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Friday, December 4, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Sandinistas, contras to discuss peace terms through go-between
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Nicaragua's leftist government and U.S.-backed rebels gathered in this Caribbean capital yesterday for their first negotiations to end a 6-year-old war that has killed 40,000 people.
Police provided tight security for the indirect negotiations, in which Cardinal Miguel Obando y Bravo, archbishop of Managua, will serve as go-between.
Church officials said they would try to persuade the delegates to meet face-to-face, but Nicaragua Ambassador Daniel Valle Martinez said that was out of the question.
Plans were for Onando y Bravo to meet with the contra delegation at Catholic church offices in Santo Domingo and relay their proposals to the Sandinista delegation at the Nicaraguan Embassy.
Duarte charge against rival called political
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — President Jose Napoleon Duarte's efforts to implicate longtime rival Roberto d'Aubisson in the murder of El Salvador's outspoken archbishop are widely viewed here as a political charge that won't help solve the case.
"We know who did it, who ordered it, who drove the getaway
car," Durite said last month of the 1980 slaying of Roman Catholic Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero. Romero was one of the harshest critics of rampant violence — much of it carried out by officially tolerated death squads — that swept El Salvador in the years preceding his death.
Robertson called 'inconsiderate' as Marine
WASHINGTON — A Korean War barracks mate of Pat Robertson, in a sworn deposition, says he recalls the Republican presidential candidate as an "inconsiderate" young Marine who "messed around with the prostitutes" and harassed a Korean girl
who cleaned their quarters.
who created Paul W. Brosman, a retired professor of language at Tulane University, said he briefly shared quarters with Robertson and three other leachants at a Marine Corps command post at Masan, South Korea in 1951.
Leaders see arms pact for 88
WASHINGTON — President Reagan said yesterday that there was a reasonably good chance the superpowers could take a gigantic step forward and agree in Moscow next year to eliminate 50 percent of their strategic nuclear weapons.
The Associated Press
He made the evaluation of prospects for such a far-reaching agreement in a television interview. Reagan's comments came just four days before Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is to arrive for a summit and the signing of a treaty to ban intermediate-range nuclear missiles, known as INF.
Reagan was interviewed by news anchormen from ABC, CNN, CBS and NBC.
Gorbachev, in an NBC interview earlier this week that was broadcast in the United States and the Soviet Union, also offered an optimistic assessment for a strategic arms accord next year.
"There are real prospects ahead of us . . . We believe
From The Associated Press.
that it is possible to do a lot of work with this present administration so . . . we could make headway on this major direction in the area of arms control." Gorbachev said.
Reagan said that opposition to the INF treaty, strongest among conservative Republicans and most GOP candidates for president, was based on a lack of knowledge about what was in the agreement.
"Some of the people who are objecting the most and just refusing even to accede to the idea of ever getting any understanding, whether they realize it or not, those people basically, down in their deepest thoughts, have accepted that war is inevitable," Reagan said.
Despite the prospects of deep cuts in the superpowers' nuclear arsenal, Reagan said that he still saw the Soviet Union as a threat.
but ne spared Gorbachev from tough criticism. He said that Gorbachev inherited the stationing of 115,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan.
House votes to alter spending bill
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The House moved toward approval yesterday of a massive $887 billion spending bill that would push Congress to meet its deficit reduction goals but also risk a presidential veto because of many attached controversies.
"This is the first step that I believe must be taken . . . to move against the deficit and begin a coordinated effort by the two political parties," said House Majority Leader Thomas S, Folev, D-Wash.
“This is government by appetite and I'd respectfully suggest the Democratic leadership put itself on a legislative diet,” Michel said.
Michel, R-III., said beneath the rhetoric was a package laden with special-interest spending, a bloated monster created by Democrats acting "as a legislative Dr. Frankenstein."
But House Republican leader Bob
erned by 13 separate bills, was
wrapped into a single package.
The spending bill would cover virtually all government operations in fiscal 1988, which began Oct. 1. Military and domestic spending, which under normal procedures is gov-
The House voted 238-177 to bring the bill in line with the $76 billion, deficit-reduction pact worked out by congressional and White House negotiators before Thanksgiving. The bill would be altered to increase military and foreign aid spending and cut domestic programs, but details of those changes were left for later, after the Senate approves its version of the bill.
Haitians calling for strike till junta exits
The Associated Press
PORT.AU PRINCE, Haiti - Civil rights leaders yesterday denounced the junta's call for a new Electoral Council, and a presidential candidate advocated an open-ended general strike.
"We are calling for a strike for Friday to continue until the departure of the junta," presidential candidate Sylvio Claude told reporters.
"If the junta does not resign, we ask for the intervention of a multinational observer force to supervise elections and guarantee security. I just want people not to be killed anymore." Claude said.
Human rights advocates denounced the military-dominated junta's order that they and representatives of other civic organizations name a new Electoral Council to oversee national elections. Sunday's elections were aborted after thugs and soldiers killed 34 people and wounded 75.
The balloting for a president and National Assembly would have been Haiti's first in 30 years.
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