University Daily Kansan / Monday, February 22, 1988
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Panama paid lobbyists to promote the country's image, records show
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Panama paid high-powered U.S. lobbyists hundreds of thousands of dollars since 1985 to polish its image, government records show.
The lobbyists include a long-time associate of President Reagan and a public relations executive with ties to Olver North's private network.
Stuart Spencer, Reagan's long-time political adviser, M.B. Oglesby Jr., former White House assistant for legislative affairs, public relations executive Francis Gomez, and Jamie Whitten Jr., the son of Rep. Jamie Whitten, D-Miss., are among those who have registered with the Justice Department at one time as agents of Panama under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Government records indicate that the lobbyists' contracts have been
allowed to lapse. Raul St. Malo, a spokesman at Panama's embassy, said the government no longer employs any U.S. lobbyists to promote Panama. "We are doing that ourselves at the moment," he said.
The law requires agents of foreign governments to file reports of their activities every six months so the records are not current to the day.
Gomez's company, Public Affairs Resources Inc., had a $21,000-amonth arrangement with a Panamanian business group with ties to Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega's government. The company, which Gomez founded in 1987 and is now an assistant, received about $145,000 between July and December 1987.
Gomez's former business partner, Richard R. Miller, worked with North to raise money for the contrast in 1985 and 1986.
China not expected to block Iran arms embargo
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — China reaped a $1 billion bonanza from weapons sales to Iran last year, but is not expected to block an Iranian arms embargo the United States is seeking in the U.N. Security Council, U.S. officials said.
armaments from China, said the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The most recent U.S. intelligence estimates show that Iran last year received up to 65 percent of its
The United States has protested the sales by ending a decade-long process of easing restrictions on the type of high-tech U.S. equipment that China can buy. The decision will make it harder for China to buy computers and advanced electronics now reaching the market.
U.S. firm to hire Soviet space lab
WASHINGTON — A U.S. aerospace consulting firm has signed a multiyear agreement to put commercial scientific projects aboard a Soviet space station in the first private U.S. deal with the Soviet space agency.
The Associated Press
Payload Systems Inc. of Wellesley, Mass., in an enterprise approved by the Commerce Department, will grow protein crystals for U.S. industry with the help of a Soviet cosmonaut who will be given only minimal information about the projects, said Anthony Arrott, company research and development director.
Payload Systems received a two-year government license to contract with the Soviets for protein crystallization production experiments aboard the Soviet space station Mir, which is already in orbit, Arrott said in a telephone interview yesterday.
"It's a multiflight, multiyear agreement beginning in 1989," he said, adding that part of the agreement includes non-disclosure of the amount to be paid to the Soviets who reportedly have offered to carry Western experiments for between $10,000 and $15,000 a kilogram.
Arrott said that the agreement was signed with the Soviet Union's agency for international trade agreements, Licensintorg. the civilian space agency, Glavkosmos, oversees the space station.
The agreement will help U.S. industry keep up in the production of protein crystals used to develop new drugs until the United States gets long-term orbiting laboratories in the 1990s, Arrott said.
"We want to keep American industry competitive over this time period."
nies that want to use the commercial potential of space. In December 1983, Lichtenberg became the first nonastronaut to fly aboard a U.S. space shuttle. He conducted protein crystallization experiments that provided evidence that larger and more regular crystals can be grown in a weightless environment. Arrott said.
Payload Systems was founded in 1984 by Byron K. Lichtenberg of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to provide consultation for compa-
He said that crystals to be grown in the weightless environment aboard the space station could be used by Payload Systems clients, but company attorney Mark McConnell of Washington, D.C., said that crystals grown in the first flight would not be sold.
News Roundup
SHITTES SEEK HOSTAGE: In Beirut, Lebanon, Iranian-backed Hebzbolah extremists clashed yesterday with Shiite militiamen searching for a kidnapped U.S. Marine and declared support for his abductors. A Hebzbolah leader said he believed Lt. Col. William R. Higgins had been smuggled out of south Lebanon.
FREMONT WATER RESTORED: Four days after a ruptured pipeline spilled a toxic chemical into the Fremont, Ohio, water supply, restaurants were allowed to reopen yesterday morning. Local industries were expected to resume operations last night, Mayor Fred Singer said. An estimated 100,000 gallons of toluene leaked Wednesday from a ruptured pipeline, polluting the river that supplies water for the city of Fremont.
PAN AM TALKS CEASE: Negotiations between Pan American World Airways and the 4,500-member union representing reservation clerks broke off yesterday in New York. The union vowed to disrupt operations through "guerilla warfare" but put off any strike. The labor dispute involves Pan Am's attempts to cut costs by $35 million through concessions by the Teamsters.
NUGLEAR PROGRAM CRITICIZED: In Moscow, Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze said good progress was made yesterday during daylong talks on arms control, human rights and regional conflicts. But a Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman sharply criticized the U.S. nuclear rebuilding program in Western Europe.
IRISH CIVILIAN SHOT: In Belfast, Northern Ireland, a shot fired from an army watchtower near the Irish border killed a young civilian yesterday, according to a statement from the military.
WWII MINE EXPLODES: A mine apparently left over from World War II sank a French trawler in the English Channel yesterday when it exploded in the boat's fishing nets. All four crew members were rescued, officials said. A nearby trawler rescued the crew members and brought them back to Port-en-Bessin, their home port, which is 25 miles north of Canne, France.
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