Official: plan aimed at Contra defeat
WASHINGTON — The Nicara
guan government’s cease-fire pro
posal is little more than a disguised
attempt to help the Sandinista army
achieve victory over the U.S.-backed
Contras, a top State Department offi
cial said Tuesday.
The official said the proposal,
unveiled here last week by Nicara
guan President Daniel Ortega, “is the
type of thing a conquering com
mander would issue as terms of sur
render to a defeated foe.”
The official spoke to a group of
reporters on the condition that he not
be identified.
Later Tuesday, House Speaker
Jim Wright and Secretary of State
George P. Shultz made an unusual
appearance before television cam
eras to try to settle what Shultz called
“a little Tiff’ over the speaker’s
embroilment in the Central Ameri
can peace process.
“The important thing is to look
ahead and focus on things we agree
on, insofar as our Central American
policy is concerned,” said Shultz,
after coming to Capitol Hill for a
hastily arranged meeting with
Wright.
Sharp difference over U.S. policy
and tactics in Central America re
mained between Wright and the
administration, but the meeting ap
peared designed to quiet the public
clash that officials feared was dis
tracting attention from substantive
peace talks in Central America.
Under Ortega’s proposal, any
Contras who lay down their arms and
accept a government offer of am
nesty may rejoin the political life of
the nation “with full enjoyment of
rights.”
The government asked rebels to
move to any of three cease-fire zones
where their safety would be guaran
teed once the 30-day truce goes into
effect on Dec. 5. Humanitarian aid
could be sent to the Contras, but
military resupply would be forbid
den.
Ortega has made clear he secs his
offer as a proposal and not an ultima
tum.
Iran claims Iraq attacked nuke plant
MANAMA, Bahrain — Iran said
Iraqi warplanes bombed an unfin
ished nuclear power plant in southern
Iran Tuesday, killing 11 workers
including a West German engineer.
An Iranian nuclear official claimed
the attack could lead to another
Chernobyl.
Iran’s official Islamic Republic
News Agency, monitored in Cyprus,
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quoted energy official Reza Amrol
lahi as saying the plant contained
nuclear material.
He said the raid might lead to “the
same transfrontier radioactive re
lease and radiological consequences
as the Chernobyl nuclear accident,”
IRNA said.
Iraq did not announce that it had
bombed the plant and there was no
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independent confirmation of the at
tack. Iraq has raided the plant at least
five times since 1984,
Amrollahi, president of Iran’s
Atomic Energy Organization, sent an
“urgent protest note” to Hans Blix,
director general of the International
Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna,
Austria, IRNA reported.
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Lonely guards find
hope in seedlings
JUNEAU, Alaska — “On
Atlu there’s a woman behind
every tree,” is an old saw in the
Coast Guard, which keeps 24
men on “remote duty” at the
westernmost island of the
1,100-mile Aleutian chain.
The catch: there wasn’t a
single tree on the island.
But now there’s a glimmer of
hope, with some 200 seedlings
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“Can women be far behind?”
asks Ll Kyle Moore.
A small forest planted by
American soldiers in the 1940s
has died, except for a few speci
men he says arc too small to call
trees. Still, he’s keeping faith.
“The three 1 planted in my
office are doing really well,”
Moore said. “I’m one of those
waiting to have the last laugh.”
Americans lavish
Raisa with keys
MOSCOW — Raisa Gor
bachev says Americans are
anxious for her and her husband,
Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gor
bachev, to visit them during
their trip to the United States
next month.
“Every day we get an
enormous amount of letters
from the Americans,” she said
at an opening of an art exhibi
tion in Moscow. “People of all
ages, of all walks of life write to
us.”
In a brief but rare question
and-answer session, she told
ABC News, “many Americans
ask us to visit their towns, cities
and states, their farms, their
homes. Some of them even send
their keys to their houses in the
envelopes.”
Scientists heed cry
of dog-like frog
WILMINGTON, Del.—An
“endearing, weird little frog”
has been discovered in Dela
ware. How weird? It barics.
Nature experts say the lime
green frogs arc common to
swamps along the southern East
Coast, but were not previously
known this far north. The frog is
formally known as Hyla grati
osa.
Jim White, naturalist for the
Delaware Nature Education
Society at Ashland Nature Cen
ter, said guide books call the
frog’s sound “a single, explo
sive doonk or toonk.” But “I just
think it sounds like barking
dogs,” he said.
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