University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, December 6, 1989
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Protest group says Navy rammed ship
Greenpeace threatens to take legal action
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The protest group Greenpeace yesterday accused the Navy of "maliciousness" in ramming its flagship as it protested the test launch of a Trident II missile. The Navy says it did not ramp the ship.
"We have a message for the Navy," Greenpeace U.S. Executive Director Peter Bahouth said. "We are going to take legal action. They are going to have to pay us damages."
He declined to give details or say how much the group might seek in damages for Monday's incident, which took place in the Atlantic Ocean 50 miles from the Florida coast just before the submarine Tennessee fired the $28.5 million missile.
The Navy denied that it rammed the 887-ton ship Greenpeace. The service said that it respected the group's right to protest but that it also had a right under international law to protect itself on the high seas.
At a news conference, Greenepeace leaders showed videotapes of two vessels identified as the Navy tugboats Grasp and Kittiwake spraying the decks of the Greenpeace and pulling alongside. The tapes showed gap holes in the hull of the Greenpeace; group leaders said the gashes were caused by rammings from the tugboats.
The videotapes also showed Greenpeace activists in an inflatable speedboat approach what appeared to be an antenna from a submerged submarine. The group's leaders said the object was the radio mast of the Tennessee.
The group said Navy commandos
cut the fuel lines of two inflatable speedboats and returned them to their mother ship.
At the Pentagon, spokesman Pete Williams said, "The Navy didn't ram the Greenpeace boat."
"As far as the right to do this, obviously the United States respects the right of Grepeaceum . . . to work in conjunction with peaceful demonstration," he said.
But he he said that the United States "reserves and will exercise its right to protect its vessels and crews engaged in lawful high-seas activities and protect them from interference or other action by others that would endanger U.S. vessels and their crews."
He said the Greenpeace action interfered with the "legitimate exercise of the U.S. of the high-seas in the waters of the Pacific, a violation of international law."
The protest was part of a "nuclear-free seas" campaign that Greenpeace launched in 1987, Bahouth said. The ship Greenpeace replaced the Rainbow Warrior as the group's flagship after the latter vessel was mined by French security agents while it was protesting French nuclear tests in the Pacific Ocean.
"We do expect to mix it up with the Navy," said Greenpeace leader William M. Arkin.
He said the two Navy vessels not only tore holes in the hull of the Greenpeace but rammed it while a helicopter chartered by the group was attempting to land on its decks. He said the Navy's action in pouring water down the ship Greenpeace's stacks could have caused an explosion.
SAL REGULATOR: The Bush administration began looking for a successor to savings and loan regulator M. Danny Wall yesterday, and the chairman of the House Banking Committee said hearings that led to Wall's resignation were just the beginning of the investigation.
The administration wants a professional regulator to head the Office of Thrift Supervision, rather than an appointee whose chief qualifications are political connections, said an industry source, who spoke on condition of 'anonymy'.
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include longtime officials with the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
The administration, in searching for a successor, is consulting Treasury Secretary Nicholas F. Brady and chief economic adviser Michael Bookin, said White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater. He said a replacement won't be in place before January, when Congress returns from holiday recess.
FIGHTING IN LEBANON: Israel's jets raided Palestinian guerrilla bases yesterday, its surrogate militia shelled towns in south Lebanon and fighting between rival Shite
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Muslim militias spread to Beirut. President Elias Hawaii said he would ask Syria to withdraw its 40,000 soldiers stationed in Lebanon if his new government could establish authority in a nation factionalized by 14 years of sectarian civil war.
Police said 20 people were wounded in fighting between the Syrian-backed Shite militia Amal and the pro-Iranian Hezbollah, or party of God, in Beirut and south Lebanon.
PANAMA CANAL TREATY President Bush spurned the nominee of the Panamanian government yesterday and said he had asked the deputy administrator of the Panama Canal to serve as acting administrator starting Jan. 1.
Bush said the nomination of Fernando Manfredo would allow the United States to comply with a stipulation in the 12-year-old Panama Canal Treaty that the top post at the Panama. Canal Commission must be filled by a Panamanian citizen effective Jan. 1, 1990.
The treaty specifies that the Panamanian government nominate the administrator and the U.S. president appoint him.
Philippine coup rages; 2,000 trapped
The Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines — Fighting intensified yesterday between rebels and loyal forces in the Makati financial district, where about 2,000 foreigners, including more than 200 U.S. citizens, have been trapped in hotels for four daws.
A 60mm mortar round slammed into a squatter settlement near the Makati Medical Center about 6 a.m. (4 p.m. CST Monday). Ten people were taken to the hospital, including a 6-year-old girl who died.
Efforts to evacuate foreigners held by the rebels appeared to have stalled early yesterday.
Two bombs exploded in the capital late Monday, wounding two people. It was unclear if they were related to the coup attempt that began Friday and has killed at least 71 people and wounded more than 500.
Traops loyal to the government of President Corazon Aquino, backed by three armored personnel carriers, began moving toward the hotel district where the foreigners are.
A statement telephoned to news organizations from a rebel spokesman, Capt. Albert Yen, said the insurgents would release the foreigners to dispel suspicions that they were being held hostage.
Scout Rangers were holding 22 buildings in the Makati district, where many foreign embassies and residences of foreign diplomats and businessmen are.
The mutinous soldiers claim that Aquino, swept to power in a 1968 military-civilian uprising that toppled President Ferdinand Marcos, has failed to deal effectively with the country's Communist insurgency and economic problems.
About 400 mutineers from the elite
Czechs demand new Cabinet, threaten strikes
The Associated Press
PRAUGUE, Czechoslovakia — One of Czechoslovakia's two republics named the first government in 41 years dominated by non-Communists, and talks began with opposition leaders about their demands for a new national government.
general strike that the opposition had threatened if the national government was not changed this week.
Ladislav Adamec, the Communist premier, met with dissident playwright Vaclay Havel on demands for a new Cabinet to replace the Communist-dominated one chosen Sunday.
An Interior Ministry announcement said that work on dismantling fortifications on the border with Austria would begin Monday. The government said last week that some of the barbed wire, watch towers and trin wires would be taken down.
Leaders of the Communist-controlled labor organization took the unprecedented step of endorsing a
About 2,000 demonstrating students chanted 'Resigned! Resigned!' as
Jiri Dienstbier, spokesman for Havel's opposition group, Civic Forum, said the discussions would continue today. Miroslav Pavel, who is head of state television and who attended the talks, said they were "very complicated."
Opposition groups say the general strike will take place Monday unless the 21-member Cabinet, which contains only five non-Communists, is replaced before then.
After the government was announced, the People's Party demanded an immediate change to give non-Communists more power. It also demanded the party relinquish control of the Czech interior ministry.
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