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News Digest issfcjxiu. Deployment of U.S. troops complete PANAMA CITY, Panama — Giant cargo planes loaded with sol diers, arms and helicopters landed almost hourly Wednesday as the United States completed deployment of 1,300 extra troops to Panama. The country’s Defense Forces chief Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega appeared to be seesawing on whether to accept mediation in Panama’s po litical crisis. Late Tuesday, the government sent a message to news organizations conditionally accepting a mediation offer by Monsignor Marcos G. McGrath, the Roman Catholic arch bishop of Panama. But the statement linked any talks to a “national dialogue” begun Mon day by Noriega’s supporters. The dialogue was boycotted by the church and Noriega’s opponents. Within hours, the government’s press office withdrew the message without explanation. The church said Wednesday that McGrath’s offer to mediate between the government and its opposition w as in no way linked to the “national dialogue.” It said it was still awaiting reply from the general, who is under indict ment in the United Slates on drug trafficking charges. Noriega, the chief of the 15,000-member Defense Forces, is the power behind Panama’s civilian government. The opposition, which has been seeking Noriega’s ouster for more than 10 months, planned a “march against hunger” on Wednesday after noon, but it fizzled out in the face of a heavy police presence. The march was designed to protest a deteriorating economic situation that has left thousands of Panamani ans penniless. The church is feeding about 10,000 families a day in the Panama City area and says conditions are worse in other parts of the country. Panamanians began a run on the banks in late February after Noriega supporters removed President Eric Arturo Delvalle from office, and banks closed on March 4. The country’s economic crisis has been exacerbated by the freezing of Pana manian deposits in U.S. banks and sanctions imposed by Washington. The new soldiers arriving at How ard Air Force Base just outside of Panama City included members of an army aviation battalion from Fort Ord, Calif., and military police and security specialists from Fort Bragg, N.C., and Fort Mead, Mo. They were carried by ferry to Panama by a fleet of C-141 Starlifter and C-5 Galaxy jet cargo planes. The aviators brought 26 helicopters, in cluding seven powerful AH-1 Cobra gunships. Lt. Col. Rick Dodge, commander of the 230-mcmbcr force from the 123rd Combat Aviation Battalion of the 7th Light Infantry Division, said he had not been told how long he would be in Panama. “Right now we’re going a week at a time,” he said. The new soldiers joined more than 10,500 American military personnel already based in the Latin American country to protect the Panama Canal until it is turned over to the Panama nian government by treaty at the turn of the century. Dukakis steers course at New York Michael Dukakis basked in the glow of his unexpectedly strong Wisconsin primary victory on Wednesday as he and his Democratic presidential rivals pointed toward New York. From campaign rival Jesse Jackson to party chairman Paul Kirk. Dukakis won accolades on his Wis consin landslide. “It puts Dukakis in the catbird seat,” said former party chairman John White, a Jackson sup porter. Dukakis shunned any such talk, likening the race to a 15-round boxing match that will be decided by a deci sion, rather than a knockout. “My job is to go out now and do the very best I can in New York and Pennsylvania and Ohio, and those other very impor tant primaries...” he said as he cam paigned in New York City. There were political aftershocks on the Republican side of the race. Vice President George Bush, the certain nominee, met privately with Sen. Bob Dole, once his strongest rival. Bush said he envisioned a role for Dole in the general election in which the Kansan would work “as much as he possibly has time to give.” A lot of it’s here and a lot of it I hope will be around the country.” Dole said they talked about “getting George elected in November.” Dole also met with former televi sion evangelist Pal Robertson, who remains in the GOP race, and said, “We talked about... how Pat might be helpful in Senate and House races and state legislative races, (to) build this party from bottom up.” Wisconsin’s Democratic run nerup, Jackson, campaigned in Ari zona and pronounced himself more than satisfied w ith his showing thus far. Forty contests have been run now,” he said. “I’ve come in No. 1 or No. 2 in 30 of them.” Jackson claimed credit for chang ing the terms of the campaign debate, noting that other candidates have begun to address issues such as the fight against drugs and securing jobs for workers. Sen. Albert Gore Jr., who finished a distant third in Wisconsin and now faces a make-or-break test in New York, pronounced himself the under dog. ‘‘New York state has always been friendly to underdogs,” he said. Sen. Paul Simon made plans to suspend his campaign on Thursday following his fourth place finish in Wisconsin, but was expected to re main in the race as an inactive candi date in hopes of gaining additional delegates in his home state of Illinois and elsewhere. ■i I j fSffl DOMINO'S PIZZA GUARANTEES... JftO HOT & FRESH! Your pizza from Domino’s Pizza* is always hot and fresh from the oven because it’s delivered - like magic- in less than 30 minutes. We guarantee it!* So call Domino’s Pizza" today. 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A Kuwaiti team of Foreign Ministry* officials and physicians arrived at Mashhad, where the Kuwait Airways Boeing 747 landed early Tuesday, to try to “reach a settlement,” Iran said. Its official Islamic Republic News Agency quoted a freed Jordanian I passenger as saying there were five or six hijackers, who wore masks and i were armed with pistols and hand grenades. They have demanded the release of 17 Shiite Moslems convicted and imprisoned in Kuwait for bombing the U.S. and French embassies in 1983 There originally were 112 people aboard the plane and 25 hostages now have been released, leaving a total of 87 people still aboard—both hostages and hijackers. Reagan remark called ‘throwaway comment’ SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — President Reagan was giving merely ; > a “throwaway comment” when he made a remark interpreted by some congressmen as a sign he might pardon former aides Oliver North and i John Poindexter, the White House said Wednesday. “I don’t think it’s safe to make any conclusions about the president’s . - - • • *> __«_i a_r?:*___..u i * aiuiucieaooui paruons. wnucnuusc^Kwiiiaiimoiiiiii iu.naH.i ium | reporters as Reagan vacationed at his mountaintop ranch. Fitzwater confirmed that the president, at a dosed meeting with Republican members of the House on March 22, had been urged by Rep. Henry Hyde, R-IU., to pardon North and Poindexter, who have been ; indicted on felony charges in the Iran-Contra affair. Hyde suggested Reagan sign pardons in the final days of his term next January, possibly in a ceremony at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. Drug cartel laundered huge amounts of money WASHINGTON—A Colombian cocaine ring made such enormous profits that it created its own courier service to move the cash, a convicted money launderer told Congress Wednesday. “Basically, there is no effective interdiction for money,” Ramon Milian Rodrigue/, told a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittcc/‘Thc * | problem the launderer faces is security, not an authority per sc.” Rodrigue/, a Cuban-born accountant, is serving a 43-year prison j | term for money laundering. He has admitted serving as a chief U.S. money launderer for the Medillin cartel, the drug ring named after the Colombian city where it is based. Rodriguez said he was handling up to S2 billion a year for the cartel. He showed the subcommittee boxes he said were used by the cartel i for shipping cash. They were inscribed with the name “Consolidated Courier Services.” The boxes were designed specifically to carry the cash and were j loaded onto ballets to be lifted aboard airplanes and flown from the j ; United States to Central America, Rodriguez to the subcommittee. Half of adults use their own computer WASHINGTON — Millions of Americans have home computers, but only about half of the adults with them actually use the machines, the Census Bureau reported Wednesday. Nearly three-quarters of children who had access to a home computer used it, however, the bureau found. The seemingly low usage of home computers should not be too surpris ing, remarked Census Bureau statisti cian Robert Kominski, the report’s author. The report was based on a survey of computer use taken in October 1984, the only time the bureau has looked at the issue. Analysis and reporting the findings was delayed by the pressure of other work, Kominski said in a telephone interview. Computer use has skyrocketed in recent years, from the nearly 7 million home computers in use at the time of the survey. The Electronic Industries Asso ciation, a trade group, estimates that --—_ 17.6 million American homes had computers as of last January. And International Data Corp., a Boston-based market research group, estimates that home computer use totaled nearly 16.5 million units as of last year. In addition, it says, there were about 16.8 million small busi- j ness computers in use, as well as 3.2 ! million used in schools and 1.3 mil lion in scientific research. While it deals with a time when fewer computers were in use, Kominski’s analysis is the first de tailed look at use patterns and who owns the machines. Of 221 million Americans aged 3 ! and over in 1984, more than one in five—21.1 percent— reported using computers in some direct way. Some 8.2 percent of households own a computer. Ownership was most likely in households with incomes ol $50,000 or more, 22.9 percent. Only 1.7 percent of households with in comes under 510,000 had a computer. ____—I NelSaskan Editor Mika Rellley Photo Chief Mark Davis 472-1766 Night (Mews Editors Joeth Zucco Managing Editor Jen Deselms Kip Fry Assoc News Editors Curt Wagner Art Director John Bruce Chris Anderson Editorial General Manager Daniel ShaftII Page Editor Diana Jnhnson Production Manager Katherine Pollcky j Wire Editor Bob Nelson Advertising Copy Desk Editor Joan Rezac Manager Marcia Miller *ctS. 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