By the
Associated Press
Edited by Bob Nelson
News Uigest
Wright says CIA seeks to provoke Sandinistas
WASHINGTON — House
Speaker Jim Wright said Tuesday the
Central Intelligence Agency has
admitted using undercover opera
tives in Nicaragua to stir up public
protest, hoping the leftist Sandinista
government will overreact.
“We have received clear testi
mony from CIA people that they have
deliberately done things to provoke
an overreaction on the part of the
government in Nicaragua,” Wright,
D-Tcxas, told reporters in answer to a
question at his daily news conference.
In a subsequent interview, Wright
said agency personnel, under ques
tioning from members of Congress,
said they had “sought to generate
vigorous demonstrations_Agents
of our government have assisted in
organizing the kinds of anti-govern
ment demonstrations that have been
calculated to stimulate and provoke
arrests.”
CIA spokeswoman Sharon Basso
declined to confirm or deny Wright’s
information. “We do brief Congress,
but wouldn’t discuss that publicly,”
she said.
Wright said he • did not know
whether a July 10 demonstration at
Nandaime, south of Managua, that
resulted in some 40 arrests, was a
result of the U.S. provocations. The
anti-Sandinista Contra rebels are
asking for release of those prisoners
as a gesture of good faith before re
suming high-level peace talks with
the govei ament.
David Holliday, a spokesman for
the Senate Intelligence Committee,
said the committee held two days of
hearings the week after the Nandaime
unrest and was satisfied that there had
been no U.S. government involve
ment in that particular protest.
Managua expelled the U.S. am
bassador to Nicaragua, Richard Mel
ton, and seven other diplomats on July
11, charging they were engaging in
“state terrorism” and were trying to
undermine the government
Wright said it is clear that the CIA
has been behind some of the public
unrest that has led to government
crackdowns on the opposition and
worsened the atmosphere for falter
ing peace discussions between the
two sides.
“It has been foolish of the Sandin
istas to respond to those provoca
tions,” Wright said, referring to the
shutting down of opposition media
outlets such as the newspaper La
Frensa and Radio Catolica, a church
run radio station.
“Ive made that unmistakably
clear to people in Nicaragua. They
have to demonstrate their commit
ment to the democratization they
have announced” in earlier peace
agreements, he said.
But Wright also condemned the
U.S. interference. “I do not believe it
is the proper role of our government to
try to provoke riots... or deliberately
to try to antagonize governing offi
cials into foolish overreactions,” he
said.
“We should be using ihe influence
of the United States to encourage the
peace process, not discourage it.”
More indictments predicted
WASHINGTON — NASA’s
inspector general said Tuesday he
expects more indictments charg
ing aerospace manufacturers with
certifying falsely that bolts used on
the space shuttles had been prop
erly tested.
Bill Colvin said he had been
assured by engineers that there are
no defective bolts in critical areas
on the shuttle Discovery, which is
to be launched Sept. 29 from the
Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
“We are looking at false certifi
cation,” he said. “That does not
necessarily mean they are defec
tive.”
The Los Angeles Times quoted
Darrell Lee, president of Lee Aero
space Products of Simi Valley,
Calif., as saying his company is
one of many under investigation.
Colvin said it would not be
appropriate for him to discuss Lee
Aerospace. No charges have been
filed against the firm.
“At this point in time our inter
est is in fasteners,” Colvin said. “I
would expect more indictments.
Ron Bledsoe, chief of the qual -
ity engineering division at the
Marshall Space Flight Center in
Huntsville, Ala., said the false
certifications were uncovered dur
ing an audit in February and
March.
“There are some of Lee
Aerospace’s bolts on the shuttle,
we know that,” he said. “We’ve (
actually gone in and evaluated
where these bolls were and in any
critical application, we conducted
extensive stress analysis and deter
mined there was no safety issue.”
Bledsoe said the shuttle’s right
booster contains 614 Lee bolts and
the left booster has 595 and that
Lee bolts account for 60 percent of
die 2,000 bolts inside the rockets.
“Even with those bolts that were
in there, I couldn’t say we would
have a problem with them,” Bled
soe said. “But they just didn’t meet
all the requirement we have. We
want to assure ourselves all bases
are covered.”
Dukakis calls for more health coverage
Democrat Michael Dukakis pro
posed a broad health insurance pro
gram for American workers Tuesday
and told Republican rival George
Bush “it’s about time you came out
from behind that flag” and addressed
the issue. Bush draped himself in
patriotism, visiting the nation’s larg
est flag manufacturer.
Dukakis, seeking support from
working people, said die federal
government should enact legislation
requiring most employers to provide
basic health insurance benefits for
employees and dependents.
*‘I think it’s time we did some
thing,” said Dukakis. He said he
wanted to extend health insurance to
all Americans, and that the first step
would be to provide it to working
people through their employers.
Campaign aides said the first
phase of Dukakis’ program would
give benefits to about 22 million
people who have none, leaving 15
million or more Americans still
awaiting protection under a national
health insurance plan.
Bush’s campaign derided
Dukakis’ plan as “socialized medi
cine” and “a prescription for financial
disaster.”
Criticizing Bush for what he said
was a record of neglect and indiffer
ence on health care issues, Dukakis
said, “Today he’s visiting a flag fac
tory. Mr. Bush, don’t you think it’s
about time you came out from behind
that flag and told us what you intend
to do to provide basic health care for
37 million of our fellow citizens.”
With their first face-to-face debate
just five days away, Dukakis cam
paigned in Houston and Bowling
Green, Ky., while Bush made a brief
campaign hop to Bloomfield, N.J., to
visit the Annin Flag Co.
“My friends, flag sales are doing
well and America is doing well,” said
Bush, who has stressed patriotism in
his campaign and has attacked
Dukakis for vetoing a Massachusetts
bill that would have required public
school teachers to lead students in
reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
The vice president spoke at a rally
outside the flag plant. His voice,
amplified by loudspeakers, easily
drowned out the shouts of several
dozen protestors.
Hammering his opponent on eco
nomic issues. Bush said Dukakis had
“raised taxes several times as gover
nor of Massachusetts and I believe he
will raise them again if you elect him
president
“Americans have a new economic
power, and I’m not going to let them
take that away from you;’ Bush said,
speaking in front of a huge American
flag in a state regarded as a key battle
ground of the presidential race.
The vice president returned to
Washington in time to swear in fellow
Texan Lauro Cavazos as education
secretary, the first Hispanic member
of the Cabinet
Hispanics are a key voter bloc,
particularly in states such as Califor
nia and Texas, and both Bush and
Dukakis have pledged to put a His
panic-American at die Cabinet table.
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Demands renewed by Armenians
MOSCOW — An Armenian activist said
about 400,000 people jammed the main square
of Yerevan Tuesday night and heard renewed
demands for Armenian annexation of Nagorno
Karabakh, where reports said a curfew was
imposed and a bomb damaged a workers’ dor
mitory.
New violence hit the disputed territory over
the weekend, with one man said to have been
killed and at least 25 people officially reported
injured.
The Armenian activist, Rafael Popoyan,
said many residents in the Armenian capital
who struck last Friday remained off the job
Tuesday, vowing to stay out until the Armenian
Supreme Soviet, or parliament, met in new
session to reconsider their annexation plea.
In a telephone interview from Yerevan on
Tuesday, Popoyan said members of the Kara*
bakh Committee, a group pressing for annexa
tion of Nagorno-Karabakh, told the Yerevan
crowd that one-third, or 115 members, of the
republic’s Supreme Soviet signed a request for
a new session.
“At 10 o’clock tomorrow morning, people
vAil be on the square waiting for an official
announcement,’’ Popoyan said. He said that
according to law, the session must be held if
one-thira of the Supreme Soviet members re
quest it
The predominantly Armenian population of
Nagorno Karabakh, a mountainous region of
the republic of Azerbaijan, began agitating in
February for annexation to Armenia.
Mutinies spread in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Soldiers from six units
ousted their commanders as a revolt spread through Ihc
military Tuesday, as the new president appointed a mili
tary chief and appealed for an end to the unrest.
Lt. Gen. Prosper Avril, who declared himself president
early Sunday following a coup, said Haiti’s military gov
ernment was taking steps to satisfy “the most urgent
demands of the members of the armed forces.”
Bui reports of reprisal killings, demonstrations and a
rash of military mutinies continued to grow.
“I’m afraid we’re on the eve of another insurrection,”
a government official said privately.
Radio stations said gunmen killed four people in appar
ent repi isal lor the Sept. 11 massacre of 13 people during
a Mass at a Roman Catholic church and other atrocities
linked to the government of the deposed president, Lt.
Gen. Henri Namphy.
Nine other people have been reported killed since
Avril seized power. The coup was led by non-commis
sioned officers and lower-ranking soldiers in Namphy’s
own presidential guard. Namphy was exiled to the
Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispan
iola with Haiti.
Soldiers who staged the coup had demanded of the
military command that Avril be put in power, that the
military be reorganized, and that democratic reforms be
brought to Haiti, including free elections, sources said.
During die ceremony outside the National Palace,
Avril said he was aware of “numerous problems” within
the armed forces, but urged his troops “to stay calm, not
to adopt attitudes which may expose the institution to
wanton criticisms and affect the spirit of unity and solidar
ity which the new government is seeking.”
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