University Daily Kansan / Monday, February 1, 1988
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U.S. to file Stark damage claims
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The U.S. intends to file three claims seeking a total of $75 million from Iraq for the attack on the guided-missile frigate Stark, according to a report published yesterday.
One claim would seek several million dollars for the families of 37 sailors who died in the May 17 attack
Another claim involves those who were injured, and the third claim concerns damage to the ship, which is being repaired.
The report, which appeared in the New York Times, quoted State and Defense Department officials who were not identified.
Chris Baumann, Pentagon weekend duty officer, said he had not heard of the plan, and the State Department's press office director, Dennis Harter, said there were no officials available yesterday who could comment.
The Times said that the State Department would present the Baghdad government next month with the
claim for the families of those killed, and would deal with the other claims later, after they were added up.
later, after they were killed.
The Iraqi government apologized for the attack in which a war plane fired two Exocet missiles at the Stark in the Persian Gulf, and said that it would pay compensation.
But the Times quoted administration officials who said that Iraq might be reluctant to pay damages because of the precedent it might set for similar claims from other governments that have suffered losses in
The Times said Abraham D. Sofaer, State Department legal adviser, soon would present a compensation plan to Secretary of State George Shultz for approval.
Iraqi attacks.
In other news from the Persian Gulf, a Panamanian-flagged freighter was set on fire and adrift yesterday in the northern Persian Gulf, apparently by an Iraqi air strike. The whereabouts of its crew were unknown.
Iowa paper backs both Dole and Simon
News Roundup
The Associated Press
The newspaper, which has a statewide circulation, is the first major Iowa daily to back candidates for the presidential runoff.
DES MOINES — Republican Bob Dole of Kansas and Democrat Paul Simon of Illinois were endorsed yesterday for Iowa's feb. 8 caucuses by the Des Moines Register, which said Dole "seems to sense what the nation needs" and "Simon's lifelong interests match the needs of the times."
The Register said it disagreed with Dole on a number of issues, but it's
"usually possible to tell where he is coming from. And it is from a good place — traditional Midwestern Republicanism."
The paper said that Dole had teamed up with liberal Democrats to back civil rights and food stamp programs in Congress, characterizing his performance as one of "pragmatism, shrewd politics and compassion all at once."
The Register said it believed Simon was the best Democratic candidate because of a long and unwavering record that showed "a man who has decent instincts and sticks by them."
OIL BARGE SINKS: A barge carrying 318,000 gallons of heavy oil sank four miles off the shore of Anacortes. Wash. yesterday and began leaking, the Coast Guard said. The barge, which was bound for a refinery in Seattle, sank in 135 feet of water.
AMTRAK TRAIN DERAILS:
Amtrak officials in Philadelphia said they plan to meet today with a lawyer representing the operator who fled his post after a passenger train travelining nearly 90 mph hit a maintenance vehicle and derailed, injuring 25. The 10-car train carrying 10 passengers had been switched onto a track that had been closed for repairs when the wreck occurred Friday in Chester.
NICAGAUAR RELEASES DENBY: Farmer James Denby, reunited with his family in Carlinville. Ill. yesterday after seven weeks in a Nicaraguan prison, said his capitors repeatedly urged him to speak out against the Reagan administration's plan to aid the contra
rebels. "I told them I was a lifelong Republican, and that was the wrong thing to tell them," said Denby, who denied charges that he helped the contra rebels. "That was like saying, 'I'm guilty of everything; I'm your enemy.'"
REPEAT OFFENDERS: Ninety-five percent of state prison inmates in 1986 were repeat offenders or were serving time for violent crimes, the government reported yesterday.
SOLIDARITY SUPPORTERS PROTEST: Thousands of Solidarity supporters marched through Gdansk, Poland yesterday, chanting "No more price hikes!" and "Strike tomorrow!" Lech Walesa and other former union leaders demanded that the government withdraw the increases.
ORTEGA SUPPORTS PROCESS President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua said yesterday that the Central American peace process will go forward even if the U.S. Congress approves more aid to the contra rebels.
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