebels, Calero announced his resignation Monday from the UNO directorate but said he would remain as head of his army.
With the the disarray threaten-
Cruz and Robelo said the UNO, the umbrella organization for Nicaragua exiles fighting to overthrow the Marxist Sandinista government, would be expanded later to represent all Nicaraguan exile groups.
Cruz and Robelo said they would insist that the 15,000 rebel guerrillas be integrated into one national army to operate under the supervision and authority of a civilian directorate.
Across the Country
Economic sanctions against Poland lifted
WASHINGTON — President Reagan lifted all U.S. economic sanctions against Poland yesterday, but kept up pressure for further political reforms there by warning that the United States would watch to see that progress was not reversed
Responding to appeals from Polish-Americans and the Roman Catholic Church, Reagan restored a number of laws he were severed in December 1984.
The action again grants Poland
“most favored nation” trade status, which provides preferential treatment for its exports to the United States, and lifts bans on air service and eligibility for U.S. credits and credit guarantees.
In Gdańsk, scene of the violent strikes that prompted the 1981 crackdown, Solidarity labor movement founder Lech Wesla hailed the decision by Reagan as an expression of wise and long-range support for the aspiration, program and ideals of Solidarity.
Peace conference would exclude Soviets
WASHINGTON — Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir proposed yesterday a conference on Middle East peace efforts, possibly at Camp David, to include Egypt, Jordan, Palestinian Arabs and the United States, but not the Soviet Union.
desire to explore any avenue to restart stalled peace negotiations.
Shamir advanced the idea in a National Press Club speech as he neared the end of a four-day visit. His proposal apparently was an attempt to compromise between his own opposition to an international conference and the U.S.
Discussions about an international conference generally have figured on including the five permanent members of the United States, Britain, France, the United States, Britain, France, China and the Soviet Union.
Shamir opposes any Soviet participation in Middle East negotiations."
President Reagan endorsed the conference after a meeting with Shamir.
Cuomo announces he won't run in 1988
NEW YORK — Gov. Mario Cuomo announced last night on the "Ask the Governor" radio show that he would not run for president in 1988, ending speculation about the New York Democrat's immediate political aspirations.
Cuomo, who had been mentioned as a presidential candidate since his keynote speech to the 1984 Democratic National Convention
in San Francisco, made the surprise announcement at the end of the hour-long WCBS-AM talk show.
"In my opinion, the Democratic Party offers a number of presidential candidates who can prove themselves capable of leading this nation toward a more sane, a more progressive and a more humane future," Cuomo said.
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