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Frenda agents plead! goiliLy
to iitMitg off Greenpeace
AUCKLAND, New Zealand - Two.
French secret agents on Monday plead
ed guilty to manslaughter In the July 10
sinking of the Greenpeace flagship
Rainbow Warrior.
The change in the charge from
murder to the lesser charge of man
slaughter came as a surprise to speca
tors in the crowded courtroom.
Maj. Alain Mafart and Capt.
Dominquc Prieur pleaded guilty to the
charges of manslaughter and willful
damage in the sinking of the ship in
which a Greenpeace photographer,
Fernando Pereira, was killed.
There is no set penalty for man
U.S. arms package outlined
Limited bombers, Euromissiles called for
HELSINKI, Finland The United
States has proposed a ceiling on Amer
ican and Soviet strategic bombers and
a freeze on nuclear missiles in Europe
as part of a new arms control accord
with Moscow, a senior U.S. official said
Sunday.
Other key elements of the package
now before Soviet negotiators in Gen
eva include a ceiling of 3,000 on long-.
range nuclear warheads and no limits
on submarine-launched cruise missiles.
The official, who spoke on condition
of anonymity, said thre is "comprom
ise" in President Reagan's proposal to
overcome what he described as "hook
ers" shares in the plan Soviet
leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev submitted
Work proceeds on farm,
WASHINGTON Congress begins
this week where it left off last week
stalemated over sharp differences
between House and Senate versions of
a plan to force a balanced federal
budget by the end of the decade.
Separately, the Senate resumes work
today on omnibus legislation setting
farm policy while the House, after con
sidering routine matters today and
Tuesday, will begin work at midweek
on legislation authorizing hundreds of
new water projects.
Arguments over the budget propos
als have delayed final action on legisla
tion needed to raise the government's
borrowing authority, the national debt
limit, from the current $1,824 trillion to
more than $2 trillion. The budget plans
are being considered as an amendment
to the debt legislation.
Congress's failure to raise the debt
limit has forced the Treasury Depart
ment to, in effect, dip into the Social
Security trust funds and other trust
funds to keep the government solvent.
Both Houses of Congress, have passed
different versions of stopgap measures
Stranded Pakistanis wait to go home
By Hasan Saeed
The Associated Press
DHAKA, Bangladesh For Kaneez
Fatima, 43, living with her four-member
family in a tin shed with only jute rags
as a privacy screen, it has been 14 years
of agonizing waiting.
"1 want to go home to Pakistan. This
is my only dream," she said sitting next
to a heap of rotting garbage and hold
ing her youngest daughter, who suffers
from malnutrition.
Fatima is one of nearly 250,000
Pakistanis stranded in Bangladesh since
the break-away state of east Pakistan
achieved independence in December
1971 with the help of Indian military
forces. Since then they have waited in
vain for the Islamabad government to
agree to take them.
Now, the Jeddah-based Rabita-e-Alame-islam,
or World Islamic League,
has launched an appeal for $350 mil
lion for repatriation and rehabilitation
slaughter, and the two agents will be
ordered before the High Court for
sentencing.
Some legal observers said the govern
ment's decision to accept the pleas to
the lesser charges indicated it might
deport the couple.
They had been charged with murder,
arson and conspiracy.
Prime Minister David Lange had
said Sunday that the agents probably
had no physical connection with blow
ing up the Rainbow Warrior that was
blasted by two mines while docked in
Auckland harbor.
"I would be almost certain that
five weeks ago.
For instance, the ceiling of 3,000 on
intercontinental ballistic missile war
heads is 500 higher than the initial U.S.
position in the Geneva negotiations. It
would allow the Soviets to retain more
of their land-based missile arsenal, the
heart of Soviet nuclear strength.
The U.S. official said that if the
Soviets accepted the American pack
age deal, there would be no mobile
Soviet strategic missiles or any new
heavy intercontinental ballistic mis
siles added to the superpowers' arsenals.
This would presumably prompt the
United States, in return, to scuttle the
single-warhead Midget Man, which has
stirred complaints by some members of
to ease the credit crunch until Wed
nesday and avoid the loss of interest to
the trust funds.
However, the Treasury Department
officials have said the move to shift
money from the Social Security funds
will provide enough money for the
government to continue operating until
Nov. 14.
If Congress and the White House are
unable to agree on steps to meet the
annual goals, the plan would direct the
president to impose automatic, across-the-board
spending cuts to keep deficit
spending within the ceiling.
Three weeks of negotiations aimed
at drafting a compromise acceptable to
the House and Senate collapsed last
Thursday and on Friday the Democratic
majority in the House passed its own
version of the budget plan.
The House plan would cut more from
the Pentagon and do more to protect
welfare programs from cuts than the
Senate version.
The next step will be for the Senate
to consider the House package under
an agreement for that action to be
of the stranded people.
Under a 1973 repatriation agreement
between Indian and Pakistan and super
vised by the United Nations High Com
missioner for Refugees (UNHCR),
174,000 people returned to Pakistan
and nearly 100,000 Bengalis, including
most of the soldiers and officers de
tained in Pakistan, were sent home.
Under a previous exchange agree
. ment in 1972, Islamabad accepted only
nationals from four specific Pakistan
provinces, federal government employ
ees, or people with domiciles in Pakis
tan. At Bangladesh's insistence, Pakis
tan added another category hardship
cases allowing another 20,000 peo
ple to depart.
Originally, half a million Pakistanis
living in the former East Pakistan had
opted for Islamabad, refusing offers of
Bengali citizenship. Officials of the
Pakistan embassy said nearly 100,000
people had gone home with passports
and by traveling there across India.
Three years ago the stranded Pakis
those two never had anything physi
cally to do on the night of July 10 which
caused that ship to sink and that man
to die," Lange said. The agents were
arrested In New Zealand on July 12.
The Rainbow Warrior was to have led
a flotilla to protest French nuclear
tests at Mururoa atoll in the South
Pacific.
A French investigation disclosed in
August that Mafart, 34, Ms. Frieur,
36, were among six French agents who
were monitoring activities of the Rain
bow Warrior. It did not say France sank
the environmental organization's ship
or indicate who directed the surveil
lance operation.
Congress. The Soviet SS-24 missile and
SS-25 mobile missile are much more
advanced than the Midget Man, which
is still on the drawing board.
But the outlook for an early agree
ment appears dim. Secretary of State
George Shultz, who is expected to dis
cuss prospects for an accord during
two days of talks in Moscow beginning
today, told reporters the two sides
remain "quite a distance apart"
After a rest stop here, Shultz leaves
for Moscow this morning to discuss
preparations for the Nov. 19-20 Reagan
Gorbachev summit meeting with For
eign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze
and Gorbachev.
water bills
completed Wednesday afternoon.
Senate Republican leaders have said
they plan to respond to the House
action by passing a slightly revised ver
sion of the original Senate plan.
- Meanwhile, the Senate will continue
work on the farm bill, which has been
debated in that chamber now for more
than a week.
Action on that measure has been
stymied by wrangling over a package of
amendments designed to reduce the
overall cost of the measure which will
set farm policy and price-support pro
grams for the next four years.
In the House, action on the water
projects legislation would clear the
way for new projects that have been
blocked since 1976 by disputes among
the House, Senate and White House
over whether users of the nation's har
bors and dams should begin paying
part of the costs.
The House bill calls for user fees and
local cost-sharing and would authorize
290 new projects, costing more than
$10 billion.
tanis, frustrated and disillusioned by
the wait, planned a "long march" to
Pakistan via India.. Border guards of
both countries thwarted the attempt,
and many were detained.
Rabita-e-Alame Islam, launched its
funds appeal after the 1984 Islamic
foreign ministers conference in North
Yemen took note of the plight of the
stranded Pakistanis in Bangladesh and
urged a swift settlement.
The secretary general of Rabita, Dr.
Abdullah Omar Nasif, said during a
visit to Dhaka recently that Pakistan's
president, Gen. Zia Ul-Haq, and Prime
Minister Khan Junejo had agreed to
"accept and absorb" stranded Pakis
tanis, and it was a matter of "money
and time."
In an interview, the leader of the
stranded Pakistanis, Nasim Khan, ex
pressed anger over delays in the repa
triation, calling it "a crime against
humanity," and wondering "why the
world couldn't find a solution to this
problem in 14 years."
Mandela stable after surgery
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rc-orde.1 ty llaths as mc;.t 1. r hJr : hi South Africa,
entered the hospital Sunday meting from rdUmoor Prison for the
operation.
A government-appointed urologist, a doctor chosen by the Mandela
family, and a urologist from a British university prrfsraed the surgery,
said a prisons department spokesman.
Msrdrla was jailed for life la 195 for plotting sabotag by the armed
wing of the African National Congress, a black civil rights group that was
outlawed in 18G0 and began a guerrilla movement to overthrow the
whitclcd government a year later.
Issues gain support in budget session
LINCOLN A 1 percentage point Income tax Increase, about $18 million
in budget cuts and a five-cent t::::'Z la the t-.e curette tax are
gaining st'rcrt to he'? kcci tha st:ts K".. ; c i tf r.cney; said
'Approprkii .:-3 Coiaial:t: G"urr:a Jerome V. j: : r cf Vr.erly. -
Other senators said arix-r Ttjka Coated Un ; t C .v.Eab Kerrey
dldnHseemtobegeUirgLrb:: ::-3 itincLJ: J as ' ?t;x en services. -Support
for such a tax dissipated when the g -vc:r:r 3; tei in his plan a
stats L-.corne tax increase fsr Z1jc: V- Kerrey prep- -1 to increase the
rate from 19 percent to 20 percent cf fedjrol liihlllty, then dre? it to 18.5
percent for I 84 ' -' .
: Chief of Staff Don Nelson was noncommittal alcui whether the gover
nor's interest in an income tax increase was contingent on getting a sales
tax increase on services.
He said Kerrey would consider expanding the current special session's
topics only after a legislative consensus is formed on how to address the .
state's revenue shortfall. An income tax i.xrease is a long shot, he said.
. . Lawmakers are to continue their special session today for the second
round cf debrate on LB1, which contains $18.9 million in budget cuts as
'amended. '
Study links alcohol, violent crime
.-..--"..WASHINGTON More than half cf jail inmates convicted of violent
crimes had been drinking before committing the offenses, the government
said Sunday in a grim study of alcohol's role in fueling crimes of passion.
A report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics also showed that more than
half of convicted jail inmates admitted they'd been drinking enough to
feel "pretty drunk" or "very drunk" j t before committing the crimes for
which they were convicted.
Altogether, 54 percent of 32,112 people convicted ef v:;ler.t crimes had
teen drinking, the survey said.
For all crimes, including non-viclent cfTenses, burglary and public
disorder, 43 percent cf the convicted inmates had teen usir.g alcohol
While th re Y js t era m . . ; ...I :;;.::y in recent years r.v ;ut the problem
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'Activists revive Soviet J ewiy issue
, WASHINGTON Amricarj k-jlrg the nergia r.!nlstrstion can ..
neptiate a rcsjutiJaa cf massive Jewish eslgraiian fro the Soviet
Union are planning rallies in scores cf cilia before the Geneva summit to
keep the issue alive.
Another purpose of the public demonstrations is to convince Congress
which would have to approve any arms control agreement reached at
the summit - that Americans might lock dimly upon deals with Kremlin
; leaders unresponsive to human rights pleas.
"No stone will go unturned in demonstrating the importance of this
issue to the American people," said William Keyserlirg, director of the
Washington office cf the National Conference cn Soviet Jewry.
Keyserling said the group is seeking the establishment cf a reliable
system that would permit Soviet Jews to "get on airplanes" and leave the
country according to international human rights agreements and past
Soviet practices. -; --'
From a high of 5 1,320 departures in 1379, emigration declined to 896 in
1884 and is continuing at the very slow pace, according to the conference.
It estimates that cf 2.5 million Jews in the Soviet Union, roughly 350,000
have formally expressed an interest in leaving.
Hussein urges improved PLO image
WASHINGTON - Jordan's King Hussein, calling recent fiddle East
violence a terrible setback for the Palestine Liberation Organization, said
Sunday he told PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat that tha p-eaee process is in
danger unless we "put cur act together."
. nussein said he was sticking by
.. Auere mei m Amman last week to discuss tne latest cyuc y
violence that began in RpntMnW i-nii- f ihr Israelis in
Cyprus, followed by an Israeli air attack on PLO headquarters and
culminating in the hijacking cf the cruise ship Achilla Lauro by members
cf a PLO faction.
A major stumbling block in getting Israel to accept the PLO as a
bargaining partner has been refusal of Arafat to recognize Israeli state
hood. Hussein asserted that if Israel accepts his call for an international
conference to reach a Mideast peace set Ufm? ni, such recognition of the
PLO might follow.
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