University Daily Kansan / Monday, January 25, 1988
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Nation/World
Wright willing to consider humanitarian contra aid
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Jim Wright said yesterday that he would be willing to consider new aid to the Nicaraguan contra rebels if there were adequate safeguards to see that it were used only for humanitarian purposes.
While he carefully stopped short of backing the idea of including weapons assistance in an escrow fund as a way of pressuring the Nicaraguan government to negotiate, the Democratic leader from Texas said such a proposal would merit consideration.
The key, he said, would be whether such a package would bar the Reagan administration from having the sole authority to release the funds if it determined the Sandinista government was not acting in good faith in peace talks.
"I'll talk about that if the president asks," he says. "I think it's something worthy of consideration."
Appearing on ABC-TV's "This Week With David Brinkley," Wright was asked whether he would support a contra aid package with weapons money held in escrow if that was President Reagan proposed.
Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams, appearing earlier on the same show, declined to say whether the administration proposal would contain an escrow feature for lethal aid.
"We're still working on the package," Abrams said. "It will be a package that is very carefully tailored to support the negotiations."
BROTTT'S FATHER DIES:
Paul J. Babbitt Sr., the father of Democratic presidential candidate Bruce Babbitt, died Sunday in Flagstaff, Ariz. He was 89. Aides to Bruce Babbitt in New Hampshire said he would cancel his campaign appearances in that state Monday and his appearance at a debate in Boston on Monday night.
BABBITT'S FATHER DIES:
News Roundup
MINE SWEEPING: Britain, France and Italy have agreed to work together under a single command to sweep mines in the wartown Persian Gulf, Reagan administration sources said yesterday. The action comes as U.S. officials reportedly are looking for ways to cut the $1 million-a-day U.S. military effort in the gulf, where commercial shipping has been endangered by the 7-year-old Iran-Iraq war.
GENDER GAP: Ten million more women than men are expected to vote in 1988, according to a study released yesterday by a coalition of women's groups. The survey noted that 1980 marked the first time there was a significant difference in voting trends based on sex, but said the "gender gap" has grown with each round of elections.
DISSIDENT EMIGRATES: Alexander Lerner, a prominent Jewish dissident, arrived yesterday in Vienna, Austria, from Moscow and was reunited with his daughter after a 16-year battle to emigrate. Lerner, 74, was accompanied by his son, Admiral, his daughter-in-law and a 2-year-old grandmother, Julia, who were also allowed to emigrate. Lerner's wife died in 1981.
**TRAIN DERAILS:** An express train derailed early yesterday in the mountains of southern China. Ninety people were killed and 66 others seriously injured, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. It was China's sixth big transportation accident in a month. A total of 314 people have been killed.
SIEGE ENDS! A Shite Muslim militia has ended its siege of Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon after 90 days, but the Palestinians are still encircled, this time by the Syrian army. The Syrians contended they are enforcing peace and denied that they wished to impose their own blockade on the strategically located camps.
SOUTH AFRICAN FUNERAL:
Anti-apartheid activists, diplomats and black leaders paid triumph yesterday to Percy Qoboza, one of South Africa's pre-eminent black journalists, at a funeral service restricted by police. Qoboza was editor of City Press, the country's largest-selling newspaper for blacks. Throughout his 25-year journalism career, he was a persistent critic of the white government's racial policies. He died Jan. 17, his 50th birthday, after suffering a heart attack.
DROUGHT EXPECTED: The new year is starting to look like a repeat of drought-plugged 1987 for much of the Pacific Northwest, experts say, and the consequences could be water rationing and losses to farms and fisheries.
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