Nation/World
University Daily Kansan / Thursday, April 25, 1991
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Nation briefs Anchorage, Alaska
Exxon plea bargain thrown out
A judge yesterday rejected a plea bargain in the $1 billion settlement of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, saying a $100 million criminal fine was in violation of the damage Exxon Dixon did to Alaska's environment.
Under the plea agreement negotiated by Alaska, the Justice Department and Exxon, the company would have paid $50 million to the California and $50 million to the federal government.
A separate proposed settlement of civil claims provides $900 million in restitution to clean up Alaska's shoreline. With rejection of the fines, Exxon could withdraw that agreement.
Washington, D.C.
Bush will review travel policy
President Bush said yesterday he would review the White House travel policy, suggesting Chief of Staff John Sununu's extensive government planes had left a perception problem.
However, Bush said Sunum had his full confidence.
"I don't like this jumping all over Gov. Sununu when he has complied with the policy and he's made full disclosure. What more can you ask him said in impromptu comments to reporters.
"If that policy leads to a perception problem, then I'll take a look at it. That's exactly what I'm going to do, get Boyden Gray and others to take a look," he said, referring to White House legal counsel Gray.
Los Angeles
Rodney King case affects trials
The oft-broadcast videotape of Los Angeles police pummeling an African-American motorist seems to be undermining jurors' traditional perception in favor of police in civil and criminal trials.
Some lawyers who defend police in lawsuits are settling cases out of court rather than facing suspicious juries, and some prosecutors are delaying or soft-pedaling cases in which officers are key witnesses or police use of force is an issue.
Polls indicate that about eight of 10 U.S. citizens have seen an amateur cameraman's videotape of baton-wielding policemen beating Rodney King on March 3. The video has sparked nationwide outrage against police brutality and put law enforcers on the defensive in court.
From The Associated Press
British forces enter city, protect Kurdish refugees
ZAKHO, Iraq — More than 300 British marine commandes entered the northern city of Zakho yesterday and began protecting Kurdish refugees who have been accused of hindering relief efforts.
The Associated Press
Two British officers said the United States had told the Iraqis to leave the town by tomorrow morning. A U.S. military representative and a Pentagon representative denied that an ultimatum had been given, but a Bush administration official who said the crime was being considered and might be imposed.
The allied show of force came as Iraqi President Saddam Hussein conducted talks with Kurdish rebel leaders. Rebel sources said Saddam offered aid and granting authority to Iraq's 3.5 million Kurds.
At 1:30 p.m. (5:30 a.m.) CDT) yesterday, three companies of British commandes landed by helicopter and took up key positions in the northern, southern and eastern parts of this town, which is near where U.S. troops are setting up a secure haven for tens of thousands of Kurdish refugees.
The commanders reported encountering no resistance from the Iraqis, who still were patrolling Zakho yesterday despite U.S. demands that they stay clear of the relief effort.
The British soldiers will patrol the town along with other allied troops. Fear of the Iraqis has made some refugees reluctant to move out of their mountain refuges along the Turkish border.
"The Iraqis were given 48 hours to get out," said Capt. Jeff Mason, whose 100-member company took over a three-story building that belonged to the Iraqi army.
He said the U.S. military had given the ultimatum within the last 24 hours, meaning that the Army must leave immediately.
"A deadline was imposed, and if by that time they haven't withdrawn we can assume military action will continue," said British Maj. Baj Fanshawe, representative for the Royal Marines.
He said the ultimatum was given during daily meetings between the U.S. military liaison, Col. Dick Naab, and Iraqi Staff Brig. Gen. Nushwan Danoun.
However, a U.S. military representative denied that an ultimatum had been given
"There has been no deadline set for the police to out of town," said Army Col. Bob Flocke.
At Incribil, the U.S.-Turkish base that is leading efforts on MH. Michael Maher said, "We have a lot of work to do."
In Washington, Pentagon representative Pete Williams said. "There been no such warning glues."
But a Bush administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the White House was considering setting such a deadline and that such an ultimatum would likely be issued.
White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater
One thousand tents erected at camp
Dust storms slow construction of the Kordish relocation camp near Zalato. Alies hope the first refuges may move in this week. The camp will shelter 10,000 people.
said that Iraqi forces patrolling northern Iraq were inhibiting Kurdish refugees from leaving their mountain sanctuaries. However, he said U.S. forces were working around the problem.
He said he would check reports about the ultimatum.
Asked about the Iraqi police, he said, "They're there. Their purpose appears to be to establish a security base."
Allied troops have pitched hundreds of tents outside the northern town of Zakho in an attempt to lure some of the hundreds of thousands of refugees from the mountainsides on the nearby Turkish border.
The United States said Tuesday it was moving ships to positions off Turkey to make it clear that Baghdad had better not interfere with the refugee assistance effort.
Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said the United States was prepared to use force if necessary.
"Tomorrow we leave," said one Iraqi police officer, walking past the building held by Mason's troops.
Iraqi police remained on the streets in diminished numbers after the British marines arrived
The official Iraqi News Agency, monitored in Nicosia, Cyprus, reported the meeting between Saddam and rebel leaders but gave no details and did not say where it was conducted.
"If America is here, I am very glad," said Salim
Akurdish taxi driver. "If America is here in Jakarta."
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